Current mood:

amused

L5R fans! Check out "Iron Empress!"
The other night, I was channel surfing and came across a show on the local Korean channel called "Iron Empress." It was pretty cool! I recommend it to L5R fans.

Now, I have no idea what the overall plot was. So I will tell you just a few things that were going on during this show:

The evil Liao Emperor is attempting to conquer Goreyo (Which I presume is Korea). His Evil General With Bad Hair And A Freaky Eyepatch attacks the Imperial Palace trying to capture the young Emperor. The Dowager Empress (Dowager? Hah! She looks a bit like Michelle Yeoh in her 30s, wears armor with lion dog shoulder pads and fights with a bow and sword) is not putting up with this and leads the guards in a huge battle with Bad Hair Eyepatch's villains in the palace. Apparently, she's the one who put out Evil Bad Hair General's eye in the first place. Mayhem, sword swinging and jumping around ensues. Emperor escapes in disguise protected by Noble Guard Dude and accompanied by Chubby Courtier. Bad Hair Eyepatch chases him, fights Noble Guard Dude and overpowers him. Chubby Courtier tries to pretend to be the Emperor but doesn't fool Evil Bad Hair Eyepatch. Luckily, the Dowager Empress shows up on horseback at this point, goes Orlando Bloom with her archery on the bad guys, challenges Eyepatch to a duel, stabs him in his OTHER eye (yow!) and kills him dead.

Now in the NEXT half-hour (lol) Evil Liao Emperor (You know he's evil because he's got slick black hair and wears a red chain-mail shawl) is travelling to the battlefront for some reason or another. Noble Guard Dude gets his guys together and launches a surprise attack on his camp, setting it on fire with burning arrows. More jumping around sword mayhem and much burnination. Show ends with Noble Guard Dude chasing Evil Liao Emperor to the beach.

Oh, yeah. There was also some deal in the middle with a bunch of Mongol-looking dudes who put a little kid in a cave with a bear to see if he's the Chosen One. Kid's mom (who was pretty fine-looking) gets pissed, grabs a knife and holds it to Mongol Dude's neck saying if Kid dies, she's giving him a really close shave, if you know what I mean. Then a very bad Special Effects Bear Costume comes out of the cave with the cute little kid tottering behind. Mongols hail him as Supreme Awesome Cute Little Kid of Bear Mightiness. (No, I have no idea how this related to the other bits).

Whee! Did I know what was going on? No! But it's very entertaining in a campy way...like Xena meets Crouching Tiger. And like I said, all the costumes make for great L5R character visuals. Fun stuff. If anyone tracks it down and can tell me what's going on, that would be helpful. :)