That Harem Drama Epi 1 - 3
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spsnYes, this 2016 harem drama finally graced us all with not just 2 but 3 episodes for the first week, and so far? It looks amazingly beautiful. Bigger budget makes a difference. And off course, with the eye candies overload, the visual effect is just multiplied by a lot.
The cinematography is breathtaking and impactful! The prettiness!
Plot wise it moves quite fast for a saeguk drama, a good effort to cram in the over 30 episodes of Chinese version. However, I'd strongly suggest not to compare this with the Chinese version because it's different from the get go. I'd say this drama is inspired by the Chinese version or the Korean take of the novel rather than a re-make. The concept is the same, the girl time travelled and landed in another girl's body in the past, and the past is the kingdom with lots of handsome princes. But from here, comes all the differences. The most apparent is the princes' cliques. In Chinese version the 4th and 13th were like BFF, not in here, and 8th prince didn't hang out with 3rd prince in Chinese version. The queen's favoritism is the same though, but the 14th prince character is different. He's more gullible and well loved here, which is interesting on how this will go later (I have high hope in Ji Soo's portrayal of 14th prince in the future episodes). Heck, even the 4th prince has a completely different take in here. The 4th prince that I know from the Chinese version is a rather stoic with the calm outer appearance but we all know that he's scheming inside his head. Completely different from here whereby we're blessed with a broken wounded misunderstood awkward tsundere who could actually looks cool in modern time, but ended up being feared and loathed (by his own brothers and even mother to booth!) in this ancient period. The king in here is also very different from the Chinese version, he's more humane, as in the drama gave the audience his inner thought of slight guilt/regret towards how he treated the 4th prince, while the Chinese version focused more on how the king was feared and a literal tyrant (how many people being executed for silly or valid reasons, regardless, in that drama? Countless). All these differences may merged later in the future episodes, but so far, these are the gaps in my book.
Sorry, I just have to make this one bigger, any complaints?
So, what's this drama is in for me? After episode 3, this drama is literally a homefield game for Lee Jun Ki, and the drama team knows it, hence so many (literally) close up face shots of him. And the person himself seemed to have too much fun playing the 4th prince, and he never fails to impress me with his acting. His facial expressions here, the eyes (his eyes speak a million words, and in here with the mask and only clearly showing 1 eye, it's even more impressive), the gazes, the movements, are very smooth and natural. You'll feel for 4th prince (plus pet & hug him and telling him it's all right) even though he just killed 10 people at one sitting and for those scenes his half of his face is covered with blood (and the other half is with the mask LOL). Look forward for more prettiness, angst, and more angst from 4th prince.
Coz there're just too many of scenes with his face being closed up, we get to see already many expressions from LJK.
Even his back looks so sad and lonely, gosh! Being a royalty is not easy, especially not the one being favored.
Our 4th prince is a man after all, no matter how missunderstood he was, he also could appreciate porn LOL.
One of my fave scenes because it's pretty (for obvious reason) and I love the gaze on the 2nd cap <3.
Well, he can be cheeky and have the WTF face, that loathing & cynical look, ha!
His stare here looks like a tsundere wolf found a new toy (Hae Soo). How not to swoon over the prettiness?
The most heartbreaking scene in episode 2.
The craving for love, eager to please his mom and...
only to be crushed in one scene within minutes, and my respect level just went up by 10 points. You can feel the sadness here and it's heart wrenching!
And, another scene where LJK eyes speaks more words than the dialogues.
The surprise,
The vulnerable, very innocent and full of inferioty complex
and within seconds while throwing threats, his eyes were more like pleading instead. Gosh, the feels!!
While we're at it, let's take a step back to appreciate LJK's bodyline/waistline. Yes I purposely make the caps bigger. While episode 1's bath house scene is a nice fan service, I'd prefer this one 100 times (just because LJK waistline is <3 since King and Clown).
OK moving back to close up shots.
He can smile too (when nobody's looking), and it just looks so sad, OMG, my heart.
We have the Queen squashed his heart earlier, and now it's the King's turn to butcher this poor prince's heart.
The dissapointment and hurt. My heart has been poked so many times in just 1 episode.
Favorite tag line of episode 2: I don't want too. So bad ass and cynical, and we all forgot how sad he was minutes ago.
The brooding time is done with an ounce of prettiness. See, this drama really loves to close up LJK.
I wonder whether this pose of horse riding is also done in that ancient time. Sure it looks hella cool, but it doesn't seem practical at the same time LOL.
While the scene is more like a butchering session and Wang Soo is being so cynical and murderous, but if you watch this scene, you'll also feel the pain that he carries knowing that his mom is the culprit, yet he's covering her out of his craving for love. Gah!
