SHOGUN Finale REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Welcome to BingetownTV's coverage of FX and HULU's newest hit series, Shogun! Today we are covering the SERIES finale- episode 10, A Dream of a Dream. We discuss the full reveal of Toranaga’s plan, JB’s completed character journey and much, much more. Cannot believe this amazing limited series already over. It was beyond an enjoyable ride and we will forever miss #ShogunTuesdays.
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the real-life counterpart of the Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, for his death poem wrote: "As the dew appears / As the dew disappears / Such is my life, that Naniwa / Is a dream within a dream." (Naniwa being the name of his castle)
in the book, the Taiko's death poem is pretty much the same. it's a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A dream within a dream", where the poet talks about how the hopelessness, loss and grief in life make it seems like a dream because in dreams, everything is beyond our control. there's theme of letting go, acceptance and making compromises in the poem. if JB's time in Japan felt like a dream to him then the "flashforward" is "a dream of a dream". the "flashforward" scene appeared 3 times: when jb woke up with a concussion from the explosion, when he woke up from a fever, and right before he was to commit seppuku. the first 2 times his mind was not clear, the scene can be read as his innermost subconscious wish. the last time when he finally accepted the wildest concept/ritual of the japanese culture (seppuku) that he had been rejecting through the entire show, the scene appeared again briefly because he was finally letting go of his hope of returning to england as he committed himself fully to ideology of a samurai.
Beautifully written comment that cleared a lot up for us. We figured the dreams were simply visions but your take makes way more sense. Leave it to Queen Mariko to be the only person in the world that could make JB reevaluate his view on life and death (and seppuku) in such a short period of time.
1:20:47 I think the best part of the line, “why tell a dead man the future?“, Is the look in Yabushige‘s eyes. that’s when he realized that Omi had fully revealed him to Tonaga, because that’s the same thing that Yabushige said to Omi in the first episode about Tonaga. That was a MOMENT.
I am so upset we didn't catch this parallel. We were already raving about this scene and with that extra parallel on top, it makes it even better. Easily a top 3 moment in all of Shogun.
Com back I will miss you. It is like loosing a good friend.
Although ending could of been better, GOT and the earlier seasons of Walking Dead is in my top 3s.
It was the taiko before the one that died on screen.
Ahhh thank you. Was there any explicit clarification on this or any context clues we missed? The conversation between Ishido and Yabu didn't let on that it was the previous Taiko from what we heard.
@@Bingetowntv I misspoke. I watched the scene again, and Yabushige said that the Taiko and Toranaga were going to war together, but the allies (meaning T+T) thought that the earthquake was a bad omen.