Tallina

wait wait wait. I just got to the end of ep 21. this isn't a mother/son but lovers scenario for prince wuyin and the empress lv?

on episode 15 and I actually feel really bad for the mental siblings. they were born into the wrong family sadly. they both seem like intelligent, steady folks that had no choice of which side of this political war they are on.

DID HE JUST FCKING KILL HYUN JU?! I CANNOT RN. I need him to die now.

Also, the old man here is the same breed as the old man in Train to Busan. He also needs to go.

sorry not sorry, I feel bad for the mom but it was the right move. her son literally had all that time to kill ANYONE else, but had to wait til the end and try to kill a mee mother? wtf.

wait, what's with these horrible kinda sounds like they're dubbed folks in the pink suits?! kinda cringey....

the policeman telling everything to the fisherman 🤦🏻‍♀️😮‍💨

oh interesting! seems like they cut out a lot of that and changed the story.

thank you for letting me know!! 💖

ohh, thank you!! im assuming there's more interaction between them in the novel justifying why he loves her so much? cause all we've seen between them in drama was pretty much.... nothing lol

On ep4, and Jun Mo is literally the worst. Like... if you wanted to kill Gi Jun, he'll come to kill you anyways. Why the need to kill an innocent person and the person literally assigned to guard you?! ugh

Also, bro doesn't even run at you. He limps to you or you attack him. But he still takes you out which is wild lol

okay, finished. everything was great until the MC was shot and stabbed a million times and is apparently immortal. lol also, that wrist slicing scene at the end? brutal.... especially for a dude that was never part of that world - thanks to his father.. no less lol but he chose to and alas that's his end.

I cannnnnot. lol the way the CP looks at Huaijin lovingly when he recites the poem and then rolls his eyes when Shen recited his 😂

Also, I keep reading comments that say Prince Wuyin wants to take our FL as his concubine when she's already one? How does that work? How does he even know her well enough to like her? I'm assuming those who are saying this read the novel? I'm assuming he's the main villain and not the CP? 'cause let's be real, the CP is dumb and just has a powerful backing.

No lie, the young real Shen Zaiye was the epitome of loyalty. I'm assuming he was the one that dragged his young master away and then sacrificed himself for their clan by taking his place. To do that while being so young, kudos to him.

Also, I still get BL vibes every time CP and Huaijin is on screen together 🫣

nope, that's what I saw as well haha

The Crowned Prince and Huaijin give me BL vibes even though they're cousins...? I feel like he's the only person the crown prince cares about and listens to lol sorry 🫣

would be an interesting plot in another universe lol

I just finished episode 1 and thought it started off well. exciting and intriguing, what is with this 6.9 MDL rating?! 🫣😅😮‍💨

I need PBG back in a villain role. Loved him in Hello Monster. I need him in a show like Mouse or Flower of Evil. Pleeeease 😩

His acting is always good, but sometimes I just can't with the passionate but not the brightest type of characters 😭

loving this show so far!! I should've waited longer to start cause now I have to wait for weekly episodes 😩 and the sisters and their love interest are so perfect for them. they really balance the twins out.

and I love that people who know the twins figured it out cause lol let's be real, they hardly put in any effort to act like each other.

"I like them. The rumors about us." dayuuuuum. that was smooth haha

I can't wait to see the twins amd everyone interacting together. also, its sad to see that both twins just suffered silently on their own. Mi Rae was alone in Seoul and Mi Ji only got out of her rut because of her grandmother. I'm sorry for the mom's circumstance because it truly does seem like she wants to be a good parent but to provide for them and be able to spend time with them was hard for her. It speaks volumes that she still can't tell them apart 30 years later when their grandmother on redress and had a stroke can still recognize them at a glance. 🥲

I was fine with the FL until episode 26. like girl, your man can defeat groups of like 20 men on his own why would you jump into the fire and risk your life and the soldiers tasked to protect you. you already called for the imperial army, just wait it out rather than you putting yourself in harms way which OBVIOUSLY then makes your loving doting ass hubby spring into action rather than wait for back up. like UGH. this was annoying. at least sneak to the inn rather than go up in a freaking carriage. there's a fight at the inn, shouldnt you try to be sneaky about it?! and wtf was she looking at when obviously the arrows were being shot at them from above. I cannot rn. lol

