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One possibility if you like romcoms (12 episodes, 1 hour long): Business Proposal

Also similar length: Mystic Pop-up Bar

I felt that way too. Presumably the change was to do with her learning that Bu-Yeon was regaining her powers, but I wondered if HG planned to use some Jinyowon relic to do something bad to Jang Uk and keep Bu-Yeon in Jinyowon.

I know the "drunken kiss" was apparently talked about in an interview, but that doesn't explain what Jang Uk meant by "I could not cry. I felt like I was really abandoning you there." Maybe nothing.

I'm not sure how to interpret Jang Uk's words to Bu-Yeon at the end of Ep 4 after he returned from the soul shifters' graveyard cliff:

"I could not cry. I felt like I was really abandoning you there."

Here's four possible interpretations (probably there are more):

1) He's mistaking Bu-Yeon for Mu-Deok/Naksu, and felt like he was abandoning Naksu at the cliff.
2) He's falling in love with Bu-Yeon without knowing she's Naksu and felt he was abandoning Bu-Yeon for Mu-Deok/Naksu.
3) He recognizes that Bu-Yeong is Mu-Deok/Naksu.
4) He recalls how he saved Mu-Deok (as in flashback) and cannot treat Bu-Yeon differently even though he doesn't (realize he) loves her.

None of these make complete sense.

For 1), he has only a momentary vision of Bu-Yeon as Mu-Deok
For 2), despite the fireflies, his change in attitude and feelings seems unreasonably sudden.
For 3), it could be instinct, or there could be as yet undisclosed conversations (say with Master Lee or Park Jin) between when Bu-Yeon broke the tower and Jang Uk sent the fireflies, that made Jang Uk realize Bu-Yeon is Naksu; but previews suggest he still doesn't know her true identity.
For 4), I guess it would have to be a drunken kiss.

I found the Hotel del Luna ending not so much sad as very bittersweet (the ML was like the Tiger wandering around the painting of Baekdu Mountain only to discover everything he'd known wasn't there any more, and he moved on). But it felt like the right and fitting endpoint for HdL.

If AoS2 were to end up with Naksu and Jang Uk separated and unfulfilled, then it would feel like a gratuitously sad ending that didn't fit with the rest of the story. So I'm still optimistic that it'll be a happy ending. But I guess we'll see.

Well then you could try s2 anyway, since the main actress changes (though that's not just a casting change, it's part of the story)

No it's direct continuation of Season 1. There's only one story.

No it's direct continuation of Season 1. There's only one story.

Everytime I see Jin Mu, I wonder how the hell he hasn't been arrested, jailed, and executed already

I don't mind So-I, but there was way too much focus on her in Season 1. A bunch of it could've been cut without compromising the plot.

Actually, I thought it was much less of a cliffhanger than expected. Not that it helps much with the wait :)

Ah yes you're right. Guess I'd forgotten that bit. Thx :)

The apparent fact (?) that there isn't a large trail of shriveled bodies is what suggests that the Part 2 soul shifters (or at least most of them) are new, otherwise they'd petrify (absent Hwansu/Ice-Stone/Mysterious-Jin-Priestess-Powers).

I may have missed something, but Jin Mu didn't give up his powers. He used the divination bells to activate the curse placed by Shaman Choi and cause MD to run wild. He could still be working with conspiritor(s), or the (hypothesized) new soul shifters could be the work of a third party not affiliated with Jin Mu.

Yes, the obvious explanation is that Jin Mu has a bunch of soul ejectors left over from Shaman Choi and he's continuing to use them for some purpose. But if he is, he doesn't seem to have a way to stop any of the soul shifters from rapidly running wild. (Not to say the Hong sisters can't invent one.)

As far as Uk seeing memories of the soul-shifted victim or host (?) that makes perfect sense. I just couldn't identify the woman he sees in the vision, and her identity might be significant.

Without the ice stone or shaman choi, wouldn't most of the soul shifters from before already have run wild? And if they're from after shaman choi's death, where did they come from?

(Though, Uk does say of the soul shifter he kills in Jinyowon that "You must have shifted a long time ago" because of what he sees in her eyes. Who is the woman he sees there?)

Why are so many soul shifters still around after Jang Uk -- who's killed twenty something of them -- absorbed the ice stone and Shaman Choi was killed? I suppose some soul shifters or soul ejectors could be left over from before, but that (and the drought) make me wonder if something bigger is going on behind the scenes in Daeho.

Edit. I realized my wording was pretty unclear. To clarify: by "why are so many soul shifters still around after Jang Uk" I don't mean "why are they after Jang Uk". Everything, including tiger-eyed water wraiths, are after Jang Uk. I'm asking why are there so many soul shifters around in the first place after the events of three years ago. My impression is it's only in times of chaos with someone creating them by AoS (Jang Kang, Queen/Shaman Choi) that the soul shifters show up. So why are they around now?

Well I'm (mostly) kidding. But there's a reason this show stimulated so many different opinions, ideas and theories to explain what was going on and what would happen next

Even if you do watch Season 1, you might not understand anything. At least that was my experience ;)

But definitely watch it first anyway.

The King and Jang Kang talk at the beginning of Ep 4 after they've switched back

Yup. We have further confirmation of Rule 1 of How AoS Works: The rules are whatever the **** the writers make up.