OMG, reading from a comment that "Adachi is trash" because he "gives K hope & then avoids him"... ppl, his character…
Adachi is working so hard to reach out to Kurosawa and not play with his feeling what is that person on tw saying? :( there was literally an episode where he berated himself for thinking he could just ignore Kurosawa's feelings, saying Kurosawa deserves better than that so he shouldn't run away and think properly about how he feels/what he wants from Kurosawa. Sweet son shouldn't be criticized
Thank you for the answers. I wonder why they don't use honorifics towards each other despite not being that close.…
Regarding honorifics, Adachi and Kurosawa entered the company at the same time and have been working together for a while, so last names without honorifics is ok since they're on the same level. Going a bit further, seniors can also call their juniors their last name without honorifics, like Urabe who is Adachi's senior, or -kun which is what Fujisaki used when talking to Adachi and Kurosawa. The juniors use -san for Kurosawa and Adachi, like Rokkaku who is newer and respects them both.
I don't see this on viki so I'm putting in a request (as everyone else should too!) Thank you though to those who are currently subbing this for everyone!
Creepy and confused tf out of me - you never knew who was telling the truth! But in the end idk how I feel about it... the ending just left me ??? The Guest was better tbh.
Super cute special! Like not some wild or deep plot... (it's a special not a season anyways) just showing how everyone's doing 1 year later - which as was shown, they're all stronger than ever. Fluff, communication, and love all around~ It makes me happy to see, because while I love 2gether I felt like I barely got to enjoy them together as a COUPLE because of the drama going on at the end. Still2gether let us drink in all the good couple moments while giving them their own challenges without adding unnecessary drama.
The son was already a traitor, and he wouldn't have stopped after this 1 attempt. I can't defend killing him completely,…
He isn't married and doesn't have heirs, this was also discussed multiple times, and it's one of the reasons why Lady Noh and the prince kept saying he needed to get married. The prince had position and heirs, where even the people beneath him suggested he could just take over if he wanted. He'd never think of betraying Lee Gon, but still they discussed how they thought keeping his kids away was a necessary things to do for the country. Whether or not they were right in this I can't say, but it seemed like the worry lay with the ratio of his family line to Gon's line (which was just him), and that the court was uncomfortable at the idea of the prince's family all being together in the same country as the king after the treason.
As for the other things, I don't really have an answer for you - you're right in saying that a lot of what we're both saying is how we interpreted it. Oh well, in the end time travel plots in general usually end up in a messy mix of making sense and paradoxes anyways.
The son was already a traitor, and he wouldn't have stopped after this 1 attempt. I can't defend killing him completely,…
True enough, but seeing his character in the past and present it seemed more malevolent than a manipulated kid. That being said, you're right that there are a lot of factors we don't know about. In the end, regardless of whether it was a good or bad choice, it's not a surprising choice by Lee Gon, who already made it clear he doesn't spare mercy for traitors.
Iirc they did explain that it was to stabilize the royal court in the wake of the king's murder, and put everyone at ease considering Lee Gon's vulnerable position. Many people thought the Prince would make a bid for the throne, and it was strengthened by the fact he had children while Gon doesn't yet (and at the start was just a small child himself).
The flute is made of bamboo which is a bit more moisture resistant than hardwood. I'm not debating how wood works but more just like... if i splashed water on my bamboo flute I can wipe it off without it soaking it up right away. It'd be different if I cut it in half and drenched its insides. In the end though, I think the real dividing factor was the fact that the flute was cut in half specifically by the Four Tiger Sword. They emphasized the difference this time in the shard cutting him. But you're right that my posit that the flute was affected like that because it was split in half is just me assuming things, but it is something I'm assuming based on the kid also mentioning that the flute was powerless when split in half, as well as later mentions of what it could do when whole. But you're right that the show didn't tell us explicitly that it was, let's say, only affected by the blood BECAUSE it was cut in half, so there's not hard proof one way or the other.
The flute became whole, but Lee Lim's half didn't disappear right away while in the place between worlds. Also there is an established lag time in the place between worlds that's already been noted - time doesn't flow properly there, and changes to the past slowly filter into the present they don't all blip out at once (shown by the slow disintegration of the flute, flowers, hairtie, etc). To me it makes sense that it wouldn't be an instant jumpstart in the place. Lee Lim himself didn't disappear right away after Lee Gon killed his past self.
I guess that's opinion, and that's ok! I'm not saying the show was perfect, and I'm not really trying to argue with you, I just thought I'd try to explain things as I understood them, if they'd help.
There are two plot points in EP 16 that I dislike the most.The first one is the needless death of Prince Buyeong's…
The son was already a traitor, and he wouldn't have stopped after this 1 attempt. I can't defend killing him completely, but really I didn't care all too much either. Traitors must die, and he ended up being a traitor so they killed him, but in a way that actually looked like he was the victim of Lee Lim, so the Prince wouldn't curse his memory for the part he played. How were they supposed to keep him alive? Even if they spared him in the past, in the future there'd still be that knowledge he participated in the treason which is not permissible, but if it's exposed in the present then it'd go public and cause a lot of emotional pain to the Prince as well. It's not a perfect solution but not an entirely bad one either.
