ShortCircuit

1&2&3 are parts of the same question, aren't they? What DID happen to DHS's mom? And how come he lost all memories before about ten years of age, around the time his mother went missing? I think we all suspect that she's the first victim. After all, it's a theory that serial killers start close to home, with people known to them, if they're the planning type. BUT, even if Mi Sook (the seventh official victim) was actually alive, she was kept prisoner for a while, and it's unclear if she's missing a nail or not. It might be her nail in the end. I tend to believe it's DHS' mom's.

4. DHS was running from his ex-roommate, whom he had stabbed but not killed. As we know by the end, he's not actually a killer, so he probably got shocked by what happened and lost it. And his ex-roommate scored that long cut on DHS's shoulder that left that huge scar. DHS was running for his life, too.

5. The cliff is right there. I don't recall the drama told precisely how DMS died, though in the past it was ruled a suicide. Maybe Hee Seong pushed him off the cliffs (where he and DHS fought it out in the end) and the coroner never could tell the difference between the wounds caused by a fall on the rocks and water damage, and what Hee Seong did. (And it's more expedient, politically speaking, to have a serial killer who committed "suicide" than an open investigation, when the police had no idea about the seven victims in the first place.)

My 2 cents on it, obviously :D

KBI did a Boromir. And well, not gonna lie, it looked good. Bye KBI. (The arrows were missed though, they would've made it perfect. And a copyright infringement too, probably.)

DESU NOTU!!!!!! I LOLed when she said that. Does it sound the same in Korean or did she just say it in Japanese? LOL that letter... and it looked esthetically appealing, too. Where's Ryuk when you need him?

NOOOO, Director Hong don't go breaking Kim Hwan's heart!!!! You BASTARD! Also, LOL @Prince Yeongpyeong, he was like - "I Can't Even With the Both Of You!!!"

KJG seems to be wanting to become a king, so I guess he'll be dead next episode, good riddance. And the Royal Chef and Lady Choi are living it up, that's good.

But I have to say it, I love the palace scenes way better than the Robin Hood scenes. And it probably froze them to death too, poor bastards. Whoever scripted them to be filmed at the beginning of the year is a sadist.

I DO NOT LIKE THE PREVIEW. Show, you'd better not. I warn you.

That was a long intro into the end episode...

Oh, it is revealed, never fear. Just you wait :)

Poor Wen Ning didn't have much luck after his revival, either. But yeah, you're nearing the end of the flashback, and it'll take you back to the opening scene of the series. Prepare your heart, for what it's worth. (That means, we all expected it, but none of us were prepared.)

And after you're done with the drama, while you're in recovery, LOL, I'll recommend you look up the chibi donghua Mo Dao Zu Shi Q on youtube (there's an official donghua too, that follows the novel closer in the pattern of flashbacks than the drama does, but the chibi MDZS Q is a balm for fans' hearts LOL and closer to the drama 'ships). You'll need it and it's the cutest :D

What episode are you on? There's a big, dramatic reveal about the things you're asking about, and it would be a huge spoiler to learn of it before its time.

But the very short, probably non-spoilery answer is that for tricks like talismans and cool fighting moves like big jumps, one doesn't need (much, if any) spiritual power. That's reserved for stamina and bigger fighting moves and it's cultivated for a long while.

WWX used talismans before, they're not new for him - he even gave LZ a dazzling butterfly talisman to use, in the first few episodes of the flashback. They're no big deal.

What is a big deal is fighting using only talismans and darker tricks, which is why everyone is suspicious of WWX when he renounces the "clean" sword and starts using other, non-orthodox methods for his night hunts. Particularly when the talismans are drawn in his own blood (if you got to where he is with the Wen people he saved, then you already know that bit. LZ and JC both knew he used blood talismans in his revenge, and I bet other people knew too. Not to mention the flute controlling the corpse army). WWX can't catch a break when he's the YiLing Patriarch.

If they're not careful, MHJ will get them rich LOL.

Is anyone else sensing a Inuyasha/Sesshomaru dynamics between DMB and his brother? The only thing missing yet is the girl - I'll LOL if older brother sticks around and gets interested in cat lady.

RIP HLN's protector. Was he a Phoenix Soul too? Oh well, gone so fast, too bad, so sad. If she and her mind tricks are gone too, I won't shed a tear.

IMHO, WWX tells LWJ that if they end up fighting each other, then he wants to be killed by LWJ's hand because then his death will be certainly warranted. (Edit: and that links to the first scene in the series, too, if you think about it, when WWX removes LWJ's choice because he doesn't want him to take on the burden of WWX's death when he obviously tries to stop it.)

So to speak, he understands that even if he's also certain NOW that his lonely path is the only path, but he might stray in the future and never realize it. (Which kind of happens, by accident, after ep 27, but I'm not sure up to which you've seen so I won't spoil it.) And he also understands that giving LWJ free "licence to kill" him will cause LWJ pain, and because LWJ is his soulmate, he too understands it the same way.

Which is why LWJ cries.

That is my explanation and I'm going to stick with it, because all the rest of the story (and kind of clear parts of dialogue) seem to cement that into place.

