He's a very bad actor. It baffles me that he keeps getting roles.

Budget issues I suspect. I'll give this show credit for having the balls to stage battles in daylight as were more common in actual medieval warfare even if it does expose how sparsely populated their battlefields are. I think they did a clever job of showing parts of the battle with Jingim's narration to give you a…

That was amazing! Although just because of the guttural nature of their voices, it sounds more like folk metal.

My greatest wish in life is to have Liu Bei drop a beat and to have Cao Cao start spitting rhymes.

I'm wondering if next season they are just going to assume that Khutulun and Kaidu actually did have an incestuous relationship. They kept it pretty subtle wit the interactions between Byamba and Kaidu in this season. It could go either way.

“Some may question the wisdom of sending a blind monk to assassinate the prime minister.”

Yeah, I was just wondering about the format of the show.

Modern wuxia productions (ones with money at least) will at least attempt to look as good as this show does (you know within reason, for example, the newest Three Kingdoms series, from 2010, was 96 episodes on a 30 million dollar budget, so grading on a curve here) and the subject matter and content will take itself…

But I mean, why watch this show for the characters when the sets, fights and costumes are so cool.

I just Youtube'd a clip. Yep, it sure has got the style. Especially some of action beats, the rhythm of the fighting has wuxia choreography written all over it. But I'm assuming it was still a episodic procedural?

I'm not saying that the show is without flaws or that it is beyond reproach because of genre miscategorization. I just find that many reviewers have a really narrow idea of how narrative works or how it should work. There are scenes that don't work for me. Marco is still a bland protagonist, both in my western and…

This may be a function of my age and not being around for the original runs of the 70/80's movies but I always figured people went to see those movies for the, you know… "Tiger style, tiger style" "Your kung fu is no match for mine". Were the plots at all memorable? I have a love of these movies that perhaps is…

By the second episode, I recognized the form. It's wuxia. By this episode, for me it was confirmed. The problem is that Americans don't have a frame of reference for this because wuxia doesn't have a direct analogue in American TV. Yes, it is romance, it is political and dynastic politics and intrigue, it is martial…