and so it ends

oh my god. emperor of the sea ended tonight. they didn't even number the episode, it just opened with the words, "final episode" across the screen. and jesus, it was wrenching! i am so depressed! i missed the final 6 or so episodes of age of warriors and was terribly upset at that, but now i am thinking it saved me some deep despair.

here is a link to the show's website with photos at the bottom of the page. it's in korean, but it's self-explanatory:
http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/jangbogo/plus/photo/photo.html

in the final three episodes of e of the s, they killed off main characters left and right! first lady jami's right hand man who had become the head of the royal guard was killed. then lady jami herself did some Intense Thinking with Falling Tears standing on the rocks by the sea, then she walked out into the water and drowned herself. then a couple of emperors were killed, along with miss jung hwa's brother and then her escort. then tonight yeom-jang stabbed bo go jang right in his own receiving room after they drank sake together. with sentimental music and tears dropping and flashbacks to them sparring when they were teenagers. awful. then war broke out between hwang-ho and chung-hae-jin and EVERYBODY was killed: bo go jang's wife, chae-ryung, and daughter, the master, bo go jang's lifelong best friend yeon (whose pregnant wife hae-jin was killed 8 or 10 episodes previously), the third in command of the chung-hae-jin forces, the third in command of the hwang-ho army, then yeom-jang's right hand man, then yeom-jang himself in the final two minutes-- shot full of about 20 arrows on the beach, as miss jung-hwa made her escape with bo go jang's baby. she and bo go jang had a life of "twisted fate" and were never able to be together, but in the end she winds up with his baby... those two, along with two other chung-hae merchant (father and son), master jo, and the bad guys led by mung kim were the ONLY characters left standing. AWFUL! i guess that's what happens with historical dramas. the era ends, the show ends, everyboday dies. live by the sword, die by the sword.

i gotta learn to speak korean.