A JAWDROPPING Finale! // Blue Eye Samurai S1x8 REACTION!!
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- Sean, Dustin, Emil and Morgan React the 8th episode of NETFLIX's Sleeper HIT, Blue Eye Samurai!! Check Patreon.com/SeanTanktop to watch the UNCUT Full reaction to the LIVE ACTION AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER for only $8 RIGHT NOW!
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Can’t wait for mizu to get to London and be seen as Japanese for the first time in her life and then immediately experience a whole new kind of racism
IT"LL BE SOOOO FUN!
“Celestial” may be term that comes up 😬
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Never heard that one before.
Sigh, only irrational hate could turn a word like that into an insult, let alone a slur.
they wont see her as a demon or monster that should immediately be killed or stabbed at least.
@@kjj26k It's a really racist group of pure-blooded elitists from the anime One Piece.
4 white men trading in guns, opium, and flesh. Fowler is guns, Violet was opium, either Routely, or Skaffington will be flesh, and the other will be peddling the West's 4th export: Christianity. And I want him to be the love-your-neighbor type, not the hellfire-and-damnation type, because I want to see Mizu deal with the wrench in her revenge quest when one of these men doesn't turn out to be despicable.
OOO that’s a good prediction
I think Routely will be the preacher if that’s the case, cause if he has blue eyes then he’s the most likely to be her dad and that’d be a hell of an encounter to have her dad be a priest
@@JessieBalls in her dad's defense; anglicanism does allow priests to have children
lol japanese were crucifying people for being christians.
OOoooo yesss exactly this ! And kinda makes sense since someone handed her over to a maid to take care of baby Mizu...or am I wrong?
"That's your white half showing"
Why does Fowler get to drop these bangers?
What makes Fowler such a great villain in this show is his crimes and cruelties are everywhere; he is the most open about it and what he is amidst all the more "socially acceptable" examples of what makes him horrible.
- Fowler kills his own kids? Ringo's dad left him to die in the forest for being born disabled and Mizu's maid abandoned her when the money ran out.
- Fowler's a sexual sadist and pervert? Akemi's father was going to force her to marry an old lord, or force her to be his whore. As Madame Kaji put it, "If you killed every man I've met who couldn't come til someone bled, you'd wear your blade to a stump."
- Fowler's emotionally cruel? Lady Itoh served Akemi her own pet bird for dessert (after previous courses of rabbit liver in horse jizz and chilled fox brains with fetal pig blood).
- Fowler's willing to murder many people to achieve his goals? Fowler's co-conspirators were planning to kill the shogun and thousands more (Fowler even mocks the for being polite while plotting it) and Lady Itoh ordered her son to leave the lords to burn to death in the tunnels to save face.
- Fowler's openly racist? 99% of the people Mizu met insulted her for being mixed-race (Taigen tried to murder her for it when they were kids) and everyone who met Fowler had something negative to say about him being white.
Fowler's works so well because he knows, as a foreigner, he can't hide his actions behind pseudo-logical rationalizing, social etiquette, or his race.
Add to that Fowler has learned through traumatic experience that Might Makes Right and *that is IT.*
Anything else is a waste of breath better spent destroying obstacles, so only talk when you've already won and by then the only thing left to say is gloating.
I mean Fowler fathered a bunch of bastards and then killed them and their mothers. Yes, he is painted as evil partially because he is taking power, but his character is much more evil than any of the examples you've mentioned. The fact that he is trying to take power is the least of his issues - that's just imperialism, which can be levied equally against any of the "good guys" in power in this show.
'the micro and macro aggressions we are going to see next season' - yeah arriving in London just as the empire was really getting started is a bold move
The great fire had a kill count of 100,000
Mizu is truly a demon of revenge
She killed a birdy too
I'm sure she isn't done burning cities to the ground. Historically, the fire of London happened 9 years later...They will adjust it's timeline, but I am sure she will burn that city to the ground by the end of season 2.
13:51. “These guys have never seen a gun”. This is actually one of the historical liberties taken by this show. In reality, firearms were already well known to Japanese armed forces as far back as the 13th century, when the first primitive hand cannons (teppo) were brought to Japan from China by the Mongols (who had established the Yuan dynasty in that country). And by the 16th century- about 100 years before the Edo period (in which this story is set), firearms adapted from Portuguese matchlocks, known as tanegashima, began to see widespread use.
