itwillneverbefar

I agree with you. They've made it pretty obvious that pretty much every royal for the past 30 years has been miserable. Add to that the fact that we're at the point people are trying to assassinate others to gain the crown, the monarchy seems pretty rotten and unnecessary at this point.

Though I feel like he could also just completely take the power away from the monarch, like how it is in England. Like give it no political power whatsoever, maybe even abolish nobility, make it just a cultural position.

I noticed that too! Like even within scenes, like when the Prince goes to see his nephew they just cut weirdly back and forth between him staring and the king crying and I was like wtf is happening here.

Yeah I can see why he would want to, esp since the last 30 years seem to be just one tragedy after another

Yeah I think they're based on the first half of the show, which was a lot better

I love when she bares her teeth. Prince needs her, he's too soft haha

Yeah they def rushed that arc. that woman has been on edge since the night her husband died in the fire years ago , she seems miserable, so it would make sense she might just be done at some point and just be tired of playing the game, esp once she found out her father was actually killing people. But they should have given that more time rather than it happening over like half an episode.

I thought so many times during this episode that this should have all happened in episode 9 like what have they been doing this whole time

Jeonwoo oppa looking mighty fine in his black villain turtlenecks. I'm digging his turn to the dark side, kinda wish he'd been evil from the beginning.

I still lowkey ship Grand Prince and Queen Mother, they have good chemistry. Hope those two can be leads in another drama.

I wish the writer had gone a different route than cliche historical drama trappings like poisoning, assassinations, usurping the throne, etc, and made it more smartly political or relationship focused tension for the modern setting. The plot feels way too thin for the amount of episodes, too, like I kept expecting there to be some extra layer or twist or more going on but it's all pretty blandly straightforward.

Yeah the Michelle sister or whoever is so confusing, like is she evil, is she just a little disconnected, is she giving him tough love? That storyline is all over the place.

Because he's hot and she does'nt want to have to stop associating with him because she likes him. She's a hypocrite.

Humans are not rational at all times and moments. Y'all are acting like these two must be the buddha. They're human beings who have trauma they haven't dealt with. When trauma gets triggered people act purely from a place of fear or emotion. You all are the same too, but sitting here expecting the leads to somehow be perfect.

It wasn't the SML, the ML was already feeling terrible and pulling away, and already looking for a way out of having to actually deal with his issues with her. He didn't do this because the SML said something.

I hate that he said that, but Yejin is stronger than people are giving her credit for. She knows where that was coming from and that it's not really about her.

Dude has spent the past five years in a self-imposed isolation, repressing his own needs to over-give to everyone around him out of guilt and shame he hasn't dealt with, so it's not gonna be resolved with a calm chat over tea. People usually need to reach bottom before they will deal with the real stuff in their life, so he needed to get to this point. He's gonna have to face the fallout of this and grow from it. It would be weird if he didn't lash out at some point with the amount of emotion he has been repressing.

It ain't pretty, and I hate that he said that, and I want them to work it out together, but life really is ugly like this sometimes.

Most of them also are also very confidently wrong. They're calling out stuff as unrealistic that literally happens IRL if they'd bother to do any research. This show has issues and isn't perfect but people are nitpicking it based of vibes istg.

Idk man, what he just displayed is a classic shame reaction. People who haven't dealt with their guilt and shame tend to lash out with it at others and push others away, esp if he can also convince himself she's better off without him or he's better off alone. I usually hate noble idiocy but it actually makes sense given both their backgrounds, and I've seen people who seem to have it all together act just like he did when their deep unresolved shame was triggered, it's really tough to deal with.

I'm still mad at him and it really hurt to hear him be harsh with her, but until he deals with his guilt/shame he can't be a truly good partner to anyone.

No way, it was worse when it was 16 episodes cause instead of one unnecessary break up it like 2 and then like a 5 year time skip and amnesia and then they still just got together in the last 10 mins of the show. At least now it's only like an ep or two of angst instead of 5.

If you've been lucky enough to not feel guilty for something that isn't actually your fault then you are quite blessed. It is extremely common, esp for people who were raised by parents (ahem, like Yejin's mom) who never took responsibility for their actions and even actively blamed their kids for anything that went wrong. So.. maybe for you it feels dumb, but for me this story resonates really deeply with my own experience of life.

I encourage you to go and learn about this, maybe you will be able to understand and have more compassion for the characters in this story and be able to enjoy it more.

I don't think this was his premeditated plan to get her to go back, it was a combo of him wanting her to go back to work but also even more genuinely was how he felt with everything coming out. Shame is a pretty powerful emotion, and when it's triggered it can cause people to devolve and lash out pretty quickly. When he said he felt suffocated he was being dead honest, but not because he didn't like her or want to be with her or his feelings weren't true, he just cannot forgive himself for what happened and so can't feel comfortable being happy or letting someone else care for him, since he imagines he has to ignore his own needs and take care of everyone else to make up for what he's done.

In that lens it makes perfect sense why he went this route and took the opportunity to push her away rather than do the more challenging work of dealing with his shame. It's still dumb and I'm still mad at him, and I don't think Yejin believes him regardless, but she has every right to feel hurt

This is actually good for them, tho, it's necessary. This is what happens when you run away to the countryside and don't deal with your demons. Both of them gotta face their own shame, and I am with you that I hope they come back together much sooner than later and work through the stuff that's between them, but there are things they need to face on their own, too.

Yeah it's a HUGE double standard. She is just using this to try and separate them because she likes Mechoori. She's awful

This kind of stuff happens all the time, no test is perfect, scientists make mistakes, they are human too, esp if he was just out of school. And corporations can cut corners or do other things that are neglectful, or can just make mistakes also. SO many products are recalled every year. Literally thousands.

And he's growing mushrooms because he can't create creams anymore, it actually makes perfect sense. He has a bio degree and is passionate about it, but feels too guilty to do the actual development work of the products, so he instead is growing one of the key ingredients which then gets incorporated and tested by others so he isn't the one responsible if something goes wrong. In the years between he's sold the mushrooms to a lot of different companies and it's been fine.

Genuinely feel like a lot of people (not just you) are being really nitpicky with details like this when they actually just don't really know anything about the subject at hand.