Pearl Harbor

She has flutters for sure but not yet love. Whereas, for the ML, he is falling in love. So, she is still not in the process.

I wish the FL had told SML that , she doesn't love him and he is just her older brother kinda person , rather than "Him being on 5 year term" or something....now, he will have an illusion that as long as he rises through the rank then he can have her......he will be delusional now

I think to punish his brother's murderers. If queen mother or her family is involved, obviously she won't punish her family so he might take the king's role to bring justice. Also, if he is the king then he can bring changes to many Royal rules which are not relevant to 21st century like his wife not able to work privately or eat raw fish etc.

Ofcourse, his stance with the FL will be thrown out of the window the min he tries anything funky to hammer the wedding. Also, looks like the crown prince wants to be a King in the future, not sure how he will execute it so him abandoning everything would not make sense.

This drama doesn't look that intense to me.... The finale would be about the previous king who was ML's brother's death as a murder and punishing the murderer, by now we know it's jin mu ....so that would be it...

Yup...so his character might go gray if not black before becoming green again in the finale

Also, remember he has veto power, which was shown in ep 1 so he will definitely use it against the leads.

I think he will align with queen mother to avoid the main leads marriage

I really think it's not that deep as the drama as a whole is not that deep....

I don't think so, as she is already going through so much online trolling and attacks just with the news of them dating or seen together. So, of he really cared then he would have said something else rather than ' just date him and not marry him'

I don't understand the SML's stance - "Date him but don't marry him"...lol, so let's say that she dates him for some 5-10 years then breaks up, will he wait till then. What if she doesn't want to marry him after that and dates one more person, will he wait for that to breakup as well.....lol...so stupid

I thought, the 1st season was very good and the concept of emotion cells were new. But , from second season it felt repetitive. So, I am not watching this and we know that he is the end game so we know the climax already

Queen mother is always on her iPad more than my 2 year old.

If he dethrones himself so obviously there will be shift of power and by hierarchy, his brother will be the next king . If, he dies while still sitting on the throne then his son will be the next king.

She is acting since 2011, so that would be 15 years on the acting side (veteran actress). So, I guess more than a decade of time to improve right. Again, these are high profile dramas, with big budgets so we cannot be like she is a singer or he is coming from the modeling background. They are getting paid a lot. Like you said, her track history is amazing so she would have charged a good amount. Don't hesitate to debate. If you don't like something, don't give yourself excuses that she is not from acting. It's their job when she sign a drama to deliver that role . Nobody is denying or taking away from her previous successes... This fell short, that's it

All you could come up for a reply and you typed this..... Poor kid... I will let you have this...

When Life Gives you Tangerine - Mom's version ( she is moody, grumpy ish)
Hotel del Lina - Semi dead rich blunt woman who is running this hotel for dead
My Mister - In this, she is poor but gloomy, quiet woman who is closed off.
Moon Lover - Mostly the same character as this, who is kinda bubbly who time travelled to joseon era
Producers - She is this icy princess who keeps distance from everyone.

You can actually go over her filmography on MDL itself and you will get to know how similar her characters are (irrespective of her background i mean, she is cold if she is poor in a drama or she is cold even if she is rich) .

Fun fact😊: She was offered the role of FL of Queen of Tears (The character where the FL is rich, smart sassy, blunt, has a brother problem who is dumb, cold/ icy queen, ambitious) ----doesn't this sound like the role from this drama . She rejected it and it went to Kim Ji won and rest is history.

I feel like IU is getting typecasted at this point of time...I have seen all her previous dramas, the pattern is the same
...cold, outspoken/blunt, rich ( depends), outstanding, pale face/ straight face to emote that coldness. I mean, I don't mind this but this is now getting repetitive.... Also, for the 1st time I have felt she is doing over the top acting in this drama....I just squeezed my eyes when she was in the restaurant with prime minister Min where she was wearing that hat and trying to look at the menu.....God!!! It was really unbearable.

I have also seen Byoen Woo Soek's most of the dramas where he had just a min's role and where he was not a superstar yet. He has that royal aura or commanding authority needed for this role. So far, this role of his is different from his previous hit drama lovely runner. So , it didn't feel like there is lacking like what I am seeing from few of the comments or online hate.....

I was so excited with the cast when this drama was announced. There is nothing wrong with this drama but this drama also feels so 'been there, seen that'...it's also very easy to predict what will happen in the upcoming episodes....no wonder , it is just 12 episodes..

I don't know why i thought that there will be two couples in this drama - ML & FL and Queen mother & Prime Minister (that's how it looked it looked like in the trailer). I hope this doesn't come true at least the later part because after two episodes, this b****h of a queen mother doesn't deserve the 2ML. Also, she shouldn't have any redemption arc as well......

She looks so hungry to sit on the throne that she would have made one more kid with someone else if the current child king had died in the fire along with his dad. She just wants the dummy throne irrespective of any route.

Also, the tension between the ML and the queen mother looks more than just resentment or suspicion of him coveting the throne. It looks like they had some past relationship, that is why she didn't flinch even when she saw her brother-in-law in just bathrobe in the hotel.

It looked like he was impressed by her straightforwardness. Nowhere it showed that he liked her.