Fans of the original Kung Fu series have expressed disappoint with the direction of The CW’s reboot. After just one episode, it’s become abundantly clear that the new series is going to bear little in common with ABC’s show, which starred David Carradine and aired for three seasons between 1972 and 1975.

Set in the American Wild West, Kung Fu followed the adventures of David Carradine’s Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who came all the way from China to America. While traveling in the western side of the country, Caine would save people in danger and fight villains with his kung fu skills. The CW’s version of the story, however, takes place in a modern setting. Its main protagonist is Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), a Chinese-American woman who trained at an all-female Shaolin Temple and is now using her expertise in Shaolin martial arts to help protect her family and friends from gangsters in San Francisco.

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The CW’s decision to have a Chinese actress play the lead and bring in mostly Asian actors to fill out the cast has received a great deal of praise, considering that it corrects a huge issue with the original Kung Fu show, which was that Caine – a man with Chinese and American parents – was played by a white actor. That being said, the reboot isn’t being perceived as an across-the-board improvement over ABC’s 1970s series. Many of the fans who watched the original feel that it has moved too away from the concepts that made it interesting. At the root of the problem that fans have with it is this idea that it feels too much like a “CW show.

Olivia Liang and Vanessa Kai in The CW's Kung-Fu

The show’s use of background music and what appears to be a budding love triangle between Nicky, Henry (Eddie Liu), and Evan (Gavin Stenhouse) give it a feel that’s familiar to viewers of other CW shows, but one that’s not being welcomed by those who were expecting it to at least be similar to the David Carradine-led series. Kung Fu, a show which Bruce Lee once auditioned for, was a show about a martial artist going on a different adventure in the West every week. Believed by some to actually be the martial arts series that Lee pitched to Warner Bros., Kung Fu was a series that employed a lot of ideas from Eastern philosophy and martial arts concepts that were taught by Chinese kung fu masters. Many ancient kung fu styles – and principles associated with them – were incorporated into Caine’s flashbacks and exploits.

The CW’s Kung Fu seems to be doing something different by adding a magical sword (and a mystery involving other enchanted weapons). Admittedly, it’s not the first project to mix kung fu with magic, but exploring mystical elements is a risky move, because it takes away from the focus on real kung fu. Hopefully, the series won’t lose sight of the ideas its built on, and will apply Eastern philosophy and proper Shaolin martial arts to Nicky’s story in future episodes.

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