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  1. Mariko and Fuji are both samurai. Kiku the courtesan, and the villagers - they're not. It's my understanding that samurai is like a societal rank - women can be samurai.
  2. I laughed so hard at this, thank you! I was wondering if anything was going to be made of him using a sextant - by the characters or by the viewers. Is it anachronistic for him to have one given the miniseries is set in 1600?
  3. Defending JKR the day after she posted some Holocaust denialism is certainly a take. She is absolutely fighting/campaigning against trans rights, and based on this post I would wager you don't know a lot of "trans activists" to claim you know how most of them feel.
  4. I enjoyed this episode for showing us how Blackthorne is changing and adapting. He is appreciating/understanding more about the Japanese culture. Yabu comes off as almost a caricature of the ineffective bad guy. I understand that they need the actor to show more facial reactions to allow the audience to understand his inner monologue that we would otherwise get in the novel, but even still it seems a lot. But I'm enjoying his bumbling ways. Conversely, I am not getting the hard vibes from Omi. I also wonder if Kiku's role will become more fleshed out (pardon the pun). The scene with Fuji and the guns was really well done, as was the exchanging of the gifts between her and Blackthorne. I'm guessing a major plot point of the book has been removed in the miniseries due to modern sensibilities. When Nagakado turns the cannons on Jozen, I actually startled. That was vivid.
  5. Not sure how to feel about this episode just because so much plot was twisted and shoved into one hour of television. I hate how dark the fight portions of the show were. I'm not sure if that was just my settings but I always wonder why shows pay all this money for production value and then just dial down the brightness so we can't see anyway. Blackthorne is still called Anjin-san, but he was given the status of hatamoto which is like an extra honour of samurai. Just like Father Alvito is Tsukku-san, it's both his trade and his name. They just didn't feel it was right to keep calling him a barbarian after he had saved Toranaga's life and shown skill in the sea battle with the Black Ship - even though Rodrigues gave way at the end to repay Blackthorne for saving his life.
  6. Unfortunately (for me) I found the characters didn’t match mine at all! Jonathan in particular was way off - not enough contrast between him and Matthew. There was some discussion of the show when it was released in the “Detective and Mystery Shows” forum.
  7. Rodrigues showed Blackthorne that Rodrigues has the rutters but we haven’t been told that Alvito has told Toranaga that Rodrigues has them. The stolen rutters Blackthorne had aboard Erasmus told him how to reach Japan but didn’t tell him about the other Portuguese ports in Macau. Blackthorne learned about the Black Ship and the Portuguese ports from Father Domingo in the prison.
  8. There is an official show podcast that is available after each episode. In that podcast they talk about how for simplicity with the show we must assume they're speaking Portuguese for the most part but that Blackthorne does speak Spanish and Dutch as he was on a Dutch ship. It's extremely difficult to put everything in the book into the show but I agree that even an offhand remark about his multilingualism probably would have helped. His ability to speak many languages is important to the plot.
  9. I couldn't resist digging out my old copy of Shogun and starting a re-read to refresh the plot. I laughed that my softcover copy shows a cost of CAN$7.50 or US$5.95 for just over 1200 pages.
  10. I remember Blackthorne using the kimono colours of the vassals of the various Lords to delineate between friend and foe. I did not particularly notice greys vs browns in wardrobe (yet?).
  11. Britbox reminds us that the "new" Vera season starts tomorrow - it's series 13 that aired in the UK in January. The 14th series has apparently already been greenlit for 2 feature length episodes with filming to begin in the spring.
  12. I remember Blackthorne tripping up Alvito a bit in front of Mariko who clarifies some of the translations but overall I really like how key plot points are coming out quickly. Waiting to watch this week-to-week will be hard!
  13. It’s been over a decade since I last read the book but I don’t remember Fuji being introduced so early or that her timeline overlapped this way. Might be just how they are getting all the stories into the miniseries because the book is so massive. I do like how they haven’t dwelled on the sailors and moved that chunk of plot along quickly
  14. It's been years since I read the book (although I have read it multiple times) and this was a great reminder/crib sheet. I cannot wait for this series!!
  15. I missed this until someone else quoted it... How is Annie's case a rip-off of Wind River? The storyline isn't the same at all. Is she an Indigenous woman whose death was not adequately investigated? Yes. That's not based on any movie, that's the ongoing real-life situation with missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. In Canada, Indigenous women are 4x more likely than non-Indigenous women to be 
victims of violence.
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