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I've read the whole tread and now I'm curious;
Let's assume that every being has a soul and at some point have been reincarnated to a new life but they have no memory of their past lives.
So, my questions are;
Would their current personalities and inherent inclinations would be any different had they no past life at all?
Are their experiences being engraved into their souls rather than just being memories of their current body, as there is gradually reaching the wholeness in Daoism hence reincarnation of the soul in different vassals, and are their souls have any qualities that would differentiate one from another or are they just blank sheet of papers, all equal to one another at the creation?

I'm having way too much fun watching this but I really don't want queen to fall in love with the king, I don't want them to be together, not even if the original queen were to come back.
I'm hoping for queen's harem to emerge instead of a classical jerk male mutt became somewhat human and our lovely female(or male lead in this case XD) lead fall for him since she had no other choice scenario.

EDIT: People just refuse to read my point properly and then twist it to their own liking, I'm just done. You can't be a good person to everyone and also there is clearly no need to be that benevolent either, but that just doesn't change the FACT THAT YOU ARE INDEED NOT A GOOD PERSON TO SOMEONE, in this case, the king isn't a good person or at least wasn't a good person to the queen, pointing that out doesn't make me someone who criticizes something without reason or rhyme. And, yes, this is a historical setting, it is not fair to evaluate characters out of their current surroundings yet the queen or rather the mr. queen is from future, hence my point of view was in accordance with hers. I don't see any problem with this and I won't be replying to any of the comments furthermore, as it is counter productive to try to make each person to understand my point even after making my self clear already. At the end of the day each person to its own.

They have their own strengths and weaknesses, these two dramas just made into top3 of my all time favorites so IMO just go ahead and watch this one too, for I'll be re-watching both of them after my finals. I'm literally obsessed with both of them.

This show is so on point, I really hope that it can keep this humor till the very end as 20 episodes of air time can thin out even the best plot.
Also fingers crossed for no romance between the leads(if og queen comes back), cause I just can't f*cking deal with two women fighting over a worthless man, though if they go with a BL(Bong Hwan staying as the queen) route I might just sit back and have fun :)

I know right, AiB blew me away and now this, I almost forgot how awful 2020 was XD

I think it was Sang Wook, since his desire/complex might've be his scars hence his turning triggered the healing of his skin just like Han Du Sik's feet returning to normal.

I haven't read the webtoon and I enjoyed this show immensely, it reminded me of Tokyo Ghoul, which I adore to bits, but after your rant I'll definitely check out the webtoon too.

He was infected as well hence he choose to stay back.

p.s. it f*cking broke my heart when he looked at their family photo.

This just became my favorite drama ever, it just blew me away, what a way to finish 2020. I hope this gets a 2nd season, no, this needs to have a second season.
I'm a die hard fan of Tokyo Ghoul and this drama hits a certain thread that TG has in my heart, this is just done beautifully, sigh.

This is fun, just what I needed.

I almost despise romance in crime/investigation dramas as it usually takes away from the real plot line or even completely overshadows it, as if the writer was planning to write a romance drama yet the s/he was ordered to write about thriller due to demand, but I'm kinda itching for it happen in this drama.
NGM is always playing that lone warrior type of a character which I truly love to watch as he executes it to perfection yet I wouldn't mind him taking a more emotionally(as in he interacts with others on a more humane level rather that trying to shoulder the whole world on his own)/romantically involved character now and then.
Also, as "childish" as Hye Won may be to some people I'm loving her character, aside from that ridiculous shooting the truck scene at the beginning so far as the part of the police force she's been doing her job quite appropriately and IMO Seolhyun is doing a good job portraying her, she really fits to her role.
And Jamie, she is freaking so cute, I can get a whole series about her and it would be fun, Chung Ah has a charm that makes you want to see more of her.
Also, I'm really pumped up to see more of Jamie/Jae Woong/Jung Woo trio's relationship.

I'm kinda pissed off with all that "I have to save Jiah" mantra, I get how everyone has someone dear to them which in turn effects their decisions regarding their priorities but from the stand point of a by passer I think everything was beyond unfair to normal humans.
Jiah has made her choice 600 years ago by saving her father and it was only normal that she gave up something in return. But because of Lee Yeon's obsession countless human lives were lost for the sake of preserving Jiah's life. I think, he should've faced more serious consequences of his choices. He became the sword of netherworld as a punishment yet even then he couldn't kill his brother who has slaughtered the whole village which was an obvious abuse of his position. When Lee Yeon had met Lee Rang again, Lee Rang was still a piece of sh*t who could kill a dozen people without a hitch, remember the bus accident, he f*king took their lives for nothing yet Lee Yeon did not kill him again. YET, that wolf girl who was going to marry at the beginning of the series wasn't let off despite the seeming fact that she has turned a new page in her life. Anyways, you get my point.

