Ha, I'm on episode 2 and this is actually pretty good :) FL is doing a great job here in double role as well. Though makes one wonder whether all that time and stress spent on education is really worth a damn when you start working for real. Imho, they teach too much outdated theory and unnecessary stuff just to fill up credits nowadays. When people start working for real they often have to learn everything from scratch at work.
Sungjae and Bona already gave a major spoiler in an interview. Somebody will cross the bridge to the after life.…
Which drama are you talking about? This one? In this one the king wants to make a reform to abolish slavery. You can imagine that none of those noble class ministers would support it. The retired minister could have have helped him with that by returning and siding with him in court.
Let's talk about: WHAT IS INSIDE IMUGI's PEARL? aka ball. That ball is sheer light, we saw it when imugi is alive…
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.
Sungjae and Bona already gave a major spoiler in an interview. Somebody will cross the bridge to the after life.…
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.
My comment for this evening is that the only way to "digest" a fairy tale or a fantasy story is to use imagination.…
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.
Since the palace its the one being haunted that would be the least safer place for them to be. Plus sending guards…
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.
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 no... Can you explain what happened there?? Haven't watched it.
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.
Why is she even attracting malicious comments in the first place??It's not as if her career is riddled with controversies…
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.
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.
In this one the king wants to make a reform to abolish slavery. You can imagine that none of those noble class ministers would support it. The retired minister could have have helped him with that by returning and siding with him in court.
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.