This is the first week of Mr Queen that I don't actually WANT to get to see the episodes. I mean. Then there'll be no more.

/sad.

Ohshitohshitohshit, his father is the evil mastermind?! For real?! Are they going to confront him as the final boss of this dungeon/season 1?

He sure didn't look like he was too busy while he was drinking himself into stupor nightly. Who lit the fire under him?

I was afraid TS will just leave the school and go on his own to that Xi city thing arena, because that's what shounen anime kid heroes usually do. He chose instead to come out to MHJ and they've bonded even closer than before. Go Team!!

For some reason, though the episodes are only about 40 minutes long, including the op and ending, they pack a lot of story. I like that. I was afraid it'll make no sense, but it does, good for us.

Also, OMG WHAT DO YOU MEAN DMB IS GOING TO DIE SOON?! Hot really old sister of cat lady, come back THIS INSTANT and tell me your soul power is NOT predicting the future (accurately). Because unless it is, I can tell you right now that there's something there that wasn't there before between DMB and cat lady and she won't let him die that easily, and her claws into HLN's neck are certain proof. Which reminds me, what the heck is HLN's problem?! What does she want with DMB?! Hands off, he's cat lady's cattoy!!

I NEVER in a MILLION years expected that most of TS's powers will be poison-related. Usually the good guy's powers are all so squeaky clean, manly powerful fighting things, but he's oh, well, a POISON master LOL. I like that. I want more. And what will happen to the student he accidentally helped poison?!

But are those three rings only related to the Blue Silver Plant Martial Soul? Would he - or should he - get rings related to the Hammer, too? And what about the violet eyes power thing, is that going to be included in his development somehow? If his dad really is the bad evil mastermind, all his growth won't help TS put him down (if he needs putting down) in the long term...

Aaaaah so much time to wait until tomorrow.

PS: XW is running rings around them now, LOL. I loved their faces when she said, umm, well, I guess I got two Soul Rings in an afternnoon, life uhh... finds a way? Hahahaha

Up to episode 17, this is getting addictive.

I think Eun Ho didn't actually call her (there's a scene when he's in the back of Choi Dae Hoon's car, but she might have imagined that he called her from inside it, as they - her and Lee Jae Hong - had just found the car there.) But the caller didn't speak, and immediately after Baek Sang Ho got there and "rescued" Eun Ho, he took his phone away. I think - though I might be wrong - HE called Young Jin, just as he did twenty years back, but didn't dare speak in case she recognized his voice. That's how I explained it to myself, anyway.

As for Soon Ah, I imagine the same he told her when she went against him before - things like, you're mine to do as I please, blah-blah-blah. Her back story is the one least explained, so who knows what he precisely did to "rescue" her in the past. I don't think he was ever as crazy as to actually care about the ritual of the killing, so the fact he tried to kill her the same way as the serial victims might be just habit.

Eun Ho has a small circle of suspects to choose from, and his clues all point to someone in their church's ring. His mother was active in the church, he's going to the church's school, he has a genetically-related afliction that the director also has, etc... It might just be Eun Ho going through an elimination process. He might've intended to try all males who have the same sneeze reflex in his life, LOL. Also, his mother drinks a lot. She might have spilled the secret at some time in the past.

They never explained how Gi Ho found the recording, but it was probably moved somewhere by the pastor before he died, so that he could deduct its location eventually based on what he knew of the pastor. Maybe at some lawyer's place, even, as he eventually got to go through some papers regarding the church's possessions.
Don't know about the secret code... but the pastor or church secretary knew Seo Sang Won was crazy and that he killed all those people, and that he "trained" Baek Sang Ho too. They probably approved (SSW is after all a crazy prophet, religious types like those people), but even so, they wouldn't want for the truth to come out and link the church and their properties to everything SSW did. So they prepared the coded map as a precaution, just in case. Insurance against the day BSH became too greedy and came for them. And then died unexpectedly, so that insurance came to be used by others, LOL.

Not sure how on the point I am, just what I understood of those things. Good thing everyone who counted got their HEA or at least their HFN :)

Go away venomous human-headed spider that I blinded with a nail, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU. Unless you want to become my third ring.

It was at that moment the spider knew it done f*cked up.

Poor OSK - his super powers is making sausages. Now, imagine Master's pigdog fed on OSK's sausages, what feats could the do together? :D But at least he impressed his crush. Never before was a girl so happy to see a master chef LOL. They're gonna be so happy together :D

I'm right, aren't I, XW is herself a human-turned Soul Beast, right? The Titan Ape was all parent-like hovering over her, like "you young missy will get back home and you'll be grounded til you're gray and a grandmother!"

TS at the end of episode 15 be like...

Rong Rong and Ou Si Ke's interactions are making me LOL (he's going to be a whipped husband to her, isn't he?), Dai Mu Bai got a bit more interesting with his on the side arena fighting, EVERYBODY but Tang San lied to cover everybody else, which is also hilarious (particularly when Headmaster's nightsight is better than his daysight LOL), and BEST OF ALL,

THEY'RE ACTING LIKE A TEAM.

