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I didn't mean she liked him in romantic way. She liked him, cuz he was a good boy, she saw his potential. Though he was lazy af in the beginning, Naksu had to constantly kick him to do anything 🤣.

I think she just liked Uk. After all, she left the ice stone for him to protect in the future, instead of taking it away. It's unclear how much of the future she foresaw, but I think she knew he had a fate of King's star.

This drama needs a special compilation of extra fan service episodes like in Mr. Queen.
And instead of abrupt time skip and bare minimum of epilogue conversations that left the impression of the ending being rushed and unimpactful, I'd have liked to see:
-All the good guys getting together for the final time for some fun;
-How Naksu was officially accepted by mama Jin as JBY body's caretaker;
-Uk telling at least maidservant Kim that JBY is actully his lost hatched bird, Naksu. Maidservant Kim deserves to know, many unrelated people know already;
-CP (I mean new king now) finding himself a queen;
-Uk accepting Gwanju post, which CP waits for him to give;
-etc.

She didn't kiss him. Watch again.

It’s actually episode 9.

Yea, poor guy still has the ice stone inside him and it was shown that only a priestess with her innate divine powers can keep all those clingy, cold, dark spirits at bay so that he can sleep. Furthermore, without her love he was contemplating suicide, by returning she gave him reason to live with his burden.

I got an impression that master Lee did everything he could to butter up JSR to keep Naksu alive for Uk. He even performed that wedding ceremony just before Naksu had to disappear. Softened old granny’s heart.

She still is a soul shifter. But JBY's priestess body will indefinitely continue protecting her like it did in part 1. Furthermore, her body and soul look identical now, so no energy will leak out. And now there's no Jin Mu with his bells to threaten her life anymore.
The only downside is that she no longer has magic powers, but has divine powers.

I dunno, part 2 had plenty of night scenes as well. I'd say bigger part of outside scenes were filmed at night. And what's your point? That they had way smaller budget for part 2? It's looked obvious already. That doesn't excuse sloppy editing and weird incoherency of some of the scenes in the last episode.

Why would he need to die to use it?

1. FL got changed back to look like og Naksu (same actress)
2. She had an amnesia for 8 episodes straight, she didn't remember s*it.
3. Even when she finally rememberd herself, those were all memories. She, as well as Uk, have changed in that 3 years gap. Memories added up to her current personality, you can clearly see a drastic change in the last 2 episodes, but they've stopped defining her. She already softened up at the end of part 1, in part 2 it's just a continuation of her character development.
And she stopped being an assassin bent on revenge early in part 1, after she learned Jin Mu used her and killed her family.

I doubt it. JSR really needed King's star to help defeat incoming evil. She wasn't gonna use it herself.

Tbh, I was baffled of total lack of extras in the ending fighting scenes.
Where were all the Songrim mages? Only Yul and Dang Gu were fighting Jin Mu's goons.
Where were all the Jinyowon guards? Defeated somewhere offscreen?
Why PDG and JCY couldn't find Jin Mu? And why Jin Mu unnoticed returned for Park Jin? Why they put the fire bird at the stairs of Cheonbughwan, instead of going with it to the courtyard right away? Those haphazard movements kinda point that they've messed something up last minute, probably was written differently originally, but required more time.

Anyway, the script was passable, though with some plot holes. But execution and editing were very sloppy in the last episode.

Ever since part 1, nothing new there 🤣

1. Can't say anything about the queen and nephew finding Jin Mu. Luck? Prison being not so big?
But Jin Mu knew how to both enter and leave the prison. It's in Cheonbughwan, after all, and he's the leader. As you recall, he told Jin ladies about it when he threw Jin plaque inside the portal.
2. They openly raided Jinyowon. Guards were useless. But considering those grandpas represent all the most powerful mage families I guess they were simply overwhelmed. That it was shown offscreen is a shame, of course.
3. It wasn't shown what he would have done, but it all happened so shockingly fast that Jin women couldn't react in time. Gotta keep in mind they're also consistently pretty dumb.
But the guy was really desperate getting it done quickly, because he was on the brink of going wild already and was draining bodies. Probably that's why he threw all caution to the wind and acted so rashly. Also, his cabal was destroyed and plans revealed so it was a do or die situation.

Cho Yeong is Naksu's real name given at birth. Her father was Cho Chung, a constellation mage.
Naksu is just her professional nickname as an assassin, some wordplay on falling water and falling heads.

Probably because the ending turned into classical makjang bs. But it's still very good overall. Up until episode 8 included - just stellar. Just keep in mind that 3 sisters characters there were made flawed un purpose.

Here are some 2019-2022 ones I gave high ratings:
Kingdom (2 seasons +1 special)
Mr. Queen
Touch Your Heart
Mad For Each Other
Squid Game
Vincenzo
Tomorrow
A Business Proposal
Crazy Love
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Gaus Electronics
Little Women
May It Please The Court

Of course that's just personal opinion. There are many more, like popular Goblin, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim?, Crash Landing On You, It's Okay to Not Be Okay, Flower of Evil, etc. But I found them grossly overrated due to some major flaws, so I can't recommend them without reservations.

I dunno, depending on how many you've watched already I can recommend some from yesteryears. Narrowing down genre would also help.

Of the ongoing ones? The Forbidden Marriage.
It's very silly, but watchable.