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MeinPanzer posted:Cosmo Jarvis has an odd charisma in this, and the intensity he brings to the role sells him as a brash, devil may care adventurer, but the combination of his small, wide-set eyes and bad blue contacts lends him an uncanny appearance. I think his look is also off-putting because he's constantly wide eyed but has a weird lifelessness to his eyes, and his lack of expression is often at odds with his explosive baritone. Jarvis looking/acting a bit strange fits. From everyone else's POV Blackthorne's the weirdo, and he's learning to use that to his advantage in a more calculated and theatrical way. As for making him dive over and over I don't know if it was to remind him that Toranaga could gently caress with him with impunity (I think Blackthorne got the message with the piracy accusation), or because he's a perfectionist who wants to learn as much as he could from observation first. Or maybe it's ego and he wanted to tire Blackthorne first before the contest.
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Mar 7, 2024 18:53
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Cojawfee posted:What a great episode. Agree, even with Toranaga barely in it. I like how Yabu was initially set up as this dangerous schemer and how it's now increasingly clear just how out of his depth he is.
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Mar 12, 2024 20:47
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hailthefish posted:Yeah the whole "and also he knows all about european infantry tactics which are entirely unheard of in japan!" part of the book was a little too silly and marty stu so I think cannon is a good change. Also it reinforces Blackthorne's character as someone who's got to improvise and play to his strengths to stay alive.
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Mar 13, 2024 09:01
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Jehde posted:I really hope that this show isn't dumb enough to have the anjin's consort and the translator's husband bang, because it hinted at the possibility of that in a way that these forced dramas tend to like to do. two weird paragraphs
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Mar 19, 2024 08:18
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:The way I look at it, FX had some concrete parameters that they gave to the showrunners / writers, such as "we're doing 10 episodes max" or "you have 50 mil to spend on this, do what you will" and within those constraints, whatever they are, I feel like the showrunners are exceeding my expectations to such a level that it's nearing perfection as an adaptation. Also they don't overdo it, so far it's just an affair between too deeply lonely people, not some great epic love story.
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Mar 20, 2024 22:21
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I think the idea is the warmer climate caused it to rot and be swarmed with flies way faster than what he expected.
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Mar 21, 2024 20:51
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There's a whole thing where Japan is idealized as this patriarchal trad country untouched by wokeness, so I can ses how downplaying Clavell's sillier aspects would piss off youtube freaks and such.
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Mar 22, 2024 22:28
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Will any new iron cannon have to be folded over a thousand times?
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Mar 23, 2024 23:13
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This puts the show in an awkward/interesting position where they're obviously not recreating history but are trying to make the story more history-ish. The question of how much they should bother with revising what the book got wrong must have been weird, since at the end of the day it's a successful novel that tells a compelling story in its own right (and it's the one people are expecting to see), and every historical fiction fudges the facts for a good story.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:17
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:
isn't that just an adult thing
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Mar 27, 2024 07:53
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Saganlives posted:The cinematography in this show is also on another level. I was particularly taken with this shot, the intimacy it conveys is astounding. I love how unsubtle this moment is. Perestroika posted:I gotta echo whoever posted last episode about Ochiba having a noticeably different kind of pronunciation going on. Even across the language barrier, it really does come off as quite a bit more dramatic/villainous. Is there a specific word for the intonations she take? It's very distinctive and even though I don't follow anime anymore I feel like I've heard this before.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:18
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I wonder how much trust Toranaga is supposed to have in Blackthorne's words. Here's a foreigner with an obvious agenda who claims his enemies are invaders conspiring against you, and who repeatedly insists on attacking them to serve you. His claims have serious implications but he's hardly in any position to prove anything, right?
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Mar 28, 2024 20:46
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I don't think it was strictly planned. Hiromatsu had absolute faith in Toranaga's will to fight, so he correctly decided that it was a ruse. When he sees the other vassals getting rowdy he decides to shut them up by forcing Toranaga to kill him - if Toranaga is willing to execute his closest ally for that then further protesting is pointless, and it helps the kayfabe of the whole operation. Toranaga understands what Hiromatsu's going for but is helpless to dissuade him from going through it because the plan falls apart if he backs down. They might have planned it in advance but it reads more as a spur of the moment's decision on both of their parts, cemented by the two men's understanding each other's position and the inevitability of it all.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:00
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Have they ever referenced the emperor in the show? That's gotta be confusing for casual viewers who know just enough to be aware he exists.
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Apr 10, 2024 22:19
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It's kind of expected Mariko would do more than just translating since she's effectively Blackthorne's handler.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:56
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He finally knows enough Japanese to directly ask Toranaga for his ship.
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Apr 19, 2024 16:01
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Mantle posted:What does that say about her son's mastery? He had a British accent! lol
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