Recap And Reviews Kdrama King Face: Episode 1

Recap and reviews korean drama King Face: Episode 1 -

What sound for and stylish Premiere of king's face , KBS, the newest addition to the sparse Wednesday Thursday lineup. With solid direction and a fascinating device is based on the idea that you can judge a book by its cover, there is no shortage of conflict here and promising for the future mine. After all, what matters most is not what is on the inside, but what's on the outside, is not it? ( "WaitAMinute" mothers said everywhere.) Recaps

future are still in the air, but as far as numbers went King's face with a premiere of 7.1% drawn, last , Mr. Back has been primarily since its premiere, but dropped to 11.2%, while Pinocchio second place with 9.4% took to give Back threatens a run for their money.

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EPISODE 1 RECAP

We open on a chaotic scene as servants of Joseon outside the quarters in protest gathering of KING Seonjo ( Lee Sung-jae ) and asked him to revoke his order dethroned to have the Crown Prince.

While the Crown Princess' son torn from the arms and companions of the Court are in cold reduce blood PRINCE GWANGHAE ( Seo in-gook ) is especially the portraits of the kings that came before.

, it focuses specifically on Portrait King Sejong, as he notes, as his features were harmonious, peaceful era means that would come about during his reign. "truly be the face of a king is," Gwanghae thinks.

There 08 , the forty-first and final year of King Seonjo rule. Gwanghae for treason wanted, and although the outside Minister quells cold to kill the protest by the outspoken minister to the king in question command Seonjo.

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come to surround him from royal guards, drawn with their swords, Gwanghae sees on the wall of the Kings and asks: "I really did not mean to be king the face of someone"

Gwanghae the voice tells a recording of a book under the statue of a dragon hidden. It is written, "When a ruler without the perfect facial features king, will starve the people, the royal servants are to listen only to their own voice, the whole country will descend into chaos and faced a great misfortune The one with the face... King has the king of Joseon be. "

Rewind to the year 1589, the twenty-second year of King Seonjo rule. He wakes up from a nightmare / memories of his childhood, where the face reader court had predicted that he would bring disaster for the nation if he had become king, his inadequate functions, citing the Yongahn Biseo provides the secret book of physiognomy, which has been since Joseon was founded.

But suddenly as the ailing king died maturity Seonjo in line for the throne face reader next was a sword on the then Prince Seonjo prepared swung to kill him for the good of the country.

in the presence of King Seonjo is suffering to a village taken from an outbreak. Those who are not in mass graves burn vomiting blood, but Seonjo surprised his companions when he takes the hand of a man who collapses at his feet.

"Do not worry," says Seonjo the sick. "I will save you. I will not leave my people in despair." One of the villagers called him for lying-how he should save her when he can not even feed them?

your hunger comes as news to Seonjo who is correcting them through the palace of the storage of food to the people to open. Okay, there must be a gimmick here.

And there is, as we see, Seonjo true face once he's not having to put on a show in front of its citizens. It calls on the villagers who be taught a lesson he stood. In secret.

He made the face reader, who tried to pay him for his crimes before and all the years to kill because we Seonjo Lite presided over the see torture the would-be assassin.

gouged Even his eyes had the face readers predicted that Seonjo the pointed chin would the hearts and minds of the people stand. Even then, his words were less remembered vividly by a condemnation and a warning that Seonjo.

We meet a younger and less Prince Gwanghae charged when he started his eunuch Punks IN YOUNG-shin during his acupuncture session, which is not performed by a doctor, but by the court face reader.

Gwanghae full confidence in his abilities even if Eunuch in does not have, as a face reader would the pressure points of the face better than a plain old doctor know . Nice of humor to see someone with a sense above in here.

The Face Reader GO SAN called perform acupuncture is called to meet with Seonjo who claims that he Reader Go set only because of its requirement that a woman existed capable of the dark fate face Seonjo exchange for is doomed to bring about.

Seonjo gives readers one month to go to find the woman, that he might make to his wife, or else . It is at his command, the Gwanghae his face was always poked and prodded every day because Seonjo is convinced that the only way he can coexist with his son, whom he sees as a rival.

in the Night creeps Gwanghae in the royal library a book on physiognomy to read, all while reviewing what the text says, against the features that he in mirror looks.

About his face shows happiness that only makes upset him, he knows that his father will try to use acupuncture to change his face. He just do not know why.

After the royal guards posted outside the library to kill their attackers use their uniforms as a disguise to enter. If Gwanghae confronted the two intruders, they draw their swords against him.

Gwanghae drops to his knees to plead his life, and uses the moment the assassin temporarily caught will protect, to engage them in a fight. He is no strange, for sure, and uses his skills and his environment his attackers fend Martial.

