Raja

I think we see the difference when we got to the movie, as opposed to the Agent Carter Red Room. Being a woman and the effect she had on men was a large part of a Black Widow's skill set. With Yelena Belova and her Red Room of sisters doing a kata with guns, except the director using women the assassins could have been men.

Becoming Shogun locks the heir out as he would have been Shogun being of noble birth to Lady Ochiba while the Taiko was up from the ranks like Lord Ishido and could only rise to Chief Regent. Winning the battle was only step one now the others would force the Emperor to call up Lord Toranaga much like King Charles nominally calls up the Prime Minister after an election today.

The details will come when I make my second watch of the episode in a few days but I thought the heads on the stakes had the distinctive samurai haircut. I was surprised when Blackthorne and Lord Toranaga where talking about ordinary villagers

What I got was a hesitant translator until Lord Toranaga told him to reveal himself as the spy. At which point he began to question things like do you mean hope or faith. With 2/5ths of the council nominally Christian and the access to Portuguese trade goods in play I think many more bilingual spies would be out and around.

I think his dream since he set sail was to come back as the man who opened the Japan's to the English and Dutch breaking the Catholic monopoly. In a sense being Admiral Perry 250 years before the Americans got there. So the honored gentleman with his grandchildren marveling at his trophies while on his deathbed. In a way a mirror of the last days of the Taiko. I am assuming the Lord Toranaga honored Yabushige's will and Lord Omi has inherited all of Izu. Maybe he has a spare cousin or sister he can marry off to the Anjin to keep Anjiro all in the family and closer to Lord Toranaga instead of trading her off for a new alliance. But then she might be as mad as being assigned to the barbarian/hatamoto as Lady Fuji initially was only to be the best consort ever . More like he won the fight before the sword was drawn. But there are sure to be plenty of widows, whose husbands died in battle so unlike Lady Fuji but more like where Lady Mariko thought she was for a few days. The demonstration by Lady Mariko was enough to see the start of stripping away of the political Catholic lord. If the kidnap was successful we are given a story where Lady Ochiba doesn't withdraw the Taiko's army. But in the end other lords would know that even with the power of law it wasn't the heir but rather Ishido who demanded support and might still flip to Toranaga in sufficient numbers. It hadn't even been a generation since there was a more or less unified confederation in Japan.

Do you cast Bruce Wayne or any ole man, or woman, in a mask and a cape is the question.

So after ending Lady Mariko's story we get the surrender of Blackthorne and the acceptance that he will be the Anjin forevermore. With his spoken Japanese really ramping up all of the sudden many samurai around him are showing up as political Christians and knowing Portuguese. I guess like Yabushige many had different interpretations than Lady Mariko and let their lords know on the side. In those last days with Lady Fuji I was shipping hard and hoping that she would stay on as the Anjin's consort. While Blackthorne in his grief of losing his translator went as far as ordering her to stay. But like other situations she pivots with the no playa I will be a nun now.

Was the short third season always the plan or a result of the strikes delaying production?

So NCIS Elite is just another team, ultimately under Director Vance and the NCIS name instead of the CIA I guess. It sounds like the real life Marines bringing back the Raiders because all Marines are elite stopped playing in the publicity game 20 years ago when all eyes went to the SEALs and Delta Force. For the case of the week, who was the second clown van driver? Perhaps the dude just jumped out of the driver's seat since it was a ruse for the cameras and then jump back in. Another 1000 episodes call back with teaching Kate that beyond the Secret Service stuff they had to be their own CSI's it took the ME to tell us about blood splatter when refrigerated old blood should have been sufficient. For the second week in a row a senior Marine is not going to serve anymore. I was wishing for a JAG defender to be around while he still wanted to save his wife once they knew he stole millions. But I was impressed that the FBI ran lead even if they circled back to NCIS going to the Marine base and being the contact

NBC did the same without CGI back in the day.

I saw an excited father rush out to greet Coulter as he was parking. Giving Coulter the nickname of home school did seem like something a regular character would do, not a friend of the week.

I think that going after Frank in the early days of the TV show was a holdover from Robert Duvall's vocal Christianity and "hidden" adultery in the movie M*A*S*H.

I saw the set up and flashed back to the early MMA days when if you didn't lock a hold immediately the defender if strong enough just lifted you and started smashing you into the ground. But heroes can't do that to women. When the victim was asking who Coulter was, with a generation of SVU behind me my mind went there with the other supernatural stuff collateral. So I was surprised with the take her directly home reunion.

Back in the day with Michael Keaton I remember someone saying you cast Bruce Wayne not Batman. I this case Marvel is promoting a silver clad surfer while the gatekeepers have loudly said we want the guy whose name I would copy and paste from Google since I remember nothing special about him besides the skill set from my childhood. The question is how much a factor the nerds excitement in finally having their stories "told right" was a driver in the billions the Avengers made? Without their collective seal of approval are MCU productions just another movie. Another in a long line that did it wrong before Jon Favreau and Joss Whedon brought the MCU's most important films in correct enough for them.

Well if not Vice President Cheney then Dick Jones from RoboCop followed him for the rest of his acting career. But remember back then Stargate had official support down to the actual USAF Chief of Staff making a cameo so there was no active politics.

The only romance I perceived was the credits this is what happened to the real people text. As with Reacher lite mayhem I was hoping for something nastier for the chief Nazi's ending

All Kate and Kai in the promo photos? This might be too early but with the 1000 episodes in the franchise sparking a looking back at this point on NCIS: New Orleans like Lucy is missing episodes here Shalita Grants' Percy was in and out of episodes as what I thought was a fresh take on the NCIS formula started to fall off of the rails. Although I don't think Yasmine Al-Bustami's Lucy and her relationship with Kate is as important as Percy and the new cast in NOLA's third season was there.

Spoiler alert, you won't get that. He was closer to Odd Job from Kelly's Heroes for much of the movie. As an update of The Guns of Navarorne type mission things played too easily for the good guys to me. They tore through Nazis like it was Star Wars. Alan Ritchson came off as Reacher lite in his reign of destroying Nazis could have gone further given the R rating. Mrs. Raja wasn't looking forward to the movie but it seems that she enjoyed it more than me. In our last Friday matinee showing as date night was about to start we had only 6 in attendance

One of the few instances of honoring the franchise and continuity the use of Admiral Chegwidden on Los Angeles But then going for a bigger named Major Dad actor to assuming his place as Hawai'i was to also do when the killed off Charlie 1 to bring in LL Cool J became a you didn't have to do that moment.

The worst, the latest in the CBS series of the great American savior overseas, the show born of lack of content due to Hollywood strikes. My hate watch NCIS: Sydney

Not the best but the worst. Ramming the Harm and Mac JAG ship into the rocks and sinking it on NCIS: Los Angeles.

In California they must identify the driver and we outnumber you. Joke Back to real life New York law in an ongoing high profile case folks told me that juries were identified in those first season cases. That seems to have changed since the 1990s.

Go to the museum for the I Love Lucy set.

It was worse than just CBS. Just over a decade ago with a couple of hundred episodes on tap syndicators that held NCIS rights replaced Memorial Day and Veterans Day holiday movie marathons and replaced them with NCIS reruns as if it was the same honoring the veterans ideal since the N stands for Navy, even if they are not in the Navy.

How the wife got the drop on a veteran of prison fights, I can only ask what was in her background?