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laleiaJust watched Tooth and Claw.
Um.
1. Why would monks at a presumably Christian monastery suddenly ... morph into Shaolin monks? When I watched the opening sequence, I actually paused and googled "Tooth & Claw Doctor Who Racism" just to see if this episode was going to do anything else that I might not like. Instead, the episode just ... decided to have that opening sequence and never mention it again?
2, Dear Internet. Shaolin monks =/= ninjas
3. I think growing up on a steady diet of wuxia means that I can watch visual media that has no fantasy elements in it whatsoever, and yet still take gravity-defying exploits completely in stride. (Unless they're performed by white monks in orange robes in Victorian Scotland. Then I am taken aback. But any historical Chinese film/drama that is not actually wuxia in genre can have wuxia fighting elements and I won't think it's weird because I guess I automatically assume that having studied martial arts means you can fly from rooftop to rooftop.)
Um.
1. Why would monks at a presumably Christian monastery suddenly ... morph into Shaolin monks? When I watched the opening sequence, I actually paused and googled "Tooth & Claw Doctor Who Racism" just to see if this episode was going to do anything else that I might not like. Instead, the episode just ... decided to have that opening sequence and never mention it again?
2, Dear Internet. Shaolin monks =/= ninjas
3. I think growing up on a steady diet of wuxia means that I can watch visual media that has no fantasy elements in it whatsoever, and yet still take gravity-defying exploits completely in stride. (Unless they're performed by white monks in orange robes in Victorian Scotland. Then I am taken aback. But any historical Chinese film/drama that is not actually wuxia in genre can have wuxia fighting elements and I won't think it's weird because I guess I automatically assume that having studied martial arts means you can fly from rooftop to rooftop.)
