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iaria+ So that stabbing cliffhanger went way better than I was expecting. Way less dramatic. I'm a little disappointed. I wanted more drama! It ended up having no real meaning for it to happen except to give the last episode a big cliffhanger which I find annoying. Especially since they had to make both Yeong and Tae-eul do something really dumb/ooc/aggravating to make it happen.
+ I love so much that it's Gon with Yeong at his side going into one gate while Tae-eul enters the other. Yes, theses three are exactly who should be there at the end! So happy about this.
+ This isn't going to end with Gon's death, right? Yeong and Tae-eul are both heading back with him and one of them will save young Gon even if Gon himself prioritizes killing Lim. Right?! I will be so damn sad if Gon dies.
+ Gon/Tae-eul continue to be lovely. I loved Gon climbing into bed with her. They were cute during Gon's day of goodbye. I particularly loved the scene of him feeding her, her covering his mouth when he tried to tell the nurse she wanted to leave and then them laughing together - it was so nice to see. I loved them holding hands. I loved Gon asking her permission to leave because without it he wouldn't be able to do what he needed. I loved that Tae-eul's only fear when she was talking with Lim was that Gon would be alone.
- I really loved the Tae-eul/Gon reunion hug outside the hospital. They are really good at these sort of desperate clinging hugs full of furious love. That said I kept thinking about how painful that hug must have been with her stab wound. I wanted to tell them to be more careful.
+ Another great Gon/Yeong episode. "Where ever you go, you can't go alone. I will go with you, no matter no matter where it is. Even more so if it's somewhere you can't return from." ♥ There is no way he is letting his king leave him behind again. Their reunion was great - the tears in Yeong's eyes and his expression when he sees Gon alive and well and tells him that "it's a relief that he's alright".
+ I was so disappointed when Yeong didn't go with Gon into the past. It made no sense to me. So him going with Gon this time makes that annoyance better. All is as it should be. Now he just has to not die saving Gon.
+ I love that Gon chose Shin-jae to give Lim's flute half. So that's a combination of his love for Yeong (knowing there's a chance that whoever goes through won't return) and understanding Yeong's love/loyalty to him (knowing he'd choose to save Gon over defeating Lim), and that makes me happy.
+ Tae-eul giving up her life (however temporarily or not) to Luna was something that I considered might happen but to have it after Luna poisons Gon and stabs Tae-eul is a little 'wait really Tae-eul' because - really? Yet at the same time I can understand why - she doesn't want her dad/Na-ri/work to worry about her disappearance, Luna didn't stab to kill her and stopped for her dad's sake - and also Tae-eul making this decision really emphasises how much she loves Gon. She loves him so much that she will give her life up to the woman who stabbed her in order to be there with him and I love that.
+ I do like that Luna purposefully missed hitting Tae-eul anywhere vital.
+ I'm a tiny bit worried - more so at the beginning of the episode than at the end - that the show would try to pass Ji-hoon/Tae-eul in a changed future as a happy ending and I would be super displeased with that ending. As this whole show has shown over and over doppelgangers are not actually the same people for all that they look the same. That would be a terrible ending. But how this episode ended has mostly killed that worry. Mostly.
+ I like that despite the guys not saying anything Tae-eul keeps figuring out what their planning anyway - that Gon wanted to go back into the past again, that Gon gave Shin-jae Lim's half of the flute and was going to do something she wouldn't approve. I love that she didn't accept sitting back and letting everyone else fix this problem but managed to get the other flute half so she could be a part of it too.
+ I'm not sure why Gon couldn't just use the new gate to return to the past? The Manpasikjeok made whole gives control over space and time which he should have figured out by the fact that it took having both pieces in the in-between at the same time for him and Lim to go into the past. He could even try and use that gate to go further into the past and save his father. I don't get why he thinks it has to be 'crying' in order for him to go to the past. ... or is it the 'crying' that takes them to that specific moment in time (when it was broken)? That makes sense but it still doesn't explain the first point. Does he think that it would take too long to figure out how to use the whole gate and worry he could lose Lim during that time? I guess that could make sense too. I wish the show would state these things.
