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Post by BungalowDweller on Apr 24, 2007 21:36:22 GMT -5
So what's this guy scheming? First he's talking about meeting with DJY and the next thing you know, he's telling his female sidekick that she's to watch the actions surrounding the King of Tang! Sounds like an agent provocateur. Planning a coup d'etat?
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Post by Truth on Apr 25, 2007 17:16:49 GMT -5
So what's this guy scheming? First he's talking about meeting with DJY and the next thing you know, he's telling his female sidekick that she's to watch the actions surrounding the King of Tang! Sounds like an agent provocateur. Planning a coup d'etat? Mimosa wants to use DJY to revive the kingdom of Baekjae, which was also destroyed by Tang-Shilla alliance, and he has no interest in bringing Goguryeo back. But I'm pretty sure he will have a change in heart as KBS's DJY website describe him as 'one of the founding fathers of Balhae.' Well, he's not really the 'founding father' in real history as he is also a fictional character. Man, this drama has so many fictional characeters and fictional story plots! Kim Chan isn't a real person either! Shilla didn't even use Goguryeo's help to defeat the Tang army, it was Shilla's Kim Yushin and his son, Wonsul, that defeated the Tang, and Anseung's new Goguryeo have nothing to do with it.
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Post by Truth on Apr 25, 2007 17:18:34 GMT -5
And DJY should not even be in Anseung's new Goguryeo and he had never even put one foot on Shilla land.
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Post by Nalbal on Apr 25, 2007 17:21:13 GMT -5
So far, this series really hasn't been helpful to those of us (including myself) who really don't know a whole lot about Korean history. It's very entertaining and all, but it doesn't seem very historically accurate.
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Post by Truth on Apr 25, 2007 17:26:50 GMT -5
So far, this series really hasn't been helpful to those of us (including myself) who really don't know a whole lot about Korean history. It's very entertaining and all, but it doesn't seem very historically accurate. the only korean history drama on air right now that is close enough to be a 'true history drama' is Yeon Gae So Moon. well, although stories about YGSM from episdoe 1 to 55 is all fictional they are at least picturing the Chinsese history right. from episode 55 is where they actually start showing real stuff about YGSM.
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Post by Truth on Apr 25, 2007 17:30:18 GMT -5
Xue Rengui shouldn't even be at Andong Protectorate right now either.
After a humiliating defeat in the war gainst Shilla, Xue Rengui is called back to Xian, the capital city of Tang China, and is give a second chance as he is set to conqueror the Tobuns, somewhere in Arab(i'm not really sure), he also loses in that war and is exiled as a punishment.
he dies of a disease few months after he was exiled.
however, in this drama, he continues to be in Andong Protectorate, when in real history, he should already be on his way to death!
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Post by mikey on Apr 25, 2007 17:31:39 GMT -5
Yes! I expect that even historical K-drama writers will use some “artistic license” now and then, and that’s okay, but this one’s getting to be way over the top so far as the fictional stuff goes. I imagine that for native Koreans - who probably grow up learning Korean history the same way we Americans grow up learning US history - it’s easy enough to discern the truth from the fiction in a show like this . . . but for the rest of us, it’s a bummer.
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Post by Nalbal on Apr 25, 2007 17:35:25 GMT -5
Xue Rengui shouldn't even be at Andong Protectorate right now either. After a humiliating defeat in the war gainst Shilla, Xue Rengui is called back to Xian, the capital city of Tang China, and is give a second chance as he is set to conqueror the Tobuns, somewhere in Arab(i'm not really sure), he also loses in that war and is exiled as a punishment. he dies of a disease few months after he was exiled. however, in this drama, he continues to be in Andong Protectorate, when in real history, he should already be on his way to death! Lol, they probably just couldn't kill him off for fear viewers would complain. Why not? The way he is portrayed in this series he is utterly irresistible. Or maybe the secret lies in those steamed buns he loves to eat so much...
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Post by BungalowDweller on May 1, 2007 22:01:55 GMT -5
So how did Mimosa find DYJ? Was he going berry picking or mushroom hunting in the woods at the time? What was he doing there? And now we see that he's a healer! What next?
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Post by BAE on May 2, 2007 12:54:36 GMT -5
Well, good thing he was picking berries in the woods then! If he DJY had been where Su(l)-dol managed to "bury" him in leaves, DJY wouldn't have had a prayer.
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Post by FlowerLady on May 2, 2007 16:58:59 GMT -5
The scenes of Mimosa secretly performing his healing on DJY were great....probably the only bright spot in the sad, non-stop bloodshed of last night's Episode 50.
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Post by ginnycat5 on May 2, 2007 17:13:38 GMT -5
Some of the healing techniques we've seen before, the acupuncture and the burning cones (altho they're some difference substance here?) but it looked like some kind of magical transfer of power, the way he concentrated and strained. Was that something real or legendary or poetic license?
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Post by truth on May 2, 2007 17:26:54 GMT -5
Some of the healing techniques we've seen before, the acupuncture and the burning cones (altho they're some difference substance here?) but it looked like some kind of magical transfer of power, the way he concentrated and strained. Was that something real or legendary or poetic license? it wasn't real, legendary, nor poetic. Mimosa is a fictional character and i'm pretty sure DJY didn't even know who the heck was Li Kaigu at this point of the history.
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Post by ginnycat5 on May 2, 2007 17:28:45 GMT -5
Mimosa is fictional, but I was wondering about his medical practices. Guess a fictional guy can make someone stop bleeding internally?
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Post by truth on May 2, 2007 17:35:29 GMT -5
his 'medical practices' is SO FANTASY, people in Korea made fun of this scence as 'Jumong 2'
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