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Post by ajk on Feb 18, 2024 13:35:11 GMT -5
...is up on Kocowa now, with English subs. The usual 24 hours to watch it before it goes behind the series paywall.
Looks like they're back to getting the subs done quicker. It works out well this way for the USA time zones.
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Post by ajk on Feb 18, 2024 15:42:38 GMT -5
This one was a complete waste of time. What's really sad is that the nugget of reality that we're dealing with here--civil officials trying to use assets held by military officials to pay the civil officials' salaries--that's potentially a terrific story for a historical drama. A complex, interesing one! You can certainly understand how the military would react badly to such a thing, after fighting off that massive Khitan army and repelling more attacks after the first one, while most of the civil officials fled the capital. They did a great job, and this is how they're rewarded? Maybe not agree with how they handled it, but certainly understand their motivation. A skilled writer could give us that story and make it interesting. The people who wrote EWG, or Jeong Dojeon, or those two wonderful episodes of Queen Seondeok that stood out among all of the bad writing around them...THOSE people could do it. This head writer, he's turned it into a fairy tale. Good guys and bad guys and the fair maiden locked up in the dungeon and the virtuous king and the wicked queen and the evil wizard with his goon henchmen. Not up to the challenge and so the whole thing has gone completely off the rails. I thought the Ji Chae Moon scene in the previous episode was hitting rock bottom, but this entire episode could be lifted right out of the real story and nothing would be missed. An entire freaking episode. But hey, it's all great, look what we may get! I don't even know what to say at this point.
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Post by sageuk on Feb 18, 2024 22:29:39 GMT -5
Internal strife plots when it comes to historicals about countries at war with each other are a drag, even if there is basis for it
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Post by truth on Feb 19, 2024 10:38:36 GMT -5
Historically accurate parts of this episode :
1. Kim Hun & Choi Jil take control of power and turns Hyeonjong into a puppet
2. Jang Yeonwoo and Hwangbo Yui get banished
3. Hyeonjong accepts Kim Hun and Choil Jil's demand and promises to decide all important matters with the military
4. Hyeonjong abolishes "Censorate" and replaces it with Geumodae(not sure what the exact English translation would be) as demanded by Kim Hun and Choil Jil
Everything else was all fiction.
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Post by sageuk on Feb 19, 2024 11:03:12 GMT -5
Poor Hyeonjong. Both historically and this drama. Having to be under the thumb of aggressive generals twice in his reign
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Post by truth on Feb 20, 2024 20:21:23 GMT -5
Actor playing Lee Jarim is son of the actor who played Choi Seungwoo in Emperor Wang Guhn Choi Seungwoo in Emperor Wang Guhn
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Post by ajk on Feb 23, 2024 20:58:22 GMT -5
Very cool! Thanks for the pics...I'll have to pay close attention to the son. His dad was terrific in EWG--one of the most interesting characters in the series and he performed a high level for 175 episodes, very impressive stuff. Historically accurate parts of this episode : 1. Kim Hun & Choi Jil take control of power and turns Hyeonjong into a puppet 2. Jang Yeonwoo and Hwangbo Yui get banished 3. Hyeonjong accepts Kim Hun and Choil Jil's demand and promises to decide all important matters with the military 4. Hyeonjong abolishes "Censorate" and replaces it with Geumodae(not sure what the exact English translation would be) as demanded by Kim Hun and Choil Jil Everything else was all fiction. Yeah fair enough, that was significant stuff. All of it or most of it was covered in that one confrontation in the council hall, so I'll say "complete waste of time" with that exception. It really was stunning how little of it was necessary and how much of it actually did resemble a fairy tale. Even Gamchan, he's the sage old wiseman who appears in all places at once and intimidates the goon henchmen, gotta have one of those in a fairy tale, don't you? About the only thing missing is Tinker Bell sprinkling magic fairy dust on Ji Chaemoon to give him the strength to fight another bunch of guys by himself. Sheesh. And right now the big suspense question isn't about the Khitan at all, or Hyeonjong, or even Gamchan. It's Will we get the long-awaited gender-equality cliff dive? It would be hard to believe even this writer would do it to an imperial consort...but they sure have set it up perfectly. Probably a 50-50 shot either way.
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