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Six Flying Dragons: Episode 15

Though it may not be Moo-hyul’s turn to be introduced as one of the dragons, I’d be a slimy politician’s uncle if I didn’t at least give him points for effort. Reunions abound in an episode that takes the time to set the table for what’s to come, resulting in our long lost siblings getting a chance to hug it out after years of Bang-ji being a jerk just ’cause. But he’s a well-meaning jerk at least, and that counts for something.

Also, apologies for the late recaps this week, there was a family emergency. Six Flying Dragons recaps will resume their normal schedule next week. Thanks for understanding!

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EPISODE 15 RECAP

Though Bang-ji draws his sword after sensing murder in the air, he convinces himself he just imagined it, leaving Jung Do-jeon relatively defenseless against the scarred assassin that comes to kill him.

But it’s actually Yeon-hee who arrives first, using an old fashioned smoke bomb as a means to distract the assassin so they can escape. And when the assassin tracks Jung Do-jeon into the forest, Yeon-hee attacks him with a sword.

She manages to hold her own for a hot second before the assassin gets the best of her. Before he can bring down the killing blow, the Viper emerges from the shadows to block his attack. Unfortunately for all of them, more assassins appear and threaten Bang-ji into lowering his sword by holding daggers to Yeon-hee and Jung Do-jeon’s throats.

Yeon-hee uses one of her hairpins as a weapon to buy time, leaving a perfect opening for Moo-hyul to enter the fray. He slashes the first assassin with one fell swoop then takes another one on with ease. The only thing he’s concerned about is learning their names, so he can add them to his resume of defeated foes.

Bang-won and Boon-yi arrive as the two warriors take on the assassins in yet another legitimately cool fight scene, but something clicks in Boon-yi’s mind as she watches Bang-ji fight. Could she recognize her brother in him?

Even though Moo-hyul could have handled the other assassin, Lee Seong-gye and his men arrive in time to shoot the man down so he can be captured alive. Strangely though, Bang-ji notices that there’s no blood on his blade, despite him having slashed the scarred assassin’s throat.

There’s no time to think on that too long though, since Boon-yi approaches him with tears in her eyes. “Could it be?” she asks. “Orabeoni? Ddang-sae orabeoni?” She gets her confirmation when he lets out a strained, “Boon-yi-ya.”

She runs toward him and throws her arms around him, almost unable to believe that it’s really him. Bang-ji closes his eyes against his own onslaught of tears as he embraces his little sister for the first time in years. Aww.

Once they’re alone(-ish, since Yeon-hee watches nearby), Boon-yi wonders how her once weak and delicate brother learned to fight so well. “It’s because of me, isn’t it? It’s because of the childish thing I said to you, isn’t it?” she asks tearfully.

But Bang-ji, still the big brother even after all this time, comforts her by saying it wasn’t her fault. She apologizes anyway, and when they get up, she’s faced with another blast from the past in Yeon-hee. She runs up to hug her, and Yeon-hee awkwardly hugs her back.

After reminiscing over his memories with his sister and Yeon-hee, Bang-ji tells Jung Do-jeon that he’ll be sticking around after all. He’ll want to be put to good use, but lets Jung know all the same that he’ll be watching him very closely.

Since the two women he loves believe in the world Jung Do-jeon wants to create so badly, he’ll try to protect that dream if only for them—even though he doesn’t believe in their cause at all. Jung knows he’s just playing hard to get and is elated that he’s staying.

While Gil Tae-mi finds out that the Viper again meddled with their plans by killing two of their assassins and capturing the third to save Jung Do-jeon (which is a new development), Lee Seong-gye thanks Bang-ji for his service and for committing to their cause.

But when he asks for his name, the humbled warrior replies, “Ddang-sae.” Since that’s not a suitable name for a warrior, Lee Seong-gye says he’ll consider him as a son from now on, which passes on the last name of “Lee” and the first syllable of “Bang,” since all his other son’s names start with that. The final “Ji” comes from the Hanja character also used for “Ddang.” So, Lee Bang-ji it is—and his first task is to be appointed as Jung do-jeon’s personal bodyguard. (Looks like I was jumping the gun in calling him Bang-ji since way before. But to be fair, so were most of the news outlets.)

