Three Kingdoms Episode 10

Dong Zhuo's death

It seems that the death of Dong Zhuo has come at last: and none other takes the man's life than Lu Bu himself (for nothing else, but Diaochan's safe and his own in relation with her). I quite liked this episode and Lu Bu's 'brute force'. Even though he is not intelligent and has no strategy whatsoever, he is a man of passion (that is precisely why he was able to do such a deed; he is quite the romantic warrior). He has been thoroughly manipulated these last few episodes, though in a good way. It says something about his character, of course, but I do not keep Lu Bu in contempt, as I have never truly had. Dong Zhuo's death scene was quite nicely made, I believe.

What may come as unexpected, however, is the immediate downfall of the city... Wang has proven to be a quite foolish chancellor, since he had not listened to his advisor, Gongtai, and has done however he pleased, without properly thinking about it. He, as well, was not a man of strategy -thus, his life has also ended this episode. What will happen to the emperor now? Wang ought to have listened to his advisor and pardoned the two warriors, but since he had not, they came to the city's gates and took over the place, resulting in Wang's death (though we must give it to him: he did care about the nation and he died for it; he was an honourable man, albeit a little foolish; he had perhaps been fooled by the sudden capture of power).

Now that Dong Zhuo's dead, we shall wait and see what happens to the Han Dynasty -at least Lu Bu had the good sense to listen to Gongtai and leaves Chang'an. The ending of this episode suggests that we shall see more of Cao Cao and his whereabouts next episode. I am looking forward to it.

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