The Great Seer Episode 2

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I'm not really sure why I'm watching the second episode, but here I am.

 

The episode opens with a rather nifty action sequence as Lee Sung Gye and his men have fun storming the castle. (I thought the Wooly Boolies had wild hats. Then I saw the headgear of the lead man of the Moodi's.) Since the -- say, who are these people again? Anyway, since the Not-Moodi's win, Sung Gye keeps his promise and lets Dong Yoon and Young Ji go. He also releases the villagers they had captured earlier but Dong Yoon doesn't find his younger brother amongst them.

 

In the morning as our pair are preparing to leave, Lee In Im and his men show up and try to take them. Sung Gye and his men interfere, allowing Dong Yoon and Young Ji time enough to escape. That night Dong Yoon, knowing she'll never be safe as long as she's with him, urges Young Ji to return home. She agrees to on the condition they have one hot and heavy night together.

 

The next day In Im finds their camp. There's Young Ji but Dong Yoon doesn't appear to be around. The princess tells him Dong Yoon gave her a map to the legendary Ja Mi Won and she's willing to return with In Im back to the palace. As they're all riding away, In Im tells his right hand man to go back and kill Dong Yoon.

 

Being chased by the bad guys, Dong Yoon is scrambling down some rocks to the river when Right Hand Man shoots him in the back with an arrow. Dong Yoon struggles on and the river current carries him away from the baddies. He washes up farther down the river where he's found by two men. Luckily Hyo Myung (played by Lee Young Bum) is a doctor and he recognizes Dong Yoon as the prophet who was sent to find Ja Mi Won. The other guy is a monk named Moo Hak, played by Ahn Kil Kang. (I think we're going to have a Great Queen Seondeok reunion here.)

 

Meanwhile, In Im and Young Ji stop somewhere to rest for the night. He drugs the princess in order to steal the map off of her person. He remembers his orders to kill Young Ji but he just can't bring himself to do it. They continue traveling on and are met on the road by an eager King Kongmin. Turns out Young Ji knew In Im stole the map from her, yet she tells the king she had given it to In Im since it was so valuable.

 

Now that he believes he has the key to Ja Mi Won, King Kongmin declares Goryeo's independence from the Chinese empire. Sourpuss Lee Ga No is kicked out of the court. Everything Chinese is to be banned. Ah, but the head shamaness has another vision and knows the map is a fake. She tells this to the high priestess (the one who's secretly having sexy times with In Im on the side and working with Lee Ga No) yet she doesn't want to tell the king because she doesn't want to stop the momentum of the revolution. The high priestess wants to tell the king and she kills the shamaness. She also reveals she's pregnant with In Im's child. Now if only I knew what her character's name was. Is it Soo Ryun Gae? I dunno.

 

Lee In Im confronts the princess about the map being a fake. She bargains with him that if he won't reveal the fraud then she'll marry him and he'll be part of the royal family. However, Young Ji reveals she's pregnant with Dong Yoon's child, so In Im will just have to get over it.

 

He doesn't get over it. In Im goes to talk it over with his pregnant mistress. She reminds him that not all babies live, so there's no reason that this baby will live.

 

The wedding day arrives and Young Ji is going to go through with it. She and In Im are having tea and he slips a drug into her drink to cause her to lose the baby. Before Young Ji drinks it, Pregnant Priestess barges in and stops her just in time. The princess is indebted to the priestess - a debt I'm sure will be called up sometime in the future. In Im, meanwhile, is upset that Young Ji is not upset about him having a pregnant mistress. (Get a clue, In Im. Young Ji doesn't care about you.)

 

Amidst all the celebrators, Dong Yoon has come back and tries to get Young Ji to run away with him. She insists she has to stay and makes him leave before he's caught. In Im suspects Dong Yoon is around here somewhere and sends his men out to find and kill him. They don't succeed.

 

The wedding night doesn't go as In Im plans. He's all ready to jump her bones. She manages to fend him off for now, asking for him to wait until after the baby is born. In Im storms off in frustration. Young Ji isn't alone for more than a second when she's joined by Dong Yoon, who is just now learning he's going to be a father. In Im goes to spend the wedding night with Pregnant Priestess. She advises him to wait until the baby is born, for surely the father will come for his child and then In Im can kill two birds with one stone.

 

Time skip ahead several months. Both princess and priestess are in labor at the same time. Young Ji, however, is going to great pains to hide her pains. She fears that if its known she's in labor then Dong Yoon will return and her husband will kill him. Just after she gives birth, Young Ji has the baby spirited away. By the time In Im bursts into her quarters, Young Ji is calmly working on her embroidery, acting like nothing extraordinary has happened.