Now almost done with Season 2. Still enjoying it, but my wife and I still get a chuckle out of yet more goofy-isms:
i. Hunnam's single expression for looking sincere. Tilt head slightly, smirk, squint one eye, lift other eyebrow... My wife and I both laughed at how often it occurs... now I've taken to doing it whenever I'm trying to convey mock empathy to her.
ii. The Season 2 jail fight scene and fight scenes in general. Not well choreographed or portrayed. Even as a kid in school decades ago with no fight training I understood certain principles when it came to school scraps. One is that once you get a choke hold on someone from behind you lock it in with your legs. These bikers apparently don't get into enough fights to have learned this.
iii. Everyone in the club walks around in public with a honking big knife hanging off their waist. Seriously, these things look to be a foot long... they are small sabers. They routinely walk into the hospital wearing these things. Is this allowed in California?
iv. The endless betrayals between factions and gangs... and yet they all still keep making deals with each other
v. Guns. Everybody keeps asking for more and more guns. Drugs are a consumable so I could understand how a drug trade could keep a gang in business. But guns are a fixed commodity... it wouldn't take long for a market to be saturated with them and the demand to drop. I could understand ammo being consumed, assuming the guns are being used constantly, but that doesn't seem to be the basis of their business.
vi. The post-party scenes at the clubhouse where it looks like everyone just simultaneously passed out on pool tables, sofas, the bar, and the place is littered with bottles, butts, food, etc. This is a cliche scene from every Animal House-style movie ever. My wife mused "Who cleans up this mess all the time?" We did some hard partying back in my younger days, but I never went to any parties that ended up like this. It only seems to happen in film.
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