Later, Yeon-hee tells Boon-yi that while she knows Bang-ji was also a victim, she can’t forgive him for it either. But it still hurts her heart to look at him, which is why she considers fate so cruel, since she’ll have to look at him often now that they’ll be working together.

Boon-yi feels for her, and knows it’ll be difficult. Yeon-hee doesn’t deny it, but says they’ll just have to bear with it—which is when Bang-ji enters to say he doesn’t intend to just live through it. He wants to live a new life and get stronger. To do that, he won’t protect her any longer. Every man for himself, right?

Yeon-hee pretends like that doesn’t affect her by handing him one of their super secret wooden figurines and calling him by the much more dispassionate moniker “Comrade.”

Since this is a lot for Boon-yi to take in, she excuses herself from the emotionally charged room. When Bang-won finds her crying and asks who caused it, she cries existentially, “The world. This country. The dodang.” Bang-won embraces her and promises that he’ll put an end to all that worries her.

Fueled by rage now that he thinks Jung Do-jeon and not Lee In-gyeom was behind Bang-ji’s training, Gil Tae-mi barges into Lee Seong-gye’s house to demand answers from Jung. He gets so riled up that he even draws his sword, but Lee Seong-gye draws an arrow just as quickly.

The two men stare each other down, with Gil Tae-mi confident that he could block the arrow and Lee Seong-gye confident of just the opposite. Jung Do-jeon eggs them into making a bet on it, but in a way that’s meant to point out just how precarious a situation Gil Tae-mi is in for wielding a sword at the great general.

After a long and very charged moment, Gil Tae-mi lowers his sword, but promises to dig deeper into the identity of the man who saved Jung Do-jeon’s life. Just the same, Lee Seong-gye promises to dig deeper into the man behind the assassin, having a good guess that it’s probably the man standing right in front of him.

But before he goes, Gil Tae-mi leaves one lingering thought: Who would have won if they’d actually gone through with their bet? Then he heads over to Minister Hong to remind him that the Haedong Gapjok chose Lee Seong-gye over him, something that Hong doesn’t plan to let go unpunished.

General Choi is happy that Lee Seong-gye’s son is marrying a daughter of such a noble clan, but warns that they have a great amount of sway—it’ll be up to Lee Seong-gye to use his ties as in-law to move them and their power into the political realm.

Cut to the marriage of Bang-won and Da-kyung, which a forlorn-looking Boon-yi and a perpetually goofy Moo-hyul attend. But to give the adorable warrior credit where credit is due, he does pick up on Boon-yi’s mood during the ceremony and asks her about it. (Even though, to her credit, she offered Bang-won a comforting smile during the ceremony.)

It’s even cuter that he knows he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he’s no idiot either—he knows what he saw. He tries to comfort her by telling her to just consider Bang-won as the rice cooker who provides for them, which gets a smile of Boon-yi. “Lee Bang-won, Rice Cooker,” she chuckles.

She commends Moo-hyul for being so straightforward, though he knows that’s just her nicer way of saying he’s a simpleton. But she means it, and wishes her brother had become a warrior like him who cared for his family. In a way, that makes Moo-hyul normal, and there aren’t enough normal people in Goryeo.

“You’re the hope of Goryeo, Warrior-nim,” she adds. Moo-hyul gets that starry-eyed look he always gets when he’s around her. Boon-yi says that her goal is to make a nation with more people like him, and jokes that “Rice Cooker” Bang-won probably feels the same.

As Boon-yi symbolically removes the shoes Bang-won picked out for her, Bang-won’s new bride emphatically informs him that she won’t be sleeping with him until his family’s success and future is secured. Her family will do their best to make that happen, but should it not, they’ll abandon her.

Bang-won surprises her when he puts up absolutely no resistance, and just goes along with her wishes. He’ll work just as hard as she will to make sure she won’t be abandoned by her family.

Lee Seong-gye and Jung Mong-joo are in for a rude awakening when they ask for Da-kyung’s father’s support going forward, only for him to reply that they’re only bound by marriage—what would his clan know about politics? As he tells his fellow Haedong Gapjok member, if Lee Seong-gye wants his help, he’ll have to earn it. Lee Seong-gye already knows this to be true.

Bang-ji is still marveling over the absence of blood on his blade from his earlier skirmish with the assassins, wondering how he got strong and fast enough to kill without tarnishing his blade. That’s when he remembers his old teacher, Jang Sambong, telling him that he would become as strong as the men he fought.

