Yahoo Autos 'Shannara Chronicles' Review: Hot Elves to The Rescue!
The Shannara Chronicles is based on a deeply silly multi-volume fantasy series by Terry Brooks; this new MTV show is silly in a more superficial way. A would-be epic about elves, druids, and “rovers,” with some magic “elf stones” and a grand quest thrown in there for good measure, The Shannara Chronicles is a lot of hooey with hotsy young actors.
In the early episodes available for review, the tales centers around Amberle (Poppy Drayton), an elf with a strong urge for adventure, who strives to become the first female member of The Chosen, a sect devoted to protecting a big tree called the Ellcrys. This is a very thoughtful way the producers have provided for you to decide early on whether you want to commit to The Shannara Chronicles — if you care about protecting a big tree with magical powers, you’re in; otherwise, you may as well just shake your head and begin placing bets on how many pointy-eared elf members of the Shannara cast are going to be boogie-downing with Taylor Swift at the next MTV Video Music Awards.
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If you’re still with me, Amberle is intrigued by Wil (Austin Butler), a half-elf, half-human, all-hunk fellow whose mother bequeaths him the precious elf stones — which, being a good fairy-tale protagonist, he manages to lose early on in the series, thus setting up one of what I think will be a number of heroic quests across the dusky wooded terrain of The Four Lands.