The future didn't change in that respect, because even in the original timeline the Prince's family was sent abroad because of the vulnerable position Lee Gon was in as a young ruler. His dad, the king, still died in this new future so this action still would have been necessary. The Prince didn't adopt Shin Jae in this new future either, but instead was the person who saved him and gave him a chance at a good life (even more symbolic through him giving him his shoe like Tae Eul did in Korea). We didn't see any other evidence that Shin Jae is close to the royal family in any way in this new future (which is honestly too bad lol I would've liked childhood friends Lee Gon, Jo Yeong, and our Shin Jae.
I would assume it's because the flute was split and it then it, at half strength and split open, soaked up the blood spilled by the sword, not that a drop of someone's blood would affect the flute if it's whole (and in this new instance Lee Lim's blood wasn't spilled by the sword but by a shard of glass). The flute at full power wouldn't be affected by a bloody handprint on its surface (and it's not like Lee Gon would let it just stay that way), so personally I don't think it's a crippling plot hole situation.
Tae Eul's gun began to work in the place between worlds because the flute became whole again. Time didn't flow, air didn't move, etc, because the flute was split, but her gun began to work as the halves disappeared and the new future locked in where the flute was always whole. All times afterwards when we see the place between worlds there's wind and waves etc now because of this.
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Going a bit further, seniors can also call their juniors their last name without honorifics, like Urabe who is Adachi's senior, or -kun which is what Fujisaki used when talking to Adachi and Kurosawa. The juniors use -san for Kurosawa and Adachi, like Rokkaku who is newer and respects them both.
As for the other things, I don't really have an answer for you - you're right in saying that a lot of what we're both saying is how we interpreted it. Oh well, in the end time travel plots in general usually end up in a messy mix of making sense and paradoxes anyways.
Iirc they did explain that it was to stabilize the royal court in the wake of the king's murder, and put everyone at ease considering Lee Gon's vulnerable position. Many people thought the Prince would make a bid for the throne, and it was strengthened by the fact he had children while Gon doesn't yet (and at the start was just a small child himself).
The flute is made of bamboo which is a bit more moisture resistant than hardwood. I'm not debating how wood works but more just like... if i splashed water on my bamboo flute I can wipe it off without it soaking it up right away. It'd be different if I cut it in half and drenched its insides. In the end though, I think the real dividing factor was the fact that the flute was cut in half specifically by the Four Tiger Sword. They emphasized the difference this time in the shard cutting him. But you're right that my posit that the flute was affected like that because it was split in half is just me assuming things, but it is something I'm assuming based on the kid also mentioning that the flute was powerless when split in half, as well as later mentions of what it could do when whole. But you're right that the show didn't tell us explicitly that it was, let's say, only affected by the blood BECAUSE it was cut in half, so there's not hard proof one way or the other.
The flute became whole, but Lee Lim's half didn't disappear right away while in the place between worlds. Also there is an established lag time in the place between worlds that's already been noted - time doesn't flow properly there, and changes to the past slowly filter into the present they don't all blip out at once (shown by the slow disintegration of the flute, flowers, hairtie, etc). To me it makes sense that it wouldn't be an instant jumpstart in the place. Lee Lim himself didn't disappear right away after Lee Gon killed his past self.
I guess that's opinion, and that's ok! I'm not saying the show was perfect, and I'm not really trying to argue with you, I just thought I'd try to explain things as I understood them, if they'd help.
The future didn't change in that respect, because even in the original timeline the Prince's family was sent abroad because of the vulnerable position Lee Gon was in as a young ruler. His dad, the king, still died in this new future so this action still would have been necessary. The Prince didn't adopt Shin Jae in this new future either, but instead was the person who saved him and gave him a chance at a good life (even more symbolic through him giving him his shoe like Tae Eul did in Korea). We didn't see any other evidence that Shin Jae is close to the royal family in any way in this new future (which is honestly too bad lol I would've liked childhood friends Lee Gon, Jo Yeong, and our Shin Jae.
I would assume it's because the flute was split and it then it, at half strength and split open, soaked up the blood spilled by the sword, not that a drop of someone's blood would affect the flute if it's whole (and in this new instance Lee Lim's blood wasn't spilled by the sword but by a shard of glass). The flute at full power wouldn't be affected by a bloody handprint on its surface (and it's not like Lee Gon would let it just stay that way), so personally I don't think it's a crippling plot hole situation.
Tae Eul's gun began to work in the place between worlds because the flute became whole again. Time didn't flow, air didn't move, etc, because the flute was split, but her gun began to work as the halves disappeared and the new future locked in where the flute was always whole. All times afterwards when we see the place between worlds there's wind and waves etc now because of this.