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It's OK. Boring, twee plot but will keep the squeakers - who like childish, sexless relationships - happy, Bit of a waste of some fairly good actors. Kim Yoo Jung plays a child/teen (again) and does her boggle-eyed staring thing (again).

Hope this is about the Crown Prince who eventually became Munjong of Joseon. And, if it is, he had some 'interesting' wives . . .

She has 4 expressions in every drama. Pouting is a biggie but she can also do bored/tired, boggle-eyed surprise and at least one other. Given the number of kdrama actors who get by on blank-faced staring or (if you're lucky) blank faced staring and inconvincing crying, that's actually pretty good.

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But only someone of sufficient quality, please. Not just some random asshole for the sake of coupledom.

Neither male on female, nor female-on-male sexual assault is OK, drunk or not. I don't think anyone here is debating that. But the glamorisation/romanticisation of women who are often depicted as incomprehensibly drunk in Korean dramas continues to blindside me.

Unless one has an incest fetish the obvious answer is Moon Lovers, since the next stage in the story would be all those princes - including the ML - marrying and having kids with their sisters.

The heroine is an alcoholic in about 90% of kdramas (they are sponsored by the alcohol industry). Despite the fact that even just officially more than a third of sexual assaults in Korea take place with alcohol as a factor, the thick-as-mince writers continue to use this as a 'cutesy' plot device.

Lets hope the replacement actress can convey the same personality. Otherwise, the 'falling in love with soul' things sounds even more stupid.

I'll happily watch part 2, even though I find the idea - even within the confines of 'fantasy' - that one can continue to be in love with someone with BOTH a different face/body and an entirely different personality a bit of a stretch.

That's a cultural gap I can't quite get over. In Korea that blank-faced staring thing (you almost imagine she's going to start drooling, because she's had some form of seizure) which the FL does ALL the time is supposed to convey high emotion. Which emotion is anyone's guess.

I've watched 8 of the 10. Of those I've watched, I'd recommend them all except the absolutely dreadful 'Nevertheless' which made me regularly fall asleep.

Prince Mu Ahn showed an interest in sex that I'd expect from a normal, mentally healthy 19-year-old. That's very different from an average kdrama where characters segue, effortlessly, from squeakily virginal to elderly pervert at around the 40-year mark.

Does anyone know what the incidental music always playing in 'action' scenes is (not the spaghetti western type, the other one)?

He'll probably have to die. They were big on primogeniture in those days. That said, Sejong was a (3rd or 4th?) son but was named sucessor.

In my culture 'dowager' refers to a queen who was wife to a - now deceased - monarch, whether or not her child becomes the subsequent monarch. The queen mother is the parent of the current king. I've never heard the latter term used in any Korean drama but imagine that that the equivalent (the queen mother, even if they don't use that term) would be more powerful than a childless dowager.

Also, Kim Hae Sook (noted as dowager in the MDL list) says at one point that she has 'never been the queen' so she's not a dowager in that sense (I think).

His brother is a complete asshole, but I have lower standards for siblings.

I think its a decen t drama but for me it focused a bit too much on the rather insipid 'romance' and not enough on the cases (or truly interesting cases). Still I gave it a solid 8.

Is the fact that Thomas said he wouldn't have been allowed to join the military back when he was alive meaningful to his story arc? For example, he was a conscientious objector. gay or a communist?

It's so disconcerting (in a good way) to see Heo Joon Ho playing a benign character. But I also have a spoiler-type question.