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Character deep dive and opinions - what an eventful episode this was - spoilers ahead

woah what an stunning and eventful episode this was, so i guess when i said before finishing ep 8 about tae ung being sheltered and and a that a flip hasn't switched at that point i was right and it i guess kinda flipped after i finished watching, woah i mean like it was about time tbh, i like how she was there to hear the struggle maybe it'll be beneficial if she talks about it , this may or may not later proved to earn him points with gugukdan if he ever .. But i just know he'll be the one to catch her in the act and he'll turn a blind eye, and that'll be the start of his involvement in itfor reference this is what i posted before finished ep 8 and what i'm building on ;(so his name is Seung won and not tae jin so suzuki may not be the dad , maybe her dad and the mom were both killed back then when i guess they were caught,yesterday shinichi sato said to his son that he doesn't regret his marriage even tho it was a failure ( he killed her , hideo just doesn't know ) this was his warning to hideo under the guise of care or advice because he saw his bloody finger , he's telling him i don't regret making you my son either even after saying his bloody finger and suspecting that it may have been him who took the family pic .. but he wouldn't hesistate to later on suspect him more and more when it's soo hee doing the spy stuff , like i def don't see hideo surviving this at all , espeacially with fukuda there too waiting silently as well , i just know he wants him dead already..ga gyeong may or may not survive it i don't know, but like the write needs someone mourning to make the tragedy worse for all of us and that person could be ga gyeong and she may or may not go on to write these things in the newspaper and or carry the works or i could be wrong but everyone else is def dying all including so ran philip yoo and the villains) HOWEVER things are already looking pretty intense and tight with the upcoming operation happening next episode , anything suspicious like i said tae ung is compromised because his father thinks he's faltering and that he may no longer trust him anymore , idk what could he do about tho , will he start keeping information from him, keeping tabs ? .. and suspecting him even if he didn't do anything , like i said i'm afraid i really don't see tae ung surviving it at all ... and looking at his reactions when he's called by his real joseon name , his korean identity is even more sensitive for him and it affect him more , in the end when she called his korean name " interpreter Kim tae ung " it felt as if she gave him as sense of belonging , i saw it on his face , and i saw how relieved he looked when she said it.. as if it made more sense to him , as if he was dying for someone to call him by his name but it was like a forbidden taboo to dabble with , something he was resisting but i didn't see any resistance finally , i think deep down he knows now what's right and what's wrong , something that he as a kid didn't have the choice to rationalize and brushed off and pretended as if he didn't remember... so if the switch hasn't flipped yet entirely or publicly or he doesn't know how to go on about yet .. he's a changed man and also love is blind but he's changed too and in any occasion he catches ga gyeong in an act , i'm hundered percent sure he's gonna turn a blind eye to it and that will the start , a blind eye to another blind eye , to protecting her even further until he's too involved and believe in its cause .. but for now I'm so so excited , next episode is gonna be fireeeeee , not only do i have a feeling they're gonna kiss immediately at the start of ep 9 but i know for sure and that's why the episode ended where it ended , because an intense ass scene is coming at us right after ... i mean what better moment could it be than a kissy right then and there ... lol but I'm callinggg it now , so y'all know that i said soooo lolso many things i love about today's epfirst Ga Gyeong : i love how they're still using ga gyeong skills as a pickpocket whose swift and effortless, but like i said earlier whether she likes it or not she's now deep in the game and she's also the best gugukdan spy yet , whether she likes it or not, it's a faith she can no longer escape and the japs know her , so to achieve her dream and reach it she's become everything she said she wouldn't and risked everything she said she couldn't and mind you she came back because she was convinced and kinda jealous and kinda moved by so ran's love for her daughter, that night when she almost left , she could've really left , so ran wouldn't have let yoo Philip kill her, so ran cares about her , she sees her as a kid still who has a dream , she even asked phlip to find a way so they can protect her and keep their promise to her, but yeah so with that being said , ga gyeong thinks she's doing it for her own sake but really she knows how dangerous and she came back and is even handling more dangerous things now ... it's no longer information she's stealing , she's now actively hiding bombs in government general , if i were ga gyeong and to be consistent with her character profile , holy crap i'd ask to be excluded .. so she's in unknowingly but also thinks she somehow gonna escape it and it's the hardest partTae ung : i love love also the fight scene lol , tae ung is all about the jealousy, she like punched him in the stomach when she told him that the bruises where at places she couldn't show him, like he had to take a moment to act like he survived the blow but then he addressed it once more and took another blow when she said my life /what i do is none of your business , man like we need to take a moment because our man is really suffering , he's got a love crisis an identity crisis, feels like he doesn't belong and actually literally everyone on both side's whether it's the koreans or the japanese mock him or have some horrible things to say about him and no side accepts him either the only difference between fukuda's scene berating him and the pickpocket boss also berating him is that one is japanese and one is korean, the similarity ?? both don't accept him , both despise him , both criticize him and both down play his good characteristics and say that he isn't what he thinks he is and yet he's still manages to maintain some softness to him like in the drunk scenes , kill meeeeee , he adores her so much ,he can't resists what she ask off, she offended him like that as well in ep 7 and he forgave her so easily even tho she hit right where it hurts regarding the identity issue ... i just gotta say tho they're are so cute , the tension is so delectable, I'm having so much fun taking all of this in and writing about it. i hope it helps someone understand these characters more

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I really liked the ending

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