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I think MBC is just huge so it has more money and smaller stations simply aren't able to produce historical dramas on a satisfying level, maybe those bottle kind of show, with really intimate, in-depth relationships and setting, but not something epic. Sageuks are very expensive to make, with settings, costumes and especially with battle scenes (so in some shows it just happens off the screen). It's a lot to take.
/but once they start, they can - to some extent - just reuse head-pieces, court robes and locations from drama to drama so it keeps rolling/
Frankly, I don't think tvN or other smaller station could afford to produce W so well when it comes to cinematography. They made a really good job in differentiating those two worlds and bringing manhwa to life.

Yayuns, have you seen Drama King? Broadcasting station pay for the drama and has power to shape it to make it more profitable by influencing writter, producer etc. They can cut on controversial bits, give more prominence to the actor they want to promote and so on. Even with preproduced dramas it's not just buying a tv series made in accordance to artistic values of its creators, it's buying a product that has to fit into station's strategy. Moreover, broadcasting stations have their distinctive style and TVN is generally valued for the originality of their dramas. This sign in a corner can change everything.

No, I wouldn't say it is. It's very good, a class of it's own compared to typical kdramas, but falls short in a comparison with this writter previous works which maybe weren't this flashy [again, not a bad thing per se], but had less loose ends, more developed world architecture and stricter logic. And convincible romance, a part that here is just forgettable to me. And I'm saying it as someone who enjoyed W immensely and puts higher standards to it than to other dramas. After 16 episodes I'm not satiated at all. While the show suceeded in keeping me entertained and was never predictable, there are whole parts I'm not buying and which somehow in a process took more prominent place than those that made me attracted to W in a first place.

*cough*in Japan*cough*

me too! (not so secretly)

He didn't know till he saw her dressed up. The neck part - he was just possesive. There's no deeper thought in this, it's similar like when he was watching her with the evil minister's grandson on the corridor before. Just jealous. He didn't put pieces together afterall.
I don't even think he gave up on looking for the dancer, he was just too busy keeping his favourite eunuch alive.
The whole point is he came to a place where he doesn't care what her sex is (but her being a girl makes it all more comfortable, of course). Look how his attitude was different now that he knows, but she didn't know that he knew.

Nah, I disagree. The character is supposed to be childish and maybe overly cute. The true problem is his very presence. How is he still getting so much screentime? He's like, 5th lead, but he's just getting a whole new arc (that looks like taken from another prince, but that's not important right now). He has more presence than 13th and 14th combined.

Too scarred for a Phantom mask to cover.

I think Han Hyo Joo is a victim of drama-mode of acting/actor directing? here (think Lee Sung Kyung in CITT, Gong Hyo Jin's aegyo, entire Hwang Jung-Eum etc). She's much better in The Beauty Inside (it took me 20-30 minutes to even recognize her, because, yeah, poor facial recognition skills on my part, but she's very different there), there's no exaggeration nor awkwardness. I even thought about this while watching those behing-the-scenes - she acts casual after the camera stops.

Ok, but what about the dead body? that drowned and decomposed? I was still waiting for it resurface. Was it a red herring?

lol @ 00:25:19
meta till the end.

So was the whole tree-talking scene (I mean, minus wolves, obviously) an allusion to IU's Zeze? Cool.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Nope, it's 400 years earlier or so. 6FD was about the fall of Goryeo dynasty and establishing Joseon, that's its very begining, after uniting old kingdoms.

Am I the only one wondering how are they managing to match some scenes with the other Moon series (e.g. birthday performances around ep 3 I guess, puppet shows yesterday)? Internal intelligence? Coincidence? I don't think so.
It's like they're challenging the comparisons.

Did I blink and miss something or did they pull Royal Gambler again? Did that girl had any significant impact on the plot whatsoever? why was she even there? Besides that everything fell into places beautifully (present from the beginning in a plain sight - golden ink, meeting a scholar etc), but she sticks like a sore thumb.

those parts are recapped in comments section on dramabeans tho (like here - 5.4.2).
I really hope hunting for both versions and comparing them to grasp what's going on won't be a standard from now on.

Uhm, so as we're all bunch of entitled brats here, has anyone found a video of all missing scenes from ep 6 neatly put up together and posted somewhere?

So it's going to be a standard from now on, isn't it? As the version for c-tv had to be approved before so they probably wont' bother to get the remastered one and get the whole approval process from the scratch.

Nah, it's unwatchable today.
/on a second thought, the fact that Yoo Seung Ho was apparently born with this smug of his is still amusing.