W two worlds Season 2 sc

4. Yeah! I didn't mention it in my Ep2 comments, but there could be a plot-twist of this kind.

3. The apparence of the two identities is so different that I find no way to recognize her.
4. We can only conclude the split personnality disorder was triggered after they break up. But this disorder came probably from a much earlier trauma.

Ep2. Ah, it's interesting now. So I comment.
People ask questions here, most of answers in this comment and previous one.

At the psy: Hyeri has no scar on the arm. It confirms the body is Eun Ho, older sister.
Eun Ho clothes are different of Hyeri ones. I can't see how she live in the same place without noticing she's has double personnality. About administration files for the two jobs, ditto. She even write a diary!

Only thing sure: the whole character doesn't sleep more than two hours a day, because the two jobs would be impossible. Just being anchor 5AM to 14PM takes her 9 hours.

Here the scene when she falls asleep. The director doesn't want to show us the clock when she falls asleep, then she wakes up 4PM. But we notice it's made like a continuous shot (just one cut). We hear the "tic tic tic" of the clock non stop. So, it's like: she falls asleep, and less than a minute later, she wakes up!

Then she changes place. Like she has two appartements. What explain why she can have different stuff. It's still unclear what is her mind during the time she walks from one place to the other.
Now go back to a previous scene of the episode: when Yeon O sees her and calls her Eun Ho. Just after, she panics, like she doesn't know who she is. She runs the stairs and seems going randomly in the building. It was foreshadowing of the two places. She didn't know if she should go into Eun Ho place or Hyeri place.

Next scene: she goes to work but forgot her badge and can't enter.
My guess: as Hyeri becomes more aware and she's the one knowing the double personnality, she starts to take more ground on Eun Ho.

Yeon O ask her about the strange scene last night. I was attentive about one thing during this scene: not once Hyeri said she was Hyeri, just she's not Eun Ho. I think it's because if Yeon O hear "Hyeri", he could just say to Eun Ho "hey, you said you were Hyeri". Then it would ring a bell for Eun Ho, as it will remember her sister. But it's not the time yet for that in the story.

Parking cabin: Hyeri is agitated, dances. Another clue her personnality wakes up, and will take a larger part in the global mind.

Hyeri goes out under the rain. She removes her coat, so we see her tee-shirt with a print:
"Maison de". It's french and means "House of". It's quite absurd to have such a print because you expect to get "House of dragons" or "House of someone". But here it's "House of" then blank. It can't be "House of Hyeri" because she doesn't exist, she's a psychological complex.

Ju Yeon asks for the kiss. Long scene for nothing, we won't know! ahah.
But main point here is to show the disorder. She could says "because you are my crutch" what's partly true. But there is something else, probably related to Eun Ho life and her failure with an anchor. So she cries because a kind of psychological crisis she can't explain. There is also this young anchor (who kissed her) but she rejects him. But I don't see how it goes in the mix for now.
We enter melo and moving scenes, and a real challenge for the actress.

Kinda funny: now Ju Yeon lost his "parking angel" and can't find a place.

Thanks to a dialog with the pretty Jo Hye Joo (Hye Yeon), we learn Ju Yeon is stuck in his life.
He opens also this door with "beyond is another world", and this door leads to the parking.
Also a voice-over from "Hye Yeon" about he should "open the door" to get unstuck, his inner door.
Everything leads to Hyeri. Something weird happened in his life, this unknow girl, sensitive.
Even absurd it sounds, at this time he could dare something.

Some mic-mac about the gift with 1000 stars, but eventually Ju Yeon open the gift and read her letter. In previous dialog Hye Yeon says those stars are made by hand. Kind of gift needing lot of time and devotion. Follow flashbacks, he could see she takes care of him (by the way, he sees her guard his place previously). Sometimes noticed her in the building, or even see how she hides shily when he comes. We can see it as touching, or a bit scary (as if she's obsessed).

I think he won't be scared, and we get this idea with comparison with Hye Yeon.
Hye Yeon is always after him, bothering him. He's her crutch, and she harass him. He dislikes that. He doesn't want a girl obsessed like that. And we see Hyeri is opposite. She hides when he comes, she helps him discretly, without a word. Sure, he's her crutch too, madly, but she will never bother him. They are a good match together.

