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skygiantsAfter hearing me babble a fair bit about the korean drama I have been watching most recently, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
genarti ordered me to do a picspam! (Possibly in an attempt to get me to babble at the rest of the world in the hopes that she will have to put up with a bit less of it?) In any case, because I do as I am ordered, here is a picspam of The Legend, epic Korean fantasy TV with a full slew of awesome female characters and a huge costume budget.
And, you know, plot too, I guess. But in the interests of not spoiling I am going to mostly talk about the characters, because they are all pretty cool. Or maybe pretty and cool!
Let's start with Sujini, who is is one of the main heroines in the series. She is the reincarnation of a super badass warrior lady who suffered under the double misfortune of being married to the most useless messianic figure ever, and being a member of the Bear Tribe, which apparently brings along with it the Clan of the Cave Bear's prehistoric fashion sense. But she did not let that stop her from being hardcore:
To place this moment in context, this is immediately after she has given birth and is currently leading her village in battle; she rounds out her day by climbing a mountain, engaging in some hand-to-hand combat and setting the world on fire.
Present day Sujini clearly retains some memory of her predecessor's awesomeness, even as an adorable preteen moppet. Here, Sujini's foster father is attempting to explain complex politics to her. An important noble family is afraid of an enemy within! That enemy within can only be one person -
SUJINI: "Who is it? It's me, isn't it! Did they say they were afraid of me? Those rascals!"
SUJINI'S FOSTER DAD: ". . . how much did you drink last night that you are still drunk now!"
I'm sorry, baby Sujini. Parents just don't understand.
As might be expected, Sujini grows up to be a sober and mature young lady!
Our other heroine is Kiha, who is the reincarnation of another lady warrior who happened to be stone crazy. But it was the kind of crazy you had to respect!
This is Kajin in the process of trying to murder the Messiah. As you do.
Though, to be fair, Legolas Jesus here looks pretty Zen about it:
Despite the CRAZY of her preincarnation, teenaged Kiha is actually astoundingly sane. She looks so demure picking herbs -
- that no one would guess she is a secret ninja spy kidnapped and raised by evil monks.
As an adult, Kiha is moderately less stable, what with the ninja training and fire-throwing and the fact that every time she tries to join Team Good someone ends up dead. This is hard to get pics of so you will have to settle for her her angsting around looking pretty and sticking her hands in the fire.
(Inside, Kiha is thinking, 'WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOD?')
However, while these ladies may be our awesome protagonists, there are many many other awesome ladies to be appreciated over the course of the saga!
For a start, there is Lady Yon, a psychopathic princess with fabulous fashion sense. Lady Yon would totally hold an opponent's wife's hand in a jar of acid.
At a party.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is Ba Son, BEST BLACKSMITH IN THE LAND, who accidentally adopts Sujini one day when Sujini is looking for leverage to use against her hapless foster dad. Ba Son's ironworking skills bring all the boys to the yard!
Damn right, they're better than yours.
Ba Son: "Look at this! It's so blunt! You call this a sword?"
I do not have the caps for the bit where Ba Son shows off her collection of armor from different countries and totally verbally eviscerates it all - especially European armor - but trust me, it is glorious.
Later on, Ba Son takes in a pretty, fragile, grieving widow who initially tries to starve herself to death . . .
but then takes up another hobby.
Dalbi: "I've calculated the amount needed to feed and water the king's army [for the upcoming invasion]. And this is the number of carts and horses needed to transport the goods . . . ."
Sujini: ". . ."
Dalbi: "I was bored!"
Then there is the Oracle, who is not only a strong political force in the kingdom . . . but also has fabulous hair!
Spoken: "Are you suggesting I lie about the will of heaven, Lord Yon?"
Unspoken: Does the Oracle have to SMACK A BITCH?
I don't have any screencaps of the hardcore female lieutenant, which saddens me, because she is also pretty awesome.
