Damo, ep. 01-02

[oyceter]

shewhohashope pimped this as "like CSI: 16/17th Century Korea, mixed with some elements of wuxia, Sherlock Holmes-style deduction, a 'cop goes undercover' storyline, and possibly a star-crossed romance or two to come."

Then she went and posted a lot of pretty screencaps of the first episode

Comments

[meganbmoore]

rodl. "Stoic" indeed. The flashbacks of incredible cuteness were what sold me on the show, honestly. I mean, that little girl has to be the absolute cutest thing ever. And the guy who plays young Yoon also plays the younger version of the lead in Emperor of the Sea. I long for him to grow up a little more so he can start playing the lead in these shows already)

Damo is actually probably what sent me off into wuxias and period dramas.

BTW, curly haired rebel leader is Jang Sung-Baek.

[oyceter]

OMG! The flashbacks! So cute! So cute! Especially the little girl!

I am now very tempted to go through all the wuxia you have been watching too. Any particular recs? I haven't seen many wuxia movies at all, but I really miss the cdrama ones.

[meganbmoore]

i actually kinda did a wuxia recs post not long ago. I shall dig it up for you when i get home.

[oyceter]

Yay! Thank you!

[meganbmoore]

Here's my post: http://meganbmoore.livejournal.com/tag/wuxia+primer (though the stuff before the second post you don't really need, as you're already familiar w/ wuxia series) it also has my favorites at the end. the only one I've watched since is Twin of Brothers(raymond lam's character and his story are great, but ron ng cannot act and his character sucks and is boring in addition to that...he has the cool villains, though...the best part of his story was the bad girl who fell for him...sadly...he'd rather be boring and sanctimoniousd with the good girl)

only on ep 6 of Romance of Red Dust...it's fun, but i don't know how good it'll be overall yet.

[oyceter]

Yay, thank you! I actually haven't seen much wuxia at all -- I think I watched Yi Tien Tu Long Ji (Heavenly Sword, something Dragon?) in like, 1993 on Taiwan TV, and I randomly caught a lot of Asia Undefeated when it played. But I am a total sucker for Chinese historical drama stuff.

[meganbmoore]

Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre. I'm told it has one of the worst of the Wandering Eyes Heroes.

[oyceter]

Ah, got it! I don't even remember! I think the version on jdramas is the remake, which is not as good as the version I remember, but that may just be my memories...