That’s interesting that book focused on that. I imagine it was cut from this show for more pragmatic reasons, i.e. having limited space to explain foreign cultural concepts in a limited series. But you’re right that the Japanese probably wouldn’t love it. And the series already touches very lightly on the invasion of…

You know, like sane people do.

Disney has to be especially careful about antisemitism.

Yeah. Muskrat pays his bills.

Heck, people keep taking Trump’s cases, and he is notorious for stiffing everybody on payments.

Can’t wait to hear Ryan Gosling belting out “I’m Just Thimble”.

Maybe Gina Carano is a dumbass white supremacist who should be ostracized by polite society?

It’s true - I read the Constitution and there’s no mention of Gina Carano anywhere in it!

saying she was merely “asking questions”

Musk is signing those checks, so cashing them for a neverending session of easy to litigate losses makes sense to me.

The idea that anyone would take her case at all is mystifying. Everything I’ve read about the Mandalorian production said she wouldn’t stop spouting her shitty takes even on the job, and everyone was sick of her hateful nonsense. Carano willing turned herself into a poison pill and now cries that no one wants her…

Pipe down, Igor.

Wait a minute... THIS is the Bad Place!

The plot should be that Monopoly has Jumanji’d us all without knowing and it’s why we’re in a capitalist dystopia where the New York Times is publishing op-eds about how it should be legal to sell your kidney.

Not to mention the fact that Monopoly was invented to warn people about the evils of Capitalism.

Absolutely unacceptable lack of Fuji-sama in this episode.

I find it interesting that they seem to have decided to drop all mention of the “Eta” or Untouchable caste of the time, although it came up multiple times in the book and original show, most notably when Blackthorne attempts to reunite with his shipmates. In the book and original show, aside from them being filthy drun…

Ya, the recapper has this wrong. The seppuku was not meant to get his underlings to keep fighting. It was to really, REALLY convince even his own people that he was serious about surrendering and getting their pledge to do so as well. He needs this to convince Ishido and Ochiba as that signed pledge was what was…

Ochiba also says at the start before Ishido proposes marriage that she won’t celebrate or buy that Toranaga isn’t up to something until Toranaga is actually there with his forehead touching the floor in submission. The Hiromatsu thing convinced her

To understand why the show was canceled, it’s interesting to take a look at the ratings.