Post by ajk on Jun 26, 2016 14:37:39 GMT -5
Did anybody else wonder what an ox bezoar is? Had never heard that word before. Turns out a bezoar is any kind of mass that's trapped in a gastrointestinal system:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoar
Back then in China, ox bezoars were believed to have healing and anti-toxin properties. And chemically there are legitimate reasons for the belief, so it makes sense that Madam Jami would use them in her trade plans. But enough about digestive masses....
Everybody went running for that armor. Hmmm, but if the point was to come back wearing it, wouldn't it have been smarter to let everybody else beat each other up over it and just ambush the winners on their way back? Seems like a much better strategy, unless everybody tries it--and the way they all went running, not likely.
And then that fight scene in the sand. Goong-bok was doing all of that superfluous movement that Master Jo criticized him for in the previous episode. Naughty naughty!
Since we're defining things, Avalokiteshvara is an important figure in Buddhism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokite%C5%9Bvara
...and Jie Du Shi, it's not the guy's name, it's a title--of a regional military governor in China:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiedushi
Well now we have kind of an interesting angle: Master Sul won't play dirty and smuggle. "I can't forsake my lifelong principles for profit." A little obvious but okay, he's the good guy.
"I'll look into it." Wait a minute, why would Yeom Moon tell Jung-hwa that? He was told that Goong-bok is dead and as far as he knows, that's the truth. Was he trying to spare her feelings? Or maybe her request hurt his heart and caught him off guard? He should have told her.
Okay, generally these wild-coincidence scenes where people encounter each other years later and long distances away, they're so preposterous they drive me nuts. But the fact that Goong-bok cost Madam Jami 500 silver coins on that wager, that was pretty darned funny. (On the other hand, she did spare his life when she could have and probably should have had him executed, so that really kinda sucks for her, doesn't it.)
In DJY we saw a similar fight scene, also in Tang and about a hundred years earlier. Does anybody know if this is authentic? I mean, warrior slaves fighting like gladiators for entertainment--did they really do this in China at that time? I couldn't find anything in English online about it either way. No reason to doubt it; just curious.
This wasn't a bad episode...just that we're one-fifth of the way through the series and so far we have much more of an MBC-style character drama about a warrior instead of a KBS-style historical about the real Jang Bogo. From what Wikipedia says, Jang and Yon were supposedly good with spears and horsemanship and that's what advanced them in their early lives. Not seeing anything like that just yet...but still early.
p.s. Haven't head any sappy pop music recently so thumbs up for that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoar
Back then in China, ox bezoars were believed to have healing and anti-toxin properties. And chemically there are legitimate reasons for the belief, so it makes sense that Madam Jami would use them in her trade plans. But enough about digestive masses....
Everybody went running for that armor. Hmmm, but if the point was to come back wearing it, wouldn't it have been smarter to let everybody else beat each other up over it and just ambush the winners on their way back? Seems like a much better strategy, unless everybody tries it--and the way they all went running, not likely.
And then that fight scene in the sand. Goong-bok was doing all of that superfluous movement that Master Jo criticized him for in the previous episode. Naughty naughty!
Since we're defining things, Avalokiteshvara is an important figure in Buddhism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokite%C5%9Bvara
...and Jie Du Shi, it's not the guy's name, it's a title--of a regional military governor in China:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiedushi
Well now we have kind of an interesting angle: Master Sul won't play dirty and smuggle. "I can't forsake my lifelong principles for profit." A little obvious but okay, he's the good guy.
"I'll look into it." Wait a minute, why would Yeom Moon tell Jung-hwa that? He was told that Goong-bok is dead and as far as he knows, that's the truth. Was he trying to spare her feelings? Or maybe her request hurt his heart and caught him off guard? He should have told her.
Okay, generally these wild-coincidence scenes where people encounter each other years later and long distances away, they're so preposterous they drive me nuts. But the fact that Goong-bok cost Madam Jami 500 silver coins on that wager, that was pretty darned funny. (On the other hand, she did spare his life when she could have and probably should have had him executed, so that really kinda sucks for her, doesn't it.)
In DJY we saw a similar fight scene, also in Tang and about a hundred years earlier. Does anybody know if this is authentic? I mean, warrior slaves fighting like gladiators for entertainment--did they really do this in China at that time? I couldn't find anything in English online about it either way. No reason to doubt it; just curious.
This wasn't a bad episode...just that we're one-fifth of the way through the series and so far we have much more of an MBC-style character drama about a warrior instead of a KBS-style historical about the real Jang Bogo. From what Wikipedia says, Jang and Yon were supposedly good with spears and horsemanship and that's what advanced them in their early lives. Not seeing anything like that just yet...but still early.
p.s. Haven't head any sappy pop music recently so thumbs up for that.