Dotsthavesp
I wanted to but couldn't!
LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
cordayalec-327-173569
True, it's not perfect. And some of Ashley's historic connections and theories are tenuous at best -- but they are real. The facts are there and the evidence is undeniable, even if it could just be coincidences.The biggest problem with the show -- and why it failed to live past one season -- is the fact that it was shown on syfy. Thus the editing push towards action packed excitement was necessary, as well as the cutting of a lot of archaeological details. 15 minutes per mystery was simply too little to delve into details and make the show come alive and real.For example the episode dealing with the sun disk was painfully shortened. Reading blog posts and articles by the crew about the trip from where the episode emerged, it becomes clear that there was a lot more archaeological details and investigations. And the fact that Ashley nearly died on that trip wasn't even mentioned in the show.In other words, if the show had avoided the 15 minutes per investigation and given each story more time, details and character, the show would have stuck around a lot longer.Also, Discovery or History would have been a better channel than Syfy.
Jan Lipsansky
Common! This nothing has with archeology, it's fake by fake. How you can trust anybody, who breaks in any place, trying to find "clue", oh yes, and suddenly he sees wings of angels or cross or labyrinth or stone in bull-corner or anything like this and knows where to go then? "See, it looks like skull - definitely skull of Mayan children or priests who hidden talking cross!" - "Oh, amazing! It's too small for coffin it must be arch of covenant!" - "Superb, thus sculpture looks like little box, it is clue pointing to this door!" Really funny. And what is surprising - they found nothing! Arch of covenant is hidden beyond wooden wall, so we leave it. Mayan talking cross is definitely hidden beyond stone block under water. Etc. And what this really annoying editing? I know spectators could have lower IQ but not all are stupid.
info-10310
(SPOILER ALERT - Contains brief reference to recent episode) I had such high hopes for this show and have watched every episode since the premiere, but...This production is the biggest load of bunk imaginable proving once and for all that anyone with a video camera, a pretty assistant and an accent can sell a show. I LOVE the concept and tracking down history is a passion, but this is not so much tracking down history as justifying a very large expense report.The breathless excitement Ashley invokes as he spins tales of unseen connections would be exciting to the viewer were it not for the utter absurdity. Like the two pieces of rock in Israel that somehow lead him to conclude that not only do they represent King Solomon's ring, but point the way to its location as well, resulting in a helicopter ride over the Vatican in Italy.You can actually get glimpses of his trusty assistant smirking or holding back laughter as he weaves his web of intrigue. They sure put this on the right channel because it is absolutely fiction, just a little short on the science.
Roger Parrish
The new Syfy Channel offering "Legend Quest" embarks on some excellent historically inspired adventures, but presents us with an overly dramatic portrayal of what real archaeologist do in the field, failing to show the research, planning and logistics that must be involved in such ventures. Ashley Cowie is a good solid host who brings us insightful thoughts which appear to be heartfelt. None the less, these very ideas are not ultimately backed up with discoveries that demonstrate accepted scholarly research within their hypothesis. Kinga Phillips has in this first episode been used more as "eye candy" or as a straight person requiring her to employ her acting skills rather than her accomplished journalistic credentials. Ashley Cowie's exuberant efforts to portray his historical assumptions are shown without substantive academically accepted proof lacking the appropriate historical and or biographical references.
