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skygiantsI've been waiting until I had enough time to go hunt down images to do a post about the kdrama Faith: The Great Doctor, because, like
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Faith: The Great Doctor is the story of a plastic surgeon named Yoo Eun-Soo...
...who gets kidnapped by an accidentally time-traveling famous Korean historical general with extremely impractical boyband hair who's on a quest to find a heavenly doctor! to save the queen's life!
Poor Eun-soo just wants to go home! Or at least to have some decent medical tools. She definitely does not want to be stuck in the middle of some ridiculous political drama where people are constantly accusing her of being a liar, a demon, or some other form of malicious spirit and asking her to prove she came from heaven when SHE NEVER ASKED TO BE HERE TO BEGIN WITH.
Meanwhile, everyone is concerned about the fact that the newly-married king (a tiny bundle of prickly raging insecurity) and queen (a tiny bundle of prickly raging dignity) appear to hate each other despite the fact Eun-soo knows they're supposed to have a legendary historical romance ...
...and everyone is pursued by evil anime characters with superpowers, including this evil dude, who plays evil murder flute...
...this evil woman, who is an evil Firebender...
...and, of course, Gi Cheol, their enthusiastically evil boss, who has some ice powers, but more importantly has so much fun being evil that eventually he flips all the way straight through into weirdly adorable.
This is kind of true for all of Team Evil, really. They're like a much more murderous Team Rocket. For an episode or two Eun Soo hangs out at their house and teaches them how to make mojitos, and, like, yes? I would have watched more of that show.
(Choi Young, the FAMOUS HISTORICAL GENERAL, also has superpowers. He summons lightning. FYI.)
Other characters include Choi Young's long-suffering aunt (played by my favorite Korean actress, Kim Mi-Kyung) who leads the queen's bodyguards and spends the whole show desperately wishing everyone else would stop bringing her their romantic problems...
...the hot local doctor, who reluctantly takes Eun Soo under his wing to teach her about how to doctor without future technology....
...and his second-in-command Deoki, a mute herbalist who is SO DONE WITH ALL OF THIS.
There is also a whole bevy of Choi Young's subordinate soldiers...
...who are uniformly attractive (if terribly bewigged) but COMPLETELY USELESS...
...at doing anything besides lurking in the bushes and enthusiastically shipping.
The plot is ... kind of a mess. Delightful, but a mess. Approximately every three episodes Choi Young tries to set off to take Eun Soo back to her own time, and every single time they're interrupted by a tragedy/a desperate need to go and doctor somebody/a political coup. Choi Young is constantly being accused of treason, then asking to resign, then pulling some dramatic stunt to demonstrate his loyalty to the king, then being like 'NO SERIOUSLY I JUST WANT TO RETIRE AND GO FISHING.' Eventually he is affected by a terrible malady that makes his hand sword hand shaky. Diagnosis: manpain. Eun Soo gets tragically poisoned twice. There are some completely nonsensical paradox time travel shenanigans which are literally only explained in the last five minutes of the series. Meanwhile, in the middle of the series, the bad guys successfully take over governing for a while, so the king and queen bounce off for like four episodes and have delightful pastoral funtimes across town where they wear flowers in their hair and doodle pictures for the commoners, and the commoners are like 'lol it's so cathartic coming to yell about our lives at these people who claim to be the king and queen!' Which is not great governing strategy, necessarily. But, again: highly enjoyable.
the wigs
the wigs
Faith: The Great Doctor is the story of a plastic surgeon named Yoo Eun-Soo...
...who gets kidnapped by an accidentally time-traveling famous Korean historical general with extremely impractical boyband hair who's on a quest to find a heavenly doctor! to save the queen's life!
Poor Eun-soo just wants to go home! Or at least to have some decent medical tools. She definitely does not want to be stuck in the middle of some ridiculous political drama where people are constantly accusing her of being a liar, a demon, or some other form of malicious spirit and asking her to prove she came from heaven when SHE NEVER ASKED TO BE HERE TO BEGIN WITH.
Meanwhile, everyone is concerned about the fact that the newly-married king (a tiny bundle of prickly raging insecurity) and queen (a tiny bundle of prickly raging dignity) appear to hate each other despite the fact Eun-soo knows they're supposed to have a legendary historical romance ...
...and everyone is pursued by evil anime characters with superpowers, including this evil dude, who plays evil murder flute...
...this evil woman, who is an evil Firebender...
...and, of course, Gi Cheol, their enthusiastically evil boss, who has some ice powers, but more importantly has so much fun being evil that eventually he flips all the way straight through into weirdly adorable.
This is kind of true for all of Team Evil, really. They're like a much more murderous Team Rocket. For an episode or two Eun Soo hangs out at their house and teaches them how to make mojitos, and, like, yes? I would have watched more of that show.
(Choi Young, the FAMOUS HISTORICAL GENERAL, also has superpowers. He summons lightning. FYI.)
Other characters include Choi Young's long-suffering aunt (played by my favorite Korean actress, Kim Mi-Kyung) who leads the queen's bodyguards and spends the whole show desperately wishing everyone else would stop bringing her their romantic problems...
...the hot local doctor, who reluctantly takes Eun Soo under his wing to teach her about how to doctor without future technology....
...and his second-in-command Deoki, a mute herbalist who is SO DONE WITH ALL OF THIS.
There is also a whole bevy of Choi Young's subordinate soldiers...
...who are uniformly attractive (if terribly bewigged) but COMPLETELY USELESS...
...at doing anything besides lurking in the bushes and enthusiastically shipping.
The plot is ... kind of a mess. Delightful, but a mess. Approximately every three episodes Choi Young tries to set off to take Eun Soo back to her own time, and every single time they're interrupted by a tragedy/a desperate need to go and doctor somebody/a political coup. Choi Young is constantly being accused of treason, then asking to resign, then pulling some dramatic stunt to demonstrate his loyalty to the king, then being like 'NO SERIOUSLY I JUST WANT TO RETIRE AND GO FISHING.' Eventually he is affected by a terrible malady that makes his hand sword hand shaky. Diagnosis: manpain. Eun Soo gets tragically poisoned twice. There are some completely nonsensical paradox time travel shenanigans which are literally only explained in the last five minutes of the series. Meanwhile, in the middle of the series, the bad guys successfully take over governing for a while, so the king and queen bounce off for like four episodes and have delightful pastoral funtimes across town where they wear flowers in their hair and doodle pictures for the commoners, and the commoners are like 'lol it's so cathartic coming to yell about our lives at these people who claim to be the king and queen!' Which is not great governing strategy, necessarily. But, again: highly enjoyable.
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Date: 2016-01-24 05:59 am (UTC)Also, I read your first line as "I've been waiting until I had enough time to do hunt down mages" and realized I've been playing way too much Dragon Age.
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Date: 2016-01-24 06:25 am (UTC)I remember really enjoying the queen, I think?
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Date: 2016-01-24 06:30 am (UTC)EVERYONE'S PLAYING TOO MUCH DRAGON AGE. (....I, too, might be playing too much Dragon Age.)
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Date: 2016-01-24 03:56 pm (UTC)(I got Origins and II for like $5 combined in a sale, so halfway through II is where I'm at right now. >.>)
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Date: 2016-01-25 03:48 am (UTC)I'd be curious to know what you think of it all, if you ever have the time and inclination.
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