Episode 5 disappointed me a bit because I waited for it and probably had expectations, since up to now everything…
you're so right to point that out haha. actually the novel did him a bit better, so im disappointed with how they did him in the series (no qualms against bever he's doing a great job, i think it's just the direction). in the novel the reason for why he "suddenly" stops being mad is because of the scene at the end of ep 4 where typhoon gets stuck in the bathroom. after he comes out he's absolutely panicked and keeps yelling streams of apologies while he cries. his desperation in that situation makes it clear to tonfah that the boy is actually very guilty about his past behaviour, and isn't taking tonfah for granted like ppl usually do (saying sorry casually and assuming tonfah will just accept it cuz he's tonfah). so it starts making more sense that there's something unspeakable behind his behaviours and he decides to let it go.
hasn't the soul swapping always been in the synopsis since the beginning? why are people suddenly so bothered by the show doing what it says it'll do ☠️
i think they could have added a bit more flavour to the last arc by making it a bit political. they could've delivered a message using the yoon suk yeol case in 2024, and the timing would have aligned perfectly - his final hearing of insurrection trial is literally on 13th jan this year. it would make the ending much more stronger since the whole fiasco in 2024 has made it a constant debate among korean netizens for the politicians to do something so that something like that never happens again.
to elaborate, it could've been done like this: oh wonsang wants to sacrifice a few soldiers to create a fake threat from the north korean army in order to execute the article under their constitution that lets them put the country under martial law, thus abolishing democracy for the sake of power which they could then use to either save the current president from some distress that he's in (like yoon seok yul's actual scenario) or to gain control over the citizens better in general/militarisation (however i doubt that even 4 eps would then be enough for this case lol). now in yoon seok yul's case, the country was under martial law only for 6 hours because both the military and the citizens didn't cooperate. they hade no reason to because there was no real threat against the country - everyone realised that their president was just batshit crazy and hence the lawmakers were able to vote to invalidate the decree. but in this scenario where a threat (even though fake) exists, it would be more effective and chaotic. it would also then make sense for them to send their best soldiers to this temp mission to sacrifice them because these are the kind of soldiers who'd sense something amiss if they were alive (this bothered me a bit in the current scenario because if you actually want war won't you want your best lads to be alive and fight?).
anyways this was also okay, war is also a crazy big threat so i'm not disappointed, just wanted to put it out there that there was more potential here if they were willing to stretch this out a bit!
I'm going to start this season within the next few days. I personally preferred S1 and also didn't want a romance…
it's open to interpretation. i didn't want it either so i interpreted it that way. they don't ever make it "official" so people who want them to be a thing can run with their imagination, while the rest can have it their way.
the part where she gets a bun done at the hair salon and the extremely famous sky castle ost "we all lie" plays in the bg as she transforms (or at least tries to) into kim jooyoung
to elaborate, it could've been done like this: oh wonsang wants to sacrifice a few soldiers to create a fake threat from the north korean army in order to execute the article under their constitution that lets them put the country under martial law, thus abolishing democracy for the sake of power which they could then use to either save the current president from some distress that he's in (like yoon seok yul's actual scenario) or to gain control over the citizens better in general/militarisation (however i doubt that even 4 eps would then be enough for this case lol). now in yoon seok yul's case, the country was under martial law only for 6 hours because both the military and the citizens didn't cooperate. they hade no reason to because there was no real threat against the country - everyone realised that their president was just batshit crazy and hence the lawmakers were able to vote to invalidate the decree. but in this scenario where a threat (even though fake) exists, it would be more effective and chaotic. it would also then make sense for them to send their best soldiers to this temp mission to sacrifice them because these are the kind of soldiers who'd sense something amiss if they were alive (this bothered me a bit in the current scenario because if you actually want war won't you want your best lads to be alive and fight?).
anyways this was also okay, war is also a crazy big threat so i'm not disappointed, just wanted to put it out there that there was more potential here if they were willing to stretch this out a bit!