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I feel like this is going to be one of those shows where I end up crying over it but I'm also really thankful to have watched it by the end.

Riddle me this... If you stole recipes from a restaurant, why would you then put that restaurant and its aggrieved owner on a nationally televised TV show FOR FREE???? This whole thing would be over if our chef stopped wallowing in self pity and just released her recipe notes. Like "omg I'm so shocked to get 3 stars and this is my cooking journey". It was already bad enough that the back story reveal was so pathetic (don't even get me started on her throwing her whole dream away for a man) but why would you let another restaurant get away with stealing your recipes???? Of course, they'll expect me to accept that she's the bigger person, or she wants her food to speak for itself, blah blah blah. I call BS.

It would've made more sense for HBW to be the one to get them on the show because if this is how the chairwoman does business, I can't imagine why she's so successful. She should not be pushing for a newly aggrieved chef WHOSE RECIPES YOU JUST STOLE TO ATTAIN 3 STARS to be on national TV. It's just so unbelievably stupid to me. She should be trying to wipe Jungjae off the face of the planet actually *face palm*.

/rant over

I figured it must've had something to do with them but I completely missed that reveal in the episode.

Thank you!

Did I miss the explanation for why/how Jungjae also got 3 stars? There's a lot that's wrong with this drama but I want to believe I just skipped that part cos they must have revealed it to us. Right? Or they're saving that for minute 50 of episode 10?

I'm glad I watched this but the final 2 episodes were a bit disappointing. I didn't see the need to kill the queen and her unborn child. It didn't add anything to the plot at all as the king could still have been possessed just by disabling the protective crystals without fridging his wife and child.

Finally, the whole "I'll sacrifice myself with a half baked idea to save my loved one" trope is so overused and boring. If Yeo Ri and Kang Chul had actually sat down to plan, I believe they could've taken out the 8ft spirit without all the histrionics. They kept ignoring the blind shaman when his shrine was literally the thing that always got in their way. No one thought to find him and put him out of commission? Cos Yeo Ri almost got the spirit up out of there with the grim reaper, but like clockwork, the blind shaman reinforced him. Then at the last minute all KC had to do was shine bright like a diamond? Okay, sure.

Anyway, it was mostly fun in the end and I enjoyed a lot of it even the bits that annoyed me.

I get the importance of the rock but Yeo Ri noticed the king's glasses because they were made from the rock but now it's a rock again. She said his own and her own were a pair and that's how she realised her grandmother had been at the palace. I'm asking why it's now a rock that the king finds burdensome when they told us that it was made into his glasses in the beginning.

As for your theory on Kang Chul, you may be right but the drama has done nothing to tell us any of this so it's still just a theory. I was wondering if they told us the reason specifically. Also, isn't Kang Chul a deity? He's not a vengeful spirit fueled by hate so his feelings should do nothing to affect his powers, at least that's what I thought.

Also, your theory about the 8ft spirit may also be right and I guess we'll find out in the final episodes.

I thought there was a time in the beginning when they said the king's glasses were made using the warding stone, or did I misread something? Cos if so, why is his warding stone now just a rock that he suddenly finds burdensome?

Also, did they offer any explanation for why Kang Chul is losing his powers or why he can't leave the body? It feels like we've missed some key things and that's a little annoying.

Also also, if the 8ft spirit is the guard, did he really witness Kang Chul falling from the sky? Or is that a memory from one of the spirits he amassed from the village?

Yeo Ri isn't a shaman. She's a professional hostage/damsel in distress.

Also, you couldn't pay me to feel sorry for Bi Bi cos what did he think was going to happen, really? Deities are apparently even stupider than human beings.

I hate when things happen because the writer forgot their own script. Hongye and Huaizhu were literally following Jiuhuo to "figure out who the spy was", and yet they were suddenly just roaming about doing nothing for the entire period when Jiuhuo was talking to the spy and then getting his heart broken by the black fox. It's such a stupid way to extend this rubbish betrayal and it makes me instantly dislike whatever is coming next.

Anyway, I'm still on ep 31. Maybe they're going to reveal that Huaizhu knows and is just playing the long game (lol).

I'll accept that actually.

Yeori seems to lack discernment and that can't be good for a shaman. How can she be crossing paths with these vile human beings and not once has she paused to look at them twice. From the blind shaman to the evil queen, but it was when she started talking about how kind and amazing the king's grandfather is that I knew she was a lost cause. There are so many context clues around her but she refuses to learn.

