Sorry if there's already a thread on this, but I couldn't find it.
Anyway, after posting in the I don't want an Asian Iron Fist thread of what turned me off of this programme (among other things), I decided to give it a chance.
Okay, so the "boy" - thankfully - is NOT a boy, as in either a Babycart Assassin rip-off or annoying child actor for us to suffer sense, but is a teenager on the verge of manhood.
The premise is pretty daft but gives the excuse to use martial arts, so I'll forgive it; Revolution got away with a pretty stupid premise in order to have an American Civil War era look, with cutlasses and crap... but then, we all know how well that programme went down.
So, in the pilot, Daniel Wu's character is less of a Ryu and more of a lapdog. I'm not sure which is best or why he puts his sword down in the beginning if he plans on killing everyone anyway, but the wire-fu is okay, even if it doesn't offer anything new, and him being almost super-human with his wuxia pien stuff is kind of retarded, given that the "boy" is the one with the apparent super-human martial arts. Seriously, the only difference between them is that the "boy's" eyes glaze over...
The actress playing The Widow is super hot(!), which is always welcome, even if such an attitude limits roles for less attractive women (so go on, girls, call me a bigot...), and, well, that's about all there to it. A lot of sword fights, CGI blood mixed with fake blood that somehow works, and the promise of more action to come.
Not the best programme ever made, but worth checking out for another couple of episodes to see if the writing keeps me engaged.
Anyone else like to chime in?