Post by ajk on Jan 6, 2023 14:41:51 GMT -5
WG: “He can’t be dead! He would not leave me!” Ugh, dude…he very recently DID try to leave you, remember? Because he couldn’t handle that whole cholera epidemic thing?
Okay yes, he was a very important figure in the story. But it still feels like his dying has been overdone some. Sorry but not feeling it. Is it just me? Maybe because the previous thing with him was played up so much. WG went to his house then too.
Whatever that thing on Kyun-hwon’s back is, he’d better get it looked at soon. Off-camera please!
UGH didn’t speak up fast enough. No I will not post a screenshot. Yecch. (But they sure did go to some trouble to put some very dramatic-looking stuff on the actor’s back.) Here’s what the Mayo Clinic website has to say about this: “A boil is a painful, pus-filled bump that forms under your skin when bacteria infect and inflame one or more of your hair follicles. A carbuncle is a cluster of boils that form a connected area of infection under the skin.” There ya go. And no, still not posting any screenshots, I don’t care how much you all beg.
Sure did like the scenes with the physician though. KH took the guy’s advice seriously and respected him. Actually that was probably the best thing about the episode, if only because we’re so not used to this in historicals.
The guy playing Shin-guhm, I wasn’t sure about him but he’s turned into a good casting choice. He did a nice job in this one of conveying sort of a mixed confidence/apprehensiveness vibe as he came back home.
“Knowing your mistake is the first step to preventing the next. Learn from this and never repeat the same mistake again.” It definitely seems like KH is more willing than ever to consider giving Shin-guhm the throne after all. Still not comfortable with it, but he didn’t emphasize the negative like he always used to.
But it really is amazing—all Shin-guhm had to do was turn around and go back home after destroying the enemy’s navy and sacking its capital. That’s all he had to do! And Choi told him to do it, too. In the end it’s tragic to think about, how inherited-power royals like him would keep getting so many chances for command, and cost so many soldiers their lives because of repeated bad decisions, and still not have their power taken away from them.
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And they set up pretty elaborate scenes in both training camps to go with the narrated texts. It’s just wonderful how those texts come to life with the extra visuals. I do wish that we’d seen the map earlier, like before Gochang, just to orient us better at that time. Gochang is much farther east than I realized.
WG: “Dark clouds are moving in.” Yeah at supersonic speed. That was really, really bad—and not just once but twice. Somebody in post-production should have ordered those clouds replaced because they looked ridiculous. You can show clouds moving in at a more realistic pace, and throw in some lightning flashes and some thunder rumble, and you get the point across just fine. Major stinker there.
Will do 181 in the next few days and we’ll be back on schedule.
■ Choi Ung: the son of Udal, merchant baron of Hwangju. He was ordered killed at birth by King Goongyae and was raised in concealment because cucumber vines in his family garden had yielded melons at his conception, and this was deemed an ill omen to the regime by the royal augur. He was installed into office at age 14 and served the country as the prodigy of the time. His expert knowledge of Chinese classics and composition earned him [the] adoration of King Goongyae who called him a divine sage and kept him very close. After Goongyae turned despotic by taking innocent lives by claiming to possess mind reading powers, Wang Guhn also fell victim to his mistrust, but Choi Ung saved his life and played a vital role in Wang Guhn’s rise to the throne. Under Wang Guhn’s administration he held offices in the Supreme Council, Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Military, and was noted for his purity and selflessness. Upon his death at 35 he was elevated to Great Son/Guardian, and was buried at the royal sepulcher under [the] posthumous title of Bright and Calm.
Okay yes, he was a very important figure in the story. But it still feels like his dying has been overdone some. Sorry but not feeling it. Is it just me? Maybe because the previous thing with him was played up so much. WG went to his house then too.
Whatever that thing on Kyun-hwon’s back is, he’d better get it looked at soon. Off-camera please!
UGH didn’t speak up fast enough. No I will not post a screenshot. Yecch. (But they sure did go to some trouble to put some very dramatic-looking stuff on the actor’s back.) Here’s what the Mayo Clinic website has to say about this: “A boil is a painful, pus-filled bump that forms under your skin when bacteria infect and inflame one or more of your hair follicles. A carbuncle is a cluster of boils that form a connected area of infection under the skin.” There ya go. And no, still not posting any screenshots, I don’t care how much you all beg.
Sure did like the scenes with the physician though. KH took the guy’s advice seriously and respected him. Actually that was probably the best thing about the episode, if only because we’re so not used to this in historicals.
The guy playing Shin-guhm, I wasn’t sure about him but he’s turned into a good casting choice. He did a nice job in this one of conveying sort of a mixed confidence/apprehensiveness vibe as he came back home.
“Knowing your mistake is the first step to preventing the next. Learn from this and never repeat the same mistake again.” It definitely seems like KH is more willing than ever to consider giving Shin-guhm the throne after all. Still not comfortable with it, but he didn’t emphasize the negative like he always used to.
But it really is amazing—all Shin-guhm had to do was turn around and go back home after destroying the enemy’s navy and sacking its capital. That’s all he had to do! And Choi told him to do it, too. In the end it’s tragic to think about, how inherited-power royals like him would keep getting so many chances for command, and cost so many soldiers their lives because of repeated bad decisions, and still not have their power taken away from them.
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■ Battle of Unju: Unju refers to modern Hongsung in Chungchong Province. Unju was directly east of Gochang where Kyun-hwon had tasted bitter defeat a few years earlier. This horizonal line now defined the battlefield between Koryo and Bekjae. Wang Guhn wanted to strike Bekjae through Unju, and Bekjae wanted to break a new path for their expansion. This battle in late September of 934 was a chance for Bekjae to recover from defeat in Gochang and for Koryo to recover their pride from [the] humiliating invasion of Yaesung River. Now, as they entered late fall, the two armies were prepared to move out to Unju.
And they set up pretty elaborate scenes in both training camps to go with the narrated texts. It’s just wonderful how those texts come to life with the extra visuals. I do wish that we’d seen the map earlier, like before Gochang, just to orient us better at that time. Gochang is much farther east than I realized.
WG: “Dark clouds are moving in.” Yeah at supersonic speed. That was really, really bad—and not just once but twice. Somebody in post-production should have ordered those clouds replaced because they looked ridiculous. You can show clouds moving in at a more realistic pace, and throw in some lightning flashes and some thunder rumble, and you get the point across just fine. Major stinker there.
Will do 181 in the next few days and we’ll be back on schedule.