Post by sageuk on Apr 17, 2011 21:45:22 GMT -5
Dong Yi and Yi San don't really have to be seen in order.
Yi San is one of my personal favorites in Kdramas. The only nits to pick is that the writer has to work on the repetitive dialogue.
Dong Yi, I think is good, but of course it wouldn't be as good as Yi San. There's just no way they could have the same spirit as its predecessor. But they sure tried. One criticism regarding this though is that it borrows too heavily from Lee Byung-hoon's previous works, such as Yi San and Dong Yi. If you've seen both works, you'd probably understand what I mean-given that Choi-Sukbin was lowborn to begin with, some of the similarities may have been inevitable. It's also a little predictable near the end, and some of the interesting characters stop becoming interesting until the near end. The comic relief is also overplayed now that I think about it-Yi San had something similar to that, if I recall correctly. What kept me going with this one, however, are the relationships: Sukjong's love for Dong Yi, and the mother-son relationship between Dong Yi and the young Yeongjo, is the stuff of heartwarming. Its also refreshing to see half brothers in royal family dramas to actually care for each other. I'm not sure whether they really did like each other or not historically, but the crown prince did name Yeongjo as his successor. With the villains...meh.... It also has one of the most heartwarming endings I've seen in a historical
^Did anyone get seizures from the flash effects everytime there's a flashback? Never before have I seen the word flashback used so literally.
I haven't seen Iris, and I've heard complaints about the ending.
Dae Mul, I stopped watching around, I don't remember. I'll have to watch that one again at some point.
Yi San is one of my personal favorites in Kdramas. The only nits to pick is that the writer has to work on the repetitive dialogue.
Dong Yi, I think is good, but of course it wouldn't be as good as Yi San. There's just no way they could have the same spirit as its predecessor. But they sure tried. One criticism regarding this though is that it borrows too heavily from Lee Byung-hoon's previous works, such as Yi San and Dong Yi. If you've seen both works, you'd probably understand what I mean-given that Choi-Sukbin was lowborn to begin with, some of the similarities may have been inevitable. It's also a little predictable near the end, and some of the interesting characters stop becoming interesting until the near end. The comic relief is also overplayed now that I think about it-Yi San had something similar to that, if I recall correctly. What kept me going with this one, however, are the relationships: Sukjong's love for Dong Yi, and the mother-son relationship between Dong Yi and the young Yeongjo, is the stuff of heartwarming. Its also refreshing to see half brothers in royal family dramas to actually care for each other. I'm not sure whether they really did like each other or not historically, but the crown prince did name Yeongjo as his successor. With the villains...meh.... It also has one of the most heartwarming endings I've seen in a historical
^Did anyone get seizures from the flash effects everytime there's a flashback? Never before have I seen the word flashback used so literally.
I haven't seen Iris, and I've heard complaints about the ending.
Dae Mul, I stopped watching around, I don't remember. I'll have to watch that one again at some point.