And since he fought the great Gil Tae-mi, he now knows why he improved. Moo-hyul sighs to himself about how good of a warrior Bang-ji is as he watches him train, shortly before interrupting him on behalf of “his lady Boon-yi.”

He barely gets a chance to get into what he wants to say before Bang-ji gives him a letter to deliver to Gab-boon and an order to retrieve his belongings too. It’s funny how Moo-hyul agrees before realizing he’s been had, and even Bang-ji can’t help but smile at his own trickery.

Moo-hyul delivers the letter as promised, but can’t help himself when he sees Gab-boon pack the signature black robe of the Viper—as soon as he’s out of sight, he helps himself into the clothes. He giggles almost maniacally as he practices a few moves, wondering if the clothes really do make the warrior. Oh, Moo-hyul. I luff you.

He doesn’t even think about the consequences as he struts through town in his borrowed suit, which catches the eye of Gil Tae-mi as he’s being carted through town on a chaise lounge. Assuming Moo-hyul is the Viper, he attacks him instantly, and luckily Moo-hyul is adept enough to fight back.

But he’s not skilled enough to come close to defeating him, and Gil Tae-mi realizes that he’s not the Viper pretty quickly. He tsks about kids these days and their trends before asking Moo-hyul if he’s Master Hong’s student.

Moo-hyul’s almost afraid to ask how the greatest swordsman in Goryeo knows him, and gets the reply he wasn’t expecting: “He was my teacher.” So Master Hong wasn’t lying? Gil Tae-mi acknowledges that Moo-hyul has talent, and encourages him to learn from his old teacher, despite him being a swindler with lousy skills.

So Moo-hyul can’t help but ask why it’s not a commonly known fact that Master Hong was his teacher, only for Gil Tae-mi to reply, “Because it’s embarrassing!” Moo-hyul finds their old teacher in the barracks and demands to know if it’s true that he really trained Gil Tae-mi, his brother, and the assassin who went on to kill King Gongmin.

He can’t seem to believe it when Master Hong acknowledges it, and asks why he didn’t tell him beforehand. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DIDN’T TELL YOU?!” Master Hong explodes, considering that’s all he ever says. Moo-hyul drops to his knees and begs his teacher to show him the last four moves of the twenty-four he teaches, so he can defeat Gil Tae-mi and make his name known.

While Jung Do-jeon’s team worries that Minister Hong is becoming drunk with power after his latest antics in confiscating even more land that doesn’t belong to him, Bang-won suspects something more at play.

Cut to Minister Hong, who becomes so enraged at his servant/Yeon-hee’s rapist for telling him that he can’t confiscate the holy and untouchable Haedong Gapjok’s land that he bludgeons him over the head. He has his men take the land by force, and they even beat one of the clan elders, ELDER JO, for resisting. (Anyone else catch the mallet malfunction in this scene? Where it breaks and hits one guy in the head? I shouldn’t have laughed, but I did.)

The issue of whether to impeach Minister Hong for it comes up in the next dodang assembly, with his usual defenders at the ready. At least Gil Tae-mi takes a second to wonder at how far his in-law has gone before he jumps in on the fray, though everyone agrees to hold out until Elder Jo can give his testimony in three days.

Jung Do-jeon sees this as their chance to get rid of Minister Hong, even though Lee Seong-gye is doubtful when they only have thirty people on their side compared to the sixty Hong has in the dodang.

But this vote will be different, since even Hong’s supporters will be wary of angering the Haedong Gapjok. There’s a good chance they’ll get enough swing votes for the motion to pass—there are only three they have to be sure to convince.

In the New Joseon Cave, Bang-won voices his concern about everyone’s assumption that Minister Hong made a mistake in going after Haedong Gapjok’s land because he went mad with power, believing it to instead be a calculated move on his part. He believes this because of what Minister Hong said during all those years he tormented him: “You and I are similar.”

So he thought from Minister Hong’s perspective, and wondered why he’d go so out of bounds. It isn’t arrogance on his part, or madness—Bang-won doesn’t know what Hong is after, but it isn’t an accident. Even if it is all part of some great big plan, Jung Do-jeon returns, it was still a mistake on Hong’s part. They’ll have to act quickly in order to capitalize on it.

