T.S.Johnson

lol. Thank you.

So someone explain her birth to me:

He took the baby b/c a priest told him she was bad luck.

Who raised her initially?

She has the vision of the maid/nanny strangling her....did she run away from her grandma's to get back home at some point when she was young?

Can someone explain to me why they like this drama?

The FL is a CHILD. She dresses like she works at a convenience store yet she's at an investment firm. She's running around like a dummy b/c she was caught in a "compromising" position in her bosses office. To get information she gets drunk with emplyees at a meeting with a client.

She as an adult 12 year old. What is going on here????

Exactly. This whole Act 3 should have been about him taking on in his in-laws and becoming King. NOT some two-bit story line that doesn't even matter. SMH.

I'm hoping it's a "eavesdropping" situation and there's no hard evidence - b/c that would be so, so SO stupid.

Lord help me if they do a separation...

Lord help me if the sideline the I-AN as King plot and decide to live a "simple life"....

Lord help me if they extend this contract marriage bit for more than half an episode...

Don't Dynamite Kiss Me here.

SMH

EXACTLY.

Two super smart calculating people (one trying to be King) draw up a contract and leave it around (original drafts and final copies) knowing the ramifications if it were to be found.

Okay.

SMH.

It's a K-Drama so it usually is that easy. They just had two smart people write up a contact that got miraculously discovered b/c neither of them knows what a shredder or a fire is.

Agree. But I was hoping, praying even they didn't do the very obvious, dumb thing. It's just so cliche and so unnecessary. It would have been better if someone had overheard them talking and made a scene than this.

Also yes...I'm hoping for a half-episode resolve. But we will see.

The contract marriage is a tool for them both to accomplish a larger goal. In 12 episodes you gotta pick and choose the focus. The story has made his play for the Crown a MAJOR plot point. And his reasoning for getting in the marriage. The marriage should fuel that and they could have skipped the whole "Oh Nos they discovered the contract we stupidly wrote down" - and focused on the romance and the (not so) secondary plot point of him becoming King. 16 or 20 episodes okay. 12? Something has got to give.

You're missing my point.

You can't have multiple major plot points in a short drama. It's a comcom - but what the romance drives is what I'm talking about.

Being in a contract marriage is a story by itself. Falling in love. Hiding the contract. Worrying about the reveal and the fall out is a story...by...itself.

You don't need the undercurrent of "Is he gonna take the Crown" and "Multiple mysterious deaths/hits on royal lives" as well.

Now you can have the romance - and the the romance fuels the take the Crown story.

You can have the romance and it's and it's a mysterious deaths as someone is out for the Crown story.

You can have a good ol'fashion love triangle where the PM and Crown Prince were truly in play for the lady's heart.

But what you can't do - in 12 episodes - is all of that b/c NONE of it gets to breathe and the ending seems rushed.

Shredder. Incinerator. They could have just burned it with some damn candles.

I HATE when scripts have people who you have told me are smart and at the top of their game do dumb stuff.

I stopped watching a whole series, b/c they had the "master" criminal take off his gloves and touch some glass in the MIDDLE OF A ROBBERY. Like he quite literally took off his gloves.

That's how I feel about this. Just dumb.

I'm gonna assume the PM did it...only b/c they seem to want to give him a villein arc...but not too villainy. And this is a good way to do it. And since they want to embrace all the tropes...well...

Yeah. I thought of that too, but that level of stupid irked me so I just decided not to make it one of my options. lol

Also, this is why if you're gonna do a 12 episode K-Drama you've got to simplify the story drastically. The pacing was good until now. Now there's too much going on and too much left to resolve.

You can't even let the poisoning and the investigation breathe b/c we're on to something else. If it was gonna be just about the contract marriage then that's the story. If it's about him aiming for the Crown - then that's the story. Hits on his life...that's a story. Her power struggle for Castle Group? Story.

Can some of these intersect...sure, but there has to be ONE MAIN focus. ONE. Or else you're rushing from on thing to another and everything feels rushed and unresolved.

It doesn't work in this story b/c the contract marriage didn't feel like the primary theme...the marriage as a tool to move his play for the Crown forward, was the overarching theme here (ideally). If you want it to be about the contract...you have to have them marry earlier, fall in love, be a real couple and THEN have it exposed b/c that's the priority.

The show has to be about that and not this under current of other things. Does this "scandal" last an episode? Two? Are we doing the whole "I don't want power anymore I just want to live the simple life as a commoner" bit? What? Four episodes. FOUR.

And verbal contracts are a thing. So...in a series that seemed to be about not just their love story BUT his attempt at the Crown...dropping in a dumb "Oh Nos the contract we stupidly wrote down is found" plot point detracts from everything else, let's focus on the bigger issue.

And...it's dumb plot point when it happens...HOWEVER this series only has 12 episodes, so it's REALLY dumb to drop this in there when there is so much else to resolve. It's okay to deviate from the norm is the norm is dumb.

I'm going to assume they didn't get into the safe - b/c that would be ridiculous and puts the King's will in play. So, she had it at some point. It was sitting on his bedside table at some point.

We think the spy was responsible for the poison, but did she go to the PM about the contract? Did the PM secretly leak it. Please don't use this as a way to "humble" the lead FL. Having her make any dumb decisions or alliances is gonna irk me.

I'm annoyed.