The Princess' Man - ep 8
Sep. 2nd, 2011 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieWatching this ep was about as cheerful as putting your hand through a meat-grinder. I guess that is what I get for watching a kdrama which bills itself as an epic tragedy. Out of all the devastation, for some reason it is this scene that got me the most. So close, yet so out of reach.
The last scene killed me, because SY is such a good person, so decent, so well-adjusted (prior to this) - he deserves none of it. What really got me was the disbelief in his face, the puzzlement almost, seeing his family dead before him. And SR, psychically attuned to his torment.
There were so many near misses in this ep that could have prevented the tragedy (SR tried so hard!) but it all marched inexorably to its historical conclusion and all you can do is watch helplessly as it happens.
Sejo is a monster who used his own daughter to commit murder but somehow I cannot help but be fascinated by him - he is smarter than anyone else in this, more ruthless. Less human. Of course he will be king.
Oh, and to cheer self up. At least she isn't dead yet!
In news of other, more cheerful period dramas, my my my, HK period pieces are very...liberal. I think kdrama censors would faint at this scene from Relics of an Emissary and I didn't even cap the horizontal bits!
The last scene killed me, because SY is such a good person, so decent, so well-adjusted (prior to this) - he deserves none of it. What really got me was the disbelief in his face, the puzzlement almost, seeing his family dead before him. And SR, psychically attuned to his torment.
There were so many near misses in this ep that could have prevented the tragedy (SR tried so hard!) but it all marched inexorably to its historical conclusion and all you can do is watch helplessly as it happens.
Sejo is a monster who used his own daughter to commit murder but somehow I cannot help but be fascinated by him - he is smarter than anyone else in this, more ruthless. Less human. Of course he will be king.
Oh, and to cheer self up. At least she isn't dead yet!
In news of other, more cheerful period dramas, my my my, HK period pieces are very...liberal. I think kdrama censors would faint at this scene from Relics of an Emissary and I didn't even cap the horizontal bits!
