Another vote to include Six Flying Dragons from me!! Also, the fights in NiF2 were at least as impressive as NiF1 imo. And another Chinese drama's sword-fighting scenes to include is The Flame's daughter!! As of other Korean Dramas, Tree with Deep Roots (less scenes than SFD but as good), Yaksha (a relatively unknown bloody mature short drama), The Return of Iljimae and, last but not least, my beautiful boys in Warrior Baek Dong Soo!!
Great article, thanks!! As a sageuk maniac, I'm waiting for part 2 (and maybe 3, 4...) for all the other portrayals of important Korean historical figures in sageuks!!!
Well, that's how it goes. But the last 10 episodes are brilliant
Right! I was emotionally scarred when they turned against each other (usually, I don't even mind "sad endings" where characters die, but characters turning against each other & killing each other makes me feel broken :( ).. But despite that, I've never stopped recommending this drama to everyone I know, even to people who have never even watch an Asian drama in their life, lol. The way these episodes played, their different strategies and different point of views, their dialogues & philosophies, were so brilliant, and humanely universally applicable. Sambong dreamed a righteous, bloodless rebellion, the creation of his own utopia, and sticked to it till the end. Especially his obsession over (his lover -as I like to call him, lol) Poeun was probably the last straw. Bang Won on the other hand was more pragmatist, even if he had the same world views as Sambong. He admired Sambong, he really was his master, the way he looked at him before killing him, his goodbye to his seonsaengnim, was heartbreaking!
Im on ep 4 and Xuan Nu and Li Jing keep referring Si Yin as "her" and "she", so Xuan Nu knows she's really a girl…
She doesn't know, maybe that's due to translation for convenience.. And I think in Chinese there aren't gender pronouns, they would refer to "that person" instead of he/she, but I'm not 100% sure of that..
This looks really good and unique for a Korean historical/fantasy drama!! But I hope they put some political staff in it, cause these writers really shine in political staff!!!
Please correct me if I am wrong. But for the names part, especially in historical/wuxia/xianxia dramas, characters…
Right!! e.g. Jumong=81 episodes, Queen Seon Duk=62 episodes, Dae Jo Yeong=134! episodes, Dong Yi=60 episodes, etc.. And all of them with 1 hr+ duration episodes!!!
I've always assumed that coughing up blood is so common because it's a 'clean' (perhaps a little romantic, too?…
Not only a cultural thing, in Europe in Medieval and later years, it was a common practice to "bleed" the patient to cure all diseases (cut with a knife and let the "bad blood" fall).. And though it WAS useful in some cases (think of all these kings and royals that just seat all day & eat extremely rich foods, they could use the lower blood pressure etc.), most of the time it was a bogus or scam practice of doctors that didn't know anything else to do, and using herbs in Christian -especially Catholic- Europe was considered heresy or obsolete practice...
Keep in mind that not all shows are available on all regions, though. Fyi, I've created a list of Asian Dramas on Netflix (in my region), https://kisskh.at/list/l4jMoPR3 not 100% complete but you may find it interesting!
I want to begin this drama, but I need some urgent advice!! Which version is the best one to watch, the 63-episode version (stated as the TV-version/cut) or the 60-episode version (the one that's on Viki)?? Please help, which one has less cut scenes? Usually Viki has the director's cut of the dramas, so they should be more complete and have less banned scenes, but I'm not sure if this is true in this case... There's also the Netflix version, that also has 63 episodes, but I'm not sure if it's the same as the TV version...
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The way these episodes played, their different strategies and different point of views, their dialogues & philosophies, were so brilliant, and humanely universally applicable.
Sambong dreamed a righteous, bloodless rebellion, the creation of his own utopia, and sticked to it till the end. Especially his obsession over (his lover -as I like to call him, lol) Poeun was probably the last straw.
Bang Won on the other hand was more pragmatist, even if he had the same world views as Sambong. He admired Sambong, he really was his master, the way he looked at him before killing him, his goodbye to his seonsaengnim, was heartbreaking!
not 100% complete but you may find it interesting!
Which version is the best one to watch, the 63-episode version (stated as the TV-version/cut) or the 60-episode version (the one that's on Viki)??
Please help, which one has less cut scenes? Usually Viki has the director's cut of the dramas, so they should be more complete and have less banned scenes, but I'm not sure if this is true in this case... There's also the Netflix version, that also has 63 episodes, but I'm not sure if it's the same as the TV version...