05:30 PM by 
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/09/05/samurai_girl_fights_with_might/
I watched this miniseries this weekend all by myself in my living room. I was skeptical of it at first sight due to the murder of Jamie’s brother Jack Yang. I was like “oh here we go again, someone who could of served as a strong Asian male character was murdered within the first 15 minutes of the show yet AGAIN”. After that I wanted to grind my teeth out of my head. I proceeded to watch it moaning and groaning. Then I found out my mind was getting very biased, so I tried to make it as unbiased as possible.
So the plot involves what they call a “Japanese princess” whose destiny is written from a 500 year old scroll to become a sort of savior. She was adopted into a family that turns out to be warring with a rival Yakuza clan, equipped with a ninja assassin army. How many of us haven’t seen a ninja, samurai, or yakuza movie in our time? BUT it’s all about delivery. I feel that this mini-series wasn’t delivered well at all.
It left me feeling empty. I did enjoy some of the fighting scenes. I did not like the fact that her savior had to be someone non-Asian who happened to know all about the arts of the shinobi. He trained her to be such an excellent warrior. *rolls eyes really slow* Yeah, I’ve seen that before a blue million times. *yawns* What also pained me was that her “yakuza groom” to be was such a schmuck. He was annoying and uncaring. There was a part in the movie where he told her that he wished he was a better man. He said he was too selfish and weak for her. I was like omg! That certainly didn’t go over well for me with how an Asian male would/should be portrayed in the media. Her father was also uncaring and just about every Asian male on the show, save for her family’s driver, Sab Shimono.
Last mini-episode airs tonight.
Tags: abc, jack yang, jamie chung, japanese, martial arts, ninja, samurai girl, san francisco, yakuza
I felt it was dragged out way longer than it should have been. One scene that peed me off to no end was when Brendan fell from a mountain top through some clouds and miraculously lived throught it all. He got up, dusting off some leaves, and went about his way. RIIIGHHHHHT that was so believable,especially taken it that he had no magical powers. I was like what the crap! While Jamie was fighting Kate, she seemed to never be able to get a REALLY good lick in. I was like hmmm. Isn’t she supposed to be able to whup that heifer Kate since she’s the savior? Oh well. Brendan went off on some “I need to find my butt from a hole in the ground” quest leaving Jamie to waitressing at some local restaurant. Otto is still crushing on her REAL hard. I thought he was a pretty good actor out of the entire bunch, he did make me laugh. The show ended with Jamie walking out into the streets at night and that evil Sato was back with his ninja crew. The ninja popped out from behind cars and what not. It was the pilot guys, so this is just the beginning.
