If any show deserves a second chance, and or a movie, it is Sword of Truth, Legend of the Seeker. Let’s return to the question, “Why now?” Recently it has come to my attention that many of the older shows are getting reboots, such as Magnum, Charmed and even Walker Texas Ranger, although I don’t feel anyone will ever replace Chuck Norris in the latter’s role. At the time we gave it our best shot! But the question remains, why is it so hard for 2,000,000 plus fans worldwide to get what they want? Mail in campaigns were started too, and I remember reading how the SCI-FI Channel (as it was called at the time), that at first considered picking the show up, but later telling fans not to bother them any longer, certainly being a blunt rebuke! By the way, the Guinness attempt did bring in a following of 2,000,000 worldwide with its contests, but in the end the try was beat out by another pursuit from the country of India. With past failures at attempting to get Legend of the Seeker back, such as the Pass It On program, along with an attempt to break a Guinness record, and many sites on line taking up the cause, all seemed to get bogged down with no success for their efforts. Some critics even complained the show was not humorous enough like the former Hercules and Xena series, although I myself never considered the latter that humorous. I have heard that each episode of Legend of the Seeker cost in the vicinity of one million and a half.
Many reasons have been put forward to explain the show’s demise, with the most notable being the company distributing the series went bankrupt, and began eliminating shows that were considered too expensive to produce, starting with that one.
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