While Elder Jo reacts to a break-in by Minister Hong’s men into his ancestral hall, Jung Mong-joo talks to all the possible swing voter ministers who refuse to betray Minister Hong, even with the threat of having Haedong Gapjok as their enemy. Only then does Jung Do-jeon realize something he missed before, and calls himself a fool.

In the wee hours of the morning, Elder Jo and his men storm into Minister Hong’s closest manor to cut down the servant who defaced his ancestor’s tablets—but his plans to go to the king and report every detail of Hong’s brutality are interrupted when he’s surrounded by armed men.

Just as five of Minister Hong’s possible supporters call in sick so as to abstain from voting on his impeachment, Jung Do-jeon chuckles over not thinking of that plan sooner. Why try to get more majority votes when they can just reduce the number of ministers voting, and thus reduce the required votes needed for impeachment? Ah, so that’s what he realized earlier.

Of course, the vote never takes place because Minister Hong storms into the dodang assembly to proclaim that he and his men caught Elder Jo plotting treason. It’s outlandish and all the usual gullible ministers buy into the tall tale of how Elder Jo tried to kill Minister Hong for knowing too much, but killed his servant instead.

And Minister Hong, having barely escaped with his life, conveniently found a letter which proves Elder Jo’s treachery. It’s all lies, and Lee Seong-gye knows it as he bellows for evidence of Minister Hong’s claims to be shown, only for Hong to imply that he might be involved in Elder Jo’s treasonous scheme.

The letter, which no one seems to realize that anyone could have written (and isn’t even the first forged letter the dodang’s encountered recently), calls for men to take up arms and storm the palace. Minister Hong calls for everyone in the Haedong Gapjok to be investigated as a result, since they could all be in on it.

“Teacher, you were wrong and I was right,” Bang-won tells Jung Do-jeon in the New Joseon Cave. “Hong In-bang fabricated the treason plot.”

 
COMMENTS

Somehow I don’t think being wrong is something Jung Do-jeon is all that familiar with, though in this case, he’d be foolish to deny Bang-won’s claims. How this one incident will affect their power dynamic is what interests me most, since it’s not as if Bang-won wants to be right for the one-upmanship, or even to be right over Jung Do-jeon at all because of how much he reveres him.

In this case, his intuition was spot on, as compared to how Jung Do-jeon underestimated Minister Hong. And in a way, it’s hard to blame him for thinking that way, since Minister Hong is letting his new position get to him in more ways than one. But it seemed to be a critical mistake on our great teacher’s part, and one we shouldn’t worry about him finding a way out of. In a show that revels in intellectual foreplay as much as this one, this new conundrum Jung Do-jeon has to deal with is just like being served a hot towel before the meal to come—it’s not inherently satisfying, but you know what’s coming will be.

And while it was a foregone conclusion that Bang-won would take a wife that wasn’t Boon-yi, it still feels like it all happened too fast for our young lovebirds to even register what was going on. Even though both of them knew full well what they were getting themselves into (or out of, as is the case). What Boon-yi said to Bang-won about how he wouldn’t change his plans even if he was concerned for her turned out to be one hundred percent true, since Bang-won heard her declaration of love before the vows were said and theoretically could’ve done something. But knowing that he loved her and that she loved him did nothing to deter him from marrying for political advantage, and that’s part of what makes Bang-won so… well, scary sometimes. But in a good way. (For now.)

Despite all the heavy political strife going around, I’m really loving the way this show handles its lighter moments and the pure comedic gold they have with Moo-hyul and Gil Tae-mi. There’s such a risk involved when it comes to easing up on the serious stuff that it’s become a common pitfall for so many other shows, and sageuk can be one of the worst genre offenders when it comes to that. Even with star examples like Chuno, one of its biggest failings was in dedicating all its comic relief to a separate set of characters in separate scenes who always operated outside the main storyline—so you’d get scenes that were not only unfunny, but were actually a chore to sit through. (I still love you, Chuno!)

And too often, it feels like we have to suffer through the zanily scored slapstick bits to get to the good stuff, but then shows like this come around that know how to utilize their characters to take a breather every now and then. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like we’re seeing the best jokes ever put to screen here—but the moments that are supposed to be funny tend to serve a double purpose by not only being charming, but by also working to further endear characters to us. What’s not to love when Moo-hyul has an alternate version of reality where Boon-yi is all aegyo and smiles and sunshine? Or when even the stoically serious Bang-ji utilizes the stars in Moo-hyul’s eyes to punk him for his own amusement? And for those who enjoy the more serious side of things, how about all those times Minister Hong inflicted blunt force head trauma on the less fortunate? Ah, memories.

