Post by ajk on Dec 9, 2023 14:59:55 GMT -5
So the theme of this one is Everybody’s looking for the prince. Most of it felt more like Everybody’s looking for a plot! It wasn’t bad, but most of it was slow and uneventful, like they’re just killing time to fill another episode. Cannot imagine what they’d have done at 50 episodes.
Wow, that Hee-jung is Employee of the Month for sure. So loyal and selfless...it was good to hear that she was exiled rather than tortured or killed. There probably isn't any historical record of it but you'd like to think that at some point somebody went to bat for her and got her exile lifted so she could come back. (BTW Hamkyung was the farthest northeast province at the time, and Samsoo was one of the northernmost counties there, along the Yalu River. So she got sent a long way away.)
Aw come on now, that one burning piece of paper turned into a huge fire within seconds. I know it doesn’t work well for TV to show a slow-moving fire, but they could have come up with a way to show the passage of time properly.
At least we got a couple of more good Hwawan slaps in there. Oh wait, there’s a third. And now Mistress Moon’s nose is bleeding again from slaps to her cheek, somebody please explain that one.
So apparently this is accurate, Sado did jump into the well after his dad chewed him out. But didn’t it make you think of all of those cliff dives that are a treasured cliché around here? Good times, good times.
And the women are fainting and the men are screaming...“It happened to fast, no one could stop him.” And now I can recycle the old line about the scene having a lot of gravity.
This actually was accurate too. Yeongjo really did go outside of the palace and ask commoners for opinions. Good for the producers for showing us this. They went to some trouble and spent some money to give us this image. Too bad they didn’t work this into the story more rather than dragging out the Where’s Sado stuff...but maybe their target audience wasn’t people who wanted to listen to policy discussions. Fair enough.
And the scene at the end with LH trying to lift Sado’s spirits, that was real nice, a highlight of the series. The writing was good and the actress playing LH did a good job, she’s been excellent all along. Too old to be the real LH but that’s not her fault. Solid ending.
Wow, that Hee-jung is Employee of the Month for sure. So loyal and selfless...it was good to hear that she was exiled rather than tortured or killed. There probably isn't any historical record of it but you'd like to think that at some point somebody went to bat for her and got her exile lifted so she could come back. (BTW Hamkyung was the farthest northeast province at the time, and Samsoo was one of the northernmost counties there, along the Yalu River. So she got sent a long way away.)
Aw come on now, that one burning piece of paper turned into a huge fire within seconds. I know it doesn’t work well for TV to show a slow-moving fire, but they could have come up with a way to show the passage of time properly.
At least we got a couple of more good Hwawan slaps in there. Oh wait, there’s a third. And now Mistress Moon’s nose is bleeding again from slaps to her cheek, somebody please explain that one.
So apparently this is accurate, Sado did jump into the well after his dad chewed him out. But didn’t it make you think of all of those cliff dives that are a treasured cliché around here? Good times, good times.
And the women are fainting and the men are screaming...“It happened to fast, no one could stop him.” And now I can recycle the old line about the scene having a lot of gravity.
This actually was accurate too. Yeongjo really did go outside of the palace and ask commoners for opinions. Good for the producers for showing us this. They went to some trouble and spent some money to give us this image. Too bad they didn’t work this into the story more rather than dragging out the Where’s Sado stuff...but maybe their target audience wasn’t people who wanted to listen to policy discussions. Fair enough.
And the scene at the end with LH trying to lift Sado’s spirits, that was real nice, a highlight of the series. The writing was good and the actress playing LH did a good job, she’s been excellent all along. Too old to be the real LH but that’s not her fault. Solid ending.