Emma Peel's Best Fight?

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:04 pm

It's merely a comment - an aside actually, as it was in parentheses. Not a criticism.

malte1982 · Post by **malte1982** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:52 am

I like the End Fight`s in the Episode

"The Danger Makers"

shaunodan · Post by **shaunodan** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:27 am

DiVicenzo wrote:For me as stated in another thread it has to be 'Give me the gun! Give me gun!' from 'Death At Bargain Prices' - one I re-enact when drunk apparently as all my friends know it even though some of them have never seen the episode

Love this Emma fight

Emma pulls herself up to her full height at one stage and throws the kind of daggers look I thought no one could throw like Purdey

Mrs. Emma Peel (as Purdey calls her

) shows surprising physical presence and hauteur, is strong with very effective fighting skills....even more impressive than Purdey

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 2:59 am

Rodney wrote:Her battle with McNab above the staircase in Castle De'ath is one of my favourites. (An enjoyable episode all round).

second that notion. a top 5 episode for me

Charlie Parker · Post by **Charlie Parker** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:51 pm

I am going to the iconoclast here and admit I prefer the rougher scrappier fights of the videotaped era to balletic fights of the film era.

Peter Motte · Post by **Peter Motte** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:11 pm

Epic, the scene where they do the same scene a second time.
I know that some people dislike the episode, but I like it because the goofy treatment of pre-war movie making.

Post by **dissolute** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:43 pm

I actively dislike the fight in "Death at Bargain Prices" because it's *too* stylised. I can see what they're doing but it doesn't work for me.

Lhbizness · Post by **Lhbizness** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:08 pm

I love that 3/4s of a discussion labeled "Emma Peel's Best Fight" is "Emma's awful!" Nice, guys.

Post by **dissolute** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:40 pm

Really? One complaint about the switch to a stunt double and my dislike of the "Westside Story" inspired choreography in "Death at Bargain Prices" can't be painted as saying "Emma's awful!"

I just rewatched "Small Game for Big Hunters" (as folllowers of my site updates would have noticed!) and even that short fight scene is great. Diana is so elegant and athletic that she makes all her fight scenes look fantastic.

(Come to that, I don't mind the finger clicking in "Death at Bargain Prices", it's the over-stylised pirhouettes and raised arms that are the problem - and that's Ray Austin's fault if it's anyone's!)

Lhbizness · Post by **Lhbizness** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:06 pm

Stunt doubles, Tara's a better fighter, the taped era is better, all that "kung-fu" is wrong, Emma doesn't have a "good fight." And this is the second thread I've seen that makes the same statements. But, yeah.

Anyways: I enjoy most of her fights. I like Death at Bargain Prices especially because it's so different and uses the stylization to its advantage. Also The Hour that Never Was and Castle De'ath.