This content and situation would easily have made a good 20-40 episode sageuk. We would have learned all about…
I scrolled all this way to find a comment I 100% agree with. They're the reason I got into kdrama in the first place, so I feel really nostalgic about those classic sageuks. 8 episode format works great for some genres, but yeah...
Korean content always had violence and sex. This is nothing new. Check out handmaiden, a frozen flower etc. Just…
I don't like GOT either. Also, in this show the royals are monogamous, this king won't even get a second wife because of ~ love~, super realistic of course.
These comments make me feel like I'm in an alternate reality. I don't support reviewbombing or these multiple…
as for the rest of the show: The first episode was interesting and made it seem like some intrigue was going to go down between king queen and the prime minister guy, but then it turned into a chase scene/thriller type show. It seems like the director was trying to make a weird/less trope-y historical show but it's not really working for me because the plot seems thin and the characters are not well established.
Our old enemies, non-linear storytelling, and no dialogue, lead to many scenes of identical ministers plotting and people staring at each other, which is confusing to follow. But the plot just boils down to "assassinate the queen!" and the crazy sister being crazy for no reason. Whom I guess we were supposed to hate in the first place because she didn't marry the king when he was only a prince, unlike our glorious heroine who only stepped up because her whole clan was going to be murdered. And now sister is jealous because....? we need plot? I was trying to think about historical shows I like, such as Queen Seondeok or Six Flying Dragons (though those are not "realistic" either obviously), there was usually some point to those shows, Queen S wanted to unify the kingdom, SFD was about societal problems . What is this show about?
-It is shown that the queen can fight and has a strategical mind...but it doesn't matter, she's just a "chess piece" whose only active decision is choosing between brothers to marry. But there's no suspense because all the other princes are crazy except one. In a longer show there would be more episodes to flesh her out.... -The king is scary, but manly! he wants to....uh... ?? -their super intense relationship is just them staring at each other and like 1 flashback
-Logically speaking it seems like this show should have started with the queen, just single and the eps should have showed us the brothers' personalities and their factions, but it seems since they cast JCW they felt obliged to use him. It looks like all his scenes were shot in 5 mins and then sprinkled around as flashbacks.
-nice cinematography? costumes? acting is fine I guess
These comments make me feel like I'm in an alternate reality. I don't support reviewbombing or these multiple accounts people, however...
How do ppl not get that it's not just having some "nudity" it's that all the sex scenes are REALLY WEIRD???
that's 2 SA and murder in 4 episodes?? at that point it's not "spicy scenes" that's just someone's fetish
"but we need that scene to show that the villain is evil!" like there was an ENTIRE EPISODE of him murdering people BEFORE THAT?
"but why did you keep watching!" because I wanted to see if something interesting would happen to make up for the gross scenes. But nothing interesting happened so I remained grossed.
Can't there be a adult historical fantasy show without graphic scenes? is all we have left BRIDGERTON? a show so tooth-rottingly fluffy that they would never put in a nonconsensual...oh wait
My fav transition: Taeoh and those 3 sit down for business meeting...cut to Taeoh in a parked car. Later on he asks Hyewon if she wants to know what they talked about, and she says no! That's our girl!
team seongju & huiju we did it \o/
Inha's acting became weirder and nothing he does makes sense. Why be mean to the henchman even if psycho? TWICE he imagined saying something to Taeoh but didn't. Why did he do it? "I don't know" aka writer doesn't know ahahaha
Taeoh's Mom was fridged so badly for manpain and THEY DIDN'T EVEN TALK fdslfsldjf
I don't understand what was the point...if inha and hyewon had never existed, Taeoh would have just...worked his way into the Chairman's good graces normally? Taeoh did it because he wanted to see fireworks? Open an orphanage? I'm confused.
I was making fun of Taeoh and Hyewon's beer drinking romance in ep 2 because I thought it was that way because of time restrictions. But nope, director went out of his way to show them PASSIONLESSLY WORDLESSLY staring out a window. I was laughing at this beautiful summary of their relationship.
Director did not abandon their true love, giving us the most dramatic elevator scene (Inha before getting arrested) and staring out a window (with fireworks).
