Wow, if there's a perfect slowburning romance drama, this is it. Definitely the best CD drama I've seen so far. Believable characters, responsible love, friendships and family bonds. Beautifully filmed and with a very nice OST.
You are getting very personal here, belitteling my opinion and myself by telling me I need to think before I speak. But that's nothing new, it's obviously the tone you have to expect if you have a different opinion. Next thing you know, I'll be hysterical.
It is not random, because this drama is a story that takes place in Japan, and the question was how the cast was chosen. I am not a troll. I must be because I am disagreeing? That is so typical, either misinformed or a troll.
This corresponds to the worldview that anyone who has a different opinion is misinformed/uneducated/evil. Maybe you just have to acknowledge that not everything that is well-intentioned is also useful/effective. And perhaps some of the well-intentioned measures go beyond the good and create new problems because they are about ideology and not about realities. How much paternalism is tolerable and when does it reach a level that is no longer acceptable? Casting Pokahontas with a white actress is cultural appropriation, casting the British Queen with a black actress is not. Netflix is allowed to do this because it makes more money. Let's face the reality, it's not about justice, it's about power aka money.
Nekokaburi is not wrong. Ideology is a private matter and has no place in the working environment or in art. Politics must not be allowed to influence art. We have seen often enough where this leads. Even in the 3rd Reich, Karl Ritter and Leni Riefenstahl packaged propaganda in an easily digestible way. I see similar tendencies to occupy positions ideologically, be it in science, politics or art. I find this dangerous, especially when supposed moral superiority is the deciding factor and seems to give the right to supress different opinions.
Call me a coward, I've watched up to episode 10 and now I'm waiting until the last episode is released. Then I'll start all over again and gonna binchwatch everything at once. I feel a bit like a kid before Christmas.
The only solution I can see is the following: The Grand Prince dies, the Queen Dowager is blamed for his death, Mongwoo dies and Kang Hee Soo returns from captivity with her father and is officially married to the King.
So exciting, I can't wait to see which direction the drama takes. At the moment, I can't imagine how a happy ending is possible. The three main actors do a great job.
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