The Scholars of Shen Zhou

To finish our first season, The Rise of the Yellow Sky, we have done something different. Steve and I interviewed Baptiste Pinson Wu (who can be found on the 3kingdom discord) about his first book Yellow Sky Revolt, about Liao Hua's time under the Yellow Turbans. We let this one run since not a norm...

Does anyone know where the C.206 birth for the eldest daughter of Zhang Fei comes from?

Secondly, Emperor Xian, had he been smarter, may have been able to pawn off the 4 generals into serving him, in this case he could have emulated Han Wudi and been an Emperor from the saddle, giving orders and leading troops, who is to say no with this precedent in mind? Thirdly, the Emperor is the ...

Apparently I never voted before? Or the results of the poll got reset I have come... more used to the idea we will never got a full grasp of Guan Yu with so much of his career lost and even in Jing, the context for plenty of his battles gone. It makes it hard to judge some of the battles he had with...

I particularly enjoyed your notes on Wang Yun and the opera visuals for Dong Zhuo near the end

I don't know how well Buffy has dated but I had a lot of fun with that show Watched the third season of The Boys . A lot of what it did was very well done, including the longer-term storylines around Homelander, toxic masculinity, how leaders treat people, twists that make sense and the way events h...

Trying something different that we hope to have in-between novel episodes. The idea with deep dives is to have an episode focused solely on the history of the subject (in this case, the Turbans) rather then a novel chapter and it's themes. When a major character dies or a major appropriate subject c...

Final set 81: 221 Zhang Fei killed 82: 221 Yiling 83: 221 84: 221-222 burn Liu Bei burn 85: 222-23 Liu Bei dies (novel seems to it's dates off here) 86: 223-224 87: 225 Nanman camapigns begin 88: 225 89: 225 90: 225 seventh capture 91: 226 Cao Pi dies (it says 229 then does a jump back) 92: 222 Firs...

Do we know why Sun Quan sought to discover the islands of Yizhou and Danzhou? More specifically, what was he hoping to find? Was it merely slavery (since they were supposedly settled by Xu Fu in the Qin) or was it for resources or for something mystical or…? As said, we don't know. Sima Guang seeme...

Saw the Disney live-action remake of Pinocchio. I usually like the remakes even if I prefer the animated originals but not this one. To be fair, they did have some ideas for differing, handling the island differently which was intresting, Fabianna (Kyanne Lamaya) was nice. They did some nice version...