I just saw this post and had to pipe up. I love Legend of the Seeker! It's my husband's and my favorite tv show.
The magic system is very original. The good vs evil is pretty black and white. The bad guy (Darken Rahl) is about the ideal bad guy. He is cunning, wicked, good looking and not a coward.
There is justice, mercy, courage, and hope.
But the part I like the very most, is the love story between Richard and Kahlan. It is a love story not often told in movies or books.
Richard and Kahlan really, truly love each other, but their love is not a selfish one. They cannot be together intimately because doing so would not only destroy the love they have for each other, but it would also compromise their mission - to free an oppressed people from the evil tyrant Rahl. Love is not just an emotion.
As a Christian, I come away from the show, hoping that I would be like that, putting God and what is right, before the one person in all the world whom I love with all my heart and would give up everything in this world to be with. If I had to choose, could I choose what is right over him? I know a couple, very well, in fact, where the husband's love for his wife took priority over what was the right thing to do by their children. It is currently having dire consequences for their family.
I have not read the books, though I hope too (I'm just afraid I won't like them as well as the movies). But the show is great.
Quote: I hate the way the afterlife works in the show. Everyone goes to the Underworld, and the Evil Bad Guy is in charge of it. So, everyone goes to hell, pretty much. Really dismal. Though maybe I've missed something.
I was talking with my husband about that last night, because I had a hard time with it (you go there whether you do good or evil). But he had a very good point. In most every culture in history (with very few exceptions) that was what it was like in the afterlife. When you died, whether you were a good person or not, you went to the underworld, period. Without Christ, that is basically what happens.
Anyhow, those are my thoughts. 
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