Kathryn_51

Thank you Cau. 🥰🥰 I don't follow celebrities (especially those in Korea) so I didn't realize that he was famous idol (huge following on ig and in Japan apparently). In one interview, he said he tried to ad-lib a bit (like In-soo and LJW) but the director kept telling him NO, recite your lines with no emotion. They finally let up on him a bit (according to the interview) when he was allowed to be "confused" in the later episodes.

It was so unfair for viewers to criticize his "wooden" acting when he was doing exactly as directed.

He also said that they re-arranged filming schedule so that he could complete all of his scenes and be able to attend Montcler 75 (?) in Italy. He is apparently some sort of representative in Korea along with Lee Sung Kyung (S**ting Stars, Dr. Romantic 2). I have his next K-drama on my watchlist.

Thank you - anntifan is the best!

Thank you - that's my hope as well. I will be getting up very early tomorrow morning, clicking on Ep. 10 and FF to the very end before I start to watch from the beginning. That's just how I need to keep my stress level low.

I really do not understand writers/directors foreshadowing "deaths" in ep 9 - it is completely 180 degrees different from how they handled the end of Part 1.

In Part 1, there was ZERO indication of what would happen at the end of Ep. 20 – nothing in the previews, the released photos, interviews or press releases. The Shaman bells/powder never appeared in all of Part 1 until Ep. 20 so the viewer didn't even realize it was a possible tactic. I just now re-watched the end of Ep. 19 to confirm that there was nothing to predict the ending of Ep. 20.

So, perhaps I’m grasping at straws, but the following major clues have appeared in recent days:
(i) BLACK and white photos of beloved characters.
(ii) Still cuts of the eight main actors, all of them holding Ep. 10 scripts EXCEPT three of them.

Since when has AoS EVER provided such major clues/spoilers, including today's final scenes and preview for tomorrow. Do they think we will watch to see favorites die? Or, are they doing us a favor by telling us in advance?

When I watch, I will have a very, very heavy finger on the FF button because I hate violence, especially violence against beloved characters.

I agree - I'm finally enjoying Part 2 - partly because the story is now becoming what I always thought it would be.

Writers told us long ago there were 3 story arcs in AoS: (1) the narrative of Jang Uk and Mu-deok ("Naksu"); the conspiracies surrounding the ice stone and (iii) the story of Jin Bu-yeon. That's one reason I was shocked in ep 2 (Part 2) when Master Lee supposedly killed her.

She chose Jang Uk because he has the energy of the King's Star and therefor has the power to deal with the chaos brought about by the ice stone.

Thanks for responding - that's what I also thought but lots of conflicting info in Ep. 9.

Definitely Jin Bu-yeon's mother. And one of the biggest problems with the idea that it has been JSR all along (whether since birth as Master Lee suggests or 10 years ago) is that continuing to show her as a 10 year old child is distracting. It would all make more sense - including the eventual death of Jin Bu-yeon which I always believed to be End Game for her - if they had brought JSM back for these episodes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for clarification 😘- much of you wrote was fact, so I was confused. The "blood seal" makes a lot of sense.

Did I miss something? JSR sealed Jinyoon with her blood? or, is that your theory?

This is close to what I have said for months: Jin Bu-yeon's mission is to work with the holder of the King Star energy to "deal with the chaos of the ice stone". Maybe it's JSR and not JBY, but same idea.

Naksu, child JBY and adult JBY (maybe JSR - I remember at the time that adult Mu-deok didn't sound like the Mu-deok who lived in Sari with So-i, she sounded like a priestess). talked while inside the ice stone.

Lots of plot holes if this is true - for one, JBY called out to her mother before they entered the ice stone.

There's something I still don't understand. Naksu realizes she is occupying Jin Bu-yeon's body and sharing it with Jin Bu-yeon's (or possiblye JSR) "soul", correct?

Does Jang Uk know this? Does he know there is a 2nd soul there? Or, at least another entity that will take over at some point? Cuz I don't see him making love to her if he knows there's another entity sharing that body.

More Master Lee mumbo-jumbo I guess.

Well, now we know why they created this useless creature - Jin Mu's surprise return.

Twitter automatic response: "you need to re-watch because you obviously are too stupid to understand what happened". Am I right?

yes, I hate it but ever since announcement of Moon Sook (https://kisskh.at/people/9832-moon-sook) seen at the studio in November (over a month after filming was supposedly complete), I have assumed that Jin Seol-ran would make an appearance.

But she still needs to do something about that ice stone sitting in Jang Uk.

Any show where Park Jin and Maidservant Kim die is not a happy ending.

She got her powers back w/in the ice barrier (ep. 17?) - the real Naksu, not the "wild" one - and it was in the preview from earlier episode. So, I think we get divine power Jin Bu-yeon tomorrow.

Well, at least they get married this time. In the daisy field, I suppose.

TvN's preview for tomorrow. I've Anglicized/re-worded it a little to conform with the terms we use here on MDL so my re-wording might not be 100% correct. I'm not going to tag spoiler since it's published for all to see but if you hate anything that discusses Ep. 10, don't read further.

I think that first sentence will be a prelude to the end of Ep. 9 (in other words, once again, we will go backwards in time to get to end of ep. 9. 😀) Be happy.

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Ep. 10 preview from tvN:

Jang Uk and Jin Bu-yeon have a wedding ceremony and become a real couple. Meanwhile, Jin Mu, who is reunited [?] in Seo Yoon-o’s body, takes the fire bird ouf of Jinyowon and prepares to wake it up. Just as Seo Gyeong and Jin Seol-ran prevented the tribulation a long time ago, Jang Uk and Jin Bu-yeon must protect Daeho.

Here's the tvN link if you want to see original. http://program.tving.com/tvn/alchemyofsouls/19/Board/List

Jin Bu-yeon (original JBY) surviving works for me - but I would be surprised if it happens because once her mission is complete (saving Daeho), she needs to reunite with Seo Gyeong.

I always thought the Unanimous Assembly meant - the votes had to be Unanimous??? And Jinyowon had the plaque to veto any decision? Did I miss something. . . . or another stupit plot hole?

jin Bu-yeon wearing the blindfold in the preview - is it fake or. . . ???