+ Ok-nam/Gon continue to be absolutely lovely. I loved their reunion and the way their hug ended up being them clinging to each other. I loved him making sure to say goodbye to her at the end. I loved the reveal that he'd known she was from the other world, and brought the book of poems specifically as a gift for her, but never said anything because he was afraid she'd would ask to be returned to Korea.
+ I really thought that Jung-hye died while also poisoning Lim and that was amazing to me. After decades of being terrorised by him she got her revenge - not just death but taking him down too. The fact that he's been using her as his taste-tester and that's how she does it was a great plan. And then, nope, she just killed herself. Boo. It would have worked so much better how I thought - he takes a small bite, she can't help but smile which alerts him and stops him from eating more, she dies, he's weakened from the poison but not dead which would help explain how easily he lets himself be taken and held. I'm disappointed this didn't happen. Jung-hye deserved that ending.
+ I loved Gon with Yeong and Shin-jae at his side taking down Lim. That was a good scene.
+ For a character who's supposed to be really smart and wily, and has been, there were a lot of inexplicable missteps on his part this episode. Like:
- I found it strange that Jung-hye meets with Gon, her bodyguard gets (presumably) arrested and Lim doesn't find that suspicious (even without knowing about Gon.) Why wouldn't that put him immediately on high alert about her?
- It was weird that Lim gives Shin-jae an ultimatum and then literally nothing comes of it. At the very least there should have been some of his men stationed near Shin-jae's Korean mom that our heroes would have to dramatically take out before moving her somewhere safe. He basically gave an ultimatum and then washed his hands of the situation. Is blackmail now done on an honour based system?
- Him bringing a shotgun with him when he confronted Gon was dumb. He should have known that it wouldn't work. This is also Lim who carries a sword in his umbrella. We've seen him use it several times already. Why the hell wouldn't he bring that out to use against Gon? (A sword fight would have been great and they still could have ended it with Yeong shooting him in the leg.)
+ Poor Shin-jae. This whole series is basically just one horrible thing after another being revealed/happening to him. His meeting with his Corean mom was so sad, as was the reveal that was tried to kill him. Then him confessing his love for Tae-eul in a attempt to stop her from sacrificing herself, probably knowing it was hopeless even as he confessed. Ouch. I don't blame Tae-eul her reaction, she was as gentle as she could be, but hearing her express her love for Gon in response - ouch. I really hope that however the next episode plays out it ends with him in a much better world/place.
+ Shin-jae talking about killing Gon with Gon and Yeong didn't even reach for his gun! How far they've come.
+ The Yeong/Eun-sup goodbye was great. I really loved that it was Yeong who initiated the hug. Acting all cool and detached and then just throwing down the suit and enfolding Eun-sup in a big hug - so good. I like that Eun-sup' final wish is for Yeong to promise to return.
+ There was surprisingly little Seo-ryung and the way things played out has left me very skeptical that they'll actually be able to do anything interesting with her story in the final episode. She doesn't have a flute half nor any way to get one so what move does she have left? She gets points for instigating a secret code word and I felt bad for when she broke down after realising Lim replaced her mother. But she loses points by telling Lim that she wants Gon's half of the flute. She's smarter than that! She has to know that telling Lim that wouldn't go well, why would she show her hand like that? On the whole I feel like the show lost what they were doing with her as a character.
+ Na-ri should take up palm reading full time because she nailed Lim.
+ I wish we'd actually met Se-jin, perhaps at her grand-father's funeral or as a child with child Gon or preferably both, to give their relationship some basis and make her an actual character instead of simply a name. It would have given her unexpected death some meaning instead of just 'okay that happened'. Was this really what the pregnant lady's purpose was this entire time? I don't think we needed to spend that much time on it.