I've been watching the first few eps, should I continue? I really don't like this trope where ML kills the best friend or whatever and they just forgive each other because romance. This show is very pretty but kinda boring. like King's Affection but without the excitement, or like Queen's Umbrella (slow pace but good aesthetic) but without the wholesomeness?
also I'm sure I've seen the FL in some other show and she didn't bother me, but in this one she keeps doing some weird thing with her eyes that makes it hard to focus on her...? (edit: it was Six Flying Dragons and my enjoyment of that show cannot be diminished!)
The first episode was interesting and made it seem like some intrigue was going to go down between king queen and the prime minister guy, but then it turned into a chase scene/thriller type show.
It seems like the director was trying to make a weird/less trope-y historical show but it's not really working for me because the plot seems thin and the characters are not well established.
Our old enemies, non-linear storytelling, and no dialogue, lead to many scenes of identical ministers plotting and people staring at each other, which is confusing to follow. But the plot just boils down to "assassinate the queen!" and the crazy sister being crazy for no reason. Whom I guess we were supposed to hate in the first place because she didn't marry the king when he was only a prince, unlike our glorious heroine who only stepped up because her whole clan was going to be murdered. And now sister is jealous because....? we need plot?
I was trying to think about historical shows I like, such as Queen Seondeok or Six Flying Dragons (though those are not "realistic" either obviously), there was usually some point to those shows, Queen S wanted to unify the kingdom, SFD was about societal problems . What is this show about?
-It is shown that the queen can fight and has a strategical mind...but it doesn't matter, she's just a "chess piece" whose only active decision is choosing between brothers to marry. But there's no suspense because all the other princes are crazy except one. In a longer show there would be more episodes to flesh her out....
-The king is scary, but manly! he wants to....uh... ??
-their super intense relationship is just them staring at each other and like 1 flashback
-Logically speaking it seems like this show should have started with the queen, just single and the eps should have showed us the brothers' personalities and their factions, but it seems since they cast JCW they felt obliged to use him. It looks like all his scenes were shot in 5 mins and then sprinkled around as flashbacks.
-nice cinematography? costumes? acting is fine I guess
How do ppl not get that it's not just having some "nudity" it's that all the sex scenes are REALLY WEIRD???
that's 2 SA and murder in 4 episodes?? at that point it's not "spicy scenes" that's just someone's fetish
"but we need that scene to show that the villain is evil!" like there was an ENTIRE EPISODE of him murdering people BEFORE THAT?
"but why did you keep watching!" because I wanted to see if something interesting would happen to make up for the gross scenes. But nothing interesting happened so I remained grossed.
Can't there be a adult historical fantasy show without graphic scenes? is all we have left BRIDGERTON? a show so tooth-rottingly fluffy that they would never put in a nonconsensual...oh wait
team seongju & huiju we did it \o/
Inha's acting became weirder and nothing he does makes sense. Why be mean to the henchman even if psycho?
TWICE he imagined saying something to Taeoh but didn't.
Why did he do it? "I don't know" aka writer doesn't know ahahaha
Taeoh's Mom was fridged so badly for manpain and THEY DIDN'T EVEN TALK fdslfsldjf
I don't understand what was the point...if inha and hyewon had never existed, Taeoh would have just...worked his way into the Chairman's good graces normally? Taeoh did it because he wanted to see fireworks? Open an orphanage? I'm confused.
I was making fun of Taeoh and Hyewon's beer drinking romance in ep 2 because I thought it was that way because of time restrictions. But nope, director went out of his way to show them PASSIONLESSLY WORDLESSLY staring out a window. I was laughing at this beautiful summary of their relationship.
Director did not abandon their true love, giving us the most dramatic elevator scene (Inha before getting arrested) and staring out a window (with fireworks).
also I'm sure I've seen the FL in some other show and she didn't bother me, but in this one she keeps doing some weird thing with her eyes that makes it hard to focus on her...? (edit: it was Six Flying Dragons and my enjoyment of that show cannot be diminished!)
2. Hyewon saying that she's "bearing the burden" of loving Taeoh had me rolling! She didn't even sacrifice him, they're still hooking up!
3. Maybe she is just supposed to show how sexy Taeoh is because another woman is chasing him?