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To be fair I liked this show but I also felt the color was disgusting. I know that showing Japan with colorful pink cherry trees and completely orange sunsets is not realistic but damn, it felt very disgusting after playing Ghost of Tsushima, which was shot 100 time better, but also is clearly artistic oriented and this show is supposed to be more realistic. Although I can't forgive the blue hue we see in every cheap CGI, so I 100% understand your reaction. Same for the music. The Mongol throat singin was very distracting for a "realistic" Japanese show, especially when you know how many beautiful instruments and traditional music Japan has. If it wasn't for the great story, great acting and perfect costume direction I would not have watched it
I hated The Last Samurai, which is indeed a White Savior story, but I don't think that is true of Shogun. Blackthorne is more of a witness to Japanese history, than an active agent, driving events. Also, the novel has some foundation in history, Blackthorne being based on real-life Englishman William Adams. Whereas, the character played by Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai was completely fictional.
I WISHHHH😭😭😭…Season 2..? Can I be her long lost sister which got adopted by some settlers but am trying to find my way back home? Can I be glued next to Toranaga-sama…?😁😁
The way you talk about not having white saviours is a bit of a joke. Can tell you are Americans with no clue of history. Japan colonised the whole of Asia, but no mention of that as they aren't white? C'mon
Within the first minute she talks about how great it is the production crew paid attention to all the intricate details of Feudal Japan and in the exact same breath says "I hope we see female Samurais" for women empowerment reasons lmao.
Onna-bugeisha were a thing!! There were female firefighters too! We never hear about it much but there’s so much potential here for that side of history to be seen🤗🤗
Sorry, but the guy seems like a man child. The show is well crafted and he has literally no idea what he's talking about. Like others have said in the comments, he comes off as annoying and adds nothing worth listening to.
I just found your channel and my favorite series. I like you two. You seem so nice together. You Vivian, were so enthusiastic about the series, but Kaji focused more on irrelevant technical things than on the events themselves and what the people were talking about. No wonder you sometimes had to explain things to him. On the other hand, it was also interesting to hear his comments about lighting, color, etc. It's just a shame that those comments took up a lot of time from the otherwise short edited episode. I can't afford to be a patron, so please, slightly longer videos in the future. 😊
@@Sahhkusa that was precious to watch :) don't worry. you aren't the only ones with this question/confusion. it is a bit annoy how long it last on screen some times rather than just quickly skipping over it.
Bathing, more of a class issue than a cultural one. In a world with no indoor plumbing or running hot water, it takes a lot of work to put a bath together. Or laundry, or a lot of other things we take for granted because of modern plumbing like sewage removal. Those Japanese peasants aren't bathing much more than Backthorne for similar reasons. He's a poor sailor not an upperclass royal or aristocrat like Mariko. The English bathed but if you didn't have servants people tended to wash basins and wiping with cloths. Another thing that created the non-bathing perception besides Victorian historians warped perceptions carried over to the present was disease causes were not understood. In the 1600s, they understood the correlation of crowding and disease but not the causes for things like Dysentery, cholera, and similar diseases. They assumed bad airs (malaria) created by heat and steam were deemed harmful because they didn't understand contaminated shared water sources were the problem. The Thames was virtually an open sewer by the time its course passed through London in Blackthorne's era.
Exactly!!! We love a fellow history buff!!! As Mulan’s Mushu put it, “I personally like the corn chip smell”! All jokes aside, V always got queasy thinking about the European nobles who wouldn’t bathe for fear of diseases while carting around wigs shaped with lard and animal oils that would just sit there…. And the purses full of posies… and yes the open sewage… thank goodness for plumbing and water treatment plants 🫡😤🥴🥴🥴
@@Sahhkusa I love the show, both this and the 80s one, as well as the novel but they can be misleading about both Japanese and English culture of the era. The focus on all the ways to get killed in Japan easily creates a misconception that there weren't just as many ways to find yourself facing the death penalty in Tudor England or elsewhere in Europe. A lot of folks are shocked by Yabushige's boiling that sailor but boiling was the punishment for murdering people by poison in Tudor England. Let's not imagine women had it a lot better in Tudor England than Mariko had it with Buntaro. I am sure Buntaro would have loved the practice of a Scold's bridle and Leash for dealing with her clever rejoinders.
Hi ! great reactions you two ! The Hairstyles for most of the samurai , shaving their heads is for practicality originally... the helmets were hot.. and uncomfortable.. they wore them ALOT since the period was a violent era of warring states.. it eventually became a status symbol of their warrior cast. I honestly thought the same tho .. thinking some clever old balding man made them all believe it was cool to go bald. the machinations and events and pacing of this show are awesome. i hope you continue your journey ! subbed !
Thank you sooo much for the love!!!!! Totally makes sense with the helmets, though even with medieval times it seemed crazy to trap your head in anything metal… Wonder what they lined it with, if anything? Or is that why the backwards hair nub was on the middle?? To cushion? lol! We’re absolutely loving this show. Please be patient as V is now editing the videos and…It’s a learning curve… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sometimes I envy people with expert knowledge in fields were I am barely novice level. But it must be taxing to not be able to watch something without the background processes in your mind starting to analyse.
Yesssss! From a technical side AND from the actor side, but it goes the other way to where sometimes we get to appreciate it even more because we know just how much work and effort it takes to make things 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
That moment when you watch one of the most universally acclaimed new shows of the decade but can't stop pretending to be James frikin' Cameron long enough to enjoy it.
Within the first minute she talks about how great it is the production crew paid attention to all the intricate details of Feudal Japan and in the exact same breath says "I hope we see female Samurais" for women empowerment reasons lmao.
No white savior here only a fictional story based on factual historic characters names changed but still historic a great show,and I loved the older show as well,but then I am older and Cosmo and Chamberlain did it justice in their own ways,but their supporting and sharing cast are what have made both these shows great,brilliant Japanese cast in both of these productions is outstanding.
A lot of people in the comments whining about you criticizing the lighting etc. but I appreciated it, mostly because those were also my thoughts. I've now watched the first 6 episodes and right from the start I was distracted by the use of so much CGI. AND the blue contact lenses! They make him look weird and (what I remember from the books) they are completely unnecessary.
Feel real bad for Viv here, must be annoying af wanting to soak up and get lost in the story being told but constantly having some nerd next to her whining about trivial nonsense like it was the onky thing that matters in the universe.
@kaawofficial you need to chill. No one else I. The world is bother by that minor crap except you. For the love of god and the future of your reaction channel focus on story, writing and acting.
Come on people cut the man some slack we 've all had movies that were so visually distracting that they had to be rewatched just get the whole story. The only thing is we didn't have a camera on us when it happened.
