well, i finally finished season3 =). it was a bit of a stretch but i managed. i leave deadwood to be akin to carnivale, another daring show that few have ever seen. there's been so many great TV nowadays that its hard for everyone to catch every episode of every show. i liked the bit with the...
anyway, i like the way dialogue is spoken isn't "normal". it's great =). re: wu, he is speaking cantonese most of the times. only china/middle kingdom is uttered in semi-mandarin (with a cantonese accent). it would be correct because many cantonese speakers can also speak broken mandarin (the...
i'm all caught through season2. onto season3. sorry, late to the game. first impressions, i like the speech, i don't mind the swearing, but the language itself is very rythmic, Shakespearean-like. it's definitely got its own "high-speech". in fact, that reminds me of how dialogue from Stephen...
just started on s1, disc 1. it was OK, not as good as people pump it up to be =). gonna catchup all the way to the "series finale" yesterday soon. i know there's going to be a 2 hour TV movie that wraps up all the loose ends.