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I guess the spies watching Lord Toranaga walk with the aid of a helper and cough didn't notice that half of his Generals remain in armor presumably with their units getting ready to strike. I would normally say that the time was used to rehearse their battle but we are left to believe that all the war gaming is going on inside of Toranaga's head alone while his senior people worked on their wills. What is unknown is how much combat power does Lord Ishido have in Osaka? With the Regents being held hostage part of it would have to be split off to guard against their clans since they now can't be depended upon to follow the council

Her father married her off down instead of up or at least a lateral move. And after his treason she wasn't going back up. Enter the hatamoto who wasn't going to touch his grieving consort and didn’t care about societal standards in the Japans.

So Ramona's sister raised her son or incest? Jeremy the handyman shows up out of the blue with the tools needed to help Thony. Unlike Jaz's father he keeps going in deeper. I guess Thony is not the target of his undercover work.

Or the hatamoto told another story about a battle in which he didn't fight in

Blackthorne by this point knew that as Lord Toranaga's hatamoto he would be among the class required to kill himself. Being released he became a Ronin and offered his services to Lord Yabushige, who isn't part of the clan but allied his clan to Isido and Toranaga's as circumstances changed. I thought keeping Lord Yabushige was a secondary goal, the primary mission to make Lord Ishido think that he had truly given up. But then he heard that Blackthorne did indeed link up with Lord Yabushige he sent or loaned Lady Mariko out to translate, with written orders. If like any other nation with say the US War Plan Orange before WWII I think Crimson Sky was a long held war plan and the canons had just washed up onshore one day.

I think his son went on his own again but Lord Toranaga made use of thr mourning period. I don't think he was the heir given his father's age but a baby spare in case unmet older brothers pass away

It is both the best of locations and the worst of locations. I guess it depends upon the type of mission you are running. So the son bought his father time and allowed him to concentrate his home guard army with the survivors of the earthquake during an entire mourning period. But the extreme secrecy is bothering, as if that army marching to a ceremonial surrender could have extensive plans ready to launch. Ready to die because I know you have a plan. Perhaps the Crimson Sky was rehearsed when we first heard the term. With the two that are not really in the clan, Lord Yabushige and the hatamoto heading off on a naval raid. The son Buntaro and nephew Lord Omi remain with the main force. I am guessing at this point only Lady Mariko knows the plan unless it was in the letter/ writen orders sending her to sea to be Anjin's interpreter.

We have passed that trend of using the iconic music as a sample for a lame rap. Right?

The scene from 1980 that I remember was Anjin inspecting his consort's wounds which it seems were at the upper thigh and being amazed by the speed of recovery as the camera moved up Lady Fuji's legs with her questioning if she could fulfill her duties as consort. I think that has been transferred to Lady Fuji as a samurai preparing for a desperate fight to fulfill her duties as consort

Looks like Amazon Prime let the show go, over to Netflix for me.

Well if Sergeant Murtaugh is around he will revoke it, with a bullet. In this case Russia would have to publicly renounce their spy because the FBI set up a perp walk and put her in the press. But if they don't the State Department will most likely get with the AUSA and override a FBI SAC.

Of course like the MCU did earlier with characters in post credit scenes the herald can point to a later appearance. Sort of like Terrance Howard ending Iron Man with "next time baby" for War Machine to appear in Iron Man 2.

In general when firearms started appearing the advantage was for the ordinary conscripted troops, not those training for life to be knights, samurai, or even the English long bow and European crossbow archers. It would be for that Japanese infantry with a spear or even a European pike regiment, when bayonets' were adopted. later as the rate of fire increased Samurai besides Blackthorne would start to have firearms also. So the trade off was a short term teaching of the manual or arms in order to load and reload for a weapon that would penetrate armor compared to a lifetime preparing to be a Spartan or other nation's professional fighters. Those professionals who survived that first volley if able to get in amongst the gunners would make short work of them. So some infantry retained their spears and pikes as escorts for the musketeers.

In two watches I haven't picked up how Lady Gin mentioned the Anjin. Maybe when this is over I'll go back and try the dubbed version. It will be strange hearing English and then hearing Lady Mariko give different English meanings If Blackthorne knew what Crimson Sky was it could be another of those I wasn't there but everybody knows stories from the hatamoto about the Trojan Horse.

You are forgetting that she sees Thony as "Armando's", not that Armenianization of his name, consort so she is familia.

They are trying to hide it, not too well in my opinion. Perhaps after two professional women had three unplanned children it is time to go the other way and have folks plan on it. I was expected it to be Officer Chen as Melissa O'Neil as she is getting near to the do it or need help to do it age

They were explaining something that didn't need to be explained. Officers Thorsen and Chin should not be on duty due to recovery and shootings that accounts for them not being around. They could have easily shifted the duo to desk duty for the episode. And Sergeant Grey, the watch commander was also working which suggest their platoon had rotated to the night shift. Or are we to believe that was he also paying back some other Sergeant for taking a day off.

While probably done for real world balance to the gate keepers it is like the MCU doing to themselves what was done when they held the popular Ghost Riders for possible later use themselves and would only allow the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to use the third most popular Ghost Rider. So once again, as with The Mighty Thor, Ironheart, and Kate Bishop the question is it the power set that gets a character over or the characterization? In the coming weeks we will see the videos of the gatekeepers saying that it is the original Silver Surfer's non-superpowered character traits which they, want on their Fantastic Four movie. With the argument that those characters, not power sets have been workshopped in the comics for decades by us middle aged folks and seniors

I guess a misread of the wiki, I am seeing something called Universe X in 1999 had another herald of Galactus gaining the Silver Surfer powers. Of course to why her. For the same reason Tuskegee Airmen represented fighter pilots and a woman SOE officer represented spies in the Masters of the Air miniseries. Instead of making someone up use a minority who was already in place.

Especially with a political bombing earlier in the day. I don't care what the politics of the potential victims were you would expect the bomb squad to sweep the venue

Well the other cleaning ladies and the too prominent actor chosen to clean up the anti illegal graffiti at their offices The show is actually about Fiona and Chris, keeping that family together with Jaz. The rest is flash for FOX.

I think it was putting together alliances which in total would be more powerful than those held by and loyal to the heir. At the end he recruited Lady Mariko with the promise of fighting her father's enemy. It was the Taiko who took action after her father murdered their lord and saw her as the sole survivor of their clan.

I am reasonably sure that the first season when they had a LAPD advisor the boots did shift to nights as part of their training and assessment

I think that Blackthorne is reacting like a man for whom surrender means at worst the winner makes you crew his ship. Not a Christian who sees honor in suicide. For him going down swinging his sword no matter how out matched is the honorable action. Lord Saeki was claiming checkmate. Now Lord Toranaga has to renege on his surrender with a legal trick of only telling his intentions like he wouldn't allow his son to touch the arrest warrant

Nor the real life son of Tokugawa we thought he most closely represented