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Yea, too many overly draggy scenes in earlier episodes, but now they rush important things by the end. The bane of many kdramas - pacing! Why is it so damn hard to properly pace the plot? Ugh 😒

Yea, exacly. They mishandled him completely. I'm very disappointed.

1. Jang Kang's reveal and redemption were atrocious. Even though he shat everywhere and on everything he could 20 years ago, he cowardly ran away and turned his son's life miserable on the a very weak pretence. And he's still is a soul shifter somehow, though returned to his body - implications are unpleasant as to how his managed to stay alive. And only now that he's already so unwell he followed Master Lee's command and turned himself in, only to die immediately after. Yea, he interrupted the shaman's ritual maybe, I'm still sus about this. But no explanations from him, no goodbyes with Uk, maidservant Kim, or Park Jin were shown. So much buildup about his return, but it was just a fizzle in the end.🤦‍♂️At least I get it now where he got the information about the alchemy of souls to begin with - shaman's book. And after desperate mama Jin asked him to save her dead daughter he stole the ice stone from her later. What a fool.
2. What happened to So-i???
3. I'm sus about the queen and the shaman, did Park Jin kill the queen's body by hurling a spell at her? Why the queen is still inside shaman's body? Surely there are still soul ejectors out there. Is it really the queen now in shaman's body?
4. Did papa Jin survive? They've said that the bride's father is in bad shape.
5. Why nobody arrested Jin Mu?
6. What will happen to Yul now that there's a Jin worm inside him? Also, why was it so easy to remove it? Didn't the villains say to So-i that it's in her head now and can kill her if she disobeys? Also, how the ef that small worm works as a blood transfustion, lol?
7. CP is very jelly, we'll see what they make of him now that he knows Uk was the real King's Star.

Ok, first things first, why do the showrunners have such a big desire to lie and mislead people in the previews and tease with false scenes? Those "wedding" scenes fooled no one since last week. We all know how it's gonna go already - bad guy's last attempt to pull a dirty trick on the good guys, no happy ending and a cliffhanger because part 2 is incoming.
Second, I was extremely disappointed with handling of Jang Kang's character.
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That's false. Stop spreading nonsense.

Lol, Dr. Who is a generational show with no end in sight. Every generation had their own Dr. Who, the actor was changed so often nobody cares who it is anymore - man, woman, old timer, youngster, who cares...
But AoS has very specific and tight story to tell with a definitive ending. Can't really compare these two shows.

No, the other guy is right, it's gonna be awkward af. This has nothing to do with what you're saying. This whole plot twist is getting even weirder exactly because the leads already got very chummy with each other, ML even said he finds Mu-Deok pretty as a whole now, not just her soul shifted eyes. No matter what people say, you can't really separate loving one's mind and personality from the body. You accept and love a person as a whole. For example, take irl situation - you've got a girlfriend, you know her body and face and got comfortable with her. One day a complete stranger appears and says: "Heya, it's me your girlfriend!". And you honestly wouldn't bat an eyelash at this? Won't be freaked out and uncomfortable? I'm sure when this happens in AoS they will have to address this and leads relationship may very well take a step back because of it.

Ans same goes for the audience as well - we barely got any scenes with GYJ, we never really got enough time to get attached to her face on screen. But JSM was there with us for 20 episodes straight as FL, going through hell and high water with ML, so of course readjusting to a new face playing the same character will not be a seamless process for many people. This whole plot twist is a daring experiment from script writers, it's far from common - there's no knowing how the audience will react to it in the end, they may have dug themselves a grave here.

Yea, can't trust Hong sisters with a good ending, they're infamous in that regard.

Nope, that’s just your SML syndrome talking. And those part 2 pics you were referring were about the past again with young actors.

How would the audience not get attached after seeing her for 20 episodes in the lead role? 😂 This is just ridiculous thinking this.

I severely disagree about putting Goblin on the same level as AOS. Also, it had a different genre and vibe to it - contemporary supernatural snoozefest. But that’s my opinion of course.
I haven’t seen many kdramas of the same level of quality in a similar genre. Maybe only Kingdom.

That’s some dumb reach of logic 🙄 They needed an actress who can do a good job and be the lead for 20(!) episodes, the majority of this show’s episode count. They needed a lead who can captivate the audience to watch so many episodes. It’s dumb to think of her like some disposable minor character they could ditch without the audience caring. It’s FL, of course the audience will care. And many people got attached to her face, it’s not a book after all, but a show you watch with your eyes on screen, instead of simply imagining it while reading.
So this has nothing to do with her being or not being a rookie. Also, The Four Seasons are rookies too, but nobody’s ditching them in part 2, and I’m sure people’d be just as pissed off if ML, or say, CP were swapped for some other actor.
Will the rumored GYJ be able to play Naksu just as well remains to be seen. Her scenes so far were too scarce to make any definitive answer. But she can do action scenes well, for sure. Not that it’s the main focus of this drama.

It's on kisskh.me

Goblin, are you serious? 😂

Yea, Hong sisters "fame" runs before them, lol. And they're gonna do it again here it seems.

I agree. At least to keep her on our minds more I think the show would have benefited from her presence at least when thinking about something or imagining something. But she probably had all of her scenes shot at the beginning so they didn't even show her as herself while talking to Bu-Yeon inside the ice stone - which really didn't make sense since they were there as souls.

It's not just Korean media, it's media in general - they'll do anything for clicks, spoilers be damned. I really hate when people do that - makes watching something less fun.
Dunno how people would have reacted here if the rumor wasn't leaked though. Maybe it would have been crazy here. But right now it's mostly just futile frustration because nothing can be changed anyway, or enthusiasm from GYJ's fans. But I've seen other places are raving crazy, like the twitter. Better not go there for your sanity, lol 😂

To be fair, JSM wasn't given action scenes to shine yet, just one move that doesn't tell much. So you can't really tell whether she'd be good or bad at them.

20 episodes of JSM’s stellar acting. But then we’ll have an actress swap for 10 “afterparty” episodes. Will it be just as good without her though?

Here's a question - what if there's no FL in part 2 at all?
I mean, questionable information sources aside, those tabloids only spoil everywhere that JSM won't be in part 2 for sure, they've not seen her on set, she initally didn't sign the contract for part 2, yada yada, etc., etc. But where do they get the information that GYJ will be in part 2? Afaik, nobody has seen her on set either and her contract for part 2 also is not confirmed yet. Are they just talking from their asses here? Because they just naturally assume if one actress is out it equals the og actress is in?

In any case, f*ck those tabloids big time for spoiling the plot 👿. And I hope Naksu will return in some form in part 2. If she won't be there at all I'm not watching it.