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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.

Of course.

Despite being flawed, this remained a fascinating show with a good story that kept me guessing until the end. By flawed, I mean every one of the characters were irredeemably flawed from the very start, each for their own reason. Just for starters, in the first few minutes we learn that the FL uses her body to scam men. She was essentially a con artist and prostitute. Even worse, in my opinion, the ML was a drunk who had been abusively neglectful of his innocent teenage daughter for her entire life. It made me not want to continue past episode one, and their behavior in following episodes remained bad enough to make me frequently wonder why I would care about these people. Usually, if the acts of the leads are so degenerate that it makes you feel they don’t deserve redemption , it ruins the show. But maybe because the leads were both irredeemable in their own way, they deserved each other, and perhaps, for me, that was enough. To be honest, when I think back to the start, I don’t think they ever did fully redeem themselves, but it was okay. They turned into a sort of family who were trying to be better people, and that was enough to satisfy me in the end.

They had already left the room and been excused and his temper had cooled. He wasn’t going to order them back in just to execute them. He’s an out of control maniac. You can’t stay with him 24/7 at risk to your own life to stop him from going in another rangpagw.

This remained excellent, in my opinion, for about 30 episodes. Then it got a bit dark for a couple episodes, but instead of resolving things it went in several strange and incomprehensible directions that didn’t work for me. For example, the ML’s excellence that attracted the FL in the first place became a stumbling block between them in ways that didn’t quite make sense. In the end, she never once went to him. It was always him pursuing her, him apologizing to her, him wanting a life with her but her sending every signal that she didn’t want him to be a part of her life. It just made for a very unsettling ending with a fully one-sided commitment to the relationship.

At that pint she had a choice. She stepped in to keep him from executing some servants, but she could have done so and left. He never ordered her to stay, she did it willingly.

At that point she had a choice. He hadn’t ordered her to wait on him. She had to save the maids from his wrath, but she could have done it and left. Kept as much distance from him as she could.

I think some people don’t get the humor, so if you don’t find it funny I can see how it would be boring. For me it was great for about 30 episodes, it got a bit a dark for a couple episodes, which is to be expected, but then lost me altogether at the end. The woman spent way to much time with her work partner (why do we never see the man going for weeks having dinners and lunches with a female work partner and the woman uncomfortable with that) Then, in the end, he wanted to be with her and she didn’t feel the same way about him, which to me isn’t a satisfying ending.

Look, after the jealous emperor killed your cousin in front of you (or so you thought) because he thought you were lovers, and you pushed away the man you love to keep him from suffering the same fate, would you, a few scenes later, be taking care of the same dangerous, power mad, deranged emperor when he becomes sick? Not to mention, the entire audience could see it was going to endanger the ML? Look, I don’t agree with the post you responded to. It wasn’t a terrible show, but it had flaws. For me, those flaws simply a required a greater suspension of disbelief than I could muster.

I just thought she was flawed in an unrealistic way. The entire audience could see how her behavior was going to threaten her and everything she cared about, but she couldn’t? I don’t buy it. I simply couldn’t suspend my disbelief to that extent.

If the show had focused on them running towards their freedom, I would be right there with you, but that wasn’t the ending, and that’s the whole point. Instead, it turned that poetic engine into an aside by focusing the final shot on the emperor. Do we really care what happened to the emperor at that point? I didn’t.

Statistics say cheating doesn’t happen in most marriages, though not by a huge margin or anything. People always look at things negatively. They say stuff like half of all marriages end in divorce without realizing that it means half of all marriages never divorce.

Well technically, she didn’t fall for him. He fell for her or she would have kept her emotional distance and never considered dating him (I mean she was going on blind dates.)