Shogun is pretty darn good. Agreed about how it could perhaps be a bit more "snappy" in pacing and also a bit more of the common person's view to offer a break from the upper class niceties.
- Shogun probably could have gotten the job done in fewer episodes (there's only so long I can listen to soft conversations in dark rooms about alliances/political manuevering) but I've mostly liked it. Anna Sawai MVP.
- I think it was Matt Zoller Seitz who pointed out that the Paramount Decrees officially ended with the Disney/Tarantino scuffle. When they could demand screens, showtimes, and the length of the theatrical run without impunity, it was over.
- AI sucks shit, and the AI posters for Civil War was such an unforced error. It's the number one movie in America! The conversation about it has been percolating for a month! You've achieved market saturation!
Everyone in the show is excepetional, but Anna Sawai especially is so fuckin' good. I had only seen her in the Monarch show on Apple and thought she was fine considering the quality of that show lol, but she's so goddamn good in this.
And personally, I've loved every minute of the show, and have very much appreciated many of the changes that have been made from the source material, most importantly Blackthorne offering to be Mariko's second. I don't swoon very often, and I'm like, 80-90% straight, but I'd have let that grubby Englishman have his way with me as a reward for that level of personal growth and respect.
I'm sure in hindsight and on second or third watches I'll find myself less blinded by my love for the specific history and the fact that Shogun was one of the first "grown up" books I read in my teens, but as it stands right now, it may well be in my top five favourite collections of moving pictures of any kind.
Paul Giamatti is 6 weeks older than Vin Diesel.
Whoa.
Shogun is pretty darn good. Agreed about how it could perhaps be a bit more "snappy" in pacing and also a bit more of the common person's view to offer a break from the upper class niceties.
- Shogun probably could have gotten the job done in fewer episodes (there's only so long I can listen to soft conversations in dark rooms about alliances/political manuevering) but I've mostly liked it. Anna Sawai MVP.
- I think it was Matt Zoller Seitz who pointed out that the Paramount Decrees officially ended with the Disney/Tarantino scuffle. When they could demand screens, showtimes, and the length of the theatrical run without impunity, it was over.
- AI sucks shit, and the AI posters for Civil War was such an unforced error. It's the number one movie in America! The conversation about it has been percolating for a month! You've achieved market saturation!
Everyone in the show is excepetional, but Anna Sawai especially is so fuckin' good. I had only seen her in the Monarch show on Apple and thought she was fine considering the quality of that show lol, but she's so goddamn good in this.
And personally, I've loved every minute of the show, and have very much appreciated many of the changes that have been made from the source material, most importantly Blackthorne offering to be Mariko's second. I don't swoon very often, and I'm like, 80-90% straight, but I'd have let that grubby Englishman have his way with me as a reward for that level of personal growth and respect.
I'm sure in hindsight and on second or third watches I'll find myself less blinded by my love for the specific history and the fact that Shogun was one of the first "grown up" books I read in my teens, but as it stands right now, it may well be in my top five favourite collections of moving pictures of any kind.