Ep 9 - October 3 [Mon]

[Knov1]

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Shim Hwan Ji refuses to work with In bang and Jae Cheon. If they make a move against Jeong Jo, he wants them apprehended.

Jeong Jo questions his mother, Lady Hong, further about the death of his father, Prince Sado. He doesn't believe he was ill like his mother claims. He believes that it was a scheme by the Noron party, which was led by Lady Hong's father, Hong Bonghan, that got him killed. His mother doesn't want to hear it. She tells him that he must be tired and to get some rest before the training drill.

In Bang's group plans to attack Jeong Jo at the Royal Garden Pavilion. They will wait to ambush him in the pavilion forest. Lord Dong and his men will set off explosives while In Hyung apprehends Jeong Jo. The Noron party plans to storm the fortress where Jeong Jo will be and apprehend him, along with all Shipa members.

In Bang plans to send Hyang Bi ahead with Lord Dong's men. Hyang Bi warns In Hyung that she believes In Bang is hiding something from them. In Hyung tells Hyang Bi that if he doesn't return from his mission, she should go look for Vice Councilor Yak Yong. Hyang Bi attempts to return to In Hyung but is stopped by Lord Dong's men. They try to force themselves on her but she's rescued by Chun Deuk and Officer Kim. She tells them about In Bang's plan to attack Jeong Jo and that they've been in contact with high court officials.

Minister of war Hwan Ji has drill instructor Myungnok put his own men in the rear patrol guard so they can move in when In Bang's group attacks.

Lady Hong asks Jeong Jo why he doesn't trust her. He tells her it's because she knows too much info in detail regarding events she should know little about. Lady Hong tells him there's still things he's unaware of and walks away.

Chun Deuk meets with Yak Yong and informs him of what he's learned. Yak Yong concludes that the high court official Jae Cheon has been in contact with must be Han Ju. Since Jeong Jo is already on the move, he orders the garrison marshal to quickly mobilize the troops.

In Bang decides to attack Jeong Jo ahead of schedule since he concludes that the rear patrol guards will kill them all once they've attacked Jeong Jo. They set off explosives as Jeong Jo approaches.

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Uh oh, Jeong Jo is in trouble. We're down to the final episode.

[TheBo]

I am so amused by Lord Shim's reaction to Okpo In-bang: "THOSE GUYS are traitors! THEY want to overthrow the monarchy, where WE want to control it!" Absolutely priceless. Nicely worked how they then planned to double-cross each other. (Not knowing how historically accurate this is, I'll attribute these developments to the scriptwriters.)

However, I thought the thing with Hyang-bi was nonsensical. Why did they have to have that particular woman? It wasn't like he wanted her because she'd be a valuable slave to sell because of her experience and beauty, he just wanted to throw her to his dogs like any slattern. It was merely a device to turn her against Okpo and presumably, later, to turn In-hyung against him, too, and it wasn't very elegantly developed. Sloppy writing.

In Yi San, the fact that his grandfather Hong Bonghan was head of the Noron party is really de-emphasized. In fact, that show makes it look like he had nothing to do with them. Interesting.

I'm not sure what it is about the last conversation between Jeong-jo and his mother made no sense to you, knov1, but what she said was that Sado's birth mother urged the king to execute Sado (or otherwise get rid of him) because her own life was on the line when the inevitable happened and Sado was removed as crown prince in whatever manner. This actually is true, she did (according to Lady Hyegyeong's memoirs) urge this course, but I don't know if that is the reason. However, if a person was disgraced in the Joseon period, as we know, all their relatives were also disgraced, killed, exiled, enslaved, whatever. So that's a reasonable explanation. I guess Yeong-jo escaped stain by being, you know, King.

Bo

PS - I loved the way the explosion was filmed. Nice final frame. Kind of ruined the impact with "next time on 8 days" but I'll blame the network--I just stopped the tape. ;D

[MTR]

''Yawn !!!! they are finally going to attack hmmm must wake up "
See what happens when you give these plotters a decent salary ,hourly wage ,just got to pad the clock !
Damn lazy Noron's
Way to much copius drinks and slatterns and on the job too no less !.