itwillneverbefar

Hun, there are things called genres. You want a slice of life or melodrama genre, but this show is an absurdist comedy. You can hate a show for being a genre you don't like, but its kinda ridiculous to say that out loud acting as if it's a legitimate criticism.

Literally every other drama airing right now has a ML who is a normal dude. I have watched a hundred dramas and I've never seen a ML who is just like this one, like zero. None. "Almost every"?? U can't be for real

I do'nt get people saying they hate Se Jin while also admitting to not even watching the scenes to see her character arc and how she develops over the series.

OMG I thought I was the only one! I find her honesty refreshing, she is actually one of the most genuine characters on the show. And I think her petty hatred of han gyul just for being #1 is hilarious. She's just a bit prickly but cutie pie han gyul is gonna break all the walls.

People who grow up only feeling hate dont' even know how to feel loved, it feels scary to them. The 2ML seems to panic whenever anyone shows him kindness and lashes out immediately.

Also, he justifies his actions by pretending he is the ultimate victim and the world is cruel, so it doesn't matter if he's cruel too, so seeing others be genuinely compassionate and selfless makes his whole worldview and identity crumble. He really is so frustrating but I understand him, he is fighting against some massive demons

I haven't been as interested this last few eps since Gil Dong "died", I feel the show kinda lost its focus without that since it was a huge part of the premise, and it's become too focused on what feels like overly manufactured relationship drama. The show isn't bad or anything but it's just lost its sparkle for me . The end to ep 9 feels out of nowhere, too. And I'm soooo tired of the pointless love triangle. I love Jae Yi and his character arc so far and I did like that Eun Jo's warmth woke him up and made him want to be better, but I want him to move on from being so focused on her and find a reason to change for himself and his own sense of integrity. It will be so dumb if he spends the rest of the series becoming a better person just for Eun Jo. Also what is the entire point of the 2FL in this story? She's just brought in randomly to artificially ramp up the main leads relationship angst, she doesn't even get a real story of her own, I guess she's not even gonna have a real loveline with 2ML either.

I'll keep watching and hope the writer has an endgame that brings it all together, I just used to get really excited for this show and I'm feeling more meh now after ep 9 esp.

Ok so Ha Seok Jin is a very good actor and seems totally wasted on some support role ineffectual king, and I get the sense in every scene that the king knows a lot more than he's letting on and is being VERY deliberate about everything he says and does, and that his hands may be tied for now to really take power away from the minister Sa Hyeong but that he is plotting something secretly. In the first episode we see the king in the past talking about how he didn't have power to save his mother, and in that same ep the queen made an offhand comment to Sa Hyeong about how no one in the palace has the power to say no to him. I think Sa Hyeong orchestrated getting Eun Jo's father's status stripped and never was his actual ally or in danger of the same fate. I think there is going to be a big twist revealed soon that shows the king is actually playing 4D chess while pretending to be a drugged up loser.

I've always gotten the sense that the king knows way more than he lets on, and that he sees how dangerous the minister is and so is careful about what he shows or does. I think he knows the concubine is playing her own game, and the scene from the past where he banished eun jo's father felt like something maybe the evil minister had orchestrated all along and the king was forced to go along with it. The scene where he tells Yeol to be careful so he can take care of his mother like the king couldn't take care of his own hints that he doesn't have as much power as it seems.

That second idea is interesting. What if he's stripped of his title for some reason, like they end up taking down the baddies but it costs him his title cause the king can't keep him around politically. That would be cool way to end it

My first thought was that he has a revenge plot in mind to take down his father somehow and that's why he didn't want to marry the 2FL. I don't know anymore tbh

Yeah the fact that her father is technically a noble before his status was stripped , the old dude died before the actual ceremony, and there was deception in the arrangement will make it easier.

Also if her father ends up helping the king in some way he will be more likely to reward him.

They will swap again when it will be least convenient for them, this is how you add tension to the story

I have hope cause the 2FL is so pure and kind and that boy has never been loved in his life, if anyone can love him its her lol

There's two ways his arc can go, either he goes deeper and deeper and becomes even more of a villian than his father, or he decides to stop trying to win his father's love and joins in with the gildong cause. Hoping the latter, I love a good redemption arc

The SML wants his father's love and approval, he's like an abused puppy. And it would be more unrealistic for a commoner to suddenly be completely cool and collected suddenly thrown into the palace which is almost mythical to her.

His character was one of the most interesting to me from the beginning because of the writing, finding out he was illegitimate added a lot of depth to his character, and I see him continuing to evolve, so I don't get this take

Normally I don't like body swap but the writer does a really good job of making it central to the plot, like the plot moves forward because of the swap in an irreversible way and a way it could not have without the swap. So in this case it's not a trope.

I think they're using the second leads to add overall complications to the body swap to add some spice to the show, but I don't think either of them will be serious contenders. They wouldn't have had the 2nd leads meet at the beginning and be engaged and have all those scenes together to not end up together.

Guys I was so shocked he already found out she's gildong, I am so used to dramas stringing out secrets FOREVER, this makes me excited cause the show must have more twists up its sleeve and a lot more plot to show us. Really loving it so far, this week was the best yet.

It's also so refreshing that the body swap is actually integral to the plot rather than just a gimmick. Eun Jo isn't just stumbling around the palace as the Prince just for humor, her knowledge of medicine brought to light how the minister and concubine are drugging the king, she had the knowledge to tell the guards to investigate the death of "gildong" when otherwise the minister would have gotten away with it. And the prince being a nobody widow in a powerful house is helping him get info and intel he never could have as the prince and he's able to advocate for and change Eun Jo's situation in a way she never could have herself.

Yeah I was thinking about this too, but then realized how to a commoner at the time the palace would be almost like another planet, like we get to see it a lot in historicals but for anyone non-royal they would never have even seen inside at any point in their lives. And would have been very intimidated by being surrounded by people with kinda unimaginable power, and have no idea about all the rules and even more the unspoken rules. It would be less realistic for her to enter into that kind of situation and be immediately cool and collected and fall right into place.

It makes sense that the opposite is true for the prince in Eun Jo's body, cause for someone who grew up surrounded by the intrigue of the palace dealing with one noble household would be nothing.

I think he's doing more with the role than you're giving him credit for. The character is someone who hides his emotions under a very cold exterior, so he's not going to be pulling faces like NJH, who I actually find overacts at times (she's great and I'm loving her in this, but she's not a great comparison). He's making the character quite sympathetic despite being a complete asshole in every single scene he's in, which isn't easy and shows he can express vulnerability well, which is the most important thing for an actor. He doesn't seem out of place to me, and some of my favorite scenes are between him and NJH because he is able to add a lot of intensity and tension to the scenes, which also is a very important skill as an actor. Is he Lee Jae Wook at age 23? No. But I think he's holding his own and is doing a great job with the role.

They have great chemistry from the first scene together. The actress plays the character with a lot of enthusiasm and brightness which makes her seem young and full of energy. The actor plays him with a lot of confidence and bravado but also there is this grounded thoughtfulness and gentleness to him that makes him seem kind of like an old soul at times. He is also much higher in status than her.

TBH I literally did not even think about the fact that they were different ages, when I really try and think about it I guess he does look younger but the acting sells it 100%.