Blood Spilled, Eyes Lost in New Mortal Kombat: Legacy Episode

[Logan Westbrook]

Blood Spilled, Eyes Lost in New Mortal Kombat: Legacy Episode

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Slowly but surely, the series is starting to feel like Mortal Kombat.

The second episode of Warner's Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series is out, and if you were worried that it was going to take forever for the characters to start looking like they do in the game, don't worry, as at least one face is going to get a heck of a lot more familiar.

Where the first episode [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109180-First-Episode-of-Mortal-Kombat-Web-Show-Steps-Into-the-Ring] was actually on the tame side - although it had some nice foreshadowing thrown in for fans - this episode is a little bit more what you'd expect from a Mortal Kombat movie with a positively eye-popping scene about four minutes in. Director Kevin Tancharoen doesn't seem to want to go overboard with the gore just yet though, so it's really just a splash.

Tancharoen is capable of making a very atmospheric Mortal Kombat movie - he proved that with Rebirth [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101195-Mystery-Mortal-Kombat-Trailer-Will-Blow-You-Away ] - and the series seems to be heading in the right direction. The second episode seems a marked improvement over the first, and hopefully, with a few more Mortal Kombat elements added to the pot - and there are very clearly more on the way - the series will shake that "generic action movie" feel that's been hanging around it.

Source: Machinima [http://www.machinima.com/]


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[VitusPrime]

Wow, that was another awesome episode, look forward to seeing how they manage to put the actual tournament into it as long as all the super naturalness of Mortal Kombat.

 

[ANImaniac89]

Not bad can't wait for the next episode, I glad they are going with the Sci-fi/ Super natural route instead of the "I wanna be like SAW" look and feel of the Rebirth short film.
Hope they keep the gore up. It away bothered me that Mortal Kombat a video game series known for it groundbreaking violence has always had PG-13 adaptations, oh and lets not forget the 2 kids cartoons and that weird live action series.
Is it true the a second season has already been written and green-lit?

Also I'm picking up the new Mortal Kombat today (^_^)

 

[Yossarian1507]

Did he... Did he just punched out Kano's eyeball? Is that even possible?

Besides that, another good episode. Too short though. I would like to see it in a form of a TV series with 45 minutes per episode. Yeah, I know, I can just not watch it right now and see all of it later, but... Dammit, I don't think I can fight the temptation to see the new ep every time it comes out.

 

[Fappy]

Damn they post these episodes really freaking early in the day XP

 

[Soxafloppin]

Awesome

Kano got his Eye and Jax is getting his arms.

NICE! I cant wait for my Kopy of MK this week

 

[WanderingFool]

Now Im liking where this is going. and Kano getting his eye punched out... DAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!! That looked painful.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Alot better than the first episode. Less dialgoue more fighting.

Although there is still way to much shooting in this.

 

[Synonymous]

Producers, did you just spend 1 minute of a 9-minute episode on a "Previously..." recap? Seriously?

 

[BreakdownBoy]

Looks good. Like the Kano mask!

 

[Soxafloppin]

There is a full picture of Baraka from this Web series floating about the web, just to let people know.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

1) Enough of the goddamn slow-mo.

2) How did Kano receive no damage from the grenade that wrecked Jackson's shit? Were Jax and the grenade that far away from him?

3) Lovely surgical bit at the end. I cringed a bit, but in a good way.

 

[Scarim Coral]

While this episode is great but am I the only one who think of the T-1000 from Terminator at Kane new eye and the metal face bit around it? I mean it look quite similar.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

While this episode is great but am I the only one who think of the T-1000 from Terminator at Kane new eye and the metal face bit around it? I mean it look quite similar.

No, you weren't. I was cracking T2 one-liners when I saw it.

Anyway, less on the slow-mo and generic factories and more on the brutality and exotic locales. I wanna see Scorpion and Sub-Zero already. Also, the fights might be a LITTLE too choreographed.

 

[roostuf]

Oh yes, oh yes OH YESS!!!!

 

[Scars Unseen]

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye due to a juggle combo.

 

[harv3034]

Did he... Did he just punched out Kano's eyeball? Is that even possible?

It would be REALLY F***ING hard but I think it's possible. It would probably happen if a piece of the bone severed the nerves, tendons, and muscles attached to the eye.
Again... Hard but doable.

I'd like to point something out here, I've only played one Mortal Kombat game (and only for and hour) but I still managed to guess that Kano was the dude who would get that robot eye from Ep. 1 and that Jax was the black dude with the robot arms (don't ask how I knew that, I have no idea).
This show is BADASS and I can't wait A) for the next episode and B) for the new game.