Second Season Means War For Legend Of The Seeker
Written by Wayne Hall on November 9, 2009 – 10:00 am -
When the bad guy is apparently dead, what else can you do with a fantasy television series like Legend Of The Seeker? A lot apparently, according to SciFi Wire. As spoilers indicated that were mentioned here, the show will find that things don’t always go well after a hero wins.
“Season two is basically going to pick up where season one left off, but what Richard is going to be confronted with is Wizard’s Second Rule, which is something from Terry Goodkind’s novel series,” said executive producer Kenneth Biller. “And the Wizard’s Second Rule says, ‘The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.’ So, essentially, Richard [Craig Horner] is going to have to deal with the repercussions of his big victory, of fulfilling the prophecy, and killing Darken Raul.”
“There is disorder and disarray among the D’Haran’s and the Mord’ Sithin the absence of a strong man to unite them,” Biller said. “There is alot of jockeying for power and position, and Cara [the Mord'Sith who helped Richard kill Rahl in the season-one finale] ends up making avery tense alliance with Richard and Kahlan, which Kahlan [Bridget Regan] is not happy about.”
Tabrett Bethell joins the regular cast as Cara. “There’s an incredibly hot and sexy introduction of Cara,” said Biller.”It has a higher degree of epic action than we’ve shown before on the show. It’s going to put Richard right square in the middle, in between former adversaries and former allies. Richard is going to haveto make a very, very difficult decision about who he is and what his quest is going to be. It sets up the whole quest for the second season that Richard is going to be on with Kahlan and Cara. It sets up some real tension between Kahlan and Cara, who don’t like each other very much and don’t trust each other, but by the end of that episode, for reasons the audience will discover if they watch the episode, both will be by his side.”
Cara won’t be the only new sexy lady around this year. As previously indicated, Charisma Carpenter from Buffy and Angel guest stars in the premiere episode. Also, fans will see Gina Holden (Dale Arden in Flash Gordon) and Aimee Teegarden Julie Taylor in the hit U.S. drama series Friday Night Lights).
But the list doesn’t end there. Jolene Blalock (Star Trek: Enterprise‘s “T’Pol”) will appear in a recurring role as Sister Nicci, a Sister of the Dark.
Old favorites will also be back, including Jessica Marais as Deanna. “Denna has found a new tantalizing and very profitable way of making a living now that Rahl’s empire has crumbled, but what we also will realize is that this is just a front for a grander plan she has to take over Dahara,” said Biller.
Also, the past of Richard and Zedd (Bruce Spence) will be explored. But the new year will focus on Richard and what he will do now that he has fuliflled the prophecy. “People are rising up and trying to claim power in the wake of the vacuum that’s been created by the absence of Darken Rahl. Richard is going to be confronted with what happens. What are the repercussions of the aftermath of a war, and refugees, war crimes, all sorts of things like that?” said Biller.
In the end, though, it will be war. “The keeper of the underworld is now waging war on the land of the living, and Richard is going to have to fight that war. He’s going to have to fight the creatures and minions of the underworld that aretrying to essentially destroy all life, and while he’s doing that he’s on a quest to find the Stone of Tears. Legend has it the Stone of Tearsis an ancient object that will heal the rift and once again protect the world of living,” said Biller. “Richard’s going to come up against our coolest and scariest creature that we’ve ever done — an unkillable creature.”
Will the show continue to use parts of the original book? “As we did in season one, we’re using some of the tentpoles and some of the mythology and some of the characters from the second book, but we are riffing on that book, as we did in season one. We’re creating lots of stand-alone stories that fit within that overall season-long quest.So it’ll be a combination, as it was in the first season, of characters and elements from the book and those that are either of our own invention or our riff, if you will, on some of Terry Goodkind’s mythology and characters.”
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