onTheShannaraChronicles.But are those characters all dead, mostly dead, or slightly alive?
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, gnome!
Ander and Diana are stuck wandering the green hills and blaming themselves for everything thats gone wrong.
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The Ander I love disappeared, lost in booze and anger and doubt.
I wake every morning hoping hell return, she says.
Okay, first, on behalf of Arion, the prince shes currently dating: Ouch.
Second, have we seen signs of drunk, angry Ander?
In general, hes been reasonable and proactive.
We needed more drunken bitterness to support this bit of character development.
Anyway, before they can kiss or apologize or punch each other, Slanter comes riding up.
He found the demon army, and he feels obligated to show them.
And its bad, man.
The demon army is as epically CGId as you might imagine: thousands of them, massing in hordes.
Were doomed, Ander summarizes succinctly.
Then he frees Slanter to warn his people.
The gnome asks what chance the elves have.
None, obviously, but Ander says theyll face the demons for the sake of all the races.
As Slanter leaves, he says, I will speak of your honor.
In another life, we are not enemies.
Yeah, stop trusting him.
Changentine cruelly plays to his sons deepest wishes, offering to set their past disagreements behind them.
Youre the only one I can trust, Changentine says.
The DM uses Bandons power as a conduit to infect Allanon with demon mojo.
It is a talisman of evil.
You did it, my son.
The Druid is no more, Changetine croons, giving Arion a quick, not-at-all creepy shoulder rub.
So, um, Allanons dead?
Allanons got way too much work yet to do, training Bandon and whatnot.
I want to believe, guys.
But then Wil morphs into the Dagda Mor because psych, its a dream!
Even though no shortcut in the history of epic quests has ever been a good thing, they agree.
(Book readers, did you get as excited about this bridge as I did?)
They make their way inside and find an abandoned hall.Or is it?
Its not, of course; a silent child beckons them to follow her.
Anyone else have a problem with this plan?
Eretria asks
The child, Mag, takes them to meet her father, Remo.
Okay, Princess Rover fans, hold onto your butts.
The next scene has Eretria joining Amberle for a nice soak in a candle-lit pool.
Amberle scoffs, You and Cephelo deserve each other.
For the first time, Amberle looks a little sorrowful about the life Eretrias led.
Honestly, Im not sure what angle Eretrias playing here.
Does she think seducing Amberle will get her better treatment?
Is she just messing with the princess head?
Does she want to be sure Tumblr never runs out of gifs?
We may never know.
Mag brings Wil a plate of food, too.
And then he passes out because of course, the food is drugged.
Youd think Wil would recognize the symptoms by now.
Eh, whatever, all the ladies love Wil.
Amberle announces that shes the kings granddaughter and demands they be released.
Oh, gurl, youve got some things to learn about the world.
Naturally, Remo drags her to his torture chamber first because it turns out that he is super crazy.
Amberles in a realSawsituation, complete with spiked head, neck, and finger clamps.
Mag explains that Wil tried to escape, which makes Amberle sob harder.
Remos advancing on her with the through-the-nose lobotomizer that he used on his wife when suddenly Wil appears!
He and Mag kill Remo (or do they?
),and he frees Amberle.
I thought Id lost you, she breathes, then kisses him.
There you go, Wamberle fans!
Kissing done, the group heads to the door leading to the Wilderun pass when Remo staggers in.
Man, Wil is bad at murder.
Amberle takes Remo out once and for all, and poor Mag dies clutching Wils seashell.
Murder better next time, Halfling.
The Rovers go first, promising to send the trolley back for the elves.
But too soon, the Reaper appears.
Crispin turns to fight it and dies almost immediately.
So long, Captain Edensong.
You werent very nice, but you were handsome, so that was something.
But she made her decision.
Wil and Amberle grab the bar, and they all start back across the cavern.
This time, they flare to life, and he screams, Just die, already!
The blue fire hits the Reaper as Cephelo succeeds in cutting the line.
Thats a lot of presumably dead people this week.
Its a safe bet that were going to see the Wambertrio again, but wither Allanon?
Bring back our cranky Druid!
The Brooks Nook
Well, did the epic bridge scene live up to your expectations?
You were better in the book.
More interesting to me is the Warlock Lords sword.
Is this the shows version of the Sword of Shannara?
Well see Allanon again, right?Right?
