Post by ajk on Mar 9, 2019 15:14:15 GMT -5
This was a much better episode than the last two. Still a few sloppy moments but there was some genuine, plausible suspense and everything was less confusing and jumpy. The Mahan campaign being called off, that helped a heck of a lot. One less big thing going on and it brings Jin Godo back into the Hanseong storyline. And none of the who’s-your-daddy nonsense, that helped too.
Why didn’t KG scream for help when Hae Nyeong was attacking him? All he had to do was shout and all of those people outside would have come running. Ugh.
“I won’t put your life in danger, just move.” Yeohwa doing great again, showing class but being firm. And the guard trusted her, putting his own neck on the line. Continues to be a very strong character. And then later on she goes to help Annoying Girl deliver her baby, what a selfless thing to do. (Especially selfless because if anything should go wrong with the delivery, she'll be the scapegoat for it.)
Let’s set aside the ridiculousness of KG hearing nothing about the rebellion from anyone until a lady-in-waiting made the trip all the way up to Liaoxi, successfully and safely despite being alone and unprotected, to get him the news. (Not in a million years.) That aside, HUGE credit to Dandan for doing it. That was darned impressive, being brave enough and obviously competent enough to get the job done. KG didn’t even acknowledge it but he owes her big-time. And then she throws herself in front of the king’s path to try to get him to come home to the queen. Wow. Yeohwa had better cough up a giant performance bonus when Dandan gets home. That’s the kind of person you want working for you. Well done Dandan.
And speaking of some great work...All we ever see with royal physicians is their getting threatened with death or begging for death when somebody dies. Well the physician in this episode, KG gets a lethal dose of poison in him and within 48 hours he’s conscious and lucid again? This guy deserves a medal! Who the heck is he? Geez the guy saved the freaking king’s life—how can that not go unrecognized? The best work we’ve ever seen from a physician in a historical we’ve watched here. It was disappointing, how little attention was paid to the physician’s work considering what he accomplished. Bravo physician.
OK here it is again, an old staple of historical drams. Hae Nyeong is getting tortured with crossed wooden poles against his legs. Does anybody know how this works? I’ve never been able to find an explanation for what causes the pain. It looks like the poles are simply pushing on the person’s thighs, and that hardly seems like an effective way to torture somebody compared to so many other ways to inflict pain. But obviously there’s more to it than that because it’s used all the time.
Whatever the answer is, can’t argue that Hae is one tough guy for an old general. Took that torture like a real man.
Annoying Girl is in prison and they put chains around her neck. Nobody else got them, not the young healthy prince Yeomong or even Hae Geon the king-killer, but she got them. There’s a gotta-love-TV moment right there. Yeah the 95-pound pregnant girl is going to crush those giant wooden bars and bust out of her jail cell and overpower the armed guards unless you chain her up.
Yes I was wrong about the cloth note that Hae Nyeong left. But the explanation we got for the delay was pathetic. A servant found the cloth but she kept it for several days because she can’t read. Huh? What was she doing with it, dusting the furniture? Or did she decide to start teaching herself to read because she found the cloth? Forgive me if this seems too nit-picky but that’s just dumb. Put a little more effort into it and come up with a story that makes sense. The fate of that note was a huge suspense point, and to leave it hanging for so long and then offer up a throwaway explanation for it, boo hiss.
Thumbs up to grandpa for making the selfless sacrifice rather than betray KG.
Thumbs down to the producers for KG waking up screaming for his grandpa at the moment it happened, like he has psychic powers.
The brief glimpse of Sayu firing up his troops, it just further showed why he’s a better character than KG. He shows the passion and intensity that you want from a leader in a situation like that.
But on the other hand, give KG credit for diagnosing the messy situation with the rebellion and making all of the right calls. This was the first time as king that I was really impressed with him.
Overall this was a good bounceback episode. Hopefully now that there are fewer things going on it will be easier for the storyline to juggle everything more successfully.
Why didn’t KG scream for help when Hae Nyeong was attacking him? All he had to do was shout and all of those people outside would have come running. Ugh.
“I won’t put your life in danger, just move.” Yeohwa doing great again, showing class but being firm. And the guard trusted her, putting his own neck on the line. Continues to be a very strong character. And then later on she goes to help Annoying Girl deliver her baby, what a selfless thing to do. (Especially selfless because if anything should go wrong with the delivery, she'll be the scapegoat for it.)
Let’s set aside the ridiculousness of KG hearing nothing about the rebellion from anyone until a lady-in-waiting made the trip all the way up to Liaoxi, successfully and safely despite being alone and unprotected, to get him the news. (Not in a million years.) That aside, HUGE credit to Dandan for doing it. That was darned impressive, being brave enough and obviously competent enough to get the job done. KG didn’t even acknowledge it but he owes her big-time. And then she throws herself in front of the king’s path to try to get him to come home to the queen. Wow. Yeohwa had better cough up a giant performance bonus when Dandan gets home. That’s the kind of person you want working for you. Well done Dandan.
And speaking of some great work...All we ever see with royal physicians is their getting threatened with death or begging for death when somebody dies. Well the physician in this episode, KG gets a lethal dose of poison in him and within 48 hours he’s conscious and lucid again? This guy deserves a medal! Who the heck is he? Geez the guy saved the freaking king’s life—how can that not go unrecognized? The best work we’ve ever seen from a physician in a historical we’ve watched here. It was disappointing, how little attention was paid to the physician’s work considering what he accomplished. Bravo physician.
OK here it is again, an old staple of historical drams. Hae Nyeong is getting tortured with crossed wooden poles against his legs. Does anybody know how this works? I’ve never been able to find an explanation for what causes the pain. It looks like the poles are simply pushing on the person’s thighs, and that hardly seems like an effective way to torture somebody compared to so many other ways to inflict pain. But obviously there’s more to it than that because it’s used all the time.
Whatever the answer is, can’t argue that Hae is one tough guy for an old general. Took that torture like a real man.
Annoying Girl is in prison and they put chains around her neck. Nobody else got them, not the young healthy prince Yeomong or even Hae Geon the king-killer, but she got them. There’s a gotta-love-TV moment right there. Yeah the 95-pound pregnant girl is going to crush those giant wooden bars and bust out of her jail cell and overpower the armed guards unless you chain her up.
Yes I was wrong about the cloth note that Hae Nyeong left. But the explanation we got for the delay was pathetic. A servant found the cloth but she kept it for several days because she can’t read. Huh? What was she doing with it, dusting the furniture? Or did she decide to start teaching herself to read because she found the cloth? Forgive me if this seems too nit-picky but that’s just dumb. Put a little more effort into it and come up with a story that makes sense. The fate of that note was a huge suspense point, and to leave it hanging for so long and then offer up a throwaway explanation for it, boo hiss.
Thumbs up to grandpa for making the selfless sacrifice rather than betray KG.
Thumbs down to the producers for KG waking up screaming for his grandpa at the moment it happened, like he has psychic powers.
The brief glimpse of Sayu firing up his troops, it just further showed why he’s a better character than KG. He shows the passion and intensity that you want from a leader in a situation like that.
But on the other hand, give KG credit for diagnosing the messy situation with the rebellion and making all of the right calls. This was the first time as king that I was really impressed with him.
Overall this was a good bounceback episode. Hopefully now that there are fewer things going on it will be easier for the storyline to juggle everything more successfully.