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Shōgun Recap: Baby Earthquakes
The series levels up as both a war story and a love story.
Centering that as the key to a relationship takes much more work than heart-shaped eyes catching love at first sight, and “The Eightfold Fence” puts in the storytelling effort to make their union count. Most of this episode takes place in quiet conversation, so revealing the large group of soldiers unpacking crates of guns and the ornate field office of Yabushige, Omi, and Nagakado is a nice reminder that we’re still in the middle of a sweeping historical epic. The cannons are key to Blackthorne’s status: As a naval man, he doesn’t know any infantry tactics, and since the Japanese soldiers have been training with guns for 50 years, his basic firearms knowledge is useless.
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