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Gye Baek, Warrior's Fate (2011)

Just finished episode 7 of 36. This is an epic Korean period drama .

I'm confused how to spell the name. Wikipedia spells it Gyebaek. Everywhere else I see it spells it Gye Baek. It is possibly Gye-baek? To me it matters, but I'm going to say it doesn't so I can move on. In Korean, it is 계백 which translates to Gyebaek. Regardless, he is the son of a fierce, loyal, and great general, Mu-jin.

This is going to be a long series. Each episode is an hour, or just over an hour. Episodes one through two is the backstory. Episode three is where Park Eun-bin's character first appears. Yes, that is why this is in my KOCOWA watch list. She was 18 years old in real life when this was made.
Episode seven is her last appearance as she watches Gye Baek being carted off to be executed. He is obviously not executed, or the remaining 29 episodes would be one long memorial. It is also in episode seven where the story does a sudden leap into the future through clever editing. Gye Baek is no longer a teen, but a full grown man, and a slave warrior.

I honestly did not know I would enjoy this. It has politicians and royals that connive, manipulate, and lie for power. I can turn on the news for that. However, I really liked the character of Mu-jin, and I hope his son becomes half the general his father was.


IMDB entry for this is just short of worthless. It lists Park Eun-bin in two and three, and originally I was going watch up to three. However, she is not in episode two at all. She is in episodes three through seven.

So far, the plot is like a novel. It is based on history, although his history is fictionalized because not much is known about him.¹ Gyebaek died August 30, 660.

I'll post when it is over.

¹ - Wikipedia - Gyebaek

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I just read he is in Age of Empires II. OMG. That's right! I know what I'm going to play have mowing the lawn.
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And there is this -

Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan Ep. 3

Never actually seen an episode of this, but I remember one of the stars of the show, Sunetra Sarker, from 'Brookside' many years ago. I think the title 'No Angels' might be a reference to an earlier UK hospital drama series called 'Angels' which was originally screened in 1975 and starred Fiona Fullerton as trainee nurse Pat Rutherford, though my favourite character was Staff Nurse Linda Hollis, played by Janina Faye. I think the series continued in one form or another into the early 1980s.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_(TV_series)

Yeah she's really funny in it

I've started watching Twin Peaks. I've never even considered watching it before because for some reason I thought it was about a medical practice in the Yorkshire dales

Anyway I've started watching it so I'll probably finish it but as for whether it's good or bad I really couldn't say because I haven't the foggiest notion of what it's about

Gye Baek, Warrior's Fate (2011)

I tried to wait till I was finished, but in episode 15 I noticed something production wise I didn't yesterday.

1. I think it is partially a bandwidth thing. The image seems more high def. That should be a nice/good thing, except I can see the makeup covering the edges of the wigs the men wear. It is distracting.

2. The lighting for the interior shots is very evenly spread, and has an on-set superficial look to it.

3. The last thing is the acting, and camera work, and editing, coupled with the lighting, reminds me of a soap opera. Not all the time, though. There are times it is very cinematic.

I'm not saying it's bad, but it all distracts from the story, for me at least. The fact that I'm distracted means I'm partly to blame.

The Jinx Part 2 (season finale).

Episode 5 of Twin Peaks

Still don't have a scooby what's going on but I still like it anyway

Black Widower.

I watched Twin Peaks back in the day, aka when it first aired. I think I felt the same way by throughout the series. I still enjoyed it. There was a lot of mystery and it was unlike any show on television at the time.

Also, I really like the phrase "Still don't have a scooby..."

^

Just started watching No Offence

Another brilliant British comedy drama about a police detective team based in the greater Manchester area of England

Funny AF

Joanna Scanlan plays an absolute blinder in it

I'll always remember this from Twin Peaks.

Coronation Street


Episodes from July & August 1996. MVB Motors, the garage on the Street, goes out of business after being run into the ground by its incompetent owner, Don Brennan, who bought it from Mike Baldwin (enough said). This leaves chief mechanic and long time street resident Kevin Webster out of a job.

Elsewhere, a prominent storyline features Trisha Armstrong, a lady in her mid-30s who always seems down on her luck: she finds herself pregnant by local wideboy Terry Duckworth, who needless to say proves impossible to track down. The actress who played her, Tracy Brabin, became a Labour MP (member of UK Parliament) a few years ago and is now Mayor of West Yorkshire.

House Of The Dragon.

Air Disasters on Smithsonian Channel

I haven't read the book for comparison, but the show Shogun is very well made. The cast does an exceptional job. It illustrates a particular idea better than anything else I've seen, that of going to a place completely unlike what you know, and slowly finding a way to exist there. It does that very well. It also gives you a lot to think about. People interested in other cultures or who want something unique should try it out.