Нисдэг Зургаан Луу
I’m always wary of jumping onboard a long-running drama, because man that is a time commitment, but I did find Six Flying Dragons rather strong in its premiere. This is a drama with a lot of hype going in, and it’s a hype that didn’t really move me since sageuks this long often require such effort to follow, but that said I found this first episode compelling on most fronts: It’s beautifully filmed, well-acted, and paced swiftly.
The drama is a bit dense on the history front, in that there’s a certain baseline of Korean history that Korean audiences are expected to know and is thus not fully explained. That’s not necessarily going to be the case for most of us in the English-speaking audience, and I’ll attempt to lay in the basics of the background, because Six Flying Dragons also takes a bit of creative license in the fictionalization of certain characters and events, and it’s helpful to know what the canon is so we can appreciate where the show is deviating.
It’s been a while since we had all three broadcasters premiering new dramas on the same day, so I was curious to see how the ratings battle would shake out. As it turns out, the combined starpower of Six Flying Dragons’ producers and lead stars sealed the deal and it came out in front with 12.3%, with MBC’s melodrama Dazzling Temptation in second with 8.5% and KBS’s bubbly high school drama Sassy Go Go far back with 2.2%. All the numbers ticked upward for their second episodes, but the rankings remained the same.
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