Blackthorne being well fed - in the book everyone in the crew was jealous of him because he was the only smart one about consuming his rations. Part of the reason he ended up being signaled out as spokesperson for Erasmus wasn’t just that he was outspoken but also didn’t look like death and still had all his faculties.…

If they are, he will have no possible way of knowing during this story.

He said he left before his daughter was born . So to me the pause was more him being unable to answer what they were like as he’d never even met one of them and hadn't seen the other in at least 2 years 

First quibble: The Amida Buddha Tong are not Catholic, they’re a Buddhist sect. The characters are simply assuming that the Catholics hired them.

I’m living for Vasco and Cosmo’s banter

The assassins are a fictional Amida Buddhist assassin sect, believers in Pure Land Buddhism. Amida Buddhism, important in Japanese Buddhist history posits an Edenic heaven beyond earthly life for its believers, rather than a more Zen nirvana. Thus, death in the course of doing the job is acceptable.

Only if one decides to pay EVEN MORE for the service since the Showtime part is premium.

You should watch the second half and see if you’re still bored. Then you can tell us on the next article.

...immigrants commit less crime than citizens.

Looks like somebody didn’t graduate with honors.

I have friends in management who still can’t find unskilled labor to hire, but when I suggest this...”CRIME CRIME CRIME.”

Do you mean this headline: Shōgun recap: The epic turns up the action in “Tomorrow Is Tomorrow”?

I read the first half of your comment and suddenly realized...

The U.S. needs workers to grow the economy and take care of our aging population. The answer is staring us right in the border. Just let these people in, and then put them to work and tax them. Oh noes, too many undocumented aliens in the U.S.??? Fuckin’ give them documents. This shit isn’t rocket science.

Thank goodness they didn’t call up Barry Nakazono to design it.

Is Ewan McGregor playing Paul F Tompkins? Or is Paul F Tompkins playing Ewan McGregor?

Allow me to once again bring up this thing I refuse to provide details of.

 Congratulations 

It will run for fourteen seasons and have 5 different plots.

Probably due to the lack of a genitalia motif.