mrnolan91

We have to watch 9 hours of what would be an awesome movie. That's how they hook us. With endless monologues followed by some seconds of tension. Why is that a problem? I increasingly feel fooled. If you want me to follow your story then give me the whole story and not endless exposition. We get the plot, we are not stupid. This is not a book. Why are you making a literal moving picture out of every page? Don't you think its losing momentum when you break the interesting parts? Is that what entertainment is meant to be? A stretch of endless exposition that keeps us hooked to pay our subscription? I'm done.

Episode 7 and 8, unlike all the episodes before them, gave me absolutely nothing. No depth to the characters. No depth to the story. Visually unimpressive.

With episode 9, Shogun is not only back. It's taken to a new level that I didn't think was possible. This episode alone is visually so different that I don't understand what happened in episodes 7 and 8. It is colourful, the cinematography doesn't just give us "money shots" but is on a very high level. The acting is also superb, the colourgrading worldclass.

I wish Shogun was a bit shorter and delivered this level throughout. A level that brought tears to my eyes in this episode, simply because it was so good.