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Gotta be Oldman's mom. Blackthorne has an unstated hatred of gardeners. You're right. Episode 6 was an immense disappointment. I had the highest respect for Shogun's first five episodes. Here's hoping that #6 was a hiccup. Lady Ochiba is an uninteresting, cliched character, and it says a lot about this episode that she was about the only thing I remembered about it. Even the brothel scene concluded with a dull thud. This felt like pure filler material, what the more discriminating of today would dismiss as mere content creation. Also, notice how Thunberg pretty much disappeared from media prominence after Biden was declared POTUS. Same for BLM, Antifa, and other useful tools for causing chaos and controversy. What a coincidence. The media wouldn't want to give the impression that climate change was still accelerating beyond control with a democrat in the White House. Thus, Thunberg at present may as well not exist. Next up: Aliens vs. Freddy Krueger. Don't go to sleep, you unsuspecting aliens. Freddy, be careful that your claws don't melt! Her career probably had a short shelf life to begin with. She's a very specific archetype, a sarcastic, cynical, boyish looking girl who works at a coffee shop in some bohemian neighborhood in a large metropolitan city, and is so average looking and apparently approachable that she's deemed a goddess to the nerds who hang out all day with their laptops wherever she works. Sort of a po' woman's Janeane Garofalo. She might've had an adult career playing supporting roles, like the frustrated angry friend of the main female lead in a lame romantic comedy. Her options would've been limited in any case. Sydney's Weeny. To him, a gay man, sure. Or The X-Men could be an allegory for any kid who was a disappointment to his parents and knew it. You could read lgbtq, race, gender, or whatever you want into anything, if you're so inclined. Since not one of the creative cabal of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont, or John Byrne were gay, it's far more likely The X-Men were stand-ins for anyone who felt marginalized for any reason. I wonder if Evans offered Ali MacGraw the same advice when she was making The Getaway. There's no justification for murdering non-combatant women and children in the name of rooting out terrorists. The supposed moral outrage about October 7th is that non-military civilians were killed, which is exactly what Israel is doing right now, and in much greater numbers. Israel tries to draw distinctions between purposeful killing of civilians and civilian collateral damage, but that's a flimsy, totally unbelievable excuse. Even worse, the US and Israel now spread the propaganda that all people in Gaza are legitimate targets because about 59% of the voting age residents there voted for Hamas. If that makes one a legitimate target, then nobody in the USA has any moral justification to be outraged by 9/11. If Israel wants to carry out their war this way, they ought to be doing it purely on their own dime. The USA is culpable for their actions. View all replies >