Started watching the Expanse and currently halfway through S2, and it is quickly rising into becoming one of my favorite TV shows.

Might do a complete review once I am done, but it is excellent for sure.

Watched The Last Kingdom season 1-2. Better than Vikings.

How is it?

Just finished the movie "The Beyond" on netflix. Utter shit. Like... I mean.. no. No redeemable things.

Finished Disenchanted.

Overall pretty good. You could kinda see some of the characters are composites of Simpsons characters. But the storyline actually came together over the course of the season.

Looking forward to a Season2.

Ok, I realize you're trying to play around with the original material to keep your audience guessing, but Episode 5 doesn't hold up with the variations you introduced. I'm sorry, but those sketchbooks would've been digitized and burned a long time ago.

i felt a stronger parallel to that of Futurama. Elfo is basically Philip J Fry and Luci is bender.
I do appreciate the series attempt at an overarching storylinr, nut the jokes aren’t as clever as Futurama was for most of its run.

Watched the first episode, but the story's already a mess within the first 3 minutes. So this is a world where humans, elves, and dragons, used to live happily together until a human sorcerer created dark magic and everything went to shit. Because drama would not allow for any other outcome, the elves and the dragons overreacted and decided to exile all humans into another land. That'll show them! The humans, pissed off, arguably justifiably so, apparently tried to return multiple times but there was some massive dragon at the border that always kept them in check. One day, they decided to use some ultra-powerful dark magic spell, because that's apparently the only kind of magic humans can use (what?) and killed the dragon that protected the border... only to return to their homeland. WTF?! For centuries you've been trying to get past the border and once you finally kill the dragon that's guarding it, you retreat? What kind of logic is that? Wasn't there some kind of invasion planned?

Anyway, 3 minutes into the pilot and you want to convince me humans are evil because one guy invented dark magic? You're gonna have to do a lot better than that. Broad generalizations like that don't work well. I'm a bit surprised considering the creatives minds behind this also worked in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Did they ever watch that show's intro? And how did the elves and dragons exile the humans into another land? Did they ask nicely, I wonder? It's not that the premise is terrible but the execution is sorely lacking. What did the human sorcerer that invented dark magic do with it? Did he raze a city? Summon the dead? Did he try to convince the human king (I'm assuming there was only one 'cause the intro doesn't say) to raise an army of dark mages to conquer the world? No idea, the pilot tells us nothing.

Further into the episode, we're shown A human king (because now the intro says there are multiple) who's worried about a bunch of assassins who can use magic and I'm, "Um, I thought humans were able to use magic too and dark magic at that. What's going on here?" Also, I suppose several kingdoms participated in the defeat of the border dragon. Are these assassins going to try and murder them all ala Witcher 2?

Sigh. I don't know. I'll watch a couple more but I don't have a good feeling about this.

Okay, finished watching it. Overall, it's an entertaining, if flawed, watch. There are pacing issues, not enough or good world-building, and possibly worse holes (than the ones I pointed before) insofar the writing is concerned, but we'll need to wait at least another season to confirm that. I've already complained about how erratically they handled the villain (Lord Viren), King Harrow, and the backstory, so let's move on. Our main trio of characters (Callum, Ezran, and Rayla) is likable enough, if perhaps a tad reminiscent of similar series. Such is the case of Callum, who's similar to Sokka in terms of his humour and mind for tactics. Fortunately, he's less of a goof, as that role is left for the son of Lord Viren, Soren, sort of a good-hearted dumb jock. His sister, Claudia, is a lot more interesting, with her quirky personality, affinity for the dark arts (again, apparently the only magic humans wield), and maybe a soft spot for Prince Callum? It's nice that Viren's kids aren't villainous by extension, and hopefully they'll join our trio in their quest in the second season. General Amaya's introduction, Callum and Ezran's badass aunt, took me by surprise as I was not expecting her to be deaf. Maybe this is a bid for representation, but I liked her all the same and, hey, Toph was blind! It's a pity that a couple of scenes went by me as they did not include a transcript of what she was saying. On the other hand, Commander Gren, her translator and second-in-command, seemed thoroughly unsuitable both for his rank and the task that's assigned to him, though he did have a couple of funny scenes.

Ultimately, Season 1, if we can call it such, is incredibly short, just 9 episodes in total, and ends in a sort of mid-season finale. I've read some reviews argue this is barely enough time to get us to know or relate to the characters. While I agree to some extent, Korra's first season was only 12 episodes long and it's storytelling was a lot tighter than The Dragon Prince's and handled its large cast of characters much better (not to mention its world-building was leagues better). In short, it can be a fun series if you just roll with it, but you may have to push past the first 2 or 3 episodes for that to happen. In any event, it has ways to go if it hopes to capture the magic of ATLA or even Korra.