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Watched episode 1, not sure if I'll continue. A blase badass casually brushes off any opponent that stands in his way, and many more cliches I'll share after getting other thoughts out. The presentation was decent enough, the pacing kept it watchable. I had to turn on subtitles since everyone speaks in a strained whisper and there's so much diegetic jargon. The music is kinda corny and feels a bit dated, especially the vocal female wailing "ayayayaaaa" type of stuff. Some creativity, like the monster at the beginning and the magic, but nothing really original feeling. Some dumb decision making and completely ridiculous seeming events but not the worst especially when compared to other shows. For example, the scouts see troops coming, then 5 seconds later they're in a huge battle, and for some reason the king and queen are in the thick of it fighting with the footsoldiers. And not only that, somehow from the middle of the chaos they can see the whole battle, and literally shout "we're losing", and then decide this is the time to ask their scout if reinforcements of coming, instead of asking before deciding to engage in battle. Real eye roller stuff.

Other cliches/eye rolly garbage: woman does BIG FAST BEER DRINK in front of man who is surprised. Get it? She a woman and she drank big beer fast wow.

The castle has a moat and a drawbridge, which of course go completely unused.

A magician has the ability to make forcefields and uses it in the most uncreative way possible, they could trap the army at their gates with it, and crush them, drop them in the moat, pour hot oil or tar on them like people did in medieval times, any number of clever things. But no he just puts up some stupid doomed temporary wall and waits to die. No wonder that group got wiped out.

Adolescent experiences trauma which awakens her special powers.

Mob of men attack another man, he easily slices up each of them one by one, and the entire time none of them think "oh golly gosh, maybe I shouldn't be doing this".

Trite moralistic stuff about being a monster.

I'm sure people would say "it gets better" but honestly, anything should get better as it goes on. You have more time to develop characters and themes. If you want me to invest in a whole damn show you've got to start off strong.

You know, the more I wrote about this, the more I'm thinking I'm not going to continue.

Simple and predictable, easy to follow, yet a lot of fun. Eddie Murphy's charisma and screen presence is amazing. Good chemistry with his lady friend, and the cop characters are great support. There's nothing unnecessary or indulgent which makes it easy to follow and keeps it tight and at a good runtime. The theme is legendary and plays over and over again which is good for some unintended laughs.