 
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Moo-hyul is so funny but sometimes I'm scared what's gonna happen to him to turn him into "serious warrior mode". Or at least the more stoic (but King-nagging) guard in TWDR.

Park Hyuk-kwon is so awesome, I wish they'd redeem Gil Tae-mi's character. I know, it's bad and maybe won't be narratively consistent but I can't help but hope for it.

(Off-topic, hope everything is fine on your side, Heads. Thanks for the recap.)

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Oh my god, I was legitimately worried when you didn't show up HeadsNo2.
Anyway, thanks for the recap (again) :D
Moo Hyul is so damn adorable ! I was laughing so hard at Moo Hyul's sudden "what's your name?" in the middle of the fight scene. He cracked me up when I'm supposed to be serious. Aigoo Moo Hyul-ah, can I take you home?

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thank you thank you thank you heads - hope you had a nice thanksgiving
now of to read

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i wrote bf i read your intro so i hope everything is ok now

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thank you for the recap Heads. hope you're doing well. honestly I thought you were in turkey coma.. ?? been refreshing dramabeans countless times ??

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Thanks for taking the time out to do this recap!! *off to read*

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Thanks guys for the recap. Hope all is well with family. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Thank you! I've been waiting for your recap. Like others, hope everything is okay. ❤❤

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okay! BangWon-BoonYi fan club! abandon ship! the ship is sinking fast! hahahaha... XD

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I've been holding out on watching this drama and have been simply reading the recaps but... I'd just finished watching episode 6 and I'm still tingling all over.

Dang, this is my kind of show.

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Thank you so much for recapping the drama despite busy, Heads. Off to read ^^

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Koreans should be so proud of this show as it highlights an important part of their history. Sageuks are a great way to kindle interest in Korean history.
As a non Asian European-American I find myself turning more and more to Joseon history websites to further learn about this period and I tune in eagerly weekly to thrill to the adventures of the 'Six Flying Dragons'
Yes, I know a lot of it is a fictionalized account but it's still so fascinating.

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There is almost a dozen other sageuks and movies of this era out there. The two epic authentic sageuks of this era that we know of was done in 1996 (Tears of the Dragon) and recently last year (Jeong Do Jeon).

This is heavy on fiction with 3 dragons that didn't exist in history. I think the fun thing about this drama is trying to figure out what's real and what's fiction (at least for me).
No matter how much the writers twist and change the actual history, the end result is usually the same.
This is more like what they did with QSD. They changed Shilla's history upside down with Bidam's character but in the end, General Kim Yushin was still the one that killed him.

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I LOVED Queen Seondeok with a passion. It's the drama that turned me on to sageuks.

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Awww hope everything's fine now Heads! We missed you terribly. Thanks so much for finding the time to recap. You're truly appreciated

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Heads, hope everything's ok now. Thanks for the recap.

I have a few niggling questions and I hope someone can answer them. I re-watched the first 2eps (that's how much I love the drama), and have some questions to ask.

1) Who told Lee In Gyeom about LSG's betrayal? LIG himself said that that victory wasn't his and that there was someone behind it? Who is it? Was it JDJ?

2) It seems as if the writers are not continuing with the disappearance of Boon Yi and Ddang sae's mother?

3) JDJ knows the song she sang to her children... how is he involved?

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I'll give it a shot and I'm totally going by memory here.

1. a."Who told Lee In Gyeom about LSG’s betrayal?"

Without going through the whole border history here I'll just say that it was a well known in Goryeo that Lee Seong-gye and his father were the main reason why Shuangcheng (Goryeo's old territory where Lee Seong-gye and his father were serving as Yuan military officials) was returned to Goryeo.
In the drama it seems that Lee In-gyeom had spies in Hamju which he denied.

b. "LIG himself said that that victory wasn’t his and that there was someone behind it?"

Lee Seong-gye and his father were Goryeo descents. They served under General Jo So-saeng who was also another Goryeo descent. When King Gongmin ordered the retake of Goryeo's lands back from Yuan, Lee Seong-gye's father saw an opportunity to return to his homeland by betraying Jo So-saeng and helping the Goryeo army.
It was his father's victory but it's being twisted here so I'll have to watch it again.

