ShortCircuit

Thank you, this has the BGM too, I wanted that for so long!

Oh wow! Four years later, Tencent aknowledges one of their most impactful dramas. Well, better late than never :D

Also WuJi (we know it's WangXian heheh) won the most requested and downloaded song - again, four years later! That drama and that OST have reaaaally long legs :D

Too bad XZ wasn't there...

I really hope this means there's some slack in danmei-inspired dramas, I've been waiting for some of the already filmed ones since basically forever...

I wonder if he breaking up with SoonDeok is set up by MIL, or he thought of it himself. I tend to think it's his decision - he also dropped the annulment of his marriage to the princess, he's sacrificing himself thoroughly so that if he can't have her, he won't have anyone at all. I don't think it'll work though - even if MIL knows he's giving up on his love, she also knows he DOES still love her, so he will be a tool for her anyway, if he allows it.

Ep 12 was pretty much perfect - despite not having any comedy, I loved the change of mood - the lighting changed, the pace changed, they were both pretty open about loving each other, him finding out who she really is was also beautifully done, and so did his frantic search for a way to save the whole family just to save her.

Which made me pretty mad though - I mean, he's the kid's tutor!! He didn't have any problem when he didn't know SoonDeok is the kid's mother, he was ready to dispose of the whole family just like that! That was pretty cold of him.

Also loved SamSoon up and declaring she'll support Lt. Jung if he loses his posting, LOL. He was - oh noes, I can't be with you, I might be part of the downfall of my relatives,..., and she's like - Don't worry, I already selected two possible pen names, and oh BTW, EVEN IF we marry with no problems... I'll still be writing, LOL, take it or leave it!

GO GET IT SAMSOON, you beautiful girl, you!!

BTW I am really starting not to like the sisters' mom. Okay so she was an Agent of Love, but SHE LOST IT, why is she so sure she's right on what's best for SoonDeok and JungWoo? Shut up old lady, you know nothing!! Boo!

You know, last week I was like - MIL, when you'll learn who really did kill your eldest, you'll go MAD and start WWIII in Middle-Ages Joseon... And when she did find out for sure and started making radical and FAST decisions it looked epic but now I am like - NO NOT LIKE THAT!

LOL. I have this sinking feeling she'll try to kill three birds with one wedding and get the former Crown Prince in place for the throne on that occasion. I really don't like that. And I definitely don't like she tricked SoonDeok into lending a hand in a poisoning, even if I don't care the lecher is gone. So, seriously, Lady Park... NOT LIKE THAT!! :D

ETA That kiss felt like SoonDeok never kissed anyone before either, LOL. He definitely is not supposed to have kissed anyone in his life anyway, I just wonder why he didn't evaporate instantly when finally touching a woman's lips for the first time in his life, hahaha~

Lady Park for Emperor!! (the line to sign her up for ruling the empire starts here - >)

I'm pretty sure she's not done yet, and it might be something really really bad for our OTP, but I don't care - she's a force of nature and I love watching her go.

For a soft touch:

Always (with So Ji Sub.) I'd recommend the Japanese version too (I liked it better) - Your Eyes Tell.
Windstruck (with Jun Ji Hyun). A bit of a tearjerker, be warned.

For comedy/action:

The Pirates. Haven't watched the sequel yet.
Extreme Job. Pretty funny, all things considered :)
Midnight Runners. Deeper than the comedy it's been tagged as.

For supernatural/scifi:

Along With The Gods. (Two parts are out, two more are planned, you don't need to watch them all for a complete plot. You should follow the release order though.)
The Space Sweepers. Well, it's like this: SK still hasn't hit a stride in scifi. But it's an acceptable space opera, copying some Western tropes. Overall, not too bad (not the greatest either, but pretty good).

Pure, unmitigated action (plot, what plot?!)

Shark: The Beginning. (No seriously it has awesome fights.)

BL pinnacles:

The King and the Clown. Do yourself a favour and watch this - for the story, for the actors and for the music. Insane chemistry too.

A few days since this ended, and so many great songs... and it's RanJoo's "Like Today Was Our Last Day" that is stuck in my mind.

... This song really grows on you.

Got it - re-watch the whole drama it is :D

So... just checking. On a scale of 1 to 10, how healthy is it to re-watch the skirmish scene in 30/31 at least once a day? :D

"How many other men have you liked before?"
*SamSoon, thinking for a bit*: "Four, I guess?!"

~the cold wind blowing through the lanes~

OMG LOL that was PERFECT hahaha!

The gay plot line is needed to make the father kill the son - the oldest son of the family and SoonDeok's ex-BIL, the father of her adopted son.

Since the father killed him, and then pointed the blame on someone else, the MOTHER never knew what really happened. It seems she actually loved her sons very very much, and MAYBE having her oldest killed by her husband is what's needed to make her turn away from her faction and her husband and actually start helping the other faction(s) in order to get revenge.

At least that's what I'm most hoping for. The MIL is a deep-running water.

HN and the CP will wait it out, I think. Even if it takes 5 more years, or even more, they'll be together if they're a fated pair.

IF the king wanted to marry the CP, the CP would still be 12, isn't it so? Who would he marry him to, another 12-year old? Isn't that just as much a no-no? They'd have had to wait it out anyway.

