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Watch him in Money Flower! He's excellent in it

The look on their faces whenever the other person initiated contact was squeal-inducing every single time 😍

Another thing I thought of: we never saw the dog again and the connection between Seo-ri's manager and the dog was teased but then dropped. We also never saw the romance really unfold between him and Ji Hyo. So annoying!

This for sure was hard carried by the fantastic cast. There were so many unanswered questions in the end like who the hell was the Joseon shaman and why did she have so much power? Also the differences between Seo-ri and Dam-shin were inconsistent, like they both ended up feisty in the end but how?

It isn't close to the worst ending I've ever seen but it could have been so much better with just a few tweaks. I mean I can't say it's bad but it just felt a little flat after the enjoyable first half.

I don't understand why they crammed so much plot into the last episode, they could have started all these arcs halfway through and given them time to breathe. I wanted to see more development in the Joseon era and also a little more explanation for the magic because I don't understand why she got caught in limbo

ETA: I would have loved to see more development of the relationship between Seo-ri's manager and the actress, it was super cute but all we got was a couple of throwaway scenes in the last episode.

The last episode:

This is a light romcom but it's fair to criticize it for failing to execute some elements well. There's a lot of romcoms I love that had a few problems but still felt good from beginning to end, like My Lovely Sam Soon (referenced in MRN!), Her Private Life, Dali and Cocky Prince, My Sweet Mobster, Fated to Love You (though that one has some heavy melodrama), Hogu's Love, Coffee Prince, etc etc.

I've been enjoying My Royal Nemesis a lot but the last two episodes felt pointless and we lost a lot of what made the drama enjoyable in the first place which was the acting and great chemistry between the leads. Instead we got scenes that felt pointless and made the ML seem a bit stupid, plus a lot of dangling plot threads.

I hope they bring it back around in the last two episodes but even if they don't I'm still glad I watched because it's Heo Nam Jun's breakout role and he earned the attention he's getting with sheer charisma and acting talent (obviously his body doesn't hurt either). Im Ji Yeon has had lead roles before but she's really funny in this and it will boost her career too.

He was a villain in Money Flower, his character was a terrible person but also weirdly sympathetic

Omg I didn't recognize him because he didn't have that sad ponytail he had in Trauma Code 😂 but I like him and would definitely like to see him in more prominent roles. He does have a great voice!

An opponent, a rival, someone you're always fighting against

I have a lot of problems with the writing in the last two episodes but I don't regret watching the drama. The actors are fantastic and I'm glad to see them both earning more popularity because they deserve it.

I think it's definitely Se Gye since Seo Ri was a royal concubine and she drives him crazy

I really hope that the actors get their flowers in the end anyway because the writing is a mess but the performances are what sold me on this and that's unusual because usually I'm a writing-first viewer.

It's probably not fair to compare but I started thinking of how other dramas handled time travel. The Atypical Family gave us all these breadcrumbs throughout the story and then in the end brought it all together in the most cathartic way. Another one is the Thai BL Be My Favorite, there was one scene that was funny but didn't seem incredibly significant that looped around in the end in an emotionally satisfying way. I hope that this drama pulls it out in the end and we look back at the clues and think of course! But I'm afraid we'll get wtf was that???? instead.

Watch him in Money Flower, he's a villain but he makes you feel sorry for him because he's been exploited by his family.

It is confusing though. People have like five different theories going in the comments and it's not because they're all stupid.

The comet thing is annoying because the first body swap happened without a comet, or at least I think so. It seems like the body swap happens whenever Seo-ri is unconscious or near death. Does the comet have anything to do with all this? Also, it's not clear if Dan-shim also has to be unconscious/near death for it to happen. It's also not clear how the timelines align in terms of what points they are in their lives when they swap.

Right now, based on the rules established by the drama, Seo-ri and Dan-shim are in the eras they're supposed to be in, so when the comet leaves it shouldn't change anything. If Seo-ri takes another trip to the past, it will have to be if she's unconscious, so again the comet has nothing to do with it based on what we've been shown. It's unclear writing. Either there will be a big exposition dump in the last two episodes or we will never get any clarity on this.

That's very interesting but I'm not convinced that's how we're supposed to interpret what happened. What it seems like to me is that when Seo-ri almost died in the car, she swapped souls with Dan-shim.

When Dan-shim lived in the present, she had a very different personality so couldn't maintain an acting career. Meanwhile, Seo-ri became the feared concubine because she brought her feistier personality with her.

Then when the king had Seo-ri drink poison and the comet appeared, the souls swapped back.

So now Dan-shim is in the Joseon era and seems to be alive based on the shaman's flashbacks. Since she's alive, there's a chance that she'll be reunited with the prince.

Seo-ri is in the present and is in love with the Prince's reincarnation. Which now that I think about it is kind of weird because they are both having romances with the same person! Just in different eras.

Logically, there shouldn't be another body swap even when the comet disappears because the two women are in their correct eras. But this drama has a loose relationship with logic so we'll see how it plays out.

I'm not going to tackle the identity swap because it's confusing a.f. but what's really bugging me is that Cha Se Gye is starting to come off as a little stupid and impotent (not in bed, in his business life). He keeps getting surprised by Mun Do and he never seems to learn how to protect himself. He doesn't come across as someone who can handle being CEO of grandad's business. Mun Do is a sociopath but he does seem to know what he's doing and he won over the entire board while Se Gye was running around after Seo Ri. This is no shade to Heo Nam Jun who is fantastic in the role. It's a writing problem.

Jang Geum shout-out in episode 12 of My Royal Nemesis. The ML says people called him Jang Geum in college because he cooked so well

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