No one will become the president of Korea without the US approval !Interesting statementI think it’s them letting…
I took that to mean that's the common perception, and perhaps also made for a catchy quip in Korean, even if the reality is a little more complicated. It's not like it's unheard-of for the US to intervene in otherwise established governments; actually, in some decades and in some regions, it would've been unheard-of if the CIA were *not* involved.
To make the line be a little more accurate, all you really need to say is the US has historically proven very good at (and certainly more than willing to) create chaos in the right places for a government to collapse. Assassinations, sudden flows of money and/or arms to the opposition, or just outright orchestrating coups. The CIA has proven over and over again it has no shame, no ethics, and accepts no limits.
So in short, if Korea elects a president that won't play along with US policy, it's a legit question to wonder whether ensuing domestic unrest is authentic -- or inflated to monstrous proportions thanks to strategic and intentional interference by the CIA.
About Munju, she is actually not an ordinary women, remember she prefers gather dirts of her husband family instead…
which ironically made me praise her as a damn smart woman. jewelry won't keep you warm at night, unlike suspending your mother-in-law over a blackmail bonfire.
given the stats that women do tend to outlive their male spouses, a very savvy move on her part to come up with a means of self-protection. (and, we cannot ignore that she found it out because her husband refused to go along with his mother's tax evasions, and instead called her out on it!)
Ok...."Dead man tell no Tales".....lolJunik is dead and he cannot defend himself on anything so it is…
I think the ringer for me is that -- having all this tremendous amount of money -- he left every single penny to his wife. I mean, at the least, I'd expect a trust fund to be created for the son, with rules about how & when the son can access it & who manages it.
Alternately, if his radar was pinging that hard, ten days before is still enough time to, idk, create a trust of some sort for his son, pay off his mistress' house mortgage, write her a check for 100-grand (since it seems like that'd be chump change in that family). But if he truly loved his son that much, just leaving the son out completely boggles my mind. He and the FL may've lost the passion in their marriage, but from their recorded conversation, they didn't seem to have lost their love. You don't put yourself between your spouse and a gunman unless you really do want your spouse to live.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -- H.L. Mencken
Alternately, the benefit of a reply like the above is it helps me identify the fascist in the conversation, and then mute them.
Except for the fact that they depicted the US exactly as they are lol
when someone (among the korean characters) basically said the US leadership (that is, the president) is basically a brainless but egotistical saber-rattler who just wants to have a war -- all I could think was: well, they're not wrong.
(the crowning touch: the egotistical idiot president is a lot of talk during an interview, even throwing the gauntlet -- which the in-story news reports was immediately walked-back by the white house even as the white house didn't exactly contradict the president's boasts... which is, uh, pretty accurate right now.)
I suspect it's thanks to what's considered "neutral" in the language. Probably along the same lines as English, using the argument "when we refer to 'all men' that includes women" or "when the instructions say 'he does X' of course that includes women". If the default in Korean is also 'man' includes 'woman' and 'person', using 'man' in the title may've been a more accurate translation, but it'd probably mean English viewers would be puzzling over which "man" is the confidence man/person.
So they may've chosen "queen" to make it absolutely clear they mean PMY's character.
but at the same time, the story makes it pretty clear how & why he's like that, which mostly revolves around being terribly insecure, and privately terrified she'll be taken away or even walk away.
She's literally 17 years old?? doing a Romance drama with a 28 years old?? She's just a baby, a minor, why would…
It means we may see affection (lingering looks, an embrace) but there will be no kisses. Not sure whether they'd be shown in bed together (or maybe 'in bed together' doesn't count if no one gets undressed and puts on pajamas? idk).
I'm just rambling as I watchso it looks like Wu Zehn stays a cat demon but Mei Zhu Yu only went back in time to…
MZY explains it himself: 18 yrs ago, he carried a lantern made by his father (the Cat Master). When he bumped into tiny WZ, he gave her his lantern, and that's why the demonic infant (infant? really?) leaped into her body. Ol' three-eyes was gunning for the Cat Master's heir -- so, to MZY, putting the demon into his body is putting things back the way they should've been.
To sum up: MZY was a demon by birth, while WZ was a demon by inheritance, and (it seems to me) removing the evil spirit was like removing leg weights when running. They could both be full demons, now they weren't being held back. Or something like that.
It's not open. You just have to wait through all the credits to see the final scene (which makes it very not open-anything, except for maybe open-minded!).
