Full spoilers for The Shannara Chronicles: Season 1 continue below.
Fantasy has had a difficult time fitting onto the small screen over the years. While magical worlds have burst off the page and found success in movie theaters, they've still struggled to proliferate on TV, especially when they're more based in fantasy than in reality.
Before Game of Thrones, the most widely recognized style of fantasy on TV was the likes of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess, and the state of television has evolved far past the both of those. The hope was that in this new era of TV fantasy, The Shannara Chronicles would hew more toward the former than the latter, and MTV could come up with the fantasy genre's version of The CW sci-fi hit The 100.
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Fantasy has had a difficult time fitting onto the small screen over the years. While magical worlds have burst off the page and found success in movie theaters, they've still struggled to proliferate on TV, especially when they're more based in fantasy than in reality.
Before Game of Thrones, the most widely recognized style of fantasy on TV was the likes of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess, and the state of television has evolved far past the both of those. The hope was that in this new era of TV fantasy, The Shannara Chronicles would hew more toward the former than the latter, and MTV could come up with the fantasy genre's version of The CW sci-fi hit The 100.
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