KimcheeLover

The costumes look beautiful.

Do you know what exactly felt bad? I read somerhing about disredpect for the king and them not having been in love in real life? But them being historical figures and it not being a documentary, why is this disrespectful?

Just curious. I love my fairytale movies, but I also like to know their cultural context.

My thoughts exactly about the actress and her roles!!

Oh, therw is a second adaptation too. I watched the black and white one 😅 i guess i'll now have to give this one a try too and compare. But I read the Thai did not like it to the point they even forbid screening in Thailand 🙈

That sounds fabulous! Thank you for the recommendation!

Haha, now I want to give it a try for a few minutes too just to see what my brain does with it 😆

Exactly!

The funny thing is: one of the main reasons I was so excited about this show was precisely because of this mixup that I have never seen executed like this before.

So I guess I was more surprised, or annoyed actually, at this curveball that my european socialisation threw at me because it keeps pulling me out of the experience. But that's not the show's fault.

I just suddenly find myself wishing I could turn off my cultural background, hahaha

I see, so it was the combination of everything. Thank you for helping me and explaining!

Ah, so it was that painting again. Thank you for explaing!

As a European, at first, I got this uncanny out of place feeling from this show. Versailles and yurts, mixed up fashion, and simply hearing Korean spoken in a place my brain expexts French, German, or English... But then I thought again and figured I should feel honoured instead.

This is fantasy. And European empires, their architecture, fashion, etc. simply served as inspiration. The same way as many Asian/eastern settings, stories, and culture have served as inspiration for western fantasy stories or adaptions. For example, Star Wars, Avatar (both, the Last Airbender and Pandora), the Wheel of Time, Mulan, or Aladdin, just to name a few.

I guess now I finally got to experience first hand how Asians/eastern citizens feel about our asian/eastern inspired fantasy stories and films that mash things up.

Whether this mashup is perceived as positive or negativ probably depends on the person and specific story. I mean, we have Bridgerton too and I find it ingenious... XD

So for the rest of this show, I'm determined to shut off this uncanny feeling and stimply treat it as a fictional story! Please let me succeed! XD

Can someone help me?

Maybe I missed something, but in ep 42, did Linqi realise Lanxiang's true identity? If yes, how exactly? The painting?
If not, did he ever figure it out or simply accept that it didn't matter because Lanxiang was now Lanxiang...?

I love this series--can't wait for next week 😆

But let me get this straight: So our ML had a car accident where he was somersaulted 2m into the air, after which his heart temporarily stopped and he had to be reanimated. Ah, and he also has a history of heart transplant surgery. Yet, somehow he managed to get up shortly after, don his regular clothes and walk around to meet Yeori outside the hospital?!? I'm glad they at least had him go back afterwards and stay another night!
But seriously, plot armor was no joke there...! 🤣

As far as I know, we don't fully know that yet. From the hints dropped, I suspect she earns good money though. She seems to own the building of her MIL's restaurant and the daycare moms were pitying her for being poor. Clearly, it's going to be revealed later on that she is not poor at all.

All that equipment the team uses isn't cheap either.

So, someone is funding them. We just don't know yet, who.

I don't see them taking on jobs like paid assassins do though. Their targets are the villains and their victims don't seem like they have the means to hire them.

My current guess is that their company's boss somehow decided to dedicate his company's profits into this endeavour. Maybe him and the Bong Team leader go way back and this team started from something the two of them experienced. Maybe they have been going after a big big boss all this time or something...

Well, those are just my speculations. Well just have to wait and see 😁

The way I see it, it's not that she's waiting for something. Rather he's slowly healing her wounded heart.

If I remember correctly, her exhusband basically forced her family to marry her to him only to later execute them all for his power game. All while calling his emotions and actions towards her "love".

I in her position would also take a while to believe it again when someone says they love me. And to open my heart and allow myself to love and trust someone in return. Plus, there's also his looming death that guarantees heartbreak, if she lets herself fall for him.

Right now she's in the stage that she cautiously believes his actions and love to be genuine. She herself is falling for him too and she likely even knows that. But she's still too scared to let all walls down.

I think this part is actually very well paced and realistic. Trauma takes time and patience to heal. Especially for people like her who overthink everything.

That said, I also want them to finally kiss already! lool

My blood pressure at the end of ep 28: 📈

This drama has made one thing very clear to me: the reason I watch my dramas is neither intricate costumes, fancy CGI, splendid sets, nor breathtaking sceneries. I love those too, dont get me wrong, but they're more like the cherry on top.

It's also not the plot. After having read and watched hundreds of stories, there rarely is someting mindblowingly new. Though of course, a well-written script definitely enables this: the character portrayal.

The one thing that makes me sit through a drama rather than just skip to the resolution (i need to know how things end) is the way actors bring a character to life, their facial expressions, body language and interaction with others.

And it will be a long way, if ever, until AI will be able to achieve this with the authenticity, subtlety, and creativity that an excellent human actor can.

so true! I ADORE their dynamic!! I laughed tears today!!!

The rest I skip. So the two episodes become just one every day lol

Liao Shiyu got jealous (again) after seeing Qian Fei at the hospital with Wang Ruohai. So she went bawling to her dad again, who directly went to Qian Fei's boss''s boss asking for Qian Fei to be removed from the project.🙄 Qian Fei's boss apparently had been told by her boss to remove Qian Fei before the meeting and she wanted to try talking to Liao Shiyu again and try to convince her otherwise. But with Liao Shiyu openly stating her removal during the meeting, Qian Fei's boss could not not stand up for Qian Fei anymore. Whether this now means Qian Fei is also losing her job or whether she just gets reassigned to another project, I also don't know. In either case, Liao Shiyu is a whiny brat. And that Fulashida boss better run faaaaar away from the Liao family. They're best avoided like the pest they are.

Totally! The only reason they can play it off (barely) is because he has a handsome face. Like, imagine a jobless guy with a less favourable face and figure whose sole interest is gaming (non-professionally) and starts grabbing a unfamiliar girl's wrists (take at least the hands, fhs!) because she is his "idol"? Gives me the creeps! (With either face, just to be clear about that )

(If I got something wrong due to my skipping his scenes, please correct me.)

Stalking as a comedy act? What a lovely idea! 😑
Honestly i hit the skip button the moment he appears on my screen now, so I don't even know 😅

I love the characterisation of the ML in this! Chatty, energetic, and a bit quirky but still somwhat in the domineering-CEO or MLs-to-look-up-to cateogry.
More of this, please, dramaland!