See next scene: she confess she had a crutch for him, but then ask nothing more and leaves,
Hye Yeon would ask for a date, if he had single nice word for her, like nice words he said to Hyeri, like to excuse himself because he was cold and made her cry. (what wasn't really his fault)
Then she wait for him far away. It's to him to take a decision. She let him this freedom. When it's time to choose a place where to speak, again, she doesn't take the decision and let it to him.

Well, now it's crap. He said it's his first kiss. Good luck to explain that with such a handsome guy. Dose of psychological problems he has should be huge for something like that to exist.
Else the dialog and situation are nice. Slow paced but interesting.

Gosh, he invits her at his home. He should notice she's a bit retarded. I suppose he's too, at least on an emotional level. (so the "no-kiss until now" absurdity)
About that, we see more his profile: ultra clean appartement, military photos, we guess psycho-rigidity. And a photo of his brother. Of course, dead. So we get a psychological link between his situation and Hyeri, who is the remanent psychological image of a dead one.

She says to him she's 28 yo. But we know Eun Ho is older (damnit, she says her age becore but I didn't take note). That makes sens as she don't see herself as Eun Ho.
As it's late, he let her sleep in the guest room. But she wakes up as Eun Ho.
We enter a spicy situation.
In fact, she slept into his bed and him on the sofa.
She takes her bag and leaves, avoiding this spicy situation.
Goes to work in Hiery clothes.
Next a good comedy scene, a co-worker talk about a girl having a one-night-date.

Eun Ho accepts a job, documentary about fishes.
But we see it's at night. How's that? It's supposed to be Hyeri time.
Or she doesn't switch personnality, as long as she doesn't sleep?
In this case, anyway, Hyeri would be missing at her parking job. But to avoid the plot-hole, I remember they said earlier the documentary was during week-end.

51:00 - Funny SMASH CUT. We are with her co-workers. She says "nothing should happens to me", and we jump on her terrified face in the fridge truck, as she sees a body.
She's locked in the fridge and I didn't expect a deadly situation in this drama.
Alas, tension is broken because the drama enters comedy mode now.
At least, for once, the writer didn't play the card of "smartphone doesn't work here".
Co-worker doesn't answer. Scene goal was to force her to call Hyun O.

A co-worker saves us, then comes a blurry silhouette, alien shot.
Scene is uselessly long and a bit weird, to fit the drama song.
It's Hyun O, coming as reinforcement (or maybe he called the younger worker too).
Just we get the idea it could reconnect between the two of them.
She ask him why he came, but it cuts before the answer, as cliffhanger.

Conclusions, or rather, early guesses:
- Eun Ho and Hyun O looks like the final couple. It failed in the past because of Eun Ho, who didn't solved her trauma (linked to Hyeri death). It probably failed too because of him, at least a little, so the character develops a bit.
- Hyeri and Ju Yeon is a healing relationship, about accepting death. Ju Yeon accepts death of his brother, and Hyeri accepts her own death. But I should rather says Eun Ho accepts the death of Hyeri. Then, she won't have anymore a split-personnality disorder, and Hyeri will vanish and stop to be an autonomous psychological complex. Eun Ho will just have a normal souvenir of her. Eun Ho is unable to have this souvenir now because it hurts too much, but as you can't hide forever a truth, truth manifest by personnality disorder until it's healed.

Ep2. Something remarquable. First scene, with two sisters. What is a clue for the psychological mystery. Maybe one died and the other assume the two personnalities after the trauma.

- In the bath: nothing I noticed. But about colors, big sister wears blue.
- On piano: the bigger one (older one) with blue dress, other in orange dress. We see something written under socks of older one (not sure what, doesn't look exactly like "hyeri"). Younger one has a white inscription impossible to read. Like erased.
- Drawing: "my big sister, me". Old sister with magical wand. Little one simple, flower over foot.
- A sister with cut in the arm: it's difficult to know which one, the scene gives impression it's the older one. The other at the windows seems younger and screams "hyeri". She wears blue dress, it's not obvious, but should be older one.
- A photography, but one of the two sisters put a red balloon before her face and we can't see her face on the photo. A good symbol of the one who vanishes in the deep mind of the other.
We see the cut on the arm! And it's the little one.
I presume the blue dress with magical wand is older sister. And the little one is Hyeri.
When father calls "Hyeri" for the photo, it's the little one coming late.

