Labyrinth - The CW (Miniseries)
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No, just a piece of cod, which passeth all understanding.
I tried to watch it this morning but had a lot going on but the 25 minutes I saw seemed slow. I do plan on watching it in full this weekend.
This thing is two years old, it's been aired a couple places. 
It felt like I read the first and last third of a book. I saw plot lines and characters established and then BAM! vague things happen and characters are suddenly reshuffled so that the evil mastermind is a dupe, the slimy henchman is an evil mastermind, the clueless boyfriend allied with the enemy is the heroine's new love interest and totally all about working against the ex-mastermind, and the charmingly befuddled heroine now buys 100% into her visions and follows time-travelling medieval dude around in order to ... save the world? Save 15% on her car insurance? I really couldn't say.
Did Ronald Moore write this? Was there a time jump within the time jump? WTF? Where am I? Who am I?
I will say it had one great thing going for it: casting. The two heroines and two villainesses were smoking hot. The heroines, in particular, were like, distractingly beautiful. And the sister had a Keira Knightly thing going on, so bonus points there. Maybe that contributed to my not quite getting what the hell was happening or why anyone was doing what they were doing towards the end. If they put the blonde in another tiny dress and made her run in heels, I'm not sure my head wouldn't have exploded.
The past time-frame villains were entertaining over-the-top baddies, as well. The modern time-frame villains, not so much.
Something tells me if I read the book it was based on, everything would make a whole lot more sense and feel a whole lot less rushed, or at least I'd hope it would.
If you get the chance and like a sort of romance-novel level of historical fiction, it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon. And it has pretty British ladies with their wonderful accents looking and sounding lovely, so you could always just watch and doze off to nice daydreams.
The Winter Soldier guy is in it, too, and he lounges around shirtless for a bit, so don't miss that, if your'e so inclined.
Did Ronald Moore write this? Was there a time jump within the time jump? WTF? Where am I? Who am I?
I will say it had one great thing going for it: casting. The two heroines and two villainesses were smoking hot. The heroines, in particular, were like, distractingly beautiful. And the sister had a Keira Knightly thing going on, so bonus points there. Maybe that contributed to my not quite getting what the hell was happening or why anyone was doing what they were doing towards the end. If they put the blonde in another tiny dress and made her run in heels, I'm not sure my head wouldn't have exploded.
The past time-frame villains were entertaining over-the-top baddies, as well. The modern time-frame villains, not so much.
Something tells me if I read the book it was based on, everything would make a whole lot more sense and feel a whole lot less rushed, or at least I'd hope it would.
If you get the chance and like a sort of romance-novel level of historical fiction, it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon. And it has pretty British ladies with their wonderful accents looking and sounding lovely, so you could always just watch and doze off to nice daydreams.
The Winter Soldier guy is in it, too, and he lounges around shirtless for a bit, so don't miss that, if your'e so inclined.