Google Jeb Bush posted:

It also does a good job of portraying, in a show that so far doesn't have fantastical murder-heroes, that Buntaro is a fairly superlative warrior. He just shears through the opposition until they can start bringing their numbers to bear.

Nice Tuckpointing! posted:

My quick look at the Shogun subreddit has some folks itching for more action, but man, I gotta say, the cut to all of Sugiyama's entourage slaughtered hit hard and I can't think of any spinning and kicking and clanging of swords that I would like to see in its place.

XYZAB posted:

Blackthorne: "The Earth is a 4 corner simultaneous 4 – day time cube, like this. When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 – major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth – known as England, which is here, and the Japans, which is here."

Toranaga: "..."

Panzeh posted:

Yeah, eventually, Tokugawa actually did give the real William Adams permission to leave Japan once the first English captain to come to Japan on purpose showed up, but Adams declined (It may be because said captain was kind of an rear end in a top hat to him). This was around 1612, though, a long time after Sekigahara. There was actually a lot going on between Sekigahara and the closing of the country, and Adams had a pretty real impact on how that went down.

Mauser posted:

Mauser posted:

Needed more muraji scenes imo

Morrow posted:

The show makes interpretation scenes so good because the showrunners are skilled and confident enough to give us two conversations at once and make both meaningful.

https://twitter.com/DaveMcNamee3000/status/1780980709878120876

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

he was a decent dude for a jesuit, he'd rather have converted blackthorne and been friends, but was fully willing to stand by and let him die by the order of his superiors. he was touched by how deeply mariko felt for him, but in the patronising way a true believer looks at a poor deluded heretic. there is a chance that if mariko had made the plea directly to him and it was not a deal struck between the jesuits and mariko/toranaga that he would have attempted to warn him and give him an opportunity to escape, leaving the rest to god, but not very likely and he wouldn't ever actively interfere to save him. the talk about "not my god, your god, just god" may have pulled him on side enough for a little more but, not much.

i feel like reading him in particular as a pure sack of poo poo jesuit rear end in a top hat is a dire misreading of the character, since the other jesuits are presented as wholly corrupt and financially motivated, while he is presented as a pious and hardworking true believer and busybody, always honest and trying to be a little helpful throughout.

SolarFire2 posted:

Was there a single shot with actual sunlight in this series? One of the tells that it's very obviously shot in British Columbia is that it's always raining, drizzling or just cloudy.