awwhalen
I have no idea how this show was green-lit, or how it got away with the shoddy work that it did. The editing is disgustingly terrible. The "evidence" they use to justify recording is laughable. It's a show that has nothing to show for its expense, yet they try to convince the audience that the team is perpetually on the verge of discovering something groundbreaking. It's insulting, and a perfect example of "investigative" reality shows on the paranormal that have gone too far.
jw_11
I watched a few episodes of this show, and as many have said above, it is obvious that Syfy is trying to do some kind of an Indiana Jones/National treasure/da Vin code type show. It fails miserably. There is no excitement of him actually finding anything. Just places where relics may have been....Spoiler alert: (lol since there is nothing to spoil and he doesn't actually find anything)All of his local contacts who seem to reluctantly help him try to find what he is looking for also seem to be laughing at him. See Templar guy in Italy during the Ark of the Covenant search. After watching that debacle, I was glad to see him get sliced open by some giant thorn plant in the Mexican desert.I kept the show on just to watch Kinga walk around the desert in skin tight pants.They should just get a few more models and have them walk around too. Replace Ashley the "archeologist" with another hot girl... South Park or SNL needs to make fun of this guy, however if they tried, the joke would be lost, since a few months from now, no one will ever even know the show existed.
6StringSamurai
Legend Quest is SyFy's attempt to create a modern Indiana Jones (with a bit if Dan Brown thrown in for good measure), and is about as historically accurate. Host Ashley Cowie certainly looks the part, right down to the 5 o'clock shadow and the shoulder bag (it's a satchel!) In a half an hour of television, this "archaeological explorer" (whatever that means) seeks to solve the great mysteries that have plagued historians and archaeologists for centuries. Along with him is Kinga Phillips, a buxom "field producer" who's sole purpose is to be a sounding board for Cowie's wild assumptions and theories. Some of his leaps of logic are laughable at best. "Hey, this two headed eagle has wings. The Ark of the Covenant had angels with wings. It must be a clue!". The show's structure is much like a treasure map. "Take 20 paces to the the south west". One clue leads to another and another. If it were that easy, they would have solved these centuries ago. Rubish.
cerenzia
... it was like watching Nicholas Cage in basically any movie he's in, pulling together random symbols into meaningful clues (or not). Possible spoilers.This *could* be an interesting series if they didn't film it like an Indiana Jones-esqu action/adventure movie, complete with dotted lines on a map showing their travels as they "unravel" the mystery, mysterious "Orders" protecting secrets, and a sexy, do-nothing co- host who he calls over quite often, as if her only job is to be the mute sounding board for his unique and inspired ideas (because he's a Templar, dontchaknow, and understands all the imagery everywhere, even when he's wrong or the symbols don't look alike AT ALL). when he enters a basement of a church in Italy he acts like no one has been there for hundreds of years; cheese factor increased by the graffiti scratched into the rock walls behind him showing the hundreds of people there before him, and by the 'surprise' of pulling open a modern-day wire door as if Jesus himself unlocked it for him - dude, someone unlocked it for you before the cameras were rolling, or their security is lax. It doesn't mean much more than that. And we're not that stupid or easily entertained.Surprised that they would create a "reality" show like this when there's so much more they could be spending their money on.