this trend of splitting a season into two parts with long gap in between has to stop. it's fucking annoying. getting…
the reason for the delay is bc the Asian Games are set to start later this month so the tv stations will be broadcasting that + they haven't finished filming the rest of the series. plus MBC also said they had always planned to split it into two parts regardless so i wouldn't say it's a trend for this drama specifically?
Even if Gil Chae were not getting married I believe she would have made the same choice to stay behind with her…
Alexa play Shrike by Hozier pls sksksksk
honestly i love these two to death (and Ryang Eum. even Ryang Eum my poor son) but i cannot wait to see even more character development from them in part two bc Gil Chae. bby girl. read through a few reviews of ep 10 (still trying to catch up) and i love how it's so obvious the Gil Chae we knew at the beginning is very different from the Gil Chae now and how she's asserting herself and making decisions for all of the people she has to take care of, not just the man who she's started to fall in love with—are we going to get hit with a severe amount of angst in the future, tho? probably but this is a sageuk and Namgoong said it would wreck us so we are seated either way
confirmed gay in his official MBC bio. this is why us Ryang Eum fans are suffering with this love triangle sksksksk
see i'm a bit of a Ryang Eum defender here so we're going to have to unpack that for a sec and i'm going to address each part of your comment as briefly as i can. hopefully this doesn't come across as aggressive or condescending but also still makes some kind of sense sksksksk
if we're going to bring up lying, then first off we have to establish that every member of this love triangle have lied to each other at at least one point or another during the series. Gil Chae lied to Soon Yuk about marrying him after he came home from the war if he protected Young Master Yeon Joon and also lied to Jang Hyun about said young master being the one she was thinking of when she called him husband at the end of ep 4, Ryang Eum lied to Jang Hyun about who Gil Chae had looked at when the announcement of war came during the sixtieth anniversary celebration in ep 2, and Jang Hyun lied to Ryang Eum about losing the dagger he had given him as a gift (token of love, perhaps?) when he had actually given it to Gil Chae to defend herself while they were on the run. it's probably not a good idea to start ranking the lies by morality bc that's mostly absent here—a driving concept in MD is that nothing is truly black and white—but that levels the playing field pretty evenly in my opinion. the story Ryang Eum told in ep 8 on the journey to Shimyang is not toxic, by any means. it is a well-known folktale in Korea that has been retold both in various folk song recordings and in a 1972 film, and the basic gist of the story is that Gap Dol and Gap Soon loved each other but never said it directly/strongly enough, hence Gap Soon getting married off to another man and having his children. that story was brought up in response to Jang Hyun's query of if it was possible to have one man in your heart for so long and not change, after his conversation with Gil Chae on the ridge; Ryang Eum said that it was, although he did note that 'you cannot do it by effort. nobody, no one can touch that forever until the day you die'. did he use this to partially warn Jang Hyun off of pursuing Gil Chae out of selfish reasons (that line sounded like he was talking more about himself than anyone else)? yes. is he also genuinely concerned about Jang Hyun getting his heart broken by someone who is apparently in love with someone else despite her actions? yes.
we know, by now, that Ryang Eum is in love with Jang Hyun. we also know that Jang Hyun has squarely friendzoned him, though it's still up in the air whether he knows about Ryang Eum's feelings or not. so far, up to ep 8, he hasn't done anything we can really consider as sabotage to the main couple, and from what i've seen of the commentary on ep 9 hasn't done anything in that regard either (except return home early and possibly run into Gil Chae, but we all know the editing on these things when they want to conceal sh*t are iffy). if, as you say, the ep 10 plot line occurs and he really did decide to not to carry Jang Hyun's message so that Gil Chae would go and get married anyway, then we can talk about crossing the line and that, by extension, would warrant a negative reading of whatever tf is going on with him in the apparent ep 10 preview. to me, he's not quite there yet. if he was, then we'd have to bring up Gil Chae and her multiple attempts to draw Yeon Joon away from Eun Ae early in the series, and i can hear the misogyny coming back again from here. if it doesn't occur, then there's probably another reason why he and Jang Hyun are going at it.
