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Blue Eye Samurai: The Great Fire of 1657 (2023)
Everything was great until the last episode
The final episode of "Blue Eye Samurai" is an absolute disgrace, insulting its audience with its blatant disregard for historical authenticity. The laughable portrayal of the Japanese shogun's army pathetically trying to block bullets with their bodies is a slap in the face to any viewer with a shred of knowledge about historical warfare. It grossly undermines the intelligence and strategic depth that Japanese warfare is renowned for.
The tactical absurdities in the episode are beyond frustrating. The ridiculous contrast between Heiji Shindo's strategic genius in concealing 500 arrowmen and the shogun's utter failure to gather even a hundred capable soldiers is mind-boggling. It's as if the show's creators threw all historical accuracy out the window in a pathetic attempt to dramatize the plot.
The episode's portrayal of military technology is embarrassingly ignorant. Despite the actual historical use of matchlock guns by the Japanese, the battle scenes in this show are so fantastical they might as well be from a fairy tale. The complete absence of cannons in a siege battle and the exaggerated effectiveness of firearms against traditional weapons is an insult to anyone's intelligence.
The siege climax is a joke. The shogunate's forces, inexplicably clueless about firearms, are positioned as if they're begging to be shot. It's ludicrous to watch these supposedly trained soldiers being utterly clueless in the face of enemy gunfire.
Furthermore, the antagonist's decision to confront the protagonist with just a handful of soldiers, leading to a swift and unrealistic defeat, seems more like a convenient plot device than a credible military strategy.