KioroDjirane

Good but not that great. I think it would have been better if I would have waited all the episode to be aired first. Well anyway, the last episode did bring some decent closure and was very sweet at least.

7.5/10

She gave him an umbrella when he was "dumped" on a blind date.

Let me start with this: It's a good historical drama with a lot of political strife & conspiracy. Lot of back & forth between 3 "factions". Nothing is black or white (well, the grandpa is dark DARK grey). If you like that, you will be served for 20 episodes.

But unfortunately for me, I wasn't expecting that. First of all, I trusted the "Comedy" tag. I didn't expect a "Mr. Queen" but yeah, I wasn't prepared for a freaking tragedy. The "Comedy" only appear in the first few episode and the last one. That it. After that, it's just sadness & struggle.

Secondly, the romance. I'm not denying it, it was here. As a background for the plot & the political struggle. We have very few "romantic" moment so if you wanted a full on romance you will be disappointed. Like in action movies where they squeeze a romance either for the plot or just because. You will not call it a romance movie either, right ? And they still made a completely unnecessary love triangle out of it.

So, as I viewed this drama, I wasn't in the right mind set to fully enjoyed it as a person who wanted to laugh a bit & have some sweet romance in between. But like I said, I viewed all 20 episodes and I wouldn't say it's bad. It was pretty good. It's just that my expectation where completely wrong.

It's also why I didn't rate this as it will be unfair in my mind.

I'm kind of agree with you.

Even if I could understand FL for basically falling under depression because her strong values were shattered by the situation -it could make sense- it wasn't what I wanted to see from such character.

For the ML, it's more complicated. When he was outside of his role as Crown Prince he did behave like this. He was joyful and childish. But yeah, it doesn't make sense that he could just drop the job and everyone was fine with that just because he wanted the girl.

But that it's because writer couldn't make her the queen. I don't know the specific her but it's a pattern I saw in almost every historical: The FL never become the queen. I did heard it was because they would have backslash. Their are very conservatism when it come to their history and even in fiction, they cannot make everything they want. But like I said, I don't know the detail here.

BUT they need the ML & FL to have their happy ending, to also avoid this backslash (Sad/Open ending aren't as popular). It's why most of them have those sort of endings that doesn't really make sense when ML is royalty.

It's literally what I said: "Even if here it does make sense outside of their wealth (Mut living as a Diving monitor in a tropical island)..." :P

Well, the misunderstanding was cleared faster than I though and suddenly now it isn't this huge problem that even lead to the break up in the first place for Jaemin. Well, I don't care because, I feel the problem was dumb to begin with so yeah, let's move on! :D

I hope more fluff now but we saw in the trailer another dude... He will create problem, right ? This will not lead to a fluffy trouple with everyone being happy, right ? Yeah, fasten your seatbelt, we are for another bumpy ride ! :D

Well, the first two episodes were better than I expected. While reading the comment I was afraid that it was a bit... "trashy" ? No judgment here but a lot of comments were more about the NC scenes than the plot. :P

I kind of understand why now: They showed a lot more than usual. I'm kind of immune from that because western media are way more wilder but yeah, coming from Asia seeing butt, talking about "cleaning", fellatio and heavy french kiss is quite uncommon. Even if some Japan movies are really mess up in that regard (Looking at you "Dangerous Drugs of Sex" >_<).

Anyway, the plot itself isn't quite fully developed yet but so far it's quite interesting but more than anything I liked the acting from the main leads. Also, it seems that they invested quite a lot here as the production is really neet.

If I would want to nitpick, I'm a bit annoyed with: Darker skin color -> Poor, Lighter skin color -> Rich. Even if here it does make sense outside of their wealth (Mut living as a Diving monitor in a tropical island) this pattern is a bit too much represented in Thai Drama. But again, I'm just nitpicking here.

It really depend on you. The overall quality isn't that good. The acting, writing & editing are on the cheap side BUT it's still interesting & somewhat funny. You really need to turn your brain off and enjoy it for what it is: A light comedy BL that don't take anything seriously.

