Sunday 28 February 2016

Shadowhunters


So as everyone who is a lover of Cassandra Clare knows, her book series - The Mortal Instruments, became a movie...yay! The movie flopped sadly, but due to the awesomeness that is Cassandra Clare, it was then picked up as a TV show - which is extremely rare. 

Now, I wish I had low hopes when waiting for this show to come out. But I couldn't help but feel excited - my downfall in this life, which is why I am probably this disappointed. 

I last spoke about my thoughts on the casting way back in 2015 when I hadn't seen them act or anything which you can check out here: 'Shadowhunters Casting'.


Clary portrayed by Katherine McNamara 
As you can see from the post I did back in May, I was extremely pleased with this casting and thought she would be amazing. As I said, my high expectations are my downfall. Sadly, I do not like Kats portrayal of Clary one bit. Now I am sure it is a mixture of a bad script as well as her acting abilities, but overall it just makes a really bad product that makes me cringe whenever I watch the show. Hopefully, her acting as well as the script matures as the show progresses - if it progresses that is. 

Jace portrayed by Dominic Sherwood
Now I think that Dom is an excellent actor, but in his case it is the script that sadly doesn't favour him. The script in general makes me angry, and the way they present Jace in the script is totally inaccurate. Him and Alec were a lot closer in the books, even a pretty girl wouldn't have broken their bond. But in the show, it seems like she was all that was needed in order to ruin their bromance. Dominic is amazing, it's just such a shame that the adaptations he gets cast in are so bad.

Alec portrayed by Mathew Daddario
Alec is one of my favourite characters in the novel, so his portrayal was one of the most important for me and so I was so happy to see that Matt is an amazing actor. Even the writers present him correctly...so I really haven't got much to say other than his acting skills are amazing. I am quite upset that he hasn't got blue eyes or at least a feature that is specific as it is important to the novel that he is unique in Magnus' eyes but oh well....the show runners have got a lot more things that were important wrong.

Isabelle portrayed by Emeraude Toubia
This is one character that I am very angry about, and it has very little to do with the actress herself, but the way in which the writers interpreted Izzy. They have over sexualised her character and made her more dependent on men whereas in the series she was known to break hearts and be ultra focused on completing their missions as shadowhunters. I think that if I start my rant, I will never finish.
So in  conlusion, I am furious. 

Simon portrayed by Alberto Rosende
Alberto is another Matt like situation where the writers are accurately presenting who Simon is, as well as the fact that Alberto is an amazing actor. 

Magnus Bane portrayed by Harry Shum Jr.
I was a hardcore  gleek for many years, so finding out that Harry was playing Magnus made me feel very safe as Magnus is my favourite character in the series. But again, due to my downfall...I was disappointed. The writers number 1, are making Malec happen in a completely wrong way...I feel like crying....my OTP, how dare they ruin my OTP. 
Number 2, Harry's acting isn't good nor is it bad....but the writing is definitely the major problem here.

Luke portrayed by Isaiah Mustafa
I love his acting. again the writing. what's the point in elaborating....it feels like this is the main issue with most of the cast....maybe they should just change writers I don't even know.

Overall, I just really dislike the show. This was their chance to make it something amazing and they didn't. It is quite simple to make it amazing actually, simply open Cassandra's books and CHANGE NOTHING. thank you, and goodbye.

(Disclaimer: the images used in this post are not mine.)

Yours Faithfully, 

~ She Who Writes