MBC new supernatural Fusion sageuk records a night watchman Premiere today, and I do not know if it's because I my expectations set very low (or because the truly awful trailers me ), but the show to a decent start. Granted, it is a world filled with ghosts, magic and dragon you are prepared for a certain amount of cheese if what is written on the page and the CG-result is not always as smooth as you would wish. But there is a hefty mythology in the game, the royalty a familiar element Joseon connects with a complex supernatural universe, the feel pretty epic sometimes managed.
I can not say whether this will hold through the first episode, but I'm curious. I will continue to watch to see if there is something that I want to keep recapping, but now I make no promises. Reviews, the show had a good start in the first place with 10.9% ( Trot Lovers came at 9.1% and Temptation , followed by 8.3%).
EPISODE 1 RECAP
a narrator us that in a telling time long ago there was a battle between the spirit world and the human world rages between those who deny that ghosts exist, those spirits, and those who used them expelled. The people at the front of this struggle are the night watchman.
Our journey through space ends in a solar eclipse and occurs in an old man's eye. The man throws a sort of dark magic on the mountain and is young again. He gives his caduceus at his favorite, saying that a murderous energy released, and soon Joseon will be stained with blood.
in the palace a small child prince plays with the other children Court, attended to by a very fussy mothering eunuch. The prince, LEE RIN (later Jung Il-woo ) is a good-natured little boy who register not quite the injustice of the imbalance of power between him and his elder illegitimate brother GISANGUN (later Kim Heung-soo ).
If Gisan bumps in Rin by accident, EUNUCH SONG ( Lee Se-chang ) plots could be a fit that infringed the Prince exist, and the other children that Gisan bow apologetically to his little brother. He swallows his pride and fulfilled, and watch Rin with a long face when he plays with the other children and boasts the scarab cage built their father for him.
Suddenly a strange energy in the air stirs, and a solar eclipse darkened the sky. Everyone looks curious, and her eyes widen a meteor shower on them threatens to see. Giant flaming rocks fall down left and right, destroying everything in their path.
Little Prince Rin frozen is at this point and eunuch song scrambles to pick him up and piggybacked him to safety, which is surrounded by the other guards. In the chaos Rin have no chance for his pet scarab to go back, but Prince Gisan braves falling rocks retrieve it.
KING HAEJONG ( Choi Won-Young ) hears the report of the damage to the palace, and stops cold when he told, that Rin is missing.
Up in the mountains, Evil Minion staged the second phase of the attack and slams the snake rod into the ground. Waves of energy are transformed into clouds of black smoke that descend on the city. What's creepy that the smoke monster clearly have an awareness, to move with the purpose of the people looking for something ... or someone.
Two of them rushing through the castle and stop when they reach Prince Rin wake on the run, and colliding with two of the guards. Oh no, the black smoke seeping into them to take their bodies. Ack, it's demon possession! Ruuun!
Rin and eunuch song look aghast as their own guards turn against them, to kill all who stand in the way. Run like the other guards the black-veined demons possessed attacker ward. Oddly enough, as soon as the other guards were killed, the demons are on their hosts, stabbing himself, and then seep back as black smoke. Creeepy.
eunuch cries song that he would protect Rin until the end, but it is not long before a demon catches and handles its smoky tendrils around the foot. He uses all his strength to fight it, and cries out for the prince to save themselves.
Rin yells that he not leave him, but eunuch song screams for him to go. Once Rin starts to run, makes eunuch song his last stand and told the demons they have to kill him to go further ... so that's exactly what they do. Poor eunuch song.
Now that Rin is alone, he will leave soon of two smoke demons behind that. Over him like robbers loom He assures away from them, to whimper in fear, when suddenly, which makes man in swoops, as he dropped a whip from the sky and tears the demons away again.
He says to run the Prince, and agape Rin watches Badass Warrior. With a quick throw, sending talismans and blades fly, and they are stuck in a magical way the smoke on the wall, as if they are made physically by the talisman magic. It decrees, "ghost, back to life after death!", And scatter them.
During the chaos, Evil Minion breaks into a palace storeroom and steals a role. That's a pretty expensive distraction for a simple theft, right? He leaves a trim knife as a signature.
Rin the forest running through his father to call, and comes face with another smoke demon encounter. It is about to overtake him as the king with his sword crashes, arrived just in time to save his son.
Rin breaks into a big smile and is his father's arms running towards; What they do not realize is that the mind is still there, crawling on the floor and clipping at Rin at his heels. Just as he is to reach his father, the black smoke yanks Rin back and dangle him in midair by the throat.
The king crying for his son, but no one seems to know what to do. Luckily our Badass masked nightwatchman JO Sang-Heon ( Yoon Tae-young ) comes flying for a second bailout, and a talisman pins the mind to the tree.
