It’s Luke Skywalker! Only, with a sword instead of a lightsaber, and fruit instead of drones. He even got to “use the force”. Or something. I did like that Zedd obviously didn’t really seem to think that the little breakthrough moment was very important, despite the way Richard (and the audience) felt.
What the hell was up with the bathing scene? And Kahlan’s cleavage? I had hope this show (which is supposed to be rather serious, after all!) would be above this sort of thing. Oh, well. In any case, the episode was pretty terrible up until the first commercial break.
After that, it became much more interesting. Kahlan’s qualms over her Confessor abilities are much more interesting than her abused childhood was. I hope that they continue with this theme.
Random thought:
She didn’t have to Confess the man, did she? She could have disabled him by conventional means, and tried to get the info another way, saving her power as a last resort. Perhaps a part of her actually likes enslaving people?
As for the main plot, the wizard was fascinatingly delusional. He’s definitely the most three dimensional bad guy we’ve seen yet. And the magic=drugs metaphor what varied enough not to be heavy handed. I do wish that they had brought up the subject before, but the show is still pretty new – you can’t have everything!
I was disappointed in the way the the barmaid subplot turned out. I was hoping that she was an even bigger villian, and that her possisian of the necklace would turn into something major. Did Kahlan confess her to get the necklace back?
Lastly, the conversation between Zedd and Kahlan at the end seems to be following the books – good for them.