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This show's awesome. Fight scenes are off the chain, very skillful, stylish and elaborate. The whole thing's nicely shot and looks great. The plot and world-building are interesting enough and certainly have the potential to develop into something compelling. Characters aren't particularly well developed at this stage but they get the job done. It's keeping my interest between the amazing fight scenes which are obviously the main attraction. And seriously who cares about a few different words they use in their world? If that's your complaint you're just looking for things to nitpick about.
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Digital Comic if you just happen to give a gently caress: http://www.amc.com/shows/into-the-badlands/exclusives/digital-comic
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Wandle Cax posted:This show's awesome. Fight scenes are off the chain, very skillful, stylish and elaborate. The whole thing's nicely shot and looks great. The plot and world-building are interesting enough and certainly have the potential to develop into something compelling. Characters aren't particularly well developed at this stage but they get the job done. It's keeping my interest between the amazing fight scenes which are obviously the main attraction. And seriously who cares about a few different words they use in their world? If that's your complaint you're just looking for things to nitpick about. I've only seen the pilot but I think this show has a lot of potential to move into the Spartacus/Strike Back/Banshee territory with combining great action scenes and a fast paced plot. It's not going to win any critics over but it's still going to make good viewing.
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Nov 28, 2015 13:37
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All three of those shows had/have great actors and amazing characters. This has the Widow, who i would watch do her thing for the whole season.
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Nov 29, 2015 05:29
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This isn't anywhere close to Banshee's level of badass fights.
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Nov 29, 2015 05:48
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Rhyno posted:This isn't anywhere close to Banshee's level of badass fights. It's a totally different style. Banshee has awesome fight scenes but this has very elaborate martial arts on a whole other level.
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Nov 29, 2015 06:22
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Rhyno posted:I gave it the entire first episode and it's just terrible. And this is coming from someone who made it through every single episode of HELIX. If you made it through Helix there is something wrong with you.
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Nov 29, 2015 06:40
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Verisimilidude posted:I hate it when sci-fi tries to inject its own terminology into the setting. Frack and other curses are fun because they're just a way to get past the swear filters and FCC. But Clippers? Regents? Colts? It seems like none of the other words are different save the nouns, so what's the point? They're colts for the sake of being colts (when really they're just apprentices), clippers for the sake of being clippers (when they're really assassins), and regents for the sake of being regents. It's because language evolves constantly, but they would lose a lot of viewers if they made it all clockwork-orange-language-like, so they substitute in words that make sense with how our language is currently structured, but are not the words we normally use, to give us cues that the setting is not a modern-day, real-life setting. And people like re-using old or not often-used slang because it's easier than coming up with a new word and makes them feel cool for knowing it. Also, while I agree that yeah it can be annoying sometimes, your phrasing makes it hilarious because it reads like "Woah, science fiction is fine, but don't be making up word usage, that's not realistic! Unless you're required to, in which case it's a good thing." I think it usually comes down to the actors' delivery. If they're dropping it in awkwardly, or without the right emotion, then yeah it sounds weird and annoying. If they're using it like it's a natural part of their vocabulary, it's fine. surc fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Nov 29, 2015 07:37
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Verisimilidude posted:I hate it when sci-fi tries to inject its own terminology into the setting. Frack and other curses are fun because they're just a way to get past the swear filters and FCC. But Clippers? Regents? Colts? It seems like none of the other words are different save the nouns, so what's the point? They're colts for the sake of being colts (when really they're just apprentices), clippers for the sake of being clippers (when they're really assassins), and regents for the sake of being regents.  itt our poor vocabulary is revealed.
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Nov 29, 2015 09:47
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The fight in the warehouse was pretty good imo.
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Nov 29, 2015 15:05
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Banshee fights are brutal, they are pretty different in style but I think both series have great action scenes. And yeah, Colts is pretty dumb but complaining about regent ? (Watch Banshee)
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Nov 29, 2015 16:39
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Dollhouse fits better than some of the other slang
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Nov 30, 2015 04:36
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So since the mythical place where the compass came from is beyond the badlands shouldn't the name of the show be Out of the Badlands?
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Nov 30, 2015 04:56
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For those that don't like it, I'm curious, are you fans of Kung Fu films? I know most people have seen Crouching Tiger, but are you fans of the genera? A lot of complaints about the dialog and delivery are common in those sorts of films so it doesn't bother me. If you are a fan of the genera but it still bothers you in this show, what do you find the difference is?
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Nov 30, 2015 05:21
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Rhyno posted:So since the mythical place where the compass came from is beyond the badlands shouldn't the name of the show be Out of the Badlands? Oh come now, they'll never find that city and get out of the badlands until the last episode in the last season, just like every other show that teases an end goal that the viewers would want. The majority of the show, assuming it continues, will be about their journey into and through the badlands.
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Nov 30, 2015 07:07
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Did we discuss the creepy rear end foot the Baron's son has?
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Nov 30, 2015 07:38
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Rhyno posted:Did we discuss the creepy rear end foot the Baron's son has? Super sexy you mean.
