Post by ajk on Oct 28, 2018 2:01:21 GMT -5
“You didn’t keep your promise when we signaled the fire first.” Well THAT took a while for somebody to get there.
“How was Gugeom injured?” Well THAT took a while for somebody to get there.
“Get the arrows.” Okay that one was timed perfectly. And the first part of this episode, yes there isn’t any history in it but it was excellent. They set up a terrific cliffhanger at the end of the previous episode and it definitely paid off. A lot of believable tension and you really didn’t know what was going to happen. Well written.
“He’s a strong person. He’ll pull through.” That’s great; I just hope he doesn’t pull through so quickly that it’s a joke. He had at least two arrows stuck deep in his chest.
“He should receive moxa cautery often.” Okay here the episode gets some credit, because later on we saw Yeogu applying those cone-shaped things to Geom’s wounds. Those are called moxa cones. And there’s actually a post here in the forum about this, from the DJY days. It’s on this page, the seventh post down:
deiner.proboards.com/thread/3302/djg-gets-insulted?page=2
Artemisia vulgaris is an herb called mugwort. So there’s a nice job of incorporating something relevant that would have been used at that time in history.
I still don’t get the premise that underlies all of this stuff about the tension between the two groups. Their goals don’t conflict. The Buyeo people certainly know that Yeogu won’t be there forever and they have no reason not to work together. The series needs to move on from this fortress stuff now and get Yeogu back to Baekje. This has gone on long enough.
So there’s the fake message coming into the storyline again. I should have trusted that it wouldn’t be forgotten. Good job by the writers to not leave that behind.
BUT.
Bad job by the writers for coming up with something as stupid as sending Yeogu to Yedu all by himself to see Yeohwa. Very, very bad job. Very, very bad! With all of the tension at the fortresses and with Geom severely injured, he goes scampering up to Yedu all by himself to see Yeohwa? His behavior isn’t love, it’s like drug addiction. Complete abandonment of reason and sensibility, and this is far from the first time.
“Find me some servant clothes.” And Yeohwa is acting like an idiot too. That scene with Dandan where she explained herself, that did help a little, but the despair she expressed hasn’t been all that evident in recent episodes so it was an awfully tough sell. There certainly is a lot of potential in their relationship and I’m hoping for it to work well because usually these romance angles don’t even have potential, much less turn out to be good. But it won’t work if they both continue to be so foolish.
Hongran: “No woman puts a man she loves in danger. The queen of Goguryeo wouldn’t be ignorant enough to do that.” Precisely. Thank you. Exactly why Yeogu should have seen through the fake message immediately and why this whole angle is so forced and far-fetched. Yecch.
Although...sigh okay I admit it, the moment when she showed up and poured him the drink was very touching.
Obviously there’s going to be some ridiculous blowup now with so many people converging on that tavern, so let’s please get it out of the way and start moving forward in the story. Please.
“How was Gugeom injured?” Well THAT took a while for somebody to get there.
“Get the arrows.” Okay that one was timed perfectly. And the first part of this episode, yes there isn’t any history in it but it was excellent. They set up a terrific cliffhanger at the end of the previous episode and it definitely paid off. A lot of believable tension and you really didn’t know what was going to happen. Well written.
“He’s a strong person. He’ll pull through.” That’s great; I just hope he doesn’t pull through so quickly that it’s a joke. He had at least two arrows stuck deep in his chest.
“He should receive moxa cautery often.” Okay here the episode gets some credit, because later on we saw Yeogu applying those cone-shaped things to Geom’s wounds. Those are called moxa cones. And there’s actually a post here in the forum about this, from the DJY days. It’s on this page, the seventh post down:
deiner.proboards.com/thread/3302/djg-gets-insulted?page=2
Artemisia vulgaris is an herb called mugwort. So there’s a nice job of incorporating something relevant that would have been used at that time in history.
I still don’t get the premise that underlies all of this stuff about the tension between the two groups. Their goals don’t conflict. The Buyeo people certainly know that Yeogu won’t be there forever and they have no reason not to work together. The series needs to move on from this fortress stuff now and get Yeogu back to Baekje. This has gone on long enough.
So there’s the fake message coming into the storyline again. I should have trusted that it wouldn’t be forgotten. Good job by the writers to not leave that behind.
BUT.
Bad job by the writers for coming up with something as stupid as sending Yeogu to Yedu all by himself to see Yeohwa. Very, very bad job. Very, very bad! With all of the tension at the fortresses and with Geom severely injured, he goes scampering up to Yedu all by himself to see Yeohwa? His behavior isn’t love, it’s like drug addiction. Complete abandonment of reason and sensibility, and this is far from the first time.
“Find me some servant clothes.” And Yeohwa is acting like an idiot too. That scene with Dandan where she explained herself, that did help a little, but the despair she expressed hasn’t been all that evident in recent episodes so it was an awfully tough sell. There certainly is a lot of potential in their relationship and I’m hoping for it to work well because usually these romance angles don’t even have potential, much less turn out to be good. But it won’t work if they both continue to be so foolish.
Hongran: “No woman puts a man she loves in danger. The queen of Goguryeo wouldn’t be ignorant enough to do that.” Precisely. Thank you. Exactly why Yeogu should have seen through the fake message immediately and why this whole angle is so forced and far-fetched. Yecch.
Although...sigh okay I admit it, the moment when she showed up and poured him the drink was very touching.
Obviously there’s going to be some ridiculous blowup now with so many people converging on that tavern, so let’s please get it out of the way and start moving forward in the story. Please.