2."It seems as if the writers are not continuing with the disappearance of Boon Yi and Ddang sae’s mother?"

I believe they will continue once Tae Mi's twin brother reappears because he knew her personally and was with her at the palace.

3."JDJ knows the song she sang to her children… how is he involved?"

The song was written by King Gongmin. JDJ was a member of the elite Sadaebu scholars at the time and the children's mother was Queen Nokguk's maid.
(When JDJ started singing at the gate, all the scholars were singing along).

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1b. “LIG himself said that that victory wasn’t his and that there was someone behind it?”

I guess you are talking about eps 2. That someone was the Shadow himself, Jung Do-jeon.

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Thanks Kiara.

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I love how the writers and director juxtaposes the comedic with the serious in this drama. Every time i feel that it is becoming too intense, we get a light-hearted and comedic with the lovable Moo-hyul.

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Heads thanks for the recaps. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I think you deserve a coffee truck send to your house :).

"Though it may not be Moo-hyul’s turn to be introduced as one of the dragons, I’d be a slimy politician’s uncle if I didn’t at least give him points for effort."

I think he needs to be taught all 24 skills before he can reach his full potential even though he is pretty impressive with just 20.
He contributed to saving Jung Do-jeon by killing one of the assassins and in the process of eliminating another when Lee Seong-gye showed up and steal his kill lol.

I kind of felt bad for him when Bang-ji got honored with a new name and Moo-hyul is seen sulking in the back lol.

(Historically) Lee Ji-ran (Turan Timur) was the one that Lee Seong-gye gave him his new name and his family name because he was a foreigner from Jurchen. The writers obviously switched it here to Bang-ji.
Lee Ji-ran's descendants are still present in Korea to this day. (Maybe Lee Min-ho is one of his descendants? lol).

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There's a lee jiran in the drama, the scarred guy who is always with him , he probably gave him name before the time drama started..

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I know that Lee Ji-ran is in this drama since episode 7 and that's why I was talking about him back then. He is known in history as Lee Seong-gye's sworn brother and his character is being featured in other sageuks like Tears of the Dragon, Jeong Do Jeon, The great Seer etc. He is one of those unsung heros that contributed to the founding of Joseon.

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I didn't notice him in eps 1 because his name wan't mentioned.

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I had the same question as you did about Moo-hyul.

Bang-ji and he were both killing assassins, both were risking their lives to protect Jung Do-jeon, Moo-hyul had already vowed allegiance to Lee Seong-gye, and Moo-hyul showed excellent fighting skills.

Why no honor? Give him a badge or something....!

The scene with Gil Tae-mi: ha! So funny! For a few seconds you almost like him...

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I'm not sure what the heck they are waiting for. He's like the errant boy until someone's butt needs to be saved. I don't even think he knows that he is working with a bunch of Goryeo traitors.

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Bang-won's current bodyguard, Jo Young-Gyoo will be ordered to kill Jung Mong-joo (if they follow history).
Maybe Moo-hyul will take over as Bang-won's official bodyguard after that and becomes a dragon like Bang-ji's role as JDJ's bodyguard in this episode.

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in tree with deep roots... moo hyul is the nation(Joseon)'s best swordsman
(well, second best after lee bang ji, but bang ji was missing because he was guilty n self-blaming; JDJ n his wife--yeonhee_ was died bc he's hesitating in which one should be protected first from king Taejong's assasin-his master or his old love, n the both of them ended up died ).

Moo hyul became King Taejong's bodyguard up until Great Sejong took the throne n he gifted Moo Hyul to him.

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I cried so hard watching Bang Ji and Boon Yi's reunion that my sister thought I was mad or something. They shot the scene so well, and Yo Han and Se Kyung's facial expressions are so on point!

I'm gonna throw a fit if Byun Yo Han does not get an award this year cos he deserves one! He portrays Lee Bang Ji sooooo well that I have no one else in mind that could act/sing/fight as well as him!

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The BTS of that scene is beyond adorable!

And yes, I would be mad if he doesn't get an award. I literally was moved to tears when I saw this video of him training https://youtu. be/dqbUv-Yt73E

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yes yes yo, I agree with you, he deserves an award! new fan here! BTW thanks for sharing the vid. :D

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I died laughing because of that mallet malfunction. I repeated it so many times! The guy who was hit just had his head lowered and the other guy looked away as if trying not to NG.

