I was really looking forward to this series, and although the first episode didn't grab my attention, until the very end I believed that everything would change at the last minute and I would see an epic ending. However, the first minutes of the last episode revealed to me that my waiting was useless. The series really had huge potential and I convinced everyone around me that it would get better and that the end would get us all... I had never been so wrong before.
What would have suited a faster pace was slowed down, and where, on the contrary, a slower tempo would have suited it, it was too rushed. What do the mentioned technologies represent? What is the true power of the golem? Why did the original Klara have to go to another reality? Why did she have those dreams? What was Adam? After watching it, I have a lot of questions that I will probably never get an answer to.
The final scene kind of hinted that we might get a second season, but to be honest, I'm not sure I want one. All the good scenes like the death in the last episode were ruined by the next ones like the reaction of the closest person.
I saw some behind-the-scenes videos and they convinced me that the final fight was going to be really epic, but in the end, nothing happened. I know that we are in Slovakia and our production does not work miracles, but Vedma really could have been that miracle. The relationship between Tom and Klara was obvious from the very beginning, but I still didn't like that it just came out of blue. Frantisek's character was completely useless and all he did was drag out the plot unnecessarily because his scenes were nothing substantial anyway.
Klara's grandfather knew about everything, but her grandmother learned things only gradually, and that's why I expected anything other than a simple acceptance of the new fact. The fantasy elements weren't bad though. The portal to the other world was beautiful, as well as the connection of the dark ones with the alchemists, or the weapons that the dark ones used.
Vedma and conscious people made perfect sense, but I would still like to know more about them. A lot of things were not explained, which is a real shame. I regret everything that I wrote, because ever since the first mention and the first fantastic Czechoslovak series reached me, I was looking forward to how I would evaluate the masterpiece.
