What was that at the beginning of the episode? The killer went after FL again because she got away the first time? Or something inadvertently changed in the past again? And how many times FL will try to change the past? At some point she just gotta stop messing with it and deal with what she's got, her friend even told her the reason why in the previous episode. It was telling how ML didn't even die yet at the hospital and she ran for the watch already to fix the past again.
She didn't, they just didn't cast her for season 2 for whatever reason. But I'm still seeing a motorcycle riding female member of the group, so clearly there will still be a similar role in season 2.
The onmyoji mage wanted to sow strife (?) in Korea and literally staked the country in the middle (sic!). Ok then,…
Flaming sword and watered wood is just some feng shui rock paper scissors bs. The spirit was created by fusing an item, namely a sword, with a soul. None of that answers any of my questions though.
The spirit clearly remembered being at Sekigahara - I'd say that something that came from the soul, not of inanimate objects. They've mentioned something about soul needing a body to be whole, which happens when you're alive. On it's own the soul still remembers stuff, like that sellout grandpa visiting his descendants. But then they also used an old samurai armor of those old times and a katana of unknown origin. So alternatively, if the memories came from inanimate objects then it was more likely that old armor, than a katana which looked brand new. Then they could have put some random fresh body into said armor and cut off his head. But it's rather unconvincing, because then what of that random body's soul, where would it be?
It's not bad, but not as interesting as, for example, Revenant.I also didn't get some things - under spoilers:
The onmyoji mage wanted to sow strife (?) in Korea and literally staked the country in the middle (sic!). Ok then, this I understood. But how did he take a body of a soldier from the Sekigahara battle times (1600) and it was still flesh, not a skeleton or ash in 1940s? It was shown there was a decently fresh corpse in the armor when they cut off his head and inserted a sword in it. There were soldiers in the background wearing 1940s uniforms.
And also, why would that same onmyoji mage tell that family to bury his grandpa above the cursed coffin? What was the point? He wanted to curse that family? But wasn't the grandpa a sellout and in cohoots with Japanese?
And lastly, what was the point of that snake with a human head? Just to show a yokai? That there's an Oni yokai underneath? Or that that whole place's crawling with yokai? Kitsune foxes are also considered yokai.
FL tries to reach the ideal "Steins Gate" timeline here, but no luck yet, lol. But unlike Steins; Gate she only has one chance left (?) I hope this drama won't end with her going far back all the way and make it so they never meet or smth like that so that ML may live, sort of like in The Butterfly Effect movie. ML is very cute here and has to live, but it's not gonna make a good ending. But then again, if it does get a happy ending with marriage and stuff ML's gonna be off the market. Literally, cuz he's a product. He will have to find a new career again, because fans are brutal.
P.S. The killer plot kills the vibe here though, I hate it.
So what do you guys think about the killer plot? I think it doesn’t belong here. Would have been better if ML really did commit sudoku and FL was the one to help prevent that. The healing drama, you know? Certainly a more relevant topic nowadays.
But where it’s going it looks like there’s just some rando serial taxi driver who’s fixated on FL and is out for revenge in the future. Kinda cheapens the whole premise.
Also, what’s the point of those mega expensive apartments, btw, if security is trash?
How dumb FL is exactly? Going outside on the day of the accident, running on the well lit roads to be easily found by a killer driving a car instead of running for the fields and forests? The ridiculous situations she constantly gets herself into throughout the episodes are just becoming too cringe. And she's not even her careless teenager self here, no excuses.
I, too, think that I will have to read the book now, as it was mentioned in some article that screenwriting left…
I don't think he would want to get a Catholic looking cross. But if he wanted to, he could have taken Mariko's as a keepsake instead of dumping it in the lake. The rest of what you've written I think adds even more fuel to the dream theory. He got a concussion and dreamt of home he left behind. But personally I think it was just a dream. The book didn't rewrite main character's fate from his irl counterpart, so I don't think there's a room to headcanon a different one for him here.
I, too, think that I will have to read the book now, as it was mentioned in some article that screenwriting left…
No, the protagonist here is based on the real historical person. In the book they just loosely follow historical events. In the book at the end it was said that it was the protagonist's fate to never leave Japan, so the book didn't change this. Go read about the real historical person on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)
I, too, think that I will have to read the book now, as it was mentioned in some article that screenwriting left…
Irl Anjin never left Japan. He later married a non-noble woman from a wealthy family, was given a house and ship building job. Ships that Tokugawa used in his war efforts. His kids were half-Japanese. So that scene of him being old in some Western looking room with clearly full European kids must be some dream. Also, the cross he was holding was Mariko's, but he dropped it into the lake.