Gil Taemi will probably die here but I don't want it. I love him so much! If it was Hong In Bang, he'd be like "You're not the Viper? Damn you for fooling me!" and will bludgeon Moohyul to death. Tae Mi is such a nice guy. I hate it when the other team always sees him in the same light as Hong In Bang. I just want him away from that guy.

Hope, everything's going well for you Heads. Thanks for the recaps!

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Byun Yo Han!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW I'm also very fascinated with Mohyul! :P

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What a satisfying episode and literally, from start to finish. Each actor is upping his/her acting and the synergy was fun. 'So many of the actors upped the intensity of the drama through their eyes alone.

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omg i love this show so much, my only regret is starting it now and not waiting til all 50 episodes had finish :'(

So exciting giving me the empress ki feels :)

Thanks for the recap

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this must be my favorite episode so far
all the dragons coming to JDJ rescue YH included for me she is as much a dragon as the rest - maybe they were afraid of the number 7?
when she came to rescue JDJ and the fighting sequence so beautiful i just wanted it to be longer
the meeting between BY DS and later BY YH was so beautiful and well done they returned to be a family and forgave one another - i was so happy and hope to see some sister power
BW was as supportive as ever and needing hers in return searching out BY during the wedding needing her OK as if she was "the father of the bride"
MH adorkable as usual giving her support while LM put her foot down - show him whos the boss
of course GTM is the key for both MH & LBJ development as warriors and cant be all bad just belongs to the wrong group with all the wrong justifications

but to me this ep was all about the woman - and again they are the best and i love them all

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for those who want to see the BTS of BY DS meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfJf2h5GN0

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aww thanks man

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When Bang Ji says that he won't protect Yeon Hee any longer, I interpreted that to be a concession and a compliment. Because in previous episodes his 'protection' tended to be him telling her what to do and trying to force her to abandon her life-calling.

I thought he was now telling her he was going to respect her and not try and boss her around.

And I thought Yeon Hee's smile was genuine, that she appreciated what he was saying and welcomed him into their club with the figurine.

That's the opposite of how you read it, HeadsNo2, so maybe I'm wrong. But I thought the scene was a big step forward for Bang Ji.

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I ♥ Gil Tae Mi. I know he's a villian. But he has a heart and is endearing. I actually like him a lot more than some of our heroes. Ddang Sae's reunion with Boon yi was heart felt and bittersweet. I replayed it multiple times.

I continue to love this show, it constantly surprises me with its twists and turns. Great episode. Great drama. It just keeps getting better.

Hope all is well with you Heads and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Gil Tae Mi how I love thee!

I love this episode shen all the younguns get together especially in the fascinating fighting scenes aka Save JDJ Project scene!

Now, I wonder what will happen next with the OTP

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I'm waiting for Bang Won to kill Sambong and Moo-hyul to slay Bang-ji, it'll be so heartbreaking to watch that. Still long way to go to that tho...

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Moo-hyul will not be killing Bang-ji period.

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you are right bang ji was in tree with deep root

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and he was killed by someone else too.

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Because both Bang Ji and Moo Hyul are fictional character, it'll be epic to see both of them fight for their masters. Bang Won vs Sambong and Moo Hyul vs Bang ji and somebody gotta die ofcoz...

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(Spoiler)

The only person that will die in this drama between the 4 of them will be Sambong.
Bang-won, Bang-ji and Moo-hyul were all in TWDR.

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I'm kinda hope Bangji gonna die here tho, but everyone said that it's a prequel so i'm kinda a lil disappointed…

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I just bought a wooden sword, went home, put on blue eyeshadow, and went crazy. I love you, Gil Tae Mi!

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Question for those of you who enjoyed TWDR. Which do you like better so far? I know we're only 16 eps in... And is TWDR worth watching all the way through?

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I would say both dramas are actually pretty different but Six Dragons is definitely more intense and heart pumping. So my vote right now goes to this.

