Aramintai

Yul is as useless as ever. Nothing new here, it's just becoming tiring how he still hasn't learnt anything from his mistakes.

Mama Jin is such a dumbass, she lets herself be goaded so easily by Jin Mu's circular logic and expert knowledge of how to exploit other people's insecurities. But then again, even smarter characters got baited on the same hook. He's got nothing of substance, but twists his words so masterfully, it's no wonder people get confused and play right into his hands.

I bet he planned to use Jin clan's priestesses to perform the ritual from the very start, but threatened dumb mama Jin with fallacies so much, she almost had to beg him to use her clan's help.

My bet is that he and CP are in cohoots and were enacting a plan to counteract Jin Mu.

I care about the characters, but logic of the the story is as important. If it's a hamfisted self-contradicting mess I'm gonna downvote the hell out of it in the end.

Also, CP (the double agent) and Uk definitely hatched some sort of plan to counteract Jin Mu.
It looked very obvious. Good for CP, he finally has a chance to redeem himself.

Amen 🙏

He may still end up there. Would be a fitting punishment.

It's Choi mage's skeleton from 200 years ago. The only thing of interest about it is that it has a second ice stone in its ribcage.

Yea, Jin clan's mofos were the bane of Naksu's existence since childhood. It's not her that should be repaying them a life debt, it's them!

But he really wasn't that dumb in part 1 at all. He was always very quick to catch on. Here he's so dense for drama's sake, it's just eyeroll worthy at this point 🙄.

I think she was infected by Yul's stupidity and wants to "nobly sacrifice" herself for Jin clan since she's about to die anyway.
She didn't even have a plan, by the looks of it. She doesn't know the extent of JBY's powers and just waltzed into Gwido counting on sheer luck, it seems. Also, the turtle will lead her out as master Lee was explaining about these turtles.

Also, Choi mage's skeleton having a second ice stone inside him is interesting and very useful. I hope the leads will take it with them.

So basically, master Lee is the biggest sh*thead in this whole drama, who can do everything himself, but deliberately chooses not to, which leads to messes of the scope similar to Jang Kang's.

He said that Uk can get rid of JBY's soul because he's of Hwansu level. Dude, aren't you of Hwansu level yourself? 🙄🤦‍♂️
If he really wanted to save Naksu, instead of lying to mama Jin, he could have gotten rid of JBY's soul himself from the very beginning! But what? He left the job half done and now it will be undone, and he basically left the impossible decision making on poor Uk?
I feel like master Lee is a secret soap lover - he just keeps cauing dramatic strife for lulz. What a 🤬!

Of course the leads will be trying to act noble and trying to sacrifice themselves as everyone expects them to. I've no hopes for neither of them to do anything reasonable anymore, they're running on emotions and recklesness now due to severe lack of information (which all the unrelated characters already possess).

The only hope I have is that JBY's great compassion wasn't a lie, and that she herself intervenes and divides herself by zero already.

Ok then, I'll take your word for it.
Also, what's up with this new format of splitting kdramas into 2 parts lately? Is it an annoying Netflix ploy or smth to keep people subscribed? Aside from The Glory there's also Island that will have a second season.
When I'm unsure whether I want to watch something I usually wait for it finish airing and see the reviews, but this series splitting up is not making decision making any better. Some series even take years to have the next season.

I've read there will be a second season so I'll watch it as a whole when it's finished. Also, I am leery about watching revenge dramas, they usually don't end well. And I usually struggle a lot with bullying plots - I find them too frustrating and ridiculous to watch.
But we'll see with this one.

Yea, if it weren't for actors doing great jobs and leads chemistry I feel like I'd have struggled to finish this part. I've no idea about the ending, but there's a high chance of it being a trainwreck.

I've read they wanted to make side stories about side characters who didn't get enough screen time. But I'm not seeing any new interesting side stories at all here. Just boring filler and dragged out main plot hanging on amnesia trope. I mean, they even dropped the juicy story about Dang Gu and Cho Yeon secretly getting back together - we only learned about them even being intimate at least one time in passing through a conversation.
And of course, as soon as FL remembers herself she's back at the end of part 1 basically - in mortal danger of perma death. Just running around in circles, indeed.

Does anybody else think that Jin Mu and his evil scheming took a back seat in part 2?
In part 1 he was very proactive and unpredictable, he also had a smart shaman as a boss.
In part 2, he only has a dumb crazy bitch Queen and her even dumber Seo relative as sidekicks and is not doing too much to achieve his rather nebulous plan of gaining a new ice stone through forced drought (is he even still on it? bird statues plan was a fiasco). I feel like at this point, his prime time as the villain is long past and his demise is long overdue, I can't help but roll my eyes whenever he appears like a total cliche to once again shake things up a bit for the leads. Maybe they should have gone for a new villain in part 2.

I feel like this whole part 2 is really dragging its feet with Naksu's amnesia plot and is mainly focused on her and Uk's repetitive "push and pull" relationship of falling in love again.
The rest is filler, especially Park Jin's black matter cooking lessons.
Was it worth making 10 more episodes of contrived extra plot about FL's seemingly perpetual inability to get rid herself of Jin clan's "leeches" (JBY, mama Jin, Jin Mu) that keep ruining her life and to permanently stay alive? Or maybe the story should have been more neatly wrapped up in one part?

He did want to save Naksu apparently. And apparently he is a liar. The only thing I don't get is how does he know JBY had a plan and what it involves, since, you know, she was petrified.
Did he interact with her somehow?

He saved her from a soul shifter in part 1 like a damsel in distress, remember "Naksu blue"? And she immediately fell for him because of that 🙄. That's about it. Everything else she invented in her head, Uk took no part in her delusions.