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Nov 30, 2015 07:46
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Sunny it's such an easy choice just take ol Quinn out behind the barn and clip him and his beard 
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Nov 30, 2015 11:42
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What exactly IS that guys accent supposed to be?
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e: Whoops, wrong thread.
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Nov 30, 2015 17:21
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So we have cars and motorcycles and selective electricity but we have to use 17th century surgical devices. And still no gun explanations.
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Nov 30, 2015 18:45
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That was a pretty drat great swordfight. Quinn is literally the evil emperor character from every wuxia film ever, just southern.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:49
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Fuuuuuuuck, I just noticed. The Quinn dynasty vs the Chin dynasty. On the one hand, lol pattern recognition, on the other, of course it is. This show is kung-fu as gently caress, in a good way. It's like... Southern Dynasty Warriors. Maybe that makes Sunny Lu Bu. I dunno. Rhyno posted:And still no gun explanations. Didn't the intro mention they were outlawed by the Barons?
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Nov 30, 2015 22:54
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This show is fun to watch like 40% of the time: whenever there's fighting and whenever the Widow is on screen 
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Nov 30, 2015 22:56
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OB_Juan posted:Didn't the intro mention they were outlawed by the Barons? Drugs are illegal in the United States.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:56
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Rhyno posted:Drugs are illegal in the United States. The police won't hunt you down and execute you and your family if wait poo poo you're right
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Nov 30, 2015 22:59
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Rhyno posted:Drugs are illegal in the United States. Okay, try this one: It's a show about Kung-Fu badasses, and not a show about shooty badasses. The one line about guns being outlawed is a throwaway because people would ask about it otherwise. Old cars and rebuilt motorcycles are cool, and get to stay. Plus they're like stagecoaches/sedans/litters/wagons/carriages and horses, so they don't make a huge difference anyway. Just look at it like a Kung-Fu/Samurai show, but in what we think is the American South. Nobody wants to see Wong Fei-Hong, but with a Glock.
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I like Marton Csokas.
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PaganGoatPants posted:I like Marton Csokas. He was a great badguy in the Equalizer. OB_Juan posted:Okay, try this one: It's just idiotic that guns are outlawed because a half dozen people say so. One sub machine gun would change everything. Maybe some sort of "ooooh, gunpowder is impossible to produce now" would have been better.
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Even the most primitive deflagrant takes a whole ton of work to produce. Original black powder was carbon, sulfur and potassium nitrate. All three of these things take a hell of an infrastructure to produce in quantity. Modern smokeless propellants require a depth of chemistry knowledge that these people lighting up opium pipes do not have. If the people who own everything and control society with their armies of sword wielding thugs don't want gunpowder to exist, they can keep it that way.
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wiegieman posted:Even the most primitive deflagrant takes a whole ton of work to produce. Original black powder was carbon, sulfur and potassium nitrate. All three of these things take a hell of an infrastructure to produce in quantity. Modern smokeless propellants require a depth of chemistry knowledge that these people lighting up opium pipes do not have. Nothing against you in particular, but I can't believe we're trying to nitpick why guns aren't in this show while a young boy bleeds and turns into a mindless kung fu killing machine.
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:Nothing against you in particular, but I can't believe we're trying to nitpick why guns aren't in this show while a young boy bleeds and turns into a mindless kung fu killing machine. This one gets it.
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wiegieman posted:Even the most primitive deflagrant takes a whole ton of work to produce. Original black powder was carbon, sulfur and potassium nitrate. All three of these things take a hell of an infrastructure to produce in quantity. Modern smokeless propellants require a depth of chemistry knowledge that these people lighting up opium pipes do not have. Yea but why not any bows and arrows 
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Good thing gasoline is so easy to acquire in this world. And they seem to be able to generate electricity easily enough.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Yea but why not any bows and arrows They do? A couple of Quinn's guys were using them on the Widow's guards.
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Rhyno posted:Good thing gasoline is so easy to acquire in this world. And they seem to be able to generate electricity easily enough. Gas isn't the only thing that could be used and generating electricity IS easy. All it takes is a magnet, copper wire and something to move the magnet or wire, like a windmill. In fact, hooking up a windmill to an electric motor will generate electricity, but not as well as a generator designed to do so.
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Gas DOES have a shelf life, though. Unless they're refining new gasoline, they should have run out several years after whatever catastrophe led to this kind of world.
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Gonz posted:Gas DOES have a shelf life, though. Unless they're refining new gasoline, they should have run out several years after whatever catastrophe led to this kind of world. Yes, but gas engines can run on high proof (and well filtered) ethanol (drinking alcohol).
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RandomBlue posted:Yes, but gas engines can ran on high proof (and well filtered) ethanol (drinking alcohol). You're right; that didn't even occur to me.
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Plus, it's a post-apocalyptic wire-fu action show that takes place on plantations run by hot red-headed ninja women and polygamous southern gentlemen kung-fu masters. I'm not sure why people are trying so hard to nitpick the odd combination of technologies available in magic future druglord kungfu-land.
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