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KYR's shoes look nothing like the one we saw on the person on the road, right ?
Anyway, can someone remove Jae pil from this drama ? I want KYR with her brother's friend and Jonhui with KYR's brother, please !!

Ok, good for you ?

lmao 3 episodes on a cooking competition nobody cared about, to move the plot forward on the 11th episode and wrap everything up on the 12th...(hopefully)
SK is never beating the allegation that they don't know how to properly end their shows.
12 episodes, 4 less than the usual 16 and they still managed to give us filler episodes and a fast paced ending, that's crazy

Because Usagi's reason to go back was good enough for you ?? The whole plot was ass

Useless additional season, just like every time a studio tries to milk a good show that worked well enough.
The borderland was something they didn't have a choice to go to. I saw it as a metaphore for the fight someone has to do to stay alive when on the brink of death and they turned it into a place you can just decide to go whenever, like a simulation or whatever. Your survial in the games depended on your ability to fight for your life, on your will to live, even if someone helped you stay alive and died in the process it's because that person just wasn't meant to live. Now they turned it into a place where you can just go and save people from death lol.
Maybe I misunderstood what the borderland was but with my interpreation, that additional season just ruined it.
The joker was useless.

Usagi and Arisu's RS was forces, they writting of the RS was not good enough to sell it but well they needed a reason to have both character go back to the borderland so..
Usagi's reason to return ???? Her father was never in the borderland in the first place, so did I miss something?
The games were rushed and nowhere near as interesting as the first season.

Honestly the 16 episodes one tend to drag the plot and give us unecessary filler episodes..

Excactly! I like to believe they are all young because to possess so little critial thinking as an adult is worrisome. "Actually, China wants peace and not war!" ok, and this is a work of fiction where China is not even the villain, so.... ?
"Why are they bringing Iraq into the mixt ? it's US propaganda" because it's another war the US started for no reason and it's quite ironic that ML is trying to prevent a war that is similar to the one he previously took part in, as an invader ?

I think SY is KHN, there is no reason to bring in a whole hidden family and have the husband say "I think I KNOW her" if they are not the same person

The entire plot is about the US wanting to start yet another war for *no* reason, like they ALWAYS DO. If you don't see that it's criticizing the US gov and its military actions over the years, Idk what to do for you at this point, you might just be a bit dumb. In the last episode we literally learn that the US knew the submarine intel was not real and still chose war, the show is NOT painting them as the good guys here.

They also talked about Iraq bc the ML was a soldier there, it's factual that the US was in Iraq. A lot of veterans turn to private security jobs and the most "experienced" veterans out there are americans because well, they're the only ones in every war on the planet. That's why they made him american and that's why he was in Iraq, bc americans were in fact in Iraq. I didn't see any gloryfication of US soldiers in the ME in any of the scenes in Iraq, they had no reason to be there in the first place and we all know it.
If anything, those scenes show the irony of ML trying to prevent a US-made war on North Korean soil when he himself actively participated in another US-made war (Iraq) on behalf of the US army. What's up? Is war no longer fun when the victim is your country ?

They are romanticizing ML who is a veteran turned hitman, he's not a good guy and they didn't even try to hide it, they outright showed us he's not a good, him being a nasty murderer in Iraq is not surprising, and if you like him then that's on you, but again ML is NOT a good guy. Just like all american veterans btw.

As for China, they didn't say "China choses war", the question was "why didn't China intervene ? Why chose war ?" they are WONDERING why. Because, spoiler alert, China and NK have an alliance, and any war in NK would affect China and every countries around it. So in reality China WOULD intervene, 100%, but well, if they did, there wouldn't be any plot. It's not even part of the plot to wonder why they are not doing anything, they just needed to adress it because if they didn't, we would have wondered "why is China doing nothing ?".

EVERYONE IS BAD, all politics are corrupted, that's the point... "Together, they navigate a treacherous world of power, deception, and buried conspiracies".

They had a female president allow the war to happen, I don't see you bitching about how that's misogynistic, you don't see Koreans crying about how they would never have a president chose war over their people or how SK's presidents are only chosen because the US veto them. It's a work of fiction.

I would 100% be bitching too if they decided to bring down China to uphold the US, I'm tired of the anti-china/pro-america propaganda, but it's pretty clear that everyone sucks here. And in the case of China, they're not even depicted as the bad guy, they just don't intervene because the plot needs China to not do anything, otherwise no plot, simple as that.

Dis you miss the part where the ENTIRE PLOT is about the US wanting to start an unecessary war ??

lmao so China can't ever be the bad guys ever in a fictional story ? I mean I get it, in the drama they draw the US as this big and strong entity so chinese ppl might be pissed that on the other hand China is depicted as "wanting war", and we know how the two countries feel about each other and the anti-china propaganda in the west, but did they miss the part where everyone wants war, the US included ? They are literally saying that FL and her husband have been targeted by the US, no one is good here.

she's like 20 or something in the 80s, not 35 acting like a teen -__-
Also your vision of what a woman should be for a man to be attracted to her lmaoooo so fucking misogynistic.
Women don't need to perform to find a man.

You sound like a literal teen. How old are you ?

this is so "you wanted my best friend so much (you got together or not), she left us, we all moved on with our life, we then met later on and got together" coded !!

It says in the synopsis it seems he likes Jong hui but it might be a misunderstanding

that was not my argument though lol, idc about remakes, like I said, it holds

That's fine, the argument holds lol, in Mr.queen the guy is a chef that uses his skills to satisfy the grand queen dowager but thankfully thats not the whole plot. I'll check that c drama thanks

ok because you said the novel/webtoon was released before mr. queen (2020) and someone else also said it to me, so I wanted to check that to revise my comment since I dont mind being wrong, but I can't find sources anywhere :/

thats the best way to not be disappointed. can you send me a source of the novel being published prior to 2020?

I'll revise my comment then : such plot is not enough to justify a 12 episodes show, imo. but you're right, I came here for the historical drama, not the cookin show drama so it makes sense that I'm disappointed. however, I'm pretty open minded and if the story and the plot was good enough for me, I'd have enjoyed it more. the first few episodes were entertaining but it got boring.
Also what's the source of the publication date of the webtoon? I found nowhere that it was released prior to 2020.

I guess it also depends on what their definition of "tied up everything well" means 👀 What I consider a good ending could be their idea of a bad ending and vice versa. Depends also how much liberty the writers took and how well they'll use the remaining episodes to wrap thing up. We'll see, I put no hope into it honestly but hopefully it will satisfy you haha