Episode five of a Korean action series I’m trying desperately to remember. A 98-pound chick lays waste to a bunch of baddies.
Maybe if Dag Otto stops by, he can remind me.
Well, not really. Still funny though.
I find that Gogo Yubari (Kill Bill Vol. 1) fuels the oddest combination of fetishes.
Was the first one that came to mind. All the more impressive as she looks so broken and incapable.
Summer Glau is incredible!
Katee Sackhoff as Absaroka County Sheriff Vic Moretti on Longmire.
Season 2 starts tonight on A&E and I, for one, cannot wait.
Puh-leeze, never mention those two on the same page! Tasha’s martial arts skills were as lame as the rest of her character. Joanna Lumley did better as Purdey in The New Avengers (and she was 1,000 times hotter, too).
Was the character lame or was Denise Crosby just not very good at acting? ISTR the stuff she did in Trekkies, playing Denise Crosby, was even pretty weak.
Crosby’s case makes me wonder - and it’s a tangent topic perhaps better suited to another thread - but if she left TNG becasue she thought her character was being pushed to the background, could she have done anything about it through pitching story ideas for Tasha Yar subplots and development? Tried to write or even learn to direct episodes?
Basically, was there any chance she could do what Frakes, Burton and (to a lesser degree) Gates McFadden did?
Chocolate is a pretty fun martial arts film from a few years ago about a young autistic girl, Zen, who is an ass-kicking savant.
What a coinkiny-dink. We were just talking with our daughter about this tonight.
When she was a kid, she was such a huge fan of Alias that she’d stay up late watching Jennifer Garner kick ass. And we were contrasting Garner’s Sydney Bristow with Jessica Alba’s Max in Dark Angel.
Oops, my contribution two posts up was a movie, not TV.
So let me add: Natasha Henstridge and pals in the campy, fun, syndicated show She Spies from about 10 years ago. And that also brings to mind the show V.I.P. starring Pam Anderson. Anderson’s character didn’t kick much ass, but she was kind of a figurehead for a team of ass-kicking women.
More currently, many of the women on True Blood do some fighting.
One of the other things they did on Chuck was to show the physical effects of violence. You’d notice that Sarah gets bloodied up in a lot of the fights she gets into. Some of the most violent are when some femme fatale and Sarah go at it. There was a well received episode called Chuck Versus the Cougars which had Sarah and a high school rival beat the hell out of each other at a school reunion. Afterward it shows Sarah bruised, bleeding, and limping as she returns to the reunion. Most shows won’t go there and show the physical effects of the kinds of kung-phooery their actors/actresses are constantly engaged in. Someone may take a roundhouse to the face but it doesn’t cause a bruise or split the skin and bleed.
Enjoy,
Steven