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Post by ajk on Sept 4, 2007 14:50:50 GMT -5
Tungso yells out "Hey, idiot!" and Li Wen turns and looks at him. Absolutely cracked me up. Nine-year-old kids play that joke on each other. And by the time they're ten they know not to fall for it.
Wish the trash-talking scene had been longer. They could heap abuse on that guy for half the episode and it would still be funny. I didn't even mind that it never occurred to anybody on the Tang side to just start launching arrows at them right away and keep them out of voice range. Or to replace the Khitan guards at that gate right away.
You wonder how some of those guys manage to find their way out of bed in the morning.
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Post by zorro on Sept 5, 2007 8:46:07 GMT -5
Speaking of idiots, Tungso was sitting right next to one… Gaepilsamun! That guy's become the resident dufus to a fault. Quite a fall from feared status as the "Wolf of Madu", and if it's the writers' attempt at comedic relief, it's painful to watch. Maybe he got hit on the head too hard when he and Li Wen went at it.
And what ever happened to Mapa?? For a while there he was the fourth "brother". Now he's nowhere to be seen.
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Post by pip on Sept 5, 2007 14:26:21 GMT -5
Tungso has to be low man on the IQ totem pole, just below Gepilsamun. Heuk Sudol comes off as third from the bottom in these episodes, although he was never a candidate for Goguryeon Mensa, I admit. Those comic relief scenes always feel uncomfortable to me. I think it was episode 84 where those three break into a comedic routine right in the middle of a strategy session DJY led. Bizarre. *Good* question: where is Mapa? I guess he was shunted aside to make room for Gaepil and Tungso. To (mis)quote an old cereal commercial, "I want my Mapa!"  |
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Post by BungalowDweller on Sept 5, 2007 14:39:04 GMT -5
Tungso has to be low man on the IQ totem pole, just below Gepilsamun. Heuk Sudol comes off as third from the bottom in these episodes, although he was never a candidate for Goguryeon Mensa, I admit. Those comic relief scenes always feel uncomfortable to me. I think it was episode 84 where those three break into a comedic routine right in the middle of a strategy session DJY led. Bizarre. *Good* question: where is Mapa? I guess he was shunted aside to make room for Gaepil and Tungso. To (mis)quote an old cereal commercial, "I want my Mapa!" Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! What ever happened to Mapo? Does it still exist as a product? I remember a kid in highschool who started a fire in the lab with an errant bunson burner because he wanted his Mapo! To me the comic interludes are rather Shakespearean. On the surface they can seem out of place but when you look at the characters involved they seem to me to be absolutely in character when they act like fools. Heuk Sudol is positively a Fallstaff! ;D And the Turk is made to look like he's operating with half a deck because he's a white, Turkic barbarian! ;D |
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Post by pip on Sept 5, 2007 15:34:35 GMT -5
Bungalow Dweller, Maypo is available on amazon.com, but you have to look under - - get this - - *gourmet* food. Amazing. Those Maypo commercials drove me crazy.
I think you're spot-on to call Heuk Sudal a Falstaff. Brilliant!
Re: Gepilsamun - - a friend was watching #86 with me, and asked, "What's wrong with that guy?" He LOLed when I described him in words similar to yours.
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Post by Nalbal on Sept 6, 2007 18:41:29 GMT -5
Gaepilsamun reminds me of "Napolean Dynamite", with the way he lets his jaw drop after he speaks. ;D ;D "The Wolf" strikes me as such a first-class idiot. Of course!--- he's the white man.  Yes. . . I noticed Mapa's sudden disappearance. Maybe the writers only needed him for "DJY POW episodes". He's free now. . . maybe he's at Xue's place, raiding his stock of steamed buns. |
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