
I am in love with (The Return of) Iljimae. In love, in love, in mad mad mad love. In fact, sacriledge though it must be, it just might be THE drama of the season for me, more so than even *gasp* Boys Over Flowers. It's perfect.
Also, OMG! I think it has the best opening sequence I have seen the whole year, since last January's Hong Gil Dong!

It is, also, one of the most gorgeous dramas I have seen: I just might buy the DVDs, even if the DVDs won't have subs, in order to watch something so beautiful on the big screen.

In case you don't know the story, Iljimae is based on a very famous manhwa about an illegitimate son, a result of his mother's rape by her master, who is taken away at birth and abandoned. He does grow up and undergoes all sorts of experience before becoming a sort of Robin Hood figure - a masked avenger of wrongs. There is also (1) the strong-willed, intellectual woman who loves him (and who looks like his dead first love); (2) his mother, a remarkable woman who managed to survive and even acquire status and position, and who still looks for him. And (3) the police commander who is charged with catching the mysterious rebel, but who cannot help but sympathize with him (and who is also the man who loves Iljimae's mother, btw).

So yeah, did I mention the pretty of it all?

You can find subbed eps streaming on viikii, though the screen is relatively small and this is a drama that deserves to be watched on as big a screen as possible (you can dl high quality raws in all the usual places).

(All caps are from dramabeans)

Oh, and here is the drama opening:
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:06 pm (UTC)But it really needs subs to be fully apreacited which is why it's such a pity no subbing group has picked it up yet. So, what I'm doing is watching raw then going to Viikii for the subbed version. Sigh.
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Date: 2009-02-16 07:34 pm (UTC)The beauty of the screencaps just did it. It looks as pretty as The Legend which is saying something :).
By the way, is your baby allright? ^^ And you?
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Date: 2009-02-16 10:22 pm (UTC)I haven't seen dl subs for this but viikii really has good quality for this.
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Date: 2009-02-16 11:41 pm (UTC)Or maybe I'll just succumb someday and just watch it.
But I want time to appreciate every singe detail of this drama but I don't have the state of mind to do that right now!!!!
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Date: 2009-02-17 09:05 pm (UTC)I was going to buy the first yesterday, but bought a few others instead.
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