Shogun 1 x 9-10 | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-09-23 07:34:19 +0000 UTC
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The silent stare off at the end of Mariko's ending was so valid. I like her line at the end: I am no peasant to be trodden on. I am daughter of the great Lord Akechi Jinsai. My line has been samurai for a thousand years, and I will never be captive, or hostage, or confined. RIP Mariko 🌸
Nicole
2025-09-25 02:32:55 +0000 UTCGood point. He failed to realize just how committed Mariko was
Franklin
2025-09-24 04:55:45 +0000 UTCWhich was a smart move. Actually literally his only move in that scenario. Crimson Sky was such a dope move
Franklin
2025-09-24 04:54:05 +0000 UTCvery heart-wrenching
Franklin
2025-09-24 04:52:13 +0000 UTCDamn, man, I couldn’t stop fucking crying this whole time! Good lord. Much worse than when I watched it before. My heart is open from a weekend of music and community, I guess!! God I love this show. Thank you for going on this journey with us. I see that they are in preproduction for season 2 although I don’t think there is source material for anything further, I really hope they keep the quality up.
Cristabel
2025-09-24 00:15:05 +0000 UTCDid the ending leave anyone else wanting something more? I don't even know what that is, but I didn't feel closure. I'll have to ruminate on it.
Melissa
2025-09-23 19:27:53 +0000 UTCYou had it right, btw, that the shinobi are there to capture Mariko. Ishido can't let her leave, and he can't let her die (like you said, rock and a hard place). His only move is to capture her, disarm her, and basically lock her in a padded room until Toronaga's dealt with.
Chris
2025-09-23 19:15:27 +0000 UTCPerfectly imperfect ending. It was meant to stand alone, and when they decided to continue the series I admit to feeling a bit let-down.
Susan B
2025-09-23 18:40:49 +0000 UTCso well done
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:37:19 +0000 UTCah😭
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:37:01 +0000 UTCdamn so good
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:36:37 +0000 UTCso real
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:36:22 +0000 UTCI just pray they don't pull a Game of Thrones
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:36:09 +0000 UTCI hope they don’t pull a Season 8 Game of Thrones debacle. The book ends where this season ends, and it was originally planned to be one season only.
Susan B
2025-09-23 17:27:26 +0000 UTCbig no
Franklin
2025-09-23 17:27:03 +0000 UTCI think having “bandits” come from outside the castle to kidnap Mariko would give Ishido plausible deniability.
Susan B
2025-09-23 17:26:24 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/6QAZaj_0DYI?si=-tJ6jOdlnM3lN0CS This Actors on Actors Interview made me cry because Tom is such a caring and considerate individual when it came to his questions for Anna and the responses. And they also make such rather profound connections between Loki S2 and Shogun during their disucssion, so check it out for a good time!
Lailah Johnson
2025-09-23 17:19:30 +0000 UTCHas any man in Mariko’s life valued HER wishes the way Blackthorn does?
Susan B
2025-09-23 17:16:00 +0000 UTCThe book ends where this ends. They only decided to do additional seasons because the show was so popular, and I am hoping that what comes next doesn’t dishonor what was achieved here. Some things should end with ambiguity and leads what’s next to our imaginations.
Susan B
2025-09-23 17:15:01 +0000 UTC*Mild pre-watch spoiler warning* Yea, I was in NO RUSH to get to these episodes lmaooo. The first time I watched episode 9, I took a big break before episode 10. I felt SICK. But then episode 10 in it's heart-breaking beauty was able to honor the strength and power of Mariko. Instead of an army, he sent a single woman. She was the Crimson Sky. How beloved, admired, respected, HONORED, do you have to be, to be the daughter of a treacherous king slayer and still bring an entire nation to its knees with your death... Mariko is at the tippy top of my list of realest women I've ever seen on screen. Anna won all of the awards for this and she should. I actually cried when she won. I'm gonna link a video i want you to watch Frank, brb!
Lailah Johnson
2025-09-23 17:08:19 +0000 UTCI love the call-back to episode one: “Why tell the future to a dead man?” Omi was a spy all along.
Susan B
2025-09-23 15:52:23 +0000 UTCLet your hands be the last to hold her. This makes me ugly-cry.
Susan B
2025-09-23 15:49:53 +0000 UTCThe scene of Blackthorn as an old man is a dream. He thinks of that image in the moment when he decides to end his life as a protest in favor of the village. Watch that scene again and you’ll see him make a choice: that life as an old man back in England, clutching Mariko’s cross, or ending his life here for a purpose. He mutters, “Fuck it,” and chooses death.
Susan B
2025-09-23 15:48:55 +0000 UTCKleenex box at my side. Coffee. Am I ready for this? 😳
Susan B
2025-09-23 15:45:03 +0000 UTCSeason 2????!!! I didn't know there would be a 2nd season. I just looked it up. Three seasons planned. Google search says probably not getting season 2 until 2028.
Melissa
2025-09-23 12:22:12 +0000 UTC1:07:23 Just before you paused, I was thinking how intentional and beautiful it is the way the characters take the time to look at one another -- how slowly she raises her head to make eye contact. It moves me deeply. These small details, like you referenced that the podcast discusses, genuinely show how love behaves and reveals itself. Stunning and evocative. I appreciate so much more now that I'm watching this again. Thank you for that.
Melissa
2025-09-23 10:34:37 +0000 UTCHow can this be the end? There is so much more was it canceled? The flow is disturbing without the elder Blackthorne holding the cross and his grandchildren, asking about the swords and how they got a neck in them and was the cross given to him by a heathens? It’s broken. Are we waiting on a continuation? Did they lose funding? The depth and the beauty of this entire entirety is unfinished. It was so heartbreakingly, beautiful and so insightfully showing the division of the sectarianism of Christianity and the unhealthy continuation to this day of its use by empires to divide their people of humanity and peace. These continued Empires have proven themselves unworthy of our collective consciousness of humanity.
Laura Thate
2025-09-23 10:15:50 +0000 UTC
