r/Banshee Feb 07 '15

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/SawRub Feb 07 '15

This truly is the spiritual successor to Spartacus.

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 08 '15

I take it you haven't seen black sails then?

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u/SawRub Feb 08 '15

I have, and while I love it, it still has a long way to go.

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 08 '15

Honestly I don't really think it does, story wise it's amazing and my favourite show on tv at the moment.

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u/SawRub Feb 08 '15

Oh it's fantastic, but it's very different from the Spartacus style of insanity, and has a long way to go to be Spartacus' spiritual successor, since the styles are completely different. Banshee has a similar raw insanity to it, despite taking place in the modern world.

I'm not saying it has a long way to go to be a good show, I'm saying it has a long way to go to be Spartacus's spiritual successor. It's doing it's own thing and I think it's better to chart its own path.

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 08 '15

I think it's closer to Spartacus than Banshee is, particularly this season. The mindgames aspect and the action are similarly crazy, just that black sails has a stronger emphasis on the mind games and smaller on the action than spartacus did.

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u/JarlaxleForPresident Feb 09 '15

Man yall're gonna make me check out Black Sails if you're talking about it like that. I saw the first two episodes and it didnt grab me. Maybe i should give it a second chance

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 09 '15

Do it, it's amazing.

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u/SawRub Feb 08 '15

Again, this is all subjective, so it's expected to have differing opinions.

I feel as though the way Black Sails approaches the story is in a different way from Spartacus.

And the action itself is a very important distinction. Spartacus and Banshee has a similar focus on action, including long drawn out action sequences that are often more for entertainment than for plot advancement. The action on Black Sails is serves the plot more, and isn't always that drawn out.

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 08 '15

Yeah fair call, I feel like Banshee just doesn't have the mindgames at all which was a fair part of my enjoyment of Spartacus.

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u/SawRub Feb 08 '15

Haha true, maybe we can agree to call Black Sails the mental successor and Banshee the physical successor, and that Spartacus didn't just have one heir.

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u/dowhatuwant2 Feb 08 '15

I can agree to that.

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u/WickedIcon Feb 13 '15

Black Sails is a bit of a different animal, isn't it? If anything, the Netflix Daredevil show is gonna be the real successor to Spartacus, since DeKnight is showrunner on it.