Post by ajk on Apr 2, 2016 13:46:52 GMT -5
Well at least now this will stop being the Jang Huije story. It really did get off track for a while. Had mixed feelings about the storyline, I mean, it's nice that he finally saw reason and found a spine; always like to see a redemption story. But the redemption-just-before-dying thing, is it just me or is that kind of overused in K-dramas? Maybe not; it just seems familiar.
Wow, Huije looks better after being dead three days than a lot of living people do! Gotta love TV.
Didn't like the way his death was written. He knows people will try to kill him, and he says he's afraid...so that very night he leaves his home unlocked and then when three complete strangers walk right in, he walks right up to them and identifies himself? That was very silly. And then JYS starts grabbing him right where the stab wounds are? Yeah that'll help a lot. A good angle would have been JYS giving him the blade-proof vest that Seokgu made. But I guess the writer wanted him out of the picture, so fair enough that wouldn't happen.
And then why is JYS walking all over Hanyang alone and unprotected after Huije's murder? Doesn't he think he might be a target too? I had this same complaint about Shin Don for a while, but eventually SD got himself some guards. Hope JYS gets some sort of protection because it's silly to think he wouldn't realize the need for it. Especially after the weird old guy shows up at his workshop along with a goon.
One thing I did like about this episode was seeing the printing-press project and seeing Sejong working with the throat diagrams while he develops the Hangul alphabet. Those were both significant story elements in GKS and it's good that they were included here.
The rank of Daehogun that JYS has in this episode, I found a bunch of different translations of that word but they all were variations of either Second Deputy Commander, Grand Royal Guard, or Great Protector General. Later in the episode he's called a third-rank official so it's a significantly high rank. Here's a very nice Joseon-Government-101 rundown that includes some information about the various ranks:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty_politics#Civil_service
So here's the fun-with-astronomy for this episode. We finally got a name for that small sundial public clock we've seen. it's called an angbuilgu:
www.theseoulguide.com/sights/palaces/changgyeonggung-palace/angbuilgu-sundial/
And you can even buy a kit online and make your own. Just a small cardboard scale model...but obviously the thing had a huge, huge impact if you can still buy a model of one nearly 600 years later.
p.s. This didn't really click with me until now...but an episode or two ago we saw a brief flash of JYS suddenly realizing a clock could run with a pendulum. It was just a flash and the idea hasn't come up again. But the pendulum clock wasn't developed until the mid-1600s, by the Dutch scientist Huygens. So we have another situation where the series suggests that Joseon thought of something long before the known discoverer/creator did. Maybe we can talk about this after the series ends; wondering if anybody else finds it a little troubling that the series wants to show this kind of thing.
Wow, Huije looks better after being dead three days than a lot of living people do! Gotta love TV.
Didn't like the way his death was written. He knows people will try to kill him, and he says he's afraid...so that very night he leaves his home unlocked and then when three complete strangers walk right in, he walks right up to them and identifies himself? That was very silly. And then JYS starts grabbing him right where the stab wounds are? Yeah that'll help a lot. A good angle would have been JYS giving him the blade-proof vest that Seokgu made. But I guess the writer wanted him out of the picture, so fair enough that wouldn't happen.
And then why is JYS walking all over Hanyang alone and unprotected after Huije's murder? Doesn't he think he might be a target too? I had this same complaint about Shin Don for a while, but eventually SD got himself some guards. Hope JYS gets some sort of protection because it's silly to think he wouldn't realize the need for it. Especially after the weird old guy shows up at his workshop along with a goon.
One thing I did like about this episode was seeing the printing-press project and seeing Sejong working with the throat diagrams while he develops the Hangul alphabet. Those were both significant story elements in GKS and it's good that they were included here.
The rank of Daehogun that JYS has in this episode, I found a bunch of different translations of that word but they all were variations of either Second Deputy Commander, Grand Royal Guard, or Great Protector General. Later in the episode he's called a third-rank official so it's a significantly high rank. Here's a very nice Joseon-Government-101 rundown that includes some information about the various ranks:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty_politics#Civil_service
So here's the fun-with-astronomy for this episode. We finally got a name for that small sundial public clock we've seen. it's called an angbuilgu:
www.theseoulguide.com/sights/palaces/changgyeonggung-palace/angbuilgu-sundial/
And you can even buy a kit online and make your own. Just a small cardboard scale model...but obviously the thing had a huge, huge impact if you can still buy a model of one nearly 600 years later.
p.s. This didn't really click with me until now...but an episode or two ago we saw a brief flash of JYS suddenly realizing a clock could run with a pendulum. It was just a flash and the idea hasn't come up again. But the pendulum clock wasn't developed until the mid-1600s, by the Dutch scientist Huygens. So we have another situation where the series suggests that Joseon thought of something long before the known discoverer/creator did. Maybe we can talk about this after the series ends; wondering if anybody else finds it a little troubling that the series wants to show this kind of thing.