The novel had me addicted but apart from all the prettiness, I'm not enjoying this as much as I'd hoped. The Princess Weiyoung kept me hooked because of Tuoba Yu but I'm struggling to find a hook with this drama. Also, whoever does Angelababy's eyeliner needs to teach me. (Not crazy about her lip colour choices tho!)
So many beloved Pinnochio actors cameo'd and I enjoyed it so much! This drama was a bag of guilty pleasure goodies. I enjoy one girl-several guy type stories but this one was funny, never boring, short and cute. I liked Go Ho even though she was a bit too naive sometimes and I love the puppy player! Big fan. 9/10 for spoiling me :')
Agreed! I think it's because it was only meant to be the six guys. LMH probably signed on late and they couldn't write a good enough storyline for him (hence, this last episode). That's just my guess.
Was going to rate this much higher until the last episode. At least I liked the other episodes. I think Ji Chang Wook's episode was my favourite - seeing the MC as a kickass ex-spy was fantastic!
Finally done! So good though some plot lines remained even at the end which is slightly disappointing but oh well, no drama is perfect. Oddly enough, Tuoba Yu is still my favourite character, despicable as he is.
I just watched MBC's videos for episode 45 and the one with Ta Hwan and Seung Nyang - I'm afraid to even ask this…
Well then, it seems we shall have to agree to disagree on this then. I disagree with your thoughts on Wang Yoo and think that you seem biased towards Ta Hwan but to each their own; we all had our opinions when we were watching this drama. Cheers, So Wa, an interesting discussion it was!
I think Ji Chang Wook's storyline resembles the CW's Nikita where Nikita and Michael fell in love. I loved the scene where she beat up the bad guys rather than the guy doing it, so much more badass and the only storyline so far that I'd love to see as a kdrama.
I just watched MBC's videos for episode 45 and the one with Ta Hwan and Seung Nyang - I'm afraid to even ask this…
Took a long time for me to find which comment of mine you responded to but finally found it!
Honestly? I respectfully disagree. She didn't want to have sex with him, plain and simple. At this point in the drama, Ta Hwan was a drunkard and deranged out of his mind, distrusting the one person who would never let him down at this point. As the father of her child, as the emperor, Seung Nyang respected him but he failed to man up and live to the expectations that she had for him. He had let his servant manipulate him into distrusting her and suspecting her of being unfaithful with Wang Yoo. Ta Hwan was always jealous of Wang Yoo, right from the start - jealous of the respect Seung Nyang had for him, jealous of the loyalty he inspired in his men, jealous of Seung Nyang's unwavering love for him even when she entered the palace. That's why he wanted to have her submit to him - to prove he was better than Wang Yoo, that he was deserving of that same level of respect and love that Seung Nyang had once had for Wang Yoo (and as far as Ta Hwan was concerned, she still did respect and was in love with him or so he was manipulated into believing). It wasn't weird angry sex at all. If it were, she wouldn't have just laid there silently and take it; she'd have fought back just as hard. She tried to initially resist but then she realized it was futile. What was even the point of fighting him? He was the emperor, her son's father and no matter how angry she was with him at that point, she still did love him. So while it wasn't exactly consent (and therefore be argued as marital rape), she gave up fighting him - she submitted because she didn't see a point in fighting him. When she was a palace maid, she fought him then because she had her virginity to think about and because she despised the emperor for her father's death and later because she loved Wang Yoo. At this point, she was already his consort and the mother of his child. Even if she didn't want to have sex with him, refusing him or fighting him off would have only made the matter worse when he sobered and remembered that she had refused him. No angry sex at all, not consensual and that's why when Ta Hwan woke up the next morning, you could tell he regretted what he had done but was still too angry, too proud and too jealous to bother voicing it.
PHJ! My love, missed his 'psychoticness' in Bad Guys and Cheese in the Trap. Wish they used that a bit…
I think they kind of played with that usual intense psychoticness of his with the scene where she finds the pictures of herself in his book. Or at least, that's how I felt when I saw that scene.
This song/trailer is the prologue from the novel with some added bits: https://youtu.be/esBU4aHD9wM
Honestly? I respectfully disagree. She didn't want to have sex with him, plain and simple. At this point in the drama, Ta Hwan was a drunkard and deranged out of his mind, distrusting the one person who would never let him down at this point. As the father of her child, as the emperor, Seung Nyang respected him but he failed to man up and live to the expectations that she had for him. He had let his servant manipulate him into distrusting her and suspecting her of being unfaithful with Wang Yoo. Ta Hwan was always jealous of Wang Yoo, right from the start - jealous of the respect Seung Nyang had for him, jealous of the loyalty he inspired in his men, jealous of Seung Nyang's unwavering love for him even when she entered the palace. That's why he wanted to have her submit to him - to prove he was better than Wang Yoo, that he was deserving of that same level of respect and love that Seung Nyang had once had for Wang Yoo (and as far as Ta Hwan was concerned, she still did respect and was in love with him or so he was manipulated into believing). It wasn't weird angry sex at all. If it were, she wouldn't have just laid there silently and take it; she'd have fought back just as hard. She tried to initially resist but then she realized it was futile. What was even the point of fighting him? He was the emperor, her son's father and no matter how angry she was with him at that point, she still did love him. So while it wasn't exactly consent (and therefore be argued as marital rape), she gave up fighting him - she submitted because she didn't see a point in fighting him. When she was a palace maid, she fought him then because she had her virginity to think about and because she despised the emperor for her father's death and later because she loved Wang Yoo. At this point, she was already his consort and the mother of his child. Even if she didn't want to have sex with him, refusing him or fighting him off would have only made the matter worse when he sobered and remembered that she had refused him. No angry sex at all, not consensual and that's why when Ta Hwan woke up the next morning, you could tell he regretted what he had done but was still too angry, too proud and too jealous to bother voicing it.
It is quite different to what I've seen of the drama though!