And the craziest thing is that the thugs ran away, LOL. I guess he was projecting the slave hunter's shadow over them, and believed it was himself frightening the thugs, hahaha!

IMHO his acting is pretty spot on. He nailed every comedic scene (I can't get over his haughty O-HO~ everytime he feels slighted or wants to impress people with how important he is, LOL), and now he's been nailing every soft scene, too. I really like him in this one, much more than in Tomorrow (and he wasn't bad there either).

I guess it's just that season for anti-fans...

OMG LOL only the butler remembered they were supposed to marry off the spinsters LOL. Jungwoo was like - first bachelor falls into the hands of another woman: "Good for you!! Go get her!!" :D, - second bachelor finds a woman he wants to impress with his cooking: "You two look nice together!" while the butler was throwing his hands in the air ready to pull out his hair LOL. Third bachelor - "I found someone else" - JungWoo is like: "Oh, okay then."

That was amazing, I was really ROFLMAO :D

Oh and the love sickness - the palace doctor was all over it, hahaha, while the poor butler was ready to drop!!

I am also pretty surprised they included a samesex plot line. And IF the MIL ever decides to get revenge... it's not going to stop at her husband. She'll go through her brother and their whole faction. She's going to go help JungWoo just because. I sure hope she DOESN'T get over it - no, seriously, so the kid was in love with a man. Who knows where that would have eventually lead - why DID the freaking dad have to kill him right then? SoonDeok is so right - is the fact he's in love with a man more important than his LIFE?

I think the MIL will really really NOT get over it. And I'm all ready to see it go down :D

Soooooo... it sure does look like the Crown Prince WILL marry HaNa :D (even if they have to wait for him to get a little older :D)

Omo, omo, omo... is MIL going to turn? She looks ready to turn. And then her husband will SEE what the fury of a mother looks like...

I'm still not over my trauma from Vagabond, LOL. The first drama with such an open ending it was not even an ending. Still trying hard to forget about it - though it had such a nice, catchy OST (forced to admit Open Fire is still rotating in my playlist - it's SUCH a great song though) *sigh*

I can't believe I didn't recognize him from TDJ - he was mesmerising in that drama! Also, setting up a high standard to follow (though obviously Ji Sung ALSO raised the bar even higher :D) This kid is going to go places!

Yeah, the first episode and the mystery build-up of "where is KiHo" were the best parts. I mean - for the first half of the drama, despite the title and whatever the characters were doing, most of the discussions were about if BoGeol or WooHak are him, or even if KiHo is none of them LOL.

That first impression - the boy ready to take on the world, prepared to do everything and anything... he's a small superhero, that kid. It was painful he - and her - had to grow up so fast under those circumstances, but he was READY. I loved that little boy. I was missing him throughout the first half, until they revealed him. And then I was looking for parts of the young KiHo in the older one, and finding them - that's great acting and great scriptwriting. They even managed to find kind-of similar looking actors for the young and the grown-up KiHo. Kudos to the casting director :D

Two more eps probably would have allowed for more screen time for the brothers - I wanted to see even more of them together! - and for the reconnection with old friends for MokHa. I guess they were ambitious and wanted one new song for each episode, and then couldn't get 14 good songs LOL and decided to make it short and simple :D

I don't think you have to be a relative to be named the beneficiary of a life insurance. It's probably more likely because he committed suicide and they were invalid anyway.

I'm also glad they didn't claim his ashes - poor prosecutor was the only one to care for him, in the end, and he only knew him for a few minutes. The ex-dad didn't deserve it anyway, after making their lives hell and trying to kill Dad Lee.

We didn't get a second kiss because she ate the gull's eggs LOL. She's a sinner and doesn't deserve a second thirsty kiss.

... We might also be sinners. Ate any gull eggs lately? :D

1. I don't think they pay insurance for suicides. At least not in the West, they don't. I'm not certain how they do it in Asia, but I don't think it's much different. And the dad took it only for pretending he CARES for his family, and also in order to have DaeWoong come around and try to get where KiHo was from him. He just bought it, too, I don't think he had enough time to pay much into it anyway LOL.

2. He was shown replacing it. I guess they didn't want to show us too LOL.

3. IF the mom really did shred the invoice (though that CAN'T be the only document to show sales, can it?! I mean, holy account checking, Batman!, right? (Don't these guys get to be audited by SK IRS or something?)) - she may have already been a bit gone with dementia. Wanting her daughter to be just a singer and never have her half of the company she built sounds like someone who doesn't have all their shingles on top anymore. Anyway. Pres. Lee and RanJoo and the dog came together and apart and together and again apart etc that I feel they're being a bit bohemian about it and having and off-and-on relationship for years. He did show a bit of remorse/being ready to give some part of the agency to RanJoo in the end.

4. Err... Did you miss the thirsty kiss? :D (And may I say... DAMN that man has a fine profile line when kissing. I might have watched it a few too many times LOL).

5. The ML is the FL's, the SML is everybody's. I'm claiming my share :D

6. Same here. But they needed some cattiness, probably, LOL.

7. She had a lot of highs, though. Even if only recognized later. And on that note...

8. Someday is the best song IMHO, And then Dream Us and Night and Day :D