Whether he uses books as a knife-blockers or his own fists, Gwanghae darts and dives between the two to know when to hit and when they relocate to a pretty nifty action sequence.

But he gets no response from the killers even after a firm step Downing, as they turn tail and run.

Gwanghae they pursued by the palace, overtaking a send with a flying leap that they both roll to the ground. He does not blink twice when the assassin a Joseon jackknife attracts him and defeat him by twisting his arm.

Then he has a tattoo of five points placed on the man, arrives directly in front of the royal army's arm. The assassin uses the distraction to gain the upper hand, and swings behind Gwanghae so it can hold a knife to the throat and use it as a human shield to protect against all the soldiers with arrows at the ready.

King Seonjo comes and orders the soldiers to shoot regardless of the fact that his son could be injured. The soldiers can not, so Seonjo a bow and arrow takes aims to Gwanghae who looks it really heartbroken and scared.

Then Seonjo lets the arrow fly ... right past Gwanghae his head and into the hand of the murderer, only a few moments before his blade in the neck Prince falls.

Gwanghae to be a strange small talk conversation with his stern father later, and have only managed again the second Seonjo turns his back to collapse.

After he recovers, he finds his father, the torture of captured terrorists heading. The assassin finally admits that he broke the Yongahn Biseo steal in the library in order to prove that Seonjo face is not that of a king.

He claims to have been sent from the future king of Joseon, the one who will rescue caused by the plague and hunger by a king their country of should never have taken the throne.

Seonjo doesn 't like the sound of that, so he uses his guard sword to cut down the man. From his invisible vantage point is Gwanghae able present to witness this and the murder of each station for the torture. Everything under to his father done.

Just when it seems like Gwanghae escape unnoticed, he comes face with his father in the face. They retire to the royal steam room (I know!) To have a chat about what did or did not see Gwanghae-Seonjo seems his son was in the room to know and that he is lying, but Gwanghae sticks to his story regardless.

Seonjo brings Gwanghae the deceased mother, who only have been a concubine, but one he claims to have really benefited. He knows that his son says only what he wants to hear, as he believes that the only way Gwanghae can proceed, his fate is to be found, if he so undemanding as a stone lives.

If he could only read Gwanghae most harmless, non-confrontational thoughts: ".. Father, please do not worry I will live only as a vassal"

Gwanghae wants to catch the remaining thief because the one who died mentioned that you are looking for Yongahn Biseo, the secret book that he look for as well as the library.

in the hope that he seeks the answers Gwanghae be, he copied the tattoo pattern that he saw the man's arm, so that he and eunuch in (both in disguise) to ask to see if anyone recognizes them.

, it is on this hunt, the Gwanghae deflected by a beautiful young scholars and entranced for a moment. He can not take his eyes away, probably because it is KIM GA-HEE ( Jo Yoon-hee ) disguised as a man.

Gwanghae draws a huge crowd in the square by itself to adjust to a familiar face to his readers, get them hook, line and sinker when Eunuch in as a plant used to convince them of its authenticity.

Soon everyone scrambling for a reading, but Gwanghae do not want their money. He swings the copied Tattoo and claimed that he would be only one reading, who knows what it means. (Bystander: "Five Points")

Ga-hee, who is watching the entire exchange with interest already, finally speaks up to say that they know the answer. But it is not for free she'll give it away tell him after he gives a reading.

Gwanghae found insecure when it comes close, but it reads the same features of all. The only problem is that it sucks in face reading, so in an effort to something accurate out, it accesses the information, obviously someone could see details.

She pushes him her about her nose or lips to say, but looking [1945013es] Gwanghae has all aflutter. Fortunately (or unfortunately), he does not have to prove the time that he is a hack if the mounting by a band of club-wielding men is broken.

Gwanghae does the smart thing and running it, leading his pursuers on a merry chase through the crowded streets of the capital. He avoids being trapped tightly when Ga-hee drags him into a warehouse.

She tells him that he was targeted by the gang that the market is running, because he did not pay for them to establish there business that makes sense, even if Gwanghae thought that he could rock their announcement because he has not been charged for his services.

Ga-hee mocks. "So you pretended a face to be readers and used the constellation as bait?" Gwanghae fires back that they it not in front of everyone who humiliated should, if they knew- ... Wait, what did she say to a constellation?

she snorts that at least they (well, technically he now) was not lying when she said she knew the brand. It is the King Constellation, she claims. Place the four outward points that four guards that protect the king in the center.

Gwanghae is so happy that he takes her hand, so that Ga-hee uncomfortably from his grip and his rapid-fire questions wriggle away about what she knows otherwise.

