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couple of questions

posted 15 years ago by AuroraSinistra
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- What was the elf woman's third gift that she was supposed to get once she conquered the first two?

- Why was the villain's son an abomination? It seemed more like the father was the abomination and the kid looked like everyone else? And why was the kid just lying there? Then at the end, did anything happen to the kid or do we just assume he never wakes up?

- Does anyone recognize the voice that narrates the beginning and end sequences? It sounds like someone from the original Lord of the Rings cartoon movies.

[–] phoenix1723 15 years ago

The thrid gift was willpower or the will to live, i.e. the ability to heal herself the way her grandfather did at the begining.

As far as the son is concerned, I think he was meant to be an abomination in terms of his soul, spirit, whatever. While Dragon Eye was physically deformed, his son was meant to be pure evil. That's just a guess.

And I have no idea about the narrator.

"Does it hurt?"
"Dying? Not at all. Quicker and easier than falling asleep."

[–] Wyrmis 15 years ago

Spoilers.

Not that I know the answers to these questions, per se, but I'll spoil a couple of plot points.

Question 1) The show said "Will". I'm not sure if that means she had the ability to alter herself, or to change fate, or what. Maybe they get to come back from the dead a certain number of times? At first glance I took it as the power to alter reality (i.e. do magic) but seems really general as a power.

Question 2) I'm assuming that he's a "half breed" (half human it looks). This is one of those places where the show struck me as being incomplete, almost like they had filmed a whole other part or something that never got aired (another place was the way Azenhawke is introduced in something of a "DUN DUN DUNNNN" fashion and is gone within the first half hour). Possibly the son was just sick, or maybe the magic was too much for him? But if he was just sick, why not stop using the tons of bloodsteel to make mechanical followers and such and focus on healing him? No, there was probably some backstory that got axed...or I missed it somehow.

Question 3) Yes, it sounded just like the narrator from those old LotR cartoons. If it wasn't him, someone was paying homage.

Si Vales, Valeo.

[–] AuroraSinistra 15 years ago

Thank you both for your answers to my questions! I enjoyed watching the two-part movie, I thought visually it looked great and the action wasn't too bad, and I especially loved the dragon fight scenes, but a lot of the story seemed "incomplete" like you mentioned.

[–] elliott78212 15 years ago

Yes I agree, through out the movie there were times you just felt there was a scene cut out maybe it was filmed and edited out or was never shot to save money yet they forgot to fix it in the script which in many ways was weak to begin with, yet I enjoyed the movie if this was originally being filmed as a series and they had to mesh things together to make a mini that would explain some of the variables missing here and there just like the voice over at the beginning was setup to summarize what we never saw yet it was a very important part of the plot...it's to bad because I thought it really had some serious potential.

[–] reynardtfox 15 years ago

Do you mean the Rankin-Bass LOTR cartoon movies, or the Bakshi one? If I'm remembering correctly, the late great John Huston was the narrator and the voice of Gandalf for the Rankin-Bass adaptations.