Anyone else suspecting ep36 was not only machine-translated, but that the machine was also Japanese-coded? Multiple Japanese terms, and lots translated literally. Zhuyu = chasing rain (very pretty), and calling Wu Zhen "martial lady" is probably b/c her family name is the "wu" as in "wuxia"? Every line felt like I had to read between the lines, apply a lot of context, and then I could (mostly) figure it out -- but the literal translations (like names) made some lines almost incomprehensible.
Are subtitles updated even if it's after broadcast? I mean, this is some Mango next-level nonsense.
It's common in stories/shows/movies to get an episode that seems to be mostly lighthearted. It's the breathing space before the final showdown. At the same time, the episode should also be moving all the players into position, including finding/revealing information that'll either solidify a character's motive or flip it abruptly. This is a tricky balance to strike, especially in the last element. Any new information must be one where the audience goes (at best) "how did I not see that coming,", or at least, "that makes perfect sense, but holy moly." That's the reason I consider the penultimate episode (before the final arc) the best gauge of the writer(s) and director(s) skills.
Unfortunately, it's also common in cdramas (especially stories by weaker writers) that this episode of levity is often too much of a tonal shift -- overdone slapstick humor, sudden fluffy romance -- with little substance. Or the substance of moving players into position and/or revealing new information is timed badly, and the story feels weirdly rushed, moving players at the last minute and dropping bombshells that feel unearned (usually due to inadequate foreshadowing or keeping secrets from the audience). Or the players and information have all been in place for several episodes, which results in either a purely-fluffy or purely-comedy episode that's basically filler -- or worse, it basically repeats everything we already know. In other words, still filler.
Episode 34 was a master class in How To Do It Right. Absolutely flawless.
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To make the line be a little more accurate, all you really need to say is the US has historically proven very good at (and certainly more than willing to) create chaos in the right places for a government to collapse. Assassinations, sudden flows of money and/or arms to the opposition, or just outright orchestrating coups. The CIA has proven over and over again it has no shame, no ethics, and accepts no limits.
So in short, if Korea elects a president that won't play along with US policy, it's a legit question to wonder whether ensuing domestic unrest is authentic -- or inflated to monstrous proportions thanks to strategic and intentional interference by the CIA.
given the stats that women do tend to outlive their male spouses, a very savvy move on her part to come up with a means of self-protection. (and, we cannot ignore that she found it out because her husband refused to go along with his mother's tax evasions, and instead called her out on it!)
Alternately, if his radar was pinging that hard, ten days before is still enough time to, idk, create a trust of some sort for his son, pay off his mistress' house mortgage, write her a check for 100-grand (since it seems like that'd be chump change in that family). But if he truly loved his son that much, just leaving the son out completely boggles my mind. He and the FL may've lost the passion in their marriage, but from their recorded conversation, they didn't seem to have lost their love. You don't put yourself between your spouse and a gunman unless you really do want your spouse to live.
Alternately, the benefit of a reply like the above is it helps me identify the fascist in the conversation, and then mute them.
(the crowning touch: the egotistical idiot president is a lot of talk during an interview, even throwing the gauntlet -- which the in-story news reports was immediately walked-back by the white house even as the white house didn't exactly contradict the president's boasts... which is, uh, pretty accurate right now.)
'man' in the title may've been a more accurate translation, but it'd probably mean English viewers would be puzzling over which "man" is the confidence man/person.
So they may've chosen "queen" to make it absolutely clear they mean PMY's character.
To sum up: MZY was a demon by birth, while WZ was a demon by inheritance, and (it seems to me) removing the evil spirit was like removing leg weights when running. They could both be full demons, now they weren't being held back. Or something like that.
Are subtitles updated even if it's after broadcast? I mean, this is some Mango next-level nonsense.
Unfortunately, it's also common in cdramas (especially stories by weaker writers) that this episode of levity is often too much of a tonal shift -- overdone slapstick humor, sudden fluffy romance -- with little substance. Or the substance of moving players into position and/or revealing new information is timed badly, and the story feels weirdly rushed, moving players at the last minute and dropping bombshells that feel unearned (usually due to inadequate foreshadowing or keeping secrets from the audience). Or the players and information have all been in place for several episodes, which results in either a purely-fluffy or purely-comedy episode that's basically filler -- or worse, it basically repeats everything we already know. In other words, still filler.
Episode 34 was a master class in How To Do It Right. Absolutely flawless.