Help! Need recap

[Soju]

I messed up the timer settings on my video recorder That'll learn me to try to set it from just the front panel, rather than the onscreen menu

Can anyone please post a recap of Sat. Night/Sun. Morning's show?

[TheBo]

I have it on tape, Soju, but I don't know how long it'll take me to watch it in dribs and drabs. I've just started watching Fri night/Sat a.m., but if I finish before someone else posts here, I'll tell you. (May be a few days.)

Bo

[TheBo]

Okay, now I have to make it up to you, Soju, for calling you a smarty pants on the OMR board.

I watched it yesterday--I hope I don't miss anything, but if I get a chance, I'll review the tape before Friday.

First, you know the king has fallen of a mysterious fever. The Sunday show started with doctors and pharmacists and all the court ladies and eunuchs running around in a tizzy. The doctors kept meeting to defend their policies of medicine for the king. Sir Oh tells the doctors if they can't figure this out, they'll pay with their lives. One of the doctors apparently is suspicious of what the other doctors prescribed, and he sends his minion to look up stuff in the library. Nothing seems to have come of that, yet.

Lady Choi hears about this and suggests her brother take advantage of it. He goes to that same doctor who was involved with the Choi family before (I can't remember what he did then, but I remember he was crooked--oh, yeah, he was involved in getting rid of Lady Jung in the fever epidemic). Sir Choi suggests that they can place the blame on Lady Han and Jang-guem and get the doctors off the hook, that there is a mushroom that is poisonous but does not affect the silver poison-detecting spoon.

The doctors jump on the idea that the food must be to blame, and investigate the ducks used by Lady Han in the soup. She is arrested. In their investigation, they discover the ducks eat "sulpher and brimstone", that these are poisonous, that Lady H knew this and therefore she is guilty of treason. (The Chois think "heaven is on their side" because they did not even have to use a trick.) They arrest the duck seller, who says everyone eats the ducks, which give long life and sexual potency and fertility. There is a scene where Sir Oh is presiding over the "confessions" (they're all beat up) of Lady H and the duck seller, both of whom insist that no one has ever come to harm by eating the ducks.

(During this, the head lady tries to get Lady C in as temporary head lady, but Lady C says just release me from my confinement here--did you see the part where she was sent to the visitor's house? I can tell you that part, if you want.)

JG goes to her foster father to see if he can tell her how to reach Colonal Min. He says, I can take you to him. Turns out, he's staying with JG's foster parents. She tells him the problem, and he investigates. (It is while he is investigating that the duck seller is arrested.) JG is arrested because she is Lady H's right hand, and the duck seller, Lady H and JG are all tortured (we don't see that). While they are in the yard again, looking pitiful in their white death robes, being interrogated by Sir Oh ('Who is the instigator of this treason?'), the head of the Palace Guard (Min's boss) comes and says there is reason to believe the ducks are not to blame, that they process the sulpher to make it safe for humans and that's why people thrive eating them. He commands Oh (who does not like this) to hold off on the interrogation until the ducks can be investigated. Really, Min has been to visit his superior, who tells him "I'll handle this--run away from danger," but one of Choi's spies sees Min in the Palace and traces him to where he is hiding. He also hears some plans for destroying the Choi family.

Lady Choi wants Sir Choi to use the mushroom thing. Sir Choi, Lady C and Keum-young all find out about Min being behind their eventual downfall, and Choi decides he must die. KY looks determined. Lady C and Sir C go to the place where they meet with Sir Oh (the drinking/prostitution place) to meet with someone to plan the death of Min. KY shows up, and tells them they are not allowed to kill him, because she loves him. They are apparently stymied by this. I think she threatens to destroy the Choi family if they kill him.

JG and Lady H are still waiting to be released, when the foster mother comes and says for JG to write a note to Min. She gives JG her own pen set, which she lost while saving Min's life. (Min gave it to foster dad to discover owner for him, then dad told mom he got it in payment for drinks dad stole, then mom took the pen set as her payment.) Apparently, JG did not know Min was this person. (A fact that took me completely off guard--I thought she knew this.) Also, foster mom apparently did not know this was JG's pen set, even though she seemed to know when Min brought it to them in the first place. I just found this confusing. I'll try to look at it again.

Anyway, Lady Han and JG are in the dungeon, still. They learn they are to come out of the jail, and that is the end of the episode.

Like I said, I'll look at it again if I can to fill in any holes. Or maybe someone else sees something I missed?

Bo

[Soju]

Bo -

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Kamsahapnida as well!.

One thing does puzzle me. Didn't JG see the writing set on the colonel's desk many episodes ago? It was when she was first getting books from him, and I'm sure they showed her noticing it. But then nothing was mentioned about it.

Anyhow, thanks again. I can just picture all this happening from what you wrote.

I picked a pretty momentous episode to miss

[TheBo]

Soju said:

Didn't JG see the writing set on the colonel's desk many episodes ago? It was when she was first getting books from him, and I'm sure they showed her noticing it. But then nothing was mentioned about it.

Yes, I thought so, too. This is why I was so confused about the whole writing set thing. Maybe someone here has a theory they will share with us?

I was not able to go back and re-view the whole thing (and it was taped over with OMR this a.m.), but I did see the first 15 minutes or so. The two who are questioning the doctors' diagnosis are the doctors themselves--the big, wiggy king's doctor and that crooked doctor from before. They just don't want the other courtiers to know they are unsure. (I remember now that) they kept stopping and starting the king's fever medicine, which made him feel better, then saying it was the anti-sulpher medicine which was making him better (thereby making Lady Han look more guilty). They had a lot of meetings (doctors only) where they kept saying, "Gee, we don't know what's going on here, but let's not let anyone else know that." Also, everyone kept referring back to when Jang-guem saved the chef's life by eating the poison that took her sense of taste away, as a lesson for what to do about the king. Like, that if he has certain symptoms, the medicine would affect him differently. No one seemed to see the contradiction in this--why would JG make the king ill if she'd chance taking her own life to save the prince?

Another thing I was noticing. Everyone seems genuinely concerned about the king's health. Everyone, that is, except the Chois. They seem like cockroaches to me--no matter what happens, they are able to keep alive in the court. Eugh. (The doctors are just concerned about their own necks, but they do want the king to recover.)

Bo

[RichardG]

This Friday episode was blown out of proportion.
It was like they lost the needle in the haystack.

The episode went by SO fast and it had absolutely nothing but sadness as the theme.

This might be a lead in as the stupid ass doctors WILL be replaced by JG.