Where's the kung fu ?????
POSTED BY: dragonwine
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 15:08
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We do see a bit of martial arts in Saffron's and Early's fighting styles, so I don't think there is a lack of Eastern martial arts, just not as heavy as in Buffy & Angel. I always thought there was too much martial arts in BtVS & Angel.
It is refreshing to have a bare knuckled, gritty show where good ol' brawling gets the job done.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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I*'ve also seen the use of Chinese as less literal, myself. I imagine that if through some weird time-space continuum thingie one of us should land smack in the cargo bay we wouldn't be able to understand much of what the crew was saying to us (beside the general universally understood pointing of weapons and such to mean "who the hell are you and how did you get here").
I mean, think of how we would sound to an English speaker of 500 years ago. Could we understand each other? Very possibly on the barest of levels. I think of the Chinese as less literally these English-speaking people suddenly bursting into Mandarin and more as the way ME has chosen to show the polyglot nature of the culture without making it so we can't understand a word they're saying. In "reality," which of course in this context is meaningless but still, the characters probably speak a patois of mainly English and Chinese with Japanese and Arabic overtones and local variants.
Never let an upside-down corset stop you from having a good time.
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