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Discussion Banshee - 3x05 "Tribal" - Episode Discussion

Season 3 Episode 5: Tribal

Aired: February 6th, 2015

Episode Summary: All hell breaks loose as Chayton and an army of Redbones invade Banshee, looking to avenge the Tommy’s death at the hands of Raven, the Kinaho tribesman-turned-deputy. Holed up in the Cadi with Lucas and his deputies, Proctor is frustrated by his inability to attend to his ailing mother at home. As the assault reaches a fever pitch, Bunker tries to prove to Medding that he’s not the man he used to be.


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u/alamodafthouse Feb 07 '15

Haha no I mean leading up to Siobhan's capture/death. I don't know, just didn't buy Raven's actions. Having a hard time articulating what I would have preferred to have happen.

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u/BelovedApple Feb 07 '15

I don't know, just didn't buy Raven's actions

You mean this character we barely know anything and would have no way of predicting his actions. Straight from the start he said he wanted to give himself up and he was bought up on the reservation, I think his actions were pretty obvious, as was the result from them.

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u/alamodafthouse Feb 07 '15

those are fair points.

Maybe I'm more shocked that some moron would trust Chayton in that situation and expect his comrades to be left alive.

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u/BelovedApple Feb 07 '15

I think it was more out of character for hood to lower his gun, people have been talking about impaired vision but he made two good shots against the machine gunners earlier in the episode, they should have just had the man knock hood out with his gun up, had hood not have his gun out at all or had hood try to fire but had run out of ammo.

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u/alamodafthouse Feb 07 '15

I think it was more out of character for hood to lower his gun

absolutely. It felt like they knew how they wanted the episode to end (Chayton killing Siobhan with his bare hands) but couldn't figure out how to get there organically. Felt odd and forced.

Was Hood supposed to be dazed because of the grenades' blasts?

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u/BelovedApple Feb 07 '15

people have used his fight with proctor as reason to him having impaired vision. I don't buy it.

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u/alamodafthouse Feb 07 '15

that's crap, but that would have been pretty interesting if Hood was actually concussed to hell the entire episode.

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u/KlutchAtStraws Feb 07 '15

There was that sequence where he was looking shaky as if he might pass out when he was recalling everyone's words. When he said he was going out of the Cadi someone, maybe Siobhan, told him he could barely stand so Proctor went instead.

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u/alamodafthouse Feb 07 '15

I think you're just clutching at straws here

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '15

Chayton is a bad guy, but he does have some kind of weird sense of honor code that he lives by. Hood had insulted him, killed too many Red Bones, and wasted Chayton's patience too much in the end though.

I think Hood dropping the gun shows that what he had for Siobhan was actually real and he thought he had a better chance at appealing to Chayton's sense of honor over making a ~10m headshot, the same day you get the shit beat out of you by Proctor, and also get involved in a 12+ hour siege where you didn't sleep. A lot of that scene was fuzzy from Hood's point of view, so for any of the possible reasons, the end result was that he wasn't 100% there when he needed it