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Since when can Marco's father wield a sword?

posted 9 years ago by Yarre_Time
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Against well trained Mongolian troops? LMFAO!

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 9 years ago

I wondered the same thing.

[–] a_smooth_apparatus 9 years ago

I think he was just "in the zone" more than anything.

[–] willsons-2 9 years ago

As did I.

There was not any suggestion previously that he had any training at all. I kind of groaned when I saw it, and then again when Marco belayed the archers who would have killed him. It is not like Marco had much of a relationship with him or that he had any real evidence of anything remotely resembling love from his father.

Personally, I think it would have been best if they didn't show him at all and just left us to assume that he slunk away during the battle.

"I care about the law. It's justice I don't give a toss about." Cleaver Greene

[–] wolfbynyt 9 years ago

Did you miss the entire conversation where he said the army was his, and that he had been working to infiltrate the Mongolian Empire for years? That would mean he would have military training, I would imagine. It's a stupid retcon imo of his story, considering he was actually smuggling etc. before, but whatever (why bother risking smuggling if you're trying to infiltrate, why not just be a normal trader?).

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

[–] foxboro27 9 years ago

I agree. He said it was "his life's one goal". So I'm sure he would have been well trained. He's a survivor.

[–] rgchapman1 9 years ago

During the era's Sword culture most nobles, merchants and aristocrats carried bladed weapons. They trained from childhood as part of their basic education. So an adult world traveller/merchant/spy in command of a crusade era force would be at least proficient swordsman.

[–] franciscomap 8 years ago

^^ this ^^

[–] Exar-Sama 8 years ago

Good question. Honestly, I think just so he could come back for another season, and because they've lost continuity with some of the characters. I'm wondering if Italian investors for show require a quota of so many of their actors. He's a good actor in other work I've seen, but the character he plays in MP is far from a favorite, and gratingly obnoxious in all of the worst ways imaginable.