ShortCircuit

Yes. The first high-octane reveal and confrontation comes in 23, and then it's going to move way too fast because there are JUST those 54 eps, no more afterwards... Go on. It's worth it.

He's actively trying to find a way to commit suicide, I'd call that a big progress in his life right now.

LOL, nevermind me, I seriously don't mind it either, it's just tiredness talking. Still, I had better expectations of this second (and last) season.

Even if there were only 20 soul shifters in three years (though I think there are more of them), that's about 5 times more than in the previous twenty-some years (since Jang Gang invented the soul ejectors.)

Where did all the other shifters get the ejectors then, if they're so rare and JinMu is safe-keeping them? Can he make them himself now?

What I am complaining about is that every other mage seems to have become powerless, and it's only Jang Uk who still keeps the fight going. I know it's a plot trick to give him stuff to do while the romantic part runs its course, but it's still illogical and changes a lot of what the first season set up about the magic world.

I'll wait for ep 6, since the preview seems to suggest Seo Yul will finally do something magical himself (so it's probably going to happen in the second half of the second ep of the week, as usual), and see if they keep the same kind of momentum with this. Or not, I actually don't care. I'm just here because of insomnia, LOL.

So you're saying he'd fall for any girl with that kind of personality, then? Or fall for a random someone who reminds him lightly of his first love?

Listen, I'm not trying to be the devil's advocate here and say the romance isn't working. I'm trying to say it doesn't work in the way they want it to (they, as the producers, writers, etc. The actors are giving it their all.)

We're 4 eps in a 10 eps long season and nothing changed the needle over to the recognition part. They don't even spend that much time together on-screen (because we need to see how the ex-master can't make tasty food... for the nth time. I think we all got it the first time.) And whenever they ARE in the same scene, it's supposedly romantic (she's falling, he's weirdly protective and careful etc - did we forget this is supposed to be Uk's darkest hour? That he doesn't have anything in his mind than Mu-Deok and maybe finding some way to kill himself?!)

If he's still in love with Mu-Deok (which he definitely is supposed to be), what with all the romantic scenes with Bu-Yeon? That he STILL doesn't know is his actual lover, so there's not even that hint of maybe-he's-actually-uncertain-if-she's-her-or-not. He's giving her fireflies FGS (in a mirror-like scene from Gu Family Book, LOL, though GFB did it better, IMHO). He's marrying her even if he doesn't even know if she's some mad ranting lunatic when they first meet. He's protecting her every chance he gets. He's flustered when even the chance of getting rowdy presents itself.

So if that's not love, what the heck is it implying?! That he's a dumbass who would get swindled by anyone with some similarities with Mu-Deok? He was more complex in the first part, and he was supposed to be sunnier in personality then, how come he's become simpler because he's been suffering? That's a lot of lost opportunities to turn this S2 into something magnificent.

That being said, I am still liking it, but mostly for 1. the eye-candy, 2. wanting to see how Yul (probably) dies, and 3. the CP's pet turtle. Mostly for the eye-candy, though.

I had higher hopes.

Okay, I see I'm not making it clear enough. S1 showed a large number of mages who would go into a tizzy any time a soul shifter appeared - and it took a lot of them to kill one of such. And those soul shifters were pretty rare and powerful and scary.

S2 has them a dime a dozen, everywhere, all the time, because why not, and nobody bats an eye - more so, most of a whole mage order just ups and leaves for parts unmentioned because they got scared. And all the new (no idea how powerful) soul shifters get moved over for Jang Uk to deal with.

I get it, Jang Uk is now the most powerful mage to ever roam those parts, and STILL, there are a whole LOT more soul shifters (they said so in ep1), what if there's more than one at the time? Who deals with it? He can't be everywhere at once.

What I'm saying is that the scale of things doesn't make sense any more. Or maybe it's recession times in Daeho too, so now one man has to do the job of a hundred, and pretend to like it.

Edit And now that I'm thinking about it, where do all those new soul shifters come from anyway? Didn't it take a rare and strange magic to make them? Now everybody has the means to go body-changing whenever they feel like it? Then why doesn't the queen gets to go body-switching too, poor dimwit she's turned into?

That was S1. That's what I'm trying to say - this S2 is treating it like he would've rescued any girl with magic powers AND fell for her even if she's a clumsy twit. What's there to make him fall for Bu-Yeon, aside her possible magic? But he's still over-protective and gentle and whatnot, the staples of falling in love despite himself I've seen in kdrama in way too many stories.

WE know she's his resurrected love, but he doesn't. He's falling for someone new, from his POV, (well, until the reveal), and the longer they drag it, the worse it looks. We're basically halfway through the season and there's no change in that situation - is this the whole plot? If so... that's a bit too little.