So... He is coming from a "poor" family and get dumped because of it. It obviously hurt his pride. Now, he is successful and don't want to cross the line with "poor" peoples. After ML kissed FL, he chase after her because again, someone attacked his pride. I don't think he likes her... Well, before the event in his studio at least but that could be different now.

BUT... What with the BL novel thing ? I don't want to be close minded but... It's really odd for a straight man to do such thing + All the studio scene was here to make the thing very confusing:

-The brother saying that he learn every way to make women love him. It can interpreted both way: He want to be seen as a womanizer to take revenge on her ex OR hide that he is attracted to men.

-Him saying that this circle cannot accept people like him: Again is he speaking of his family background that could blow up if he don't follow his family blackmail OR him making such novel OR his sexuality ?

-The scene before the studio where the ML trap him against a wall and say "Do you like me?". He was flustered. I do think that it could be a reaction of a straight man or a closeted gay man so it doesn't prove anything BUT with the studio scene, we could argue that this bathroom scene wasn't just for "fan service" like I assumed at first.

I probably overthink the whole thing because it isn't really important and will probably be clarified in the next episode BUT it's still on my mind. :P

Still really good. SML really did dirty but at least we will not get SML syndrome. I'm also a bit confused about his character... Spoiler below.

Wait... what ? I have nothing against age gap but... :P

Not truly explained yet but: In the police station, they said they could identify her with her fingerprint. After that, we saw the cat near a missing flyer stating that Lim Sun was a missing person. Probably the missing owner of the cat ? His ears drop for a moment when he watched the flyer. So, maybe he gave the appearance of his owner to Mi Jin. So even if it wasn't shown maybe she go back to a police station to have her ID ?

Most likely with Sam, Sun's brother. Well, they already had their "BL moment" with the elevator scene at least. :P

Yes, it was probably a Naga. Garuda is more akin to bird. I think he mix up because of "The Sign" that feature both of them.

I wouldn't leave in that outfits no matter what. Changing your pant and drop this headband would take literally 30s. But even then, walking in and seeing an obvious diner table with romantic vibe would be the breaking point. Too much forced here and really out of character just to create drama. I think it would have been better if it was more subtle here.

A bit messy this week but for me the more annoying thing was Dee in the Tiger outfits.

First of all, Dr Ter that ask him to come in his apartment for working the presentation. I don't know everyone else but I would assume that the person is "busy" and back off immediately from embarrassment.

Second, why didn't Dee change outfits before leaving ? Oo And then, he is having diner with his "coworker" with an OBVIOUS romantic setting (candle, western food). I didn't understand why he was fine with it, it was really out of character this time.

The drama was to much forced here and made all the scenes really awkward.

I was more surprised that he didn't change his outfit. Like it's obviously kinky but everyone seem to be fine with it ? Except the dude that literally scream "WTF ?" with his side eyes when he was chasing Yak in the hallway. x)

You will be surprised! Most of the time, fictions named as such are Open or Sad Endings. And here his meaning is that the protagonist want his favorite novel to have such ending... while the genre is Horror (on the psychological side). I wouldn't hold my breath. :P

I watched when it was airing. It was just really poorly marketed. The releases were a bit random without clear schedule & Part 1 wasn't a thing even after the full release of the 4 episodes. A simple "teaser" at the end of episode 4 would have made wonder. So yeah, a lot of the backslash come from there.

Tbh, I don't know why they made two separate part for such a small project especially without being clear about it. It was really amateurish and I'm saying that as a fan of this studio. A mistake was clearly made here and it sadden me. :/

Like others, the plot seem really good & unique with the mix between reality & fiction. It was also very catchy especially those scenes with Damon dancing with his daggers. I'm a bit dumbfounded to say the least.

So yeah, it seem really promising but also very ambitious for a first time as a producer. He is truly talented so I hope it will work out but I'm a bit afraid ? Anyway, best of luck!