This will probably go down as the Ironside episode with the lowest stakes. I mean, much of the episode revolves around $500, and the subsequent driving and running around the Universal streets? So we won't focus on that but rather on the idea of Ironside being a "father," or at least a "sponsor" of fatherless child in South Korea. There's the slightest hint at the beginning that maybe Ironside fathered a child when he was overseas in the military, so they kind of had fun with that, especially considering Raymond Burr was gay.
They also try to have an episode featuring Asian leads while also poking fun at the typical depiction of Asian characters (as one note stereotypes) in episodic television. There's a great line where a Korean character does a Confucious-says type saying and then says that he makes that stuff up because that's what non-Asians expect!
Miko Mayama has a big part and she was big in the 1970's on TV and is still known for appearing in the original Star Trek. Throughout the episode I kept listening to the other lead, Soon-Tek Oh and thinking, I know that voice! Sure enough, Oh was the voice for Fa Zhou, Mulan's father in the classic 1998 film.
They also try to have an episode featuring Asian leads while also poking fun at the typical depiction of Asian characters (as one note stereotypes) in episodic television. There's a great line where a Korean character does a Confucious-says type saying and then says that he makes that stuff up because that's what non-Asians expect!
Miko Mayama has a big part and she was big in the 1970's on TV and is still known for appearing in the original Star Trek. Throughout the episode I kept listening to the other lead, Soon-Tek Oh and thinking, I know that voice! Sure enough, Oh was the voice for Fa Zhou, Mulan's father in the classic 1998 film.
