Hiroto Kanai and Hiroyuki Sanada in the Shogun finale
The Big Picture Shōgun's ride has been brief, but also beautiful, and, now, it's done. Episode 10, "A Dream of a Dream," closes out the FX miniseries in a rather surprising way, skipping a big battle altogether and going straight to Lord Yoshii Toranaga's endgame: becoming shōgun. Even if most viewers were expecting a big climactic battle, Shōgun ties everything up so neatly that people will hardly be disappointed.
As Toranaga explains to Yabushige later on, the Crimson Sky strategy was about Mariko all along, and it plays out perfectly. By faking his surrender and sending Mariko ahead to Osaka, Toranaga expected to destabilize Ishido's alliance with the other Regents as well as with Ochiba. With two Christian lords on the Council, Mariko is sure to have some leverage over them given that she was herself Catholic. With Ochiba, however, the matter goes deeper.
Once back in Ajiro, Blackthorne sees that his ship, the Erasmus, has been burnt and left to sink in the harbor, and that Toranaga is now pillaging the village in search of the Christian saboteurs that destroyed it. However, Blackthorne realizes that this is a part of Mariko's deal with the Church for his survival, and begs Toranaga to stop the pillaging, willing to trade his own life for the village's.
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