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I watched the first two episodes and I get the Tom Hardy comparisons, but I feel like Cosmo Jarvis is channeling Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders more than Hardy. It's the slightly off and measured way he paces his speech. I love it.
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Yeah I fully expect any follow ups to be Shogun: Subtitle. It's too late to call the whole thing The Asian Saga.
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Mar 11, 2024 09:19
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Josh Lyman posted:Yabus is annoying though. He's the character I'm finding to be the most fun. When he's not on screen I'm loudly asking "Where's Yabu?"
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Mar 12, 2024 09:07
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Sierra Nevadan posted:I want to do the same, but the only copies I can find are split into two parts and have supposedly edited out some of the more weird/controversial stuff. My price tracker says the Asian Saga box set on Amazon jumped from £35 to £70 on the day the show started. Motherfuckers. 
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Mar 14, 2024 20:43
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If there's one thing I love in TV shows it's long, tense conversations where the characters are getting steadily more drunk over time. 10/10
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Mar 19, 2024 23:16
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Ochiba has entered my top ten anime villain list.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:04
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Quinton posted:I definitely get the impression that sometimes she's aiming for clarity and other times... she's got slightly different motives. Yeah, although sometimes it's as simple as "that won't go over well, I'll massage it a bit so everyone keeps their heads".
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Mar 27, 2024 08:22
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ManSedan posted:I really hope at some point Ochiba barely covers her mouth and laughs like OH HO HO HO HO I hope she wears glasses in the finale, and pushes them up her nose so the light catches them.
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Mar 27, 2024 19:47
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I didn't even notice it and I'm at least an above average TV watcher
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Apr 6, 2024 11:35
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MrMojok posted:But Mariko did tell Blackthorn what anjin meant; we saw it. I was struggling to keep up in the first episode so I definitely missed when it was explained and had to work it out later - so they're not the only one bad at watching TV. I assumed it was some sort of variation on gaijin, since most of the characters said it like an insult. Once the show is done I'd like to go back and start over now that I know who all these people are and what their deal is.
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Apr 11, 2024 00:07
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This episode was pure  The Show and it was great.(I also thought Yabu was letting Toranaga's men in for a hot second, mostly because I had no idea what Yabu's men looked like and assumed he was killing Ishido's men - as he'd switched to Ishido's side.)
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Apr 18, 2024 00:11
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CapnAndy posted:The idea of this airing on TV, even cable, baffles me. There is a lot of swearing and blood and there's even been a bare breast or two, how heavily is FX having to edit it? It still feels a bit weird seeing gore and loving on Disney+. Even five years ago that would've never happened.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:32
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Yabu is loyal to Yabu. *2 minutes later* Yabu has betrayed Yabu
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Apr 20, 2024 09:59
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So I loved this show but also know gently caress all about Japanese history. Is there a decent source other than Wikipedia to read up on the basics of this period?
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Apr 23, 2024 23:24
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No Mods No Masters posted:I find there are not really as many great books about the sengoku period in english as anyone might hope but here are some starters. SuperTeeJay posted:‘A History of Japan’ by Richard Mason gives a broad overview and covers a lot of cultural history so it isn’t just a list of battles and big names. Thanks for these! Mason is free on Audible for some reason so I'll give that one a look first.
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Apr 24, 2024 06:38
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Chadzok posted:I wanted a montage of what happened to everyone's real-life equivalents and a "Christianity was banned within X years" or whatever I was genuinely expecting one of those "what happened next" cards you always see in docudramas.
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Apr 24, 2024 14:49
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Metis of the Chat Thread posted:I'm very interested in what Hiroyuki Sanada might produce next. In the podcast for the final episode he sounded pretty excited about the new possibilities producing opened up for the future. drat, didn't realise there was an official podcast. Is it good enough to be worth going back and listening to now the series is done?
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Sio posted:BES’ anti-colonialist tone is severely undercut by its orientalist portrayal of the Japanese as being anachronistically primitive in comparison to Europeans, and of course the entirely fictional principal villain may be the most deliberately confused portrayal of European colonialism I’ve ever seen. It’s all been stylized to the point of near meaninglessness, which is not unsurprising given the politics of the show’s creator. Zionists cannot make coherent anti-colonial art. Fucks sake, I was about to start watching this and now I don't know if I want to anymore.
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Kawabata posted:Cosmo Jarvis being some kind of discount Tom Hardy overacting monster. This was in fact the best thing about the show.
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