Post by ajk on Nov 13, 2016 12:59:31 GMT -5
This episode was a lot like the previous one: one big event that gobbled up lots of the hour without much purpose, and one interesting lesser thing.
The controversy about JB releasing the pirate leader, there are a lot of good angles to this and no way of knowing how it will resolve. There's no entirely right or wrong answer to it so it should make for a very good storyline going forward, especially since it involves everybody in the story, all the way up to the top of the government. So that was the positive part.
But most of the episode was about Sul dying...and that had to be the longest, most drawn-out death in any historical I've seen. And the episode tried way too hard to pull more and more emotion out of it. Yes he was a very good man and it was a tragedy that he died, but the whole thing just went on for too long. (And I still can't get past the foolish risk he took being in Chunghae in the first place.)
Sul got shot in the back. Shouldn't he be laying on his stomach? Yeah, bad for TV, but still.....And why was nobody happy or smiling when he recovered consciousness? Sheesh! No wonder the guy gave up and died.
What a dumb, pointless scene with Jung-hwa going to see Madam Jami. Trash-talk very rarely works in these shows and it sure didn't in this scene.
And speaking of Jung-hwa...the way she treated YM after he risked his life and probably saved her neck, it was shocking. Telling him off without even a thank-you? You can understand her being annoyed at him by this point and wanting him to leave her alone, but that was terrible behavior from her. Isn't she supposed to be a sympathetic character we're supposed to like and feel emotion for? Maybe I'm the only one who saw it that way but I thought it made her look bad.
"My pride was miserably tainted by resorting to cowardly tricks." There's the complicated, human side of YM again, hooray. Until now he'd shown no reaction to Sul getting shot and you wondered how he felt about it. And Master Yi letting him off the hook for it instead of going after JB, that made Yi a better character too. It was almost shocking that Yi let the whole thing go (although it's not at all clear that they could have finished off JB's group like they believed). So Yi still has some principles left in him. Hard to reconcile with him leading the pirate operation but certainly it makes him a more interesing person going forward.
Stop it with the forward flips over walls. Just stop it. Stop it now!
At least with Sul dying we're finally gotten to the point where JB is in charge of the operation. Wish it hadn't taken so long to get there but now the series has the chance to redeem itself for all of the drawn-out Eternal Triangle stuff earlier on.
p.s. It does make an impressive sight to have those ships sailing and everybody on them standing at attention, scanning the horizon. At least it did the first two or three times. But nearly every time we see a ship it's the same way. It starts to get a little ridiculous. Like they all know they're on television.
The controversy about JB releasing the pirate leader, there are a lot of good angles to this and no way of knowing how it will resolve. There's no entirely right or wrong answer to it so it should make for a very good storyline going forward, especially since it involves everybody in the story, all the way up to the top of the government. So that was the positive part.
But most of the episode was about Sul dying...and that had to be the longest, most drawn-out death in any historical I've seen. And the episode tried way too hard to pull more and more emotion out of it. Yes he was a very good man and it was a tragedy that he died, but the whole thing just went on for too long. (And I still can't get past the foolish risk he took being in Chunghae in the first place.)
Sul got shot in the back. Shouldn't he be laying on his stomach? Yeah, bad for TV, but still.....And why was nobody happy or smiling when he recovered consciousness? Sheesh! No wonder the guy gave up and died.
What a dumb, pointless scene with Jung-hwa going to see Madam Jami. Trash-talk very rarely works in these shows and it sure didn't in this scene.
And speaking of Jung-hwa...the way she treated YM after he risked his life and probably saved her neck, it was shocking. Telling him off without even a thank-you? You can understand her being annoyed at him by this point and wanting him to leave her alone, but that was terrible behavior from her. Isn't she supposed to be a sympathetic character we're supposed to like and feel emotion for? Maybe I'm the only one who saw it that way but I thought it made her look bad.
"My pride was miserably tainted by resorting to cowardly tricks." There's the complicated, human side of YM again, hooray. Until now he'd shown no reaction to Sul getting shot and you wondered how he felt about it. And Master Yi letting him off the hook for it instead of going after JB, that made Yi a better character too. It was almost shocking that Yi let the whole thing go (although it's not at all clear that they could have finished off JB's group like they believed). So Yi still has some principles left in him. Hard to reconcile with him leading the pirate operation but certainly it makes him a more interesing person going forward.
Stop it with the forward flips over walls. Just stop it. Stop it now!
At least with Sul dying we're finally gotten to the point where JB is in charge of the operation. Wish it hadn't taken so long to get there but now the series has the chance to redeem itself for all of the drawn-out Eternal Triangle stuff earlier on.
p.s. It does make an impressive sight to have those ships sailing and everybody on them standing at attention, scanning the horizon. At least it did the first two or three times. But nearly every time we see a ship it's the same way. It starts to get a little ridiculous. Like they all know they're on television.