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EARLY ACCESS Shogun Season 1 Episode 10 Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-09-17 15:18:44
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SOS Bros React - Shogun Season 1 Episode 10 -

00:00 - Intro 01:08 - Reaction 32:30 - Discussion / Review What did you think of the episode? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! Buy Jacob's sci-fi novel Battle Lines here: https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Lines-Jacob-I-Wolcott/dp/1733753508/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1559663589&sr=1-2 Follow us on Twitch: @SemblanceofSanity_YT Wednesdays @ 3 pm PST: Caleb Gaming Thursdays @ 3 pm PST: Caleb Gaming Fridays @ 3 pm PST: Caleb Gaming Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/semblanceofsanity Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/semblancebros Check out our MyAnimeList - https://myanimelist.net/animelist/SOSBros sos bros, semblance of sanity, shogun episode 10 reaction, shogun

Comments

Adam Pacio

So... you should read the novel. It is just different enough, while being essentially the same story, that you will appreciate the careful adaptation and cultural editing which was applied to craft this miniseries version of things. One of the roles that Hiroyuki Sanada said he had portrayed in his acting past happened to be within this same exact time period, only portraying Ishido instead of Tokugawa/Toranaga. One note about the ending. In the novel, on the very last bit of narration from third-person omniscient like the novel is written, when Toranaga is looking at Blackthorne and crew in Ajiro raising the wreckage of the ship in the very last scene, is the very first time that we hear Toranaga's inner dialogue mention outright that he felt it was his karma to become Shogun. The only time in the whole novel that Toranaga ever admits he desires the title and the power for himself. And then the novel ends two paragraphs later. The show was very true to Clavell's writing in the sentiment evoked by being cagey and only half alluding to the fact that Toranaga wanted to become Shogun for his own personal ambition, leaving that kind of never-betrayed secret that yet, everyone has always known, all along.

fr0st

I don't know when you filmed this but Shogun cleaned up at the Emmys (historically high number of wins across all the categories) and I feel like it's the one show this year (and in recent years) that I've seen that I can say deserves every single one

Clement Lee

This is the difference between (East) Asian narrative and Western narrative, that is the protagonist in the East might not always the ones who is in focus. As stories are usually told in long episodic nature with multiple focus, this version of Shogun is told in a quintessential Eastern way. I think for me as an East Asian, I’m already familiar with this type of narrative, so when I first saw Blackthorne done by this fashion, I already know that being the one who is the outsider and to observe and learn the course of his interaction still maintain him as the protagonist, though I would say in Shogun, it’s more of a three-hander between Blackthorne, Mariko and Toranaga. In fact, Blackthorne slowly becomes a more and more opaque character in the show, which is one of the most difficult roles to play when you need to slowly play a person to a concept, and Cosmo Jarvis’ performance is so rare and exceptional from most other actors as his sensuality delivered in Blackthorne is abundant while he’s being so light and tender when it comes to revealing vulnerability towards his ‘third heart’ with a sense of ‘being’. (This has everything to do of how this show is queering the original Western narrative in the book as well as the male gaze of the similar genre on screen, but that’s another whole new chapter to discuss.) For me, Blackthorne’s virtue is passion and directness, never his marine skills, but then that’s also why Toranaga attracts to him because it speaks to him, things that he both lacks but also is able to use to control Blackthorne himself. To me, he loves Blackthorne more than he loves Mariko or Hiromatsu because he senses that Blackthorne is not someone who would just follow orders, but this is also the reason why he needs him more than others because he sees individuality in him with a sense of dignity (unlike Yabushige), a mirror to Toranaga himself as a reminder.