Legend of the Seeker - 2x22 - Tears
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fembuckWell, I probably would have really liked that episode if it wasn't possibly the last one of the series. There was a lot of cool, amazing, awesome badassery in it, but there was also some serious "What is this? I don't even".
Let's start with ...
THE BAD
1. Zedd doing the 'unbreaking spell' on Dahlia didn't enrage me as much as it has enraged others, but I certainly didn't like it. It seemed like a really lazy and insulting way to wrap up a storyline from a useless episode that shouldn't even have been made in the first place.
Sacrificing Cara's development and an insight into Cara's past and what/who helped make Cara who she was to wrap up a storyline from a fucking AU episode that added nothing to anything, is just UGH!
Mostly, it just left me feeling like I was wrong to give the writers any credit whatsoever for "Eternity" and the Cara/Dahlia relationship. It has become clear to me now that like 90% of the awesome of "Eternity" was due to Tab and Laura Brent bringing their "A" games and adding a ton of emotion between Cara/Dahlia that the writers probably didn't intend, but were perfectly happy to let stand once they saw it onscreen.
2. Kahlan's tears save the world? Um, I love me some Kahlan Amnell, in fact I love me a lot of Kahlan Amnell, but ... UGH! Seriously. I know it plays into that whole "As long as the Mother Confessor's pure heart beats the Keeper cannot win" prophecy, but still. It seemed like a really cheap way to wrap up a season long arc in like 4 minutes.
THE GOOD
1. CARA! I loved so much about Cara in this episode. Her suspicious looks at Zedd when he was so happy to see her amused the hell out of me.
HER EPIC GIRL!LOVE FOR KAHLAN WAS GREAT! Cara was reluctant to fight! CARA. WAS RELUCTANT TO FIGHT because she didn't want to hurt Kahlan! The way she looked to Zedd for help because she really didn't want to have to genuinely fight Kahlan made me swoon a little. And then of course, Cara's inability to shoot Kahlan because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to bring her back with the breath of life. D'awwwwwww x infinity plus one.
Cara: Who's in charge here?
Garren: I am.
*Cara's bitch slaps her*
Cara: Who's in charge here?
Garren: You are.
SWOON x forever plus a day! OMG CARA YOU FABULOUS BITCH! This scene made me tear up because after I was done clapping and celebrating Cara's awesomeness, I realized that I would never again get to witness new acts of badassery from Cara fucking Mason the Queen of everything. *sob*
Also, for some reason Zedd and Cara ducking down behind the roof when Con Dar!Kahlan looked over at them really cracked me up.
2. KAHLAN! I honestly found sub!Kahlan to be ridiculously amazingly panty dampeningly hot. I feel kind of bad about how much Kahlan differing to Nicci turned me on. Bridget Regan, my god you are amazing. *bows down* We are not worthy. The things that woman can convey with her eyes are just *swoons* I can't even really type about this more because every time I think about sub!Kahlan my mind wanders to very very pleasing places.
And Con Dar!Kahlan is fucking scary and awesome. I loved seeing Kahlan go all Con Dar and VENGEFUL again. I should probably be worried about how attractive I find Kahlan when she is stabbing the shit out of people, but I'm not because it's Kahlan/Bridget and she's amazing.
3. I did like that Kahlan and Richard realized that he can't be confessed because of his epic love for her. But it honestly didn't have the impact that it should have because they shoved it into the last 10 seconds of the show and it had to be narrated by Zedd (like far too many things in the episode. The episode should have been called, "Zedd explains things because we tried to cram too much into 44 minutes".)
Also, it was really bittersweet for me, seeing Cara standing off to the side on her own (and not because I'm C/K shipper, but because her love, her chance for happiness had just been wiped out of existence 40 minutes before). It's nice that at least its canon now that K/R can like legit get it on, and K/R shippers have probs been waiting for this for a while, but it was really rushed, and I felt badly for Cara.
4. Nicci was amazing. I love the costuming department and their appreciation for showing off long, lean, fabulous legs. Even though Nicci was all evil and shit she was fun to watch, and she werked that glam!rock outfit. I have to say I felt really fucking bad for Nicci at the end of the episode. I don't even want to imagine what EVIL shit Darken Rahl is going to do to her. Like think about what he did to Cara and he LIKED Cara. *shudder*
Now, I'm probably missing out a bunch of things, but I probably need to rewatch before I can think about things clearly. Again, as a season finale this would have made me really happy (except for point #1 under "The Bad" behind the cut), but as a series finale it's just left me feeling really sad and unfulfilled because there is so much more story to tell.
I DON'T WANT THIS SHOW TO END! *bawls like a baby*
Let's start with ...
THE BAD
1. Zedd doing the 'unbreaking spell' on Dahlia didn't enrage me as much as it has enraged others, but I certainly didn't like it. It seemed like a really lazy and insulting way to wrap up a storyline from a useless episode that shouldn't even have been made in the first place.
Sacrificing Cara's development and an insight into Cara's past and what/who helped make Cara who she was to wrap up a storyline from a fucking AU episode that added nothing to anything, is just UGH!
Mostly, it just left me feeling like I was wrong to give the writers any credit whatsoever for "Eternity" and the Cara/Dahlia relationship. It has become clear to me now that like 90% of the awesome of "Eternity" was due to Tab and Laura Brent bringing their "A" games and adding a ton of emotion between Cara/Dahlia that the writers probably didn't intend, but were perfectly happy to let stand once they saw it onscreen.
