nelsonmuntz
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This show deserves its own thread, it is so awesome. I have just finished the second episode. The acting is incredible, as is the tension. I was never a fan of Richard Chamberlain, and thought he was the biggest problem with the original miniseries. A lot of those old-time actors were theatre actors first, and while overacting is fine on a stage, they needed to dial it back on screen. Chamberlain spent most of the first miniseries chewing the scenery or even eating the whole set. The actor who played Yabushige was incredible in the first miniseries, but the actor this time around is even better. He is a very important, and complex character, and could come off as just a garden variety scumbag in the hands of a weaker actor.
The scene were Blackthorne explains the map of the world to Torunaga and the Heir is so well done. The characters' appreciation of what he is saying, from all of their very differing perspectives, was awesome, even with most of the scene being in Japanese. Mariko's epiphany that her Portuguese priests had been lying to her for 14 years was so well done and showed a series of emotions sweeping over her in just a few seconds.