Retribution: Part 1

I enjoyed the old Strike back for years, temporarily subscribing to Max to catch a season when it came. out. I saw the original series (Armitrage/Lincoln) years ago.

I believe the biggest difficulty when a series is revamped with a new cast is just simply getting used to the new faces - getting used to the new actors and their characters. You've got another Brit dude and American dude (ha..again played by an Aussie who tries a bit too hard to act American) in the leads, but it appears to me the team, including the chicks, are going to be more involved in the action. Which actually was the way the old series was evolving anyway - more team oriented rather than just the partnership.

I was very skeptical going into the first episode (I've not seen the others yet but glad to see the ratings seem to go up with each episode of the season..granted those rating it low probably did not continue anyway). However, I was surprised and entertained. It has the look and feel of the old series, including sleazy gratuitous and nonsensical sex scenes - but hey, eye candy is good, framed by a terrorist plot. The plot so far does not stand out as particular original although it does appear relevant to the time - and plot twists usually abound anyway in the show.

The cast grew on me as the episode went on and I was especially surprised by Roxanne McKee in a completely different role than I'd ever seen her in before. She may be the highlight here. The aussie actor playing the American rubs me wrong a bit so far, but honestly I recall feeling the same way about Stapleton originally. (Honestly I'd be more than fine if Strike Back did not to have to have a fake American lead..just make it all British like the very first series)

Definitely good enough episode to continue on. If you were a fan of the old series, I see no reason why you would not enjoy this as long as you open yourself up to breaking in a new cast of characters. It's still Section 20 and they are still striking back -or on their backs.

The new Strike Back series is terrible! The new cast does not even come close to the chemistry that Stapleton and Winchester had. Story lines were also better. What's with trying to copy another 'Damian Scott' character, doesn't work. Stopped watching. It would have been better if they brought back Stapleton and Winchester occasionally for a two hour movie.

Obviously not seeing our original boys from section 20 definitely throughs you off quite a bit but these guys have grown on me. I remember watching the first episode of the series with Damien and thinking i don't know if I'll make it through this but my god I'm glad i stayed with it. This new group deserves that same chance.

After looking forward to Strike Back, I was very disappointed with pathetic introduction of the characters and the story. The quality of the production was amateurish, the visual quality no where near as good as previous years. Characters forced in a poor attempt to mimic the originals. Should have been more of a flow from the last episode of season 5.

I'm a big fan of strike back so after watching the previews for the new season, I was a bit underwhelmed but it's just a trailer so I checked out the first episode. Here is the bad---First as others have mentioned, there has been a drop in the production value and I'm not exactly sure why. I don't think it's just because they are not shooting in Africa any longer, but something is definitely off. Second, the story arc in the first episode was way too rushed. A lot of that could have been fleshed out in two better episodes versus one bad one. Third, the fight scenes weren't great. Again, the production value did not stand up to the past seasons. Fourth, a little bit of cheesy. When the new commander goes into the prison to meet Mac, what is he doing? Of course push ups on his prison floor. That's too cliche and 90s action movie for this type of show. Fifth, we don't need four heroes, two is perfect... enough said. Sixth, in the beginning Mac's team gets wiped out and the villain points a gun and pulls the trigger but it is out of bullets.......so he gets to live! Lol WTF, they just massacred everyone, why not tell one of the several henchman to shoot him. This was just lazy writing, they could have come up a better reason for him to survive, seriously. Finally the women hand to hand fights don't look realistic. At least the women aren't perfect 10s, which does add some realism. If one of the goals is to make a more diverse cast, why not just cast an African American man as one of the leads? Especially given that Strike Back doesn't cast big known stars, they aim more for international folks. After all, this is an international group of characters and this would be a little more palatable than having women in cock tail dress and a little aussie girl with a cool hair cut kicking ass. I will continue to watch the next few episodes and probably the whole season, just to give it a chance, but so far not so good.