[Zeno]

To be blunt - Kung Fu was Crap. That's my opinion and I know it will not be shared by some but so be it. A six-foot three-inch Caucasian Chinaman traveling through the west with no visible means of support playing a sissy flute and muttering metaphysical hooey to every ignorant westerner he stumbles into had little appeal to me. Then Carradine also talked in that choppy and parsed silly cadence as if it added weight and wisdom to his pithy prattle and other unending twaddle he spewed out of supposed ancient wisdom example:

The--path---you---tread---will---only---lead---to-----wisdom---if----you----don’t----search----for---it...... Queue the flute.

Trash.

Bonanza was also trashy but at least they had real Chinese play a Chinese, as a cook and washing boy I think.

One of my best friends was a nut about Kung Fu and insisted that it was a great show. Whenever I watched it with him I always cheered for the ignorant redneck scum to blast Mr. Fu into bloody chunks with a shotgun. Somehow that never happened and the show became too formalized after awhile, though I did missed many episodes - thank Heaven.

To be fair, it was a good concept for a show especially for the time. It hit the nerve of many in the nation and I can see the appeal. It was just never my cup of tea. Maverick, Wagon Train, and the Virginian were far better as was F Troop, the cream of the TV Western genera. I would rate the High Chaparral better also. Kung Fu was middling. I would have shot that bastard down with my 45 faster than you could say "Shaolin Monk"

-Zeno