Post by ajk on Mar 13, 2016 16:11:34 GMT -5
This one totally went off the deep end. Complete fiction, no thanks.
Although that moment when Sejong nearly lost it, that sure was interesting. I don't remember seeing him that scary angry in GKS.
The most surprising thing for me was the royal physician telling the king that he was going to inform the officials about his (the king's) health status. Never seen anything like that in a historical before. Those physicians, we've made so many jokes about how that's the worst job in the country, they get executed so often. Seeing one talk back to the king at all, much less threaten to give up the king's personal health information, wow. Had a hard time accepting that, although maybe it's plausible, I don't know.
Why did the rocks Yi Hyeon had just put down have a full coating of snow on them? Oops.
And I'm sorry, but there's no way JYS would have survived in that cellar. No way at all. All of the oxygen in there would have been gone in minutes. That was ridiculous.
But, have to say it again...All of those diagrams and pages and illustrations that were posted on every wall of the observatory, well done on those!
I did like that they introduced the music issue into the story. I hope they build on it because it would be something from real history that we didn't get in GKS. Here's some info I found about the pyeongyeong xylophone:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianqing
www.angelfire.com/alt/koreanmusic/instruments.html
And not only that, if you type pyeongyeong into Google Play or iTunes you can find an app that loads a simulated pyeongyeong into your phone and lets you play it! It's not a very sophisticated app--very bare-bones and I can't find any controls or features or whatever, but it lets you tap on individual pieces and make the sounds. The same app creator has a bunch of apps for other traditional instruments. Great stuff.
But that aside, I found this episode disappointing. Just too far out, and the whole fire-killing thing was so drawn-out, enough already.
Although that moment when Sejong nearly lost it, that sure was interesting. I don't remember seeing him that scary angry in GKS.
The most surprising thing for me was the royal physician telling the king that he was going to inform the officials about his (the king's) health status. Never seen anything like that in a historical before. Those physicians, we've made so many jokes about how that's the worst job in the country, they get executed so often. Seeing one talk back to the king at all, much less threaten to give up the king's personal health information, wow. Had a hard time accepting that, although maybe it's plausible, I don't know.
Why did the rocks Yi Hyeon had just put down have a full coating of snow on them? Oops.
And I'm sorry, but there's no way JYS would have survived in that cellar. No way at all. All of the oxygen in there would have been gone in minutes. That was ridiculous.
But, have to say it again...All of those diagrams and pages and illustrations that were posted on every wall of the observatory, well done on those!
I did like that they introduced the music issue into the story. I hope they build on it because it would be something from real history that we didn't get in GKS. Here's some info I found about the pyeongyeong xylophone:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianqing
www.angelfire.com/alt/koreanmusic/instruments.html
And not only that, if you type pyeongyeong into Google Play or iTunes you can find an app that loads a simulated pyeongyeong into your phone and lets you play it! It's not a very sophisticated app--very bare-bones and I can't find any controls or features or whatever, but it lets you tap on individual pieces and make the sounds. The same app creator has a bunch of apps for other traditional instruments. Great stuff.
But that aside, I found this episode disappointing. Just too far out, and the whole fire-killing thing was so drawn-out, enough already.