Can’t wait! Watching their presscon interview while I wait and just caught the question for Seyoung’s most…
Srsly. Also, love that their like that damn best couple trophy better be mine. He's like the Royal Guard is a strong contender too. Hahahha It's like they were like...oops....quick get back on track!
Can’t wait! Watching their presscon interview while I wait and just caught the question for Seyoung’s most…
It certainly look like it! :) I hope there are captions in my future. The whole MJ howl, moonwalk and impromptu dancing is hilarious. So comfortable with each other and the setting
Yep. I find her very sympathetic. There are no easy answers or choices where she's concerned. I think some might…
100% in agreement. Couldn't have said it better myself. I find it interesting that so many commenters find her behaviour harsh or anachronistic or reflective of modern sensibilities. I think there is something in the way we look at historical characters, especially women that denies them of agency. I respect her. as you say. "perceived freedom" since she's carved it for herself so very very carefully and deliberately. She's not asking for equality. She's acutely cognisant of the fact that he is King. As far as her "universe" of the palace is concerned: he is god. So for her to stand up and talk back, to deny him, could even be seen as way of putting an end to everything that's between them. Because she can't imagine a reality where he will be hers. Sharing him with the kingdom is different from sharing his loyalty, his heart and his body with others. While she would belong to him probably in ways the other concubines don't -- because they are connected to family and friends and rank among the nobility. She is a slave. She comes from a family that is, or was, perceived as traitors. So apart from her friends, and possibly her absent brother, and Lady Seo, he would have all of her love and loyalty. At this point, I don't think there is any expectation that there is distinction between the two. This is why I found the ending of episode so fascinating and moving. The women in his life tell him what she's been indirectly saying all along. Actually, she's even said to him directly. And for once he listens. But more importantly, he understands. By saying he can't apologise because he is King but he can be thankful for all that she is and all that she has done and been to him is the handhold she needed to fully trust him with herself. He finally sees her position and he respects her. Not just because he loves her but because he sees her as a stalwart ally who's loyalty has been unwavering. I think that's incredibly power. And that lends her the courage to reach out to him. While he's been the one making the first move all along. But this last time, she acts on the realisation that while the divide between them will remain, he recognises wholeheartedly what she is entrusting to him -- her mind, her heart and her body. And his acceptance of it -- the manner of it -- illustrates that he will safeguard it because, after all, she, above all others, is his precious one.
i really don't understand the hate DoekIm is getting
Yep. I find her very sympathetic. There are no easy answers or choices where she's concerned. I think some might be more sympathetic if she denied her agency and acquiesced. But it's that core of steel to her that's so attractive to me; and I bet, to San.
Unlikely most I'm liking the reluctance and the power imbalance because those things would have existed in real…
I agree. It's an adult take on a complicated love story. No candy and romance-lite here. It's nuanced, dark and I like the inexorable push and pull. I think she's explained as much as she can to him at least. The convo with Lady Seo about not being a concubine, I think went to the heart of the matter -- that plus the convo with her ninja Unnie - who told her that there is the one person whom everyone likes and while that may work in her favour outside the palace walls. Inside: it may as well be a death sentence. I also find it interesting and consistent with her character arc that the times she's been bold, taken risks, been outspoken, it's always been on someone else's behalf. Where her own person is concerned she remains remarkably tightlipped. It's also interesting for me to see how she's really struggling with seeing him as King...which is something he acknowledges, eventually, even though she sees it day in and day out. The theme of going back to how things were or recovering who they used to be has been handled well, which, ironically enough, is what makes their push and pull so frustrating.
She's like...dude, we're the main couple.
They are such DORKS
It's like they were like...oops....quick get back on track!
I also find it interesting and consistent with her character arc that the times she's been bold, taken risks, been outspoken, it's always been on someone else's behalf. Where her own person is concerned she remains remarkably tightlipped.
It's also interesting for me to see how she's really struggling with seeing him as King...which is something he acknowledges, eventually, even though she sees it day in and day out. The theme of going back to how things were or recovering who they used to be has been handled well, which, ironically enough, is what makes their push and pull so frustrating.