Other than that chase (that they didn't end anyway), nobody ever chased another soul shifter. Everybody just expects Jang Uk to go and get it - even this rumoured revenant. Instead of arming up and going on organised patrols as in S1, they're all relying on Jang Uk to do the work of (previously) the whole mage order.

That's... lazy writing at least.

CP and his pet turtle were everything this episode.

Other than that, doesn't it look like IF Jang Uk gets to be gentle and protective to ANY random girl, she'll eventually love him and he'll eventually fall for her too? If it wasn't Bu-yeon (that he still doesn't recognize) it could've been anyone who was in need of a rescue. I know who she is, but he's still falling for Random Girl Inc. while theoretically still in love with Mu-Deok.

Is there any kind of plot other than the when-will-he-recognize-her part, though? Is there no other mage still around who can chase soul-shifters, but Jang Uk? Did everybody forget how to use their swords, dammit?

I kind of played Coin Master throughout the whole episode. That's not a good sign...

He's still in mourning. I guess we'll see him in colours once the love hits LOL.

You gotta wear black if you want people to think you're tall, dark and sexy, err, dangerous, I mean. He hits all those points. I see no problem with it, LOL.

He's mostly hunting down soul shifters at night, it's camouflage, I guess. So, practical, right?

Not in my country (in the EU), they can't release a critical patient AMA, in those circumstances (as in the drama). Not if they're not stable, not if they're being given an intravenous antibiotics course, not in the first hours after a cardiac event of that magnitude. And definitely not under the signature of someone who isn't even a relative, not even mentioning a medical guardian.

Unless they want to be sued for malpraxis. The only way they can be released is to go to another medical facility where they'll be further treated or at least under the observation of a specialist - or if they're stable indeed, not in any immediate danger of recurrence, and all the i's have been dotted and t's have been crossed, LOL.

JHG isn't Superman... (And I didn't even mention how basically immediately after he's released and arrests the villain, he's going drinking with his buddies, cops AND medical people, while still theoretically being given an intravenous antibiotics course, LOL, because why not. Med regs are more like guidances anyway.)

But after the helicopter hijinks (which still make me angry as a wet cat, LOL), medical hijinks are nothing.

He got killed by Naksu (MuDeok) while surrounded by the most powerful mages of SongRim, DangGu included. Nobody could fight her off...

So yeah, it's kind of their fault. That was one soul-shifter, they were the top of the SongRim cream, for naught. And he wouldn't have been exposed so that she could kill him if it wasn't for the big wedding stuff, so double whammy for the DanGu/ChoYeon romance. She's a daddy's girl (no wonder, with that mom!) and took it personally.

Her body was frosted over or something, and personality (vitality) does a lot to change one's face. A dead person might not even resemble what they looked like while alive, even to family and friends.

That being said, all the mages KNEW her and came to gawk at her when she died, so that's no excuse.

My bet is that they'll say JBY and Naksu's facial traits somehow mingled, as the energy healed the body, so they're just similar but not the same-looking. That's the only way to pretend it's not the same person, IMHO. We'll see.

I'm thinking back to the original teaser (when S1 ended). That hinted to much darker things than what's come in these two eps. There's still time, but yeah... A darker Uk would've been AWESOME. Not that he's not awesome now :D

I wanted him darker, like desperately darker, with a hint of cruelty and some cemetery humour, too T_T

But I guess a 10 eps series doesn't have the time to present both a falling down and a redemption arc, so they just went with the "he's a (powerful beyond belief) pariah but his personality is still the same goofball with some serious streaks" waiting for a chance to introduce the romance again.

At least there's all the eyecandy, he's definitely a joy to watch. Too bad about the ponytail...

Who in the actual F would release a critical medical patient on whomever's say-so, when said patient 1. had a cardiac arrest hours before, 2. was practically in a coma for hours, too, 3. has open wounds and needs antibiotics?!!!!!

F the norms and regs, let's throw them out the window?!

And for what, just because he NEEDED to be the one who put the cops on the villain? I mean, were there no other policemen to do it?

I'm kind of tired of suspending disbelief on this drama.

Episode 8 gave me the "visitors incoming" vibe LOL. Everything got stashed here and there and everywhere, just out of sight. I know it's about tying up loose knots and filling plot holes and whatever, but it had a pretty rushed feeling and felt like they were ready to close up shop.

For some reason, I might slow down on this one.

Now seriously, nobody but the villains remember Naksu's face?!

You know when I said I'd want some plot with the romance? I decided I don't actually care. Give me the fluff. All of it.

Also, Jang Uk is still the most handsome wizard to ever wizard in all fantasy worlds put together. The tallest, too. I don't know how they managed it, but he's always around petite girls, and it's freaking adorable.