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Bruce Lee wanted to make this show in the early 70's. Now we have Banshee creator Johnathon Tropper and Justin Lin giving us a western Kung Fu show. Anyone that has watched Banshee knows what you are in for. Set in San Francisco's China Town in the 1870's (Deadwood ish era). The various Chinese Tong's are fighting for survival against the local police, Irish gangs and each other. By bringing in tens of thousands of Chinese workers to fill the demand for cheap labour rebuilding the USA after the Civil War.   Andrew Koji/Ah Sahm: Fresh off the boat and on a quest to find someone, he speaks English and ends up working for one of the local Tong's. He's got mad skills.  Hoon Lee/Wang Chao: Fixer with hands in many pies.  Olivia Chang/Ah Toy: Local Madam to the Tongs, she's got all the prime booty.  Dean Jagger/ Dylan Leary: Irish Gangster, your man is a bad motherfucker.  Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Dt-5Pv61Q 
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Pilot was ok, there's enough to keep me watching for at least a few more episodes. Really wish they hadn't interrupted the "big" fight though... I assume that'll get revisited later anyways
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Apr 10, 2019 05:23
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Does anyone actually have an explanation for the slang “onion”? Google isn’t very helpful also second ep decent
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Apr 13, 2019 23:12
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I'm enjoying it. It's dumb fun like Banshee was.
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Apr 14, 2019 01:13
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Escobarbarian posted:Does anyone actually have an explanation for the slang “onion”? Google isn’t very helpful I'm completely guessing here, but based on the opening of the first episode it might be because they all smell terrible off the boat? BO is kinda oniony...
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Apr 14, 2019 04:10
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the best line from ep 2 "Where you from, Officer" "Savannah Georgia, Sir" "Ah... you're not Irish" "You make that sound like a character flaw" "It's no loving attribute"
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Apr 14, 2019 04:17
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Did you guys know the original title for this show was "Peking Blinders?"
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Apr 15, 2019 03:34
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lmao, that’s a terrible joke, I hate you
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Escobarbarian posted:Does anyone actually have an explanation for the slang “onion”? Google isn’t very helpful Could just be something they made up: quote:But the Tongs in Warrior aren’t speaking in completely modern English. Their dialogue is loaded with slang that the producers and writers invented, because words and meanings do get lost in translation. e: I like the opening credits. It's very stylish. CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 15, 2019 |
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Apr 15, 2019 04:42
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fadam posted:Did you guys know the original title for this show was "Peking Blinders?" Show is good.
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Apr 16, 2019 14:59
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This show is good. It's not winning any awards but much like Banshee it's a fun action romp with lots of interesting characters. I'm really liking Leary and between him and Kai n Banshee, Tropper writes some really engaging bad guys.
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Apr 21, 2019 11:54
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He's great at outlining their motivations without condoning them. He also good at building up their badassery before the inevitable showdown with the protagonist. I'm looking forward to that duel given they'll have totally different fighting styles. I'd like a little more character development for Ah-Sam, though, especially if they intend to set him up as some sort of revolutionary hero.
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Chas McGill posted:He's great at outlining their motivations without condoning them. He also good at building up their badassery before the inevitable showdown with the protagonist. I'm looking forward to that duel given they'll have totally different fighting styles. I'm looking forward to seeing NotBurton gently caress someone up.
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I'm wondering if the show is gonna portray how anti irish a lot of americans were at this time. I think during this time period, they really weren't that much more accepted than the chinese were, which makes sense that the two groups are fighting over lovely jobs.
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Episode 5 was loving outstanding. The after credits walkthrough was pretty cool too.
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This was definitely the best episode of the season. The throat rip was completely unexpected and insanely  I was totally expecting one or both of the innkeepers to die so I'm glad they didn't. I was also expecting Ah Sahm to keep his english secret for longer, but now revealing his secret only strengthened his best bros bond with Young Jun. I wondered where they were shooting this series and it turns out it's in Cape Town, South Africa. Also  it's been renewed for season 2 already 
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May 4, 2019 18:38
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AAAHHHHHHH THAT WAS SICK AS HELL
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Let's hope this show doesn't abruptly poo poo itself in the last season like Banshee did
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That episode was loving great as hell. I already thought it was a good show but this could've been like a movie in itself entirely separate from everything else. Man, I hope this show makes it because it seems very expensive and it does not seem like many people are watching it.
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Hakkesshu posted:That episode was loving great as hell. I already thought it was a good show but this could've been like a movie in itself entirely separate from everything else. Man, I hope this show makes it because it seems very expensive and it does not seem like many people are watching it. Yeah I'm kinda surprised they renewed it because I didn't think there were very many people watching this. When I mention this show, no one else has heard of it.
