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kdrama: Gye Baek eps 1-2
Aug. 18th, 2011 09:10 pmGye Baek is a new sageuk about a 7th century Korean general, starring Lee Seo Jin. He looks like this:
That is some seriously detailed armor.
The first 15 minutes were basically men shouting cxhallenges and a big battle. The drama is lucky that (1) while wuxias trounce them in terms of individual fighting (though Warrior Baek Dong Soo is doing its best to prove me wrong) sageuks have amazing battle scenes, and (2) Lee Seo Jin has a very firm grip on my hormones.
Anyway, after that, Gye Baek continues the trend of this years sageuks having awesome origin/childhood sequences where you'd almost just as soon spend the whole time on that. (I'm sure Princess' Man would join in the awesome backstory fun if it had that part.)
This is Gye Baek's father, Mu Jin:
Even without the intro section, you know he's going to be related to Lee Seo Jin because he has a shirtless scene involving water about 10 minutes after he shows up:
Here is Gye Baek's mom, laughing over Mu Jin being gullible to her teasing:
( more pics and commentary )
Really, the backstory plot so far is pretty much Hye Won and Tae Ha's plot in Chuno, if Hye Won was 9 months pregnant while they were on the run, the crown prince was old enough to make speeches about how HE CANNOT FLEE! HE MUST STAY AND PROVE HIS LOYALTY!, and the so-far main antagonist was a concubine who's smarter, more cunning, and more ruthless than the rest of the castr combines, and had a private squad of assassins maids.
I'm sure everyone but Sa Taek Bi will be dead by, like, episode 5, and then I'll have to wait for Gye Baek to grow up into Lee Seo Jin.
I don't really know much of what to expect from the drama? All I really know about the historical Gye Baek is that his defeat led to the end of the Baekje reign, and all a quick look around really tells me is that a popular theory is that he killed his wife and kids to boost his soldiers' morale. (Drama, feel free not to go that route. Please.)
For whatever reason, he was actually introduced in a feild, pensively fiddling with a flower. This was one of the first shot of him:
That is some seriously detailed armor.
The first 15 minutes were basically men shouting cxhallenges and a big battle. The drama is lucky that (1) while wuxias trounce them in terms of individual fighting (though Warrior Baek Dong Soo is doing its best to prove me wrong) sageuks have amazing battle scenes, and (2) Lee Seo Jin has a very firm grip on my hormones.
Anyway, after that, Gye Baek continues the trend of this years sageuks having awesome origin/childhood sequences where you'd almost just as soon spend the whole time on that. (I'm sure Princess' Man would join in the awesome backstory fun if it had that part.)
This is Gye Baek's father, Mu Jin:
Even without the intro section, you know he's going to be related to Lee Seo Jin because he has a shirtless scene involving water about 10 minutes after he shows up:
Here is Gye Baek's mom, laughing over Mu Jin being gullible to her teasing:
( more pics and commentary )
Really, the backstory plot so far is pretty much Hye Won and Tae Ha's plot in Chuno, if Hye Won was 9 months pregnant while they were on the run, the crown prince was old enough to make speeches about how HE CANNOT FLEE! HE MUST STAY AND PROVE HIS LOYALTY!, and the so-far main antagonist was a concubine who's smarter, more cunning, and more ruthless than the rest of the castr combines, and had a private squad of assassins maids.
I'm sure everyone but Sa Taek Bi will be dead by, like, episode 5, and then I'll have to wait for Gye Baek to grow up into Lee Seo Jin.
I don't really know much of what to expect from the drama? All I really know about the historical Gye Baek is that his defeat led to the end of the Baekje reign, and all a quick look around really tells me is that a popular theory is that he killed his wife and kids to boost his soldiers' morale. (Drama, feel free not to go that route. Please.)