LBPG

oh it'll be a long time, i'm sure. these are very few and far between

agreed on everything. sincere is such a great adjective for this - you really could feel it from every single angle, every interpretation, from the design to the directing to the acting. my god what a gift!!

triumphant? yes, triumphant.

seeing that "Completed" status up there makes me feel all sorts of emotions

seriously, im still teary eyed 2 hours later? has it really been 2 hours already!!?! wow

wow, that would do it! i wondered if they were trying to show that he died of a broken heart here.

guys, we're getting urigoong: Fri-Sat Drama (Red End of Sleeves) 17.4% nationwide

this detail about the final scene: https://twitter.com/kingsomae/status/1477315892627181573?s=20

"In the dream, deokim told san to return three times. It is a palace ritual for the king's eunuch to climb up on the roof of the palace and shout three times while waving the king's robe when the king dies. The director was trying to express that in the dream"

agreed, it would've been nicer to see more of history vs novel there

hear hear!! i can't seem to sit through most other ones

scene on the bridge with deok im waving good by to herself was an add-on. and what a great one it was, so poignant. https://twitter.com/eatmelonn/status/1477329390165889030

MBC made a lot of suspect decisions about this drama, no doubt. i hope today went well for them, regardless

it really was! and while the focus was on the women, no expense was spared on showing the impact on San, too. it was a luxurious prison for everyone

yes, i'm so glad court lady seo was there at the end, she really was the only one that knew her heart 😭

the focus was really on the setup for the last scene. showing him as a good, benevolent king, the man that chose country over love, it was for good reason. it's a shame it didn't leave room for so many other wonderful details

yeah, i wish they'd shown that, i was surprised by how they compressed his mourning, but i guess without an heir, there was a sense of urgency to get on, even if reality may have been more nuanced.

btw court lady seo killed me when she recounted the concubine selection process to tae ho. jang hye jin freaking jjang. she so earned that award.

something spicier, too!

they absolutely were. she and deok ro were shown to be so very human in the end. i loved all these grey characters.

but like not even a voiceover...? i don't think? maybe they did bits and was lost in translation for me, not sure. he visited her grave 280 times, but they skipped a lot of his mourning until the nephew was revealed. then the waterworks turned on. i suppose that was a more rational way to get us to the ending, vs skipping from end of his mourning till his death.

the palace as the gilded cage it is, and its impact on the key women shown was something extraordinary, too. i loved how, throughout the drama, we were shown how all their fates were impacted by everything that they could not control. it's easy to lose sight of this tragedy within the story, not just the love story