Shogun - Episode 2 - Servants of Two Masters - REACTION - First Time Watching 

Just a few corrections - In episode one, Blackthorne's ship came ashore in Ajiro which is a fishing village, not a separate island. And Todayoshi, Toranaga's vassal who spoke up out of turn defending Toranaga, said he would commit seppuku (ritual suicide) and end his family line. So both he and his infant son died. His wife, Fuji, was ordered to stay alive by Toranaga even though she would have preferred to join her husband.

Toranaga's tiny, tiny little smirk at "Unless I win" is fantastic. Edit : The kunoichi (female assassin) was absolutely great. Just quick, sudden and deadly.

Fuji's husband 100 percent committed seppuku. He ended his line, meaning his baby and himself. Fuji would have also been killed had toranaga not ordered her to live, for the sake of his best samurai and friend Hiromatsu. Fuji is his favorite granddaughter.

It gets surprisingly even better to the end.

21:12 "Who's the Queen in the 17th century?". At this time it was Elizabeth I

Y’all are in for a treat. Best show of 2024

Hope everyone went out and enjoyed a spectacular Aurora Borealis. Visible as far as the Caribean in the U.S. Will be visible Saturday as well. Blackthorn TECHNICALLY isn't a pirate. He's a privateer. Which is basically a captain given permission by their government to be... a pirate.

The queen is Elizabeth I. This story is based on a real person and events in1600

This is what happened with the blackthorn ishido thing. Ishido is convinced by yabushigi to keep blackthorn alive as a tool to use against the Christian lords in the future. He however doesn't want to directly anger the Christians and disrupt his current alliance with them so he can't have any appearance of involvement with blackthorn. This is why he has yabushigi hand blackthorn to toranaga instead. Blackthorn was lead out of the city to be crucified. I'm not to sure on the specifics of who gets crucified vs beheaded but i think it's because he is a heretic.