Post by ajk on Aug 25, 2019 5:15:17 GMT -5
So this highly esteemed and accomplished trade organization is letting a ten-year-old kid navigate one of their vessels on a hugely important mission. Yeah right. Okay we get it, he’s a bright kid...but that’s preposterous.
“Father, I wasn’t trying to show off...” Well shame on me for jumping to conclusions. “You’ve taken the captain’s job away from him. A self-serving business is for petty street vendors.” There’s an encouraging sign right there, some insightful writing. To be frank, it should never have been allowed to happen in the first place, and blame the dad for not setting boundaries (remember before when the kid was barking at a soldier about his shoe)...but whatever, now we’ll see if the kid takes the criticism to heart.
Four days by sea or fifteen days by land to Seorabeol? That forced me to get out the maps and figure out what’s going on here. Jong-ak, that’s today’s Kaesong—the city just over today’s NK border by Seoul. So they’re on the upper west coast, which makes sense from what’s been said about it being distant from the capital. And definitely it would be a multi-day boat trip, because you have to go around the entire south coast and wind your way through all of those islands like we saw in IYSS.
More fixation by the monks on Wang Guhn. We got that last episode. We get it.
“Have this road paved with gravel by tomorrow.” Wow that’s a difficult boss! Here’s the narrated text about her:
The next narration, about Wang Guhin:
“I’m pregnant with my uncle’s child.” Okay, one more time...one..two..thr—hey wait a minute that’s Kim Joo Young! They brought him back! Yaaaay! Kind of odd that they’d kill off somebody’s character off and then put him in another role soon afterwards...but who cares.
Geez the queen is having her uncle’s baby...we need some of that stuff that knov introduced us to during That Winter The Wind Blows.
“Who is the green pine of Song-ak? Master, who is it?” STOP IT. Good grief, stop it.
“I will meet those who banished me and tried to take my life. And I will forgive them...I need to see them with my own eyes to have closure.” Wow this Goongyae just gets more and more interesting. What an enlightened way to deal with all of his past trauma.
The next narration:
“Her majesty? She’s a cackling hen!” Great to see some commoners—much more of them please!
The final narration:
But that aside, it was another interesting and good quality episode. Even the icky stuff.
“Father, I wasn’t trying to show off...” Well shame on me for jumping to conclusions. “You’ve taken the captain’s job away from him. A self-serving business is for petty street vendors.” There’s an encouraging sign right there, some insightful writing. To be frank, it should never have been allowed to happen in the first place, and blame the dad for not setting boundaries (remember before when the kid was barking at a soldier about his shoe)...but whatever, now we’ll see if the kid takes the criticism to heart.
Four days by sea or fifteen days by land to Seorabeol? That forced me to get out the maps and figure out what’s going on here. Jong-ak, that’s today’s Kaesong—the city just over today’s NK border by Seoul. So they’re on the upper west coast, which makes sense from what’s been said about it being distant from the capital. And definitely it would be a multi-day boat trip, because you have to go around the entire south coast and wind your way through all of those islands like we saw in IYSS.
More fixation by the monks on Wang Guhn. We got that last episode. We get it.
“Have this road paved with gravel by tomorrow.” Wow that’s a difficult boss! Here’s the narrated text about her:
Queen Jinsung, the 51st ruler of Shilla. She is the half-sister of Goongyae and the daughter of King Kyungmoon. This is her second year on the throne but she had long forgotten about the governmental affairs and was preoccupied with her love affair with her own uncle, Prime Minister Weeheung. Ignoring her reputation as a queen, she is en route to a rendezvous with her lover at his home.Okay, all together now.....one....two....three......EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW
The next narration, about Wang Guhin:
Wang Guhin. He was a great poet and revered sage of his time. People of this time often condemned the government for the famine and tyranny by posting slanderous posters on walls, and one written in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms reads like this: This is an encrypted message that means that Queen Jinsung allowed her lover Weeheung to abuse his power and led Shilla to destruction beyond repair. The royal court believed that these were the works of the elite scholar Wang Guhin, and captured him....and the next one, which followed immediately:
Dosun and Choe Chiwon. Dosun was a high priest who studied geomancy and predicted the birth of Wang Guhn and the rise of Goryeo. He was also responsible for establishing Buddhist beliefs as the national ideology in the unified Later Three Kingdoms. Choe Chiwon was a master literary who was illustrious during the last stages of Shilla. The two were discussing the fate of the kingdom.Wi Hong’s wife, sure hope they do more with her character--it sure would be interesting to hear what’s going through her head.
“I’m pregnant with my uncle’s child.” Okay, one more time...one..two..thr—hey wait a minute that’s Kim Joo Young! They brought him back! Yaaaay! Kind of odd that they’d kill off somebody’s character off and then put him in another role soon afterwards...but who cares.
Geez the queen is having her uncle’s baby...we need some of that stuff that knov introduced us to during That Winter The Wind Blows.
“Who is the green pine of Song-ak? Master, who is it?” STOP IT. Good grief, stop it.
“I will meet those who banished me and tried to take my life. And I will forgive them...I need to see them with my own eyes to have closure.” Wow this Goongyae just gets more and more interesting. What an enlightened way to deal with all of his past trauma.
The next narration:
Samdaemok: A collection of ballads that was compiled during the second year of Jinsung’s reign. Ballads are equivalent to present-day pop music. “Samdae” refers to the three stages of Shilla history and “mok” means its characterization. It is presumed to have contained a wide variety of songs, but the contents remain uncertain as the text was not preserved. Its significance is that this is the first songbook that was recorded to have been compiled in Korean history.According to multiple websites the text was lost during the Mongol invasions that we saw in GOW, in the 13th century. That’s a shame.
“Her majesty? She’s a cackling hen!” Great to see some commoners—much more of them please!
The final narration:
At last, Kyun-hwon enters the scene. Kyun-hwon. He shows himself as the nameless commander of Surabul here. But who is he? He is the man that later conquers Bekjae and becomes its king. The heroes of the Later Three Kingdoms, Wang Guhn, Goongyae, and Kyun-hwon. This is an unforgettable encounter of these three men.Unforgettable and wildly implausible...this creepy small-world vibe from DJY rearing its ugly head again.
But that aside, it was another interesting and good quality episode. Even the icky stuff.