Yea, that muted ending and furniture of a protagonist didn't do it for me. Never once was he shown to be actually needed by Toranaga and he wasn't even funny to be his pet clown, because they communicated too seldom here. And many important scenes about the protagonist were cut to make time for a parade of side characters. And too many times it seemed that Toranaga was just plain lucky and adapting, not megaminding everything ten steps ahead. Yea, he was a ruthless liar who surrounded himself by people he could easily manipulate, but he wasn't omniscient to predict all random things. Like, what happened to his son, or his brother betraying him, or what happened to Mariko. And speaking of Mariko, she was more of a protagonist in this show than ML or Toranaga combined. MVP, but disappointingly way too suicidal. My favorite character in this drama is not her though, but Yabushige - the most human and entertaining one to watch. He was squirming on the frying pan for the whole series trying to get the most profit, but failed expectedly :).
Anyway, it's still a good drama. Production quality, especially the costumes were great. Too bad they didn't show the epic battle of Sekigahara, but it wasn't in the book, so ok. I'd give it an 8. But old TV series in terms of the plot and characters were still better, imho.
She doesn't think it will last because she'll return to the future again and then it's gonna be her dumb teenager self who doesn't even know ML and pines for SML.
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And how many times FL will try to change the past? At some point she just gotta stop messing with it and deal with what she's got, her friend even told her the reason why in the previous episode. It was telling how ML didn't even die yet at the hospital and she ran for the watch already to fix the past again.
But I'm still seeing a motorcycle riding female member of the group, so clearly there will still be a similar role in season 2.
The spirit was created by fusing an item, namely a sword, with a soul.
None of that answers any of my questions though.
The spirit clearly remembered being at Sekigahara - I'd say that something that came from the soul, not of inanimate objects. They've mentioned something about soul needing a body to be whole, which happens when you're alive. On it's own the soul still remembers stuff, like that sellout grandpa visiting his descendants.
But then they also used an old samurai armor of those old times and a katana of unknown origin. So alternatively, if the memories came from inanimate objects then it was more likely that old armor, than a katana which looked brand new. Then they could have put some random fresh body into said armor and cut off his head. But it's rather unconvincing, because then what of that random body's soul, where would it be?
But how did he take a body of a soldier from the Sekigahara battle times (1600) and it was still flesh, not a skeleton or ash in 1940s? It was shown there was a decently fresh corpse in the armor when they cut off his head and inserted a sword in it. There were soldiers in the background wearing 1940s uniforms.
And also, why would that same onmyoji mage tell that family to bury his grandpa above the cursed coffin? What was the point? He wanted to curse that family? But wasn't the grandpa a sellout and in cohoots with Japanese?
And lastly, what was the point of that snake with a human head? Just to show a yokai? That there's an Oni yokai underneath? Or that that whole place's crawling with yokai? Kitsune foxes are also considered yokai.
I also didn't get some things - under spoilers:
I hope this drama won't end with her going far back all the way and make it so they never meet or smth like that so that ML may live, sort of like in The Butterfly Effect movie. ML is very cute here and has to live, but it's not gonna make a good ending. But then again, if it does get a happy ending with marriage and stuff ML's gonna be off the market. Literally, cuz he's a product. He will have to find a new career again, because fans are brutal.
P.S. The killer plot kills the vibe here though, I hate it.
But where it’s going it looks like there’s just some rando serial taxi driver who’s fixated on FL and is out for revenge in the future. Kinda cheapens the whole premise.
Also, what’s the point of those mega expensive apartments, btw, if security is trash?
The rest of what you've written I think adds even more fuel to the dream theory. He got a concussion and dreamt of home he left behind.
But personally I think it was just a dream. The book didn't rewrite main character's fate from his irl counterpart, so I don't think there's a room to headcanon a different one for him here.
Go read about the real historical person on wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)
So that scene of him being old in some Western looking room with clearly full European kids must be some dream. Also, the cross he was holding was Mariko's, but he dropped it into the lake.
And too many times it seemed that Toranaga was just plain lucky and adapting, not megaminding everything ten steps ahead. Yea, he was a ruthless liar who surrounded himself by people he could easily manipulate, but he wasn't omniscient to predict all random things. Like, what happened to his son, or his brother betraying him, or what happened to Mariko.
And speaking of Mariko, she was more of a protagonist in this show than ML or Toranaga combined. MVP, but disappointingly way too suicidal.
My favorite character in this drama is not her though, but Yabushige - the most human and entertaining one to watch. He was squirming on the frying pan for the whole series trying to get the most profit, but failed expectedly :).
Anyway, it's still a good drama. Production quality, especially the costumes were great. Too bad they didn't show the epic battle of Sekigahara, but it wasn't in the book, so ok. I'd give it an 8. But old TV series in terms of the plot and characters were still better, imho.