Post by ajk on Apr 11, 2021 3:36:55 GMT -5
Kyun-hwon, final line of this one: “This cannot be real!” Yeah I feel your pain, sort of.
So they turned up the drama level to extra-high for the big battle. Some great stunt work with the fire and the dives into the water—those guys always come through with great stuff—and most of it looked good visually, all of the flaming arrows (here’s one time when using them definitely makes sense in the story and isn’t just a TV gimmick) and the ship-ramming and the combat on the decks. All of it first-rate. And all of it preceded by this high tension about Tepyoung’s prayers and his insistence that the favorable wind is coming, and then look at this, there it is! No doubt people loved it as a TV episode.
But we still have this issue about Tepyoung supposedly calling this sudden wind shift to within a few hours, at least eight days ahead of time. No he did not do that. Stop it. Nobody believes that. And now in this one, suddenly every single person on the Bekjae side turned into a complete blithering idiot. It didn’t occur to one single person that the attackers were waiting for the wind and that they should take care against it happening? Okay obviously the commander messed up, but there wasn’t a single voice arguing the other way? Choi Seung Woo: “I am baffled as well. What could he be praying for in the middle of the ocean?” Oh come on now, I don’t believe for a minute that he wouldn’t know. He’s way too smart not for this to be obvious to him, and that’s been proven over and over again. This stuff just sort of hung over the episode and made it harder to accept.
One thing I did like is Tepyoung doing all of the praying. Pretty clearly a PR stunt he’s pulling, setting up people for later on to believe that WG is the chosen one and heaven hears his prayers. That’s darned clever, if you’re factually certain ahead of time that what you pray for is going to happen.
Did anybody else perk up when the two generals mentioned that the Majin ships had explosives from China? I don’t know why they would bring that up and then we’d never see them in the battle. That was disappointing.
Hey WG, how about you get off your privileged upper-class tushie and do a couple of prayer-bows yourself instead of Tepyoung doing them all! The prayers are in your name! Sheesh.
Back on land, we got the first whispers of plotting for succession, with Ahjitae and Lord Kang. Interesting. Although we could have done without the evil laugh at the end. Boo hiss on that.
Don’t mean to sound too negative about this one because it was done very well. Nice production.
So they turned up the drama level to extra-high for the big battle. Some great stunt work with the fire and the dives into the water—those guys always come through with great stuff—and most of it looked good visually, all of the flaming arrows (here’s one time when using them definitely makes sense in the story and isn’t just a TV gimmick) and the ship-ramming and the combat on the decks. All of it first-rate. And all of it preceded by this high tension about Tepyoung’s prayers and his insistence that the favorable wind is coming, and then look at this, there it is! No doubt people loved it as a TV episode.
But we still have this issue about Tepyoung supposedly calling this sudden wind shift to within a few hours, at least eight days ahead of time. No he did not do that. Stop it. Nobody believes that. And now in this one, suddenly every single person on the Bekjae side turned into a complete blithering idiot. It didn’t occur to one single person that the attackers were waiting for the wind and that they should take care against it happening? Okay obviously the commander messed up, but there wasn’t a single voice arguing the other way? Choi Seung Woo: “I am baffled as well. What could he be praying for in the middle of the ocean?” Oh come on now, I don’t believe for a minute that he wouldn’t know. He’s way too smart not for this to be obvious to him, and that’s been proven over and over again. This stuff just sort of hung over the episode and made it harder to accept.
One thing I did like is Tepyoung doing all of the praying. Pretty clearly a PR stunt he’s pulling, setting up people for later on to believe that WG is the chosen one and heaven hears his prayers. That’s darned clever, if you’re factually certain ahead of time that what you pray for is going to happen.
Did anybody else perk up when the two generals mentioned that the Majin ships had explosives from China? I don’t know why they would bring that up and then we’d never see them in the battle. That was disappointing.
Hey WG, how about you get off your privileged upper-class tushie and do a couple of prayer-bows yourself instead of Tepyoung doing them all! The prayers are in your name! Sheesh.
Back on land, we got the first whispers of plotting for succession, with Ahjitae and Lord Kang. Interesting. Although we could have done without the evil laugh at the end. Boo hiss on that.
Don’t mean to sound too negative about this one because it was done very well. Nice production.