Recently, Netflix produced and released a new show from Matt Groening, the creator of Life in Hell, The Simpsons, and Futurama. Disenchantment is pretty good, as animated series go. It is not as good as Groening's past creations, but I remind myself that it is only Season 1, and there are plenty of brilliant scenes that show the potential greatness.
Set in a medieval fantasy universe, Disenchantment follows a princess protagonist who hates being a princess protagonist and would rather drink, fight, and goof off. There is a demon personification of her Id, and a goofball, milquetoast elf to round out the main characters. The world seems to be full of crazy, silly, sometimes dark versions of all the fantasy tropes, from overbearing kings and over enthusiastic knights, sick and depressed serfs, to monsters and fantasy beasts of all kinds.
During the first episode, we are treated to a terrific scene while the elf character is traveling through the kingdom for the first time. He comes across a battle of some kind between giants and the best creatures in the world!
Just in case my imbedded video fails, the link is here to the youtubes. Sorry about the captions.
Apparently, ewoks aren't the only undersized species to punch above their weight.
