Imma B. Me

Mariko : It would have been better if there had been no quarrel. Blackthorne : He (Alvito) always was my enemy. Karma is karma.

James Clavell's Shogun (1975), Chapter 47, Page 777

It’s crazy how the original ‘70s Shōgun miniseries got Toshiro Mifune and had him read their tourist phrasebook-level Japanese.

Imagine if a Japanese-produced drama set in Elizabethan England got Patrick Stewart, and had him saying things like “What up my homies, Jesus very thank you yes.”

me when I found out Mariko planned to die and used her power to make the church spare john

Shogun could be having the most heart wrenching, tear-inducing, emotional scene, and then Toranaga came on screen, and with watery eyes I'd still get immediately distracted like "oh wow he's so handsome-" bruh.....

Ochiba is like : "You did not just disrespect MY Mariko!"

In a way, Blackthorn's fate is a perfect metaphor for Japan under the new Shogunate.

He isn't free, he can never leave and he's stuck inside a meaningless ritual (rebuilding his ship only for it to get burned down).

Just like the Edo period daimyo were bound to the Shogun by having to always leave their families in Edo, no one effectively could leave Japan and the samurai were stuck inside a mostly empty facade of warriorship despite the fact that most of their swords never saw blood.

But both Blackthorn and Japan had peace.

The viewer is just left wondering whether it was worth it.

The way Kiri straight up roasted Toranaga's poetry skills: "Those words are too beautiful to belong to you."

They're such an old married couple I love them 🤣

Girls : He probably have forgotten about me. Guys 50 years later :

In a way I got everything I wanted from this adaptation. I wanted it to focus more on political scheming and non-romantic character dynamics rather than romance. I wanted it to focus more on Toranaga (and Mariko!) rather than Blackthorne. More Japanese pov than Blackthorne's pov. I wanted it to be more cultural accurate than the book and 80's tv serie. This adaptation got all of those things. And spotlight for Ochiba was suprise but good one. And I liked that there was little storyline for Yabushige, Ishido, Omi ect.

I still would change some small things, but overall I'm satisfied and happy with fx Shōgun. I gonna miss Shōgun Tuesdays. Maybe I will just rewatch it one episode at the time on upcoming Tuesdays haha.

SHOGUN | 1.10: A Dream of a Dream

The fact that Blackthorne turned out to be a total red herring may be my favorite way that Shōgun subverted expectations.

Because the show followed his journey, we assumed he would have some greater importance as part of Toranaga's eventual victory. Maybe he would have come to the rescue, heroically using his ship and the guns to attack Osaka castle, giving him prime of place as an ally and as a vital part of Toranaga's plan.

In the end, though, Toranaga had Blackthorne's ship destroyed — and was prepared to destroy any others he might build. Blackthorne himself turned out to be a funny foreign distraction, unimportant to the cause beyond just making headaches for Toranaga's enemies, kept around simply because he made Toranaga laugh.

tim: sweet dog you got there. gordon: yes, this is our new drug-sniffing dog. tim: still training huh? gordon: red robin.. what do you mean? tim: ... tim: nevermind...

Guys, stop with the DARE Tim versus stoner Tim discourse, obviously both are true and he's a lying hypocrite!

tim hosting a DARE assembly at school: i will avoid peer pressure and drugs and try my best to prevent others from ruining my happiness. i am and will continue to be drug-free.

bernard: i saw you hit a blinker in the bathroom before this.

tim: shhhhh, bear i'll let you hit my cart if you keep your trap shut…

the hunger games films tore out the books teeth. like it does the series such a disservice when it stands for nothing, says nothing, passes no judgement.. katniss speaks so plainly in the books about what she thinks of the capital. of what they do to her and her family and the districts. of the different worlds she witnesses as she’s straddled between 12 and the capital.. she calls it barbaric. she calls it disgusting and wrong and horrifying, over and over, and the films were like how do we market this teen romance.

like these…… are unmarketable to a production company. as they should be

I feel like this series would’ve hit harder if the author had been allowed to let Katniss say fuck a lot

I wonder why

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