Mixed feelings. My biggest qualm is how Raiden is restrained by a straight jacket and Ketamine. I guess he may be in some sort of weakened state... or that specific drug makes him weak (but he was beaten up by guys before he was injected...). I can't get around that happening, yet him still being the God of Thunder and having his powers.

I liked Blue though, for what that's worth. It's not as bad as leper Reptile and Dr. Baraka or anything like that, at least.

by far the best episode

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This has been the most incredible, awesome, stellar episode in the series. This is what I was hoping they would all be like. But there are so many specifics that are unanswered. Why is Raiden so incapable of helping himself?

What is it with the doctors in movies and things where the hero gets locked in an asylum always being so smug and blatantly villainous? I somehow doubt that real professionals in the mental health field don't treat their patients' delusions by being smiling dicks. Also, a little too convenient that he teleported right into the asylum instead of being, like, caught and brought there for being a lunatic...

I definitely "marked out", as the wrestling terminology goes, for the hat. Awesome payoff for an episode that kinda dragged, I thought. I also wish Raiden got some meatier dialogue so we could actually get an idea of his personality.

I liked how near the end when Blue stabbed him and his godly essence collected and exploded, it looked a lot like the suicide in the Deception intro. The blue blood/goo was an odd choice, though...

In retrospect, I like how there was this big to-do about K-Tanch making up this "Blue" character and "Who is she? Is it Kitana? Is it Frost?" and it turns out she's just a small part, a background character, nobody important.

Bcuz of his fall



This episode was awesome!
I loved every second of it. Dang the episodes just keep getting better and better. The last three episodes have been my favorite my far. The first 2 were kinda wack

Well that was different but i liked it. The ending was kool. I really hope a mk movie gets made!!!

If there weren't a few colourful glimmers of hope on the horizon, I'd be well and truly over it. Haven't done last week's episode, watched this one just to experience what I was hearing for myself. Student film filled with cliches and mediocre nonsense. Writing continues to struggle, choices show no real confidence or vision, aesthetics seem borrowed and uninteresting. I could really go for a good, greasy slice of MK right about now!

Ryan Robbins did a pretty good job and was interesting as the character he was playing. Not sure how he'd fare as full fledged Raiden, but that question doesn't seem especially important in Legacy. The hat gag at the end was a wacky, goofy contrast to the joyless tone of Tancharoen's almost completely irrelevant fan-fic universe. At least the end was a token gesture, though.

Over half way in, I think WB maybe wasted an opportunity to do something pretty interesting with a license they paid plenty to get. Tancharoen has shown he can do this kind of stuff on his own time, and should pursue it with his own characters, I think. It would be a great test for the true viability of what he's presenting. I would think the YouTube hits would drop off even more steeply than they have.

Clearly there's an audience for this stuff. Not sure they need it to be MK.
It certainly doesn't seem to be at all dependent on the brand, with the exception of funding a namebrand baseline for those YouTube hits.

Finding positives and justifications for the direction seems to take more work than was put in to the writing of the episodes. I'd probably rather just skip ahead to the inevitable day when Rebirth and Legacy are obscure trivia, and everybody's high on a spade being a spade again.

Loved this episode and love how it ties into the story.. gotta stop reading youtube comments, people are hating on it coz it wasn't like last week, so as good as it was, its' not consistent. seriously, Edenia could never be done in a realistic approach on their budget.. i thought it was done well however. Raiden is like Sonya/ Jax/ Kano... the more gritty approach, and it worked brilliantly well

I love the way T is using different genres and artistic styles to convey each episode.

Jax, Sonya and Kano were "gritty action movies" set in the predictable dilapidated industrial theme of most action movies.

Cage wasn't much of a genre, but a very good snippet of how the real life Johnny Cage would look like. Not the action hero 80's G. I. Joe personality that is found in the games... and is a cartboard cutout (come to think of it, perhaps the only non-cartboard cutout was the Midway timeline Kuai Liang)

Kitana and Mileena did the Kill Bill mixed technique of limited animation with live action, and with actually very alluring Edwardian / pseudo-oriental environs. The first time they actually managed to do something with the damned Edenian baggage of the original story - personally.

This is perhaps a 10 minute thriller, and it did a decent job at portraying isolation, which was it's theme. Again, for all that it had to work, it did a good job. Razor is right about the doctor suff too. He is basically evil for the sake of evil. And who in their right mind uses lobotomy? That is no therapy, it has NO beneficial effects (hell, the Soviet union banned it for being inhumane in the early 1950's), and this takes place in the contemporary years....

From what I understand Scorpion/Sub-Zero will be a jidaigeki-chambara style Japanese historical drama flavoured piece. I am absolutely impatient to see that.


Finally, this episode convinced me that for an MK story this guy needs to do a full motion picture based on this. Perhaps tie it a bit closer to the games, personally I wouldn't. I want to see what the author and director has to offer, not the games.

Best episode so far in my opinion :) Loved it!

Raiden sounds like Lambert!

Say...thats a mighty fine hat you're wearin'.

wtf bad episode lord raiden is mental and he can't fight with human it's not make sense

umm.. no, he's not mental.. and he's not human.. didnt you see the episode??

