The Myth The Myth The Myth

[dangermousie]

I am so in love with this MV for the OTP of The Myth:

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You know, I have not been THIS obsessed about a drama for years - maybe not even since all the time long ago when they were airing Silence and I would watch raws for a drama I did not understand a word of, and for which I learned to download

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[dangermousie]

It reminds me of it in the whole concept of modern person, with modern views, sensibilities, and morals, having to be in a society which is basically medieval and, at its core, you can't drag it out of that - what do you do?

It dumps two fairly average modern people back 2000 years and a lot of the story (to me, the biggest point, actually) is how being there, with no way back, transforms them - one of them ends up eventually embracing it, steeping himself in mores of the place, getting to be chief eunich eventually etc. The protagonist, however, is in constant inner clash because he refuses to give up his 'modern' morals (slavery is bad, murder is not something he wants to do etc) which butts up against routine of life back then. But his refusal costs him and, also, by the mere fact he is living 1st century AD, he HAS to do things which are against his basic principles - he has killed before, and committed actions which resulted in deaths of others (and when he does play by modern rules, sometimes it lets people live who should certainly have been dead for the good of the world, so to speak). And he constantly struggles with that, that he can't "win" - there is this whole sequence where his OTP has got the plague (in reality it's some sort of epidemic illness but not really "the" plague) and in order to get medicine for her, he is supposed to steal something from the palace, which he does, and five eunuchs later get executed when the item is discovered missing - when he confronts the person who he stole the item for (to make medicine), the person points out that if he thought about it, he'd know what would happen to the guards, but he did not think of it on purpose because he wanted to save his OTP and made a judgment her life was more valuable to him than that of five other people he did not know (just as he only had enough medicine for her, and had to walk through people dying and begging him to help them without giving them the drug).

I actually find the drama surprisingly dark and smart.