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i really tried to think which one i like better
but i lost perspective
TWDR ive watch more than a couple of times and SFD is all new and exiting
but most of all
TWDR talks about the creation of Hangul - the development of Korean alphabet with more of a detective story.
there are mystery throughout with one major mystery that the protagonist tries to solve with a bit of romance and beautifully choreographed fight sequences and beautiful cinematography
but it is a specific time in history not a saga
very beautiful and great but different

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Thanks to both of you. :) I will definitely have to check out TWDR.

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I can't really judge SFD the same way I would to TWDR since that has fewer episodes and has already finished airing. The directing in TWDR is better and it focused on lesser things (so far, I think it's more cohesive than SFD). TWDR is worth watching I tell you. I've seen it a lot of times through the years and I pick up something new every time I watch it. Plus Song Joong Ki was amazing in the few episodes he was in.

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I'm with you earthna. TWDR's running time/story/acting was perfect. Song Joong Ki was Amazing! King Sejong and Moo-hyul was the best bromance ever in a sageuk for me and I've watched a ton of sageuks.
I've been following Han Suk-Kyu, Cho Jin-Woong, Yoon Je-Moon's (films and dramas) ever since Tree.

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why didn't they acknowledge myoo hul's achievement in killing one of the assassins? that's unfair. i had the impression that those assassins are of equal abilities.

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i really recommend this site it explains the changes the writers did in the history events including names and timelines

http://bodashiri.tumblr.com

but in a nutshell - it was supposed to be LJR - historically was the one given a new name
and the writers changed it to LBJ - since we know him in TWDR as LBJ and not DS (the fictional character)
so the even did happen only change of characters

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I feel like they don't acknowledge Myoo Hul's achievements, because he's not a full warrior yet. He's still hooked on getting glory and making a name for himself. Myoo Hul still doesn't even realize he's in with a group of rebels. His skills are great, but he still has more maturing to do.

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I didn't read or take note of news related to this drama, I just watch it without any info or what so ever. Can somebody tell me is this drama officially the prequel of TWDR or we just assumed it as prequel because of same production team and writers? If its really an official prequel, so we just watching the younger version of those in TWDR

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Yes, it's an official prequel in terms of the timeline in history. There are some red herrings in Six Dragons that you'll catch if you've watched TWDR. Some characters also appear in TWDR - Muhyul (mainly Muhyul actually), Bangji (a very short cameo) and Taejong (Bangwon). We're not watching the younger ver of those in TWDR since it focuses on King Sejong's reign and most of them in SFD are already dead by that time in history.

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What I meant by those in TWDR are those who appear in both dramas. Bangwon, Bangji and Moohyul. I kinda hope that it's not a prequel so that I can watch great battle between Bangji vs Moohyul and I kinda hope one of them gonna die and we can crown the last man standing as the greatest swordsman of Joseon. But I guess thats not gonna happen because both of them were in TWDR.

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Six Flying Dragons (2015, SBS) is not only the prequel to Tree with Deep Roots (2011, SBS) but also the sequel to Queen Seondeok (2009, MBC). Check out the writers' interview.
http://bodashiri.tumblr.com/post/128683821516/six-flying-dragons-connected-universe

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but with QSD ita a 700 years difference how are they going to show it overlap?

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The story is completely unrelated and we have to skip over another era, Unified Shilla before we get to Goryeo. The only similarities I see is the same writers and their same style/method of telling their story.
What makes this drama predictable is it's relation to TWDR and the history itself.

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The one thing I miss about QSD beside Mishil is the keep sieges and full scale war. There is plenty of wars here but I guess they don't have the budget.

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I wouldn't say that SFD is 100% prequel to Tree because there is a lot more characters that existed in history here compared to Tree. There are still have more characters to be introduced like Lady Min's brother, Seong-gye's wife Lady Kang, and the last king of Goryeo etc.

(Spoiler)
I'm guessing SFD will go as far as Lady Min's brother(s) execution because Tree started off with the execution of Queen Sohun's (King Sejong's wife) father and followers.

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Its only sambong that will die here. Even if mooyhul mastered the 24 skills he won't be able to beat bang ji he only have a step further if he can beat gil seon mil

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I love Gil Tae Mi. Hahaha!

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15 episodes in so far with each episode getting better and better, this was so good I had to leave a comment. From the action packed fight, to the emotional reunion of the siblings and childhood friends, to the hilarious reveal that the fraudster was the master of the best swordsman, and finally the usual political machinations that makes even Game of Thrones look like child's play. So many golden moments. Hope this continues!

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