Post by ajk on Mar 20, 2016 5:58:19 GMT -5
Did it never occur to those guys that somebody else might have seen Youngsil's true-north sky disk and made copies of it? It's kind of silly that they see the disk and immediately go straight to "Youngsil may be alive." That's not very good writing.
Hey, Seokgu's looking good these days; was he emancipated? Looks like he has a nice job for himself.
Sejong's long speech about looking past people's "wounds" and being patient with them so they'll help the nation...I don't know...it's an admirable sentiment but he's playing with fire. Maybe the real king was just that big-hearted but it didn't sit right with me; seems kind of naive.
Hey, the old Chinese dude again! And his hot daughter. Who'd have thought we'd ever see them again?
So we saw the Ming emperor, finally. Presumably that's the emperor Taizong...but the Hangul that was shown, it looked like Son Dokje or some such thing. I didn't understand why it didn't say Taizong...but that would be the emperor at this time in history.
Wait...How did Jang Huije get the top spot in the Astronomy Division instead of Choi Bok? Wouldn't Choi have seniority? And didn't Choi help with Sejong's big project? Hmm...not saying it's necessarily wrong, just that an explanation would be nice.
Wait...Youngsil's going to spend months in a city making a public clock? Um, that's going to get around eventually, won't it? Oh look, it did. Sheesh.
Anybody else think that musician guy is kind of weird?
The "trisection profit-and-loss method" is a real thing; from the few scraps I could find about it, it dates back to the Western Han dynasty of China around 200 BC and had a big influence on the development of Chinese music. And the stuff about the ratios in thirds, absolutely true.
books.google.com/books?id=G6_voeVrDkwC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=music+pipe+lengths+%22two+thirds%22&source=bl&ots=c-pPzDcQST&sig=EKsYqchqDSiUB26-cz6ytAnrQ-k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOsLX-i8_LAhUB5yYKHUK9AF4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=music%20pipe%20lengths%20%22two%20thirds%22&f=false
Very technical writing, but the idea is that you climb up a perfect fifth (like from C to G) by shortening the pipe by one-third. As with the astronomy material, I like that the series is mentioning some of the science behind what we see--and now what we hear too.
One thing I did like a lot about this episode was the idea that Jang's work, even out in a remote village someplace, would gain attention. Find a really talented person, the cream always rises to the top.
Oh no no no no no please not the love triangle thing, please please please no no no no no no
Well that has got to be the strangest ending to a historical episode ever. Why the punch?
Hey, Seokgu's looking good these days; was he emancipated? Looks like he has a nice job for himself.
Sejong's long speech about looking past people's "wounds" and being patient with them so they'll help the nation...I don't know...it's an admirable sentiment but he's playing with fire. Maybe the real king was just that big-hearted but it didn't sit right with me; seems kind of naive.
Hey, the old Chinese dude again! And his hot daughter. Who'd have thought we'd ever see them again?
So we saw the Ming emperor, finally. Presumably that's the emperor Taizong...but the Hangul that was shown, it looked like Son Dokje or some such thing. I didn't understand why it didn't say Taizong...but that would be the emperor at this time in history.
Wait...How did Jang Huije get the top spot in the Astronomy Division instead of Choi Bok? Wouldn't Choi have seniority? And didn't Choi help with Sejong's big project? Hmm...not saying it's necessarily wrong, just that an explanation would be nice.
Wait...Youngsil's going to spend months in a city making a public clock? Um, that's going to get around eventually, won't it? Oh look, it did. Sheesh.
Anybody else think that musician guy is kind of weird?
The "trisection profit-and-loss method" is a real thing; from the few scraps I could find about it, it dates back to the Western Han dynasty of China around 200 BC and had a big influence on the development of Chinese music. And the stuff about the ratios in thirds, absolutely true.
books.google.com/books?id=G6_voeVrDkwC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=music+pipe+lengths+%22two+thirds%22&source=bl&ots=c-pPzDcQST&sig=EKsYqchqDSiUB26-cz6ytAnrQ-k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOsLX-i8_LAhUB5yYKHUK9AF4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=music%20pipe%20lengths%20%22two%20thirds%22&f=false
Very technical writing, but the idea is that you climb up a perfect fifth (like from C to G) by shortening the pipe by one-third. As with the astronomy material, I like that the series is mentioning some of the science behind what we see--and now what we hear too.
One thing I did like a lot about this episode was the idea that Jang's work, even out in a remote village someplace, would gain attention. Find a really talented person, the cream always rises to the top.
Oh no no no no no please not the love triangle thing, please please please no no no no no no
Well that has got to be the strangest ending to a historical episode ever. Why the punch?