Shogun 1x10 Full Length
Added 2024-05-24 22:14:48 +0000 UTC
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Every other scene where the falcon is present, Toranaga is either with Mariko directly, or else he's talking about Mariko. And some falcons can only be tamed by being kept under a hood like that. Or else they go mad and dash themselves to death at their cages. The reason for the stylized Whoville poof up top is to allow you enough room above their beak kill-zone to grab the hood, or put it on. If you didn't have it, you would very easily lose a pound of flesh every time you tried to put the falcon away after hunting.
Adam Pacio
2024-05-24 23:36:55 +0000 UTCOld Jon was not a flash forward. It was the title of the episode - Blackthorne's Dream within a Dream. His final dream, a vision of dying an old man, warm in his bed, surrounded by the trophies of a life well lived, in the presence of his living legacy -- his grandchildren. Back in London. It was not to be. And when he said 'fuck it' right before he tried to commit seppuku for the village safety, what he was looking off screen at was that Dream. And at that point, he gave up on it. Forever. And he never left Japan.
Adam Pacio
2024-05-24 23:33:37 +0000 UTCWhen a Samurai surrenders their sword for an ally, they only give up the katana. They keep the wakizashi (short stabbing/seppuku sword). When they are in a cold war or enemy situation, they surrender both.
Adam Pacio
2024-05-24 23:10:20 +0000 UTCRemember in Episode 1 when we first see Toranaga, he talks about how the falcon, 'she' is efficient, biding her time, saving her strength, hiding against the Sun, until it is time to strike. Every reactor grabs that speech and says, "That has to mean something." And it does. It's him telling us about Mariko and how he's going to Fly her at his enemies in the show. When Mariko is gone, he sets his falcon free and tells her to bear many daughters. Because Mariko would have been wasted in this lifetime as a male.
Adam Pacio
2024-05-24 22:48:47 +0000 UTCYou're thinking of tying him to the keel. To be keel-hauled is to have a rope attached to you, and you are dropped into the sea in front of the ship, and they haul the rope from the stern, so you are dragged underneath the keel of the ship, and your corpse is pulled out at the stern. No one survives keel-hauling. And it's a horribly painful drowning death.
Adam Pacio
2024-05-24 22:40:03 +0000 UTC