For a second there, I thought the girl's name was "Liu"...
But anyway, the episode was a twist on how Raiden searched Earthrealm for a champion and how difficult it would be... However I don't understand why he was so weak though, maybe the transition to the realm weakened his powers... who knows? What bugged me the most though was how dependent Raiden was on this extra character, "Blue"... it's not like he couldn't stab himself or rely on himself or anything, he's the fucking God of Thunder, he should figure something out...
I did like the end though because he ends up in what seems to be China where he puts on his iconic hat and searches for the worthy champion, Liu Kang... This would have been a good way to start the episode with flashbacks of Raiden speaking with the Elder Gods or so...

Overall, it kinda reminded me of Thor; both being Thunder Gods sent to Earth in a weakened state... I do like the actor portraying Raiden though, too bad he didn't have much dialogue besides "Let me out!" Perhaps he'll say something more in the inevitable film coming up...

Thor + Sucker Punch

After the embarrassments that were episodes 4 and 5 (not even Syfy channel would play that Mileena/Kitana crap) it was nice to see an episode return to a bit better direction. It was enjoyable, for what it is. If it were a real segment of a movie I would rip it apart, but for a web series it was decent. The actor is ok, a bit too Christopher Lambert clone for my tastes, but he is decent. The insane asylum thing has been done before, and far better, in Terminator 2. I cringed a bit when Raiden was trying to convince the doctor (cliche bad guy doctor who revels way too much in torturing his patients) that the world will end if he is not released, just like Sarah Connor did. I get that he fell to Earth and was weakened, for some unexplained reason, and that was how he was captured, but overall there is nothing original here. It gets the job done showing how Raiden gets to the tournament, and finds a hat along the way, and nothing more.

To sum up, I think the hype is over for this director. The trailer last year was a shocking surprise, partly just because it was finally a very mature live-action version of Mortal Kombat. Episodes 1-3 were great, but after the HORRIBLE acting, set design, casting, and Tarantino blatant rip-off that are episodes 4 and 5, at least episode 6 is a closer to the original vision hinted in the original trailer, but episode 6 is making me further concerned as to whether this is the person who should direct a new MK movie. A minor budget is not a valid excuse for bad casting, mediocre dialogue/plot, and random overall direction. A small budget was able to snag very decent actors for Sonya, Kano, and especially Cage, so there is no excuse for what happened in episodes 4 and 5.

I think to say the hype is over is a illsighted comment..

the episodes are still attracting strong viewership and great support amongst the fans on youtube..

The biggest problem people seem to be having is Rayden being so weak.

I don't mind it because it's an interpretation where he's a God, as in he has some powers and duties, but in a human form he's basically a human. Just the way he's always been in the games, except in the games it's never really made any sense to me because even though he's a God who can teleport at will, travel through realms, shooting electricity out of his body etc., he's still supposed to be in kombat with the other characters and you could beat Rayden as Jarek.

So is he an actual unbeatable God or is he a powerful human? I'm glad they went with the second option on this one.

Just because he can't fly or teleport at will doesn't mean he's not powerful. The man withstands lobotomies like it's a pat on the head, it takes excessive amounts of drugs to subdue him and of course he's immune to electric attacks and that's why he takes over once they start tazing him.

The hat scene at the end was pretty awesome.

I dug this, I just wish there had been more fighting and more development for the Rayden character. All he said was ''LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE".

He took on a form of a mortal (noun). Mortals tend not to fare good when they are slammed into the ground from sky high.

This episode is great when you compare it to Mortal KOmbat 9 Raiden. Who everyone in here knows was a complete nut job.

Nah, he wasn't insane, just a complete fuckup. Which by extension forced his previous self to become a fuckup.

Balkan captured my sentiment exactly. 4 and 5 were letdowns. This feels more like the rebirth concept trailer to me. I didn't mind the Kill Bill throwback style of 4 and 5 though. The acting was bad, the costumes weren't, I don't know sexy enough? And not to beat a dead horse here, but KAHN NEEDS HIS HELMET. Like another poster said maybe episode 6 shows a light at the end of the tunnel. I still look forward to Tuesday every week for these webisodes.

I find myself torn.

The episode, in and of itself, had the most original portrayal of one of the characters, an incredibly moody atmosphere, and as was posted above, a great sense of isolation and desperation. For all of those reasons, I really enjoyed this.

However, like many, I don't get Raiden's complete inability to do anything about his situation. Now, I get that they're going more with the MK1 story of Raiden here - he takes on the form of a mortal to actually compete in Mortal Kombat. Therefore, falling into a mental institution could subdue him for a time, and I'll buy that. But his powers NEVER come back to him? In over 90 days? For that matter, why did he come to Earth so early? And though he can bust up some shit, he can't simply fight his way out?

I would be able to subscribe to the, "He was weakened, and then constantly drugged," argument except for one thing - at the very end, he falls to Earth AGAIN, as a mortal AGAIN, and he's not knocked out for an entire night, he still has his powers, and simply walks away with a shit-eating grin and steals some poor old guy's hat :P

I was hoping he'd receive electro-shock as his "archaic treatment" (seriously, what kind of orderly sits by as a doctor hammers a spike into someone's brain, these days...) and that would result in him getting back his powers.

So, good episode, flawed story, imo.