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Nice to have a detective style wuxia to sink my teeth into finally. A travelling physician who has his own campervan is a lovely touch.

LOL. There's always a murder in an inn.

I didn't know we had a bet. ;)
I'm surprise you took the trouble to dig this up.

Overall I can't complain about the resolution. It was more or less what I expected. An uplifting healing drama about forgiveness and leaving the past behind.

Haha... I enjoyed the the role reversal at the end. I was kind of expecting it and still had a laugh out loud moment. He was leaving nothing to chance. Seo-ha was adorable and that impish grin said it all.

Although it's such a K drama thing that everybody was somehow connected in the distant past, I think it alleviates hackles that people might have over the age gap. I think of it as a 1000 year romance in the making. I loved the Goryeo setting -- I would have liked so much to see more of that.

It's so good to see the two guys looking so cheerful in those last couple of episodes especially Do-yoon. The lad that plays him is definitely eye candy.

Although I think the show could have benefitted from an episode or two more, I have no regrets jumping on this bandwagon.

I notice that Viki translates it as "God is Dead".

I see what you mean. Perhaps to say that it is entirely character-driven is an exaggeration. There's certainly an objective as there has to be in every story but I don't necessarily think it's about getting rid of the evil spirit. It's not the case for the cops nor for the evil spirit. It is a murder mystery so it would be plot heavy But it isn't as if the characters don't make choices about the direction in which the investigation should take. It's interesting to me that there hasn't been a lot of consistent team work because every character does make his/her own decision about how to proceed. Frustrating but understandable considering the stakes.

There are the rationalists on the one side trying to get at the truth with hard core tangible evidence. Then there's the folklorist on the other side who is driven by his own personal issues and his ability to see ghosts that colour how he chooses to make his move. Then there's the female protagonist who wants to be rid of the spirit possessing her but is hampered by her own fears, lies and scraps of information. She's being manipulated but I don't think she's merely a passive observer although she is gradually losing herself to the evil spirit's grip.

I tend to think that the evil spirit being the primary antagonist is driven to act by wanting to show her version of the truth as opposed to what the protagonists glean from recorded information and eye-witness testimony. There's no denying that they want to be rid of the evil spirit but in order to do that, they have to find the "correct" version of events.

I'm genuinely curious about what you mean that the show is mostly plot driven because it feels to me that the show is entirely character driven. Unless of course you don't think the angry spirit is a character.

Do you like thrillers? Do you like murder mysteries?

I don't see how that's a plot hole.
The parties have intersecting agendas at present.
However, we don't know what ultimately the evil spirit's agenda is either. It could all be a bluff.

Yes. I thought the same. I remember him from Strangers Again.

It's really the music. If you cut the volume, you'll notice the difference.

Dang! Now I have to wait a whole 6 days for the next episode.
Man those last few minutes had me on tenterhooks.

I am so glad we have shows like these.

I don't think he will either. All I'm saying is that if there's anyone who ends up dead, it will most likely be him.

It's one of my favourites of the genre.

I've only seen two episodes but so far it's very good. It's different from most K dramas out there.

I doubt anything of the sort would happen to her. Frankly from Kim Eun-hee's track record with protagonists, it's unlikely anything untoward will happen to the leads but if there's someone who will end up dead in the finale, it won't be her.

To my mind, the three best K dramas airing at the moment have no or little romance -- Revenant, Shadow Detective 2 and Miraculous Brothers. Why? Because they're not tethered to tropes and they have varying degrees of unpredictability. They can't do that if there's a featured romance and the story beats in the two genres clash. I don't think that there are too many K writers who can blend two or more genres without something going haywire somewhere in the middle.

The person I am most worried about to be honest is not San-young but Hae-sang. After all that talk about his impending death and helping her get rid of the evil spirit "at all cost", there's a good chance that he's the one that gets sacrificed.

I feel exactly the same about K drama romances in the last couple of years. Every rom com now is a parody of the genre. I can't watch them anymore and to think I started watching K dramas because of rom coms.

"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interr'd with their bones."

That was one gripping episode. I think it's the geek in me excited about watching people sitting in libraries, archives and among books in general doing research, making discoveries about the past. It's the dream job. Of course I would happily do without the vengeful spirits. But I am gleeful over the fact that our male lead is a bit of a nerd and I get the feels watching him poring old documents.

The Jangrin villagers were undoubtedly knee deep in something that smells with Junghyeon Capital. They too sold their souls in this faustian pact.

Only 9 episodes have dropped so far.