fujoshisan

true, because they both have had no one support them ever, since childhood....so it is a very empathetic relationship....

maybe he is low-key obsessed with her but will realise that they are better off as just friends later....but there will be some bad-faith actions till he realises that...

definitely lust ;-)

i think he chose to marry the older brother simply because he was the crown prince; ref. the point i-an made about her family producing four queens......but later regretting her choice because he turned out to not want to be the king...

jin mu strikes again!!!! :-))

aaaaaaahhhhh! thanks for that clarification....i was almost about to pull my hair out ;-)

and lasted forever......for 300 episodes!!!! hahahahahahahahaha

by marriage only....and history has millions of instances of inter-in-law marriages.....some more yucky that others, of course :-D

me thinks he has wanted that kiss since he saw her defiantly practising archery after hours in the school ;-)

i bet they were invited on the orders of huiju ;-D she is such a fun character....

i did wonder about the source of his ambition and i agree with you....it is mostly likely about protecting the current king's childhood which he can see being ruined by his mother....so even if he becomes king now, he'll likely abdicate in favour of his nephew when he is old enough

she wants to be the only one with the power, since it is not possible directly, then through her son

so true...already watching each episode more than once, without skipping too ;-)

and then the panic dance....hilarious....IU is being loudly brilliant and bws is being super subtly brilliant....wonderful performances...

she might also want "him" because he is, unlike his brother - her husband, strong and as we saw in the third episode, not without ambition....honestly that ambiguously worded, "if i want to be king" shocked me....didn't see that coming....nice one

am loving the way IU is acting her character....very true to the role....she has been fighting for her place since she was young but she is also a young girl...so both parts, the mature girl who knows she will get nothing without a fight who is also ambitious enough to fight for it as well as the young girl who just wants to have fun but doesn't have anyone close enough with whom she feels safe enough to have fun with....so she role-plays the fun part....but if you remember in the epilogue of the first episode, i-an sees her across the bridge when the fireworks go off...she looks so alone and lonely ....am loving the performance of all the actors....visually of course, the production is stunning...

oi!!! no enemies anywhere....only love .... reggae for peace :-D

but in my id is gangnam beauty, it was actually because the character had had so much surgery on her face...that's got to limit the extent of mobility of the face esp. compared to a non-surgeried face....i liked the way she played the character in it....one of my favourite dramas....and i agree not every role requires "acting like in a silent film" but some characters need more stillness than expression...think of it like bws playing the role with reticence like prince will rather than the crazy prince charles, destroying the royal identity with his willful recklessness....am just saying...if one needs a more "real" example....

:-) no skin off my back....

yay!! so so so true :-D