My conclusion now: the one who disappear (death?) is Hyeri. Then, she slip into big sister mind. It would be a fairy trick to make her revive. When Hyeri goes to see the psychiatrist, it should be Eun Ho instead, but Eun Ho is unable to know she has double personnality. So it's her other part doing it. If Hyeri died, it also explains why she looks so creepy, like a ghost or a zombi, with no memory. She's just a ghost in Eun Ho mind and surive in a small part of her brain, not allowing her much more to do or to think.

Two personnalities are connected. As Eun Ho had a failed relationship with Hyeon O, as a balance, Hyeri is interested by another Anchor. Of course, it can't be by chance. Can be a part of Eun Ho wanting to be successful in love with an anchor.
For other psychological clues, we get the idea of who is Eun Ho in episode 1. Someone possessive, or rather, needing too much attention. The poor dude couldn't even clean the room. I guess it could mean something later.

About trauma leading to split personnality. Maybe it happened a long time ago, but the split personnality was triggered later. Else, I don't see how Eun Ho could live with Hyeon O and he didn't see that. Maybe the trigger was the break-up, I don't know yet.

Well, I'll continue episode 2 now.

Most catchy scene was last one. Too bad it's introduced by a cheap plot-device, the madwoman armed with a pickaxe. Now the madwoman will go to jail for attempted murder.
Anyway, this scene is:
A creepy woman kiss a man in a basement by surprise. He doesn't react, as she just helped him before. But she kisses him again. At this point, maybe he liked the first kiss, or it was a "super special sweet kiss". We'll know later? Not sure he got time to see if she's pretty enough, it's a dark place. She could be old, ugly and creepy. I'd avoid that. I don't think it really stands in a melodrama. This kind of scene is from cringe romcoms. I even ask myself: is it real? Or a Hyeri illusion?

It's difficult to find the tone. There is a bit of comedy, but feeling outdated.
I watched other dramas with this style, so I'm not too much surprised.

On episode 1. It's quite boring and not really a catchy scene. It's wordy, and some characters are mostly here to make FL speak. At least, it doesn't force too much on comedy, and a bit of mystery.
First 15 minutes are badly written, lecturing. It pissed me off, and I was about to rage quit.
It put me in bad condition, but I still watched the whole episode without judging, and it was better.

He said himself he can't sing in the past. Probably his fans know it too. I don't think people expect he could sing well during this kind of live performance. It's mostly an heartful moment he shares with them.

I don't remember the event. I watched that on youtube.
It was a meeting with fans.
His voice is unable to stand on high-pitch. So, when I could hear the song of WYWS, I was stunned too. I guess they used tool like Melodyne, very used in musical industry. It allows to edit sound pitch without modifying the voice. Anyway, I'm happy to get this beautiful song, and I like the actor and most of his dramas.

I just did a quick search, I can't say it's the event I was talking about but listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKFbCdJE208
Such a number of wrong notes is spectacular. I sing better than that. 😅

I could hear a live performance, it was terrible, hardly a correct note. But the fans were happy to welcome him, and it was kind from him to do that, when he sings so badly.
However, on While You Were Sleeping OST, he performed a wonderful song. But it's made in a recording studio and I bet they used pitch correction.

At episode 13, I can already say I never watched a sageuk with so much deaths.
There are a lot of fights, battles or massacres.
It's an excellent drama with great acting, characters, relationships.
It's weird to see so few comments, like the drama has gone under the radar.

It was painful to watch. On episode 1, there is at least one good comedy scene thanks to dialog and situation, but rest of the time, comedy is mostly to add cringe sound-effects, like the ones in Korean TV shows. Let's say, a character overacts, blinks eyes and you hear "plic-plic". That's supposed to make you laugh. And it's endless all along the episodes. Dropped.

I start this drama. Hooked by fast-paced first episode.
First shot is a field, agriculture, as it's about a peasant revolt.
Director is the one of Six Flying Dragons.

