For me, #1 (So Ji Sub! spies!), #3 (Kim Ji Won! doctors!), #5 (I just loved Yook Sung Tae in the Haunted pPalace), and #8 (Lee Yu Mi and Kim Nam Gil!!! in dreams!).
eps1-4 Oh good! Straight to the heart of costume period Cdrama! Emperors dying, princes slain, usurpers abound!
I am seated and loving it. Nothing like Chen Du Ling for melo-fidelity to parents.
One problem, which I plan to ignore until later. The entire of the first episode looked AIRBRUSHED. It may have been a way to indicate memory of her previous life, but the switch to present doesnt include many 'realistic' textures. However if this actually were one of the new animated films I would be happy as a clam, because
THE PLOT IS GREAT!
We are all living through the absorption of enormous technical advances in visual media, and so things which SIGNIFY temporal situations and tone and type of production etc will probably take a while to sort out.
Personally speaking I am getting tired of romance, so this is like a big crisp ocean wave of political intrigue and heroism. Why not, for a change.
I am really enjoying this. Three still handsome veterans who are such consummate professionals, nicely said -- as actors and as spies; the villains, the gangsters and the police are all also performed in classic kdrama style. Such a treat.
it's ridiculous that people criticize GJZ or the writers for her crying over Ye Xian's death. they were very close…
Since I started all this, I may as well say that I never meant to criticize the veracity of JZ' lament or say that it was not in character.
It was a comment on the overall plot. I was interested in the attitude of the censors and writer on patriotism and military service currently.
In a story of military valor in my experience, which admittedly is modern and governed by the existence in my country of a volunteer force, a reaction from a military wife or friend would have tears and/or anger .
However either she nor YY come from a military family, nor was there currently conscription, nor was this a declared war at that point.
So yes, she took everything personally, being not just a powerful and experienced leader in her own sphere but a woman who feels deeply. No criticism there.
I make no excuse for judging from my own perspective. I like to think aloud in comments and do not pretend to know any answers at all.
Preserve the records of the aspiration. Remember the human beings, their frailty and passions
Its not bad for an ending, although a little grandiose. It preserves the fundamental truth of JZ and YY, they are a political power couple, Their true love makes them united in their projets as well as in (the understood) domesticity.
mid ep6 Now I know why the show is call Dazzlying. Xing Wu shows up in Beijing in the middle of a rainstorm to save Qing Ye and just that first look when she raises her head and sees his face.
Ep39 JZ weeping over YZ's corpse. Clearly not a military family, way too much. And with her husband there wounded? Maybe she enacts what YZ' army feels and so YY stands in respect as well...
Finally started watching this. Heard about it for so long but had trouble getting over the first few scenes. Dont like catty girls thrashing around in their chains. But I have been really drawn into the show. (I am a fan of Bae Suzy, so I was half-way there anyway?)
By Ep4 ..turns out the theme(s) -- jealousy, struggles in the arts, the dire straits competition in SK life is\are totally current now (just watched We Are All Trying Here for a much rawer script and a more mature cast).
Sam Dong! This role is immortal for Kim Soo Hyun. A proper show for basic Korean skills of the actor, it is all herehis heart and deadpan delivery, and with a through-line to Queen of Tears -- the good man from the countryside...
Ep7 I just realized I am not just watching a thriller, but also a much more general analysis of the profound difficulties of obtaining justice under an unjust government. The two b******s who essentially beat Ki Beom to death -- how many others were there who abused political prisoners or abused criminal suspects habitually -- how many police officers were caught up in injustice along with them, but unintentionally?
Ep3-4 I do not know how the show is avoiding being confusing as to where TaeJu and SiYoung's relationship is going, but it feels like a legal case -- all the points are being carefully laid out in front of the viewers.
Ep1 Very good. More of a police procedural than a thriller.
Similiar to the Nordic policiers of the last decade. Except, so far, the ML isntrdeeply alcoholic and depressed . The Tae Ju - Si Young dynamic is very well done -- best by Park Hae Soo so far.
That fleeting look of his past vulnerability merges into his current look of truculence and then he tentatively at first but then more strongly, he gathers up the pieces of his adult self to confront his schoolyard tormentor.
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Oh good! Straight to the heart of costume period Cdrama! Emperors dying, princes slain, usurpers abound!
I am seated and loving it. Nothing like Chen Du Ling for melo-fidelity to parents.
One problem, which I plan to ignore until later. The entire of the first episode looked AIRBRUSHED. It may have been a way to indicate memory of her previous life, but the switch to present doesnt include many 'realistic' textures. However if this actually were one of the new animated films I would be happy as a clam, because
THE PLOT IS GREAT!
We are all living through the absorption of enormous technical advances in visual media, and so things which SIGNIFY temporal situations and tone and type of production etc will probably take a while to sort out.
Personally speaking I am getting tired of romance, so this is like a big crisp ocean wave of political intrigue and heroism. Why not, for a change.
It was a comment on the overall plot. I was interested in the attitude of the censors and writer on patriotism and military service currently.
In a story of military valor in my experience, which admittedly is modern and governed by the existence in my country of a volunteer force, a reaction from a military wife or friend would have tears and/or anger .
However either she nor YY come from a military family, nor was there currently conscription, nor was this a declared war at that point.
So yes, she took everything personally, being not just a powerful and experienced leader in her own sphere but a woman who feels deeply. No criticism there.
I make no excuse for judging from my own perspective. I like to think aloud in comments and do not pretend to know any answers at all.
Burn the mansion of corruption.
Outlaw the cult.
Preserve the records of the aspiration.
Remember the human beings, their frailty and passions
Its not bad for an ending, although a little grandiose.
It preserves the fundamental truth of JZ and YY, they are a political power couple, Their true love makes them united in their projets as well as in (the understood) domesticity.
Now I know why the show is call Dazzlying.
Xing Wu shows up in Beijing in the middle of a rainstorm to save Qing Ye and just that first look when she raises her head and sees his face.
He is dazzlying. (the theme song helps too.)
JZ weeping over YZ's corpse. Clearly not a military family, way too much. And with her husband there wounded?
Maybe she enacts what YZ' army feels and so YY stands in respect as well...
By Ep4
..turns out the theme(s) -- jealousy, struggles in the arts, the dire straits competition in SK life is\are totally current now (just watched We Are All Trying Here for a much rawer script and a more mature cast).
Sam Dong! This role is immortal for Kim Soo Hyun.
A proper show for basic Korean skills of the actor, it is all herehis heart and deadpan delivery, and with a through-line to Queen of Tears -- the good man from the countryside...
Guan Xiao Tong! The scene where Grandma comforts the FL, very well done.
Li Yun Rui is really a treat in bleached blonde --
he is playing teen/young man perfectly.
I just realized I am not just watching a thriller, but also a much more general analysis of the profound difficulties of obtaining justice under an unjust government. The two b******s who essentially beat Ki Beom to death -- how many others were there who abused political prisoners or abused criminal suspects habitually -- how many police officers were caught up in injustice along with them, but unintentionally?
Looks like fun!
I do not know how the show is avoiding being confusing as to where TaeJu and SiYoung's relationship is going, but it feels like a legal case -- all the points are being carefully laid out in front of the viewers.
Very good.
More of a police procedural than a thriller.
Similiar to the Nordic policiers of the last decade.
Except, so far, the ML isntrdeeply alcoholic and depressed
.
The Tae Ju - Si Young dynamic is very well done -- best by Park Hae Soo so far.
That fleeting look of his past vulnerability merges into his current look of truculence and then he tentatively at first but then more strongly, he gathers up the pieces of his adult self to confront his schoolyard tormentor.