Your videos are so excellent and 12 likes is criminally low! I hope your subscribers skyrocket. To continue my tradition of leaving my own review under each video - Blue Lotus is indeed magnificent. Not one of my first but definitely one I often returned to as a child. I used to love the long journeys and military antics, and the Blue Lotus itself with its hidden passage that culminates in a safe. Some wonderful characters too, from the sadistic Mitsuhirato (who tries to make a teenager kill his own parents!) to Chang to Wang to Rastapops. I love the friendship between Tintin and Chang, and you provide a fantastic backstory here - a testament to Hergé's ability to grow as a creator and as a person. Well summarized too about the accurate reflection of Japanese politics at the time (I'm no historian but read about this in the Farr book) and, of course, the unfortunate racism in Mitsuhirato's portrayal that tempers the more sensitive portrayal of Chinese people.
