Historical Dramas Club

 Nienna:

And the winners are…

Thank you for all of your hard work! I understand the lists are quite a hassle to make and there were many hiccups along the way~ 

 Nienna:

shamefully, I haven't seen the 2 of the top 3...I'm an embarrassment to the HIDC! :)

Please don't be embarrassed! I think I fare even worse as I haven't seen 5 out of the 6 dramas listed! O___o Why am I in this club again ^^'

"Empress Ki" in the Top 3 of Historical ones was all I needed hahaha.

This first Hall of Fame was nice, the process and changes following discussions as we kept voting was interesting too. Of course, special thanks to Nienna for organizing all that so well and everybody that helped too. I think the idea of Estell to do votings regularly on specific subjects (might be the genre, characters, specific themes, situations or whatever that appears in a Historical drama) is very good too.

I'm currently enjoying "Alchemy of Souls". Probably the first Korean fantasy drama that I really like and enjoy. And I look forward to watch the movie "Hansan: The Emergence of Dragons".

Waking up to a bunch of notifications from HDC is always lovely!

Thanks Nienna for all of your effort and everyone's input.  My role is very tiny here and I enjoy having discussions about historical dramas, since it's my fav genre.  

I can understand the disappointment that 6 Flying Dragons didn't make the list.  I am sure it's an amazing drama but I think because it's an older one without a strong romance plot, it wasn't as popular.  I still have it on my "hold" and tried to pick it up several times but couldn't.  It's unfortunate.  For many new watchers like me who started during the pandemic, older dramas (before 2017 for me) were not my priority because there are so many others to watch.

I've watched 5 of 6 dramas, except Empress Ki, and I think they are all great ones.  Out of the 5, I think Untamed is the only one I did NOT give it a 9.0+ rating.  They all have a pretty good combo of plot, romance, acting, and action.  You really can't go wrong with any of them.

I look forward to more voting in the future.  MDL voting list really isn't very user friendly.  I wonder if we should try brackets.  On Reddit, they use the site Anime Brackets and do voting that way.  But it won't be as easy as voting directly from MDL

Sorry for the long post.  Now I need to start working and I look forward to a whole bunch of notifications later :)

 LucianYaz:

The dominance of the Korean dramas is saying something to me, seeing as I've never watched a Korean historical.

I think very few popular Chinese dramas qualified for the "historical" category, since many are xianxia/wuxia or set in fictional dynasties. Almost all sageuks are set in real dynasties and I'd say most have some basis in actual historical figures/events, even if they're very inaccurate portrayals. So overall the "historical" category was very Korea-dominated (4/5 Korean) and the "period" category was very China-dominated (4/5 Chinese). It would be interesting to see how things would have turned out if the categories had been more evenly mixed.

Of the six winners, I've finished none lol I tried watching nirvana and mr sunshine, but I don't think I ever got past 2 eps

Oddly enough, the ones I voted for were #4 on the final round in both lists:  Yanxi palace and eternal love

Hello~ may I join?

 Nienna:

Welcome! One of the more established members will give you the more "formal welcome" :) 

Okay~ thanks for the welcomes ^^