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‘Shadowhunters’: Will it Be a Success?

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After watching the first two episodes of Shadowhunters…I’m sorry to say but my first impressions are not great.

So we’re just going to rip the band aid off with this one. I watched the first episode when it first aired and if you get on-demand services through your cable provider I was able to see episode 2 before that even aired on television. My thoughts are that…I am beyond disappointed.

First off if you’ve read the books the changes they made and the various difference between TV-book adaptation are beyond glaring. To be honest in some ways the new additions or changes are a little unnecessary. I’m having trouble reconciling what’s going on in this world, how are things that happened in the book going to happen because of these changes. They heavily sped through the introduction of these characters, what happens to Clary to bring her into the shadowhunter world and the introduction of Valentine so early in the first episode was a mistake in my opinion.

After watching the first episode and not feeling completely satisfied with it and having issues with so many things didn’t settle right. First, I thought, well, it’s the pilot and those can be really rough no matter the original source material or an original idea. So I decided that I would wait til I saw the second episode to really put an opinion together and to get a better idea of how the rest of the season was going to go. Now don’t get me wrong, they got Simon right with the wit that he has, Jace is as conceited as ever but I’m taking serious issue with their casting of Clary. Her speaking voice is just so mousy and dainty and then when she’s screaming or whimpering it’s just nails on a chalk board. I don’t know where they found this girl but they should’ve moved on and looked for someone else.

I’m having a hard time after watching the second episode to want to continue to watch, but I will to fully give it a chance. It has happened on occasion that the first few episodes of a new series can be kind of eh and the rest are much better. So at the end of the season I’m going to give my fully formed thoughts of the season as a whole and more importantly whether or not I will continue to watch any future episodes, and that’s if the series doesn’t get cancelled beforehand.

Below is the trailer for the series. Let us know if you’ve checked the show out and what your thoughts are.

Shadowhunters airs on Freeform channel on Tuesday nights.

 


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