'MURIM SCHOOL' - EPISODE 3
Murim Peak
So the two boys fight, and it turns out the martial arts skills they display are just a dream. And when the actual fight starts, they go at it like wimps: pulling hair, scratching, biting. They're sentenced to cleanup as punishment.
Meanwhile, Soon Duk finds out her dad is at the police station, and she takes time in town to repair his relationship with his girlfriend.
Soon Duk, Dad and girlfriend
Si Woo makes a crack about Chi Ang's parentage and draws them into fisticuffs again, this time with gusto. They're taken to the principal's office and expelled. They complain, refusing to leave the school, so the principal makes an ultimatum: climb Murim Peak, grab the marker there, and the one who makes it back with the marker gets to stay. Both teachers and students react differently to this trial by fire; one of the teachers reveals that he himself planted a flag there when he was a young graduate, and Si Woo and Chi Ang's fellow students set up a drone to follow them on their quest. The mountain is plenty dangerous enough: snakes, darkness, and a treacherous cliff face (Chi Ang is rescued by Si Woo). They get separated, and Si Woo is confronted by an enormous, sinister, apparently magical wolf...
Si Woo saving Chi Ang from a fatal drop
The fight scene in the beginning is hilarious. This is a trope I'm noticing more and more, especially in the dramas that I review, that a dream sequence masquerades as reality, and then we're shown what really happens. It can be a cheat, if the whole thing is revealed as a dream; in 'Murim School,' it's just used for dramatic effect. And it sets it up for a funny scene where our two leads square off and are pretty ineffectual fighters. Which begs the question: why were they able to pummel each other so effectively over a later insult?
Watching the two leads on a drone cam
I'm seriously enjoying the bromance between Si Woo and Chi Ang. Maybe they should kiss and get it over with. They're constantly at each others' throats, and the headmaster seems to steadfastly refuse their requests for different rooms. I think what he sees is that these two need to learn how to work together, to care about something other than themselves. What's great is they start out as enemies, but once they hit Murim Peak they work together nicely.
The drone was a nice touch. We had only the most primitive of those types of things when I was in college -- a model rocket could go up and take an aerial pic. Hmmm...I'll have to grab myself a drone next time we take a family trip.
Biting -- from the resourceful student's manual on combat.
Apparently this isn't doing as well as KBS 2TV hoped. I dunno, I like things like this -- it gives a little more mystery to the standard teen drama. It's a fusion of a number of different things: 'The Mortal Instruments,' 'Dream High,' X-Men, and Harry Potter all influenced this, but they took the mashup and made it into something different, yet similar. Here in the states, it would probably be accepted into the ranks along with such things as 'I, Zombie' and 'Supernatural.' It's campy, a guilty pleasure, and a heckuva good time. If you haven't checked it out yet, you owe it to yourself to give it a look.
Watching the two leads on a drone cam
I'm seriously enjoying the bromance between Si Woo and Chi Ang. Maybe they should kiss and get it over with. They're constantly at each others' throats, and the headmaster seems to steadfastly refuse their requests for different rooms. I think what he sees is that these two need to learn how to work together, to care about something other than themselves. What's great is they start out as enemies, but once they hit Murim Peak they work together nicely.
The drone was a nice touch. We had only the most primitive of those types of things when I was in college -- a model rocket could go up and take an aerial pic. Hmmm...I'll have to grab myself a drone next time we take a family trip.
Biting -- from the resourceful student's manual on combat.
Apparently this isn't doing as well as KBS 2TV hoped. I dunno, I like things like this -- it gives a little more mystery to the standard teen drama. It's a fusion of a number of different things: 'The Mortal Instruments,' 'Dream High,' X-Men, and Harry Potter all influenced this, but they took the mashup and made it into something different, yet similar. Here in the states, it would probably be accepted into the ranks along with such things as 'I, Zombie' and 'Supernatural.' It's campy, a guilty pleasure, and a heckuva good time. If you haven't checked it out yet, you owe it to yourself to give it a look.
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