#netflix kingdom

[wilcze-kudly]

Those of you that diminish Katara's role as a healer- I despise you and you should be strapped down to a chair and made to watch Kingdom while I very aggressively point out to you that the nurse, Seo Bi, is the mvp despite barely ever engaging in combat.

Actually, all of you should watch Kingdom on Netflix. It's actually one of the best zombie media released in the last 5 years. It's about a zombie outbreak during the medieval Joseon era in Korea and it is spectacular. The concept, the story, the characters and acting, the makeup for the zombies... it's all absolutely incredible.

Also. Surprisingly good comedy.

Anyway, badass women in the medical field, I love you and I'm sorry that modern feminism treats you like this.

[wangmiao]

I'm screaming again...I saw Kim Sung Kyu's instagram story a few days ago, but didn't really look closely. Today when I went to his weibo super topic, I realized that he freaking went to the test screening of Unofficial Operation starring Ha Jung Woo and Ju Ji Hoon...I'm quite sure that he was there to support Ju Ji Hoon!!! I do wonder if they became friends who actually kept in touch after shooting 2 seasons of Kingdom, and I do wonder if he got introduced to Ha Jung Woo as well. And fans were like "does it mean that we are going to get Kingdom freaking 3"???

anyways, funny that i posted about these 3 a while ago even though nobody saw that reblog or understood my sense of humor (don't mind this weirdo I guess lol)

[swiftletinthecloud]

@userdramas event 09 icon:Ju Ji Hoon (insp)

↬ as Crown Prince Lee Chang in Kingdom (2019) ⎈ Netflix's first original Korean series ⎈ 2nd Asia Contents Awards: Best Actor ↬ as Hae Wong Maek in the Along With The Gods (2017) film series ⎈ the 3rd and 12th highest-grossing films in South Korean cinema history ⎈ 6th Marie Claire Asia Star Awards: Asian Star Award ⎈ 2nd The Seoul Awards: Best Supporting Actor ⎈ 23rd KCA Consumer Day Awards: Best Actor

sources: 1, 2, 3

[theaggresivepacifist]

I’m back with a STRANGER/KINGDOM AU (could it be the first one on AO3??? I’ve never seen another one)

Summary: As winter approaches, Saheonbu inspector Hwang Si-mok confronts a vicious double threat: monsters at court, neglecting the needs of the people, and now rumors of new and very different monsters beyond the city gate… A Stranger/Secret Forest Kingdom AU.

8.6k, complete, all angst, tw for canon-typical violence/gore and suicide/major character death. A thousand thank-yous to @ohyangchon, @gottagobuycheese, and @cupofteaandstars​ for the support, inspiration, and beta reads as this one slowly came to life!

[doorhine]

@nibeul​‘s got me thinking about Kingdom and having watched Ashin of the North again last month, I felt like making another post about the film.

I feel like we don’t talk enough about how smart Ashin is to have figured out how to use the resurrection plant based on the cave art she found. Like, it just said what the plant could do and illustrated how it infected the deer and tiger, not how to resurrect someone. She just figured out how to administer it and how long it would take to work all on her own with presumably no off screen trial and error before using it on her family. Edit: I think there was an image of the plant on a person’s head to imply that’s where it should be put, but there’s still a lot of gaps in that information for Ashin to fill on her own after interpreting the cave art. Long story short, Ashin is one smart cookie.

Also, I really want to know more about the area where the plant grew and how her community relates to it because her dad said their ancestors used to live in Pyesa-gun, so there’s obviously more for the plot to discuss. I don’t know what went down and I’m not sure if her dad knew what the plant could do but I’m assuming he was taught by his elders before him to stay away from that area not just because of the penalty for trespassing. Having watched it again, I just keep wondering how much Ashin’s dad knew about their history in relation to that area.

[buttercuparry]

Food has always played such a huge role in Netflix's Kingdom, so there's something to be said about the parallel between Ashin and her dad, "nurturing" their tribe.

We are first introduced to Ashin's father when he was gutting a boar. And because he belongs to a tribe that has no government representation, he and his people are treated as lowborn. He supposedly "taints" meat just by touching it. But he doesn't let it bother him. Rather he feeds the supposedly "tainted" meat to the tribe. Filling them and nourishing them.

To then see Ashin growing up, finding out the truth and destroying the military camps, and then bringing in "fresh" meat to her tribe, who are hungry, so so hungry, and will remain so for now and forever. She is taking her father's role. Feeding them, nourishing them, nurturing them- bringing "delicious meals" one after another to the undead.

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: To Zom, or Not To Zom, Be

Zpoc this, end of the world that... why can’t we just have a good old-fashioned Undead Horde arising, terrifying the living because it’s an army that can’t be normally killed, instead of an existential threat to Life As We Know It?

No, seriously, why not?

(Yes, this writer is feeling cranky and contrary.)

I have a lot of gripes with zombie apocalypse stories, especially World War Z - movie or book, take your pick. That one specifically pulled a lot of... people needlessly being idiots and cruel, in order to punch up the horror factor. Did not like.

