Le Tournoi d'Everrealm

A few people don't remember that this is not a new show. The Original concept for the show came out back in 2014 on ABC.

Then it was 12 people with the contestants aging from 19 to 40.

Low budget where all the money went into costumes.

Acting is really awful, specially the teen heroes. Excuse me, Paladins. They are unproven yet.

As others said, I haver seen high school plays that were much much better.

Plot is thin as the hope of a snowball in hell.

There is almost no world building. We know nothing about the 8 teens that were summoned to boring world. At the end of episode 1 we still do not anything. There is no character building.

And it is boring. Eye glazing boring.

I am a geek who love all things fantasy. This ain't it.

The first Quest was legendary. An exciting plunge into what "reality TV" could potentially be. A teenage D&D fantasy come to life where the stakes felt real and the relatable participants were capable but clueless.

After one episode, its hard to say where this Quest is heading. The production value is definitely up from the original. The casting choices for the paladins seems deliberately aimed at "kids next door" kind of normality, which is endearing. None of them seems like "captain of the football team" or "Disney princess super model" types. But the lack of scripting seems to cast the kids into a pinball machine, where they bounce from one expertly layed out situation to another, not knowing what to say.

I really wanted to know their names, their stories, their origins. Episode one takes ZERO time to do character introductions or build up. Since the kids say almost nothing the entire time, the audience knows little to nothing about them (unless they follow the Quest on Facebook or something). Despite all this, Im still giving the show 8 out of 10 stars because I want it to succeed so badly. Maybe the paladins will open up as the episodes go by. Who knows? Could be great!

For those of you that keep comparing this to the original, you will keep being disappointed by the fact that it isn't equal to its predecessor.

It will never be better or equal to original but that does not mean that it is not worth watching.

The acting is phenomenal, the makeup is incredible and the special effect are state of the art and the storyline reminds me of the Witcher.

Stop comparing it to something that it will never be.

This is a reinvention of something classic that happened 8 years ago.

Move with the times people.

There was alot of work, effort and care that went into this show and it shouldn't be based as heavily as it has been on this app.

Give it a chance, get lost in the story, enjoy the tension and Lord of the Rings like battles.

If it's not your cup of tea go rewatch the original after all nobody is making you watch this.

TV is for your pleasure alone so enjoy yourself elsewhere if you keep comparing it to some blast from the past.

A good effort, with some decent acting, creature make-up and some interesting sets, but sadly lacks any kind of humour, spontaneity and all the things that made TV series like Knightmare, The Crystal Maze and even Fort Boyard interesting and fun to watch. It's far too polished and controlled by the producers and is in no way "immersive" as they claim to be.

The stakes are so incredibly low. There is literally nothing to lose here other than the plot of the storyline. There are no prizes to be won. The contestants are therefore not much more than glorified actors that occasionally must solve puzzles - the rest of the time they're told what to say and do.

Plus there's far too much post-production work that further drives home that this is highly controlled, cheap way of getting a knock-off fantasy series that's disguised as some kind of real-life puzzle adventure game show. It doesn't know which genre it wants to be in.