Malaphax Posted May 12, 2021 Report Posted May 12, 2021 Quote Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403776/ So I had some trepidation about this series because its based on a young adult fantasy novel series and I have general dislike for YA content. I also briefly looked up some reviews to see what people were saying and got a very mixed bag. Turns out it's exactly as I feared - full of tropes, constant romance subplots and characters pining for one another, and a main plot you can see coming from miles away. The only saving grace of the show was how they handled the world building. There's very few exposition dumps, most of the time you're thrust into the various systems and some aren't even fully explained (the various types of magics was not fully described in the show, regardless of how large a role it plays). I'd give this a hard pass, there's better television out there. Quote
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