Gern

Yeah, there was too much of ending with a cliffhanger then starting the nest episode way back in time. They revealed the past in snippets that were often more confusing than helpful. They did the same with the murder plot so it was hard to keep up with what the police knew and were thinking. We also knew way more than any character about past lives which made the MLs hesitancy often seem puzzling, until you thought “oh yeah, he didn’t know that was related.” I’m not sure those aren’t really directing and editing problems more than writing.

I agree. There’s a double standard. The FL wasn’t afraid to pursue who and what she wanted. In my book that’s pretty cool. I also agree that they did a poor job of helping you understand the ML’s hesitancy, it went on too long and after a while it began to feel like a one note song.

Lol

To be specific, when Naksu gets her memories back she realizes she will disappear soon. So instead of trying to have her last few moments for her and her husband be memorable ones, she lies and says she remembers being in love with someone else. Her husbands pain is unavoidable, yet she heaps on more pain and makes herself miserable in the process. At time when they have days left with each other she makes him even more miserable than he would otherwise be. No logic makes that make sense.

Then when he finds out his beloved Naksu is still alive he could have many reactions. He could be relieved, or angry, or shocked, but what do we get? No reaction at all. It was completely unbelievable.

To top it all off when he finds out she’s a soul shifter he leaves her because if he didn’t pretend not to know her he’d have to kill her. Well what about Mater Lee? He’s a soul shifter, and the ML made an exception for him. What about the queen? He knows she’s a soul shifter and hasn’t killed her. Yet the only one of the three he had to leave to avoid killing is Noksu? It didn’t make sense,

I loved part one and the first half of part two, but the misunderstandings and noble idiocy in the last five episodes totally lost me. It was as if logic went out the window. There was a point where the female lead’s thought process became akin to “My husband is going to be miserable eventually so I’ll spin a lie that makes both of us even more miserable now.” No one would do that. Perhaps because of how that was handled, the earth-shattering revelation you anticipated for eight episodes, the one that you expected to shake the foundations of one of the main character’s world, became a big nothing burger that was laughed off. It was like the husband finding out out his wife doesn’t have terminal cancer and his reaction is: “oh that’s nice.” It’s jarringly off. To top it all off there have been three, count them three, soul shifters around since the start of part one, and only one of them becomes the final a stumbling block to the relationship. Do they think we forgot that both Master Lee and the queen were soul shifters?

I love the Hong sisters work and usually they are meticulous in making sure people’s actions make sense. And I can’t say the final episodes ruined the show for me. Overall it was still good. It was just sad, because despite the fact it ultimately gave me everything I wanted in an ending, and could have been an 11 out of 10, it began to feel contrived. I’m usually pretty forgiving of that kind of thing, but it reached a point where I gave up trying to buy into what the leads were thinking and doing. As a result, at a time when I should have been most invested in the character I gave up caring, I’m sure this won’t be a popular opinion because so many people liked the show and so much of it was exceptionally well done, but I can’t help wishing they hadn’t tossed common sense and logic out the window at the end,

I just started, but if it was so uninteresting that you dropped it, I’d stick with your judgement, My general advice, having watched many dozens of shows, is to not expect the ending to get better.

Agreed. The banter was fun and his arrogance and her denial were both quite amusing. What’s not to like.

Better than Goblin (gasps) sacralidge.

They were brief, but it did have two of the most spectacular water special effects scenes in any drama.

True. I had watched several nine tailed fox dramas before I watched this one. (loved My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho)

I actually liked that her strengths were her weaknesses and find her actions understandable. After all, the three responses to fear are fight, flight or freeze, though the freeze part often gets left out. For my part, I don’t really like arrogant, self-centered, uselessly handsome CEOs (thought that combination never ever happens in real life.) However, I can still find them entertaining.

You probably didn’t need to throw in “dramaland.” In real life a tragic past doesn’t justify becoming evil :)

Sometimes if they know they’re going to make season 2, they throw in stuff at at the end to try to hook you in so you come back to find out what happens. I personally never liked that, but it is pretty common.

I didn’t find it all that difficult to fill in the gaps myself.

We were shown them sleeping in the same bed. That’s all we really need to know to explain her having a son by him. That said, the confusion is understandable because the son just appears out of nowhere in the final scene. Usually if something is important to the plot (and the son is critical to it) it is brought in earlier so it doesn’t seem made up on the spot. However, I think they wanted to preserve the surprise which runs the risk of people thinking “A son? Where did he come from?”

Regardless of the reasons it just doesn’t make sense. It is jarringly out of place for her to be serving the emperor like they are best buddies after he nearly killed her cousin and she was so terrified she broke it off with the ML. If those scenes had occurred back to back in the same episode, instead of several episodes apart, it would leave anyone scratching their head in puzzlement.

Agreed. I-Na was a bright spot in the show, the one who never deserved what she got. Still, she was a bizarre mix of super shy and firefly aggressive when crossed. That bugged me a little but because shy people don’t get super aggressive, but as an actress she did a brilliant job of making it work.

Agreed. Worst dad ever,, and a few minute heart-to-heart with his daughter just didn’t make me feel he had redeemed himself for more than a decade of neglect.

I think you’ve got it. What bothered me was the many year time gap it would have taken to have the child and grow up to get powers. I never like to see a titanic struggle of the leads to be together only to wind up not being together. That said, I think it a was clever answer, if not a bit pulled out of thin air. Still, you seemed to have a pretty good grasp on what happened, so it wasn’t that unclear.

I can’t totally blame someone for not liking it. There’s being imperfect, and then there’s being irredeemably corrupt. I think this one crossed the line. Ultimately it worked for me and I liked the show, but I can’t blame someone for being turned off by it.