#sword of aramun

[bitacrytic]

end of ep8: Tagon was scared when he learned that Nunbyeol was a neanthal

beginning of ep9: he managed to survive

end of ep9: he was scared because he finally understood what Saya meant by "his face" killing tagon

beginning of ep10: he still managed to survive

end of of ep10: he was scared because of the whirlwind fire

call me crazy, but I do not want him to suddenly get out of this for the third episode in a row. the episodes keep ending with him looking like something will destroy him, only for him to plot-armor his way out of it in the beginning of the next episode.

I get it. he's smart. he's diabolical. but come on! he's won enough for the season. it's time to start seeing some consequences and failures.

[ikomahis]

saya in a nutshell

[beatrixacs]

Tagon role-playing Hercule Poirot in Episode 7 of Arthdal Chronicles: Sword of Aramun is quite a surprise and I'm loving it. He literally gathers everyone in the room and starts pointing fingers. 😅

[forest-picinc]

Chosen One Release Greeting Video

[stonemusicent] Official Youtube Update

A meeting between the Sword of Aramun OST and Forestella? へ[ ᴼ ▃ ᴼ ]_/¯ My heart is already growing bigger👀 ✅23.9.16 (Thu) 6PM ‘Chosen One’ Release! [🗡Release greeting video] Forestella - Chosen One (Sword of Aramun OST Part 1)｜Stone Music+

[yeo-rims]

A God does not fall.

[natahjikio]

In Arthdal, there was a hidden prophecy from long ago. The prophecy said three children who each symbolize sword, bell and mirror will be born at the same time and bring this world to an end. The children of the prophecy were Eunseom, Tanya and Saya.

ARTHDAL CHRONICLES: THE SWORD OF ARAMUN (2023)

[kateknowsdramas]

Eunseom and Tanya Reunion

Arthdal Chronicles: The Sword of Aramun Ep 3

[trendingdrama]

LEE JOON GI AS EUNSEOM E01 : ARTHDAL CHRONICLES : THE SWORD OF ARAMUN 아라문의 검 (2023)

[moonlightsdream]

ARTHDAL CHRONICLES 아스달 연대기 (2019–2023) — s2.e02 | war of twins

[suzannahnatters]

I want to celebrate the end of ARTHDAL CHRONICLES s2 with a little note on Taealha, my favourite female character in all of kdrama so far.

I don't usually love girlbosses, and I normally wouldn't cheer to see one of the main antagonists of a series escape most of the consequences of her actions. But I loved this for Taealha, and I've been thinking hard about why this is.

What I think it boils down to is this: Taealha is an antagonist. But she's not a villain. And this speaks to one of the main themes I'm seeing in Asian dramas.

While an antagonist is any character who opposes the protagonists of a story, a villain is a character who is outright evil. Unusually for a character who's pitted against very idealistic heroes, Taealha isn't a villain, even though she helps to rule and uphold a desperately evil society. The show's morality is more white-and-grey than black-and-grey, in the manner of most Western grimdark fantasy. I think that Asian drama generally views systemic change through a different lens than Western drama. In Asian drama, it is the rare heroic characters - like Tanya and Eunseom - who have the courage and vision to imagine a world that is any better than the one they inhabit. While Western storytelling sees injustice often as the action of an individual villain, Eastern storytelling sees injustice as the grinding of an impersonal social machine in which those who prop up the status quo are often as helplessly imprisoned within the system as those they rule over. Their fault may not be active malice, so much as the lack of vision, courage, and selfless compassion to fight for a better world.

I think this also has something to do with why so many people in the West have trouble with the concept of systemic injustice - they think that evil in society must be the work of a few bad actors, a few individual villains, rather than of a whole social order. I also note that in Eastern drama, especially in the shows which are more conscious of social justice (like SCARLET HEART RYEO and ARTHDAL CHRONICLES), the "villain" - insofar as there is one to pit against the idealistic heroes - is society at large. In many western dramas, on the other hand, it's clear the writers desperately want to believe that society at large is good; that collective action is only ever a force for justice and never for evil.

Despite being an antagonist opposing idealistic heroes, Taealha is able to be sympathetically portrayed because she, like everyone else, is caught between the gears of a cruel society. She may be rich, beautiful, deadly, and the heiress to a great lord, but in all her privilege she, too, is subject to the machinations of her father, of the king, and of Tagon, the man she loves. She is also not the only source of evil in the show - which makes it very, very clear that the evil in Arthdal stems from every ordinary citizen who profits from slavery and engages in war. Taealha opposes Eunseom and Tanya, but she does not do so out of a desire to cause or profit from suffering. Rather, Taealha is a pragmatist whose lack of faith in the gods leads her to seek survival by working with the system rather than destroying it according to the divine will. What makes her sympathetic is that her motivation is always to protect the people she loves: Tagon and, later, Arok. In protecting her loved ones, Taealha only wants the same thing as Tanya and Eunseom - but because she has no faith in something greater than either herself or society, she chooses not to try to change the system, but to beat the system at its own game. If she's cruel, it's only because she's trapped in a cruel system; she's still doing her best.

Taealha is no worse than anyone else in the show. She simply fails to be better - and that's a big part of why we can still love her and cheer her on, even though she's one of the main antagonists.

[safajg]

[bitacrytic]

Predictions for Arthdal Chronicles

The prophecy was misinterpreted. Instead of sword/bell/mirror, it's actually sword/bell/shield

Yangcha was born the same day as Saya, Tanya and Eunsom

Saya and Eunsom are the sword, while Yangcha is the shield.

I might be wrong, but I just thought I'd put this out there.

ps: the idea that inaishingi and aramun were the same person would make sense if they were twin brothers and one of them got murdered. because we're seeing it play out right in front of us with saya and eunsom being at the head of both armies. with them swapping places, that means that both of them would be each other and themselves at different times in history. which is something that could have happened between inaishingi and aramun, if they were twins.

history says both men were on opposite sides of the war. and yet, from what we know, as audience members, they may very well be the same person(s). like twins who swap places. or twins who could see each other's dreams. or twins who could communicate over long distances by focusing on each other (when they eventually learn to control it like tanya has done with her own powers).

[ikomahis]

when your soulmate finally walks into your life but you're not done being a ho

[mhevarujta]

Saya having constantly watery eyes and still smirking and being authoritative is a whole vibe.

[astarlightmonbebe]

13 minutes into arthdal chronicles 2 and lee joongki's got me. yeah he's got me good

[yeo-rims]

To Eunseom, Tanya is the beginning of everything.