It was obvious a while ago that Kang Chul didn't kill her grandmother but instead just played the role of a bystander. Him losing his powers is one of my least favourite tropes in these kinds of dramas cos then what is the point of him being a deity? Looking forward to the 2nd half of the show. Hopefully, all villains will be exposed soon and we can have some proper showdowns.

I really hope they explain it cos how's a whole water dragon getting his ass kicked by a mere water spirit IN water? I need the writers to give us a reason for his apparent weakness and uselessness when it counts.

Now why did he stab it THROUGH the talisman? We all saw the gaps in the net that the blade could've gone through! Also, I was surprised Yeo Ri didn't support with a chant or something, but maybe the net was supposed to be enough.

I'm also getting a little annoyed with the "must bring Yoon Gap back" plot cos maybe just let the man ascend in peace FFS. But since they've set up the self-sacrifice plot line now, I guess we'll see if Kang Chul deletes himself to save her and then Gap can return to the body. Tbh, Gap seemed boring AF before he was possessed so I don't miss him at all lol.

Also, that old queen needs to fall into a well and never see sunlight again. All she does is plot and scheme to harm others, but she's shocked when her own waste of space of a son dies? That's just karma, ma'am.

Every 3 to 5 business days someone's trying to kill Seo Dong Jun and I just find that so funny.

At the end of the day, what Huh Il Do knew and when he knew it doesn't matter, cos he willfully murdered his so-called best friend, the woman he was involved with, and a child who was BEGGING to be saved. He's a monster and he deserves to rot in hell.

YEN is still white noise to me whenever she's on screen. I know the doctor's dad had to find out about Dong Jun somehow, but once again, why couldn't this have been written without making the doctor look like a completely unprofessional idiot? She closed the laptop because her father walked into the room, and then just handed it to him to use without shutting the video of DJ down???? Then proceeds to tell him EVERYTHING DJ said and went through without DJ's consent??? Ridiculous.

I enjoyed this up until the last episode. Daon acted like the worst kind of damsel in distress. Getting free and then dropping the knife, going to the door and jiggling the handle when he knows that house and how to get out, saying "hyung stop it" over and over to a crazy person who stabbed himself in front of him to make a point... Like defend yourself, PLEASE.

Also, how far away was that convenient cabin? It seemed remote enough to be completely private, and yet close enough to reach in what seemed like a manner of minutes. It felt like all the characters were obviously on the same set and just waiting for their cue to walk into the scene. Don't even get me started on the random old lady who popped up to give Daon time to get loose, only for him to hand Jaemin a knife instead.

Overall, I enjoyed the drama, but Daon was a disappointment in the end. I needed him to actually do something other than be rescued, but I guess at least he made his big presentation or whatever.

I think we all saw the white truck coming. I'm glad the memory loss nonsense is done and now we can get into the revenge plot. I do think it's kind of funny how they've unlocked even his childhood trauma and hidden memories now. Curious that he was in the car accident with YEN (even though I dislike the "they knew each other as kids" plot in general) and I'd like to know more.

I skipped most scenes with YEN and I didn't feel like I missed anything important ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Lol. I'm talking about fictional characters and you're making it personal. That's funny, but it won't change the fact that this character has been presented poorly from the start. Doing something as stupid as dropping the secret burner phone her lover gave her on the bed in front of her husband, and then pouting when she saw it with her mother later? What part of that is thrilling? Lol.

She cares about him, but she's still an idiot. Two things can be true at the same time. She's also very selfish cos when her grandfather said she could have Dongju if she gave up her shares, she didn't even consider it. ATP I'm begging them for a reason to like her beyond the fact that DJ is in love with her.

YEN is actually ruining this show for me. What do you mean you chose shares over the man you love but you want to keep the man regardless? What do you mean by tossing around the SECRET PHONE your bf gave you in plain view of everyone???? I don't like stupid characters and that's a level of stupidity I cannot abide. It would be a different thing if they said her husband searched for the phone, but for her to just casually leave it lying around????

I want to root for this show but anytime YEN shows up, I get so annoyed. They actually went out of their way to show us that she wasn't threatened or deceived or cajoled into that marriage and that's a fatal flaw for me. I don't need the love story and I wish they'd kill it.

Finally, I despise an amnesia plot. I can allow for some brief traumatic memory loss, but I don't care for anything else. I want to see how they make it less odious but I'm not really expecting much.