I may be the only one who feels bad for MK. Ya seem to forget this all started with a young teen just trying to reunite with his moms and get back home. But ends up captured by bandits then discovered by Sunny.
Then he ends up having Quinn using him as a weapon. Captured again by abbots who go on to force him to stay at their place. Trick him into thinking he killed his own moms. Then gets held prisoner by Widow in her effort to reawaken his gift and use him as a weapon. Then discovers that the one adult in this world that has been looking out for him. The one man he looks up to. Is the one who killed his moms. That shit sent him over the edge.
And then here comes Pilgrim. And despite his evil ambitions. He was the one adult that gave MK the freedom to actually choose whether to join him or not. No manipulation, no bullshit. Just told him what he wants to do and are u down with that? And at that point with everyone basically having betrayed him in some way. The decision to go to the dark side was all to easy to make.
Yeah at the end of the day it was his decision to do the things he did for Pilgrim. But ya canât deny that Sunny, Widow etc were the deciding factor in his choice to join Pilgrim. RIP MK. Poor kid was a product of a fucked up world and navigated it the best he could. But a kid can only get hurt so many times before they decide to start being the one who inflicts the pain.
I agree fucked up circumstances but I still canât forgive emo based heel turns. Besides in the end he still never amounted to his own force or character which in a work of fiction based on conflict is basically being worst then a audience surrogate.
You make solid points, but MK in the last 2 seasons wasnât a child anymore. I wasnât mad at his vendetta against Sunny, and itâs obvious by Sunnyâs persistent reluctance to kill him that he was in the right, but if we looked at other characters like The Widow, Moon, and even Tilda (who is also an orphan around MKâs age BTW) all had single-minded grudges, and even they at some point managed to look past their own strife or code eventually.
MK internalized his grief and then joined pre-crisis Pilgrim, ok thatâs fine. But once Pilgrim turned into a genocidal megalomaniac hell bent on burning the whole world down he didnât even waver in his loyalty. MK had not an ounce of introspection that maybe this was defeating the entire purpose of his crusade and ended up being a part of the same massacres Sunny committed. Like he didnât think if his mother was still alive, would she be forced to become a dark one or be slaughtered?
The Widow did him a favor by killing him because it was obvious that he was going to be damaged goods forever. Same goes for Quinn, even when they try to do right theyâre just so messed up that end up doing more damage in the process.
To me I always felt like they wanted to do more with MK than just turn him into some mindless anger induced puppet. In season 1 I was under the impression that he would be Sunnyâs legacy. But no he turned out to be a major cunt for 2 seasons lol.
Pretty much this. At first he was okay, and tolerable, however after awhile, I just started to dislike him because he came off bratty, whiny and then as you so elegantly put itâŚa cunt. At that point, I just wanted his character to be removed.
Iâm really hoping that someone picks up the series because the door is now truly open for so many new things. My hope is that we are taken out of the Badlands once more, possibly another part of the âold USâ since itâs supposed to take place hundreds of years here anyway.
You know the old adageâ âBlack donât crack.â
Actually a thought that came to me was that even if a live action continuation of the series doesnât get greenlit, the showrunners could pitch an animated version of the series, picking up where the finale left off. The same actors could be used to voice their own characters and everything. Having the show animated would also give them some creative freedoms for the fight scenes and locations.
Into the Badlands: TAS, with OG Madhouse-level animation would be so goodâŚ
The writers screwed up MKâs character. Itâs okay to feel sorry for him, but his life and decision making has too many similarities to Sonnyâs own. Sonny is only on the âgood guyâ side coincidentally, writerâs really shouldnât have made MK lose his shit over Sonny killing his mother.
He can be angry for a time but he basically forgot that itâs the same person that saved him and took care of him in the Badlands. He doesnât have to like him but he should understand the circumstances. But yeh, he is a child.
I just finished watching Into the Badlands last night. (I started on Dec 13 but family gatherings/travel stretched it out a bit)
SPOILERSâŚ
Pros:
I loved the martial arts and fights. This was some of the best Iâve seen n a Tv show since Daredevil.
The locations and costume design were awesome too! Ireland is a beautiful country.
I liked how the morality was grey for many of the characters. There were rarely fully good or fully evil characters. Everyoneâs allegiances shifted so much to serve their goals unlike many shows where the alignment is pretty set and its a rare thing if someone goes bad etc.
Even the minor characters were developed and not just mute henchmen. I was surprised to be invested in characters like Lydia and Tilda when I first started watching.
Cons:
I was really disappointed by M.Kâs arc especially in Season 3. He feels betrayed by Sunny , Widow, and Master but once he joins Pilgrim and despite his actions growing more unstable sticks by him. Also, he doesnt even see/interact with Sunny in the final battle. WTF! Iâm glad they killed him than redeem him at the eleventh hour.
What happened to Waldo in S3? Wheelchair vanish!
The third season feels really rushed despite being the longest. It feels like they filmed everything and were cancelled at the last possible second.
The introduction of Sunnyâs sister and Black Lotus didnt really feel that impactful to me.
Sunny seemed kind of directionless for most of S3. What Bajie said to him towards the end âyoure a good man who trusts the wrong people and falls into messesâ was quite telling.
Misc:
What does M.K. stand for? I donât think they ever spoke it in the show.
