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You are confusing terms. First you claim he was an accomplice, now you say he was aiding and abetting. But aiding and abetting. has nothing to do with reporting a crime you have witnessed or became aware of after it has been committed. And that is what happened with HW. Again - he parked that bus being totally unaware of the intent of his bosses. The fact that he realized that it was staged does not create an obligation to report the crime. He was too smart for his own good - he realized it was murder, a simpler person might have thought it was an accident, but because of the blatant reaction of that Kim person HW became sure. BTW, had he not got out of his bus to make that call he might have been killed at the same time.

You are making an utterly wrong assumption about how legal systems work in most democratic countries and representative democratic republics. Only in totalitarian regimes there is an punishable expectation of the citizenry to report crimes - and it considered one of the most vile and abusive judicial overreaches.

That is not how law works. An accomplice is defined as a person who knowingly, voluntarily, or intentionally gives assistance to another in the commission of a crime. One can't become an accomplice after the fact. He did nothing to assist in committing the crime knowingly, voluntarily or intentionally. Sorry, but your outrage is misplaced. And btw, there is no legal duty to report crimes after the fact.

That is so funny... the whole story is about Hyun Woo and nobody else. So if you have no interest in him, maybe you needed a different drama all together?

That's fine. But the main conflict in the drama was not with the your know who :) Granted the actor was superb and dominated the screen, but it is not his story, it is not even the younger grandsons' story, it is HW story, and only his.

To my mind webtoon would be a poliana silly ending, turning hard edged drama about power justice and talent into a 'feelgood" supernatural mush. The drama ending works for me 100% . Just my opinion.

What should he be punished for exactly - for parking the truck where he was told to by his boss without a clue on what was going on? He was used. The fact that he felt guilty for being used is because he is human and his bosses are not. He also felt guilty for not reporting the murder, and taking the job, but frankly even if he did report it would have been swept away by the SW and he would be crashed together with his father and brother. "Revenge belongs to those who have power, not those who are wronged" and he had none. This was a story of a moral responsibility not a legal one.

No, he was not an accomplice. You can't be an accomplice when you have no clue what is being done., it was a set up and he was a patsy, who was used . But because he realised that he was used to set up the scene of the murder he felt responsible like any normal person would.

I find this bizarre. TV series is not an dramatic illustration to a webtoon, it it its own thing. Sure it is based on the 'original, but an adaptation is not supposed to be a slave to it. What would be the point of following the 'original' as if it was gospel? Every story gets told and retold many different times and it changes, it has always been that way, that is creative process. Sure some adaptations work for some people but not others, but every creative writer has a total right to put their own spin on the material. "The writer should apologize to the original web novel writer." - is probably the most ridiculous thing I have heard said about an adaptation in a long time.

I didn't feel like there was any need to tie all loose ends. The story was about only one thing: HW and what was done to him and by him, and it was told, there was no point in lingering on details that add nothing to it.

why? what would you rather it was?

Korean actors and especially actresses seem to absolutely excel at playing smug characters. I don't think any other movie industry produces such a plethora of poised, polished, smart and unbearably smug characters . Don't know how they do it, but they make you want to reach into the screen and dump a bucket of waste water at their smiling faces. 😁
I like this drama and the ending - it made total sense to me.

I am talking about merging actors with the cartoon. But we are going in circles. You like her and consider her best, I don't. Taste differ. Not much to discuss.

Li Chang Ge is not a complicated character to understand. Acting is a profession. I happened to be a small local stage director, so for example if I had to cast someone in this role I probably chose someone else, or direct her very differently. But to be frank I would also not metamorph her face into a drawing to show tears or any other emotion. That is my take, but we all are entitled to our own perceptions. And again it is possible I would think she shines in some other role , but I have not seen her before.

If I formed my opinions based on Awards and what others think, I would have to bow to your snarky remark. But I don't . I happen to know what I like and what don't and what I consider good acting and what I consider weak. I have never seen her before, and maybe she is better in other roles, but in this role she looks pretty flat to me. You, of course, are entitled to your own take on things, and to base them on whatever you chose.

Period? 🤣

I can't take my eyes off of Yuan, Gongsun Heng's little daughter. I would watch the drama just for her. What a sunny, bright, adorable presence!

well... she kinda is. Not stupid, but a bit obnoxious. If any 16 year old daughter of a deposed prince spoke in the way she does to generals and kings and people in general, she would be horsewhipped, not indulged. This drama has a little too much of a Mary Sue for my taste in the way they depict the FL.

They could have written her as much less of a pain in the a$$. She is supposed to be strategic but she comes across as way too direct, aggressive, single minded, and lacking in understanding of subtleties for someone good at strategy. I love strong female characters, but to my mind she is so unbending and 2 dimensional and doesn't know how to read the room or her opponent , she is so in your face , it is boring to watch. And all that arrogant, juvenile pontificating like she is some sort of authority on ethics and morals is just annoying. Yes, I wish they wrote her character as a more nuanced .

Zhao Lu Is is great.