I don't know if it'll change but right now Bi Zhi is a walking forest

that's true, I can't. I guess my assumption was off of the treasure hunt game which dealt more so with spatial awareness and puzzle solving rather than mathematical equations. and 😮‍💨 i forgot that's why he wasn't very into alliances and now that I'm reminded, I'm once again irked with eun yu. lol cause I really liked Justin too and wish he had made it further. I feel like he would've done well with the psychological mind game that was the high low betting in the final.

overall thoughts:
- some participants were great individual players but not as team players (Seok Jin in season 1 was the perfect combination of both)
- the majority of folks this season can hold their own while last season felt like a good half of folks were being carried by the Orbit cult with Dong Joo as his trusted left hand
- 7high is cool at times, but when emotions run high he is wayyy too aggressive
- eun yu is smart but she's not trustworthy and is also an emotional manipulator
- ji yeong is smart but doesn't perform well under pressure
- Hyun gyu is smart and a great strategist but can be calculating and cold, loyal only to 2 people throughout this show, but if it's him or them, he obviously chooses himself, it's a competition afterall
- Hyun joon is smart but similarly to eun yu, he's not trustworthy. shook hands with Hyun gyu and bam no alliance lol
- Tinno is awesome haha I actually really like his personalty. smarts wise I think he's observant and great at galvanizing. however, he might not be the best strategist
- kyuhyun is a mood maker lol he's not exactly loyal to his team but I guess he's also not disloyal either depending on how you view how things played out
- Justin is a good solo player. he was great at playing the death matches but made 0 efforts for alliances. whether or not that was due to the minimal language barrier or culture difference, I'm not sure. it felt like if he had better alliance, he would've made it further. but I cant imagine him winning the last game that required strategy and quick mathematical calculations. also can't imagine kyuhyun, chuu, or ji yeong winning that.
- se dol is so a bit of a mystery to me. I feel like sometimes he's really good and sometimes I think he's okay. I think I would've liked to see him in a few more games to gauge.
- ha rin was a surpassing great solo player. not too sure how she would've done I'm alliances if she made it further.
- sang yeon/chuu/ that one other girl were all eliminated with limited screen time so im not sure what to make of them
- so Hee was honestly a very passive but smart player that was always adopted into a good alliance. and for good reason since she also contributed to the team. lol I wanted to see her in solo games but I guess we did get that at the way end

overall, fun season that was quite different from the first. if the make another season i hope the add more hidden stages collaborative stages, and maybe chances to bring folks back in solo revival matches. for now. I think season 1 winner is still #1 to me.

THIS 1000. People kept saying Hyungyu is manipulative. okay?! and?! he's not the only one and honestly. him, So Hee, and Kyuhyun were so upfront about their alliance that it's wild. even when they yielded so of the moves in the mancala round to make up for leaving the alliance. they really didn't have to do that at all. that's called emotional manipulation, they just made Kyuhyun and So Hee feel bad about it when honestly, they didn't betray. they backed out and told them fairly that they were leaving.

I was also annoyed when 7high had to yell at them that Kyuhyun dying in this round was their fault before going to jail. he's needlessly aggressive even if I really enjoyed what he did before he got eliminated. like, no? it was also your fault? you guys teamed up on him so it's also on you. this is a competition so why do you have to go yelling things like that aggressively and making others feel bad instead of accepting that it's a game and you guys also were responsible for eliminating someone that wasn't on your team?

honestly, either finalist deserve that win. they won fairly and that last part really was interesting. I wonder what the producer would've done if neither of them yielded. there was no way Hyun Gyu wasn't going to bet since everyone knew So Hee was certain of the answer. I honestly thought she was gonna lose much faster with how heavy she was betting but somehow throughout the rounds they kept evening out which I thought was wild.

Regardless, congrats to Hyun Gyu! He really embodies the devil in the devils plan and owns up to it. for someone that has been in the background, I think she put up a great fight and honestly was so close to winning - all while having stomach pains BTW.

you know what would've been fun? if they had them all in elimination matches as the first game and then have the team game after. so have a death match at the very beginning. and then have 1 in the middle of the show to revive one of the eliminated players. I need more games where people play on their own so I can see if they have the skills to survive on their own instead of within an alliance first. and if they do and still get eliminated. give them all a chance to come back. and I also want the collaborative games back. the ones in S1 where they split them up into different rooms but had to still work together was so fun to watch. cause you really see then who the smartest were and it was fun because you saw all of them falter at different times whether it was Orbit, Seok Jin, or Dong Joo.