Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

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Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Graham » 10 Feb 2015, 14:20

Episode 2 of the Magnum Rewatch! In this episode, Magnum is hired to protect an ancient vase from a man with massive lapels.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Bratmon » 10 Feb 2015, 15:07

I'm all in favor of not judging the show by the first season.

I mean, where would you be if people judged LoadingReadyRun by its first season?
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Lord Chrusher » 10 Feb 2015, 20:36

I like the political and historical context Kathleen provides. The past is a foreign country: they did things differently there.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Bernard » 10 Feb 2015, 22:14

Example of European mud huts contemporary to Song dynasty:
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 10 Feb 2015, 23:17

Yeah I feel you are being unfair about Europe in same time period as the Song dynasty. The end of the Song dynasty overlaps with the start of Gothic architecture:

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Notre Dame de Paris, built 1163 to 1345.





Not that Romanesque architecture that proceeded Gothic was all that shabby:
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Florence Baptistery, built 1059 to 1128.



Saying that China was more advanced that Europe in the Song dynasty is problematic. While the Chinese state was better developed than anything that would appear in Europe for centuries, the European society and legal systems were arguably better developed in this period than China would be until the twentieth century.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Graham » 11 Feb 2015, 00:10

I feel like we largely meant that in a joking way, but fair enough.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Yuriel » 11 Feb 2015, 01:19

At first I thought you were confusing George Cheung with James Hong, that other quintessential(a word you used like a dozen times :D) Asian character actor who's been in everything. 'Cause "The West Wing" was my JAM in the early 2000s and I didn't remember George Cheung being on it, while I knew James Hong *definitely* played the Chinese ambassador(and can quote embarrassingly long lines of dialogue). Turns out he was but during the "suck" years which I've only watched once.

Good story, me. =/ Also, I know it's never going to happen but I hope the official sign-off of the podcast becomes:

[Graham] Zeus, Apollo, kill!
[Kathleen] Ahh!
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Postby RedNightmare » 11 Feb 2015, 03:11

That awkward moment when you yell "YAKUZA!" and the answer turns out to be Chinese Communists.

Yuriel wrote:Also, I know it's never going to happen but I hope the official sign-off of the podcast becomes:

[Graham] Zeus, Apollo, kill!
[Kathleen] Ahh!

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Postby ritchards » 11 Feb 2015, 23:08

Hey, I like Pulaski!
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Postby ritchards » 12 Feb 2015, 10:25

BTW
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Graham » 14 Feb 2015, 01:55

If that isn't Kathleen's avatar soon, I'll be surprised.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby PhoenixFoundation » 14 Feb 2015, 22:06

Your second review villain, George Cheung, is also our second review villain! http://phoenixfoundationpodcast.com/sea ... -triangle/
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby VectorZero » 15 Feb 2015, 04:37

Loving the show guys; fills a nice gap in the podcast week :)

Small point: so far as I can tell, Rick's gun from the pilot is an Ingram MAC-10, not an Uzi (the two are commonly confused). This probably explains most of the issues you raised: it was mass produced in the 70s, cheap, reliable and easy to conceal. Military and civilian models were available. Notoriously, the semi-automatic versions could be modified after market to fire fully automatic and it picked up a reputation as a ghetto gun. (NB: I take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information :))

As to why Rick felt he needed one, I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
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Re: Magnum Rewatch Ep02 - China Doll

Postby Marcvs Avrelivs » 29 Apr 2015, 13:56

Another aside, Wing Chun is the martial art Bruce Lee studied before developing his own Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee was still a thing at the time, Game of Death having been released only a couple years earlier, and at least in my young man teen circles, this was a bit of what would later be known as an "easter egg".

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