confirmed gay in his official MBC bio. this is why us Ryang Eum fans are suffering with this love triangle sksksksk
if they do that to my bby i'm entering their house and it's on sight bc i've had enough of that in modern projects i don't need it in a sageuk too. let me have faith in your characterization skills at least
confirmed gay in his official MBC bio. this is why us Ryang Eum fans are suffering with this love triangle sksksksk
but if he did then we wouldn't have anything to write fics about rip. in an AU somewhere he's happy just being Jang Hyun's friend and he also has a boyfriend i'm going to believe that
Wait it was not the actor's own voice?? Shocked at the discovery really
i was reading the comments under the clip of the song in the drama that someone had uploaded almost two weeks ago and the singer had commented saying that (i'm going by YouTube's automatic translation here) he was so happy that people thought it was Yoon Woo singing bc that meant he had done a good job
can't believe i'm christening the comment section of this drama like this (i posted this on the feeds already but it needs to be here as well) but uh. Park Sang Hoon (the original singer for Ryang Eum!!!!) just released a full length version of With My Heart and i have been a broken gay for about half an hour now. istg if this doesn't officially make it on the album i'm rioting
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http://www.dazedkorea.com/feature/article/2396/detail.do
honestly i love these two to death (and Ryang Eum. even Ryang Eum my poor son) but i cannot wait to see even more character development from them in part two bc Gil Chae. bby girl. read through a few reviews of ep 10 (still trying to catch up) and i love how it's so obvious the Gil Chae we knew at the beginning is very different from the Gil Chae now and how she's asserting herself and making decisions for all of the people she has to take care of, not just the man who she's started to fall in love with—are we going to get hit with a severe amount of angst in the future, tho? probably but this is a sageuk and Namgoong said it would wreck us so we are seated either way
if we're going to bring up lying, then first off we have to establish that every member of this love triangle have lied to each other at at least one point or another during the series. Gil Chae lied to Soon Yuk about marrying him after he came home from the war if he protected Young Master Yeon Joon and also lied to Jang Hyun about said young master being the one she was thinking of when she called him husband at the end of ep 4, Ryang Eum lied to Jang Hyun about who Gil Chae had looked at when the announcement of war came during the sixtieth anniversary celebration in ep 2, and Jang Hyun lied to Ryang Eum about losing the dagger he had given him as a gift (token of love, perhaps?) when he had actually given it to Gil Chae to defend herself while they were on the run. it's probably not a good idea to start ranking the lies by morality bc that's mostly absent here—a driving concept in MD is that nothing is truly black and white—but that levels the playing field pretty evenly in my opinion.
the story Ryang Eum told in ep 8 on the journey to Shimyang is not toxic, by any means. it is a well-known folktale in Korea that has been retold both in various folk song recordings and in a 1972 film, and the basic gist of the story is that Gap Dol and Gap Soon loved each other but never said it directly/strongly enough, hence Gap Soon getting married off to another man and having his children. that story was brought up in response to Jang Hyun's query of if it was possible to have one man in your heart for so long and not change, after his conversation with Gil Chae on the ridge; Ryang Eum said that it was, although he did note that 'you cannot do it by effort. nobody, no one can touch that forever until the day you die'. did he use this to partially warn Jang Hyun off of pursuing Gil Chae out of selfish reasons (that line sounded like he was talking more about himself than anyone else)? yes. is he also genuinely concerned about Jang Hyun getting his heart broken by someone who is apparently in love with someone else despite her actions? yes.
we know, by now, that Ryang Eum is in love with Jang Hyun. we also know that Jang Hyun has squarely friendzoned him, though it's still up in the air whether he knows about Ryang Eum's feelings or not. so far, up to ep 8, he hasn't done anything we can really consider as sabotage to the main couple, and from what i've seen of the commentary on ep 9 hasn't done anything in that regard either (except return home early and possibly run into Gil Chae, but we all know the editing on these things when they want to conceal sh*t are iffy). if, as you say, the ep 10 plot line occurs and he really did decide to not to carry Jang Hyun's message so that Gil Chae would go and get married anyway, then we can talk about crossing the line and that, by extension, would warrant a negative reading of whatever tf is going on with him in the apparent ep 10 preview. to me, he's not quite there yet. if he was, then we'd have to bring up Gil Chae and her multiple attempts to draw Yeon Joon away from Eun Ae early in the series, and i can hear the misogyny coming back again from here. if it doesn't occur, then there's probably another reason why he and Jang Hyun are going at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIZqTkkHNY
https://www.soompi.com/article/1608793wpp/drama-han-ye-ri-and-kim-yo-han-are-in-talks-for-denies-rumors-of-cancellation