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  1. Too bad they didn't figure out it was Tom Cruise that made it work. I seriously thought that Mechad Brooks had a back injury or was just to top heavy after watching Detective Shaw try to run.
  2. My android phone is a mess to read but on the full computer it looks like whatever they did is an attempt to defeat the ad blockers. For a few days before the ads returned with the current formatting issues the bottom 1/5 of the screen had a solid white band.
  3. After General Doolittle took over the 8th USAAF their fighter groups were ordered to hunt down the Luftwaffe, the bombers being "bait". They could send some squadrons out more as free roaming hunter killer groups thus being in a better position to ambush and hit German fighters by coming at them from out of the sun. Being further away they were not as visible to the bomber crews, however by 1944 there were many more longer ranged fighters around and some could stay close while others were patrolling further out. The 15th USAAF which the 332nd was assigned to had fewer long range fighter groups and so their escort stayed closer to the bomber boxes since if they were at the wrong ambush spot the Germans could leak through unmolested. The pretty good HBO Movie The Tuskegee Airmen and the bad Lucas Film Red Tails both emphasized the stay close to the bombers orders when their mission changed and the 332nd Fighter Group moved from ground attack to escort. The Red nose and tail left no doubt of who was helping and the pilots could not be accused of cowardice when they stayed in view of the bomber crews.
  4. I can't remember the first series nor have I read the novel. General consensus says the Lady Mariko was the name Clavell choose for Hosokawa Gracia. If true then her father would be Akechi Mitsuhide. So 14 years would be her conversion to Christianity.
  5. I think we are to assume that the rest of the room knew that practice for Lady Mariko wasn't the real reason, it was just more polite than saying I don't trust you priest. Just as the Father knew that if Lady Mariko reported that he shaded the truth it could hurt the Church's influence with the Regents if not endanger his life.
  6. We hope that lessons were learned from the reaction to the antagonistic DA on Los Angeles. Maybe Mr. Price might also resign and join the police.
  7. The show has put me in the Google bot's eyesight and many historians are putting out that England in particular were making advances in standardized guns, and especially in the manufacturing of the cannonballs that made them many times more accurate than the rest of the world. Remember Anjin measuring with his protractor before the first shots. In a way it sounds to me how the US Navy really studied their failed torpedoes during WWII or the failures of air to air missiles in the first years of the Vietnam War but then the errors were correct by the end of those two wars. Again I come down to no timestamps and how much practice did those crews have? And later for the story how much of that ship's magazines have been emptied already? Now that the Hatamoto has proven his worth to paraphrase Lord Omi's mother perhaps they now practicing with the cheap locally made stuff. And Lady Mariko writing down notes of his instruction so the knowledge might not be lost if the Hatamoto wasn't the officer in charge. In any case as with almost all shooting on film. beyond Imperial Stormtroopers they still just show us superior, dare I say supernatural accuracy and not that most shots miss.
  8. I came back from the premiere was Bobby's use of "detective" with Athena an indication of a new assignment or a joke?
  9. Or specifically to the DA's Mr. Branch's differences when replacing Mr. Schiff and the interim Ms. Lewin.
  10. Watching the Masters of the Air and there was an actual Stalag 13 (Hogan's Heroes) that the airmen POWs spent a small time in when they evacuated Stalag Luft III. But a difference in that the German Army and not the Air Force ran Stalag XIII
  11. I think that is Arman's highly antagonistic young(er?) uncle. His introduction as the gangster being the opposite of Armon's first meeting with Thony. Of course once Arman is pronounced we go back to what I saw as an earlier Nadia tease, that while la chica que limpia did not meet her standards social class Dr. de la Rosa as a husband's mistress, or perhaps throuple might. Are Luca's meds still in play? I thought the smuggled in pharmaceuticals were for the clinic where Thony practices without a license. In any case CPS will also make getting them to her patient/son difficult.
  12. She must be in the police academy so they will have another rookie next season
  13. I wish they time stamped the scenes as I am having a hard time telling just how much time is passing. I think when Lady Fuji submitted to 6 months as Anjin's consort she was thinking that all the services would apply to her and she planned on killing herself when her sentence was up no matter what her Lord or grandfather ordered. But she is learning that Blackthorne might not have the samurai code but has his own code and would never touch her. After he proved his worth as an artillery officer and the exchange of gifts I wouldn't be surprised if, and hope that it is not until the story ends or till death do they part. And in that I doubt Lady Mariko has pillowed with her husband since giving birth to their son and that household knows fully well about Anjin and Lady Mariko but will hold the secret to death just as Lady Fuji would protect his pistols. However I believe since there was no body shown Buntaro comes back to life. I think the plan was to flip one of the Christian regents to his side to be just like the Taiko and his boss when they rose to prominence. The plan was already in motion with the cost being the church campus in Edo. As it is to get a new regent would break the balance of power between the other four regents as new alliances have to be made. The fighting itself being Lord Toranaga's back up plan rather than submitting to the council and killing himself
  14. In the end perhaps if they used The Pacific, with its separated Marines to tell the story instead of the Band of Brothers focus on one unit. The shoehorn in of Tuskegee Airmen in the next to last episode wouldn't have felt that way. Yes the Luftwaffe had integrated POW camps. There were only 32 Tuskegee Airmen taken prisoner during the war. The ground forces being capture is not written about as much beyond the Black 333rd Field Artillery being among the surrendering units massacred by the Waffen SS during the Battle of the Bulge.. You could say cynically that the 332nd from the 15th USAAF was chosen to represent fighter pilots and the SOE spy were included because without their stories the artist awards, Emmy's and others would disqualify the show, even as a period piece set during Jim Crow America. Just as there are stories of Vietnam veterans returning to be spit upon there are stories of those on the returning troop ships telling the "[racist epithet]" to go this direction to reinforce segregation. But the second of the Black troops Double V (against the Axis and Jim Crow) for victory campaign came in 1948 with Presidential Executive Order 9981 when the military was ordered to desegregate. The last segregated unit in combat being a Buffalo Soldiers 24th Infantry Regiment in the early battles of Korea. Where once again Black troops were accused of being cowards and running when all of the other units except a composite Marine brigade and the 27th Infantry regiment were breaking as well when the UN army got squeezed down into the Pusan Perimeter. Before the Invasion at Inchon cut off the North Koreans and the UN pushed back north to the Chinese border, when China entered the war in force and pushed the UN back to just about the pre war border. The US Air Force became official at the same time the War Department became the the Department of Defense in 1947. It became the first among the services that Jim Crow era Blacks would volunteer for. Ironically because they held out the toughest in accepting any Black men the Marine Corps was probably second. Maybe due to if you got through Boot Camp you were a Marine as Montford Point was shut down and Black Marines went to Parris Island and San Diego
  15. They had to be trolling us with that foot chase.
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