Shannon Brown

What is your point with this? Let me repeat...you cannot have actual sex with someone who doesn't have the parts; though, you can be intimate. Yet, you can't have SEX. OMG....I will not engage in a philosophical debate about gender.

You cannot have actual sex without the parts to participate. I mean I get the 21st century idea, but let's be real.

Well...biblical sex is actual penetration. There's no exception for conception.

Question.... Do Eunuchs have their wang cut off or just their balls? I am trying to remember Game of Thrones, and I think it was the balls and the shaft? So when I say you can't love a eunuch I mean literally if a eunuch is what I think it is....then you can't properly "love" them in the biblical sense.

Can you ever really love a eunuch?

I thought alcohol was banned?

I prefer the LEADER of the scholars and warriors! That's just me though.

Doek-Im was special. That's what I am getting the most from this drama. I mean, seriously, if she had the gumption during this time period to refuse the king then she was brave and extraordinary. Yet, because she is a court lady she is inhibited by life and now she has this hot, insufferable, and totally demanding guy in her life who refuses to let her go. Yet, he doesn't have to accommodate her, she has to accommodate him. It's the like the story of every grown woman's life.

I agree, but I don't think he was lying just that he hadn't taken her into consideration.

I'm not sure. Someone explained that the court lady has to get pregnant and bear the child to be a concubine. Though, I don't know for sure. I just think he never intended to take a court lady and that was his default position, but he forgets/ignores the feelings he has for Doek-Im until he sees her sitting there.

I don't think he was deliberately lying. More so that he hadn't taken consideration of Doek-Im and the feelings he has for her. I believe if he didn't have feelings for her this would be his position without a doubt.

Agreed...like I said in another comment. Falling in love is much easier than being in love.

Falling in love is much easier than being in love. That chemistry is gone and it won't return. Now we have to see how they handle it as adults with problems.

Be optimistic...

Ironically, the freedom she craves will come in death, and it's King Junho who will be left devastated...at least I hope it plays out that way. Considering his love for her is so well known today, I'm assuming he rectified his mistakes after she died, which by then was way too late. Though the foreshadowing about the dead knowing everything will make it bittersweet.

After watching episode 5 again where the CP basically says he'll never get with a court lady and the fact after becoming king he put poor Doek-Im on the shelf for three years, and made the girl stand there with a tray for hours, I sincerely hope she just rejects him as coolly and as calmly as can be because she needs to. At this point, King Junho deserves rejection and I will be here to see it. Can't wait!

I agree...most women deserve better, but for her especially she has no choice in anything she does and no one really cares about her opinion. It's the time she lives in, but it's a problem a lot of modern women face too, which is a shame. King Junho still thinks of her as a possession and he hasn't learned to apologize. He's like that guy you know you should stay away from, but he's so hot and consuming you can't help yourself from getting caught up. The tragedy I think will be for him because he may never be able to tell her in life how he truly feels and then she'll be gone...

LOL...and we are in luck, folks! I cannot wait.

I think they may just subvert history and put the Queen and the sister in the bunch, or just finally introduce the queen as already being selected at some point. Then we meet her and the side chicks, but Doek-Im still standing firm against joining the club. I think she'll resist all the way until the end of the next episode. Just judging by the way they have been bookending the scenes between them I can see the kiss being at the end...so maybe they do and maybe they don't...and you'll have to wait to find out next episode.

I'm almost glad they didn't because it's what was expected. After all the waiting I was glad they just got it over with. Though, I would have like to see Junho in those bead-thingys...lol For some reason they are strangely memorizing.