Witchblade - The Complete Series
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Movie Reviews of Witchblade - The Complete Series
Movie Review: Excellent Show
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are a fan of the comic book don't expect this show to be an exact duplicate. They get the names and places right and that's about it. If you really want to enjoy this forget the comic book and accept this as it is, a great source of entertainment. It was a truly original idea, something sorely lacking on television today. It's a shame it didn't continue another season or two.
Mainly the show is about Sara Peini, a NYC police officer, and her advetures once she takes possession of an ancient artifact. Mainly of the stories border on the supernatural, but the stting is always modern day NY. Think Beauty and the Beast meets Birds of Prey.
Movie Review: Great fantasy series for adults!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this series when it originally aired and was frustrated by its sudden departure! Yancy Butler is an enormously talented actress with great screen presence. I would love to see a rebirth of Witchblade! It was geared to adults and seemed ahead of its time. Fun, sexy, violent and mysterious.........what more could you ask for!Movie Review: Witchblade
Summary: 5 Stars
Before we purchased the product we knew there was only one made like this and we wanted to have this fast. From the day we ordered to the day we received was one week exactly and we are international. This was fast and the product was in excellent condition. We were very satisfied as we expected to be.Movie Review: For Yancy Butler fans.
Summary: 4 Stars
Husky voiced Yancy Butler is the only reason I bought this series. The first half of the season is intriguing enough and has a compelling yearn to watch the next episode while the second half loses pace and suffers from weaker screenwriting which is probably why it never made it to a second season. Amusing character portrayed by Eric Etebari who is heavily infatuated with the heroine and basically an errand boy for a wealthy industrialist who seeks to control the "ultimate weapon" lends a somewhat comic flavor to the proceedings. But overall it's all about Yancy looking like an absolute fox.Movie Review: Excellent Escapist Fantasy Rooted in Contemporary Reality
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the series when it initially aired on TNT, and I found it fresh, exciting and captivating. The combination of pure escapist fantasy and cop drama worked well in this incarnation. Yes, it was strange, but strange doesn't mean that it wasn't entertaining. By juxtaposition of an ages-old metaphysical history against Sara Pezzini's attempts to cope with that in the framework of her contemporary physical world, it created a whole new universe for the writers to dabble in. I believe that people who enjoyed "Sliders" "Farscape" and "Quantum Leap" would have enjoyed this show, as well.
All good drama contains conflict, and in this case the conflict was manifest in Sara's efforts to reconcile the mundane and the metaphysical. At first a hard-bitten cynic, we see Sara slowly and begrudgingly grow spiritually and emotionally as she begins to accept and embrace her destiny as the current bearer of the Witchblade.
I was introduced first to the TV series, and then I want back to check out the comic: yet I found the series more accessible. At points during the series you were left wondering along with Sara if she was hallucinating or having visions of events that actually happened--which helped build tension in the storyline.
The important thing is that within the context of that story, it made sense, and helped move the plot forward effectively. It makes no sense to attempt to bring comic-book characters to the big screen, if all you're going to do is regurgitate the comic-book legend exactly as it appeared in print. An effective re-imagining actually takes old characters and makes them fresh and relevant again, as in the re-imagining of the Superboy legend in the Smallville TV series. I've read the Superman and Superboy comics growing up, which were mostly kind of corny. Smallville has taken the development of young Kal-el and made him contemporary and interesting again.
If a film or TV adaptation of a story originally told in graphic novel or comic book format stays true to the spirit and intent of the character, and changes are made to improve the dramatic flow in that direction, then those changes should be embraced as a welcome improvement, and not dismissed offhandedly from the dogmatic perspective of it straying from the comic, or being too different.