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Post by Lucy on Feb 22, 2007 17:01:55 GMT -5
Wow, I've been looking for one of those!
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Post by KyungDaeDoo on Mar 6, 2007 11:25:19 GMT -5
I am watching it, but I am wishing that I hadn't started. I have enjoyed the history and seeing the different philosophies about what Korea should become, but this love triangle stuff is getting old.
Anyone know how many more episodes there are?
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Post by teacher on Mar 6, 2007 18:03:24 GMT -5
According to KoreanWiz there are 71 total, and we in Chicago, have seen 66 episodes. Therefore, 5 more are to be shown.
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Post by gpaul on Mar 19, 2007 7:28:52 GMT -5
I can't believe that there is only one more episode. I love this show and will miss it, however watching it has been such an emotional roller coaster that in a way I am glad it will be over. Park Chang Ju finally got his just end, but it seems that there are so many more stories to complete in only one hour. I wonder if Channel 41 will continue to air shows on Sunday evening in the same two hour format.
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Post by zorro on Mar 19, 2007 8:33:37 GMT -5
I feel like I've been put through a wringer every week. I'll miss it more than any of the other dramas, but I'll also be relieved when it ends. I just hope it isn't sadder than it already has been every single week.
Park Chang Ju got off easy if you ask me. If he does die, it was an honorable death in the line of duty, not the humiliating end he deserves. I'm not sure he doesn't survive somehow, but we'll see.
As long as Hae Kyong ends up happy, I'll be satisfied. She's the most beautiful and endearing character of any drama I've seen yet. I'll miss her most, but all the actors in this series were phenomenal from the child actors to the underated mothers. I feel like I know them all, that's how convincing their performances have been.
The music and cinematography were outstanding enough to get me past the depressing theme of war and suffering so many of these amazing people had to endure.
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Post by Lucy on Mar 19, 2007 10:19:50 GMT -5
Park Chang Ju got off easy if you ask me. If he does die, it was an honorable death in the line of duty, not the humiliating end he deserves. I'm not sure he doesn't survive somehow, but we'll see. I agree. Of all the times Oon-hyuk could have killed Park Chang-ju and didn't, he had to pick this one? If he had only killed him, for example, when he was cornered by the NK soldiers (about 30 episodes ago), the two families (Oon-hyuk's and Ke-hee's) wouldn't have gotten so enmeshed in political things and accused of these various crimes. Most of their family members would still be alive, too, if there hadn't been so much running around hiding family members and being fugitives. Of course we wouldn't have had a story, but stupid Park Chang-ju would have been out of the picture, and that can only be good. I hate that guy. What he did in the name of "love," which was not some admirable steadfast love but a sick, shallow, obsessional fixation, ruined many peoples' lives. And what he did in the name of "Commie hunting" was just as sick. He was just an obsessive, opportunistic creep with delusions of moral superiority. And ever since he raped Song-hee and got away with it scot-free, the bastard, I just get sick looking at him. He reminds me of the Tim Piggott-Smith character in "Jewel in the Crown."
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Post by kathleen34 on Mar 19, 2007 11:23:05 GMT -5
Zorro and Lucy... your statements are beautifully written. ... whoever did the casting on this drama deserves a wonderful award.
I've loved this drama from it's very beginning. Park Chang-ju was a rotten ego-driven kid and he carried that MO right to the end. Opportunist is too kind of a word. When he turned his back on his sweet little baby... we could go on and on. and yes, he DID get off easy.
With the last two episodes scheduled for 3/25... it surely can't end happily ever after. Last nite was very very hard to watch. Dr. Moon's death was portrayed so well ... the emotional anguish... is something we probably all felt.
I will truly miss these awe-inspiring characters who shared my living room these 72 hours.
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Post by Lucy on Mar 19, 2007 13:00:42 GMT -5
Kathleen, thank you for the compliment. I like your characterization of him as a "rotten ego-driven kid," and I think you're absolutely right. I've heard it said that he is admirable because of his willingness to move heaven and earth "for the woman he loves," and I disagree most emphatically. In fact, his is the epitome of creepy stalker love: seeing the woman not for who she is, but for what she is and what winning her would mean for you. It doesn't matter what she thinks or what she wants, or how odious you are to her. Me, if someone I liked had such antipathy toward me, I'd give up fast and keep away, then do some soul-searching to make sure I wasn't really a creepy stalker.
Could someone please tell me how Moon Dong-gi's death finally played out? I missed the beginning of the episode. I know that when the previous week's episodes ended, Chul-hyung was being asked to assassinate him, and he agreed but was looking for a way to get Moon out of there. When I tuned in, he was already dead.
P.S. Kathleen, I think there is only one more episode, not two.
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Post by Lucy on Mar 19, 2007 13:06:00 GMT -5
Also, I wanted to say that while this was not a perfect series, I enjoyed it very much. I learned something about history, and it was like a marathon seeing up-close (through the medium of a fictional story) just how much and how thoroughly a war ruins peoples' lives. It's almost like the war served as a character in itself; because of the war, the characters were forced to take sides, resulting in punishment, and putting them in positions where they just didn't have any else to go anymore. The thing that saved Ke-hee for a while was her misguided branding as "People's Hero," which she never wanted; then when the tables were turned, she was Public Enemy Number One. All the while she was the same person, just trying to do what was right. It was frustrating.
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