kdrama: Girl K eps 1-3 (complete)
Nov. 25th, 2011 02:47 pmNote: This drama goes by both Girl K and Killer G, but I prefer Girl K.
Pros: 3 1/2 hours of a girl with weapons and a revenge narrative, who's main relationships are first with her mother, and later with the woman who trained her to be an assassin and who now serves as a conflicted surrogate mother figure. The second episode opens with Ji Young (mentor) directing Yeon Jin (vengeful assassin heroine) on a hit, and then flashes back to the last two years of Ji Young training Yeon Jin, ending with and intense swordfight training sessions that culminates in Ji Young telling Yeon Jin that it's time to go to school and Yeon Jin asking why she doesn't just kill her now instead. (Shockingly, their scenes were my favorite in the series, even though you knew it was doomed to go badly from the start.) Also, lots of Girls With Guns, and not just Yeon Jin, and people who look like they genuinely know what they're doing in the fight scenes.
Cons: It's a cable show, so there's lots of gratuitous and often uncomfortable sex and nudity, including a scene of dubious consent (between extras, not major or secondary characters) that was played for laughs. Also a lot of blood, though less than I was expecting. Definitely more blood and more explicit violence than any other kdrama I've seen, but again, less than I was bracing myself for.
In essence, Yeon Jin is a teenager whose mother made her learn martial arts so that she'd be able to defend herself. When Yeon Jin and her friends' hooliganish antics kicks off a chin of events that results in her mother's death and her being shot in the chest, she takes up an offer made by Ji Young to save her life if she becomes an assassin for the secret organization she works for, pointing out that if she joins, she'll be alive to eventually get revenge.
Yeon Jin also secretly has a properly wuxia origin that she won't know about for most of the series.
( spoilers )Korea, feel free to make a sequel series about Yeon Jin's further adventures! The cop can come too. He was more fun than I'd initially expected.
Pros: 3 1/2 hours of a girl with weapons and a revenge narrative, who's main relationships are first with her mother, and later with the woman who trained her to be an assassin and who now serves as a conflicted surrogate mother figure. The second episode opens with Ji Young (mentor) directing Yeon Jin (vengeful assassin heroine) on a hit, and then flashes back to the last two years of Ji Young training Yeon Jin, ending with and intense swordfight training sessions that culminates in Ji Young telling Yeon Jin that it's time to go to school and Yeon Jin asking why she doesn't just kill her now instead. (Shockingly, their scenes were my favorite in the series, even though you knew it was doomed to go badly from the start.) Also, lots of Girls With Guns, and not just Yeon Jin, and people who look like they genuinely know what they're doing in the fight scenes.
Cons: It's a cable show, so there's lots of gratuitous and often uncomfortable sex and nudity, including a scene of dubious consent (between extras, not major or secondary characters) that was played for laughs. Also a lot of blood, though less than I was expecting. Definitely more blood and more explicit violence than any other kdrama I've seen, but again, less than I was bracing myself for.
In essence, Yeon Jin is a teenager whose mother made her learn martial arts so that she'd be able to defend herself. When Yeon Jin and her friends' hooliganish antics kicks off a chin of events that results in her mother's death and her being shot in the chest, she takes up an offer made by Ji Young to save her life if she becomes an assassin for the secret organization she works for, pointing out that if she joins, she'll be alive to eventually get revenge.
Yeon Jin also secretly has a properly wuxia origin that she won't know about for most of the series.
( spoilers )Korea, feel free to make a sequel series about Yeon Jin's further adventures! The cop can come too. He was more fun than I'd initially expected.