The king begins Rin, as it falls, and Sang-hyun kills the spirit. It must be the last position, because that's the sunlight returns. The king sighs relieved when Rin regained consciousness for a moment, and he nods knowingly in Sang-hyun direction.
Subsequently, Rin sure sick back to the palace, but lies with fever. His parents tend to him when his grandmother the Queen Mother warns the king that they can not stand for such attacks on the royal family. She orders him the traitors behind the deliberate attack uncover and punish them accordingly.
Oh puh, Eunuch song is not dead, he is annoyed beyond, concerned about the Prince. The royal widow warns him out on the road that if Rin wake up in time not to be the crown prince, they will Eunuch song neck have.
requests the Court Minister, the King to punish the attackers, and an argument brewing between the ministers (and believe), they heard of ghosts attacked were, and those that the idea scrub that the supernatural world exists. The king declared, whether human or spirit, he would make them pay it.
Once the king is alone, Jo Sang-Heon (now in its normal warrior garb) reports the theft of the role and shows him the knife that was left behind. He says that the protective barrier to keep the monster starts from their world to break, and the king tells him to call an emergency meeting the night watchman.
Meanwhile, the spell-casting masked Zorro Blonde responsible unraveled SADAM ( Kim Sung-oh ), the stolen scroll with an evil glint in his eyes.
the night of the king of bad gets worse, if the Queen tells him that Rin is missing. We see him in a walk through the forest he daze-is possessed, or simply observed only creepy thing? Something's wrong with him.
He scarab looking for his pet, and if he finds floating cage in a lake, he jumps into the water. It seems shallow enough for him along to tiptoe, but then suddenly a puff of black smoke grabs him by the ankle and pulls him under water.
He waving, drowning, and the king jumps into the lake of it to fish. He initially breathing, but then he goes limp in his father's arms ...
Late at night, the king and Sang-Heon their way in a secret room hidden behind a wall. It's a weird transition because, as we do not know what happened Rin, but he tends to business, the prince must be in order?
He sits down with the head of the night guard (one of the ministers in his yard) down and shows him the knife behind the person responsible for the attacks left. The minister says the brand from the Yongshin (dragon god) Tribe in Mount Baekdu, an old master is that worships imugi . (Imugi are proto-dragon serpent monster must accumulate great power to become dragons.)
Its leader Sadam is a magician that can summon spirits, and based on the role she took in the attack, it is target its seems that freeing imugi bound in Mt. Baekdu already.
He adds that Rin's disease be supernatural needs and not cured by human medicine. Sang-Heon says that it is a supernatural flower that grows in the heart of Mount Baekdu heals the mystical suffering, and the king orders them for the journey to prepare.
Rin crying in his hospital bed over the prodigal scarab that his father gave him, calling it his friend. The king promises his pet on the way back to retrieve and tells Rin to combat the disease by then. He then leads his army deep into the mountains where Sadam it comes at the height of his perch looks.
When darkness falls, the army of the king of the road will be blocked by mystical boulders, forcing them to turn around in a dead end.
Sang-Heon feels something coming and prepares to attack the archers, and watch dumbfounded as a lonely horse gallops on them in black smoke conversion on the way , In no time, the horse flattening turns into a huge boulder, everything in its path.
Okay, Smokey the horse was pretty cool, but then the next wave of attacks comes in the form of huge skeletor monster with glowy eyes as they made a video game (or Pirates of the Caribbean ) hopped look, and I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to laugh, but I am.
The warriors fight back, but no matter how often they sting the giant, they will not die. Because they are already dead , I want to tell, but then Sang-Heon figures out eventually that they are made of dead things. He suggests a mind talisman on the one to make it vulnerable, and then strikes with a sword in the heart. They are all vanish into thin air.
A little girl comes suddenly from a tiny gap in the rock wall and waves for the army to follow her. Sang-Heon be cautious that it might be another trap, but the king did not see another way out, and decides they will follow. It leads to a group of mountain people of Mago Tribe called, whose leaders can see into the future and already knows why the king here.
She says that she can give the king the flower that he needs to save his son, but that member of their tribe who can perform this magic caught by the dragon god tribe has taken. The little girl asks him to save her sister around, and the Master kneeling before the king.
He says that he is only the king of men, and would dare not meddle in the world of the gods. But the tribal leaders taking given by the gods to show him a bow and arrow, which are swung only by the king of Joseon him to a sacred cave.
The king approaches carefully, and when the earth quakes first puts his hand on the bow, and he can not lift. But then the cave is still growing, and it can change something and feel the bow lifts in hand.
Sadam mocked his prisoner Shaman Yeon-HA ( Yoo Da-in ) to ensure to us about the fact extra creepy feeling that this all-male tribe has this girl kidnapped so that they can be "reborn" to serve their dragon god. Creepy cult leader much?
