I wouldn't say the entire series is horrible, but it was definitely rocky. I agree with the other people who said that the episodes shift from Good, to Mediocore, to just plain Bad.
In my personal opinion. Episodes 1 and 2 (Jax and Sonya), 7 and 8 (Scorpion and Sub-Zero), and 9 (Sektor and Cyrax) were good. Episodes 4 and 5 (Kitana and Mileena) were mediocore, while episodes 3 (Johnny Cage) and 6 (Raiden) were god-awful.
It really is a shame though that people act like a realistic take automatically means whatever the medium is, is good these days. I definitely agree on that. I guess we have Chris Nolan and his Batman movies to blame for that one.
I also agree that Mortal Kombat is not known for realism. It works for Batman because Batman was already somewhat grounded into reality. Although, I still didn't like Nolan's movies. They're still "too real" for me. I missed the dark fantasy-like elements from Tim Burton's Batman films. Say what you will about those in terms of being accurate, but at least they were visiually entertainig. Mortal Kombat is probably far from reality as you can ever get. Putting too much realism into it like the Rebirth Pitch video would not work at all. I thought this series had a good balance of fantasy and realism, save for the Raiden episode which by far was the worst.
All in all, I didn't hate the Legacy webseries, but I didn't love it either.
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