I really really loved this drama, however, I couldn't understand the ending. Did the company find out that Boo…
Super late, but since no one answered you: Yes, everyone found out that Boo Cheon is not a Jang, his mother revealed it to the general public when she was trying to frame Pil Joo as an extortionist. Yes, Mo Hyeon and Boo Choen were already divorced- she announced it was legally final in the episode where he was in hospital. Pil Joo changed the policy and structure of the company while he was chairman to encourage executives be chosen by merit rather than bloodline. He doesn't automatically inherit the company or the position just because he's the eldest grandson and wouldn't even before. The controlling stockholder (their grandfather) would still have had to nominate him.
He can still sue to get his father's estate, which is his rightful inheritance (and does include some stocks), but that won't make him an executive.
I love revenge dramas so I jumped into this one with glee after reading all the rave reviews. Than something was…
He's supposed to be a few years older and irl they're like 5 years apart. It's fine.
Why would not liking his performance in a completely different show with a wildly different tone ruin this show for you? This role couldn't be more opposite from FtLY, he's barely recognisable as the same person.
Because Lee Gun's hair is amazing and it was a tragedy when they cut it.
The longer Jang Hyuk's hair is, the hotter he is, this is just science. That romantic wave with high fashion suits made him look like Oscar Wilde. The only exception is the one episode where they parted it in the middle and straightened it- that was definitely awful.
Someone else claims it's a happy ending, can you go into more detail? How much soapy melodrama is there? I don't…
Thank you, I agree with your take. It's definitely a tragedy and it feels like all his suffering to become a better person was ultimately in vain since he never gets to enjoy it and Dal Rae just ends up alone again anyway.
This is old, but for the sake of anyone else reading: the end is a complete bloodbath where almost all of the characters die (mostly stupidly), leaving only the historical figure of the king and a couple villains alive out of the entire named cast. No one gets a happy ending and the 'sad' endings don't feel earned or satisfying. 'Sad' in inverted commas because it wasn't effective tragedy, it was just irritating 'rocks fall, everyone dies'.
I am trying to steer clear of tragedies these days and this is a tragedy with a bittersweet ending. But if you…
Someone else claims it's a happy ending, can you go into more detail? How much soapy melodrama is there? I don't care about spoilers at all, please tell me how the characters end up.
People claim this is low key and grounded and avoids clichés: nothing could be further from the truth. It's an absolutely preposterous overripe melodrama full of ridiculous characters, the only one of whom who is remotely likeable or believable is the little girl. Everyone else is terminally passive, insane, or evil. Good actors cannot save any of it. Unless you like full-on illogical soap opera nonsense people angsting about painfully contrived drama and being complete assholes to each other, I would advise you to avoid this at all costs.
Could not help laughing at the part where Bang-won kills Nam Jeon so Hwi won't have to live with the guilt of 'killing a friend's father' right after Hwi has just killed said friend in order to get to the father in the first place. It's just so stupid. Sure, Seon Ho didn't actually die, but that's even more ridiculous. If you stab someone all the way through the gut with a filthy sword in the 14th century and leave them to bleed out, you killed them.
The whole fight is absurd. They both want the same thing, but somehow it's worth dying/killing your childhood friend over the political optics of taking out Nam Jeon.
I really do not understand the obsession with age as long as they are adults or not involved in an adult/minor…
Yeah, it honestly does not matter to me at all and I probably will not even notice unless it's brought up in the plot or it's really obvious. Anything less than 10 years isn't worth mentioning as an 'age gap' anyway, because once you're an adult a few years doesn't make much difference.
I really do not understand the obsession with age as long as they are adults or not involved in an adult/minor…
Yeah, it honestly does not matter to me at all and I probably will not even notice unless it's brought up in the plot or it's really obvious. Anything less than 10 years isn't worth mentioning as an 'age gap' anyway, because once you're an adult a few years doesn't make much difference.
As you watch it, it becomes more and more apparent why it was cut short. Had loads of potential, but the execution of the plot is just awful. The writing is indefensible.
3 years late reply lol, but yh I agree. I feel this could have been much better if it had different main leads,…
Yeah, he wasn't right for it and doesn't pull it off at all. Ironically, the perfect person for it was already in the drama; I feel like the main character would have been entirely believable if the two male leads switched roles.
He can still sue to get his father's estate, which is his rightful inheritance (and does include some stocks), but that won't make him an executive.
Why would not liking his performance in a completely different show with a wildly different tone ruin this show for you? This role couldn't be more opposite from FtLY, he's barely recognisable as the same person.
The whole fight is absurd. They both want the same thing, but somehow it's worth dying/killing your childhood friend over the political optics of taking out Nam Jeon.