Legend Of The Seeker, The Complete First Season DVD Review

Legend Of The Seeker: The Complete First Season

Own it on DVD with Exclusive Bonus Features on October 13, 2009

On October 13, 2009, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is releasing all 22 episodes of Season 1 on DVD. Watching its sword-sorcery-magical effects is fun for to watch. Critics give the series mixed reviews, but tweens to young adults love its stories of danger, love, deceit, and betrayal. Curses, sanctuary, fever, markings, battles are just a few of Legend of the Seeker’s staples.

Craig Homer plays Seeker Richard Cypher; Bridget Regen, Confessor Kahlan Amnell; Bruce Spense, wizard and mentor Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander; Craig Parker , Darken Rahl; Jay Laga’aia, Dell “Chase” Brandstone; David de Latouor, Michael Cypher; Jessica Marais, Denna; and Danielle Cormack, Shoto.

Richard the Seeker learns to use his skills along with magic as he journeys through Westland, Midlands, and D’Hara. Sorceress Shoto while envisioning his death reveals a prophecy. He feelings for Kahlan as hers for him complicate his mission. The enemy Darken Rahl lurks ready to kill. His wizard Geller casts the Spell of the Lying Moon that gives others memories of deeds they have not done. The search to find the real boxes continues. Richard faces a new weapon, the Whisperer. A magic mirror allows impersonators and fakes to do things differently. Who will destiny decide to favor? Good or evil?

This series is loosely based on Terry Goodkind’s The Sword of the Truth novels with its title from the first book Wizard’s First Rule. Writing generally is faithful to the books’ characters, themes, and arcs. It’s story is that of a hero and his friends journey and the sacrifices they make for one another in the name of real friendship. What distinguishes it from others is its tongue-in-cheek humor. Total running time is 946 minutes. Mark this adventure-fantasy a good bet.

Bonus Features
• Forging the Sword: Crafting a Legend
• Words of Truth: A Conversation with Terry Goodkind
• Deleted Scenes
• Audio Commentaries

Here’s the press release.

Burbank, California, September 14, 2009 —Storytelling magic comes alive with the adaptation of the internationally best-selling “Sword of Truth” novels, in Legend of the Seeker: The Complete First Season, coming to DVD on Oct. 13, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. The 5-disc set containing all 22 one-hour episodes of Season One reveals even more of the fantasy, magic and romance with exclusive-to-DVD bonus features. Behind the scenes interviews with the cast offer intriguing insight into the Legend just in time for Halloween and the November 2009 Season Two
premiere.

Shot with state-of-the-art visual effects and with the exotic and rugged New Zealand landscape as its backdrop, Legend of the Seeker: The Complete First Season chronicles the extraordinary transformation of woodsman Richard Cypher into The Seeker, a magical leader who joins with a beautiful and mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, on an epic journey to stop the bloodthirsty, sinister tyrant Darken Rahl from conquering all mankind.

In the province known as Westland, a wizard reveals to ordinary woodsman Richard Cypher the truth: that he is a child of prophecy, the first true Seeker the world has known in a thousand years, destined to wield the powerful Sword of Truth and defeat the evil tyrant Darken Rahlan.

Joining Executive Producer Sam Raimi (“Spiderman,” “Evil Dead”) are Rob Tapert (”The Grudge,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”), Joshua Donen (”The Quick and the Dead”), Ned Nalle (”Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”) and Ken Biller (”Star Trek: Voyager,” “Six Degrees”).

The ABC Studios production includes Craig Horner (“Blue Water High,” “H2O: Just Add Water) as Richard Cypher/The Seeker, Craig Parker (“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”) as Darken Rahl, Bridget Regan (“The Best and the Brightest”) as Kahlan Amnell and Bruce Spence (“The Matrix
Revolutions”) as Zedd.

More than 25 million copies of Terry Goodkind’s popular books in his series “The Sword of Truth” have been sold worldwide and translated into more than 20 languages. The original “Legend of the Seeker” novel was a New York Times number-one bestseller.

Here’s a piece of video on Main characters.