I love that. The first few eps were dedicated to TS and XW, but now we're getting introduced to the other main characters, and I like how they're all fleshed out, no screen time wasted.

What the heck is OSK's Martial Soul?! Don't tell me though, I want to be surprised.

Also, doesn't Headmaster know that TS is supposedly born also with full Soul Power, like OSK? Or TS's dad never told Master either? I forget. Or didn't the officer who woke up TS's soul tell anyone of his superiors? Then Hu Lie Na should be aware of that, shouldn't she?

But. Precious moments to be noted:

1. The manly men trio of boys trying to get some training done, only to be repeatedly stopped by OSK fluttering about. Those expressions. They were down to seed eating like they were watching a show. I was ROFL :D

2. In the previous eps, when we were getting told MHJ's story.

DMB: We should look for MHJ and catch him and the monster.
TS (every five minutes): Yeah, but those chickens...
DMB: Did you find MHJ?
TS (every five minutes): No, but those chickens...
DMB&everybody else: Anyone notice anything unusual?
TS (once): The chickens don't poop. (ROFL!!!)
The chickens: poop
TS: Yeah right, like that isn't particularly suspicious at all *eyeroll*

I don't know about you guys, but I've laughed more with this drama than I'd laughed at many "comedies" (Mr. Queen not included) in the past few years.

Can't wait to see where this show goes! I hope for many more (timely) seasons with the same cast, if they end up being a multi-season tale. Jiayou, Team Shrek!

Ma Hong Jun's introduction took a lot of time, BUT, episodes 12-13 were hilarious and reminded me again that I actually quite like this drama.

I'll take that - but if he EVER mentions ANYthing about sand... I'm gonna pop out a rib laughing.

Seriously, even his hairdo and outfit make him look like a Padawan (and not gonna lie, when I was younger I liked those SW outfits quite a lot, so it's actually a compliment.) But I haven't seen him fight seriously yet, just teasing Cat Lady (sorry, didn't catch her name). Can't wait to see him fight Tang San and really go at it.

The fights are worth all the hype so far. If this was 3D... I so wish!...

Was this filmed around the time of TU? Episode 9 gave me a lot of TU vibes - like Tang San's interrogation skills looking just something straight out of WWX's playbook. I kept expecting LZ to come out and yell "surprise"... oh okay, he wouldn't yell. And that gargoyle at the crossroads to the village sure looked just like the one guarding the path to Yi City (of which the village also reminded me of.) I bet someone transformed a lot of people into chickens in that village, too. Or if not, then my story tropes have mislead me :D

Also, TS sure cried a lot in the first few eps for someone who said crying doesn't solve anything, LOL.

Xiao Wu looks like she'll turn out to be something else than what she says she is - is she a thousand-millenia old Soul Beast?

The fights are SO COOL!!!! I could watch them all day. I really wish they'd fight more. With plot progression too, obviously.

But so far, I'm liking it. It's way more teen-oriented than I would have preferred but then, it's not like I wanted a psychologically charged story. And I laughed a lot - I'm just so sorry to think that a lot of the jokes would be lost in translation, because what comes through is really funny. And XZ's expressions whenever OSK assaults him with his dreams of art are FANTASTIC :D

Wait, before I forget - is Hu Lie Na a fox? Her name sounds so homophonically "fox", LOL.

This is way more fun than I'd expected. I get the transition from donghua to drama or novel to drama had to be painful, due to censorship of themes and a crunching of a lot of time, but it still remains very easy to watch.

So far - impressions: Dai Mu Bai is a Padawan going to the Dark Side slowly but surely (he gave me really strong Anakin vibes, LOL), Ou Si Ke can talk ANYONE's ear off (he did mine), Master has a lot of secrets, the cat lady is going places, LOL.

So, I watched a few Gundam anime (I like mecha, I wish they still made awesome fighting robots anime!!).

And I don't know if you watched any, but just in case, there's this series - Gundam SEED and SEED Destiny - that has as MCs two Gundam pilots, Athrun Zala (my crush) and Kira (not my crush). There's a lot of serious things going on in those series, among them children going to war, people dying on screen, a few really dazed off singers and whatnot, amazing music and awesome Gundam fights. And then they went and made a series of "character theatre" chibi parodies based on those, which are also AMAZING (and pretty gay LOL).

The reason I like the interraction between Hong and Hwan is that they remind me of these guys (not in the mecha sense, LOL), but... See for yourself. It's self-explanatory even if you haven't seen the series.

Athrun - Hong, Kira - Kim Hwan, Shinn - Yeon or anyone else trying to get between them. LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ize6y4MZaOc

(And in case you like anime, and considered mecha... Gundam is the way to go. SEED and SEED Destiny are my faves, but there are so many, many more!)

It's a serious thing, between them, did you notice them getting misty eyed when Hwan admitted it's not a clan or self-interest thing that got him to befriend Director Hong?

So cute!

And Prince YeongPyeong's antennas behind Hong, twitching the rainbow alert, LOL, while he couldn't EXACTLY say what was wrong, ROFL!