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It does feel like they're trying to make the narration fit the change in female lead, but I don't really mind much and enjoyed watching both seasons. Have fun catching up!

Can’t wait!! Hope the cameo isn’t too short and maybe if no Seo Hyunjin, then maybe Yang Sejong could appear again this season.

Two episodes in and it's still as exciting to watch as expected. Was worried for a hot minute that our sweet Nurse Euntaek and Dr. Yoon had problems, but so happy to see them smiling so widely at each other there. I've seen Minjae in many dramas, but Nurse Euntaek will always hold a soft spot in my heart.

Anyways, I kinda hoped they'd go on a different route with the villain, but here is another person trying to take Kim Sabu down and remove him from Doldam. I hope they won't drag it too much and make it as the main issue. Also, gonna miss the old Doldam interior.

Really hope season 1 casts could make special appearances!

I wasn't following the drama closely when it was airing, but I heard JSM had conflicting schedule. Anyway, yeah, JBY/Mudeok's body was petrifying when she jumped off the cliff and according to Master Lee's initial assessment, they cannot use JBY/Mudeok's soul to revive her because her energy is weak, but they could save it by using Naksu's stronger energy that's still inside her. And if they were to do the latter, to avoid the body running wild in the future, the body's outer appearance should reflect the dominating soul which is Naksu/Cho Yeong. Master Lee thought Naksu's soul would eventually perish when she regained her memories because then she would be aware that even if it's her face, the body was not hers. What neither of them know, including Master Lee, was that JBY/Mudeok's soul was in fact not JBY/Mudeok but Jin Seol Ran. So, it was JBY/Mudeok's body with Naksu/Cho Yeong's soul and face and Jin Seol Ran's soul lying dormant in waiting. Also, in the end, Naksu's soul didn't perish.

I considered that as well, but I think he should, at the very least, still received basic training that doesn't require activating his energy. But, then again, he was a headstrong kid who refused to follow the advises and helps offered to him; he was only obsessed on the one thing denied to him: accessing his energy.

Yes, Reply 1997 is the first out of all the series, then it's Reply 1994 (2013) and Reply 1988 (2015). I read some articles saying Reply 1997 didn't do well initially because the three main station (KBS, SBS, MBC) are still dominating when it comes to drama, but despite that and those issues you mentioned, the drama started to get attention. It isn't perfect, but many still enjoyed and loved it so much that the production team created the following Reply series.

I understand your points, but this drama is the first of the Reply series, this wasn't made to "earn profit/milk the franchise." It's created with minimal budget with many idol/rookie actors, so people weren't really expecting it to do that well, especially since tVN wasn't yet known to produce dramas. Also, without this drama's success, there won't be the following Reply 1994 and Reply 1988.

Watched this on my journey of binge-watching Hwang Minhyun's content and it's really not bad. The story is well executed and the actors are doing well portraying their characters.

I didn't mean them disclosing her real identity as Naksu/Cho Yeong to the public, but clearing her name so that people know the truth about what happened when she was running wild under Jin Mu's divination and killed Jin Cho Yeon's father and Jang Uk. People still think of her as a dangerous assassin even after she'd 'died', but at least she wasn't entirely responsible for what happened in ep. 20. I hope they did something about that and let the public know, just so the bad talk about her would lessen.

I think you can submit an edit to that bit of information and then one of the admin will review your edit. There's guidelines in how to do that, but I don't think the source has to be in Korean.

OMG right, even if she choose to continue to publicly live as Jin Buyeon, I wondered if they finally clear her name since Yul found out about the bells and Jin Mu's divination spell. I hope they did.

Not your fault, he's just so lovable and charming and so so gorgeous. I watched their past promotional videos just to watch him more.

The way that I'm understanding it, his character's importance is the reason they're crediting it as a guest role since supporting role is still regarded as regular cast member whose roles are not as important as the main leads. He's also an established actor, his days as a supporting cast has long gone; and the industry prefer to credit established actor/actress as a guest role (or special appearance by) when they make a small appearance instead of a supporting role.

I wasn't aware she was going through this. Hope she's recovering well and stay healthy!

I found Minhyun's video performing the song live from last year before releasing his version for Part 2 and it was so good! It's adding to my crush on him.

I'm not sure if there's any standard to this, but his appearance is not very long in those eps, but because his played an important character, I think it still fits under a guest role.

Ah I wasn't following the drama when it was released, so I wasn't aware of how they went about promoting it. I thought GYJ had been part of the promoting cast from the start.

Yes, people seems to not realize that Mudeok's outward behavior is a persona adopted by Naksu/Cho Yeong because from the flashback snippets, the real Mudeok/Jin Bu Yeon didn't act the way Mudeok's Naksu acted. I agree that it caused so much confusion for viewers, especially those who prefer Mudeok's persona than the real Naksu/Cho Yeong's character. And that's on the production team's fault for not planning things thoroughly.

When I was just looking forward to the next guests, the show's ended! This is one of my healing show. Really hope there'll be a new season.

I get your point that they're all the same Naksu/Cho Yeong inside but with different outward appearance and persona, I think it's just marketing by the production and to avoid spoiling the drama or confusing to non-viewer, so they chose to introduce GYJ's character as Jin Buyeon.

Yeah, it bugged me as well but because I chose to continue, I ignored it for the most part. I'm not an I would have been happy if they showed at least one scene where Mudeok trained Jang Uk properly in Danhyanggok, like maybe Mudeok leading with the basic steps and movements with Jang Uk following her because it was told that he didn't even know the basic of swordsmanship but no, he went straight to try catching a drop of water while she just stood there watching him, then he only learned the basic and some more on the go as he fought for the bird's egg jade. The master-pupil relationship has a lot of potential to be explored more but they were passed over.

This could potentially be spoiler for you, but Naksu couldn't access her energy after soul shifting because Buyeon's soul prevented her from doing so (to keep them from running wild and petrify).