Contrary to popular portrayals in Western media, it was guns and polearms- not swords or bows- that served as the main weapons of samurai during the Sengoku period. The katana was more of a sidearm and symbolic weapon of the samurai caste, rather than a practical one. Although firearm usage waned during the isolationist Edo period, there were still 200+ gunsmiths active in Japan. The notion that the shogunate at this time would not have access to its own guns is unlikely. But for the sake of this story, it’s an acceptable departure from history (that much of the show’s audience would probably not even notice).
it was portugal that brought guns to japan en masse in the 1500s, which is why the warring states era ended so shortly after. guns brought order to japan. western media loves to portray guns as doing the opposite.
tbf, we literally saw a gun casually brandished at a soup shop in episode 1. the idea that the military wouldn't be aware of guns - even in the show - is silly. Although being aware that they exist and understanding how asymmetric the fight against them would be is another thing.
I would have been okay with taking the historical liberty or being out-gunned if the lack of tactics and ignorance/ineptitude wasn't so complete. A series this good at subtlety could have found a better way to show Fowler's dominance/cruelty without rendering an entire shogunate feckless.
It makes me worried about what other liberties the show will take. The way Fowler talked about Britain made it sound like it was some big colonizing power, which at that point in history it wasn't. He said the British were the best at murder, but that title definitely would go to the Spanish in that period. I worry when Mizu reaches Britain she'll see an industrial revolution happening a couple hundred years early.
And you know what it might be a slightly different universe here. Fowler introduced guns pretty late in Japan and it’s in combination with the past shoguns keeping the borders pretty tight to imply they HAVENT made ties with China if the Mongols didn’t go through. Just how different this world in the show is from ours? 🤔
Im really glad Mizu let Fowler live, not only because he's to interesting a character to be killed off so quick but also it shows a level of restraint I don't think early Mizu would do. Like shed be arrogant enough to look for Skeffinton and Routley by herself. Also cant wait to meet them because imagine Fowler calling them worse then him...
The writing and voice acting for Fowler is top tier. He's easy to hate, but I can't help but be captivated when he's on screen.
My only worry for Mizu with keeping Fowler alive is now that he knows Mizu is a woman. He's gonna be a bit...(g)rapey... because the way he said "little miss" and the way he keeps saying she has pretty eyes...gives me major creep vibes...and before anyone says anything, Ik Mizu probably wouldn't let that happen but...strong women can be taken advantage of. Doesn't matter, Mizu barely made it out the first time with Fowler.
The great fire was allegedly started by a priest trying to destroy a cursed kimono. Now we know it was Mizu all along!
London also had a great fire just a few years after this....how many great fires is this lady responsible for? We may never know the truth.
Yep, London had a really bad fire 9 years after this one.
It would be really cool if Mizu somehow does it again, but it seems like that might be to long away.
...Unless she gets imprisoned and there's a timeskip, maybe? Hell of a jump though.
I WILL BE GREAT (at starting fires)
I WILL BE GREAT (at starting fires)
There was a huge fire in London in 1666 you know....👀
Taigen was so hot when he killed Heiji Shindo like god damn
Same
By this time Japan definitely knew what guns were. They were made at a smaller scale than what Fowler had, but Asians weren't like "oh no the white man has a magic fire stick."
I'm pretty sure Oda Nobunaga already used arquebuses
I'm wondering whether or not we'll actually get to London in the next season. London and Edo are quite literally at opposite ends of the world in this era, there's potential for a LOT to go down on the boat(s) there.
"Why're you lettin' get off these bars?!" made me spit out my orange juice LOL!
So I was looking up this fire of 1657, and it was recorded as an accident and this story sort of plays as an alternate history/fantasy thing, which is great.
Historically, 9 years later the Fire of London happens...
I am fully convinced that Misu ends up causing the Fire of London in season two, continuing her path of destruction as the Onyro; albeit with a slightly adjusted time-frame.
Hope you guys have an amazing time watching the finally episode
THE BLUE EYE SAMURAI IS GOING TO LONDON!
The only thing I disliked about this was that it acted as if Japanese people had never seen guns. This takes place in the 1650s and the Portugese had arrived in Japan in the 1540s. It took the Japanese less than a year to reverse engineer and produce their own guns (tanegashima guns) and Samurai, including the Tokugawa (leaders of the 'edo' shogunate) used guns extensively throughout the 1500s and early 1600s. So them only fighting with swords and charging guns with swords when they had been aware of European style guns and integrated them into their own military culture is strange
Loved this series! Found you guys in early January when you had the first 2 or 3 reactions up. Had already watched through BES twice. Only found it bc of clips on Tiktok, and was so captivated by the imagery and the tiny bits of story shown.
