Man at Arms: Art of War

[Drunk Monk]

Thanks for watching.  There was a shuffle because I got bumped off the finale (next week).  Robert Rodriguez makes his obligatory guest appearance (it's the Machete episode) and Diana was the guest expert because of the Philippine connection to machetes.  So there were too many people at the War Room table and I was bumped to the Persia episode.  The Persia ep should've been all Da'Mon and Ardeshir.  Ardeshir and I did have an extensive conversation at the War Room table about the pomegranate Asti spear pommel but that was all cut (I can see why - it was nerdy academic stuff).  

The cutting of ceramic busts in this ep and the Kung Fu ep (the terracotta warriors) was a major source of complaint for the BK&S crew.  The showrunners were going for that slo-mo spectacle but it was dumb.  I said it was like cutting flower pots with scalpels.  This came up with several of the tests.