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Strict etiquette, rigid ceremony, and a pervasive understanding of how to behave dictate everything inShogun.
There is an honor and order to all this that must be maintained for the system to function.
For most ofShoguns first four episodes, political maneuvering is the narrative priority.
Until then, nearly everyone in The Eightfold Fence thinks they have time.
Horses and people are split into pieces.
Blood spurts out of where some limbs used to be, while bone sticks out of other parts.
It can come for us at any moment.
And yet: Random death by geological happenstance isnt the same as random death by surprise massacre.
This is not how samurai fight.
But more broadly,changeis coming, and that may prove even more destructive.