I think both of the leads were beyond selfish for me to actually root for their happiness yet it doesn't mean that I didn't like them. If anything their hypocrisy made them more real, likeable and which is why I actually wanted Imoogi to live as well.
He was selfish and ruthless, he wanted to sit on a throne yet was destined to crawl and I really liked him for all the filth he had inside his soul. I mean Lee Rang could get his redemption why not him. I'm not trying to justify his evil actions yet I don't condemn them either, it's weird, I don't know. He is like the darkness inside of all of us, something born out of all the unwanted parts of humanity which is scary but also pitiful to some extent. Even he had two sides to himself so who is to say that he can't start a new page in his life too.

I admire the Gatekeeper Grandma as she chose to do what her position demanded her to via killing her son's wife so I don't get why everyone ( her husband especially) is blaming her left and right. Everyone expected her to yield which is beyond unfair, absurd and annoying. She is supposedly the god that bridges to worlds, how could you expect her to govern according to your wishes. She has already tried her best in her own style yet even then Lee Yeon shamelessly asked for more time, I'm mad that she was actually going help him at the end and I'm glad that it didn't work out.

Overall I loved this drama for it's thriller almost Grim Brothers style gloomy fairytale of story telling and hated it for it's classical cliché happy ending, those people in the broadcasting station, the one in the same floor with our characters, have all died yet not even a single side character that was important to female lead was sacrificed. How unfair to those countless lives that died in vain, what a tragedy, this should've been a tragedy to our leads too not happily ever after.

This was on my plan to watch list for a long time and yesterday it suddenly came to my mind again, out of curiosity I've started the episode 1 and today I've finished the whole thing.
I could probably watch another 16 episodes or even more of this. This was just way too good, I'm not into sports dramas at all but this one had that perfect balance between a sports drama and an office one, each episode flowed like pure water and the acting, sigh, all of the actors were just perfect and the chemistry between the whole cast was on point.

This drama is a pretty fun ride with lots of inconsistences which were bearable to some extent. But one of most jarring points of this drama, aside from the plot holes, was those night scenes, all of them were shot in the most sunniest days you could find with a grayish weird filter on them to make us, viewers believe that it was actually night time. It happens in every other scene so it is super hard to ignore and truly takes away from the whole experience.

There is comment thread of " Ice_qreenm " down below, their take on this story is what I based my comment on, I just don't like white lotus type of people as if they're the purest and noblest of everyone around them. Male lead seems to fit into that category from what I gathered from the synopsis as well as comments. Also what actually put me off is the ending he got, I wouldn't mind if he actually didn't love her and behaved the way he did but it seems like he had other thoughts in his heart yet acted like he is above those filthy feelings.

I was gonna watch this for the sake of ZZ (cause she is awesome) but after reading all comments, I'm like, no, nope, not gonna happen.
If a male lead is sh*t and still it's the female lead gets the short end of the stick I just can't bring myself to walk into that hell willingly, I love watching a good anti hero or crooked characters overall, but I feel like having a heart attack whenever I see white lotus b*tches(male lead in this case), it just drives me insane.
So hard pass on this one and fingers crossed for ZZ's new drama :)

And I'm done, this dragged too much, they should've made it 11 episodes at max. I thought I'd like this one a lot but nope, despite the fact I loved the female lead and Xiao Qiao (she was so badass) a lot by the end I was simply bored out of my mind. Probably it wasn't a good idea to binge watch this, there was no real conflict nor soothing slice of life feeling that could carry the drama. But again if I were to watch this one over the course of a week to 2 weeks I'd still not make it till the end without skipping.

p.s. Male lead should stay drunk, he was at least cute like that, he is totally not my cup of tea when sober.

I'm almost done with it and gosh the male lead can just marry with his dominant hand at this point cause I don't think there is a single woman nor man that could actually put up with his bs in real life, he is a good person and a friend(sorta, kinda) but dang he is truly frustrating beyond redemption.

Believe me, I had the same type of misgivings at first but this drama manages to handle such a complex problem with a quiet satisfactory conclusion.
I just love the dynamic between Chen Yun Ru and Huang Yu Xuan, at the end they actually heal one and other, it's beyond beautiful.

I'm at ep 5 and wow, Shao Xi might be one of the best female lead I've ever seen in a school drama setting, so far I'm blown away with her character, she is honest, righteous but not stupidly brave and her being in love doesn't hinder her life(so far at least), she is just so natural and so damn likeable.