Post by ajk on Jul 8, 2017 21:58:04 GMT -5
Pretty standard fortress battle stuff in this one but it was generally good. No major complaints at all. Have to say, the enduring image from this one is the Chulju officers' families cowering inside that grainery building before Yi Hijok sets it on fire. Wow, I don't remember anything like that before in any historical I've seen. What a horrible thing for those soldiers to have to face. You can understand not wanting their families to be captured by the enemy...but being burned alive is not an easy way to die. And the sound of the soft whimpering in the background, that's not gonna be easy to forget.
Here's the narration text that we got early in the episode:
"Burn the catapults!" Hey, there's a legitimate reason for fire arrows, day or night.
Hmm...Dae Jipsung = George McClellan?
Okay, truth or sageuk or somebody...The guy playing Yi Wonjong in this one, seems like he turns up in every single historical. What's his name? Can somebody find it? He always does a nice job on every part he plays and yet he never has a large enough part to get a photo credit on AsianWiki so I can't find his name. Let's give the guy some well-deserved credit and respect here. I smile whenever he turns up because he's practically a tradition in these series. Always the good soldier and we all know his face well.
Sartai is a lousy general for holding his subordinates responsible for the initial failure. It's HIS job to lead the army to success.
Choe U: "I'm worried that he's too soft, too weak." Yeah, Kim Yakson isn't exactly seething with energy, is he. But I have to point out, Songi said pretty much that very thing about him and daddy pooh-poohed it. Daddy also never caught on about Yakson's total lack of enthusiasm for marrying Songi in the first place, or for the promotion. So whose fault is this?
"I won't die cowering inside a fort." Loved the final charge. Take it to them! But is all of this Chulju stuff historically accurate? I couldn't find a single thing online in English about Chulju (or Cholju, tried that spelling too). Found references to Kwiju, but nothing about Chulju.
As in the previous episode, we're getting the invasion story and KJ remains a small part of what we're seeing. And it's being presented well. The Wola story is starting to fade into the past and I'm getting more and more puzzled about that...but for now let's leave it alone. Overall things are good right now.
p.s. Except for KJ's flimsy mustache. I don't like it.
Here's the narration text that we got early in the episode:
Mun Dae. One of many colonels. Yet his name is first among the Koryo heroes of the Thirty Years War with the Mongols. The Mongols tried to force him to convince Ft. Chulju to surrender, but to the end he yelled, "Never give up." His martyrdom inspired the men of Ft. Chulju to choose honorable deaths over surrender.Those rocks and fire bales coming from the Mongol catapults, some nonsense physics going on there, they way they would strike soldiers and then bounce off. But it's TV, gotta love TV. Won't make an issue out of it because the catapults themselves were fun to see. Wish we had seen more of them being wound up and launched; fascinating stuff. And those retractable spiked logs that knocked the invaders off their ladders, I think we've seen them before but those things are great.
"Burn the catapults!" Hey, there's a legitimate reason for fire arrows, day or night.
Hmm...Dae Jipsung = George McClellan?
Okay, truth or sageuk or somebody...The guy playing Yi Wonjong in this one, seems like he turns up in every single historical. What's his name? Can somebody find it? He always does a nice job on every part he plays and yet he never has a large enough part to get a photo credit on AsianWiki so I can't find his name. Let's give the guy some well-deserved credit and respect here. I smile whenever he turns up because he's practically a tradition in these series. Always the good soldier and we all know his face well.
Sartai is a lousy general for holding his subordinates responsible for the initial failure. It's HIS job to lead the army to success.
Choe U: "I'm worried that he's too soft, too weak." Yeah, Kim Yakson isn't exactly seething with energy, is he. But I have to point out, Songi said pretty much that very thing about him and daddy pooh-poohed it. Daddy also never caught on about Yakson's total lack of enthusiasm for marrying Songi in the first place, or for the promotion. So whose fault is this?
"I won't die cowering inside a fort." Loved the final charge. Take it to them! But is all of this Chulju stuff historically accurate? I couldn't find a single thing online in English about Chulju (or Cholju, tried that spelling too). Found references to Kwiju, but nothing about Chulju.
As in the previous episode, we're getting the invasion story and KJ remains a small part of what we're seeing. And it's being presented well. The Wola story is starting to fade into the past and I'm getting more and more puzzled about that...but for now let's leave it alone. Overall things are good right now.
p.s. Except for KJ's flimsy mustache. I don't like it.