Also I guess there are some boys. Whom I am not going to devote as much time to, not because they are not awesome, but because if I did this post would become EVEN MORE EPICALLY LONG than it is already. But I would like to point out that when they are kids, they are fabulous dorks:
And when they are grown up they have a lot of really really dramatic manpain.
(Not pictured: the times when it is shirtless.)
Also, it is worth mentioning that this is a series in which men know style. Check out the earrings!
And the fabulous hairdos!
In conclusion: COSTUME PORN.
And the plot is also good! If, you know, you like epic friends-turned-enemies and enemies-turned-friends and lots of hardcore ladies and intricate cunning political strategems and a fair amount of things getting set on fire. Not that I can think of anyone who reads this LJ who might enjoy that kind of thing.
genarti ordered me to do a picspam! (Possibly in an attempt to get me to babble at the rest of the world in the hopes that she will have to put up with a bit less of it?) In any case, because I do as I am ordered, here is a picspam of The Legend, epic Korean fantasy TV with a full slew of awesome female characters and a huge costume budget.And, you know, plot too, I guess. But in the interests of not spoiling I am going to mostly talk about the characters, because they are all pretty cool. Or maybe pretty and cool!
Let's start with Sujini, who is is one of the main heroines in the series. She is the reincarnation of a super badass warrior lady who suffered under the double misfortune of being married to the most useless messianic figure ever, and being a member of the Bear Tribe, which apparently brings along with it the Clan of the Cave Bear's prehistoric fashion sense. But she did not let that stop her from being hardcore:
To place this moment in context, this is immediately after she has given birth and is currently leading her village in battle; she rounds out her day by climbing a mountain, engaging in some hand-to-hand combat and setting the world on fire.
Present day Sujini clearly retains some memory of her predecessor's awesomeness, even as an adorable preteen moppet. Here, Sujini's foster father is attempting to explain complex politics to her. An important noble family is afraid of an enemy within! That enemy within can only be one person -
SUJINI: "Who is it? It's me, isn't it! Did they say they were afraid of me? Those rascals!"
SUJINI'S FOSTER DAD: ". . . how much did you drink last night that you are still drunk now!"
I'm sorry, baby Sujini. Parents just don't understand.
As might be expected, Sujini grows up to be a sober and mature young lady!
Our other heroine is Kiha, who is the reincarnation of another lady warrior who happened to be stone crazy. But it was the kind of crazy you had to respect!
This is Kajin in the process of trying to murder the Messiah. As you do.
Though, to be fair, Legolas Jesus here looks pretty Zen about it:
Despite the CRAZY of her preincarnation, teenaged Kiha is actually astoundingly sane. She looks so demure picking herbs -
- that no one would guess she is a secret ninja spy kidnapped and raised by evil monks.
As an adult, Kiha is moderately less stable, what with the ninja training and fire-throwing and the fact that every time she tries to join Team Good someone ends up dead. This is hard to get pics of so you will have to settle for her her angsting around looking pretty and sticking her hands in the fire.
(Inside, Kiha is thinking, 'WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOD?')
However, while these ladies may be our awesome protagonists, there are many many other awesome ladies to be appreciated over the course of the saga!
For a start, there is Lady Yon, a psychopathic princess with fabulous fashion sense. Lady Yon would totally hold an opponent's wife's hand in a jar of acid.
At a party.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is Ba Son, BEST BLACKSMITH IN THE LAND, who accidentally adopts Sujini one day when Sujini is looking for leverage to use against her hapless foster dad. Ba Son's ironworking skills bring all the boys to the yard!
Damn right, they're better than yours.
Ba Son: "Look at this! It's so blunt! You call this a sword?"
I do not have the caps for the bit where Ba Son shows off her collection of armor from different countries and totally verbally eviscerates it all - especially European armor - but trust me, it is glorious.
Later on, Ba Son takes in a pretty, fragile, grieving widow who initially tries to starve herself to death . . .
but then takes up another hobby.
Dalbi: "I've calculated the amount needed to feed and water the king's army [for the upcoming invasion]. And this is the number of carts and horses needed to transport the goods . . . ."
Sujini: ". . ."