2. Kahlan's tears save the world? Um, I love me some Kahlan Amnell, in fact I love me a lot of Kahlan Amnell, but ... UGH! Seriously. I know it plays into that whole "As long as the Mother Confessor's pure heart beats the Keeper cannot win" prophecy, but still. It seemed like a really cheap way to wrap up a season long arc in like 4 minutes.
THE GOOD
1. CARA! I loved so much about Cara in this episode. Her suspicious looks at Zedd when he was so happy to see her amused the hell out of me.
HER EPIC GIRL!LOVE FOR KAHLAN WAS GREAT! Cara was reluctant to fight! CARA. WAS RELUCTANT TO FIGHT because she didn't want to hurt Kahlan! The way she looked to Zedd for help because she really didn't want to have to genuinely fight Kahlan made me swoon a little. And then of course, Cara's inability to shoot Kahlan because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to bring her back with the breath of life. D'awwwwwww x infinity plus one.
Cara: Who's in charge here?
Garren: I am.
*Cara's bitch slaps her*
Cara: Who's in charge here?
Garren: You are.
SWOON x forever plus a day! OMG CARA YOU FABULOUS BITCH! This scene made me tear up because after I was done clapping and celebrating Cara's awesomeness, I realized that I would never again get to witness new acts of badassery from Cara fucking Mason the Queen of everything. *sob*
Also, for some reason Zedd and Cara ducking down behind the roof when Con Dar!Kahlan looked over at them really cracked me up.
2. KAHLAN! I honestly found sub!Kahlan to be ridiculously amazingly panty dampeningly hot. I feel kind of bad about how much Kahlan differing to Nicci turned me on. Bridget Regan, my god you are amazing. *bows down* We are not worthy. The things that woman can convey with her eyes are just *swoons* I can't even really type about this more because every time I think about sub!Kahlan my mind wanders to very very pleasing places.
And Con Dar!Kahlan is fucking scary and awesome. I loved seeing Kahlan go all Con Dar and VENGEFUL again. I should probably be worried about how attractive I find Kahlan when she is stabbing the shit out of people, but I'm not because it's Kahlan/Bridget and she's amazing.
3. I did like that Kahlan and Richard realized that he can't be confessed because of his epic love for her. But it honestly didn't have the impact that it should have because they shoved it into the last 10 seconds of the show and it had to be narrated by Zedd (like far too many things in the episode. The episode should have been called, "Zedd explains things because we tried to cram too much into 44 minutes".)
Also, it was really bittersweet for me, seeing Cara standing off to the side on her own (and not because I'm C/K shipper, but because her love, her chance for happiness had just been wiped out of existence 40 minutes before). It's nice that at least its canon now that K/R can like legit get it on, and K/R shippers have probs been waiting for this for a while, but it was really rushed, and I felt badly for Cara.
4. Nicci was amazing. I love the costuming department and their appreciation for showing off long, lean, fabulous legs. Even though Nicci was all evil and shit she was fun to watch, and she werked that glam!rock outfit. I have to say I felt really fucking bad for Nicci at the end of the episode. I don't even want to imagine what EVIL shit Darken Rahl is going to do to her. Like think about what he did to Cara and he LIKED Cara. *shudder*
Now, I'm probably missing out a bunch of things, but I probably need to rewatch before I can think about things clearly. Again, as a season finale this would have made me really happy (except for point #1 under "The Bad" behind the cut), but as a series finale it's just left me feeling really sad and unfulfilled because there is so much more story to tell.
I DON'T WANT THIS SHOW TO END! *bawls like a baby*
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Date: 2010-05-26 02:26 am (UTC)You know, the more I think about it, the more I agree with you.
nd without the benefit of days idealizing her relationship with Cara I actually see her as someone selfish that did not care about what her friend/lover really wanted and just did everything to keep her at her side. I waited for Dahlia to do something, anything to help her but nop, nothing.
I won't judge Dahlia too harshly. She is a product of the torture and training she underwent and she was no more "evil" than Cara was at the beginning of her arc. I actually think that Dahlia's feelings for her were pretty genuine and that Dahlia probably could have undergone a similar change as Cara if she was freed from Darken Rahl/Mord'Sith control.
I think Dahlia actually thought she was doing what was right, it's just that her love was this crazy, effed up Mord'Sith love that led to Cara suffering unimaginably.
And that's why I'm kind of glad the whole thing was reset, because I just don't seen how Cara could have really recovered from everything that she had gone through. Honestly, without Zedd's magical meddling it's hard for me to imagine Cara coming out of her new experiences with Dahlia and Darken Rahl with that same spark for life that she was finding before she was taken.
I care about Cara way more than Dahlia, so I'm happy that at the end of the series I had an emotional stable Cara, who had feelings and was well on her way to developing more and more feelings centered around a woman that is good for her.
And even if you still would have wanted to ship them for their past, the show did a great job creating a newDahlia. One whom if Cara were to encounter, could be so much better for her than the selfish one that lied, beat and betrayed her.
This. That's why I'm actually not completely hating on Zedd's spell in the last episode, because I'm pretty sure that in the third season Cara would have encountered this sane, and emotional stable Dahlia and would have had some sort of relationship with her. And for ficcing purposes we can still have them together without Cara being broken, beaten and betrayed.
There is still no excuse for episode 2x21 thought. It was garbage and a waste of space. Even if the writers thought there'd be another season there was still no need for that AU piece of shit.