ebiros2
The series is made by a Canadian company, and has a different look and feel from its Hollywood adventure / action counterparts.The series may have been inspired by Eidos' "Tomb Raider" game that was popular around the time this series was made.Professor Sydney Fox works for the archeology department at Trinity College - a fictitious school in "north east" area of Americas (which can be either in Canada, or the US). She spends most of her time relic hunting that takes her to many exotic locations around the world. She's an expert in ancient cultures, and martial arts. She's accompanied by her assistant Nigel Baley who's intelligent, but aren't nearly as tough as she is. In most episodes she goes into a somewhat scary situation where she and Nigel has to fend for their lives using their charm, intelligence, and martial arts skills. The episodes are much more story driven compared to American made TV series of this type. Ethnic mixture of part Hawaiian Tia Cerrerie, British Christien Anholt, and Canadian Lindy Booth (Tanja Reichert in the third season) is also unique in TV series.What's stellar about this series is it's production. The producers of this series knew what they were doing. The characters, the stories, and the location are all superbly in good taste that holds up to repeat viewing. One very honorable mention goes to the series' cinematographer. You can freeze frame any part of the episode, and they all look like a perfectly framed, and exposed Kodachrome shot. No messed up computer graphics, or effects to kill the atmosphere of the story, and this in my opinion is one of the attraction of this series.Stories are great, acting is great, so no wonder there's still a fan base to this series that's requesting more episodes to be made. If they are going to make another series, I'd like to request the original team that made these episodes come back, because the look and feel of the series was superb.This is one of the best television series, and deserves further development in the future.
iam_azmaveth
I think like others have said this show is a copy of many of the Indiana Jones ideas. I don't know about copying a computer game though maybe we should say that Tomb Raider is also a Copy of Indiana Jones but with a woman playing the lead role to avoid being called a knock off.I don't analyze the shows I watch too much for historical accuracy as this is a low budget TV show and not a documentary. The corn thing that one of the commenter's wrote about is a funny one. But not too inaccurate as Corn was a name used by Europeans during the Time of the vikings to refer to Grains and is Anglo-Saxon in origin. It was an American thing to refer to Maize as Corn. SO their use of the Word Corn is correct but maybe confused the writers of that particular episode
mask_of_storms
I have just seen "Relic Hunter" (i think about last year through AXN-asia channel on our home cable provider) and I could say that even though the show may have flaws it is over-all entertaining especially if you love woman-in-action and supernatural relic themed shows. And for the fact that Sydney Fox is played by the great actress Tia Carrere plus one of my favorite characters ever, Nigel Bailey ( Christien Anholt) who was superb as geeky (not so) assistant to Tia, the show could be more interesting if some story lines would have more of a twist (not that i don't like this show, guys..) I just hope you like this as I did. and oh, i am just proud of Tia who happens to have Filipino blood in her veins. (",)
Mr_Garak
Relic Hunter is sort of a cross between Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider, Tia Carrere is the "Dr Jones" character of the series who goes on adventures to solver mysteries, find ancient relics, of course she runs into the occasional rival relic hunter and normally ends up fighting herself and her colleges out of dangerous situations.Not a bad show, certainly better than some of the shows that currently air on TV these days.