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Very useful list.I haven't watched most of them though some are on my plan to watch list. Among those I did watch, Killer Toon and Terror Live were really thrilling!

Great review. So detailed and well explained! I agree so much with you on hopes of Man Wol not actually being a spirit since she never explicitly died. Her physical body had no end. Frankly, I felt that there could have been a lot more real content such as Victoria's backstory as you pointed out. Instead, we got too much of chaff at the end. I was ok with the small subplots but there really was too little of actual story. Even Man Wol's main story is not really much and could be summed up in less than a page. IMHO, this should have been a much shorter drama in running time or alternatively should have had more stuff in it.

Though i am commenting after 3 years, I thank you for such a complete guide. She is really beautiful.

I agree with you

Not an AskMDL one but it would make for a good article topic in itself. Haven't seen them covered here (pun intended).

It is great that you have a personal story to this and as a guy, I really appreciate such an anecdote. I wish you had told him before he got the girlfriend. It is possible that he had considered dating you but didn't move ahead. It is quite tricky as the guy to decide whether to go ahead with a friend if you consider the friendship precious.
Now on a tangent, I agree with the article in that niceness is not inherently attractive. More is needed. However, genuinely kind people are rarer than people think. I do believe though that niceness beyond politeness should be earned. I will be really nice to you, whether you are the girl I like I or a girl/ guy I am friends with, if I feel you deserve that kindness. To those whom I don't deem deserving of kindness I could be cold, aloof or even intentionally intimidating. A lot of people's niceness is a cloak to a selfish end and if they don't get it they are resentful. This could be for dating or even professional networking or friendships they have. Second male leads of that kind would be the genuinely selfish kind.

I so want the Devil and Lee El (Ji Seo Young) subplot to move already. I was half expecting a back hug as she was leaving in this episode.

I so want to agree with you but unfortunately attraction does not happen to the guy who is giving everything away too readily. It would be appropriate for the nice second lead to bite the bullet as soon as he realizes that he is out of the equation and only give as much as he would to another friend of equivalent closeness. If the girl misses the 'more' she used to get, she might reexamine her own feelings. If not, he can move on faster.

I wholeheartedly agree with your view. Being nice and doing good stuff for the girl cannot create love. If the guy is giving out of the goodness of the heart, it is ok but if he expects something in return, this is definitely not an attractive strategy. I would be pissed if the girl asks for all kinds of random help and essentially uses him and then goes to the other guy but I don't recall such any such girl in a drama though I do know from real life.

Thank you so much for that! It is real fun to write these.

I happened to watch it in reverse and so put Wake Up 2 first. The two parts do make up a saga. Not knowing Wake Up's storyline made Wake Up 2 really mysterious for me, yet did not reduce my grasp of the story. Then watching Wake Up, I felt like as if I were one of the new characters curious about the past. Chris Wu chooses some good shows. XD

I am very strongly a heterosexual male. So I can't really imagine pleasure in a scene with guys as I can't see them sexually. I enjoy bromance but if I thought of it sexually I would be severely turned off. My comfort with fellow guy friends in real life is higher precisely because I never have to worry about sexual dynamics.

LOL. I was only sort of documenting my response for posterity as I may not remember how I felt later. I hadn't expected you to actually receive the notification though. They have fixed it :)

@princessofsummer The lead was not going to be jailed, the cops had orders to shoot him at sight and snipers were trying to get him through the window. When he realized everyone was aginst him and his beloved wife was no more, he took the only action of protest he could.

The cops were going to gun him down upon sighting. In such a situation, he no longer cared.

The cops were going to gun him down upon sighting. In such a situation, he no longer cared.

I agree that Hong ought to have been straight about his feelings for the Queen from the beginning. Maybe a tragedy might have been prevented. I do have doubts about whether the king would have accepted Hong's love for the Queen. Hong was also wrong to lie about killing the Queen's brother. That was interference in politics. Clearly an untrustworthy act.

I do have sympathies with the king and we can't impose 21st Century liberal ethos on that era. However, it was wrong for the king to assume love. That is not something one can buy with a sword. Except for public scandal, I don't really see anything ethically wrong in falling in love with the first girl he was ever with. The Chief was never given an opportunity to explore his sexuality. The king could have moved on to someone else or maybe kept him to himself allowing occasional dalliances with the Queen. This was a case of the king forcibly imposing a sexuality preference over Chief Hong.

LOL. Talk about difference in preference. I personally tend to look away during homosexual scenes.

Yes. Clearly he had no such desire for women.