Oddly enough the Zombie Survival Guide by the same author has a lot more optimistic outlook in its several “recorded outbreaks”, including the memorable zombies-vs-gang-war that ended decisively in the gangs’ favor. Which if you look at it logically makes sense; after all, if humans throughout history hadn’t been able to end those outbreaks before they reached zpoc status, the book couldn’t have been written in the first place!

The problem is that the author doesn’t translate the human factor in the historical bits into a viable human response in the zpoc book. Almost nobody writing a zpoc does. And this is... highly frustrating to me as a writer. I don’t write tragedies. I don’t write grimdark. I write stories where bad things may happen to good people, yes, but said good people use their heads and sheer unalloyed grit to try and find ways to come out alive. Because stories are about people. If the stories are about the zombies and life-threatening despair instead, then your story has already failed.

I grant you, there are some people who find catharsis through drenching themselves in a horror that is Not Real. I am definitely not one of them. (For one thing I know too much biology; and guess what, in real biology zombies exist. Mostly on the insect level, but still.) I do like reading about human responses to disaster, but instead of humans pulling together to survive, almost all zpocs are about horror, gore, and the dying of the light.

...Here I’m going to point to Kingdom (2019) as a known exception to that almost. There’s humans being stupid, there’s humans playing politics, there’s humans who try to use the zombies and unleash disaster, sure. But there are a fair number of people, especially the heroes, who are simply trying to make the best of the bad hands they’ve been dealt. They fear the zombies. They dread them. But they also think.

And if you think, and have a little time to prepare, zombies can be handled.

The advantage zombies have is swarming you as a horde. Control the terrain; make it so they can only come at you one or a few at a time.

Zombies only have the weapons they had in life, and human teeth are really not that effective at tearing into a person. Wear armor. Leather is good, but wear even several layers of cloth, and it might be enough. Don’t let them break the skin.

Zombies don’t feel pain. But they also don’t heal. If you can’t immediately kill them, disable them. Break bones. Break joints. Dump rocks on them, preferably from a high distance. Use a freaking boar spear - it’s designed to keep a thrashing body from punching the spear on through so it can kill you before it dies. Humans are tool-users. Find tools. Use them.

I want to see stories that give readers hope. I want to see canceled zpocs. Think about it. It can be done!

[dramastream]

Info: List of ended Netflix original programming

"Worldwide Netflix Originals have either completed their runs or Netflix stopped producing episodes. A show is assumed to have ended if there has been no confirmed news of renewal at least nine months after the show's last episode was released.” (x)

These dramas are all canceled or finished. 

[nickmillerstinka]

kingdom (2020) is a zombie show done right

[munnisa]

Watch "KINGDOM "Making Of" Featurette | Netflix Zombie Epic Action Thriller Series" on YouTube

[bloodybellycomb]

"Netflix cancels show because of capitalism" is true but they aren't even succeeding at capitalism. Pretty much all streaming services are hemorrhaging money right now. In their desperate attempts to win at capitalism, they are failing at capitalism. They are killing art for the sake of a pretend profit they never receive. Pathetic.

[stevenrogered]

Shadow and Bone Season 2 + subtle hints to Wylan’s backstory

[pokidokieships]

Thinking about zutara in the finale outfits…. this is my canon ending 🌸💕

[firenationgurl]

Can we appreciate comics Mai😌

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Leather

Purely by coincidence, I happened to see a fragment of a commercial for that new gameshow, “Generation Gap”. The bit where a rather famous picture is flashed up, and the gamemaster asks, “What famous model is this?”

“Thor...?”

Oh Fabio, how easily the younger generation dumps you for the Twilight clones.

Ahem. But then my brain started in on, “okay, what if Fabio did play Thor?” The God of Thunder, with an Italian accent. Oh, the chaos.

“Excuse me, I need to go adjust my ahrmor.”

“Loki, do not fall to evil. Just be the best of yourself.”

“And now we all - how do you say it? Get hammered!”

I mean, given the existence of Allspeech as instant translation convention, we don’t know what home accent Asgard really has. Maybe it sounds Norse. Maybe it sounds Italian. Maybe it has clicks, like the Khoisan languages. Who knows?

This is fertile ground for coming up with story idea-bits. Look into what “everyone knows”, or history as it’s recorded, and then say, “but what if it’s something completely different?”

One interesting example is found in the Korean historical zombie drama, Kingdom. In real-life history, the Pyesagun (Four Abandoned Counties) were abandoned and settlements cleared out because Ming-Joseon-Jurchen politics, and particularly the ginseng trade, made it safer for Joseon to have a depopulated buffer zone in that area than people and trade cities. In Kingdom? The ice caves in those mountains are the ecological home of the resurrection plant, and there’s been at least one freaking zombie tiger hunting people in the area for decades. You don’t want people living anywhere near there. You really don’t.

(And then of course someone goes plant-hunting for ways to cheat death anyway, and... yeah. Things get ugly.)

So. What odd, quirky, or reasonable but just plain strange things are present in your story’s background or setting? What’s the normal explanation for them - and what could you create as an alternative? “We didn’t build in this area because it’s all limestone and either prone to sinkholes or you need a jackhammer” is a normal explanation. “We didn’t build here because the local earth elemental thinks it has a sense of humor”, not so much....

[marvinthecrow]

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