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Several of the actresses in ep. 1 such as basically all visitors in the gallery, FL's mother and FL's almost-mother-in-law. It was fairly distracting when half the face isn't moving at all.

By the way, my first comment was written after I completed ep. 2. I've just completed ep. 6. It's fairly funny that the botox people seem to be on the evil side while the more natural looking people are on the good side.

Wasn't there a function to block people on this website? If you feel I'm trolling, please block me. Unfortunately, I cannot find that function.

I think I'm remembering a past encounter with you where you told me that you are watching like 10+ dramas per day, which I doubted by doing the maths. I didn't mention it back then but I am not interested in the opinions of people whose days are longer than 24h.

After so much botox, fillersand mediocre plastic surgery in ep. 1, I'm surprised that I'm enjoying this drama more than expected. In ep. 2, I started to like FL. Not sure about the other characters yet.

The first 9 to 10 episodes were fun and entertaining but after the secrets were revealed, there wasn't much story left. The remaining episodes were extremely dragging. I stayed for the second lead couples but the writers rushed through their stories to focus on rather boring scenes with the main couple.

Let's say, he'll learn his lesson. :)

If you prefer lots of romance scenes, you'll probably get disappointed. Skipping everthing but the romance will make you skip like 80 % of the drama. This drama explores the historical events and the suffering of the common people, especially the fate of Korean women in this war.

I don't think she WANTED to protect Gil-chae but she knew that she would lose Jang-hyun if she killed Gil-chae. Sending Gil-chae back to her husband was the only way to keep Jang-hyun. In this respect, she's probably similar to Ryang-eum.

I interpreted her statemente regarding the safety of the slaves/captives like you but also as a last attempt to show that she's still in power and able to protect what Jang-hyun values. If you watch the next episodes, you'll know what I mean. :)

Just two episodes left. I'm so afraid to watch the ending of this drama. ^^

Yes, I agree with your reply. But not because he didn't WANT to express his feelings. In later episodes, you'll see multiple times that he desperately does want to express his love. What he did, was done out of jealousy, not because of surpressed feelings. That's a big difference.

@Whitelies, JH thought that GC would return to her husband. He didn't want to destroy her marriage. And since he has nowhere to go, he decided to sacrifice himself to help the captives go back to Joseon. His sacrifice would be to stay with the princess.

The first 3-4 episodes are fairly silly. I did not enjoy them much but I think this drama needs them because they form a contrast between the "simple life" and what is coming next. This drama is based on historical facts. The war plays a big role in the story. Keep watching! The following episodes might not be as predictable as the first ones. It's definitely not some light-hearted romcom.

This drama is based on historical facts, not Netflix "history". Gay people were not allowed to exist back then. They had to hide. Ryang-eum and Jang-hyun were together for a long time, and Ryang-eum was happy to be the only one in his life. In his eyes, they were basically like a couple even though there was no romance between them. Then Gil-chae popped up, and Ryang-eum lost his place as the most important person in Jang-hyun's life.

He is as selfish as Jang-hyun and Gil-chae but unlike them, he is not able/allowed to openly express his feelings.

Personally, I found it interesting that the princess became obsessed with him. He is not just good looking but represents everything she is not and cannot get anywhere else. Despite his "humble" language, he treats her as an equal and is not afraid of her. He is also willing to give everything up for his love/woman whilst she was used by her husband and thrown away. In a later episode (15 or 16?), it is mentioned that she probably will get married off (once again), so she is not as powerful as she pretends to be. She knows that, and she also knows that Jang-hyun knows that, yet he does not treat her in a different way despite knowing that she lost her power. In my opinion, that's great material for an interesting story.

However, instead of exploring her desperation and her role after her father, who had protected her, died, the writers decided to reduce her to her horniess.

Gu-jam and Jong-jong are my favourite couple in this drama. They are so sweet together. And I loved that he went looking for her, and when he finally found her, he did not love her less just because she became a slave to a barbarian. They are what Gil-chae and Jang-hyun should be. :)

You're not the only one feeling this way. Part 2 is getting draggy, which is the reason why I was not that excited when I read that the producers wanted to extend this drama after they basically dropped the stories of certain characters in part 1 to make half-hearted room for new characters such as the princess, which seems to have got dropped too for the sake of some other draggy scenes.

Anyways, if you want to see Gil-chae and Jang-hyun happy together, keep watching. There will be a few sweet and happy scenes in the next episodes. :)

You seem to know her very well. Are you her best friend or a creepy stalker?

No worries, I have not forgotten that. However, the gay guy in Love in Contract wasn't even the main but the main's best friend. It is not uncommon in K-dramas to also explore the lives of the main's best friends. LiC did a good job in not making it US-American woke propaganda but portraying him as a normal, relatively boring, sweet guy who didn't steal the main leads's show with any pushy behaviour. Him being gay also wasn't the focus of the drama. There was just another guy in the background who seemed to be his boyfriend, and his family suddenly started to hate him because he was gay, and suddenly they pretended to like him again when they figured out that he would become a successful singer. I think many people can relate to the latter even if they cannot relate to gay people.

BL does not mean that something needs to be gay-gay in the sense of Western self-centrism and dogmatism. I'm not fond of that either.

However, many women enjoy gay romance, especially if it's ambiguous. It's sexy, intriguing and entertaining. At some point, people don't want to watch Hallmark movies anymore if everything is like a Hallmark movie. New ideas need to get explored. That does not always equal propaganda and activism. Most normal people have a common ground and are relatively open-minded when it comes to new ideas whilst the dogmatists on both sides try to gatekeep and to silence the masses.

Personally, I don't enjoy the gay gayness, thus I don't watch BL. However, I do like a bit of BL as long as the gay characters are normal. I also loooooove bromance. If I wanted more, I would read yaoi like I did in the past but I read so much of it, that I lost my interest in it.

Yeah, the last two episodes felt like filler episodes when it came to Lee Jang-hyun's and Gil-chea's story apart from the ending of the previous episode. The princess was seen for a couple of seconds only. No progress anymore. I cannot see that she'll be involved in the plot of the remaiing two episodes, at least not in a meaningful way and not just for another iteration of why ML and FL need to be separated. I'm glad that there are only 2 episodes left.

I'm afraid you'll have to wait a couple of years. There was a little attempt in Love in Contract but then the writers forgot about the gay guy and gave him a rather sloppy "Happy ending", which was rather ridiculous. However, he was a really sweet guy. Well, Love in Contract wasn't particularily good with the heterosexual characters either.

The Devil Judge had also very obvious BL characters in the beginning but the gayness was removed in later episodes. Once it gets interesting, Korea gets afraid. :(

This drama is based on historical facts. According to Wikipedia, Crown Prince Sohyeon was the first son of King Injo. It would not have made any sense if the Crown Prince were some adopted child because Injo had other male children such as his second son who, instead of Sohyeon's son, became Crown Prince after Sohyeon's death.

Regarding the queen, I don't think that she appeared in this drama. She's irrelevant to the story. From what I read, she died in 1636 whilst Sohyeon died in 1645. King Injo got a new queen in 1638. The actual "queen" seems to have been concubine Cho/Jo, though.

Just a little info: That wasn't the queen but the concubine. The crown prince isn't her son.

If they still have good ideas, another episode would be nice. However, as an avid watcher of K-dramas, I fear that the last episodes would just become (more) draggy as it is the case with almost all K-dramas I watched.