Post by ajk on Sept 4, 2016 0:44:36 GMT -5
What a beautiful location shot to open the episode. Time and time again this series has found stunning locations.
But it was hard to work up much interest for the storyline in this episode. Kidnapping a woman (or anybody, for that matter) to accomplish your political objectives is about as sorry as it gets. If I were JB or anybody opposing the rebels, I'd be mocking YM and Yi Sa-do mercilessly for that because it makes them look pathetic. And then more and more of the Eternal Triangle stuff, boring and worn-out already. I mean, it could be worse, at least the story is consistent and not full of holes, but it really isn't much of a story right now. It's just getting so far removed from anything plausible...Jung-hwa and Soon-jung and Haksoo all out there in a rebel army camp in the middle of China?
The whole thing about getting the supplies to Chang-an, I didn't understand it. Sul's group is suddenly able to sail up the Grand Canal because JB leads an attack on a small camp of rebel troops? I wish the writers had fleshed that out a lot more. Not saying it's implausible, it may have made perfect sense, but it needed to be explained how the attack freed up the canal.
The rich daughter: "Why would you give up your life for me? Do you think I'd live in peace after what I'd done?" But you didn't do anything--you got yourself kidnapped, not your fault. That's why I wondered if JB made a mistake, as awful as it would have been to turn his back on her. As in, negotiating with hostage-takers. All it does is encourage Yi's group to do the same thing again. Interesting question.
Why is Joong-dal beating up one of his employer's store managers? How stupid. Please make him go away. He's simply a dirtbag, and not even remotely interesting.
Speaking of interesting questions: We were all horrified about that attack on the Sul group's trading party at the Tibet border, seeing all of those people get murdered just for a business advantage. Okay, so how was the attack by JB's party in this episode any different? Why are we not supposed to be horrified by that one too? Okay it was against anti-government rebels...but this is a Shillan trading group--they have no nationalist stake in any of this. Yes, they've been promised equality for Shilla people in China so it's a little bit more altruistic than just a trade monopoly, but it still is their own self-interest. Or have I misinterpreted that? Hmmm....
"This is the end...the end of the destiny that binds us." Promise? Oh how I want to believe that! But no, doubt it very much.
Please tell me he's not going back there to that camp again for the sake of a different woman. Please?
But it was hard to work up much interest for the storyline in this episode. Kidnapping a woman (or anybody, for that matter) to accomplish your political objectives is about as sorry as it gets. If I were JB or anybody opposing the rebels, I'd be mocking YM and Yi Sa-do mercilessly for that because it makes them look pathetic. And then more and more of the Eternal Triangle stuff, boring and worn-out already. I mean, it could be worse, at least the story is consistent and not full of holes, but it really isn't much of a story right now. It's just getting so far removed from anything plausible...Jung-hwa and Soon-jung and Haksoo all out there in a rebel army camp in the middle of China?
The whole thing about getting the supplies to Chang-an, I didn't understand it. Sul's group is suddenly able to sail up the Grand Canal because JB leads an attack on a small camp of rebel troops? I wish the writers had fleshed that out a lot more. Not saying it's implausible, it may have made perfect sense, but it needed to be explained how the attack freed up the canal.
The rich daughter: "Why would you give up your life for me? Do you think I'd live in peace after what I'd done?" But you didn't do anything--you got yourself kidnapped, not your fault. That's why I wondered if JB made a mistake, as awful as it would have been to turn his back on her. As in, negotiating with hostage-takers. All it does is encourage Yi's group to do the same thing again. Interesting question.
Why is Joong-dal beating up one of his employer's store managers? How stupid. Please make him go away. He's simply a dirtbag, and not even remotely interesting.
Speaking of interesting questions: We were all horrified about that attack on the Sul group's trading party at the Tibet border, seeing all of those people get murdered just for a business advantage. Okay, so how was the attack by JB's party in this episode any different? Why are we not supposed to be horrified by that one too? Okay it was against anti-government rebels...but this is a Shillan trading group--they have no nationalist stake in any of this. Yes, they've been promised equality for Shilla people in China so it's a little bit more altruistic than just a trade monopoly, but it still is their own self-interest. Or have I misinterpreted that? Hmmm....
"This is the end...the end of the destiny that binds us." Promise? Oh how I want to believe that! But no, doubt it very much.
Please tell me he's not going back there to that camp again for the sake of a different woman. Please?