#and ochiba being like ''i am doing this in memory of my ex girlfriend but the second your back is turned LASERS'' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

stellerssong · 8 months ago

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update: they did not let lady ochiba be a horrid evil murderess cunt.

like 99% of the time i WILL be like "actually as a woc participating in fandom the LET WOMEN BE HORRID EVIL MURDERESS CUNTS conversation does nothing for me, because in general that conversation revolves around taking female characters of color who have been portrayed as nothing but good-to-heroic in canon and applying totally revisionist readings to their characterizations that play on stereotypical views of women of color as sexual aggressors/morally suspect/uniquely untrustworthy and uphold fandom's priors regarding the victimization and overwhelming narrative value of white men" because that is almost without exception the behavior i see in fandom

the other 1% of the time fumi nikaido is being so so compellingly evil on my teavee screen so never mind all that i guess. let lady ochiba be a horrid evil murderess cunt.

#chatter #dear reader i had been feeding myself such potent and convincing lies throughout my viewing of this television programme #that by episode ten i was genuinely astonished and more than a little disappointed to discover that shogun fx is a show about men.#congratsyouplayedyourself.jpg #like on the one hand yes. the power of toxic yuri can do anything including win your team a whole additional army #in the (fictionalized) battle of sekigahara and obtain for your team captain the shadow backing of the heir by way of his very evil mother #but like. i would've appreciated a nod to ''well we definitely cannot trust her going forward. but for now i will accept her aid because #ummm. otherwise we are all gonna die. and we'll deal with that fallout in another book''#and ochiba being like ''i am doing this in memory of my ex girlfriend but the second your back is turned LASERS''#but like. i guess they had to make sure toranaga's villain monologue had enough screen time. so ok #i think the real takeaway of this show is that shows should have the correct number of episodes to convey their narrative's #emotional depth of field. and sometimes that number is not 8–10. and we should try to be okay with that #because TRULY. WHEN I THINK OF THE B-PLOTS THAT OCHIBA COULD HAVE HAD.......#WHEN I THINK OF WHAT A FAN FAVORITE LADY KIRI COULD HAVE BECOME GIVEN SCREENTIME......#anyway [through gritted teeth] i enjoyed fx shogun a show about women very much

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