I watched Queen of Swords on TV when it broadcasted back then. I didn’t see many episodes but I was tantalized by female variation of Zorro and demonstration of excellent sword fights and plots. There were attempts to do seeing at whole a one season, which was only made, and answer would I wish a continuation of this show.
It was created by David Abramovitz who was a creative consultant of both legendary Highlander and Highlander: The Raven. Other fascinating concept of Queen of Swords was that main heroine’s fencing style is a magnificent Spanish destreza which was shown in Highlander’s episode “Duende” where Duncan McLeod had that sword fighting with Otavio Consone whom performed by Anthony De Longis who does twice appearance in Queen of Swords and he did teaching of show’s main performer Tessie Santiago. Alongside with that, an attraction made period and Spanish fascinating elements which in culture, music and that blending of it’s women with Latin American climate created one of the best beauties as a lead actress convinces in this.
Queen of Swords was going excellent. It has saturated characters and strong screenplays. You get positive heroes with whom you disagree. There presents wonderful mystery and investigation. I adored TV series for don’t using soap opera kind of creation of intrigue which created it’s mighty of likeable scripts. It’s fantastic that villainous colonel Montoya, who does tyranny to California’s Santa Helena, doesn’t become a center of every episode. I was passionately wishful and amazed when I got another piece in personality or background in characters. I love interrelationship between colonel and doctor Robert Helm, colonel and his a main henchman captain Grisham and that play between the doctor with protagonist Tessa Alvarado as in her real guise of aristocrat lady and as Queen of Swords and everywhere there I desired to follow for further developments. Abramowitz did return of performers from Highlander. Valentine Pelka accepted offered him role of Colonel Montoya and he did it brilliant in always keeping his malicious cold from which he can do a smooth transit to amiability as vice versa respectively. Peter Wingfield did a precise second choice in between captain Grisham and doctor Helm because I do not see him match and curious in henchman’s role. Moreover, this chemistry with colonel wouldn’t touching. He in his taken personage does a spectacular introduction of a cynical man, which he becomes in occasions, as I absolutely love his noticing to a lead personage about knocking what couldn’t but recall in some way Methos.
Whereas a lead heroine has a unique thing, which not every character behind mask wield, is that she has an ability in her real self which in persuade and push to acts by her speaking talent. Interesting that she carries mask even there. But there what can nice to see, Tessa is also a woman as her frustration to died garden which her mother carried. However, she showed her dropped of strong by being a naïve girl again by seeing her love and marriage candidate Antonio, a man who obviously is not an adequate a human-being and he transformed into absolutely terrible persona when they met again. Marta acted by Paulina Galvez is a gypsy servant of Tessa Alvarado and she is a great sidekick who is wise, has a nice character trait in tarot card master, likeable for how saves and help her mistress and she also has a human side too as it was covering of her fever. The incredible personalities are among episodic personages as Mary Rose, a noble who was a buccaneer before.
Everything that grandiose was under accompanying of Spanish notes which were giving magic and mysticism in one, characteristic guitar and I was hyped when came clapping. And no less, a main theme Behind the Mask by blind musician Jose Feleciano is an exciting rapture every time when I heard it.
Queen wants a humane justice for her murdered father and she evades killing wherever possible. She can sneak in colonel’s house without murdering a guard and doesn’t use opportunity to slay dictator in sword fights despite death of innocent or close to her people. From the first to the third episodes have involvement a peasant who in trouble and two of them go on crime as one tried to rob heroine on the road but rejected by recognizing her and she gives coins to him while other stole a medicine from the doctor because his wife was ill. Tessa, who usually knows a person, fails in her aspiration to save these criminals. These aforementioned both die by captain’s bullet while the third falls to his death by rejecting to accept Grisham’s hand. It’s hardly to sympathize to citizens of Santa Helena. These people clamor for their saving from tyranny but easily take in believe a lie by oppressive ruling that Queen of Swords did stealing of medicine.
I wasn’t pretentious to anachronisms initially such that Spain fought Napoleon in 1815, as this said in the sixth episode “Duel with a Stranger”, and how Antonio could miss Tessa after return from a war if she moved to Santa Helena in 1817? However, I couldn’t relax myself in a previous episode “The Witness” where a gang in leading of Derek’s character doesn’t have difficulties to come on a court with weapon, which occurs in city’s center, and make armed threat to colonel who is a power. He was supposed to have soldiers not only near with him but on the roofs and everywhere else. In speaking on details, I wanted killing of Mary Rose whom I couldn’t stand from her introduction. Such personalities always ask that. And right, I don’t like blondes (though Elsa Pataky is exclusion and even that she did a bad acting sometimes.).
I kept watching. The next episode didn’t make a big discomfort despite on Tessa’s love does death threat to Montoya more than once. I could be only bewildered by how Antonio’s father could lose wealth in the war if it historically was a source of earning.
I had idea on doing quitting in the seventh episode “Running Wild”, which was bearable but show was becoming weaker and lazier. Captain Grisham exclaims “jackpot” in discovery of searching while using in word in that definition will come in the twentieth century. Montoya, who was supposedly to keep everybody under his tyranny, gets threat in petition of dons about his substitute because they are getting robbed by highwaymen. I began to think, why colonel still don’t mind to secure that square after Queen’s appearances more than once as anything with protection? She makes an effective coming on two horses and defeats soldiers without taking out a sword. I love to hear from her (or it was a voice of other woman.) “Yah!” in making another foot kicking. That show was increasing in using martial arts than blades and whip with all of them were made a lot of magnificent in creativity scenes. However, a potential of destreza wasn’t disclosing. There were more ordinary fights on swords in which steel collides few times and Tessa finishes by usually hitting soldier in face.
I turned on a twentieth episode, that with Japanese people and which I did a plot learning before beginning and I wanted to see a putting of orient. A script was another fill of episode’s pattern. Colonel just says to an Asian female, who wields katana and, of course, martial arts, that Queen of Sword did attack on her group. A lady believes without hesitation and that will cause a confrontation but, certainly, both dames will turn against despot’s people by putting everybody on the ground. They can finish with show’s lead vile guy but Tessa lets him to ride away and Montoya says a nightmare fuel thing here which is “Until we’ll meet again”. I couldn’t watch shows where things got frozen and don’t have development. That same came to all interrelations between personages. I was forgiving sword combats for rare rude staging or they were far-fetched sometimes by that a character gets luck in make a destabilization of opponent as captain Grisham had it three times in one combat. That became unacceptable in process. I stopped to sense anything in Queen of Sword which could be a beautiful show.