Does anybody else miss sageuks? Not those partly modern, almost prop like shows ( i love those too) but full on 50+ episodes of Dae Jang Geum like sageuks 😭😭
I honestly don’t miss the shows. There were SO MUCH filler, so many unnecessary scenes, sentences being draaaawn out to fill more minutes, 3 maids repeating the same story to 3 evil characters, random side characters dropping in and out with little to no explanation, I seriously don’t have patience for that type of storytelling any more. Those were the only shows I ended up watching on x2 speed.
HOWEVER, with all that said, I DO miss the very precise historical writing. I mean in Dae Jang Geum’s era if a character said: Do you know such and such means this and that in royal palace rules (or traditional medicine, or ancient lore, or whatever else) it was usually true. I completely believed and stored that information in my Korean Knowledge Brain Drawer. But nowadays so much of such dialogues are usually just from the writer’s imagination that I simply gloss over them all, and this makes the stories very very unserious to me, no matter how seriously the story itself is presented.
Wow sorry I didn’t mean to write so much and with no formatting!
Just wanted to add this is probably the reason NOKDU’S FLOWER was the only show I have loved as much as old sageuks in recent years.
Yes I get what you’re saying! But I really liked the gorgeous sets, all the historical information and also just the formal way of speaking…i remember tree with deep roots and six flying dragons as the last two that I thoroughly enjoyed. It feels like because of how our watching patterns have changed especially with all the binge watching on Netflix (that I am very very guilty of), long drawn out dramas are not palatable anymore.
Or maybe I am just too old haha
FYI. The 81 episode Goguryeo sageuk from MBC JUMONG (2006/07) is on Viki US’s “Coming Soon” list with episode one available in two days. On Viki US it will be under the title: JUMONG, PRINCE OF LEGENDS.
I intend to pass on all the possible fusion sageuks this year.
I am waiting for:
1. The airing date to be released for Kim Nam-gil’s period drama from Netflix, SONG OF THE BANDITS; and
2. The arrival later this year of a ‘true’ sageuk: KBS’s 32 episode THE GORYEO-KHITAN WAR.
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sungjong
June 27, 2023 at 2:24 AM
Does anybody else miss sageuks? Not those partly modern, almost prop like shows ( i love those too) but full on 50+ episodes of Dae Jang Geum like sageuks 😭😭
Anne18
June 27, 2023 at 2:30 AM
Dae Jang-geum is the only long Kdrama I have watched (and rewatched). And I agree, nothing can match it. But yes, I love those prop like shows too 😅.
Midnight
June 27, 2023 at 10:59 AM
I honestly don’t miss the shows. There were SO MUCH filler, so many unnecessary scenes, sentences being draaaawn out to fill more minutes, 3 maids repeating the same story to 3 evil characters, random side characters dropping in and out with little to no explanation, I seriously don’t have patience for that type of storytelling any more. Those were the only shows I ended up watching on x2 speed.
HOWEVER, with all that said, I DO miss the very precise historical writing. I mean in Dae Jang Geum’s era if a character said: Do you know such and such means this and that in royal palace rules (or traditional medicine, or ancient lore, or whatever else) it was usually true. I completely believed and stored that information in my Korean Knowledge Brain Drawer. But nowadays so much of such dialogues are usually just from the writer’s imagination that I simply gloss over them all, and this makes the stories very very unserious to me, no matter how seriously the story itself is presented.
Midnight
June 27, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Wow sorry I didn’t mean to write so much and with no formatting!
Just wanted to add this is probably the reason NOKDU’S FLOWER was the only show I have loved as much as old sageuks in recent years.
sungjong
June 28, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Yes I get what you’re saying! But I really liked the gorgeous sets, all the historical information and also just the formal way of speaking…i remember tree with deep roots and six flying dragons as the last two that I thoroughly enjoyed. It feels like because of how our watching patterns have changed especially with all the binge watching on Netflix (that I am very very guilty of), long drawn out dramas are not palatable anymore.
Or maybe I am just too old haha
sungjong
June 28, 2023 at 4:33 AM
But I know I’m not too keen on fusion dramas that mix up sageuk settings with modern shenanigans.
Midnight
June 28, 2023 at 6:28 AM
Yeah I get bored with most of those too.
Midnight
June 28, 2023 at 6:26 AM
I binge-watched back then too so I don’t even have Netflix as an excuse. But I know what you mean. It was an epic gorgeous era.
bong-soo
June 27, 2023 at 4:34 PM
FYI. The 81 episode Goguryeo sageuk from MBC JUMONG (2006/07) is on Viki US’s “Coming Soon” list with episode one available in two days. On Viki US it will be under the title: JUMONG, PRINCE OF LEGENDS.
I intend to pass on all the possible fusion sageuks this year.
I am waiting for:
1. The airing date to be released for Kim Nam-gil’s period drama from Netflix, SONG OF THE BANDITS; and
2. The arrival later this year of a ‘true’ sageuk: KBS’s 32 episode THE GORYEO-KHITAN WAR.