True hey, Tae hul was told that she would get her card in October...so she didn't realise the dates flew past…
Jo Yeong can be always on guard and at the same time also loosen up on his stiffness when the King is safe in his chamber and there are plenty of guards outside. i honestly think it's lazy writing, Jo Yeong's character feels so flat like a horribly done pancake WTF i am so angry, the writer really did him dirty.
Some thoughts on ep 4, it’s fine if you disagree. +Opening scene pretty gorgeous. There were several jaw-breaking…
=Dialogue consistently slowed the scenes down
=The prime minister and Lee Gon scenes feel off. I imagine that the writer originally wanted their scenes to be fill with tension and underlining hostility but sprinkled with some forbidden spicy attraction coming from the prime minister but I’m not getting that. The pauses and breaks in dialogue delivery and stiffness of facial acting sucked away the connection between the two. Second female lead is being wasted of her potential as a captivating love interest and individually an interesting character in her own right.
=The directing and editing is still so frustrating. Too many close-ups and slow drawn out scenes with slow delivery in lines. Feels like many scenes are filmed slow-mo but everything looks beautiful, stunningly beautiful.
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we're totally on the same page. i edited my comment (the one you replied below) to express my thoughts better. i added some points to yours above. great observations :)
am i the only who liked ep. 3 so much better than ep. 4?
can someone tell me if in addition to time freeze, there was also sudden time jump? why is it when Tae Eul waited for the reissuance of her police officer ID, she was told that the date is suddenly 11/11/19 when she was waiting for it to be issued in late October? that part is confusing AF.
i also feel that it's so regretful that the much awaited bromance between Lee Gon and Jo Yeong is almost non-evident. Jo Yeong is stiff like a statue, doesn't show the littlest of smile and doesn't even exchange interesting banter with the King when he teased him WTF. i know he's the chief royal bodyguard, but even when they are by themselves he doesn't let loose which annoy the hell out of me because Woo Do Hwan simply deserves better! even Eun Sup (alternate universe version of him) is lame AF, i have only noticeably seen scenes of Eun Sup where he contributes to product placements in the drama. i thought he was going to be the rookie detective in Tae Eul's crime division, so he was going to take up a more prominent role as part of the trio (Shin Jae, Tae Eul, Eun Sop).
my another big gripe with this drama is that Lee Gon seems to take up too much screen time, that it leaves not much room for other characters to show their unique, interesting sides. this would not have been so glaring if many of Lee Gon's scenes were more purposeful than they are fillers. when Lee Gon was at Republic of Korea for the first time, instead of giving too much uninteresting exchanges between him and Tae Eul, the writer could have given us more flashback scenes between Lee Gon and Jo Yeong, present scenes of Lee Gon and Eun Sup or simply more of Lee Gon/Eun Sop and Maximus, LOL.
i actually didn't really notice those product placement in an emotional scene. which one? the grocery store scene…
CG you mean the shots when they move from Kingdom of Corea to Republic of Korea? yeah the shots when they show the statue of the admiral and the city/palace at night when Lee Gon explained why Busan is the cultural capital also the location of the palace was just outstandingly pretty.
btw, you study film? how interesting. are you studying it formally?
Episode 3 wasn’t much better. I want it to be good so badly. Why am I still bored :/ They written Yi Won as…
i already wrote a lengthy comment below about this episode. when you said nothing really new came about this episode, i disagree. there are some subtle progress plus new characters were introduced which may become important later.
i also personally felt the story is a bit slow, but i think it makes sense now that in ep. 2, Tae Eul keeps being condescending to Lee Gon, but in this episode she started to receive the results of the things she verified about Lee Gon's real identity. i think it works, because the slow progress has its purpose in the same way Tae Eul needed to wait for the multiple results of the identity verification to come back.
Honestly I feel like the first 3 episodes could have easily been made into two if not one and a half. It's a bit...repetitive?…
kinda agree, but i think the rest of the episodes matter more and will slowly pick up now that Lee Gon has figured Lee Lim can also travel to the parallel world, that's why he returned to his kingdom immediately.
This is not an actual spoiler, more like a thing you can't unsee once you know: The only thing bothering me so…
i actually didn't really notice those product placement in an emotional scene. which one? the grocery store scene i agree, was kinda obvious and pointless AF.
just me who feels like nothing interesting is happening in this drama? I'm a girl, but I'm not a fan of romance…
you might want to hold off until the drama finish airing completely and bingewatch it later if you lack patience. the story is already developing slowly from this episode because Lee Gon has figured that Lee Lim can also cross to the other world because he has another half of Minpanseok.
NOOOOOOOOOOO. :(
what's your thought? are you going to keep watching week by week or wait till it finishes? i am really kinda losing patience LOL.
i can understand that but for some people we're still waiting for it to get better. ugh.
=The prime minister and Lee Gon scenes feel off. I imagine that the writer originally wanted their scenes to be fill with tension and underlining hostility but sprinkled with some forbidden spicy attraction coming from the prime minister but I’m not getting that. The pauses and breaks in dialogue delivery and stiffness of facial acting sucked away the connection between the two. Second female lead is being wasted of her potential as a captivating love interest and individually an interesting character in her own right.
=The directing and editing is still so frustrating. Too many close-ups and slow drawn out scenes with slow delivery in lines. Feels like many scenes are filmed slow-mo but everything looks beautiful, stunningly beautiful.
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we're totally on the same page. i edited my comment (the one you replied below) to express my thoughts better. i added some points to yours above. great observations :)
can someone tell me if in addition to time freeze, there was also sudden time jump? why is it when Tae Eul waited for the reissuance of her police officer ID, she was told that the date is suddenly 11/11/19 when she was waiting for it to be issued in late October? that part is confusing AF.
i also feel that it's so regretful that the much awaited bromance between Lee Gon and Jo Yeong is almost non-evident. Jo Yeong is stiff like a statue, doesn't show the littlest of smile and doesn't even exchange interesting banter with the King when he teased him WTF. i know he's the chief royal bodyguard, but even when they are by themselves he doesn't let loose which annoy the hell out of me because Woo Do Hwan simply deserves better! even Eun Sup (alternate universe version of him) is lame AF, i have only noticeably seen scenes of Eun Sup where he contributes to product placements in the drama. i thought he was going to be the rookie detective in Tae Eul's crime division, so he was going to take up a more prominent role as part of the trio (Shin Jae, Tae Eul, Eun Sop).
my another big gripe with this drama is that Lee Gon seems to take up too much screen time, that it leaves not much room for other characters to show their unique, interesting sides. this would not have been so glaring if many of Lee Gon's scenes were more purposeful than they are fillers. when Lee Gon was at Republic of Korea for the first time, instead of giving too much uninteresting exchanges between him and Tae Eul, the writer could have given us more flashback scenes between Lee Gon and Jo Yeong, present scenes of Lee Gon and Eun Sup or simply more of Lee Gon/Eun Sop and Maximus, LOL.
btw, you study film? how interesting. are you studying it formally?
i also personally felt the story is a bit slow, but i think it makes sense now that in ep. 2, Tae Eul keeps being condescending to Lee Gon, but in this episode she started to receive the results of the things she verified about Lee Gon's real identity. i think it works, because the slow progress has its purpose in the same way Tae Eul needed to wait for the multiple results of the identity verification to come back.