CKT_DramaFan

Yes or something like Charlie’s Angels as mentioned below… female centric.

It’s not the same kind of story telling so it can’t really be compared. This one focuses more on the court lady’s perspective and the inner thought of both leads as they go through the development of their relationship. The original was mostly all about Jeongjo’s life.

I think the tragedy is everyone was trapped by the palace. The King, Queen, concubines, court ladies…all trapped and bound by it. 😭😭

Yes!! Would love to see something like Charlie’s Angels. 3 strong savvy/sassy women in action…haven’t seen an Asian production like that yet that’s been done well.

Loved this birthday video. She’s gorgeous. I could totally see her in a savvy professional role or feisty action role.

https://youtu.be/-p3mXfHNTXA

It depends if they like heavy melodramas with cultural nuances. As long as they don’t go into it expecting something like King’s Affection or Love in the Moonlight, they may enjoy it as much as the rest of us.

Love Lee Seyoung’s acting and personality. I wanna see her in a good female-centric drama. It could be a rom-com, melodrama, preferably action, but I want to see her in a role where she’s the center along with a bad-a** group of girlfriends. Probably not a good example but like Jang Nara’s One More Happy Ending or I Need Romance (Sex and the City feel of strong female friendship). I think she talked about wanting to do a drama like this with IU in an interview.

She did accept being with her love, the King. It wasn’t about public appearances but about what is truly hers. There’s a difference between people talking badly about you and being able to call a child you bore for 9 months and gave birth to yours. A lot of things can take a mental toll. As a concubine, you can’t have any expectations or you’ll be disappointed when duty is chosen over you. She had a lot of internal conflict, being happy one moment and sad the next. She never disclosed her feelings so as to not burden the person she loved so he never fully saw the emotional struggles she was going through. Anyways, loved the drama and the two characters.

I would still not want to be either a court lady or concubine. It’s no wonder parents would try to marry their daughters off before court lady recruitment (commoners) and concubine selection (nobility) to avoid them being trapped by the palace.

That’s the point…she loves him enough to not put him in the position of “expanding” the rules. He’s very rigid with the law and can only stand up for her to a certain extent. There are certain rules that will never be expanded even by him. It wasn’t just that she couldn’t leave the palace. I wish they showed the family moments and people would understand there’s other issues. She could never call her husband and children her own in public and they couldn’t call her mother except in private. The King going out in disguise is different than the concubine. Even the Queen isn’t allowed to unless it’s for official business (certain ceremonies). The Queen Dowager wasn’t even allowed to go to her brother’s funeral.

I wouldn’t want to be either Court Lady or Concubine.

More info here, but I think August, possibly sooner due to the hype/demand. I pre-ordered mine last month.
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/dress-sleeved-red/67555-blu-ray-demand-survey-on-daum-cafe?page=3&r=notif&_nid=101647747#p2124277

There’s a director’s cut blu-ray that is supposed to come out later in the year. It’s supposed to include BTS, extended scenes and cut scenes. Pre-order was in Dec. Hopefully it happens.

Hoping there are some scenes in the blue ray at least.

I can’t remember which one was first, either Moon Embracing the Sun or DongYi. I was able to binge watch since they were already completed by the time I got into sageuks.

https://twitter.com/mmallaang/status/1478582640446144512?s=21

The casting director did an awesome job. Not only did Doek-Im and her brother look alike but so did Doek-Im and her son.

Waiting for the translation of the full interviews. Looks like each source cut parts of the interviews that their program focused on such as K-pop, TRS, future work, etc.

At least they tried to make up for it with morning hapbang 🥰🤣. That wasn’t in the script.

https://twitter.com/alohaitsrin/status/1477518848588861441?s=21
G4 are too cute.

https://twitter.com/filmwuju/status/1478629032245686282?s=21
Part of Seyoung interview translation.

https://twitter.com/sshana2/status/1477425278511054849?s=21
4th highest rating for 2021 behind Penthouse and One the Woman…beat the ones on Netflix on home ground. Just needs more avenues for exposure besides Viki and VIU for increased international exposure??

Junho’s translated interview.
https://twitter.com/jlml718/status/1478611919149801474?s=21

Think parts of the face going into book stacks too 🤣 The writer or someone on staff said they changed it last minute since original was too tropey.