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This is a 2022 web series based on the 1988 movie of the same name. Sorsha, from the movie, is now queen of Tir Asleen, and married to Madmartigan, who has been missing ever since embarking on a quest some years ago. Sorsha and Madmartigan have twin children, a daughter named Kit and a son named Airk (who I'm guessing are in their late teens). In the first episode, Kit is supposed to marry Prince Graydon (Tony Revolori) from the neighboring kingdom of Galladoorn, but neither of them are happy about it. Kit's best friend is an orphaned knight in training named Jade, with whom she often spars. Airk is in love with a cook named Brunhilde, whom he calls "Dove". Airk is kidnapped by monsters called Gales, and taken to the Immemorial City, beyond the Shattered Sea. Queen Sorsha sends out a party to rescue Airk, which includes Kit, Jade, Graydon, a knight of no great importance to the story, and a prisoner named Boorman (who is the former squire of Madmartigan). Dove follows them, wanting to help rescue Airk, and eventually joins their group. At the end of the first episode, they reach the Nelwyn village, where they meet the final member of the party, the sorcerer Willow Ufgood. He reveals something I'd suspected all along: Dove is actually Elora Danan, who was a baby in the original movie. She's been raised without the knowledge of her true identity as someone who was prophesied to defeat the Withered Crone, a powerful sorceress who serves an evil being called the Wyrm. Oh yeah, and the party is also joined, for a time, by Willow's friend, Silas.

Throughout the eight episodes of season one, the party has numerous adventures as they make their way toward the Immemorial City, and Willow begins training Elora to use magic. Meanwhile, Graydon begins to fall in love with Elora, despite her being in love with Airk. Boorman also has his own motive, wanting to find the Kymerian cuirass, for which he had previously sought with Madmartigan. And Airk meets a fellow prisoner, a young woman whom the internet calls Lili, though I don't remember ever hearing a name in the show. They don't get along at first, but eventually... well, I don't want to spoil what happens eventually. It wasn't exactly surprising, though. And at one point the party gets captured by Bone Reavers, led by a woman named Scorpia, who is Boorman's former lover, and who has a surprising connection to Jade, the nature of which I won't spoil. Also, it's pretty clear that Kit and Jade are in love with each other, but it's a ways into the series before they admit that to themselves, or to each other. Later, Kit is kidnapped by trolls, and the others go to rescue her. She meets another prisoner named Allagash (Christian Slater), a former comrade of Boorman and Madmartigan. He helps the others escape, but doesn't manage to escape, himself. Um... there are some flashbacks to when Graydon was younger, and got possessed. Not a lot is revealed about that, I don't want to spoil what little was revealed. But later, it is discovered that he can do magic, and begins training with Willow alongside Elora. Anyway, they eventually reach the Immemorial City and battle the Crone and the Gales. I don't want to spoil any details of how that goes.

Well, I'm leaving out tons of details, but I also hope I'm not forgetting anything too important that I might have wanted to mention. I didn't love the series, but I thought it was decent. A fairly standard fantasy story that leans on any number of standard fantasy tropes. It was reasonably interesting, fun, and amusing, with some reasonably good characters. I know some people didn't like the inclusion of modern music and a modern style of speaking, but I did. And I really hope there will be at least one more season, to follow up on various plot points that were introduced this season. I'm not really sure what else to say.