+ I did like that Gon brought up in his talk with Shin-jae how him changing the past would radically alter the course of Shin-jae's life but also it's far worse than Gon knows because if he stops Lim then most likely Hyun-min and his mom will both die. No one knows about that so they won't know to stop it and that's not okay!
+ I'm curious about what Lim's ultimate plan was becoming master of the Manpasikjeok. He was going to bring Jung-hye out at the queen's memorial mass and reveal the truth about the parallel worlds and... ??? What was the next stage of that plan?
+ I liked Lim's covetousness of what he called "his father's gate" and learning that he saw his father use the gate before and wanted that power himself. I wish we'd gotten a flashback showing that way back at the beginning of the show.
+ It was deeply unfair of Jung-hye to lay the blame of Ji-hoon's death at Gon's feet. He did not die because of Gon. He died because of Lim. If Gon had died that night I feel like Lim would still have gotten around to killing Ji-hoon/his father/his uncle because there is no way Lim would leave duplicates of them hanging around.
+ I love so much that it's Gon with Yeong at his side going into one gate while Tae-eul enters the other. Yes, theses three are exactly who should be there at the end! So happy about this.
+ This isn't going to end with Gon's death, right? Yeong and Tae-eul are both heading back with him and one of them will save young Gon even if Gon himself prioritizes killing Lim. Right?! I will be so damn sad if Gon dies.
+ Gon/Tae-eul continue to be lovely. I loved Gon climbing into bed with her. They were cute during Gon's day of goodbye. I particularly loved the scene of him feeding her, her covering his mouth when he tried to tell the nurse she wanted to leave and then them laughing together - it was so nice to see. I loved them holding hands. I loved Gon asking her permission to leave because without it he wouldn't be able to do what he needed. I loved that Tae-eul's only fear when she was talking with Lim was that Gon would be alone.
- I really loved the Tae-eul/Gon reunion hug outside the hospital. They are really good at these sort of desperate clinging hugs full of furious love. That said I kept thinking about how painful that hug must have been with her stab wound. I wanted to tell them to be more careful.
+ Another great Gon/Yeong episode. "Where ever you go, you can't go alone. I will go with you, no matter no matter where it is. Even more so if it's somewhere you can't return from." ♥ There is no way he is letting his king leave him behind again. Their reunion was great - the tears in Yeong's eyes and his expression when he sees Gon alive and well and tells him that "it's a relief that he's alright".
+ I was so disappointed when Yeong didn't go with Gon into the past. It made no sense to me. So him going with Gon this time makes that annoyance better. All is as it should be. Now he just has to not die saving Gon.
+ I love that Gon chose Shin-jae to give Lim's flute half. So that's a combination of his love for Yeong (knowing there's a chance that whoever goes through won't return) and understanding Yeong's love/loyalty to him (knowing he'd choose to save Gon over defeating Lim), and that makes me happy.
+ Tae-eul giving up her life (however temporarily or not) to Luna was something that I considered might happen but to have it after Luna poisons Gon and stabs Tae-eul is a little 'wait really Tae-eul' because - really? Yet at the same time I can understand why - she doesn't want her dad/Na-ri/work to worry about her disappearance, Luna didn't stab to kill her and stopped for her dad's sake - and also Tae-eul making this decision really emphasises how much she loves Gon. She loves him so much that she will give her life up to the woman who stabbed her in order to be there with him and I love that.
+ I do like that Luna purposefully missed hitting Tae-eul anywhere vital.
+ I'm a tiny bit worried - more so at the beginning of the episode than at the end - that the show would try to pass Ji-hoon/Tae-eul in a changed future as a happy ending and I would be super displeased with that ending. As this whole show has shown over and over doppelgangers are not actually the same people for all that they look the same. That would be a terrible ending. But how this episode ended has mostly killed that worry. Mostly.
+ I like that despite the guys not saying anything Tae-eul keeps figuring out what their planning anyway - that Gon wanted to go back into the past again, that Gon gave Shin-jae Lim's half of the flute and was going to do something she wouldn't approve. I love that she didn't accept sitting back and letting everyone else fix this problem but managed to get the other flute half so she could be a part of it too.
