{"id":49359,"date":"2015-01-26T06:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/so-galavant-and-the-finale-of-doom.html"},"modified":"2015-01-26T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T06:05:36","slug":"so-galavant-and-the-finale-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/so-galavant-and-the-finale-of-doom.html","title":{"rendered":"So … "Galavant" and the Finale of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spoilers, sweetie.
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It takes a special kind of chutzpah to take an experimental mini-series and end it with a mostly-cliffhanger, wondering out loud if there will be a second "season" to continue the storyline. Especially when the storyline has been presumably building to a grand finale wherein the shotgun satirizing of heroic fantasy tropes will reach some sort of conclusion.<\/p>\n

It would have been great if "Galavant" was up to the level of quality and excitement necessary to make people roar with anticipation and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

There's nothing particularly wrong with "Galavant," just not quite enough "right" about it to make the whole thing work. The musical numbers are entertaining (and I can very easily see picking up a copy of the soundtrack), but the story stringing them together felt more like filler, the musical tail wagging the narrative dog.<\/p>\n

Characters were often inconsistent to the degree necessary to set up or execute the songs the writers wanted to include, and the story zigged and zagged all over the place. There were dozens of great, even brilliant, moments, but the sum felt less than the parts.<\/p>\n

And the conclusion simply felt … wrong. If they were going to have a cliff-hanger, then fine, but after the sense that this was a distinctly limited series, there needed to be some greater sense of pay-off from the first season, rather than a bare and fairly-out-of-character railroaded cliff-hanger.<\/p>\n

If "Galavant" makes it back for a second go (which I doubt, but I haven't been following along the ratings), I'll be there to watch it, but I'm not going to participate, let alone start, any letter-writing campaigns to make that happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Spoilers, sweetie……. It takes a special kind of chutzpah to take an experimental mini-series and end it with a mostly-cliffhanger, wondering out loud if there will be a second "season" to continue the storyline. Especially when the storyline has been presumably building to a grand finale wherein the shotgun satirizing of heroic fantasy tropes will … Continue reading “So … "Galavant" and the Finale of Doom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Galvant+theme.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42028,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/will-galavant-be-on-my-watch-list.html","url_meta":{"origin":49359,"position":0},"title":"Will "Galavant" be on my watch list?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-May-14 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Monty Python and the Holy Grail meets The Princess Bride meets Disney (well, Alan Menken) ... 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