A Paladin Too Far. This week, Allen took a look at The Faraway Paladin: Lord of the Rust Mountains, and he found it depressingly bad. And it just really, really sucks when you have a new show where the first season was great, and then the second comes and just ruins everything it built up to that point. It's just sad when you think about it. At least things will improve for us next week, where we will become more in tune with nature. Or something along those lines. See you then. -Stig Høgset.
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