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HAHAHAH imagine saying this about gong yoo, I'd be so embarrassed

ok but that poster.

the ML actually worked out and gained muscle for this role, so you don't know what you're talking about. Some guys have slim builds naturally and you can see he is one of them, it may not be easy or healthy for him to kill himself to put on a ton of muscle. All my brothers have bodies like him and eat a ton of food and are active and athletic, they just genetically are tall and lean. Body shaming isn't okay just because you don't like naturally thinner men.

I always thought it was because it appeared her dead BF had been cheating on her, and if he was just gonna be a positive friend in her life for a few months there's no reason to drag that up, which I think is actually quite justified. As time went on it was cause he had gotten in too deep in addition to him not knowing exactly how it all went down from his lost memories, which was a reason but also an excuse for him to keep putting it off since he was afraid how she was gonna react.

I can't remember the last time I was this engaged in a historical asian drama this much from beginning to end, esp with a longer episode count. The only time I got bored was at the very last couple eps, the final climax between all the factions was super underwhelming and rushed, I feel they didn't wrap up well IMO but since I binged it, it didn't take too much away since we did get a conclusion to all the storylines.

On the technical side, the editing in this drama was really well done, something that is often overlooked that can make or break a drama. I loved how often they would linger on small, intimate details like a cup steaming on the table, a broken arrow on the ground, the movement of hands, etc, to deepen the immersion in a scene. And they always gave plenty of room for reaction shots and shots with no dialogue to give the conflict time to breathe and make us really live with the characters. I also really loved the amount of really tight close ups on the actor's faces. That shows a director trusts them to deliver.

I binged it in 3 days and I'm exhausted haha

I think this show had all the pieces in place, the backstory was there, and I was really intrigued by all the different factions and what really happened those 17 years ago, but the execution to bring everything together fell really short and felt rushed for the last 3rd and especially the last 3-4 episodes. Shame.

I was so disappointed in Xie Zheng's final duel with his uncle, like they couldn't have picked some interesting setting like having them fight in the throne room or on the roof or like SOMETHING rather than just an open courtyard?

I'm a fan of intricate political plots so I didn't mind it as much as some people seemed to have, I liked seeing all the peices move together, though I do agree it was rushed and sloppy at the very end, the last episode or two . One thing I like about K dramas is how they will show like 2-4 episodes at the beginning from when the leads are kids to give you a better understanding of them and to introduce all of the backstory, and I think this drama could really have benefited from that, because dumping all of the events from 17 years ago at the end was pretty inelegant.

And I def would have liked to see her rise to being a general feel more organic and more of her own choice, rather than something she kept being forced into, and also the result of more than like 2 battles tops. Like it would have been better IMO if she had actually joined the military in disguise to find her husband and trained and fought and worked her way up the chain. I did really love the scene where she took down that big dude swinging the two maces, one of the best fight scenes of the show.

I don't see why you think body shaming is okay when it's about men. Men are allowed to not be super muscular and still be strong and athletic. I have brothers in their early 20s who are all athletes and they just have fast metabolisms and tall /thin genes and look just like the ML does , even though they are very active and strong and eat soooo much food. Would you rather the ML take steroids and obsessively work out so he can have the aesthetic you deem "masculine" enough?

That's not what they were saying though, don't straw man this. They specifically called out masculinity being undermined by wearing make up, they said nothing about how the female generals were depicted in media (and this drama and many c dramas have female soldiers) . They could have just mentioned it not properly conveying the strength and grit of soldiers, but they didn't. If they're going to use gendered terms, you can't hand wave away it being tied to gender and smacking of sexism.

His physical acting was great, he was very convincing as a martial artist. Some people are naturally slimmer, your body shaming is gross.

Right? I wanted soooo bad for Chan to tell HER off and be like "Hey, I get that I kept this from you but you're thinking the absolute worst of me and not even giving me a chance and that's messed up and unfair." But she will never hear those words or have any sort of understanding of them

Haran is gonna feel really dumb when she realizes her BF was a cheating POS and she treated the actual guy who has been on her side from the start like absolute shit. I have no sympathy for her at all. She had a chance to hear the truth from Chan but decided to stick her head in the sand and yet again not deal with her life. She's becoming tedious to watch.

I really disliked Haran this ep. She digs her own graves of unhappiness. Her thinking the absolute worst possible of Chan without even giving him 10 minutes of time to explain himself after everything they had been through together was way worse than Chan not being honest with her earlier. I couldn't feel bad for her at all. If she still needed time to process and was still upset after him explaining the whole story that's totally understandable, but to be so incapable of facing reality as to deny him even an explanation just has me done with her.

I hate when dramas do this same old boring plotline of couple falling in genuine love, some dumb secret or misunderstanding that they don't just openly talk about for no real reason causes them to break up, time passes, they get together in the last 10 minutes and that's supposed to make us feel happy and romantic? It just kinda taints the whole story before it. What happens the next time there is a misunderstanding between them? I don't think Haran is ready to be with someone if she can't handle that relationships and people are complicated and it just makes me feel kinda meh about them as a pairing.

The footage of his memory once he started getting enraged and being a douche felt super weird and inauthentic, it's pretty obvious she made it up to cover up for what really happened, probably because it was her fault actually. Which is honestly pure evil. Like that doctor girls is the worst person on this show.

I feel like K drama writers only know how to write two types of FLs these days, the mousy, naive, selfless pushover who strings the SML along or the unmitigated self-centered bitch who strings the ML along.

What C dramas would you recommend? It's hard to know where to start

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This plot is insane. If they can pull it off it'll be really fun and interesting. I was like man they gotta pick the right actress to be this badass dude, and then I saw it is Seol In Ah and I am satisfied. Perfect casting.