It’s finale weekend over on tvN as the big budgeted and highly promoted fantasy sageuk Arthdal Chronicles wraps up its ambitious tale with the final two episodes. The penultimate episode brought in 6.412% ratings, so part 3 of this drama in the end could not give it a much needed ratings boost beyond the 6% range it averaged during its run. This will be considered a flop for male lead Song Joong Ki while Jang Dong Gun continues his streak of stealing the show as the antagonist and coming out winning even if the project doesn’t do as well in ratings or box office – same thing happened last year with zombie sageuk Rampant with Hyun Bin.
I thought Song Joong Ki’s darker twin character was more interesting and his performance way more memorable there but sadly it was nice curly haired twin that was set up as the hero. Kim Ji Won overall is a miscast for me but I don’t think a bigger name or better actress female lead could have brought in more ratings. Overall this drama was a dud in story and execution, despite it’s sky high 54 billion won budget. Compare that to second highest budget Mr. Sunshine at 40 billion won and more than double the just premiered Vagabond with a 25 million won budget. K-ent should study C-dramas for the fantasy period story and style for a change.
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Apparently there are rumours about season 2. Most probably final episode is going to end on major cliffhanger.
Yes, more likely it going to end on cliffhanger about saya getting to know eunsom.
Koala I guess you have no idea but sjk is the one receiving rave reviews from knetz and Inetz viewers for his dual performance even more than jdg. Both male leads were appreciated for their performance but as usual you twisted the word to bring more traffic. Though I believe they both shined in their respective role.
You can go to be netizenbuzz to read the reviews you'll see that most of the praise is directly towards JDY. Not saying that SJK wasn't good especially as Saya but JDY has the bulk of the praise for this drama.
I think you are talking about Netizendrama. Go check out directly from Naver articles. Jdg has been receiving praises in part 3,But sjk performance has been praised since part 2.check out melohwa.blogshot. They have been translating top comments on all the epi.
yeah I've seen praise for SJK dual roles on naver too, once Saya appeared in part 2.
Isn't Jang Donggun bigger name and movie star in South Korea? How is it considered a flop for Song Joongki and not for him?
Not a fan of SJK but I thought he acted the dual role well.
The two male leads did well. KJW is a little disappointing.
Please season 2. I already miss this drama.
Watched the drama because it's on netflix.
Have to say that I can find better chinese drama on youtube than this
Haven’t watched Arthadal, Rampant or Vagabond, but I agree with ockoala - no one does Fantasy like the C-dramas. They’re unique and damn good! They have the best writing and the most fleshed out, complex and layered characters. Kdrama writers should take notes from them: their characterization is too one dimensional and flat. Maybe it’s because Kdramas have to squeeze everything to fit into 16 episodes; but the truth is, the writing for their weekend family dramas with 50 episodes is no better.
Fantasy C-dramas mostly based on novels, thus the better writings because they already have that source materials. I can't remember watching a fantasy C-drama that not based on novels. Also, you are right about the longer eps which I think is crucial for this type of genre to really give proper backstory and unleash the plot. Not to mention C-dramas have higher budget (as for Arthdal, they do have high budget which optimizedly used). Nevertheless, I do agree, China is better at producing fantasy genre dramas.
Why is the budget so high compared the other dramas mentioned above? Because of the fantasy settings ?
I do like arthdal. And for personally, Kim Ok Bin's performance is really good. Much much much better than Kim Jiwon. While for SJK, i like Saya more than Eunseom. Eunseom spent most of his time in running away.. while Saya is busy to build his own kingdom. Lols. I really like the 1st season and wish to see more of Eunseom on 2nd season but such a disappointment. Taelha and Saya are more intrigued than other characters. Jgd is fine.. but not my fave.
This drama needs another season. 18 episodes aren't enough. I still like it, but mostly bcuz of Saya and Taelha.
Hopefully they will make season 4th etc...
Enjoying everything about this..The visuals acting is all great.?