Dalbi: "I was bored!"
Then there is the Oracle, who is not only a strong political force in the kingdom . . . but also has fabulous hair!
Spoken: "Are you suggesting I lie about the will of heaven, Lord Yon?"
Unspoken: Does the Oracle have to SMACK A BITCH?
I don't have any screencaps of the hardcore female lieutenant, which saddens me, because she is also pretty awesome.
Also I guess there are some boys. Whom I am not going to devote as much time to, not because they are not awesome, but because if I did this post would become EVEN MORE EPICALLY LONG than it is already. But I would like to point out that when they are kids, they are fabulous dorks:
And when they are grown up they have a lot of really really dramatic manpain.
(Not pictured: the times when it is shirtless.)
Also, it is worth mentioning that this is a series in which men know style. Check out the earrings!
And the fabulous hairdos!
In conclusion: COSTUME PORN.
And the plot is also good! If, you know, you like epic friends-turned-enemies and enemies-turned-friends and lots of hardcore ladies and intricate cunning political strategems and a fair amount of things getting set on fire. Not that I can think of anyone who reads this LJ who might enjoy that kind of thing.
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Date: 2009-06-02 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 04:32 am (UTC)Warning that the first episode is almost all backstory and might seem pretty slow, if, um, unlike me, you do not get sufficient entertainment out of the incompetency of Messiah v. 1.0.
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Date: 2009-06-02 08:46 am (UTC)Must ... finish ... Avatar ... then ... kdrama!!!
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:22 pm (UTC)(SO MUCH COSTUME PORN JI. More porny than Avatar's, because the fabric is REAL!)
Also also, I did not actually get a chance to listen to Elisabeth last night because I got sucked into screencapping instead. BUT TONIGHT. \o/
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Date: 2009-06-02 02:23 pm (UTC)and also :D
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Date: 2009-06-03 12:09 am (UTC)I've only seen a few Korean dramatic films (by comparison with, say, Japanese and Chinese), but nearly all of them so far have been very, very good, if also often very serious.
So I'm very relieved to see that Korean *television* drama is wacky and amusingly damaged, which is good for contrast. =D
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Date: 2009-06-03 02:04 am (UTC)(Admittedly, that adds up to . . . three shows, all of which I had seen strongly recommended before going in. But still.)
Legend is actually the most serious of the lot, since it spends a lot of time being EPIC!!!, but it definitely makes sure to take time off for wacky hijinks.
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Date: 2009-06-06 10:47 pm (UTC)God I am shipping everybody with everybody, and I miss the teen!actors already, and yet I still ship adult!Sujini with whoever the hell this guy is, and oh my god.
It's a good thing I have time on my hands now. *flails happily*
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Date: 2009-06-06 11:01 pm (UTC)(I miss the teen!actors toooo. They were so adorable! I mean I like the adult actors also, also adult Ho Gae is CERTAINLY NOT UNAPPEALING when he angsts about shirtless. But!
Also also, my most secretest ship: Oracle/Lord Yon angry political hatesex!)
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Date: 2009-06-06 11:06 pm (UTC)Is Prince Pimpmeister McFlirtingwithSujini the actual prince?
I'm sure I'll work it out. I just have actorswitch whiplash.
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Date: 2009-06-06 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-06 11:12 pm (UTC)Well, with all the executing people and Machiavellian manipulation he had going on as a baby, it was only a matter of time before he got to the sex and crime. With all that, I don't thing Legolas Jesus would be too approving, you know?
Because it's not like he did anything with his life. God knows how he concieved a child, when he wouldn't even kiss his wife on the lips.
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Date: 2009-06-06 11:23 pm (UTC)I expect Legolas Jesus impregnated his wife WITH MAGIC. Without asking. (Seriously, how hard is it to say, "hey, honey, how do you feel about kids?" before announcing to your dad that she is the woman who will have your child? NOT THAT HARD.)
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Date: 2009-06-06 11:34 pm (UTC)(Apparently quite tricky, glancing through the New Testament. *Sour*)