WOW, this is really great!
This is just the amount of quality I have expected from you. Keep up the good work!
Reviews for "Saint - Chapter 1"
great but when is part two out?
this was a very well done flash and had a very nice story feel to it and just makes me want to see part 2 soooooo much can't wait
Good graphics; wierd audio; bad history
I liked this animation, though I couldn't figure out why your narrator was doing what sounded like a bad impression of a gypsy fortune teller.
I noticed a lot of reviewers lauding the history of this piece - and any interest in history is laudable.
However, you should recognize that the knights templar, like the freemasons, are obscured by a silly quasi-history of conspiracy theories and utter lunacy. Much of this silliness is actually rooted in history itself.
I only caution that most of the "historic" novels that reference the templars, (and that includes The Davinci Code, and some of the stuff he references), bears as much resemblance to history as The X-Files.
The free-masons have also been popular targets - viz. silly movies like "American Treasure". Where I grew up in northern Ontario, the local francophones, (who were steeped in a surprisingly old French tradition of superstition), persisted in telling blood-curdling tales about the masonic temple down the street from the Catholic church.
It's a good read, though - and opens up all kinds of possibilites for creative story telling.
TheZebu responds:
Yeah, DaVinci code isn't "historic". It's not even "historic fiction". It's just a modern thriller that has a few wildly silly plot devices.
I'm not trying to incite any superstition about any existing groups, which is one reason I picked the Templar, and allows for a bit more artistic freedom. There are lots of conspiracy theories with Freemasons and the Templar, the Baphomet, etc, and they are all rubbish. I'm not trying to "expose" anything either. I have no reason to quarrel with the Freemasons, Opus Dei, or any other organization.
another chapter 1
there have been so many teasers, Part 1's, and Numerous other beginnings to series that look like they have hope, and nothing ever becomes of them. would have liked more than just a setting of the stage out of this. also, w/e the reason the guy only has one eye open (i'm guessing in torture he lost the eye), his eye should always be closed then. when it cuts to his profile, he has his right eye open for those few lines, then head on view it is shut again. please be consistent. also, i'm not sure exactly what nationality that accent that the narrator has is supposed to mimic, but it also is not consistent and distracting. i'm no czech/russian/transyvanian speech expert, but i have never heard a dialect like that one. so make it better or scrap it. i have done research in european history and studied knights, the templar, and the feudal ages in some depth, as it interests me a great deal.
at any rate, its not bad for a chapter one, but i do hope more is on the way. this left me wanting more, which is not a bad thing mind you. keep up the series. i'm looking forward to it.
TheZebu responds:
Don't worry, I'll get at least past episode 3 with this one ^^;....
Seriously, I planned this remarkably well, and intend to finish this to the end.
Aww...
I want to know what happens next! Nice teaser, good graphics and soundtrack and potentially an excellent story to come. Finish part 2 soon!