It's crazy how people force a romantic connection between mudeok and Jang Uk. Their interactions so far have been that of mutual benefits.
Tell me one thing Mudeok did for Jang Uk without thinking of her goals. And, luckily for us, the writer made sure that in most of such scenes, we get a self dialogue from Mudeok explaining why to do this but not that if she wants something. It was even more aggressive when she still had no idea of the lies she lived by as an assassin: she kept saying just wait when I get my powers back, or remind Jang Uk of her position in the future. She was like I'll spare you, or that their master-pupil relationship will eventually end and Uk should be prepared for it, accept it as it is.
The same is for Jang Uk. Every time he protected her was for him; how was he supposed to act If someone he's been looking all his life is in danger and he might lose her even before getting from her what we can all agree was his life goal at least until now?
But these interactions might have gave rise to some emotions which is to be expected for people their age, even if they fail to realize it at first. This evidently happened to Jang Uk first, and can be traced back by actions like that of involuntarily pulling his father's sword to protect Mu Deok from The Crown prince, the sword he couldn't unsheathe before.
Now unless you desperately want to ship the two, or have already accepted that they love each other, it's really hard to build up love between them from the viewer's point of view. I can trace all their motives and can't really distinguish what was for love and what was not. They actually give us scenes which, when watched out of context, will actually evoke the romantic atmosphere, but when watched naturally, nothing more than a brother-sister affection can be drawn from them. Here I'm talking about all the random hugs.
People tend to run to reality to defend this romance build up, which they are practically right. But if we consider such logic, there's a lot of unreal scenes used in the build up of this romance. How do you explain all those random hugs between a girl and a boy, who are not even officially friends. And all just because Jang Uk did something, or Jang Uk felt something, or just because Jang Uk didn't see his girlmaster for a moment. All these were done just to push the viewers into shipping them, or imagine a romance btn them. There are better ways for a Man to show gratitude to a female master and its not randomly hugging. And by the way we're talking about a joseon-like era. And how on earth did Naksu just sit there as if her mother was hugging her, and eventually get used to it.
It's true that there's a highest probability that the two already love each other, but on a viewer's point of view there's nothing really going on. I said it before:
"It's as if the writer is narrating to the viewer that these two fell in love after spending much time together, but without showing how"
I disagree. It's very common to fall for someone if you spend lots of time together and been through a lot together.…
That's very common for sure, but they failed to execute exactly that. What I mean is that, they actually narrated that the two fell in love after spending time together, instead of showing some build up moments. They attempted, but to me all the attempts were very forced, and awkward. I can't remember how much Jang Uk have hugged Mu Deok even at the very beginning of their relation. Those hugs actually destroyed their love make up so much so that It feels to me like a close brother/siter relationship. The whole build up was a mess.
I'd rewatch it only for the scene where Mu-Deok is sitting in the rain and another where she's contemplating what…
The male lead's father had the ice stone but due to some circumstances he decided to seal the stone and leave the place, leaving his son's energy locked. The villain used jin's daughter's powers to find the stone and she succeeded in finding and unsealing the stone.
And let's be honest, the love story btn Jang Uk and Mu Deok (or naksu) is not well developed. It's basically forced. There's no reason for jang uk to fall romantically for Mu Deok, and it is so for Mu Deok. Only the crown prince and yul have a reason we can understand, and at the moment, the affection is one sided for both of them. For yul, Naksu have been through a lot to keep those old feelings somewhere, especially considering the false stories he was fed. The crown prince is basically nothing to Mu Deok. The new girl also has a reason to fall for Uk but she's already out of the picture.
In other words, romance is done really bad in AOS. Take your time to digest this. By the way I'm rooting for the main faces, they have chemistry. But their romantic connection is forced.
Today's episode was the worst. I was so excited we got 75 minutes of but little did I know it was just a filler. After a whole week of pain and anticipation we deserved better. The whole episode was like flirt here, flirt there, flirt everywhere. I was basically re-watching a good old kdrama story with painful to watch love triangles. I know these relations and connections might have a point in the future, but to collect a bunch of them and squeeze them into an episode is not a good move.
