Otiose

I understand your points about the misleading layered reveals. Bulgasal reminded me of The Sixth Sense in which the final and singularly most important reveal at the very end makes the viewer reassess everything that came before, and when watched a second time the evidence and hints were there that supported that final reveal but most everyone missed them because of assumptions self inflicted. Bulgasal keeps the viewer constrained to the reveals available to the two main characters as they progress through their investigation as to what happened in that 600 years ago incident. It's only towards the end do they stumble upon what happened 1,000 years before. My impression after watching a few times is that the story presentation is bit too subtle. For example in the first episode we see a Bulgasal killing villagers and we also see a Bulgasal saving young DH. I suspect the storytellers were showing us the ongoing conflict over hundreds of years between OET and MSU with OET finding DH and then inciting the people around him to kill him (because OET probably can't kill DH directly), and MSU trying to protect young DH. This cycle was only broken when the general adopted DH and took him away, and then later MSU stepped into the middle of OET's latest scheme and took OET's soul from DH making him the Bulgasal. The more confusing and (to me) unexplained action was when MSU stabbed DH in the back taking his soul. In the 16 episodes I failed to find a reasonable rationale for doing that and for sure there was no exposition explaining it and yet much of the unfolding story depends on that twist. MSU must have known that OET did all that murder and mayhem. Did she know she would switch places when she stabbed him? If ever there was a time when a little communication would have helped that moment was it. I enjoyed Bulgasal, but agree that a little more exposition would have helped the greater appreciation because way too many people are left confused as to what happened and why.

I believe that this show is a discussion about the main show on Netflix.