Aramintai

You're not helping with your comment either.

Lol, waiting game is another one of the similarities with GoT here - the dragons are coming, yep, they’re still coming, any minute now… 😂

Anybody else feel like all the aspirations and plans both leads had were a giant clickbait that ended nowhere?
Naksu wanted revenge on Jin Mu and didn’t follow through with it. She wanted to regain her power and didn’t want to live as a powerless maid but ended as one still.
Uk wanted to become a mage and reach the highest levels of magic to help Naksu push her energy out but ended up never trying it and drained of all his energy on a separate matter.
They had the ice stone to give to Naksu for her to at least not run wild, but she refused it in the end and Uk lost it, not realizing it’s inside him now. She can still run wild any minute now, but who cares? Let's just get married and continue living in denial, pretending this problem doesn't exist 🤦‍♂️
They both basically ended up at square one, not achieving anything they were advertised to. No going up that tree either. But at least they got each other now (tentatively), right? Talk about major changes in character here, especially Naksu’s 🙄

Overhyping something and not delivering is a recurring theme in this drama in general.

I don’t drag actresses into it. But you gotta admit that GYJ will have big shoes to fill now, a lot of pressure on her now to pull off Naksu’s character just as well as JSM, because JSM really defined her. It’s already gonna be awkward seeing another face as FL with all the predictable misunderstandings from other characters coming up, if she won’t be on the same level it will just ruin the show by breaking immersion that it’s the same character.

However I disagree about dismissing Bu-Yeon character as inconsequential and painting Naksu as a victim. Naksu did a lot of bad things in her time and used Bu-Yeon’s body without any remorse or second thoughts. And I think the writers deliberately made her very dumb and unquestioning when it concerned the body she inhabited, so that she conveniently won’t have any guilt about it. And now she’ll add one more person to her body count by dying inside her body. I’m not saying Naksu doesn’t deserve justice for villain’s wrongdoings, but Bu-Yeon needs it on a whole other level. And if they gonna revive only Naksu, leaving Bu-Yeon dead, it will be very unfair to her character. Not to mention an unsatisfying conclusion of her big sub plot.

Agreed, and I don’t have high hopes for part 2 either. But it’s not the actress who was done dirty, but her character, namely Mu—Deok. And don’t get me started about Bu-Yeon. Absolutely unforgivable, imho.

I think when mama Jin was strangling her, Naksu went unconscious and BY resurfaced, and called her out. That's why there was nothing from Naksu about it, she didn't seem to recall any of it.
Why are the writers so cruel to poor BY? Will she get a good resolution to her sad tale of constantly being used and abused? 😭😭

I think he'll be saved by that Heo girl. She gotta start pulling her own weight, she's been doing nothing for the plot in part 1 aside from third wheeling.

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If she wasn't there along with Naksu and just moved to Naksu's og body and died with it like she was supposed to then she wouldn't have been able to:
-take control of her body while Naksu was sleeping to sleepwalk in one of the earlier episodes;
-save Uk from Gil Ju's aos ritual;
-remember her past while her own mother was strangling her;
-talk to Naksu inside the ice stone.

As to why she wasn't able to take control of her body when the bells rang, even though just before that it was said that she's a powerful priestess:
Apparently curse sorceries that affect the soul are also powerful and she's not strong enough, especially since she's not in control while Naksu is awake. Or it's a plot hole. Also, her body auto protected Naksu from running wild as long as she wasn't forcing her energy out, but Jin Mu "helped" her with that by forcing a big chunk of his energy into her to push it out. Why she didn't run wild inside the ice stone - again, plot hole, or she didn't use her energies much since the ice stone amplifies them for soul shifters.

I don't know either, but it's more plausible than imagining some extraordinary divine resurrection will take place that will create her a new body out of nothing.

Here's an alternative theory for you, guys, how Naksu will return into her body that doesn't involve any crazy divine intervention shenanigans:
Jin Mu now knows Naksu is alive, he used her in Bu-Yeon's body to sneak into Songrim and assassinate people for him in a surprise attack and then he ordered her to go to the lake and die. Those women may as well be his minions, not mama Jin's servants, who will fish her out of the lake. They were suspiciously fast to get there considering she didn't even reach the bottom, as if they were waiting for her. Alternatively, his minions will intercept these women. Then the rest is the same as with the old theory - he got her real body on ice somewhere and will simply use a soul ejector to move her soul to her og body so that she'd continue to serve him. By force with the magical bells, if needed. And then she'll escape somehow.
This, however doesn't give any justice to Bu-Yeon, or solve Naksu's soul shifter problem, considering how Jang Kang was still one even in his own body.

It’s not about it ending in tragedy, it’s about this plot twist that just didn’t work with the majority of the audience. It’s a very hard sell. I’m not sure they’ll be able to dig themselves out of this hole in part 2.

Well, that’s your opinion. But I think where they’re going with this plot looks like a big mistake made without much regard of whether it will work or not with the audience. Gotta wonder whether they even did test screenings.

Because it doesn’t look like good writing?

I don’t think they’ll go amnesia route. But they may tangle everything up again with girls souls. Who will really occupy Naksu’s body now is unclear with these news. The biggest bs would be just getting rid of Bu-Yeon without resolution though. And how her body is less salvageable than ash that is Naksu’s body is beyond me.

Agreed, sounds like bad writing.

Yea, but then how did they save Naksu's body if it's ash? Petrified at least is intact 😂

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It's gonna be a plot hole then because Bu-Yeon's soul makes the body blind, which she wasn't in the preview. But may be possible if they fuse the souls.

Yea, if it's a play on the lead characters real names.