Thanks. It's okay, I've ended the drama now. 😘

That's also a bit my feeling. My conclusion is the love story was one sided, maybe not at start, but ended like that. What makes a quite original story.

Here I found this BTS. The actor has good physical condition and performed action scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Evtxygamzg

I ended it. Difficult to rate, I enjoyed the watching and thematics I was not used to see in historicals. Nevertheless, I can just say it won't be my favorite sageuk, although it makes sens it can be favorite for other people with such a quality.

There was a hole of slowness of several episodes around ep12, but hopefully, next were the most intense episodes and high emotions in the last part. I hope fans of the drama can enjoy my live comments (a bit messy), and find again the pleasure to rewind the drama in their mind. Sometimes I mentioned remarquable qualities, and of course few flaws bothering me, but maybe not other people.

I find her ok, but everybody has his own taste.
It's also a problem for me when there is a romance and I find the FL ugly.
Because somehow, it's hard to believe the romance.

Ep16, Now I enter two last episodes. Dramatics are strong and I'm curious.
I will complete this comment over time, as I watch.
Since few episodes, main actor is better, but it's also scenes demanding him to express more emotion. Before that, I'll suppose his character is supposed to be more introvert.

Episode quickly makes me mad.
Duk Im refuses old queen support? WTF?
She will endure worst time ever now. I can't even pity her.
She's a stubborn mule and her decisions are beyond my understanding.

Yeaahhh, consequences are rude. Now old queen accuses Duk Im to have sex with a random man.
Gosh, there is tension but how I could pity Duk Im? She did everything to put herself in difficult situations, even it's unfair ones. Damnit.
The BLUE sleeves (flashback of her brother).

Royal consor (+old queen) tried something but it fails, thanks to previous prince's mother.
What makes Duk Im just the toy of someone else.
Consor is really a bitch, and she's lucky the king wasn't more angry about her.
Old queen know how to use people and what people she could use.
Royal consor is no use anymore for her, so she will end badly. hehe.

Bath scene. "king made his decision".... wait... they prepare her for bed scene?
Ahahahaha... King finally decided there was nothing more he could do now.
He'll forces her? Well... we could see she enjoyed the kiss, so....... It's all-in.
Nothing fair, but at this point, could be success, could be failure, anyway...
I notice on this scene: no boring music but a nice OST song.
Lady Seo give her a last advice: "to serve the king, you must do anything". 😅
Oooh damnit!! this fkn drama!!
My little finger says me it won't happen at last moment.
But who know?

Nope, it really happens! But nothing that dramatic.
He still gives her the choice at last moment, and she realizes she could never see him again.
I'm in the dark about Duk Im feelings.
Later she says, "if I love him, I can't tell him".
I forgot to take notes until end of episode, but lot of sweet moments.

I didn't talk a lot about cinematography.
Of course, budget and good cameras makes this gorgeous.
Can also be a problem as there are many large or slow shots, hurting the pace.
But I wanted to give an example related to intelligence of directing:
The scene when dowage queen says she feels in the palace like a prison.
Notice how end the scene: on a shot with the camera sliding behind a kind of shelf.
I don't know exactly if it's a shelf by the way, but just, it put in foreground something looking like prison bars, and the dowage queen in the background, like locked up.

Ep17.
Starts on dramatic moment after time gap: their son dies from a typical child illness.
However Duk Him is pregnant again.
More misfortune, her lady-court friend had an affair and should be executed.
Episode tries to depress us.
Next, Pest in the country, everybody's sick. The King, Duk Im too (but not from pest).

Eventually, Duk Im dies, but her last words are terrible.
First she doesn't want to see the king but the other court lady.
Then she confess her love to the king but says "if you see me in another life, just walk away".
What kind of love is it? I can't trust her confession.
Frustrating, I'm not even sad and it's halfway of episode.

Then years pass. The king forget her, but remembers her sometimes.
Slow walks, flashbacks, souvenirs, tears.........
We still learn he was an amazing king for the people.

I like the last line of the drama: "this moment is forever".
I take it in the way that death can undo life, but can't undo existence.

