Or Should That Be 'Tale'?
Only you can tell! Okay, first of all, I have a couple of SPOILERS to warn you about here, concerning that latest Korean genre drama I'm watching: "Missing: The Other Side" and Season Two thereof. Art!
There you have Mister Jang Pan-Seok, Kim Wook and Lee Jong-Ah, the primary characters. Jang and Wook get on like an old married couple, eternally grumpy and bickering with each other. Directly below Kim is Detective Shin, whose baby-faced looks belie a quite devious and scheming character, all in the name of the law of course.
The scene of the action has moved from Duon Village to the deserted Industrial Complex No. 3, which is the gateway to another hamlet that houses the spirits of those who have died but whose bodies have not been recovered. Art!
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| The rather forbidding portal |
In this season, the initial mystery is the identity of 'Goliath', whom we only ever see wearing a mask, to conceal his identity. He does this because he's a thoroughly bad lot who is mixed up in trafficking cocaine and other hard drugs, and I bet he passes the port to the right as well, the beastly cad.
ANYWAY apart from Jang and Kim, everyone else in the village is a spirit, whose body hasn't been found. SPOILERY BIT AHOY!
Guess who shows up in the village, unaware that he's actually dead and now experiencing the Korean equivalent of Purgatory? Art!
Apologies for the poor-quality image, it's not possible to halt and screen-capture an image on Netflix, all you get is a blank screen. What you see here is Goliath (more properly known as Kim Il-Pung), being confronted by Il-Yong and Wook in the village supermarket. Il-Yong is certain that his erstwhile 'friend' Il-Pung murdered him three years ago and hid the body, hence him being stuck in The Village (absent Number 6). Art!
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| Goliath faces off against Il-Yong |
A much better-quality image, with added Indonesian subtitles (I think, don't quote me on that).
MORE SPOILERS AHEAD!
Goliath admits to stabbing Il-Yong - O boy with fiends like this - in retaliation for his friend talking about jacking in the drug trade and binning all their accumulated 'stuff'. HOWEVER and you knew that word was going to crop up, because of today's title, said stabbing was only for the purposes of teaching a lesson - see previous exclamation - and was definitely not lethal.
As Illy and Wook attempt to digest this information, what does Goliath do but - Art!
Now, you ought to recall - I'm sure I've told you about this already - that, once a person's body is discovered, they twinkle out of existence in The Village in a shower of rainbow sparks, just as Golli is doing above. This happens before he can impart any more stabby-related information, much to Illy's dismay. Art!
You can tell it's Season Two as Wook has long hair. He is sitting watching the news on television, and aptly notices that there is NO news about Il-Pung's body being found, and given the lack of murders in Sorkland, you can bet it would be mentioned. He then conjures up a couple of twists in the tale himself; was Goliath's body found by divers unknown miscreants and then hidden? Or - was he rescued, revived, resuscitated and is still alive in the real world?
"I wish I could see what's going on in that head of yours," comments Jang wryly, which is almost word-for-word what Stephen said of Your Humble Scribe when I was working back at the Co-Op. What can I say? The workings of a mind can be mysterious even to the owner.
We're up to Episode 11 out of 14 and I shall probably let you know how things end. If you cannot wait, go Google it, as this season went out to the Sorks in 2023.
As Promised Previously
Last week Your Modest Artisan made a recipe from the Worrall-Thompson diabetic cookbook, Chicken and Cauliflower in a Nutty Sauce, which I forgot to photograph. It's actually very tasty indeed, definitely one of the better recipes, and I only remembered to snap a photo at the end of lunch on Friday. Art!
What makes it memorable is the sauce, made with blended almonds and cashews and a few spices, so I may roll it out again as tomorrow is Sunday and the Stew needs to be gotten ready.
Grumpy German Gefreiter Is Grumpy
Yes, more from "Blood and Steel" which is supposed to be limited to Normandy, but which in this case has stretched to Belgium and the front lines along the Albert Canal, where our doughty dour Deutchlander deposes despondently.
7 September 1944
Soldiers trying to escape were caught at Breda and some sent back to the front. Our Company gets some reinforcements this way. Still strong artillery fire. Art!
Conrad's Commentary: that above is a Teuton 'Jagdpanther', an assault gun that may be what GGG is referring to in his previous journal entry about SS assault guns being expected in support. This one has been knocked out and a hole is visible in the rear starboard 'skurtzen'. Note the evidence of a fire, visible in the white road wheels where their rubber rims have been turned to ash. The upper hatches are open, so the crew may have been able to evacuate, but if not that curious nosey-parker on top of the hull will be left with an image he will never, ever forget.
Note that what GGG is describing, or has been translated as, 'escaping' is more akin to 'desertion', which the Teutons took a very dim view of, as they were perpetually short of manpower. Hence, rather than being arrested or detained, these culprits have been sent back to the front lines.
Gie 'Em Laldy!
An old Scottish imprecation that means 'Inflict upon them much pain and suffering and don't stilt on it.' To what am I referring? Why, 'Snow White' of course - obviously! 'Box Office Mojo' has the figures from close-of-business Thursday 27th March, and - you may be ahead of me here - they aren't good. Art!
You may be forgiven for thinking that these totals haven't increased at all. They have, just not by very much. Art!
Disney will be hoping, with all their fingers and toes crossed, that this weekend recoups a lot of box office. The thing is, even if the receipts do increase from less than $2 million, they are still likely to be far, far short of the $16 and $15 million of the opening weekend.
What to watch out for next week will be a sharp drop in the number of cinemas showing SW, because that cuts their outlay. Expect to see it fall to 3,000.
The bottom line is that, after a week, they have made less than projected for the opening weekend. If this budget and return trend continues, Conrad is going to start a Twitter #Disneyisamoneylaunderingoperation
Honestly, as I've said before, they could get the same budgetary results by dropping a shipping container crammed with hundred-dollar notes into a volcano. Art!
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| 'Twould be a lot quicker, too |
By Way Of Preamble
Conrad, from an early age, was much taken with the stories of 'Uncle' as related by J. P. Martin. Uncle is an elephant, who inherited the gigantic castle-city state of Homeward, and whom is vehemently opposed by the Badfort crowd, a collection of ne'er-do-wells and sinister supernatural entities. Art!
Here we see The Old Monkey, whom is an aged hominid, and Uncle, discovering a frozen-stiff Hitmouse, lurking in the unwise environs of a mighty and efficient fridge. Note Hitmouse's trademark weapons, skewers, sitting in a jar. Art!
You can tell who the bad guys are in these tales, as Uncle et al sup on cocoa, whilst Beaver Hateman (DON'T ask me, I have no idea) and his cohorts sup on 'Black Tom' and 'Leper Gin'.
Stick a pin in this, we'll come back to it.
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