Post by ajk on Mar 25, 2016 13:28:35 GMT -5
"This is so simple. I could have come up with this." Huije sounds like a lot of people looking at modern art.
But he was right when he changed his mind. A lot of times the most beautiful, elegantly simple solutions only emerge after a lot of long, hard thinking about the problem. Just because the end product seems simple doesn't mean getting to it was simple.
Okay, fair credit, they did show the clock accurately as being partly water-powered. I was concerned about that but they did get it right. Good job there. Sejong naming it helped me find this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borugak_Jagyeongnu
And then this funny tidbit from Wikipedia's page on water clocks:
The story about the apple falling on Isaac Newton's head...is that story not known in the Far East? I mean, can't the writers come up with something better than using somebody else's story? Geez, give us something original. It's embarrassing.
I'll have more to say about this after the series ends, but enough already with Jang Huije's insecurity being such a big part of the story. Getting really sick of it. It's not interesting and it's not working.
Great to hear Jeong Dojeon's name come up! And to understand exactly what the reference meant. Good historicals really do teach people well.
I got confused when Sejong said the people can't have access to the official water clock but then said it was okay to give them their own portable clocks. What's the difference? Okay, the official clock is official but if everybody knows what time it is, what does it matter?
And I also got confused when the bitter old guy was talking about farming deteriorating and being replaced by trade and commerce because of the new clock. One of the main purposes of the clock is to help increase farm output (which I don't really understand, but whatever)...so why does this guy think it will have the opposite effect?
And those idiot officials have one conversation with the old guy and get so scared they go back to the king and completely flip their position? Like the other side of the issue had never occurred to them? Ugh.
But he was right when he changed his mind. A lot of times the most beautiful, elegantly simple solutions only emerge after a lot of long, hard thinking about the problem. Just because the end product seems simple doesn't mean getting to it was simple.
Okay, fair credit, they did show the clock accurately as being partly water-powered. I was concerned about that but they did get it right. Good job there. Sejong naming it helped me find this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borugak_Jagyeongnu
And then this funny tidbit from Wikipedia's page on water clocks:
What made the Jagyeongnu self-striking (or automatic) was the use of jack-work mechanisms, by which three wooden figures (jacks) struck objects to signal the time. This innovation no longer required the reliance of human workers, known as "rooster men", to constantly replenish it.In honor of Garry Shandling's passing, everyone can make up their own joke about that.
The story about the apple falling on Isaac Newton's head...is that story not known in the Far East? I mean, can't the writers come up with something better than using somebody else's story? Geez, give us something original. It's embarrassing.
I'll have more to say about this after the series ends, but enough already with Jang Huije's insecurity being such a big part of the story. Getting really sick of it. It's not interesting and it's not working.
Great to hear Jeong Dojeon's name come up! And to understand exactly what the reference meant. Good historicals really do teach people well.
I got confused when Sejong said the people can't have access to the official water clock but then said it was okay to give them their own portable clocks. What's the difference? Okay, the official clock is official but if everybody knows what time it is, what does it matter?
And I also got confused when the bitter old guy was talking about farming deteriorating and being replaced by trade and commerce because of the new clock. One of the main purposes of the clock is to help increase farm output (which I don't really understand, but whatever)...so why does this guy think it will have the opposite effect?
And those idiot officials have one conversation with the old guy and get so scared they go back to the king and completely flip their position? Like the other side of the issue had never occurred to them? Ugh.