Now that his time has been reduced to one month, Reader Go used to find a gibang young, virginal women, him to read- I recognize sounds scary but controls just about him inspect the girl every face.

He will know who is to be the king's wife meant when he sees it, but after a year of searching, he has not been able, a girl "like the moon on a dark shining through the clouds to find night. "that is, if a character in the lot of his rapt attention it begins is Ga-hee.

he crawls to follow her, but keeps in confusion when he realizes that he saw only the face it is all looking already this time ... a boy.

at the next Court Assembly, Minister LEE SAN HAE ( Ahn Suk-hwan ) and YOO SEUNG manage Seonjo the wrong way, when their only worry about last night in the library slump to rub the possibility that Gwanghae could have gotten hurt.

Seonjo not like that they are so concerned for his son, which he interpreted their preference for Gwanghae as royal replacement to be. If you like him so much, they can only married make Gwanghae the Crown Prince and Seonjo will step down, so that they have seen the King, they can really want.

Instead, all ministers grovel is alleviated to Seonjo anger. But what he commands only causes a few nasty looks: He wants to hold a ritual to pray for rain to relieve the drought caused famine among his people, and needs young sons by each Minister for Production

word of the "supply" of the king to give up the throne to the crown prince, makes its rounds through the palace, especially to LADY KIM ( Kim Gyu-ri ), the highest ranking wife of king, second only to the queen.

finds the story amusing when Minister Lee told her, and instantly know that the king said what he just to test their loyalty, did. He did not, to withdraw even for a moment.

QUEEN UIIN ( In Ji-eun ) the same thought, although it has a harder time Gwanghae elder brother Prince IMHAE this fact to convince. All he heard was that the king wants to pass on the throne, who is installed as Crown Prince, and believes that it is his birthright to have this position.

The way it works is exactly as Lady Kim he predicted "d act, knowing Prince Imhae preference is for impatient and gloomy. You can Minister Lee wondering aloud why thieves in the had broken library of all places, before adding that she finds it strange that Gwanghae just so happened to be in the library at the same time.

Meanwhile Ga-hee's an unpleasant surprise when Gwanghae and eunuch in the show at the soup kitchen where she volunteers (?). He thinks she must have known to them about the constellation of the king an astronomical chart, even though she told him before that she does not have one.

your Zippy interlude is interrupted when the cartridge of a man convulsing on the floor back away, afraid that it is the plague . Gwanghae is the only fearless to help the man, convinced that it can not be the plague, because the symptoms are not consistent.

He ensures that a man sees a doctor, and has proven correct when Ga hee reported that his body went into shock when he ate for a long period of hunger.

What does Gwanghae helped the man's life, save as much as it is reluctant to admit. but Gwanghae all preens before them for a wage-how about this astronomical chart?

It turned out that Ga-hee the chart on she had all the time asking, although she lets him see it only after he tells her that he saw the constellation tattoo on the arm of a thief who had broken into his house.

she is evasive and uncomfortable when he asks about who pulled as a detailed map of the stars, and only says yes to him it to borrow to get him out of her yard when that their father comes.

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warned unfortunately for them, their father catches them Gwanghae out to sneak attempt. Although they see each other only briefly, they recognize each other be for the Prince and Minister of the Court, respectively.

There is a surprise when her father mission does not because it is disguised as a man, but because she acted too much like a woman to Gwanghae.

Each femininity on her part because of its strictly prohibited "fate", but Ga-hee corrected her father of the idea that she is obfuscation because they howsoever dark has fate fear lies in store for her, she does it out of guilt for her late brother who died because of her.

"So please do not worry," she told her father decided. "The time will come when I completely forget I am a woman and live as a man to my bones down." The nursing her father, but does not mean they can lower their guard when they have to go to the palace for the rain ritual of the king.

her father then shows that the man she shovin 'friends with is none other than Prince Gwanghae, and warns them not to leave, she played recognize him. not to obtain and especially on as a woman exposed.

The stern warning not a little more context recognized gains when Ga-hee has sighs over a jade pendant she kept with her. "It's a relief that the prince completely forgotten about me. But, I ... can not forget him. Even though I live as a man ..."

Cue a flashback to Ga-hee as grieving young girls, in the wake of her brother's death reeling death she felt directly responsible because he caught the plague of her while you tend sickbed.

she had gone to the temple to ask the Buddha to let her meet with her deceased brother, so she could tell him something she did not do in life to cry, that they are not at all grateful to be the one who lived.

Unbeknownst to her, was Gwanghae in the same temple and was so moved by her heartfelt prayers that he hides behind the statue and gave to her that the Buddha to speak. "Your brother says not to cry for you," he said. "Because he can hear all the things you say, now you can tell him what you want to say."

