I don’t find it gratuitous, it’s actually rather refreshing to see a show not shy away from the combat of war at all. People did take heads from the corpses of their fallen enemies and cannon combat is not supposed to be pretty. The violence on the show is always done purposefully, not gleefully. This isn’t some anime…

Narrators Note: He did not in fact F it up, dude.

So: I’m loving the show, but never read the book or watched the old miniseries. I appreciate the care the writers have put into most of the female characters, but Mariko feels like an unsalvageable mess given that she’s the one who has to fall for Blackthorne.

not at all to be the resident Annoying Book Person, but all of this stuff is right there in the original text. for whatever limitations of POV Clavell may have had as a white Englishman of the mid-20th century, his work had an incredible level of compassion and empathy for the women in such a hierarchical,…

That’s not considered watching something, that’s just PG-rated cliff’s notes.

What a beautifully produced show with a compelling story.

It definitely is, later in the interview she mentioned that she only did the scene to impress some random message board commenter, I guess that was you. Shame...SHAME!

I’m fully Team Michelle. She’s got a great underdog story

I got the sense that Gin was proposing to build a spy system among her courtesans, much like what warlords would do to gain intelligence from their enemies. Because warriors will talk to courtesans while they have been “relieved,” to avoid a more crass term. There is value in building a guild like that, whether he’s…

Not to be that guy, but it’s really been irking me to see how common it’s become to use “reign in” when you mean “rein in.” Rein in means pull on the reins to slow the horse down, reign in means... I don’t know, put a king in it?

I respect Nolan’s desire to see his project to the end, but there is so much else he could be doing. Honestly, I’d prefer to see Nolan work on a revival of Person of Interest. Evil is ending soon, so Emmerson will be free to at least tee off a sequel.

Yeah normally I’d either not care at all, or prefer to see it made in full, but for Westworld in particular, I’d actually be completely fine with, like, a 2,000-word summary of whatever season 5 would have been.

Felt fine with one season

No, thank you.

The last season ended in a way that works as a finale at least. They could continue for one more, but it’s not a terrible place to end it.

It felt more ending than cliffhanger to be honest, Hosts live forever in AI heaven when humanity dies off

I’d be perfectly okay with Nolan & Joy just telling us what the ending they had in mind was, so everyone (the audience, the cast, the crew) can move on to work and watch other things.

Saeki was pretty great. Having a character show up and, in his first episode, tell a story about someone pooping on a horse is a great way to endear a character to me.

Maybe people don’t know much about Geishas anymore since it’s kind of been fading away since WWII, but that’s what Gin was talking about. She is proposing what would become the modern Geisha system, where it is more about the ceremonialism, and less about “pillowing”. In the modern day, some Geishas still offer…

Damn, Mariko’s husband is one rage filled cuck.