Hong Gil Dong (or Korean Robin Hood)

[alexandral]

I have watched 5 episodes of this 24-episode Korean drama already and it is really enjoyable. Not earth-shattering or outstanding but very, very well done. It seems that Korean dramas of the last two years gathered in speed and quality and this is just another very good product indeed. Fast, tight, great story, bright colours and very amusing. Oh, and good music. The story of Robin Hood is good everywhere, isn't it?

Few things to mention:

- Please don't kill me – I am not finding Kang Ji Hwan (the actor who plays Hong Gil Dong) attractive yet. I am saying "yet" as may be he will grow on me (and I really like the character) but for now he is somehow a tad too fat or something.

- I definitely don't quite like Heo Lee Nok (or Yi Nok?). And this must be the character as Sung Yu Ri was wonderful in "Winter Queen". I just wish Heo Lee Nok will stop making over-eggagerated facial expressions. And I have grown tired of "a stupid girl with a heart of gold who eats too much and with whom everyone falls in love" cliche . She doesn't bother me but at the same time she doesn't amuse me at all.

- So here (apart of the story which is very interesting to watch) I am all about The Black Prince. I think I will end up with my heart broken!!

- The last part of the usual quadrangle, Seo Eun Hye (played by Kim Ri Na) , seems to be a psycho spoiled girl. The first scene with her (the one with a dead bird) was very seriously creepy.

Just a nice screencap: The Black Prince vs Hong Gil Dong



A screen cap of The Black Prince

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I know who weird girl reminds me of. Kiha!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Some of it, definitely. I was VERY ANGRY with the Weird Girl when she didn't tell anyone that HGD is innocent in the robbery of his father's house. VERY ANGRY! And Kiha - why didn't she ever protest that she didn't kill the king to DD? Yep, the both of a very passive type.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup, when push comes to shove, Weird Girl will always bail and be unreliable (I think that moment outside the gaming parlor, when she was mute and also when he realized she lied to him about her status, something he is understandably very prickly about, was the moment when she lost any possibility of him liking her for good).

I also don't like Weird Girl because it's all a game to her: GD is a new shiny toy. Ugh.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

For what it is worth, I will never be able to forgive the bird scene. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, at least she didn't kill it. She is thus already one up on Kiha.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Still, I never disliked Kiha, I felt mostly pity for her.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, on this rewatch I dislike her intensely. :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am still "Please re-incarnate and make Ho Gae happy" :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. But because I want Ho Gae to be happy not because I like her :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Yep. I never liked her, she has too much self-pity.