Aramintai

Dragons having pearls comes from Chinese folklore. In Chinese folklore dragons are water creatures, some were even basically river fish, specifically koi carp. Their pearls somehow are their eggs. Dragon pearls represent the dragon's power, wisdom, connection to the spiritual realm, bring good luck and prosperity. (I'm sure if they could find any, Chinese would kill all the poor dragons and grind their pearls into their dumb traditional medicine, lol)

In one Chinese legend the pearl had a magical property to increase the quantity of anything it touches, the boy swallowed the pearl and transformed into a dragon. I'm sure many get the Dragon Ball reference in their heads now.

Personally, I think them having pearls is like a mussel nurturing a sand speck inside of them until it becomes a shiny pearl. And imoogi wanting to become a dragon also nurtures their pearl with good karma until it becomes big and powerful.

In Chinese, Japanese & Korean folklore huli jing/kitsune/gumiho (fox spirits) also have similar pearls/balls/beads in their mouths which are the source of their shapeshifting and magical powers, and they would die if separated from their ball for too long as it represents their soul. There's a whole kdrama about an immortal gumiho having a pearl and an evil imoogi called Tale of the Nine-Tailed, there even was a bratty little brother too. And the drama had a sequel.

Let's hope so. The guy was dead and eaten by the spirit for the whole of the drama. He wasn't even there along for the ride. Bringing him back is not even close to the shitty Mr. Queen ending.

What I'm reading is that this story is so dumb only kids would find it entertaining without eyerolling at all the dumb and cheesy stuff going on here. Never understood the need to defend showrunners that don't think much of the audience's intelligence.

He barely can look after himself. Women need to be guarded, especially FL, since she's doing all the rituals. And the evil spirit can travel everywhere with the evil shaman, he even went to FL's village to kill her grandma. So palace is safer than outside of it, it's harder to go unnoticed there with all the guards.

Please no, this show is draggy enough as it is and is only a quarter as interesting as AoS.

This is getting boring and repetitive. Every episode basically ends on a dangerous ohshitohshit moment, but in the next episode everything is resolved in the first five minutes and main characters are non the wiser after the predicament. They're being kidnapped, people are trying to kill them, but nah, let's not do anything about it and stay carefree. Could have at least asked the king to send some guards to guard them and their house, or better yet, have them live in the palace where it's safer.

Oh sh*t. Now I'm even more worried.

Watch it then, it's a pretty hilarious drama, the ending kinda sucked though.

ML there got transported from our time into the body of the queen in some old historical time. He spent the whole drama in that body and the king fell in love with the quirky Mr. Queen, not with with the woman that was the original owner of the body, whose soul fell asleep. Over time ML got used to the female body and was rather ok to stay in it as he started to like the king as well, and his soul kinda started to meld in with the woman's. But in the end ML got transported back into his time anyway and the king was left with the queen who got barely any recollection of what happened while she was possessed. The end.

Are they gonna do the Mr. Queen ending for ML? If so, immediately - 3 points to the score.

Probably mediocre acting. Her facial expressions are always the same in all dramas, too serious. Not saying that it should warrant malicious comments on social media though, but there be lots of crazies out there.

Wow, way to overreact and misinterpret the whole thing.

I'm finding this whole Asian obsession with scrutinizing actors private lives as if they're obligated to be virgin monk saints by law extremely disturbing and annoying. I just wanna watch movies and dramas with actors that act well, I don't care about their private lives, it should not be anyone's business. They should not be conisdered anything special, like role models or world leaders, they're just pretty people working on stage. People really need to get off social media and celebrity stalking and touch grass already.

There's not gonna be romance between the leads, right? Because it's weird. Even if ML is an impostor, if he's got the same face and FL falls for him then she was into her brother.

Hopefully not as boring. Not sure why it was a hit, I barely managed to finish it because of how boring it was.

A well thought out plot, but you can guess what's what half way there. Though I didn't appreciate that for drama's sake everybody knew everybody, kdramaland SK is so small. And man, those evil characters were utter trash. At least they all got their karma in the end. Good riddance.
I'd say a solid 8 here is in order.

Keep watching, it actually gonna come naturally. There’s a lot going on in this drama.

Was pretty decent until they fcked everything up in the last two episodes, starting from the apeshit dumbass reason ML wanted to off that guy in the OR. It went downhill from there.
And FL actress overdid it with psycho mode, made it hard to believe such a person could ever blend in society for any extended period of time before being caught for offing someone after another fit of rage.
Can't give it more than 7.

Depends on what you mean by great. It must have a wedding or something? There are numerous dramas that have that. Or just the sense of completeness/satisfaction? Those may be rather rare, admittedly. Many dramas tend to rush or fck up their endings.

I liked ML's acting and music in this drama.

FL became likeable only by the later half. The problem with her is that she didn't have any chemistry with ML, should have just stayed friends, would have been more believable. But kdrama showrunners these days just can't help themselves but put dumb childhood connection = destiny trope into every second drama. Very annoying.

The plot at the beginning also wasn't too bad, but it got boring, cliche and over the top by the end.

The villain actress did well as well, but her character is an absolute psycho with delusions of grandeur who belonged in psychiatric ward, how the ef she managed to stay afloat pretending she's normal without messing things up is beyond me. I guess that's what money and coddling can do to a person.

Overall a 7 from me.