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I personally take Taluipa's words with a grain of salt, considering she's literally contradicted herself and gone back on her word a few times, and also straight up lied and disguised the truth from Yeon before. My guess is, IF she was telling the truth (and that's a big if), it may be that she was referring to Lee Rang's death when she said the reality Yeon will return to won't change no matter what he does. Maybe other details might change, like whether the brothers were on good terms or not, but maybe Imoogi's return and Yeon's and Rang's sacrifices were inevitable. After all, Rang's contract with Imoogi's servant is still in play even in this new timeline, and so he might be forced to help with Imoogi's return in spite of his own wishes. It really all depends on the writers at this point.

Romance takes a lesser role in this series, as it focuses more on fantasy, mythology, bromance, and action. Lee Rang gets a love line, and it's very cute, but it's not the main focus of the story.

The only thing I truly hated in this drama (aside from the mom's screeching manner of talking whenever she opened her mouth) was the ML's bout with Noble Idiocy in episodes 18 and 19. I wanted to reach through the screen and slap him so many times as he dug himself into a miserable hole of despair and made everyone else around him miserable as he pushed them away. Having to watch that for the span of almost two hours was really frustrating.

And one thing that confused me was why the murder that Kang Chil was originally framed for happened in the first place. I don't think it was ever clarified why Min Ho (the dead guy) stabbed Kang Chil, or why Chan Gul and Yong Hak both stabbed Min Ho. Like, what was the motivation? Why were they even under that bridge in the first place? Were Yong Hak and Chan Gul both planning to kill Min Ho? Why did they both bring big kitchen knives?

But I loved the relationships between the characters, which was really this drama's strength.

Season 2 wasn't quite as good as season 1, IMO, but it was still a solid series. Towards the end, the episodes kept getting longer and longer, which was a little exhausting because the last 3-4 episodes were each 2 hours or more, longer than a typical full-length movie. I thought that they could've spent a little less time on the surgeries (which I personally found boring) and more on the relationships between the doctors and families of the patients. I thought they did better with this in season 1.

On Sunday Kim Bum posted a heartfelt message on Instagram, saying goodbye to his character and expressing how much he loved playing Lee Rang . It was a message he wrote back in December 2022 when filming for season 2 was just finished.

It can be watched as a standalone. There is a short recap of important season 1 details in the first 20-30 minutes of episode 1.

According to an article on the Korean news site Nate, Tale of the Nine Tailed is in talks for the production of season 3, and all the lead actors answered positively when asked if they were interested in returning.

https://m.news.nate.com/view/20230613n28157

If there's anybody who was interested but unable to watch all the behind-the-scenes and making videos for TOTNT 1938 due to regional restrictions, I have all of the videos (raw and unsubbed, sorry! There's sub files for the YT videos only) available in a gdrive folder. PM me if you want the link.

Yes and no. The answer is yes if you want to be more invested in the character stories of Yeon, Rang, Shin Ju, and Yu Ri (Shin Ju's wife, who doesn't actually appear in S2 but has an unexplained human doppelgänger instead). No if you are only concerned with following the plot, because episode 1 of S2 gives a decent short recap of the important points you absolutely need to know.

In my opinion S2 fight was better. It felt more epic and action-packed. Yeon actually went full nine-tailed fox-mode and killed his enemy, while Blue Moon played in the background.

The final fight with Imoogi in S1 was super underwhelming. Imoogi just kinda teleported around, Yeon kept having to pull his punches because Jia went there like an idiot and put herself in harm's way. Waaaaay too much talking going on in that fight scene, too. Imoogi just stands while the main couple have a tearful conversation. Then it ends basically in a grappling match with Yeon and Imoogi hugging it out so Rang could stab them both. Imoogi was such a boring and poorly written villain.

Presumably he'll be the main villain of Season 3 (if it happens). They were setting up season 3, in the hopes of a renewal.

I'm honestly not ready to move on from this drama. I'm sad that I won't be able to look forward to new episodes on the weekend anymore.

I think they wrote that particular power really inconsistently - in season 1 it seemed to take no effort, while in season 2 it seemed to be more of an effort to summon it.

Honestly, whatever dude. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I wasn't saying any of this out of any spite for Jo Bo Ah, I was just happy thinking that there may be a shot at TVN green lighting season 3. I personally enjoyed season 2 more than season 1, because I got everything that I hoped for. If you didn't like it, then ok, great. If you like Jo Bo Ah, that's great.

Hm, I'd forgotten that season 1 aired during the week instead of the weekend slot. Still, I'll hope for the best.

No, he stayed in 1938 with Yeo Hee, but he did give a beautiful tearful farewell to his brother, assuring him that he would be okay. He also takes charge of 1938!Yeon’s recovery from opium addiction.

Season 2 ratings were better than all season 1 ratings overall. The highest rating season 1 ever got was 5.8%, while the highest season 2 had was 7.1%. Seven out of the 12 episodes this season exceeded the highest rating that season 1 ever had, and even the lowest rated episode was rated higher than season 1's lowest rated episode. Fingers crossed that this is enough to get TVN to green light another season!

Edit: rating for the finale just released. It got an 8% rating, highest of all episodes!

Season 2 ratings were better than all season 1 ratings overall. The highest rating season 1 ever got was 5.8%, while the highest season 2 had was 7.1%. Six out of the 12 episodes this season exceeded the highest rating that season 1 ever had, so no, this season was not a flop.

I need your second and fourth points addressed in season 3 if we get it.

Season 3 is not confirmed, but depending on how well season 2 did, it may happen. I'll cross my fingers that it gets a green light, and that Kim Bum is asked to return to reprise his role one more time. If not, I'm honestly satisfied with what we got in this season. Everything that upset me about season 1 got fixed in this one.