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Rocksicles posted:
Is it just me or does that writer look EXTREMELY like Tim Roth?
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That was a very fun episode that honestly felt better than peak Banshee. It was the quintessential western story to tell too but the little differences made for a good time.
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Why isn't this thread busier ? Goons don't know a good thing until its gone... that was such a great stand alone episode. If they tag that gold into the beginning of an important development it would be such a homerun. Qmass fucked around with this message at 06:16 on May 7, 2019 |
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Qmass posted:Why isn't this thread busier ? Goons don't know a good thing until its gone... I had totally forgotten about this show after seeing a commercial for it once, turns out "Kung fu by the Banshee guy" is a very good idea and I'm glad it's getting at least one more season. Cinemax tends to be sort of the bottom of the pile for paid cable quality but to be fair if you'd told me a decade ago that Starz was going to put out Spartacus, Black Sails and Ash vs Evil Dead I'd have called you crazy so I certainly don't object to them stepping up to deliver cooler if not necessarily the smartest programming out there.
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It's very entertaining...arguably has a little more complexity than Banshee, too. I just like seeing good fight scenes in a TV show.
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Chas McGill posted:It's very entertaining...arguably has a little more complexity than Banshee, too. Part of the problem I had with Banshee is that it really strained credibility in the town, the various groups that lived there, the impersonation of the sheriff, also while the last season sucked I wasn't really a fan of keeping the Ukrainian mob arc around for the second season. So far the world of Warrior has been much more believable and all the various cogs turning against and with one another feel legit and purposeful, rather than just there to tell a story for the season. Aside from the obvious setting comparison, it feels like Deadwood in that all the characters could continue to exist with one another for seasons to come.
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PaybackJack posted:Part of the problem I had with Banshee is that it really strained credibility in the town, the various groups that lived there, the impersonation of the sheriff, also while the last season sucked I wasn't really a fan of keeping the Ukrainian mob arc around for the second season. I'm gonna be honest, I sorta felt the opposite; a lot of why I loved Banshee was because it was willing to just go full-on ridiculous. It was just spinning so many plates at any given time that it's kind of hard not to marvel at. The fourth season felt like a downgrade in ridiculousness and that's a lot of why I hated it.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I'm gonna be honest, I sorta felt the opposite; a lot of why I loved Banshee was because it was willing to just go full-on ridiculous. It was just spinning so many plates at any given time that it's kind of hard not to marvel at. To be fair they kinda got shafted on the 4th season.
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Chas McGill posted:I just like seeing good fight scenes in a TV show.  It's why I put up with the intense garbage that is Into The Badlands.
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Orv posted:
How dare you. Pour one out for that show, it gave us some great characters.
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Rocksicles posted:How dare you. Pour one out for that show, it gave us some great characters. Unfortunately even Martin Csokas can't carry a show all by himself. 
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Orv posted:Unfortunately even Martin Csokas can't carry a show all by himself. Hey come on, putting Nick Frost in as Sammo Hung was a stroke of genius.
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I find that particular character of his, which he's played more than once, kind of grating honestly. It's good casting! It's not casting for me. E: Everything about ep 5 was great but I was especially fond of the fact that nobodies cover actually stopped bullets, everyone was just a terrible shot. Orv fucked around with this message at 10:11 on May 8, 2019 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I'm gonna be honest, I sorta felt the opposite; a lot of why I loved Banshee was because it was willing to just go full-on ridiculous. It was just spinning so many plates at any given time that it's kind of hard not to marvel at. Yeah, just look at the posters the show produced. They're all comic book covers. Banshee arguably the best adaptation of a comic book that doesn't exist, give or take Utopia.
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If you liked Banshee from a comic book perspective then I'd recommend Scalped by Jason Aaron or any of the Ennis/Dillon collabs.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, just look at the posters the show produced. They're all comic book covers. Banshee did have a comic book, technically. https://www.comixology.com/Banshee-Origins/digital-comic/35597
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Hurray the tong wars are finally kicking off! I was half expecting Bill to consider suicide there in the final scene. I wonder if this is his rock bottom or if he can fall farther.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Hurray the tong wars are finally kicking off! He's an Irish drunken gambler, i'm sure there are a few rungs left on his ladder.
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Episode was good and slide stabbing owns. I hope the bomb explosion coinciding with sex doesn't mean that mayor's wife is pregnant though because thats gonna be pretty awkward
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I really enjoy how they have a very clear difference in philosophy in how they film the fights between the Western and the Asian groups. The Western people don't suddenly have kung fu skills and I'm looking forward to seeing how they choreograph the inevitable fight between them.
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