Banshee is hard, even for HBO.

[Guy Gardener]

Transporter is way more brainless.

[Pingfah]

Yes, that is definitely true.

[Zaku]

Pingfah wrote:

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Loving both of them, feels like the 80s are back.

I really don't remember all that sex and violence and transvestites and morally challenged main characters in the '80s...

Perhaps we watched different shows

Edit: and serialization! Single episodes were pretty interchangeable then.

[Pingfah]

I just mean action shows in general, The Transporter particularly is very reminiscent of something like The A-Team or Knightrider, in that it is one story a week, where a tough guy on the fringes of society helps somebody out of trouble or faces some moral dilemma, and focussed primarily on action over character drama.

Banshee is very violent and sexually explicit, that's true, but it seems to be steering in a "gang of misfits pulls off jobs each week" direction, and is about a tough guy and his backup, who has to balance his inherently moral side with kicking some ass each week. They both remind me of 80s TV.

ETA: I don't think the main character in either show is morally challenged, they both seem to have strong ideas of what they consider moral, and stick to them.

[Zaku]

I've never seen Trasporter. Now you got me curious ...

[Guy Gardener]

Well, Rachel "Black Canary" Skarsten takes her top off in the pilot and then cries in the shower.

Tears are so sexy.

[Pingfah]

Its basically 45 minutes of fighting, car chases and boobs.

[Data Holmes]

Pingfah wrote:

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I just mean action shows in general, The Transporter particularly is very reminiscent of something like The A-Team or Knightrider, in that it is one story a week, where a tough guy on the fringes of society helps somebody out of trouble or faces some moral dilemma, and focussed primarily on action over character drama.

Banshee is very violent and sexually explicit, that's true, but it seems to be steering in a "gang of misfits pulls off jobs each week" direction, and is about a tough guy and his backup, who has to balance his inherently moral side with kicking some ass each week. They both remind me of 80s TV.

ETA: I don't think the main character in either show is morally challenged, they both seem to have strong ideas of what they consider moral, and stick to them.

Now all we need is a few good anthology series to go with Femme Fatales, like the old outer limits, tales from the crypt, perversions of science, and red shoe diaries.

[Pingfah]

Or Amazing Stories. That one was great. They keep trying with those, but the appetite for them seems to be gone.

[Guy Gardener]

After seeing tonights episode of Banshee, I have decided that Die Hard hereafter should always be referred to as "Ticklefight".

Oh.

Odette Anabelle.

Is there nothing she can't class up?

[JD]

Pingfah wrote:

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Its basically 45 minutes of fighting, car chases and boobs.

Is that good or bad?

[Pingfah]

JD wrote:

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Is that good or bad?

Oh good. TBH, the car chases sometimes leave a little to be desired, some of them are obviously sped up, but the fight choreography is really good, and the women are attractive.

There's only so much of that sort of thing I can take, but there hasn't really been a full on mindless action show that wasn't watered down for US network TV or basic cable for a while, and The Transporter is definitely it, and has the benefit of being produced for European network TV, which is a lot more explicit.

[PKerr]

You had me with "and all the boobies" I'm in. JK.

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.

[ClayinCA]

Guy Gardener wrote:

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Rachel "Black Canary" Skarsten takes her top off in the pilot

If I may be totally immature for a moment, how does she look?

[Guy Gardener]

Wet, just like anyone else glistening in the shower.

Watching her kill things on Lost girl is way hotter than a couple moments of free dumpling exposure.