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gsoda3

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  1. is there another thread with just details and none of the commentary? how many were arrested? and for what? how many participants were there?
  2. just read this vanity fair article on cosmo jarvis and it makes sense now.
  3. i'm waiting for the sharpe/hornblower/dirk struan crossover personally.
  4. the details are fuzzy to me but as i remember it omi does divorce his wife who is then give to anjin as a wife and kiku is given by toranaga to anjin as a consort. did that actually happen?
  5. i think it speaks more to how rushed of an ending the book was. i didn't like the book ending. another difference between the book and this show is yabu's character. i remember him being more sinister in the book but the way he was played here makes him a lovable goofball with an unfortunate bent toward self preservation in a culture that expects loyalty to the point of death. i think i like this portrayal more- he's almost a touchstone to modern sensibilities.
  6. yes, toranaga says he'll never let blackthorne leave. he'll keep destroying his ships.
  7. but he doesn't and we know that dream sequence is just a hallucination b/c he sends mariko's rosary to the bottom of the lake with fuji.
  8. not related. akechi mariko, tonomoto akinao.
  9. Good thoughts. In the book I believe the trade Mariko makes with the church is anjin's life in exchange for her knowledge of toranaga's plans, which includes burning the boat which is why she leaves him money in her will from her estates to rebuild.
  10. that's about how we've been playing the past 2 months. lockdown defense and ok enough offense. at times ugly offense, at time high octane v12 but mostly ok.
  11. there's a scene in the book and in the 80s tv show where toranaga gets anjin to dance and sing a sea shanty for him during dinner. it's an absurd scene but that's what came to mind when toranaga said he makes me laugh. he's his trained monkey.
  12. getting the band back together are we
  13. luka gets fouled twice. and there's a whistle but it's a T on luka.
  14. that can't be a foul if paul george taking out hardaway isn't a foul
  15. that was the point. it's supposed to be a reveal, a heel turn for toranaga. he's a narcissist who sacrificed his son, hiromatsu, and mariko, amongst all those villagers and samurai just so he could become shogun. he was the bad guy all along, just as bad as, if not worse than, ishido. no it's done. it's part of an epic saga but clavell's other books are set a couple hundred years later.
  16. i think luka's off because he's working so hard on defense. his legs are gone. ugh PJW is killing us on offense.
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