Is it really a so sad ending?
There are many time gap, and eventually, when you wait long enough, everybody dies!
Of course, it's sad to die that young and marriage duration was 4 years according history.
Yet, they had time to live that. Just I'm concerned by the fact that in the end, I see that almost like a one sided love story, so much it's into a gray area. What's an original story.

Ep14. Four last episodes. I'll try to binge-watch and ends it today.
We think she's daydreaming, but twist! The king is here.
She's lucky he continues to comes back to her, because now it could be over.
Let's see if she continues to reject him. hehe.

At this point, motivation of the FL is weird: she was lover of writing and books and it was clear to be court lady wasn't something she likes (about serve plates and drinks, stay still in the room with nothing to do). In any way her situation as concubine would be better, but she prefer to live this boring life. Woudn't be it a win-win? She would have king love and a better life for herself.

Hong continues to grab power and interferes in what he shouldn't. I don't know about you, but I find this guy annoying from the very start, even when he was a child. In first episode, he somehow falsified the friendship the king has for him. A little something is telling to my ear that it will end badly for him.

It seems I made a confusion (coming from subtitles). Won Bin isn't queen but royal concubine?

Rejection again. She doesn't say she don't love him, just she doesn't want to be his wife.
For me, it sounds the same. It's frustrating, and as we had chilhood of them, we could expect it turns into a successful love story, but the more it goes, the more it sounds it won't.
Maybe the King should forget her? He could send her out of the palace to better forget her.
It would be a situation of loose-loose, but at this point, what to do else?
Sure, he could force her, but it makes no sens. He tried a bit but stopped that. I think he's mature enough to understand it's useless if love doesn't come from her. Now, I don't know if he will end to do that, in case his mental health deteriorate. What would be intense drama and failure all the way.

I like this situation I've never meet before: the court lady rejects the king. The supposed love story ready and on the track turns into something else. So, scenes are interesting to watch and I'm curious about the conclusion.

Dramatics hit again, how I like it. Won Bin in critical state. It resonnates with the previous scene of Duk Im and the King when he says he doesn't give a shit about Won bin depression. It has also great potential to break Hong and King relationship.

Ayaaa, shit, I said I wouldn't complain again about that. But see the scene when Won Bin dies and Hong becomes mad with sadness. Everything's perfect, acting first. But wasted by the damn background music out of place.
I don't remember where I've read that: we often notice beautiful pictures, directing, acting, etc, but like a hidden element, sounds are up to 50% of the experience in movies.

Now it says again Won Bin was queen. Well, I don't know. But subtitles say more often she's queen than royal concubine, so I'll take it like that. Anyway, she's dead now.

I notice FL is a bit more pretty now. She wears make-up.

Ayya, Hong didn't burn the secret lair. Everything ministers said to the king is true.
He's now in charge of old Cho organisation but obviously makes something different out of it.
Now, we should enjoy a hard time for him.
Follow scene King + Hong supported by dramatic irony, as Hong see nothing coming and just gives worst answers to the king, who just say in resume "ok, I know who you are now". When he leaves, I think he has like a bad feeling.

Not too much complications when Duk Im is captured by Hong, as the King saves the situation, quite logical as he knew the lair.
Hong is totally delirious when he pleads his case in the throne room. He can't even believe at first he will die, and anything the king says, he continues to have some hope and plead again and say absurdities. Good scene.
Unexpected conclusion. I find the king too kind here. Hong deserves death. Then, he could exil him, or makes him commoner, but nobleman? Nope, he will continue to be a bad man with slaves. Maybe he did that for the resignation, more easy to accept in the court. It seems to be a real historical fact, as there was a short text (not translated).

Excellent argument scene King + Duk Im and this conclusion!!
Hey, this scene makes the drama! Best scene until now.
I'm not technical expert of kisses, but this one strikes the screen.
It breaks FL dellusions but will she changes her mind?

Ep15.
Gosh, the twist I should see coming but nope, I didn't see it coming NOW.
He asks her to leave the palace! A solution I envisionned before, but happening now?!
All her fights for court ladies are useless now, she won't take care of them anymore.
Really, it was better to be concubine. But hey, I guess it's from historical facts, so I enjoy how this kind of mess could have happened, anyhow characters choices seems irrational but with some motivations hard to swallow.
King finds the missing page of the banned book in Duk Im room.
Then TIME GAP.