My one thought as this season ends is... Where's Taigan? We see Akemi reunite w her husband and we learn her father lives. Ringo goes back to sword father and Mizu is obviously on a boat...
But, where is Taigan? I kind of hope he is secretly following her, somehow, like in ep 2. It would be wild if he suddenly shows up in London. But I'd also be ok if he goes on his own journey, remaining Japan. You never know where this story will take us and and I love it for that!
The British East India Company existed by this point, but it's 100 years before they conquered India. Blue Eye Samurai DOES take place during the beginning of the Buccaneer Era of Caribbean piracy, and shortly after the English Civil Wars. At this point, the British Empire wasn't the largest in the world yet, it had serious competition from the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and even the French
Absolutely loved your whole series reaction guys🍻🍻
never seen you guys before, thanks for the trip, I really enjoyed the recaps. 👏
Our pleasure!
❤ the entire season reaction guys, it looks like Mizu will be her self now, she already took her glasses and scarf off.💯❤️🔥
Predictions for season 2
Mizu has an identity crisis from either a white "devil/devils" actually treats her decently or the British discriminate against her asian half instead of the other way around.
Akemi's dad is either incapacitated or dead and she'll give her own agenda disguising it as his.
Hopefully it will be just like the Japanese characters where some (well, most given the time period) will be assholes and some will be decent.
there are records and first hand accounts from japanese of that time who visited london. they were mostly treated much better than they were by their own lords lol.
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Probably because the English saw business opportunities in being their friend whereas their lords took them for granted because they had so many bonds on them.
@@kjj26k to a degree but also the random citizens they encountered. it was a huge culture shock. there are a lot of interesting first hand accounts.
Thats gone quick I’ve enjoyed these reaction video I look forward to seeing your reaction to the finale
I think Fowler is going to go the President Snow route with brutal honesty in season 2. There's something sadistically entertaining about the MF. Morgan is totally right about Fowler using her as a weapon.
Kenneth Branagh was awesome as Fowler! This whole cast was insane, and I’m sad Randall Park’s character didn’t make it to season 2.
"concealed carry" *nodding in disapproval* TOOK me out.
29:45 technically the English have started establishing some trade routes with counties like India, China. Also trade posts in the Middle East especially around the Mediterranean Sea that is heavy spot for ships to dock, trade goods with merchants from there or transfer to next boat heading further west past Spain to coasts of France, Italy and of course England.
Which I hope s2 isn’t just instantly to her arriving in England. S2 is her journey across different lands and know the cultures, how ppl lived, pick up some skills and fighting styles. Same time s2 jumps to akemi, taigen and Ringo what they are doing. S3 is when she finally arrives and based on what she learned figure out how to traverse London and find her targets.
Had to look it up. Travel time various based on land/sea travel and where you travel trough. Then depending on seasons be rough sea travel, storms, heat on land or cold. Then depending on region and governance/monarchy laws that can cause delays.
So ppl on Reddit say possibly earliest is 8 months. Latest could take near 2 years from Japan to England And that’s one way.
Knowing Fowler being a merchant he may have connections through various countries during his trip from England to Japan and maintain contact via sending letters back and fourth. So he may convince/twist Mizu to work with him depending on area they in.
No he said her mum is already dead as the lady looking after her since she was a baby was a maid
I love Fowler's background story, "That was the last time I took a bit because I had to." Now, is he doing something because he has to? Or is he playing Mizu because he wants to?
there's a possibility that mizu's mother is white. i don't know if it fits thematically, but it would be pretty brutal if she killed the four men and only then figured out none of them are her father
Their gonna be so surprised of how it ends heheh
I just realized something that makes me even sadder about Seki’s death: except in the unlikely event of a flashback or something, there is now no chance at all of seeing an interaction between Seki and Swordfather.
😢
Why does that matter?
There's been talk from people who work on the show that it was initially set for 10 eps but money ran out and they had to shorten it to 8. I like to blame the bumps of the finale on that ;) Thank you for the great BES content!
I want to hear that modular synth!
Mizu vs Imperialism -ding ding- and Fight!
One of them is definitely gonna be some random homeless crackhead and it's gonna be her most pathetic kill. Just to make her realize how pointless this revenge quest is. Maybe Fauler is gonna taunt her from his cage like "Great job, let's go take out the last homeless man you're after"
I’m not sure the exact year this is set, but it could be that Mizu lands in England towards the end of the civil war. I don’t know how the writers are going to put this all together, but they have done a wonderful job so far.
