Galavant

Well, didn't see that coming.

What, her choosing Richard over Galavant? It's been one of the major points of the trailers since the show was first announced.

Seriously? Last page just called her "Girl in distress" and I have only seen the trailers listing off the stars in the thing.

Alan Menken did the music for this? Interesting.

So far, it's looking like Galavant's "true love" might be shaping up as the Big Bad or something.

edited 4th Jan '15 5:14:07 PM by KnownUnknown

She's definitely looking like she's up to no good at any rate.

I really hope ABC doesn't use the Galavant song every commercial.

Yeah doing the jester and wanted that Valencia jewel and getting her husband to torture the king and queen.

edited 4th Jan '15 5:22:28 PM by Halberdier17

So I think Richard may turning out to be my favorite character somehow, oddly enough. Go figure.

He's certainly a real fun villain, if nothing else.

EDIT:

As much as I agree with you, I've got a bad feeling that they've taken the initial hype to heart and are probably going to keep using it for the rest of the night at least.

edited 4th Jan '15 5:31:22 PM by TheSpaceJawa

In the immortal words of Miracle Max, there is no cause nobler than revenge.

"It's 1256 the your momma jokes are getting kind of old."

So the commercials got pretty old after the first few times they used them, but otherwise that was pretty dang great.

Dat jousting scene. Oh lord dat jousting scene.

Reality Ensues from a rapid-fire training montage is not something I would have seen coming.

edited 4th Jan '15 6:26:39 PM by TheSpaceJawa

I liked the twists. And the performances are fun. Did not know it was by the same creator as The Neighbors until after I saw the show. Knowing that explains a lot of things I noticed that puzzled me at first. Not puzzled any more.

That was delightful. The rape joke was gross, and yes, "your mom" jokes are getting old. Even if you lampshade them.

But still, this looks like it will be really fun.

I actually appreciated them calling out "Your Mom" jokes as being worn out, personally. But then, I've never been a fan of them so I'll rarely not appreciate when they're the butt of a joke of their own.

Heh.

The Jousting scene didn't turn out the way I expected.

I keep wondering if Galavant is, after getting himself back into some semblance of shape, going to turn into a Darkwing Duck kind of character: badass, but coming off as bumbling much of the time anyway (until those moments where he gets his head on straight) because even though he is badass, he's nowhere near as badass as he thinks he is.

edited 4th Jan '15 9:13:55 PM by KnownUnknown

Well, from what little we saw in the opening, he used to be exactly as Bad Ass as he thinks he is.

Yeah, but he isn't now - and he likely isn't going to be so for much of the plot (since most of the show's humor seems to come from him).

Wow. I enjoyed that a lot more than I thought. The songs are, they have a good rhythm and singing, but they're not catching me. I also get the impression that a number of them were shortened for some reason. Namely, if you watch that first song with the King, you can very clearly see where they probably cut out a verse or something.

They probably had to be trimmed for time.

I like the songs, they're catchy and really funny. They feel very... Spamalot.

Maybe we'll get extended versions of the songs if they release the show's soundtrack or on certain versions of the home release.

On which note, there's a part of me that wishes they have a singalong option for the DVD.

The show actually has a Vevo channel of Youtube, which has "lyric videos" that are basically singalongs.

Sadly, it doesn't have the song from the beginning of episode two, or any of the reprises of the main theme.

I could see this being pretty successful onstage at some point in the future.