Safehold isn't quite what you think in the penultimate episode of The Shannara Chronicles: Season 1, which was one of the most well-executed installments of the story yet.
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The Shannara Chronicles might not offer the most original take on fantasy in the genre, but when it settles in to play around with the dystopian futuristic setting of the Four Lands, it puts together some pretty cool sequences. Case in point: it turns out Safehold is actually in the subway system heading into San Francisco, and that "Safehold" was taken from an old highway sign for San Francisco and Oakland.
It's in these moments that The Shannara Chronicles has the opportunity for greatness, and "Safehold" was one of those episodes. The show has often had the difficulty of capturing the scope of epic fantasy; that was especially true with Ander training the Elvish army that was just 20 or so people in a very big woods. (I get that they're understaffed, but it can't be that bad.) But it has been nailing the dystopian elements, from the trolls and elves being mutated humans to the map to Safehold being a subway map. It works, it feels fresh and it gives the opportunity for really interesting twists on the genre, like how and why Eretria is important to the mission.
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