He marks a trademark in the neck and casting a spell when she and fights pain screaming against their chains.
Late at night, Sadam leads his tribe in a primeval song, the most crazy headdresses bear you've ever seen, I guarantee. It's ... just ... wow. He says that tonight, they go to the dragon god, ushering in a new world to wake up, which will belong to them.
bring Yeon-ha up to him, and he tells her that they are now going to be put into use. She spits in his face and declares that it is a Mago Tribe Shaman, not one of them, but a powerful cock his snake staff makes the mark on her neck glow, and she fights from the pain.
You chains they are made to the tree to a victim, and Sadam starts the spell on the stolen book written to sing. He approaches with a knife ...
Suddenly a shower of arrows raining down on them down, and in the king's army costs. Go, King army, go! They collide with the tribe, but Sadam further before he loses his window toward Yeon-ha to end the ritual.
The king engages him just to save time for them, but in the scuffle, Sadam manages she knocks it into the water buckling arm with the knife and the king. Agh. With their sacrificial blood on it? This is bad news bears ...
you continue to fight, but then an eerie rumbling begins the lake water to make ripple, and then a huge freaking comes imugi to fly out of the lake.
The King collects his mind in time to order a round of flaming arrows, but the sick simply from. quickly think Sang-Heon command, the nightwatchman to put their shields that ensnared the imugi in any kind of electrical supernatural force field at least.
The king Sadam fights and is nearly killed in the process, so Sang-Heon rushes to his rescue and takes on the imugi to concentrate, to urge the king. Oh right, the god-sheet. Shoot it on!
The king grasps the bow and arrow and aims for imugi but Sadam sees what has happened, and sends a round arrows at the men holding the force field. It is enough for the imugi to break free.
Sang-Heon at the moment used a spear right in Sadam chest to send, it is in place with a push tapping hand. His men quit Sadam away with swords, and he falls into the lake.
The imugi beelines for Yeon-ha, and the king is hunting on horseback, his bow drawing and the search for the source of power of imugi, among the scales that run in the opposite direction. He sees it eventually and lets the arrow fly ...
And he ends with precision in the perfect place, the collapse imugi sending in a heap on the floor. Nice hero moment.
He jumps from his horse and cuts Yeon-ha chains down for good measure, and the night watchman to run imugi where it shrinks and turns to stone.
In the morning Yeon-ha again. In the camp of the army with her little sister and her tribe elder The king sees that she still bleeds from her arm and gently bandages use their wound and Yeon-ha promises all her power to conjure up the mystical flower save Prince Rin.
COMMENTS
Honestly, I was expecting it to be much worse. I loved nightwatchman early on, because I'm just a fan of the supernatural genre shows, but the promotional material (and okay, some of the casting) has me on edge and I'm still a little worried for what is yet to come. But the premiere surprises me, because in most cases, it is a coherent story, led me to a supernatural universe, and executed to a fair amount of action in an appealing manner. I feel like now could the disadvantage that the background story is better than the main story, a la Gu family book . I do not think that I be attached get the son to the father over, but I wonder if the extent of the supernatural "verse once holding the Dragons of the king is over.
I do not know that they actually had quite as have many action set pieces in an episode, although I am going even to disagree, saying that Yoon Tae-young of the night watchman character by far is my favorite because he Badass is so. it is the type of character that keeps a show like this ground, because no matter how many trains of black smoke he fights, he does it as if there is a person who is on the other side. And you have to give props to Kim Sung oh that commits regardless of his character, how ridiculous it looks. his costume really makes me go slackjawed, it's so crazy. How does he do it with a straight face to do?
to their credit, the actors ground the devious plot by all currently playing in the world to buy, because they act as if it did not so strange to interact with spirits and gods. It also helps greatly that we are very familiar have story elements in the core, with all the action and the magic: a palace drama between princes, the love of a king for his son, commitment of a warrior to his king, a eunuch devotion to a small child prince.
This is the stuff that concerns me, so I hope they do not lose their focus to try out magic. I think it is a power that the imugi am not made to laugh out loud (I'm totally cool with dragon-there is only one basic level of design you need a pull out without laughing incitement), and I thought that the cooling element was the ghost demons of black smoke (such as Supernatural , but with a higher level of sentience in smoke form). They were surprisingly scary and I liked that they did ghosts in a different way, which they held to be of the usual ghost shapes.
There is an opening that blows me away, so we will see how the full background plays out, because it could very well be the type of show that their tone changes quite dramatically when the Prince grows. I am back to be cautiously optimistic, but it is a show that knowledge to the edge-man bobs so close that, where you go through, and it will be taken to ridiculous seriously, but be affected-that I also seriously worry about this balance once we get a new cast. For recaps any promises, but I'll keep an open mind and keep an eye on.
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