The episode is literally called "The Great Fire of 1657" The show TELLS you what year it is. It's a few years after the English Civil War, and 210 years before the American Civil War
And 9 years before one of London's Great Fires.
The name given to the action of piercing the stomach with the katana is called Harakiri, right?
I think it's seppuku
@@sewdramatic5587I already looked it up and it is known by those two names, thank you👌🏻
45:35 Did she tho? From what we saw in the flashbacks she was just holding her as a prisoner, hiding her in the house and getting high. She even abandoned her when the money ran out 😂
She just got attached to her because of stuck home syndrome. One of the many reasons she didn't even try to save her when her and her husband were fighting. They were not actually that close.
Abijah: “Great Bitten, INNIT?!?”
#MagicSpoon
Also, there’s plenty of room for Abijah having been totally full of crap, but “you’re the one?” and the allegation Mizu’s maid hid her implies she has some importance yet to reveal itself; I speculate she is the offspring of someone whom Abijah plans to blackmail
12:01
_cue the Japanese 66 by Samuel Kim_
Ok, since I have nobody else to jabber this theory at ... What if Mizu's white parent wasn't a man, but a WOMAN? A European wife of one of the white men who fooled around with a samurai and got pregnant? And that's why she was hidden and Mizu was given to the maid to raise...? And that's why "London" is the magic word? Because Mom is in London? If I'm right, that would be the huge twist!
The maid mother was using her to get fancy things for herself and money
The plot twist - it's her mother who is white!
Let's go MizuKlan. 😂🤣 szn 2
No, Mizu’s actual mother is dead
I think you misunderstood Akemi at the end. She doesn't really want to nurse her dad. She will probably make his life hell and make sure he never recovers
we said exactly that.
plot twist, it's her mum who was white...
Season 2 has been confirmed! Here's my theories:
Mizu goes to London and somehow starts the Great London Fire (The Kyoto Fire was in 1657, burning the whole city to the ground, making way to build Tokyo), and Season 3 has her going to the Colonies to find the last dude, who just happens to be hanging witches in Salem.
Good show. Definitely agree that this was the weakest episode, but still had some great moments. And the show overall is A-tier for sure.
25:31 “little miss” this might’ve been a lil nickname for Mizu. Or actually Mizu wasn’t her name when she was born. Someone was sent to kill her so she wasn’t supposed to have a name. The “mother” or the maid who took her in gave her a BOY’s name to hide her identity 🤔
Some theories here.
The first person that Mizu killed ppl looked back, the person looks like Mizu but after analyzing it the first white person she killed might have been female but dress to look like a man like Mizu.
Mizu parents might be reversed, her mother is white, her father maybe Japanese that’s a trader/businessmen. At the time some Japanese merchants did go to England, live and spoke their language with rarely some were born and raised there. Era wise this is possible when the time English presence was in Japan before they closed them off. It checks out with what Fowler said to her on you have his eyes. Ppl at first think it’s the blue eyes, no it’s the shape ane fowler knows him well being business partners and that’s how they first came to Japan. Plus again Fowler mentioning the maid was paid, so that’s have to be a good amount of money to be sent to convince the maid to raise and keep Mizu hidden.
What made this show popular is the writing and dialogue. Many moments in their discussion plays a hint or huge role down the road, this includes Fowler words.
Routley is definitely an English name...
@@shaskusmas again depending on how long england/japan traded chances is he was born in england even through japanese if his father was a trader. or most likely sake to make it eaasier for english ppl to say his name he gave himself an english name.
either way based on how they did story and scenes in s1 i can see they gonna really twist up and make the encounter shocking on mizu meeting her father and/or learn of her mother.
Oh, god, that castle siege was so stupid... And why TF Fawler just ran away after he beaten two main characters? It was a fantastic show for about like four episodes but seriously it's getting dummer and dummer with every new episode =\
I think Mizu's mother is white! The daughter one of the guys living in London. Fowler knew about her, meaning she has special importance, and her mom may still be alive in London! This show is very feminist, so would make sense.
I was thinking her mother was mixed, because it would explain the blue eyes while also retaining Japanese features.
Fowler sad “don’t you want to know who killed your mother” so no, her mother was Japanese and is dead.
I like the theory that Mizu wasn’t born of a white man, but a white woman. We still don’t know who were the men who were sent to kill her when she was a baby. What if she has a white mother & the mother has a connection to one of the men, maybe a brother?