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lmao like they gave enough info to understand the world in episode one. i'm very familiar with the fantasy genre and i was confused, i can't imagine how hard it must be to understand for people who are just trying to watch the drama for one of the actors. good writing would have made the story easy and clear from the get go. if it was, the public would be rating this drama much higher.

edit: also, you can only piece so much together when the writers don't give you all of the information. you can go on about intelligence or whatever. it's the duty of the writers to explain all of the world building, they can't just expect viewers to know and be able to figure out everything when it comes to a setting they are completely unfamiliar with

yeah but not every show worships the villain. he's constantly show through the pov of the protagonist which means the viewers always see him as evil. that's not happening here.

i've been saying this in different areas of the comments but the writers and directors didn't organize the story well enough in editing. because they pushed off explaining the politics in the first two episodes, we've had to suffer through sub-par development as they tried to catch the arthdal subplot up to speed with eun som's, hence why they had to sacrifice eun som's screen time.

and they're still doing a poor job at it. the explanations are rushed if any are given at all. not to mention you shouldn't have to wait until episode four of a six episode season to understand the world you are experiencing.

well the way the directors and writers are framing the story doesn't seem that way. they literally spent the entirety of episode four calling ta gon a hero and rewarding him as he succeeds over his struggles like it's something the viewers should be proud of. they're telling the viewers taealha is pitiful, and she's not the only character given traits that commonly belong to characters that are supposed to be supported. i literally having to keep reminding myself as i watch "hey, these assholes are supremacists who commit genocide, stop laughing at them when they're funny."

i completely agree, i really wish they had organized it better. this isn't the first time i've seen a drama neglect its main story, and it's a shame that it's happening here so soon. there's a lot of potential in the story but i feel like they didn't spend enough time planning the editing

best scene so far!

me too, eunsom and tanya have the most interesting storylines. normally I like political drama but the way they've done it here is super confusing and honestly I dont care about the characters and i dont want to care and root for a group of people who think its honorable to commit genocide no matter how much the writers will try to make them likeable

i've been waiting years for him to revisit the werewolf boy style i literally die every time he comes on screen

oh shit i didn't even think about that... but haven't they said already that the boy is being held in a tower somewhere?

i agree. i can't tell what's worse - the original planned three equal parts, or the current plan of 1 part of 12 episodes and a second part of 6. waiting months to finish the story just seems like an awful idea,, especially since the concept of a 6 episode final season still burns after what happened with game of thrones

idk as a big fan of fantasy i'm kinda underwhelmed. the world building kinda sucked but maybe i'm just being picky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

idk, while the stories are definitely not alike, it does seem like they took some inspiration from the imagery of game of thrones (not that that's a bad thing)

i think just eun som. my guess is aramun haesulla probably had a wife and tanya will turn out to be the reincarnation of her or something... or maybe not... i still haven't decided if eun som is a reincarnation (if reincarnation is a thing in this drama) or if he's just possessed

also because their world building was wack, we were slammed with all of this political drama between these old guys we don't really know well and we had to spend a long time learning about them and their beef which dragged on and on while all of the interesting stuff was happening with eunsom.

it'll have 18, they've just split it up into multiple "seasons"

if they're not listed on a wiki somewhere, they'll probably be released at once when the drama ends

idk if it's because i'm already quite familiar with the fantasy genre or if i'm just being picky, but i feel like the world wasn't fleshed out enough in the exposition. nothing was explained well, they barely touched on religious beliefs, and the world building was rushed... yet for some reason the writers/directors think putting captions on the screen occasionally to define vocabulary is enough? what good is vocabulary definitions if you don't understand the context it's being used in..

so like, at first i thought it was weird that after they recognized eun som's horse as one of their gods and consequently made the connection that its rider should (hypothetically as it is unconfirmed to viewers of the show) also be the reincarnation of one of their gods that they tried to kill him anyway, but then i started thinking about real life and how if jesus christ, a brown middle eastern man, truly came back to life today all of the white "christians" would probably try to kill him too because every brown man is automatically a terrorist and a heretic and it didn't seem as ridiculous as i initially thought, especially when the show later said that, even tho he has no real claim, ta gon and his followers are trying to make ta gon into that very same god... idk if it was intentional but i appreciate the parallel between the arthdal saram and colonizing white people.

i know right? the characters have personalities that typically belong to types the audience are supposed to like (ie the comic relief dudes trope) but like... everyone except for those three you listed above belong to a group of people whose goal is to enslave tribes and commit genocide? have already done so once?? and we're supposed to like them??? lol not gonna happen