Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm & Jason Tobin as Young Jun Warrior | 1.04 "The White Mountain"

Warrior is back baby! So glad this very underrated show was able to get picked up for season three. Decided to redraw an old piece of fan art in celebration of the new season. If you like great fight choreography and cheesy badass dialogue, I highly recommend you check out the show!

Started Warrior on Netflix, and I'm in shambles

Young Jun my beloved

Warrior S3 Thought

Can’t believe that Ah Sahm, king of not reacting well and aggression issues, is the most reasonable person this season so far my boy really decided to take the brain cell

Ah Sahm and Young Jun have so much romantic tension with the greek tragedy story trajectory AND FOR WHAT???

What is the reason???

This show is like "I need pussy for my body, but I need my bro's deep and profound eye contact for the soul"

Bruce Lee

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Warrior season 3, Young Jun won my heart. That man showed immense strength when he had to kill the most precious person to him, his father, the legendary Father Jun.

His loyalty and respect for Ah Sahm is unquestionable. The fact that he said Ah Sahm to not come along with them and "no one should have to kill their own family", it showed how he cared for the bitch who went on his back and snitched.

Young Jun never blamed Ah Sahm for his father's death when it was his savior complex which cost Father Jun's life. After Mai Ling revealed his identity Young Jun never abandoned him and his trust in Ah Sahm never faltered even though his sixth sense was constantly telling him he might betray. Young Jun was the one who vouched for Ah Sahm when Father Jun and whole of Hop Wei was against him. Young Jun gave him his undying loyalty and took him under his wing when his own sister refused to take him, but what did Ah Sahm do the minute he got an opportunity to payback with loyalty, he fucking backstabbed him. That hurt Young Jun more than his father's death.

Young Jun, addressing the squad: And if you have any suggestions feel free to put them in the suggestion box. Hong: But – that’s just a trash can. Young Jun: It sure is!

Do you think Li Yong is done with Mai Ling? I would love for her to take on Young Jun and the Hop Wei with the best two fighters at her side. LMAO at Young Jun thinking that he could beat Ah Sahm.

Tbh I can’t pick favorites in this conflict. I wish they weren’t fighting :( I think Li Yong is done with Mai Ling but anything can happen in the future. I would like to see it just be Mai Ling and Ah Sahm in season 4. Trying to repair their sibling bond. Might get help from Ah Toy on the down low because they’re besties.

Li Yong will probably be doing his own thing. He’s an honorable dude so I don’t think he’ll cause trouble for them. He might clash with the Hop Wei though. We all know Ah Sahm would win that fight, but YJ and Hong got some good licks in. “I would’ve done anything for you” 😭 The line between hate and love really is that thin

Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm & Jason Tobin as Young Jun WARRIOR | 1.05 "The Blood and The Shit"

+ bonus: Ah Sahm kinda done with Young Jun at that moment 🤣

Warrior 3.05 - 3.10

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Young Jun, tying to tell the cops that he was American, born in San Francisco.

This fucking scene man

Ah Sahm and Young Jun have gone through the most brutal break up of 2023 and I am saying this as someone who watched Good Omens

Why I Didn't Review Warrior Season Two

The answer goes beyond any discouragement caused by the lack of comments or Twitter Likes on "Warrior Season One Highlights."  With the long-awaited third season airing now, I decided to share a longer explanation for failing to fulfill my announcement to cover episodes from every one.  This article combines writings from the unfinished "Warrior Season Two Highlights" draft, with sentiments I experienced while watching the first 20 episodes all over again.

Special thanks to people who pushed "Like" and/or "Reblog" on the Tumblr repost of "Warrior Season One Highlights," for assuring me that an audience could exist for my coverage of this show.

Among this season's six directors, two possess Asian heritage, who in total directed three of the 10 episodes.  The ones I considered reviewing include "To a Man With a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail" (#16; directed by Vietnamese-American Dustin Nguyen; written by Jonathan Tropper & Brad Kane) and "If You Wait By The River Long Enough" (#17; directed by Anglo-Burmese Omar Madha; written by Kenneth Lin).

The end of Warrior Season One felt like it would've made a satisfactory ending to Ah Sahm's story as a whole.  This made it hard for me to tell exactly how much of following seasons' content draws from "The writings of Bruce Lee," and how much came from his successors in the writing staff. The documentary Becoming Warrior strongly suggests that almost all of it came from the latter, but I didn't find the documentary until after my rewatch of Seasons One and Two.

Season Two presents some admirable efforts to flesh out the supporting cast.  Some of the most compelling storylines include Young Jun taking over the Hop Wei, and Ah Toy falling in love with vineyard owner Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison). Regarding new additions to the main cast, new Hop Wei recruit Hong (Chen Tang) manages to endear.  His homosexuality delivers a unique reason to depict him as an outcast to both Chinese and non-Chinese, though Ah Sahm and Young Jun both sympathize with and befriend him quickly after his arrival.

One difficulty I experience while attempting to recommend Season Two concerns the misfortunes of every woman who wins Ah Sahm's heart, outside of his family.  Fight club owner Rosalita Vega (Puerto Rican Maria-Elena Laas) appeals by carrying out an agenda independent from Ah Sahm's story, and by holding her own in fight scenes.  Unfortunately, even though she completes the agenda, her romantic subplot with Ah Sahm concludes with an overly-cruel means of increasing his loneliness in America.  Meanwhile, Penny's various struggles come across as a reminder for female viewers to appreciate their 21st century privileges.  The hiring of a female director, Dennie Gordon, helped prevent the reminder from feeling too condescending.  However, it might still unnerve viewers who feel that women have fewer privileges now than during Warrior's Cinemax run.

By the end of my first viewing of Season Two, an apprehensive part of my mind developed the sense that the writers possibly ran out of ideas for Ah Sahm.  Even though he remains important to others in San Francisco, they often threaten to overshadow him.  Sometimes, even the show's least interesting characters seemed to receive more screentime than him.  In contrast, a more optimistic part of my mind developed the sense that the writers decided to save some compelling ideas for Ah Sahm's story for the future.  Even if it took longer than they probably hoped for Warrior to receive a third season, it feels fortunate that they and Andrew Koji could finally bring those ideas to life.

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Violence towards Asian-Americans persists at alarming levels.  I would like my readers to donate to The AAPI Community Fund, even if I personally take no share of the funds.