WakenPayne I thought that the first season of Witchblade was okay. I mean for a second rate comic book to transfer a character to a low budget TV Show it wasn't that bad. Aside from a few plot points never being explained I'd say it was pretty good. Then the cop-out happened.For those who don't know - Witchblade is about Sara Pezzini, an NYPD Homicide detective who wields a supernatural weapon whose extent of power is yet to be revealed. She tries to keep it a secret but usually is forced to use it once an episode. She sometimes gets help from the billionaire Kenneth Irons to help her understand it. But his diabolical plans reveal that he wants to control it as well.So for a TV Show based on a comic book it could have been worse (like Agents Of SHIELD). I might forgive unexplained plot points but I stop once Season 2 comes into play. Sara loses everything and as she dies a previous wielder tells her that The Witchblade can turn back time. She uses it to make everything after the first half hour of the pilot mostly pointless. I stayed on and after watching episode 1 I have a rant to say about this.Okay, instead of giving this season something to work with to probably raise it above "Cop Out" instead of doing something that was more interesting than Season 1, they revert back to the formula that occupied over half of Season 1!!! Are you kidding? That's just a pet peeve however. When Sara turns back time she changes having her partner getting killed which would be reasonable... IF SHE HAD A RECOLLECTION OF WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER. This isn't even a joke, this happens. Not to mention the partner gets resurrected only to die at the end of the episode... Well he was a waste of breath. Strangely enough however Sara hands the Witchblade into forensics which kind of asks the question why she didn't do that in the pilot.I'm also not building Season 1 up on a pedestal, I think that has problems too. First of all there was a love relationship with Sara and an Irish singer who eventually dies. First of all the romance is underdeveloped, it only goes for 4 episodes and he becomes a background character. I would like to know why Sara couldn't communicate to him in death, because it can do that. Not to mention that in the first few episodes the editing of the action scenes go by so fast that you don't have a single clue of what's going on. Thankfully it changes after only a few episodes.So now I am going to tell you what I liked in this show. I like Anthony Cistaro as Kenneth Irons. I don't know why I just think that he has "diabolical billionaire" down to a tee. The acting is pretty good all round, most notably from the official cast such as Yancy Butler, Eric Etebari and Will Yun Lee. Not to mention that the mysteries and conspiracies of this show are interesting enough to keep you invested despite some things never being explained. The Effects are also decent for a TV Show of this kind if you take into context what it was and what something like this would have been like at the time. Not to mention that the opening titles for Season 2 are pretty well done.So if you want a simple 40 minutes to kill (or 80 if you're looking at the pilot) then Witchblade Season 1 in my eyes is definitely worth picking up and taking a look at. However with the ending of Season 1, it's obvious the writers backed themselves into a corner where the show just turns bad. If you can look past the problems that I had with the first episode of Season 2 then you might like the show as a whole.

batmanncharge How do I start this? Well for years since 2003 we've been fighting against the craziest odds to get this gem of a series released "Officially!" The time is here we have Witchblade the series in its entirety! Can this be considered a "spoiler" Hmmmm? I shell mark it as so. The DVD looks Out-Standing, then they go and do the unforgivable.... Sigh, sorry I needed a moment, They OK "Spoiler Alart," at least I think so! They Changed the Sound Track!!! Normally I would overlook such things but for Witchblade this is Big! This show lives and breaths "Drama!" Songs like "Green eyed Lady," and Peter Gabriel's " Solsbury Hill," and the've replaced it!! AAAAAaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! The Original music Its life blood pumping pulsing life's soul into every passionate moment of the series and they've changed it for some home made muck!!! This feels like someone made a deal with the devil to get it released, and he made it all pretty, clear, and crisp. Only like all deals with him he stole its "Soul!"

bob-3501 I saw the series when it initially aired on TNT, and I found it fresh, exciting and captivating. The combination of pure escapist fantasy and cop drama worked well in this incarnation. Yes, it was strange, but strange doesn't mean that it wasn't entertaining. By juxtaposition of an ages-old metaphysical history against Sara Pezzini's attempts to cope with that in the framework of her contemporary physical world, it created a whole new universe for the writers to dabble in. I believe that people who enjoyed "Sliders" "Farscape" and "Quantum Leap" would have enjoyed this show, as well.All good drama contains conflict, and in this case the conflict was manifest in Sara's efforts to reconcile the mundane and the metaphysical. At first a hard-bitten cynic, we see Sara slowly and begrudgingly grow spiritually and emotionally as she begins to accept and embrace her destiny as the current bearer of the Witchblade.I was introduced first to the TV series, and then I want back to check out the comic: yet I found the series more accessible. At points during the series you were left wondering along with Sara if she was hallucinating or having visions of events that actually happened--which helped build tension in the storyline.I also didn't object to the ending of the third X-Men movie, even though it strayed from the comic-book lexicon. The important thing is that within the context of that story, it made sense, and helped move the plot forward effectively. It makes no sense to attempt to bring comic-book characters to the big screen, if all you're going to do is regurgitate the comic-book legend exactly as it appeared in print. An effective re-imagining actually takes old characters and makes them fresh and relevant again, as in the re-imagining of the Superboy legend in the Smallville TV series. I've read the Superman and Superboy comics growing up, which were mostly kind of corny. Smallville has taken the development of young Kal-el and made him contemporary and interesting again.If a film or TV adaptation of a story originally told in graphic novel or comic book format stays true to the spirit and intent of the character, and changes are made to improve the dramatic flow in that direction, then those changes should be embraced as a welcome improvement, and not dismissed offhandedly from the dogmatic perspective of it straying from the comic, or being too different.

malcolmxerxes WITCHBLADE: The SeriesTM is the best Comics-/TV adapatation to have been broadcast since THE FLASHtm (1990)! In both instances, the characters are ones for whom I cared little in their Comics incarnations, but their adaptations have breathed new life into the characters, and in both instances, have transcended their Comics incarnations, just as was done with SPIDER-MANtm (2002). MS. YANCY BUTLER is a far better actress than what we have come to expect from series such as BLACK SCORPIONtm, so those viewers who are not readers of Comics will not find themselves alienated from the series, should they be lucky enough to find a network that still broadcasts the programme. Regrettably, the show was cancelled, recently, but hopefully, it will be made available on VHS & DVD, soon.