Jumong End of Volume 2 - Love and Longing in Bombay - End etc.

Jumong is currently the king of my viewing world.

Now at the end of Volume 2 we are at a strange place.

Jumong was wounded at war and dissappeared and everyone thought him dead (thinking that he'd come back if he was alive). But he was saved by another small tribe and then was imprisoned when there was a rebellion in the same tribe. Good thing Yeomiul and her helpers saw that he is alive and directed our trio to rescue him. Which they did but in his absence:-

Sosuhno married to Wootae to escape Daeso's threats.

King was seriously wounded during war but when he woke up and started to get better,

Daeso, back by Soochuldo army, took authority and started to act as King's representative. He is a tyrant and gives in to everything Hyonto Governor wants.

Sullan (Governor's daughter) married to Daeso and came to live in the palace. She is really evil and started to control Daeso.

Queen is as evil and as stupid as ever.

Yontabal and his troop got kicked out of Puyo by Daeso (who got crazy over the fact that Sosuhno got married).

Yontabal family's troubles continue in Keru since the stupid eye bag chief (who kidnapped Sosuhno earlier) made a heal with YangJung (Governor) and also got in good relations with Daeso by default (Daeso became his puppet) and now he forced Yontabal to resign as the chief of the tribes.

Yontabal announced that Sosuhno will be his successor but Yontabal's sister is upset since she wants her own son to be Chief. So she became friendly with the eye bags. Evil woman.

After all these evil people Youngpo started to seem sympathetic to me since he is evil but there is something good in his heart (he was the only one who was happy to see King recover).

So Jumong returned to this mess and got into the palace and now pretends to do whatever Daeso wants him to do. Now the Han emperor asked for a hostage (and what do you know, the hostage has to be a prince) and Daeso asked Jumong to go to Han as a hostage.
Daeso is really so very evil and also pathetic in his tyranny. More than one person laughed at his face when faced with his cruel actions since he is so obvious. Also one of the reasons he is so angry at the King and Jumong is that King loved Yuhwa instead of his mother. But he finds it perfectly OK to love Sosuhno and not Sullan.

Sosuhno, oh Sosuhno, I understand why you had to get married but couldn't you act as being ill or something while wating for Jumong? You could have gone in hiding. Watching her see Jumong again was very touching.

There is a new character called Yesoya who is the daughter of the chief of the tribe who found and saved Jumong. Then all her family was killed in the rebellion. She is very anti Han and kind of smitten with Jumong.

Who can blame her? Jumong is totally, utterly lovely. He is such a hero and a very kind, considerate person at heart. Also smart and a good fighter too. But he is not superman and cries over Sosuhno (she was better at keeping herself in check). And he is humble enough to ask everyone's opinions and actually listen to the advice given to him. I love him deeply but don't have a crush on him as I did to Guo Jing. Which brings me to how Jumong is similar to a Jin Yong novel. I think the writer has read JY which is a good thing.

Meanwhile I have finished Love and Longing in Bombay and it is once again very good. Vikram Chandra is one of my favorite writers.

A colleague gave me a non fiction book about written by woman who travelled South American continent on a bicycle. It is called Bigamekibasuyake and I'm halfway through but still have no idea what it means. The writer Hülya Koç is a good traveller perhaps but she is not a good writer. Thank God she has had many interesting things happen to her that to read this is entertaining. But I still don't have an urge to visit South America any time soon.

I have also watched

Heaven (2002) Directed by Tom Tykver, written by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
It started very good but the story took an uninteresting turn later on which did nothing for me. I love Cate Blanchett and the visuals were wonderful. But this was not good storytelling.

Recep İvedik 2 (2009) Directed by Togan Gökbakar, written by Serkan Altuniğne, Şahan Gökbakar and Togan Gökbakar.

This film is a sequel and every bit the box office champion the first one was. It will not do anything to a non Turk but I can understand its box office appeal.