Jul 03 2010
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This series had an improbable start: The first DVD shows that there is indeed potential for this re-invention of Alexander’s story; while the second DVD built somewhat on the first’s broad potential, the series lost it’s map in the third disc-little character interactions/exploration of emotional background, precious tiny chronicle aside from the fighting and killing… The 4th and final DVD is frustrating, in that glimpses are given of what could have been a fantastic series, but all you accept are glimpses: Alexander’s interactions with Roxanne seem stilted and half-finished, his disgust for his mother is shown in maybe 2 seconds, his deep caring and attachment to his friends is almost non-existent. He suffers afflict at Philotas’ and Hephaestion’s death for perhaps 2 seconds, none for Cleitus, and seems to be completely removed emotionally from everything and everyone-Alexander truly seems to understanding himself not so powerful as a person, but merely a tool of the Universe, and therein the problem: Alexander has been distant throughout the series, so his complete detachment from everyone does not seem too shock-while there is an microscopic underlying feeling of regret and sadness after Alexander destroys the world, and his friends, there is not enough of a incompatibility between himself “regular” and himself “after he realizes he is “Alexander”-he goes forward, he must”.
The major flaw of the series was that not enough time was taken to make the characters, apart from perhaps Olympias, and Darius (please God!), who didn’t need a lot of cover time… everyone else, you were given spicy glimpses into, but always left honest out of arrive of “connecting” with. I judge another 6 episodes, with a less accelerated anecdote telling plot, would have done justice to this recent vision of Alexander and his saga.
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I do recommend the series though: frustrating and too-brief it may be, it is a brave, imaginative, and captivating capture on a man who conquered the world in 10 years, died at the age of 33, and lived nearly 2500 years ago.
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