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interesting, this is 8.7 in imdb. MDL people are more focused on the characters and romance? What's your theory?

If you're interested in history like me, Han Kang's book Human Acts is about this time period. It tells more about the censorship (pointed out in ep 8) and torture and killings by the secret police. Not an easy book but those were brutal times.

I think either Doo Hak or Cheol Woong will die.

Much better to watch it on one go.

Maybe they don't watch it as a historical drama. Don't know but this is not just a romance drama.

The historical background is important to understand. Cruel times.

exactly. wanted to say the same. He's a very charismatic actor, stands out. Just as Tal Tal stood out in Empress Ki.

Actually, I see more and more people freaking out if the woman is younger. For wokeists, Goblin is unwatchable. They call it an age gap drama. It used to be called a fantasy drama. Wokeists are changing our very language. It's not double standards, the direction is programmatic intolerance and cancelling which affects even k-drama reception in ridiculous ways. Like people saying they are not able to watch Goblin, 2521, or even Our Blues because of the age gaps. They see grooming and exploitation of female actresses everywhere. Exploitation will happen more in Hollywood because k-drama is way more centered on feelings than pure sex. I've seen people who say k-drama female actresses are "being groomed" if the male lead is older. But I think that actors and actresses are chosen based on their acting ability. Sometimes that leads to age gaps. It's just that the age gap here in CCR bothers me, without any ideological attitudes or double standards.

I agree with you.

How can you be at ep 17 when it hasn't aired yet.

Well said, completely agree.

Who's that?

You said he is hated and I said I haven't seen any of that.

capitalism couldn't possibly be a reason to cancel anything. People are protesting unfair treatment. A victimless crime is not a crime for most people.

Nobody hates him, actually, at least here in MDL and this has been quite the discussion topic. Pls go ahead and count the number of comments sympathetic vs. hating towards YIA. And I've seen no hate towards him in YouTube either. What people hate is the cancelling. But pls go and verify the real figures.

If this is the case, I don't get how 1/3 of Viki dramas are BL... I'm honestly asking, because I have zero knowledge about the situation.

That's just your assumption. I'm sure the actors prefer their work to see the light of day. Korean sponsors can't have anything against showing the works for Netflix's international audience.

Netflix has zero reasons for cancelling. All the western garbage trash they roll out and now they're so orthodox suddenly. This is so unfair for Lee Byung Hyun and Moon Jung Hee. And Ahn Eun Jin. Was so looking forward seeing these great actors in new works. I feel robbed tbh.

Jun Ji Hyun is fantastic, the writers are fantastic, the director is fantastic. Like a dream come true!

The moment we learned they are real brothers but don't know it, I understood this cannot have a happy ending. Going to be a tragic one. I feel it's better to know and tune expections accordingly. Just my hunch though, I could be wrong.