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signalburst · 3 days

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Shōgun writers on Blackthorne's journey, A Dream of a Dream's theme of letting go

Emily Yoshida (writer): "Blackthorne's fate is so interesting, and totally unexpected. People are going to see in it what they wanna see, because there's a lot of ways you can read it. It could be somehow worse than death, like a purgatory of some sort. And then there's a way in which you can read it as a life of devotion to something beyond him, which has been something that has been a struggle for him. How do you view Blackthorne's fate?"

Justin Marks (co-creator): "I think Blackthorne's journey in this episode to the place where it lands, in such a beautiful and powerful scene between Blackthorne and Toranaga - on that hill where he offers up his own life. That's the journey that I hope all of us are on, if we're trying to understand how we interact with cultures we don't know. We want to forge relationships with people that go on, but we don't necessarily speak the same cultural or spiritual - or literal - language.

Which is to say, Blackthorne has been a prisoner of his own ambition. Which one might call the disease of colonialism - or capitalism, too. This idea of a man who is so bound by his ambition and where he belongs in this world, and what is owed to him, that he is the worst prisoner of all. So is Yabushige. They're both like this. And Yabushige never comes to that awakening, and finds himself dying here.

But for Blackthorne, it revolves crucially on this idea of what we call the 'false dream'. We wanted to open this episode on what feels like the beginning of a flashback structure, where we jump forward into the future, and we meet Blackthorne as an old man, and we tell the story of an old man looking back. And looking back with regret on the life that he led.

Only to realise that that was not the dream of an old man looking back - it was the dream of a young man looking forward to one possible version of his life. A version of his life that he has to draw to an end by killing that path. What Blackthorne is trying to kill there isn't himself, it's the version of himself that he's always been.

When Toranaga knocks that knife out of his hand and looks down at him, he's looking at a man reborn now, to a completely different life.

What is powerful is the idea of a man finally, spiritually, letting go. And this is something that we talked about from the very beginning, Cosmo and I. This whole story for Blackthorne is really just a story of a man learning to let go."

Shōgun official podcast Episode 10: A Dream of a Dream

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femininemenon · 1 day

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SHŌGUN — 1x10: “A Dream of a Dream” (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #perioddramaedit #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shōgun #mariko x ochiba #ochiba x mariko #anna sawai #gifs #byzil #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #perioddramasource #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #shogun spoilers

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dailyflicks · 13 days

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ANNA SAWAI as TODA MARIKO SHŌGUN — 1x09: "Crimson Sky" (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #tvedit #shōgun #fx shogun #anna sawai #shogun 2024 #cosmo jarvis #*#by zil #2020s #adventure #drama #history #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #shogun spoilers #war

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maxanor · 7 days

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It was written by my friend.

SHŌGUN (2024) Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream

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dindjarism · 13 days

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TODA MARIKO and OCHIBA-NO-KATA SHŌGUN | 1.09 Crimson Sky

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lousolversons · 13 days

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Shōgun - 1x09 - Crimson Sky

#shogunedit #shogun #john blackthorne #toda mariko #mariko x blackthorne #blackthorne x mariko #shogun spoilers #tvedit #television #gif #I'M GOING TO BECOME THE JOKER #literally - 🥺

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colinfirth · 6 days

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SHOGUN — 1x01: "Anjin" | 1x10: "A Dream of a Dream

#shogun #shogunedit #tvedit #filmtvdaily #dailyflicks #cinemapix #cinematv #perioddramaedit #adaptationsdaily #t: shogun #cat: mgif #shogun spoilers

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cinematic-phosphenes · 6 days

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“So I sent a woman to do what an army never could.”

Shōgun (2024) | E10 | Dir. Frederick E.O. Toye

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ladynamie · 6 days

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SHŌGUN (2024) - Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream

#shōgun #hiroyuki sanada #lord yoshii toranaga #tadanobu asano #kashigi yabushige #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun tv show #shogun #shogun fx #yoshii toranaga #shogun spoilers #gif set #gifs

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fitemilk · 7 days

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yabushige: here is my death poem

yabushige’s death poem:

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lafiametta · 1 month

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Blackthorne really needs to stick to the things he does best, like piloting ships and saving Toranaga's life, as opposed to things he's terrible at, like food preparation and hosting dinner parties.

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femininemenon · 8 days

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TODA MARIKO and JOHN BLACKTHORNE SHŌGUN — 1x09: “Crimson Sky” (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #perioddramaedit #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shōgun #mariko x john #john x mariko #anna sawai #cosmo jarvis #gifs #byzil #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #perioddramasource #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #shogun spoilers

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fayedolan · 13 days

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I cannot get over how Buntaro performing a tea service, what would generally be considered as a thoughtful gift, to show Mariko that he loved or cared for her completely missed the mark vs. Blackthorne stepping up as Mariko’s second, ready to participate in her seppuku ritual after asking her to live for him, loving her so much that he’d defy his own logic, loving her enough to accept that if life and death are the same, both able to have meaning in the act of living and dying, and she wouldn’t live for him, then he would at least be a part of her death, his life would have meaning to her death and they would then always be connected - the way Buntaro’s act of service is a show while Blackthorne’s act of service is a sacrifice for him and her I ACHE 😭😭😭

#I CANNOT GET OVER IT 😭😭😭#ITS SO OVERWHELMING #shogun #shogun fx #toda mariko #john blackthorne #mariko x blackthorne #shogun spoilers #suicide mention #death mention

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maxanor · 13 days

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