Post by ajk on Dec 4, 2022 1:46:15 GMT -5
That was a brave opening by the director—nobody spoke for nearly a minute.
Those tents caught fire way too easily, that didn’t look good. And some of the lighting was a problem, but we’ve seen worse. Otherwise it got the point across. Loved the marine catapults! This must have been quite an operation by Bekjae, to pull this off with such secrecy. And it sure doesn’t make Choi Ung look good—he’s the minister of military, he certainly shouldn’t have allowed the naval bases to fall into such a state of apathy and weakness.
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That doesn’t look like CGI…probably set them back a pretty penny. And speaking of spending money, let’s give big credit once again to those stunt guys falling and diving around while they’re on fire. A little of that goes a long way, but they put themselves at risk to make the story more vivid and deserve some respect.
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That dream sequence...what was the point of it? We just saw WG feeling pretty darned good about how things were going. He’d have no reason to have his head full of that kind of fear. And it sort of diminished the impressiveness of the complete surprise of the attacks. Served no useful purpose at all and should have been cut.
Park Sulhee: “Rats have crawled into our living room. Those bastards!” There ya go, some respectable trash-talking for once.
This episode was 6-8 minutes shorter than usual…I guess there was no good way to put a break into the story for a while after this. Probably it’s going to be a long, messy search for WG and then Choi “reacting” to learning that WG isn’t there. Which he undoubtedly already knows, so maybe we’ll get the explanation for it all.
Those tents caught fire way too easily, that didn’t look good. And some of the lighting was a problem, but we’ve seen worse. Otherwise it got the point across. Loved the marine catapults! This must have been quite an operation by Bekjae, to pull this off with such secrecy. And it sure doesn’t make Choi Ung look good—he’s the minister of military, he certainly shouldn’t have allowed the naval bases to fall into such a state of apathy and weakness.
(click for full size)
That doesn’t look like CGI…probably set them back a pretty penny. And speaking of spending money, let’s give big credit once again to those stunt guys falling and diving around while they’re on fire. A little of that goes a long way, but they put themselves at risk to make the story more vivid and deserve some respect.
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■ In September of 932 AD, on the 15th year of King Wang Guhn’s reign, Bekjae’s naval force invaded the bank of the Yaesung River. History records the event like this: “General Sangui of Later Bekjae invaded Yaesung River and burned down some hundred ships from the villages of Yumju, Bekju and Jungju, and took back 300 thoroughbred horses from Juhsan-do.” Yet another invasion was recorded in October: “Daewoo-do was attacked by Bekjae’s Sangae. Failure to stop the attack left Wang Guhn distraught. Yaesung River invasion was a devastating blow to Koryo. When Koryo subjugated Naju, their naval force consisted of 100 warships. This leads to the conclusion that the entire naval force was wiped out by this attack.” It had to have been a tremendous setback by Koryo.
That dream sequence...what was the point of it? We just saw WG feeling pretty darned good about how things were going. He’d have no reason to have his head full of that kind of fear. And it sort of diminished the impressiveness of the complete surprise of the attacks. Served no useful purpose at all and should have been cut.
Park Sulhee: “Rats have crawled into our living room. Those bastards!” There ya go, some respectable trash-talking for once.
This episode was 6-8 minutes shorter than usual…I guess there was no good way to put a break into the story for a while after this. Probably it’s going to be a long, messy search for WG and then Choi “reacting” to learning that WG isn’t there. Which he undoubtedly already knows, so maybe we’ll get the explanation for it all.