When it comes to action scenes I can be pretty forgiving as long as it least looks cool but this was garbage. I got to about episode 3 and I saw the ambush scene and for fuck's sake I rolled my eyes so hard. The silly amount of fire arrows was one thing which by the way are physically impossible to happen I don't know why Hollywood etc. insist on using them in every situation.
Then the greatest sin came along where they turned Mariko into a fucking girl boss and she started impossibly dancing around with a Naginata in a kimono for fuck's sake. Do you know how impractical those Kimonos are? It's about the same as wearing a full on dress and the feminists declare "She can do anything a man can do bigots!" no, just fucking no.
I thought I'd watch it because I've got a cold but that just pissed me off. If you want a watch something decent watch the original Shogun series. It's old, but even with the age it's still a hell of a lot more believable than this utter crap. One of the reasons this girl boss shit gets so jarring by the way is you often see the sacred women cutting down or beating up guys much bigger than them then the next fight scenes they inevitably have the men facing off against each other in a much more realistic way.
I hate normies, I hate them.
You know, they could have put some gays in- Blackthorne was offered boytoys by Toranaga if he wasn't satisfied being offered a woman.
You think I'm some Godless heathen!?!?
"Gods, where am I?"
His verbatim reaction to that offer.
That was in the original series as well, the original Shogun series in my view did a much better job of showing how fucked up Samurai culture really was. Which is why anybody who actually studies history is totally right to finger wag people who glorify that shit.
I mean we all love Rome, I find it fascinating, but at the end of the day they were still extremely fucked up and did all kinds of shit even to their own citizens and soldiers to maintain order that would make ISIS do a double take. In the original series the narrator details how Torunaga buried his main rival alive and invited members of the public to saw at his neck with a bamboo saw if I remember correctly. Obviously not necessarily 'historically accurate' because it's based off a novel but it wouldn't be impossible to find just as fucked up examples of public executions and orders given by the samurai.
The fucked up caste system they follow like with a lot of countries still somewhat survives today which is why asians are so damn rigid and collectivist. Obviously they've modernised a lot, but this is why I try to slap the weaboo out of people on this one because I know it can be easy to get into the grass is greener mentality with the west so you need to study other cultures properly.