I love how they’re oddly in harmony. Taylor Swift just wrote a shittier, whiter version of this and made seven million dollars, all of which she’ll be spending on mayonnaise.

I thought that was Billy Corgan singing but then I saw the hair.

Considering how much budget Amazon’s been willing to toss at LOTR and The Tick, as long as they keep WETA on for effects, this is a match made in heaven (and will probably end up eclipsing SYFY’s run if it goes through!). Bless up, y’all. I’m hungry for some Peaches, and 5 episodes worth ain’t gonna cut it.

Shows like this fit better on streaming anyways and Amazon is looking for more fan favorites to boost Prime Streaming - also it has a lot of money to spend on programing.

There’s also the continual insistence that any guests of Shogun World would be Western/white because. . . Asian people don’t travel or something? When in fact the reality is that Asian travelers have become a huge component of tourism and hospitality companies everywhere are working to accommodate them. (As a US-born…

If that doesn’t sound familiar, it becomes pretty clear once the traditional Japanese shamisen breaks into the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” as Mushashi and Akane reenact the same theft storyline that Hector and Maeve performed hundreds of times in Westworld. Maeve’s realization that she is, essentially,…

Both this and AV Club review seems to miss that the point of this episode wasn’t the plot and that it was generic on purpose. I mean they even lampshaded it with the whole copy/pasted from Maeve/Hector/Armistice storyline. This whole episode was a meta commentary on the storywritting, people’s expectations of familiar…

I get it when we take the example of relationship between white American to First Nation culture, or to some degree, African American. But like some said, it becoming murkier when both cultures are on the same footing in the world affairs (China, Japan, Korea, for example). Cultural misapropriation becoming the…

But in-universe cultural appropriation is the least terrible thing Delos has done. So who cares.

I reject the idea of cultural appropriation in general, but feel it is even more stupidly applied in this specific instance.

What about just abandoning the idea of cultural appropriation entirely? It’s a ridiculous idea and makes no sense in a connected global community. It only suppresses expression and feeds bogus rage culture on Twitter.

Come on now, Rob even links to the article that pre-labels Shogun World as racist before we even see enough to know if it is. There was no way this site wouldn’t label it as such.

Even beyond that, why is this CA? The article that was linked to in this piece was written before SW aired so he made a bunch of assumptions.

It really is a terrible angle. The stereotypes of Westworld are okay but those of Shogun World are bad because...reasons? Because they’re Japanese and not western? imo that’s an even more offensive take.

Seems like it’s equivalent to the near field communication you get in smartphones that lets you swipe & pay and transfer photos by pressing your Galaxy phones together... you know, basically another wireless system wide open for hacking which ... is exactly what Maeve did.

“It didn’t even address the cultural appropriation inherent in its existence” 

Felix corrects Sylvester not Lee.

Quit trying to make cultural appropriation happen. Good lord is this desperate.

It didn’t even address the cultural appropriation inherent in its existence as much as it barrels past it and tries to distract you with ninjas,

So I guess all the parks are just right next to each other and no one crossed over because they… just didn’t? That seems weird.