Buffy Fans: What do you think of this fight scene?

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It's very similar to Buffy vs Faith's fight in Graduation Day Part 1

which is funny because Karen Shepard (the brunette fighter) doubled for Eliza Dushku in Graduation Day Part 1
 
Samuel Reyes
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The title of the episode is "Not Fade Away"... as in the same title of the Angel series finale. ;)
Great to see Kevin Sorbo again, doing what he does best.

I generally don't like fight scenes that defy the laws of physics, which part of it did - that just takes me right out of the moment.

Only an idiot would use a kick and not bring it right back in - otherwise, someone can grab your ankle, hoist it over his shoulder and walk you around in any direction he (or in this case, she) wants you to go. I have my First Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. I would like to see White Avenger review this - he has a similar degree in Karate. Karen does this to the redhead and as Kendra said, "No wonder you died."
 
I have my First Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. I would like to see White Avenger review this - he has a similar degree in Karate.

You rang?

As for the fight itself, I am assuming that the two opponents were the Greek mythology equivalents of robots or animated puppets. Otherwise, the fight choreographer should be shot. Not even the worst chop sockey fights were that stiff and unrealistic.

Having said that, however...

Cynthia Rothrock is an excellent martial artist, whose specialty is forms, both formal and creative. Her technique is always flawless and a thing of beauty to behold. I can think of very few, if any, actors who would have the skill to execute the kicks in the way that she did in this scene, simply because both fighters are moving so stiffly that every kick stops completely at the moment of supposed impact and stays in that position for a split second before the retraction (poor strategy, as Ethan Reigns pointed out, but also impossible to "fake" it by doing it so quickly that a flawed kick could go unnoticed) Of course, the wire work was totally laughable, and the less said about it, the better.

I would love to have seen this entire episode, simply to know what the two fighters were actually supposed to be.

On the whole, just for the content as presented, I would say that that fight scene would have been far more difficult to pull off than anything that Chuck Norris ever did on "Walker, Texas Ranger."

And, incidentally, my original style was Chang Mu Kwan, which is a Korean derivative of Chinese Duan Quan kung fu, and one of the contributing styles forming what is now modern day WTF Tae Kwon Do.
 
You rang?

As for the fight itself, I am assuming that the two opponents were the Greek mythology equivalents of robots or animated puppets. Otherwise, the fight choreographer should be shot. Not even the worst chop sockey fights were that stiff and unrealistic.

Having said that, however...

Cynthia Rothrock is an excellent martial artist, whose specialty is forms, both formal and creative. Her technique is always flawless and a thing of beauty to behold. I can think of very few, if any, actors who would have the skill to execute the kicks in the way that she did in this scene, simply because both fighters are moving so stiffly that every kick stops completely at the moment of supposed impact and stays in that position for a split second before the retraction (poor strategy, as Ethan Reigns pointed out, but also impossible to "fake" it by doing it so quickly that a flawed kick could go unnoticed) Of course, the wire work was totally laughable, and the less said about it, the better.

I would love to have seen this entire episode, simply to know what the two fighters were actually supposed to be.

On the whole, just for the content as presented, I would say that that fight scene would have been far more difficult to pull off than anything that Chuck Norris ever did on "Walker, Texas Ranger."

And, incidentally, my original style was Chang Mu Kwan, which is a Korean derivative of Chinese Duan Quan kung fu, and one of the contributing styles forming what is now modern day WTF Tae Kwon Do.

This is the full episode Cynthia and Karen appear in.


It's pitched for copyright but its watchable. This is a sequel to Karen Shepard's episode The Enforcer in Season 2
 
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