Saw this on Syfy last week. Once you accept this is NOT a big-budget Game of Thrones / Atlantis / Spartacus hybrid, then actually its kinda fun - a little bit quirky, yes - definitely not going to win any VFX awards, BUT its got a little bit of everything you'd expect from something like this: some flesh, action, monsters, politics etc etc...
Possibly the first episode tries too hard on this, cramming in too much and not developing, but hopefully it will find its feet as it goes along. The relationship between the pretty-boy hero and female lead looks like it could get interesting and there is some skulduggery and politics brewing in the city, so enough to keep interest piqued and perhaps become a guilty pleasure? Clearly its not GoT but this is FANTASY TV so either that's your bag and you go along with the pretence or you don't. In a way, GoT has set the bar so high that anything in a fantasy genre will fall short of the mark if you're looking for an epic on that kind of scale. But if you're happy with a light-hearted, fantasy romp, then this does a job.
Possibly the first episode tries too hard on this, cramming in too much and not developing, but hopefully it will find its feet as it goes along. The relationship between the pretty-boy hero and female lead looks like it could get interesting and there is some skulduggery and politics brewing in the city, so enough to keep interest piqued and perhaps become a guilty pleasure? Clearly its not GoT but this is FANTASY TV so either that's your bag and you go along with the pretence or you don't. In a way, GoT has set the bar so high that anything in a fantasy genre will fall short of the mark if you're looking for an epic on that kind of scale. But if you're happy with a light-hearted, fantasy romp, then this does a job.