UnaSpenser

omg, the whole Bai/Yunshu thing is ridiculous. This drama isn't even trying to have relationships make sense.

I'm sort of interested to see where this mess goes, but I have zero investment in any of the characters. Not one of them grabs at my heart and has me wanting anything for them. And none of them are villainous enough to be compelling. What is this even trying to be?

ep 20: oh, so the FL is despicable. ok. is there supposed to be a redemption arc where it was ok that she threw this DV victim under the bus? or are we meant to simply not like her?

I also don't understand how we're supposed to feel about the FL bringing her sister's child home, but leaving the father - the only parent the child has known - outside. Did he want to give up his daughter? The mother didn't care enough about her to even acknowledge her, but now we're supposed to see it as some kind of heartwarming win, because they took this child from her father?

also all the workers praising her as a good person, when she literally just threatened their lives if they "ruined the family's reputation" by refusing to work, after being abused and doing all the labor which her family exploits. It's hard to stomach.

On ep 18 and I'm struggling with the whole "you've been our slaves for hundreds of years, under this special whip. We've gotten rich and you're all barely surviving, but you should be proud of being a slave and struggle through this storm with us to maintain our wealth and your status as a servant" narrative. It's kinda gross. And that the male lead is all "if you strike because you've been abused, we'll take your slave docs to the authorities and you'll never work again" and we're supposed to see that as heroic. wtf?

why don't we see more of this actor?! A second season of Ancient Detective would be so awesome! But, really, he proved himself and I don't understand why we aren't seeing more of him.

What kind of bad makeup job did they do that made the Crown Prince almost look older than the Emperor, when the actor is almost 30 years younger than the one playing the Emperor? Every time I see the CP, I can't believe he's the son of the Emperor rather than the brother.

Wow. What a stunning story, so exquisitely told.

I completely missed that she was in a Language School!

yes, but it sounded like Russian. And they were in Vancouver.

and he took her dog and he built her dream without her? wtf? dude basically coopted her life and left her behind. just no.

Ok. The story loses me with the "I'll abandon her and have her own family deceive her, because she'd be happier without me" trope.

I'd cut off relations with every single person involved in this deception, once I found out. They can never be trusted and they're all patronizing. If Jin Zhao wants to ghost her, that his choice, but asking others to lie is unacceptable. Them agreeing to lie is unacceptable. Be real and tell her that he's decided he doesn't want to see her and has asked that they not share his contact info.

As for him, I'd never want to be with him again after what he was willing to put me through. What an asshat. Taking all of her agency away from her and treating her like a child whom he needs to make decisions for. Just f*ck right off.

These tropes really piss me off.

ep 20: what language is this supposedly Canadian professor speaking? It should be English, but it sounds slavic.

This is one to take slowly; pay attention; let things sink in. It's not pretty or uplifting, per se. It's a study of the cost of vengeance over time, and whether the cycle can be broken or all those caught in it must expire.

What a presence in The Vendetta of An!

Enjoying this, but when they swap which actor is playing which part in the middle of a conversation, but leave the other character's costume on them, it is super confusing. It's not working for me. I'll get over it, but why do it this way?

thank you for this.

As someone older, it's funny to me to see people expecting more than one a week. I grew up in an era when those once per week airings were family events; because we wouldn't get another chance to see it. Being able to binge watch is a new, and wonderful thing, but there was something magical about having to wait and watch things together.

Only on ep 6. Jin Goo is so dark! His character seems devoid of anything other than his ambition. He's chilling.

Questions/confusion:

1. NJL was in some kind of womb underneath that 'river'. How did she get there? And why doesn't everyone who falls into the river end up there? Xing Chen, for instance.

2. Xing Chen and the science guy figured out that the fiends were originally humans who had been transformed by the extraterrestrial substance. And that the "new" fiends represented some kind of reversion back to human form, by deleting some of the "fiend" DNA. Hinting that, it may be possible to revert all fiends to being fully human again. But, this is only mentioned and he never told the rest of the hunters. Wouldn't it totally change the fiend/human dynamic if this were the case, though?

3. Why can't they forge more of those swords? They've been fighting these creatures for thousands of years, but there is only one weapon which can kill them? How does this make sense?

4. Why did they think that all the fiends were gone? There were clearly lots of them running around in the cave. I didn't see any actions which suggested that they killed all of them. In fact, they said there were too many for them to kill. So, why are they all calling things concluded and going off to stop being hunters?

5. Why would anyone think that Xirou was the only "new fiend" to have emerged? Or that the ones they knew of were the only ones who existed?

6. The fiends are simply a species trying to exist. After thousands of years of fighting, no one has thought to see if there is a way for them to exist without eating humans? Or, determined that, hey, humans eat other species and we consider it acceptable to have a certain percent of those species killed for our food. So, why isn't it acceptable for the fiends to see their food source that way?