Wonderful production values, good acting, great cinematography and the whole caboodle wrapped in a rampant post-modern message, a reality which makes the series almost impossible to watch.
Lithe and beautiful young things are the brave and noble 'truth bearers', just like the renaissance values of beauty=truth. When they read from a text it is some philosophical treatise, when they quote a truth it is almost always from the Greek classics. They espouse justice, 'faith' and morality but provide no clues as to where they have acquired such values.
All 'Christians' i.e. the religious persons are duplicitous and evil. The sorcerer is the source of education and truth and though some of his power is 'special', much of it is 'scientific', he is also remarkably multi-cultural and multi-faithed just as a competent 'community organiser should be! The Woman are feminist and strongly opinionated even simple village woman. The men are all budding democrats with the village men acting like union leaders and labour organisers demanding justice and berating the king when he makes the wrong decision, something the gentle (but dangerous) young king handles with remarkable and quite unhistorical aplomb.
A series low on intellectual or historical content but large on emotional and erotic stimulation very much like the world we live in today.
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