We open on Future Eun-soo, who’s traveled a hundred years back in time. With his queen’s life in danger and his trusted general gone, the king starts to unravel at the seams, making for a powerful arc for what is still the best character of this series. It’s the king’s turn to shine, or rather Ryu Deok-hwan’s turn to shine as the king. No room here.231 OctoJanuFaith: Episode 20 by girlfriday So does it matter that perhaps it is a little adolescent while covering a sublime set of universal themes? there's so much more I would like to say here, but I guess I will have to write an essay about it. As a former film maker though, I cannot help but want this show to continue to evolve. Perhaps I'm simply a 65 year old baby looking at my past remembering in my own melancholy some of the finer things in my life. The result makes for scholarly study of such a phenomenon as well as an enjoyable and even emotional/spiritual experience even if it is adolescent at its core. It is very well established, and this series makes that obvious. I've been privileged to have seen some of the top actors of the series in other major films, and the impetus created by the story-lines and stylistic methodology compels the viewer to keep watching for the next episodes.
As the first reviewer has said, it is very obvious the director tightens the series very sublimely as it progresses, moving nicely to much deeper themes than simply a love story or drama. But even with their use of contemporary Korean, I realize at this very instant, the power lies in a mixture of archaic expression with the contemporary "kids", "punks", etc., showing the exquisite complexity that one simple word can carry in the politics of the mind in a chess game or Go.
It's so very Shakespearean in his characters' consistent struggle to find one another in a feudal age where honor is everything to a male. But I'm so curious about the archaic language that I might be missing because that language has always reflected the complex and brutal formality of the ancient cultures of the Asian societies. I found it on Netflix as the love tension between them evolves, and there are some hilarious moments with these two as they struggle to hide their growing love from both themselves and one another. This series is so very well done, I'm hoping it continues. I have come to appreciate the emotions good Korean actors can emit in a scene.
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