Post by ajk on Nov 3, 2018 21:08:53 GMT -5
Oh my goodness, what a stinker. The first one of the series, but this episode, except for the end part with the developments in Baekje, the whole thing never should have been made. Just awful.
So there are two groups of soldiers outside the tavern to capture Yeogu. Prince Yeosan and Hae Geon are there with some Baekje troops, and the Goguryeo chief minister is there with some Goguryeo troops. Maybe a dozen soldiers each. They won’t go into the tavern while the queen is still in there for fear she could get hurt. Okay fine...seems a little excessively cautious, but fine. But two minutes later Yeogu and Yeohwa are out there strolling around the public street market, in plain sight, and all of the soldiers are just following them around and watching them? Seriously? And then still the NEXT DAY they’ve followed them all the way out into the countryside and not made their move? Do these guys not have anything better to do? This should have been done and over with in about five minutes.
And the Goguryeo soldiers finally confront Yeogu, and we get one of those cringe-awful twelve-versus-one sword battles. Oh and now here comes Annoying Girl and she’s sword-battling three or four guys twice her size. Good grief. And somehow this ends with all of the Baekje and Goguryeo soldiers either dead or missing—it’s never made clear and there’s no sign of them—and Yeosan and Hae Geon captured by Yeogu, Jin Seung, Payoon and the two girls. What. The. Heck. This has got to be the most incomprehensible, senseless, ridiculous fight scene in any drama we’ve watched here.
“When I heard you were in Liaoxi, my heart went crazy.” Dude, so did your brain.
“Can’t we forget everything and just stay here in Liaoxi?” Her brain went soft too. The whole story angle was handled terribly. No continuity and no common sense. And yes I pick at this stuff more than most people do but this was truly bad. It’s a shame because these two characters could give us such a good romantic story. Obviously whoever is writing this part of the series isn’t up to the challenge. The sad part of it is, the scene with the two of them where he realizes he has to give her up and let her go, very possibly to die, it was a touching scene and should have had more impact. But it lost a lot of its edge because of all the weirdness.
“If you take the queen and leave, I’ll kill the chief minister.” Well there’s one interesting thing that happened. We always sort of had the idea that Hae Geon had feelings for her, but that is a remarkable offer, certainly shows the depth of his feelings. It’s nice that this wasn’t made too obvious too early.
Chief minister: “Not having killed Prince Yeogu today is going to be a problem.” Gee, ya think?
Geom is still hurting from his injuries, so there’s some good continuity there. And we saw some breath in the cold air so again credit the actors for working in chilly air.
“Her son lost the crown prince position. Should she dance with joy to see you?” Okay that was pretty funny. Things got interesting again the moment the queen showed up. The more of her we get, the better. And the whole time she was there Lady Seok is giving her the skunk-eye like What a con artist you are. She’s a good character; hope we can see more of her.
It’s good to see Prince Yeohwi back. But wait, the king demoted him to grave keeper. How is he back? What’s the story here? You can’t just bring him back with no explanation. But that’s typical of how this episode played out. Let’s hope this doesn’t continue. The Buyeo minister is about to hand somebody that royal seal and hopefully he’s going to do it intelligently. And it does seem like this eastern China phase of the story is nearing an end, at least from what’s been said. Fingers crossed.
So there are two groups of soldiers outside the tavern to capture Yeogu. Prince Yeosan and Hae Geon are there with some Baekje troops, and the Goguryeo chief minister is there with some Goguryeo troops. Maybe a dozen soldiers each. They won’t go into the tavern while the queen is still in there for fear she could get hurt. Okay fine...seems a little excessively cautious, but fine. But two minutes later Yeogu and Yeohwa are out there strolling around the public street market, in plain sight, and all of the soldiers are just following them around and watching them? Seriously? And then still the NEXT DAY they’ve followed them all the way out into the countryside and not made their move? Do these guys not have anything better to do? This should have been done and over with in about five minutes.
And the Goguryeo soldiers finally confront Yeogu, and we get one of those cringe-awful twelve-versus-one sword battles. Oh and now here comes Annoying Girl and she’s sword-battling three or four guys twice her size. Good grief. And somehow this ends with all of the Baekje and Goguryeo soldiers either dead or missing—it’s never made clear and there’s no sign of them—and Yeosan and Hae Geon captured by Yeogu, Jin Seung, Payoon and the two girls. What. The. Heck. This has got to be the most incomprehensible, senseless, ridiculous fight scene in any drama we’ve watched here.
“When I heard you were in Liaoxi, my heart went crazy.” Dude, so did your brain.
“Can’t we forget everything and just stay here in Liaoxi?” Her brain went soft too. The whole story angle was handled terribly. No continuity and no common sense. And yes I pick at this stuff more than most people do but this was truly bad. It’s a shame because these two characters could give us such a good romantic story. Obviously whoever is writing this part of the series isn’t up to the challenge. The sad part of it is, the scene with the two of them where he realizes he has to give her up and let her go, very possibly to die, it was a touching scene and should have had more impact. But it lost a lot of its edge because of all the weirdness.
“If you take the queen and leave, I’ll kill the chief minister.” Well there’s one interesting thing that happened. We always sort of had the idea that Hae Geon had feelings for her, but that is a remarkable offer, certainly shows the depth of his feelings. It’s nice that this wasn’t made too obvious too early.
Chief minister: “Not having killed Prince Yeogu today is going to be a problem.” Gee, ya think?
Geom is still hurting from his injuries, so there’s some good continuity there. And we saw some breath in the cold air so again credit the actors for working in chilly air.
“Her son lost the crown prince position. Should she dance with joy to see you?” Okay that was pretty funny. Things got interesting again the moment the queen showed up. The more of her we get, the better. And the whole time she was there Lady Seok is giving her the skunk-eye like What a con artist you are. She’s a good character; hope we can see more of her.
It’s good to see Prince Yeohwi back. But wait, the king demoted him to grave keeper. How is he back? What’s the story here? You can’t just bring him back with no explanation. But that’s typical of how this episode played out. Let’s hope this doesn’t continue. The Buyeo minister is about to hand somebody that royal seal and hopefully he’s going to do it intelligently. And it does seem like this eastern China phase of the story is nearing an end, at least from what’s been said. Fingers crossed.