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With such a novel storyline this drama will either be a hit or a miss. I hope it's gonna be a hit!

Oh wait, I guess Mo Ge Li/Mowgli is referring to Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, not Tarzan

This reminds me of the drama Prince of Wolf and the Japanese mangas Beast Master and Boku wa Ookami, and basically the live action of Tarzan. I can foresee myself enjoying this.

Frankly, Xufeng did Yunyu dirty. He did give guidance to Yunyu, but he did not try his best to stop his mother from harming him and other people. He respected his mother's boundaries way too much until she started harming Jinmi too, then he truly stepped in. Before that, he barely stood on his brother's side when their parents were being harsh to him, even though he knew his brother was a good person. Xufeng's lack of awareness towards the cruelty of his family was one of the causes of Yunyu going down the path of no return, not to mention that Xufeng stole his fiance while the marriage agreement was still effective. I'd be angry and try to get the girl back too if I was Yunyu. Unless revenge was evil, Yunyu didn't do much wrong except for the fact that he forced himself on the FL despite knowing she doesn't have feelings for him. All in all, Yunyu wasn't actually that bad of a person, compared to the emperor and the queen. If he were the ML and this was a revenge story revolving his character, his actions could have been portrayed as right through a simple change in the editing.

I'd try not to judge both of them since we don't know what exactly happened to their marriage and at the end of the day, it's their own matter to solve. The backlash was caused by Gu Hye Sun who made their private matters public, but then it appears she is mentally incapable of making rational decisions so I'd take what she said with a grain of salt. I'd also take what Ahn Jae Hyun said about the nipples with a grain of salt cuz people say nasty things when they are angry and they both did. We never know or need to decide who was "the person to blame", it could have been either or both or none. In the end, both parties are held responsible for their marriage breaking apart and it is their business. If I were the k-netizens I wouldn't go on a witch hunt like what they're doing now with Ahn Jae Hyun simply based on Gu Hye Sun's claims.

My favorite drama of ALL TIME!! I actually managed to watch it twice, despite the agony I felt... lol.
Runyu is my favorite character in the story, even though I'm team Xufeng when it comes to who should get the girl. I've never seen a villain, or anti-hero, as three dimensional as Runyu. You just hate and pity him at the same time, and no matter what he does it is just so understandable given his circumstances. Basically all the second generation kids in the story are victims of the first gen people. Sigh.

I agree that in reality the good guys often suffer more than the bad guys. But in a drama with deities, we'd expect them to at least reward/punish people properly in their afterlife, but it seems that they have a weird standard in applying punishments too. *smh*

I'm still confused why the deities keep punishing the victims and letting the bad people slide in this drama. I just can't seem to agree with their sense of morals. There's nothing wrong with Chan Sung breaking Man Wol's spell and sending her off if that's his fate and Ma Go intended for it to happen, so I am baffled by what the other black deity said about him having to bear the consequences of sending her away. Not to mention me trying to justify Man Wol's cruel punishment. I am also in utter disappointment that Yeon Woo and the princess are together in the afterlife, while Chung Myung has to suffer a tragic loss of love for 1000 years. The writers seem to be extra harsh with the good guys here, so if this drama doesn't get a happy ending I'll riot.

Frankly I'm not enjoying this as much as I thought I would either. I do like the characters, but I'm just not feeling the plot. The short stories in each episode aren't very engaging, neither is the main plot very progressive either. The worst thing is I'm not even interested in what happened in the past, contrary to some people who at least still enjoy the past scenes.

My first ever kdrama (that got me into k-dramas)!! I watched it almost 8 years ago but it's still one of my favs and the best action drama I've watched. I also watched Healer but I didn't like it as much as City Hunter. This drama is a classic for a reason <3

Most of the time reality doesn't matter to drama producers. They either don't know how it works in real life, or they don't care. Dramas with medical elements and legal/court scenes are usually unrealistic because they focus on how to present the scene in an entertaining manner rather than to portray reality (because reality is usually boring). For example, if the actor doesn't shake the unconscious body and just calmly calls the ambulance, it won't generate the same emotional effect as if he shakes the body and cries all over it.

Oh, I thought of one! Frantically shaking a person who just got into a car crash and probably has broken bones. Even if he's not dead yet, he'll be shaken to death.

And, instead of calling the ambulance immediately, they just keep calling the name of the person who has fainted in an attempt to wake him up, while he bleeds to death.

Yeah, that's my thought too. I have the benefit of the doubt for him, not because I like him, but because the full past story hasn't been revealed. What we saw was just MW's side of the story. There has to be more to it.

Yeah that makes sense. I just wondered if there was more than what had been revealed to us. But anyhow, MW is the victim and nothing changes the fact that CM had hurt her. I agree with you.

I still hold on to a little possibility that CM wasn't as terrible as portrayed. Say, if it was a situation where everyone would have died anyway, then all CM did was marry the princess to save MW. That way he won't be the person who caused the deaths of the other people. The princess might have already found out the hiding place of her team, and told CM that if he marries her, she will leave MW unharmed. Of course, in MW's pov she would have preferred dying along with everyone else, but since CM had feelings for her, he wouldn't want her to die even if she wanted to.

I think you have a point about Ma Go trying to give him a white lily. My take on it was a bit different; Ma Go mentioned (I forgot the exact wording) "giving a push" to Chan Sung to meet Man Wol. The push, imo, was the act of offering CS the white lily, which caused his dad to want to get him a flower for his birthday, which then caused him to pick the blue flower on the tree, which eventually led to the encounter between CS and MW. To me, Ma Go did not actually intend to give him a flower, she did it to cause the chain reaction of events. But then, your theory is also possible.

The article had some interesting theories, but I don't agree with the part where Chan Sung is supposed to die because he received a flower. When Chan Sung was trying to buy a lily from Ma Go and she said he already got his flower, she was referring to the blue flower from the Spirit Tree that she gave him, which granted him the ability to dream about Man Wol's past events. It wasn't about the death lily and he never received one. That's why I don't think Chan Sung is meant to die.

Tbh I don't think Man Wol deserves the 1000 years of punishment. Chung Myung and the princess were way crueler and directly/indirectly killed way more people, but they actually got to reincarnate (at least the princess did, and she was the mastermind back then). Man Wol was pretty much innocent, I know she sought for revenge but then it happened in an ancient era when seeking revenge was still broadly regarded as a moral act. The only explanation I can accept is that the Ma Goos were actually trying to save her from turning into an Ak Gwi due to her grudge. The 1000 years for her is more like a therapy to help her overcome her past trauma rather than a punishment, and Chan Sung is her therapist. Besides, being the CEO of a hotel with guaranteed customers and income and living a luxurious life is DEFINITELY NOT a punishment lmao...

This drama is the perfect example of interpositional storytelling done right. Interpositional storytelling is basically narration interspersed with flashbacks, where events are not told in chronological order. Usually it's easy for a drama that uses this technique to lose focus, raise too many questions before answering them, or cause confusion to the audience, but this drama executed the technique perfectly. The plot was easy enough for the audience to piece together by themselves and feel a sense of achievement while doing so, but intriguing enough to pique interest and remain unpredictable. There's nearly no flaw to this drama at least to the point I've watched, the only flaw is the lack of character depth and backstory of every other character except for the main lead. But, accepting this to be a drama focusing on a sole character, I would say there's nothing I can complain about at all.

This drama is a breath of fresh air! Love the dark humor and cult elements in this. Never once have I seen a romance between a murderer/kidnapper and a victim. It was so ridiculous but fun at the same time. Loved how the writer played with such a controversial premise and managed to make it entertaining.