I’m simply amazed how much meaningful content they managed to squeeze into two hours of screen time. Time to wonder why Star Wars are not able to do the same. But we all know the answer, don’t we?
There is clear motivation for every character, there are brief but accurate explanations of the world setting, and each episode has it’s own well defined mood. Just the episode where heroes had to speak with dead barbarians could redeem another movie in my eyes.
Underdark action scenes are mind-blowing.
Standoff between two wizards is even better.
And there is a lot of respect to the source material, tons of references, instead of just making stuff up.