The most important revelation in the episode was that of the lost daughter of the jin family who is pointed to be Mu deok. But that too was done so poorly. The whole episode had no those moments we used to wait for. Even the ending was bland. I can't even imagine re watching this episode which is strange because I re-watched most of the past episodes, not to mention the scenes.
Attorney Woo is an insanely good show to be fair. Literally over 10x the ratings within the space of 2 weeks
But we have to see the difference: AOS faced hate( and will face it forever)which I'm sure was followed by a flood of ratings of 1. EAW faced mere criticism which I'm sure the whales tried so hard to explain and a fight against. At the it was a matter of perspective and experience. In other words, Alchemists did a great job to be here.
Attorney Woo is an insanely good show to be fair. Literally over 10x the ratings within the space of 2 weeks
I really don't understand how and why, even after so much hype, viewers, discussions, theories. EAW can take roughly 2 days to gain 0.1 while AOS took more than a week to move from 8.8
As a fan of Park eun bin sice King's affection, I can't express how happy I am for this success, and how sooo scared I'm for the rest of the show. I just hope it ends well. I just wanna say I love her smile 😍😍.
"Whales are intelligent. She knows she'll be killed if she doesn't abandon her kid, but she never does. If I were a whale, would my mom not abandon me?" 😭😭😭😭
Some fans are really delulu. In Twitter, after this news, they want to take out Lee Jae Wook as well along with…
You're wrong. Lee jae wook is not the only center character. So far it's both naksu and lee jae wook. But those fans are delulu though. But they can only wish (which is not wrong).
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It's crazy how people force a romantic connection between mudeok and Jang Uk. Their interactions so far have been that of mutual benefits.
Tell me one thing Mudeok did for Jang Uk without thinking of her goals. And, luckily for us, the writer made sure that in most of such scenes, we get a self dialogue from Mudeok explaining why to do this but not that if she wants something. It was even more aggressive when she still had no idea of the lies she lived by as an assassin: she kept saying just wait when I get my powers back, or remind Jang Uk of her position in the future. She was like I'll spare you, or that their master-pupil relationship will eventually end and Uk should be prepared for it, accept it as it is.
The same is for Jang Uk. Every time he protected her was for him; how was he supposed to act If someone he's been looking all his life is in danger and he might lose her even before getting from her what we can all agree was his life goal at least until now?
But these interactions might have gave rise to some emotions which is to be expected for people their age, even if they fail to realize it at first. This evidently happened to Jang Uk first, and can be traced back by actions like that of involuntarily pulling his father's sword to protect Mu Deok from The Crown prince, the sword he couldn't unsheathe before.
Now unless you desperately want to ship the two, or have already accepted that they love each other, it's really hard to build up love between them from the viewer's point of view. I can trace all their motives and can't really distinguish what was for love and what was not. They actually give us scenes which, when watched out of context, will actually evoke the romantic atmosphere, but when watched naturally, nothing more than a brother-sister affection can be drawn from them. Here I'm talking about all the random hugs.
People tend to run to reality to defend this romance build up, which they are practically right. But if we consider such logic, there's a lot of unreal scenes used in the build up of this romance. How do you explain all those random hugs between a girl and a boy, who are not even officially friends. And all just because Jang Uk did something, or Jang Uk felt something, or just because Jang Uk didn't see his girlmaster for a moment. All these were done just to push the viewers into shipping them, or imagine a romance btn them. There are better ways for a Man to show gratitude to a female master and its not randomly hugging. And by the way we're talking about a joseon-like era. And how on earth did Naksu just sit there as if her mother was hugging her, and eventually get used to it.
It's true that there's a highest probability that the two already love each other, but on a viewer's point of view there's nothing really going on. I said it before:
"It's as if the writer is narrating to the viewer that these two fell in love after spending much time together, but without showing how"
In other words, romance is done really bad in AOS. Take your time to digest this. By the way I'm rooting for the main faces, they have chemistry. But their romantic connection is forced.
The most important revelation in the episode was that of the lost daughter of the jin family who is pointed to be Mu deok. But that too was done so poorly. The whole episode had no those moments we used to wait for. Even the ending was bland. I can't even imagine re watching this episode which is strange because I re-watched most of the past episodes, not to mention the scenes.