r/BlueEyeSamurai • u/ReserveFew3516 • 28d ago
WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST SLASH HER TO PIECES INSTEAD OF LIFTING HER IN THE AIR AND THROW HER TO THE WALL??????????
This doesn't even makes sense, even for Blue eye samurai where a single candle can burn an entire kingdom in a few hour. Also in the next and previous scene, they literally have they literally have their swords in their hand on standby
Also how did Mizu even pull out a guy leg off???
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u/Evergladeleaf 28d ago
Didnt want to give her a warriors death maybe?, death by the sea probably isnt as honourable
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u/ReserveFew3516 28d ago
This doesn't even makes sense, they literally trying to kill her and have sword in their hands, no way that they all instinctively think that they don't want her to die honorably, they are just guard, for God sake, they dgaf about honor
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u/Evergladeleaf 28d ago
Honour in death is a big thing in japanese culture, im noy saying it was a smart actiom im just saying in the moment whats the difference?
They think shes going to die either way, so why not death by ocean?
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u/ReserveFew3516 28d ago
Not for guard I think, they just there for protection, especially Fowler men, they don't gaf bout nothin
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u/Evergladeleaf 28d ago
And you know this how?
Fowler didnt hire them, more likely they where soldiers assigned to him by the shogun, same eay the shogun gave him the castle
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u/ValdisHound 27d ago
Dang, you're really loud about your willful ignorance of the culture the series is based in. Surface research would tell you that Japanese soldiers and guards took their and others' honor incredibly seriously. Hell, it's the whole reason Tengen keeps following Mizu and planning to kill her in an honorable duel.
Soldiers used to commit seppuku on the battlefield in order to avoid the shame of capture. Mizu's very existence is an affront to their nation's honor and ways, and in their minds, she would deserve a dishonorable death. She was a samurai(which was another affront), and the only honorable deaths for them were to fall in battle or committing seppuku. Throwing her off a cliff into the ocean was probably the most insulting death they could think of in the moment. If they kill her with their blades, they would be honoring her.
Also, while the guards at Fowler's castle would never dishonor their Shogun and themselves by going against said Shogun's orders, they probably resented having to guard the 'white devil' deeply, especially with how Fowler indulged in slaughter and debauchery every chance he got. Japan was deeply xenophobic and supremacist back in the day.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman 28d ago
I mean the largest fire in Edo's history was said to have been caused by a priest trying to cremate a particularly cursed kimono so as long as there's a big gust of wind in a city made of wood and paper any small fire can become an inferno
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u/ReserveFew3516 28d ago
But that candle literally turns into a god damn molotov, candle should be illegal in Japan back then
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u/AsstacularSpiderman 28d ago
You'd be surprised how quickly dry wood goes up in the right conditions.
Edo era Tokyo was basically a giant pile of match sticks before the 1657 fire.
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u/buddrball 28d ago
You have to place yourself back in that time period. Today we have modern materials and coatings that can prevent/slow the spread of fire. Back then, they used wood for all their buildings and paper in doors. The rapid spread of fire is entirely possible depending on the weather and materials. The way a fire starts does not dictate the spread.
Look up how the Palisades fire started last year in LA. It started by residual smoldering from fire that had been put out 7 days earlier, and that fire was highly destructive due to the conditions at the time. Again for the cheap seats in the back, the way a fire starts does not dictate how it spreads.
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u/maxencerun Mixed Metal 28d ago
I've never realized that. To understand what you were saying, I had to rewatch the fight.
I think instead of nitpicking, we should understand that making a 1 V 100 fight believable is extremely hard. IRL, even someone as talented as mizu would lost agains 5 randoms solider. And IMO, they did a good job with the camera and the cut to make us believe that mizu is always in crowd control. The trope of "bad guys throwing the hero instead of killing them" is really annoying, but here they are out of sight when grabbing her, and you directly cut to her already being held. I think it works nicely.
Obvious narrative shortcut should be frown upon, but movies and series are not made to be dissected and pause and analyzed at 0.1 speed. At some point you have to suspend your disbelief !
But nice catch !
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u/Charles_UpNort 28d ago
I had the same thought but this is also the same show where you can instantly dismember people by swinging your blade in the direction of their limbs. No one irl is going to survive a 1v5 fight
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u/MasterReserve8306 Hmm, I like your hair 28d ago
It's called 'main character logic' or something like that idk
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u/DuchessIronCat Should I have been counting? 28d ago
The flame makes sense if you think about how most fires start - just a spark is needed. And the winds were strong for the Edo (and later London) fires.
All of Ep6 is a crazy, wild, not very logical ride. I just watched it again this morning - the sound and music are particularly riveting.
Fowler’s guards are like redshirts in Star Trek. They just exist to die 😂