Post by ajk on May 13, 2013 13:26:55 GMT -5
We’re down to the last three episodes of QSD so it’s time to talk about the next historical we’ll do here. I want to take a short break after QSD, maybe six weeks or so, and then we’ll start a new series. So...this is everybody’s chance to voice in on which one we do.
Looking at what’s available on DramaFever, three series seem to be the most sensible possibilities: Shin Don, Jumong, and God of War. I’m leaning towards Shin Don for a few reasons. One, when we started on QSD the plan was to go ahead and do Shin Don after QSD ended. Wasn’t written in stone but that was the intention. Two, it’s an SBS series and we’ve never done an SBS historical here before. And three, it doesn’t seem like many people here have seen it. I know we lost some people here who didn’t want to watch QSD because they had just seen it, so it would be good to include more people this time.
Jumong is another option. The main reason I’m not as eager to do it right now is that with our new MBC station up and running in Chicago, I’m hoping that at some point they run it over-the-air and do it at a time when people can watch it conveniently. If they do, we’ll run a board for it as an over-the-air series in Chicago (and everybody else can watch on DF simultaneously). So I’m tempted to leave it for now. If our MBC station doesn’t run it soon, we can always make it our next DF selection.
God of War is the third option...and the one I’m most interested in seeing, based on what people have said about it here. But it just aired recently and it’s probably too soon to do it here; I don’t want to lose anybody like we did with QSD. We can and will do it later if not now.
So that’s why I’m leaning towards Shin Don...but I’m certainly not dead-set on it so I’ll be more than happy to listen to anything anybody wants to say about any possible series. And if anybody has seen Shin Don and can comment on it quality-wise, that would be a big help.
P.S. During the break between series I’m going to be asking for help with something I’ve wanted to add here for a long time: a historical drama timeline that lists the kingdom(s) and date ranges of all of the historicals out there. I have a printout of an old timeline that used to be online and will use it to construct a new one, but it’s missing many series and will need a lot of updating. I’m not aware of a timeline that’s currently available anywhere online (at least not in English). It would be a great resource and this is a natural place for it.
Looking at what’s available on DramaFever, three series seem to be the most sensible possibilities: Shin Don, Jumong, and God of War. I’m leaning towards Shin Don for a few reasons. One, when we started on QSD the plan was to go ahead and do Shin Don after QSD ended. Wasn’t written in stone but that was the intention. Two, it’s an SBS series and we’ve never done an SBS historical here before. And three, it doesn’t seem like many people here have seen it. I know we lost some people here who didn’t want to watch QSD because they had just seen it, so it would be good to include more people this time.
Jumong is another option. The main reason I’m not as eager to do it right now is that with our new MBC station up and running in Chicago, I’m hoping that at some point they run it over-the-air and do it at a time when people can watch it conveniently. If they do, we’ll run a board for it as an over-the-air series in Chicago (and everybody else can watch on DF simultaneously). So I’m tempted to leave it for now. If our MBC station doesn’t run it soon, we can always make it our next DF selection.
God of War is the third option...and the one I’m most interested in seeing, based on what people have said about it here. But it just aired recently and it’s probably too soon to do it here; I don’t want to lose anybody like we did with QSD. We can and will do it later if not now.
So that’s why I’m leaning towards Shin Don...but I’m certainly not dead-set on it so I’ll be more than happy to listen to anything anybody wants to say about any possible series. And if anybody has seen Shin Don and can comment on it quality-wise, that would be a big help.
P.S. During the break between series I’m going to be asking for help with something I’ve wanted to add here for a long time: a historical drama timeline that lists the kingdom(s) and date ranges of all of the historicals out there. I have a printout of an old timeline that used to be online and will use it to construct a new one, but it’s missing many series and will need a lot of updating. I’m not aware of a timeline that’s currently available anywhere online (at least not in English). It would be a great resource and this is a natural place for it.