Poor Ga-hee wanted so badly to believe it was the Buddha said to her that she forwarded her message: "My brother Say I'm sorry that I will not forget him ... . I'm really grateful. "Oh.

Gwanghae, nor his official voice, replied, "Your brother wants me to tell you that he is grateful that you are alive." Awwwww.

Thereafter Gwanghae met her face-to-face to give her the jade pendant. "If I'm not beside you, this star you to protect," he says, referring the simple etching into the stone. "I will make sure that you back and meet again to come. So, make sure to wait for me."

Ga-hee keeps the trailer in the present and sighs that Gwanghae is still the same as it was all those years ago, because he is still a liar. Then she remembers, as a temple monk warned of their fate if they continue life as a woman, so she now has to live as a man.

Cue an almost uncomfortably long bath-and-breast-binding scene in preparation for the rain ritual in which Ga-hee happiness is identical dressed by many boys to adopt the elaborate ceremony.

They are soon joined by King Seonjo and the princes, all decked out in their finest ceremonial robes, since the formal prayers to lead. To the ritual is complete, have all the boys to empty their jugs of water in a large ceramic dish, which takes place inevitably, directly in front of the Prince.

Ga-hee flustered grows when Gwanghae they recognize from the market and send them an enormous grin, but in their efforts, but they hurry up and her pitcher empty to escape his gaze, Ga-hee bumps to another boy who ... What to ground goes crashing into the bowl bumps ...

. Ohhhh noooo. There are literally nothing worse aside the king's robes from the setting on fire might have done in this ceremony.

fall all eyes on them inevitably, including Reader Go. Hers is the face he saw on the street, the one that King Seonjo is missing in every way oh so perfectly is detailed. Hers is the face that will change Seonjo unfortunate features into a king.

COMMENTS

Solid stuff. I was not quite sure what we would get from a production, which had filed an injunction against it before it was even broadcast, but the end result was actually pretty good. Although I admit the whole plagiarism debacle over KBS and The Face Reader film me even harassment, either because it is purely that random happenstance King's face bears resemblance to the movie, OR , that the people who are scams behind the show and a damn could be disrupted to give, even if they give craps had free.

The second scenario is what I think that would be more likely, although not quite gel with the entire Polish this episode, which took clearly a lot of time, money and effort of all involved. Regardless of whether this specific story the narrator is authentic or vaguely inspired by a recent blockbuster hit to win is there (it really is not), and regardless of what it is, I am impressed by the tenacity of this production to make the is certain that this story-the one we have just seen one hours-of being told.

So, where I the drama will leave behind the scenes unless it comes later pursue the real drama. And since I did not even seen the film, which did or did this show not I could inspire this first trip on its own merits as an introduction to the core world and characters to see it ask us to invest in (or not no pressure, ) for another 23 hours. If there is to sageuks this length comes, it is usually appropriate to give them the first four episodes to cover only the table, everything that hour did just to say, goes, what it needed to do some and then ,

But the director so far, where the show is characterized really the sign of the director, of two completely different shows I had very different opinions On- Bridal mask I am happy and you're the Best, Lee Soon-shin he clearly -because not his talent loose to shoot for intensive movement. That seems like a superfluous thing in an episode to focus so much on offer on with, but you will either already know or I have to trust when I say that it is not easy to find good action scenes in sageuk. I probably would not have even mentioned them had they been only baseline responsible, but they were awesome . So awesome, in fact, that I go to the question of whether to keep Gwanghae the freakishly good ability off in the martial arts is something that will be installed correctly in its character, or whether it will just be something that he sometimes does because he can.

face reading mythology, while seemingly being an idea on which the whole show tells upon-I can take honest at this point or leave. Perhaps why everyone in a universe to find out it's just trying fatigue from where face reading is one thing, can not think of literally nothing else to talk about. What I know, is also very important, and as impossible to remove from the scope of the show as a metaphor in The moon, the sun Hugging . It's kind of one of those things we just buy because it is integrated in the title, and hopefully one of those things that are fading into the larger fabric of history as time goes by and not be stuck as spurious patch outside.

to go in this sense, I think there are many good places with the historical context, as I have always found Gwanghae, probably cultivated something of a tragic figure-an image from the plurality of dramas and movies him, as such. (Okay, and maybe the story, but who needs that?) As we are already an idea of ​​the conflict came out on top, it is clear that the father-son drama is not going anywhere anytime soon, nor will it get better for the two of them. At least I hope for some nuance when it comes to something contemptible nature to Seonjo, even if we can show his son's life as evidence to save him that a father is there. Somewhere. []; _taboola.push ({mode: "Thumbnails-a 'container' taboola Down Item Thumbnails" placement "Below Article Thumbnails" target_type, "Mix"});

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