This is just creepy. We need to see the next episode to know what's going on.
Bonus:
While I like JiSoo, 13th prince is the 2nd prettiest one after LJK, and I have to look up his name (Nam Joo Hyuk). Hope to see more of his side story in future episodes (coz his seems to be another tragic characters - he was in Chinese version).
The cinematography is breathtaking and impactful! The prettiness!
Plot wise it moves quite fast for a saeguk drama, a good effort to cram in the over 30 episodes of Chinese version. However, I'd strongly suggest not to compare this with the Chinese version because it's different from the get go. I'd say this drama is inspired by the Chinese version or the Korean take of the novel rather than a re-make. The concept is the same, the girl time travelled and landed in another girl's body in the past, and the past is the kingdom with lots of handsome princes. But from here, comes all the differences. The most apparent is the princes' cliques. In Chinese version the 4th and 13th were like BFF, not in here, and 8th prince didn't hang out with 3rd prince in Chinese version. The queen's favoritism is the same though, but the 14th prince character is different. He's more gullible and well loved here, which is interesting on how this will go later (I have high hope in Ji Soo's portrayal of 14th prince in the future episodes). Heck, even the 4th prince has a completely different take in here. The 4th prince that I know from the Chinese version is a rather stoic with the calm outer appearance but we all know that he's scheming inside his head. Completely different from here whereby we're blessed with a broken wounded misunderstood awkward tsundere who could actually looks cool in modern time, but ended up being feared and loathed (by his own brothers and even mother to booth!) in this ancient period. The king in here is also very different from the Chinese version, he's more humane, as in the drama gave the audience his inner thought of slight guilt/regret towards how he treated the 4th prince, while the Chinese version focused more on how the king was feared and a literal tyrant (how many people being executed for silly or valid reasons, regardless, in that drama? Countless). All these differences may merged later in the future episodes, but so far, these are the gaps in my book.
Sorry, I just have to make this one bigger, any complaints?
Coz there're just too many of scenes with his face being closed up, we get to see already many expressions from LJK.
Even his back looks so sad and lonely, gosh! Being a royalty is not easy, especially not the one being favored.
Our 4th prince is a man after all, no matter how missunderstood he was, he also could appreciate porn LOL.
One of my fave scenes because it's pretty (for obvious reason) and I love the gaze on the 2nd cap <3.
Well, he can be cheeky and have the WTF face, that loathing & cynical look, ha!
His stare here looks like a tsundere wolf found a new toy (Hae Soo). How not to swoon over the prettiness?
The most heartbreaking scene in episode 2.
The craving for love, eager to please his mom and...
only to be crushed in one scene within minutes, and my respect level just went up by 10 points. You can feel the sadness here and it's heart wrenching!
And, another scene where LJK eyes speaks more words than the dialogues.
The surprise,
The vulnerable, very innocent and full of inferioty complex
and within seconds while throwing threats, his eyes were more like pleading instead. Gosh, the feels!!
While we're at it, let's take a step back to appreciate LJK's bodyline/waistline. Yes I purposely make the caps bigger. While episode 1's bath house scene is a nice fan service, I'd prefer this one 100 times (just because LJK waistline is <3 since King and Clown).
OK moving back to close up shots.
He can smile too (when nobody's looking), and it just looks so sad, OMG, my heart.
We have the Queen squashed his heart earlier, and now it's the King's turn to butcher this poor prince's heart.
The dissapointment and hurt. My heart has been poked so many times in just 1 episode.
Favorite tag line of episode 2: I don't want too. So bad ass and cynical, and we all forgot how sad he was minutes ago.
The brooding time is done with an ounce of prettiness. See, this drama really loves to close up LJK.
I wonder whether this pose of horse riding is also done in that ancient time. Sure it looks hella cool, but it doesn't seem practical at the same time LOL.
While the scene is more like a butchering session and Wang Soo is being so cynical and murderous, but if you watch this scene, you'll also feel the pain that he carries knowing that his mom is the culprit, yet he's covering her out of his craving for love. Gah!
This is just creepy. We need to see the next episode to know what's going on.
Bonus:
While I like JiSoo, 13th prince is the 2nd prettiest one after LJK, and I have to look up his name (Nam Joo Hyuk). Hope to see more of his side story in future episodes (coz his seems to be another tragic characters - he was in Chinese version).
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Date: 2016-09-04 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-05 12:57 am (UTC)how it'll end, we have to wait for another 8 weeks. but since u know the c version... the future is bleak tbh lol. i looked up on wiki, the korean history is not rosy either. so i just solely watching this for the visual n it does good to my body apparently (eye candy can help reduce your blood pressure).