Post by ajk on Mar 21, 2020 1:17:33 GMT -5
What. The hell. Happened?
This series had never been anything less than very good and nearly all of it was excellent or better...and then we get this opening? It felt like a comedy intro for a parody historical near-porn flick. An all-female-led regiment and the whole thing plays out because Park Sulhee is thinking with his genitals and not following his orders, are you kidding me? I had to walk away from the screen for an hour, it was so shocking and bitterly disappointing.
“Please punish me, my lady!” Yeah, wonderful. Take off the armor and put on some leather.
And then they let the Goryeans leave just as they were about to finish them off? Good heavens just nooooooooo. Somebody tell me the episode ran on April Fool’s Day, or somehow pranksters got into the KBS video room and spliced this into the tape. It just can’t be.
And why are they saying the leader has unmatched beauty? No offense to her, and yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder...but she looks like she just ate a dozen bad clams and they’re kicking back on her. Geez what a sourpuss. Or maybe I’m just being unkind because I’ve just seen our series taken over by hostile forces.
“Obeissance?” Well thank goodness it passed quickly. With that one word the whole thing got right back on track again. Whew. How cool was that, seeing Angry Old Dad stunned into silence with one word. And the whole sequence that followed with Kyun-hwon, seeing the dad waver and reconsider, you really didn’t know what was going to happen.
“Please be quiet, wife!” We can certainly all agree about THAT line being waaaaaay overdue.
Sulhee: “I am so pathetic. Beaten by a woman!” Wait, that’s exactly what you asked her for, right? Ugh.
Jongkahn: “It takes superior knowledge and leadership to be a ruler. His majesty has all that...as long as he has me.” You wondered what Eunbu was thinking when he heard that and smiled at Jongkahn. Was he simply being polite and respectful, or was it prompted by a little bit of amusement or maybe even concern? Interesting moment.
Here’s a question: Would they really have called them the Later Three Kingdoms at that time? I kind of doubt it, but maybe it’s just a translation thing.
The one narrated text:
This series had never been anything less than very good and nearly all of it was excellent or better...and then we get this opening? It felt like a comedy intro for a parody historical near-porn flick. An all-female-led regiment and the whole thing plays out because Park Sulhee is thinking with his genitals and not following his orders, are you kidding me? I had to walk away from the screen for an hour, it was so shocking and bitterly disappointing.
“Please punish me, my lady!” Yeah, wonderful. Take off the armor and put on some leather.
And then they let the Goryeans leave just as they were about to finish them off? Good heavens just nooooooooo. Somebody tell me the episode ran on April Fool’s Day, or somehow pranksters got into the KBS video room and spliced this into the tape. It just can’t be.
And why are they saying the leader has unmatched beauty? No offense to her, and yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder...but she looks like she just ate a dozen bad clams and they’re kicking back on her. Geez what a sourpuss. Or maybe I’m just being unkind because I’ve just seen our series taken over by hostile forces.
“Obeissance?” Well thank goodness it passed quickly. With that one word the whole thing got right back on track again. Whew. How cool was that, seeing Angry Old Dad stunned into silence with one word. And the whole sequence that followed with Kyun-hwon, seeing the dad waver and reconsider, you really didn’t know what was going to happen.
“Please be quiet, wife!” We can certainly all agree about THAT line being waaaaaay overdue.
Sulhee: “I am so pathetic. Beaten by a woman!” Wait, that’s exactly what you asked her for, right? Ugh.
Jongkahn: “It takes superior knowledge and leadership to be a ruler. His majesty has all that...as long as he has me.” You wondered what Eunbu was thinking when he heard that and smiled at Jongkahn. Was he simply being polite and respectful, or was it prompted by a little bit of amusement or maybe even concern? Interesting moment.
Here’s a question: Would they really have called them the Later Three Kingdoms at that time? I kind of doubt it, but maybe it’s just a translation thing.
The one narrated text:
In truth, both Later Koryo and Later Bekjae lacked credible basis to be called independent nations up to this point. Both leaders had risen to power in small villages and proclaimed kingships as they expanded their land, but they didn’t have all the requisites of a nation. Once Kyun-hwon begins putting himself on the map by naming his country and opening foreign relations, Jongkahn urges Goongyae to do the same. This was the beginning of the Later Three Kingdoms Era. Koryo, Later Bekjae and Shilla would now rival each other as autonomous nations.Okay so the episode got itself back on track again. But honestly the opening was extremely unnerving because through 34 episodes we never saw any hint of the kind of idiocy that we suddenly got in this one. Yikes.