Post by ajk on Jan 3, 2017 1:33:05 GMT -5
Kind of a good news/bad news episode. Good news is, it looks like we have a final plot developing, something substantial enough to fill the final five episodes. Bad news is, or was, this episode was weak.
JB taking YM to China with him...Anybody remember that YM commanded troops in a rebellion against the Tang government? Seriously not? Massive continuity error there, for JB to take him there and the issue never to come up. And even Madam Jami being in China...she was escorted out and told by the government never to return. How does she get to come back at all? This one, at least it's plausible that there could have been a pardon or some such thing, but can we please get an explanation? Ugh.
And then, Kim Yang shows up with a dead guy and a story about a spy, a story that can't possibly be verified, and Kim Woo-jing and JB's subordinates all just buy it? And accept that the letter is genuine and from the king...with no royal seal on it? Another ugh.
"You can't afford to trust him so blindly. He has tried to kill you on many occasions." And now it's Soon-jong talking sense.
Why didn't Mak-bong have a good cover story for why he's in the capital? That's incredibly foolish. Jung-hwa should have thought to give him one if nothing else. And then he lets a moron like Joong-dal get him drunk and make a complete idiot out of him? That was a totally dumb scene...apparently included for comic relief (I can't think of another reason). Did the Korean audience find it funny? Would be interesting to know.
Once I stopped wondering where JB, YM and Baek-kyung got horses and managed to flee China successfully--it seemed far-fetched, to say the least--I wondered whether or not they should have just killed Madam Jami and the Tang eunuch right then and there on the street. Interesting question. Either way, it seems like JB and all of Chunghae are totally screwed at this point. If the Tang government hates them, and now they certainly will...hmm, maybe there won't be enough for five more episodes after all.
Looking forward to wrapping this one up. It's too bad that the first 25 episodes or so moved so slowly because I think these more recent episodes would seem a little fresher and livelier if the earlier episodes had been trimmed down and condensed.
JB taking YM to China with him...Anybody remember that YM commanded troops in a rebellion against the Tang government? Seriously not? Massive continuity error there, for JB to take him there and the issue never to come up. And even Madam Jami being in China...she was escorted out and told by the government never to return. How does she get to come back at all? This one, at least it's plausible that there could have been a pardon or some such thing, but can we please get an explanation? Ugh.
And then, Kim Yang shows up with a dead guy and a story about a spy, a story that can't possibly be verified, and Kim Woo-jing and JB's subordinates all just buy it? And accept that the letter is genuine and from the king...with no royal seal on it? Another ugh.
"You can't afford to trust him so blindly. He has tried to kill you on many occasions." And now it's Soon-jong talking sense.
Why didn't Mak-bong have a good cover story for why he's in the capital? That's incredibly foolish. Jung-hwa should have thought to give him one if nothing else. And then he lets a moron like Joong-dal get him drunk and make a complete idiot out of him? That was a totally dumb scene...apparently included for comic relief (I can't think of another reason). Did the Korean audience find it funny? Would be interesting to know.
Once I stopped wondering where JB, YM and Baek-kyung got horses and managed to flee China successfully--it seemed far-fetched, to say the least--I wondered whether or not they should have just killed Madam Jami and the Tang eunuch right then and there on the street. Interesting question. Either way, it seems like JB and all of Chunghae are totally screwed at this point. If the Tang government hates them, and now they certainly will...hmm, maybe there won't be enough for five more episodes after all.
Looking forward to wrapping this one up. It's too bad that the first 25 episodes or so moved so slowly because I think these more recent episodes would seem a little fresher and livelier if the earlier episodes had been trimmed down and condensed.