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Joseon With Spooks
All of the previous reviewers covered this drama, The East Palace, very well. I will make other points. The Princess Saeng Gang (played by Roh Yoon Seo) always felt alone in this life, especially after her mother was murdered. No one understood her and thought she was a freak. Her father, the king, used to treat her like his loving daughter, when she was young; in truth, he despised her and even told her that she was just like her mother (he despised her too). The king wanted his strange daughter to live outside of the palace.
Gu Cheon (played by Nam Joo Hyuk) was a man who did not want to do anything but sleep at the temple. He was dragged into the spirit problem at the palace. The king threatened him quite a bit.
Princess Saeng Gang and Nam Gu Cheon had a kind of small learning curve in how to deal with the spirits. After a while, she was glad that he was there. She could talk about things openly with him about spirits. The princess could see spirits only when she was a spirit in the spirit realm. A good example of this is when she chopped off her spirit brother's head, but he grew his head back.
I will talk about something else. Princess Saeng Gang started feeling very comfortable with Gu Cheon. She touched his hand, held his hand and even hugged him. He never pulled his hand away and even hugged her back. I believe she fell in love him and he developed a fondness for towards him. They became very protective of each other. The princess told asked her father, the king, not to hurt Gu Cheon. When the princess was missing or in trouble, Gu Cheon would go find her and rescue her. Oh yeah, Princess Saeng Gang had called Gu Cheon the most important person to her; when she walked to her grandmother after saying that, he thought she was talking about her grandmother being her most important person (she was referring to Gu Cheon). When he was thought to be dead by everyone, the princess believed he was alive, but missing his spirit. She went to the water and walked into the water, calling for him. After she got back to the palace, he woke up shortly after she got back. There was some more hugging.
The last episode (Episode 8) Gu Cheon was leaving the palace for the last time, Princess Saeng Gang made up her mind to go with him and stay with him. She had asked him, episodes before, about where he was going after the spirit problems was taken care of and he had mentioned about going back to the temple (you could tell she did not like that answer back then).
It was an interesting drama.
Gu Cheon (played by Nam Joo Hyuk) was a man who did not want to do anything but sleep at the temple. He was dragged into the spirit problem at the palace. The king threatened him quite a bit.
Princess Saeng Gang and Nam Gu Cheon had a kind of small learning curve in how to deal with the spirits. After a while, she was glad that he was there. She could talk about things openly with him about spirits. The princess could see spirits only when she was a spirit in the spirit realm. A good example of this is when she chopped off her spirit brother's head, but he grew his head back.
I will talk about something else. Princess Saeng Gang started feeling very comfortable with Gu Cheon. She touched his hand, held his hand and even hugged him. He never pulled his hand away and even hugged her back. I believe she fell in love him and he developed a fondness for towards him. They became very protective of each other. The princess told asked her father, the king, not to hurt Gu Cheon. When the princess was missing or in trouble, Gu Cheon would go find her and rescue her. Oh yeah, Princess Saeng Gang had called Gu Cheon the most important person to her; when she walked to her grandmother after saying that, he thought she was talking about her grandmother being her most important person (she was referring to Gu Cheon). When he was thought to be dead by everyone, the princess believed he was alive, but missing his spirit. She went to the water and walked into the water, calling for him. After she got back to the palace, he woke up shortly after she got back. There was some more hugging.
The last episode (Episode 8) Gu Cheon was leaving the palace for the last time, Princess Saeng Gang made up her mind to go with him and stay with him. She had asked him, episodes before, about where he was going after the spirit problems was taken care of and he had mentioned about going back to the temple (you could tell she did not like that answer back then).
It was an interesting drama.
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