I love the characterization in this drama. Everyone has a backstory, motive, and conflicting sides in them, that make for great storytelling. The fights are so spare and require such a long buildup with political intrigues that when they happen it's so epic. It's nowhere as tense when you're just viewing these fight scenes out of context, though the cinematography is still pretty good.
By good I mean amazing:
50 episodes is still overkill, but starting from ep 15 the pace has picked up considerably.
I'm also partial to Moo Hyul who is just like a character straight out of a Japanese cartoon and who serves as a comic relief most of the time but is shaping up to become the great warrior in the sequel Deep Rooted Tree.
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