Our angst is Shakesperean...
Oct. 15th, 2008 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousie(Sorry for spamming, y'all).
It is KILLING me that nobody on my friendslist except for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bae_mac and timescout is watching this. This is the best drama of the season, even better than East of Eden!
I also think Kingdom of the Winds is fast turning into 'and which character's life shall be destroyed today' type of drama but not in a tacky way. It's positively Shakespearean with its dysfunctional fratricidal families, manipulative kings, fate and cursed destinies. Pretty good.
Exhibit A: Muhyul, unknown and unknowing Prince of Gogureyo, cursed to kill his father and destroy the country, who grew up as a slave and is now under orders to kill King Yuri, the man he does not know is his father, and the man he hates above all:
Exhibit 2: Yeon, until recently a Princess of Puyo, loved and protected by all. Now her father has been falsely accused of treason and executed and she barely managed to escape with her life thanks to Muhyul. She has no money, position or title any more, and cannot ever show her face in Puyo. All she is now is a slave, with no protection or hope for the future.Please tell me her disgusting new owner isn't going to try to sell her to that tribal leader he supplies girls to. Ugh.
Exhibit 3: King Yuri, the embattled King of Gogureyo. He's had to watch his eldest, beloved son sacrifice his life to save him and his Kingdom. He's had to give up his second son years earlier when the son was a baby in order to escape a curse. No wonder he is plagued by nightmares.
Muhyul is just so pretty:
King Yuri is plagued by nightmares. You know what is really sad? Even once Muhyul finds out who he really is, readjustment to that sort of life would be pretty hard. A life of slavery and evil ninjaism is hard to shake off. He is developing into a pretty bitter realist, isn't he? No room for shiny ideals much - he sees the way they are crushed.
Yeon is entirely alone in the world, she who has always been surrounded by friends and servants before. And while she has valuable and useful skills and a great deal of courage, she has been quite happy and sheltered before (the one really joyful character) and dealing with this, and with her father being murdered, must be awful.
Unknowing half-brothers meet again. Oh Muhyul: your desperation, hopelessness and quest for revenge are so not what Haemyeong would have wanted for you.
I like the youngest Prince having some sort of an OTP :) Haemyeong had one, Muhyul is having a star-crossed love with Yeon, and Seriyu the Princess will totally have a thing with Haemyeong's sworn follower. So why not the youngest prince?
Man, is Muhyul ever not getting hurt?
It is KILLING me that nobody on my friendslist except for
bae_mac and timescout is watching this. This is the best drama of the season, even better than East of Eden!I also think Kingdom of the Winds is fast turning into 'and which character's life shall be destroyed today' type of drama but not in a tacky way. It's positively Shakespearean with its dysfunctional fratricidal families, manipulative kings, fate and cursed destinies. Pretty good.
Exhibit A: Muhyul, unknown and unknowing Prince of Gogureyo, cursed to kill his father and destroy the country, who grew up as a slave and is now under orders to kill King Yuri, the man he does not know is his father, and the man he hates above all:
Exhibit 2: Yeon, until recently a Princess of Puyo, loved and protected by all. Now her father has been falsely accused of treason and executed and she barely managed to escape with her life thanks to Muhyul. She has no money, position or title any more, and cannot ever show her face in Puyo. All she is now is a slave, with no protection or hope for the future.
Exhibit 3: King Yuri, the embattled King of Gogureyo. He's had to watch his eldest, beloved son sacrifice his life to save him and his Kingdom. He's had to give up his second son years earlier when the son was a baby in order to escape a curse. No wonder he is plagued by nightmares.
Muhyul is just so pretty:
King Yuri is plagued by nightmares. You know what is really sad? Even once Muhyul finds out who he really is, readjustment to that sort of life would be pretty hard. A life of slavery and evil ninjaism is hard to shake off. He is developing into a pretty bitter realist, isn't he? No room for shiny ideals much - he sees the way they are crushed.
Yeon is entirely alone in the world, she who has always been surrounded by friends and servants before. And while she has valuable and useful skills and a great deal of courage, she has been quite happy and sheltered before (the one really joyful character) and dealing with this, and with her father being murdered, must be awful.
Unknowing half-brothers meet again. Oh Muhyul: your desperation, hopelessness and quest for revenge are so not what Haemyeong would have wanted for you.
I like the youngest Prince having some sort of an OTP :) Haemyeong had one, Muhyul is having a star-crossed love with Yeon, and Seriyu the Princess will totally have a thing with Haemyeong's sworn follower. So why not the youngest prince?
Man, is Muhyul ever not getting hurt?