Hong meets Duk Im on marketplace, Ew, he's so viscous.

I can just laugh here, the king is in Princess residence, sure of his conviction when he talks about his future concubine and... Duk Im enters by chance the courtyard. How painful!

Princess advices Duk Im to ask forgiveness to the king, but this mule is so stubborn. I need an expert opinion here, isn't it "noble idiocy"?

Scene in the garden at night. She asks to the king "then punish me".
I wonder if a kiss could be a good punishement? I bet on that.
Let's watch it now...

... waaah! I was below it. He want the bed scene right now! ahah!
But pfff... He doesn't do it. Maybe it was the right thing to do?
Last time he forced the kiss and finally she was all-in too.
I don't know what this poor king could do at this point.
If she's a lost cause for him, send her in China, that's it.
Yeah, partial opinion, I take party for the king.
God send this kind of woman on earth just to turns men crazy! 😄

How could he understands what she want when I even can't as drama audience?!
Anything she wanted is out now, and I can't see why she continues to reject him, except that:
She really don't love him. As she said, she never loved him.
She was close, but with a little selfish stepback, justified by selfness for court ladies, a fake cause that doesn't exist anymore now she's out of the palace.
But anyone can make its opinion about that, and it's what I like about dramas when the thematic are well made. Writer doesn't give us a party, the thematic is deep and anyone can think without a premade jugdement telling us what to think.

Hong has again crazy illusions. He thinks Duk Im could be interested to run away with him?
Dude, put your feet back on earth, for God's sake!
How bad, now if he dies, it's her fault? Aayya, this guy, painful to the end.

The King makes resolution to find another woman he love.
Yeah! It could take time, as he needs to forget Duk Im now, but it's a good plan.
Along the path, probably he will make pregnant two or three concubines. 😅
I'd like to take dowager queen as royal consort but I'm 99% sure it's impossible according the court rules. Well, I'm not expert but seems obvious. Or I'd need to be a crazy king killing anyone telling a word I don't like. Dowager queen is my darling in this drama. 🥰
Actress is beautiful and acts well, with sweet and believable attitudes we get in historicals.

I say that because I don't find the new royal consort pretty. But about plot, it's on a good way, as Duk Im is her servant now. I'm curious!!!! Maybe the king will have intercourse with her? To make Duk Im jalous? Or I don't know what? New royal consort could also treat Duk Im badly out of jalousy. I presume: if she was assigned to royal consort, it's because the King wanted it.

Ayaaaa, I was wrong. And I love to be wrong. It means I'm surprised. It's the dowager queen who made Duk Im return in the palace. Plus, we get a scene with dowager queen, what I like a lot.
But twist again (woo!), it's not her who asked for return of Duk Him.
Mystery... let's keep watching. 🤤

King could order she enter the bath with him but no. "go away" instead.
Then royal consort beats her hard! Out of jalousy, as I expected.
Gosh, if she was concubine, nothing of that happened. Maybe other problems but not that.
As a court lady, she has zero power and is doomed.

The previous setup about Hong death comes into action. Yeah, he's dead now.
I bet even after death, he will poison people mind, the king, Duk Im (already made).
Oooahhhwwaahh. No. Shit.
It turns out on something very moving. First time Hong understand.
The letter tells how he was fake from the start, childhood. Emotional scene.
Hong is sincere and reveal the truth about the torn page (it's why we get a scene with that previously). Writer hold a gun and it's the last bullet. A bullet kept safe from episode 1. Brillant!

We learn the truth now: the mother is the one who call back Duk Im in the palace. (I'm a bit lost, was it ex-wife of mad prince, or the one who took care of Duk Im as a child?). She tells the king to meet happyness. Her definition is "meet a woman you love and found a family", what I'm agree about, but... the problem is just Duk Im doesn't want!!

Ep15 cliffhanger. Looks like a lost cause but... she hugs him.
Well.... I don't believe it anymore... if it's just false hope, nope.
The king didn't do it yet, but I have mourned this failed love story.
For me Duk Im is now an unpredictable bizarre insect.
Else it was a good scene, with reflects in the lake, to make remember first time she knows him.