+ I'm not sure why Gon couldn't just use the new gate to return to the past? The Manpasikjeok made whole gives control over space and time which he should have figured out by the fact that it took having both pieces in the in-between at the same time for him and Lim to go into the past. He could even try and use that gate to go further into the past and save his father. I don't get why he thinks it has to be 'crying' in order for him to go to the past. ... or is it the 'crying' that takes them to that specific moment in time (when it was broken)? That makes sense but it still doesn't explain the first point. Does he think that it would take too long to figure out how to use the whole gate and worry he could lose Lim during that time? I guess that could make sense too. I wish the show would state these things.
+ Ok-nam/Gon continue to be absolutely lovely. I loved their reunion and the way their hug ended up being them clinging to each other. I loved him making sure to say goodbye to her at the end. I loved the reveal that he'd known she was from the other world, and brought the book of poems specifically as a gift for her, but never said anything because he was afraid she'd would ask to be returned to Korea.
+ I really thought that Jung-hye died while also poisoning Lim and that was amazing to me. After decades of being terrorised by him she got her revenge - not just death but taking him down too. The fact that he's been using her as his taste-tester and that's how she does it was a great plan. And then, nope, she just killed herself. Boo. It would have worked so much better how I thought - he takes a small bite, she can't help but smile which alerts him and stops him from eating more, she dies, he's weakened from the poison but not dead which would help explain how easily he lets himself be taken and held. I'm disappointed this didn't happen. Jung-hye deserved that ending.
+ I loved Gon with Yeong and Shin-jae at his side taking down Lim. That was a good scene.
+ For a character who's supposed to be really smart and wily, and has been, there were a lot of inexplicable missteps on his part this episode. Like:
- I found it strange that Jung-hye meets with Gon, her bodyguard gets (presumably) arrested and Lim doesn't find that suspicious (even without knowing about Gon.) Why wouldn't that put him immediately on high alert about her?
- It was weird that Lim gives Shin-jae an ultimatum and then literally nothing comes of it. At the very least there should have been some of his men stationed near Shin-jae's Korean mom that our heroes would have to dramatically take out before moving her somewhere safe. He basically gave an ultimatum and then washed his hands of the situation. Is blackmail now done on an honour based system?
- Him bringing a shotgun with him when he confronted Gon was dumb. He should have known that it wouldn't work. This is also Lim who carries a sword in his umbrella. We've seen him use it several times already. Why the hell wouldn't he bring that out to use against Gon? (A sword fight would have been great and they still could have ended it with Yeong shooting him in the leg.)
+ Poor Shin-jae. This whole series is basically just one horrible thing after another being revealed/happening to him. His meeting with his Corean mom was so sad, as was the reveal that was tried to kill him. Then him confessing his love for Tae-eul in a attempt to stop her from sacrificing herself, probably knowing it was hopeless even as he confessed. Ouch. I don't blame Tae-eul her reaction, she was as gentle as she could be, but hearing her express her love for Gon in response - ouch. I really hope that however the next episode plays out it ends with him in a much better world/place.
+ Shin-jae talking about killing Gon with Gon and Yeong didn't even reach for his gun! How far they've come.
+ The Yeong/Eun-sup goodbye was great. I really loved that it was Yeong who initiated the hug. Acting all cool and detached and then just throwing down the suit and enfolding Eun-sup in a big hug - so good. I like that Eun-sup' final wish is for Yeong to promise to return.
+ There was surprisingly little Seo-ryung and the way things played out has left me very skeptical that they'll actually be able to do anything interesting with her story in the final episode. She doesn't have a flute half nor any way to get one so what move does she have left? She gets points for instigating a secret code word and I felt bad for when she broke down after realising Lim replaced her mother. But she loses points by telling Lim that she wants Gon's half of the flute. She's smarter than that! She has to know that telling Lim that wouldn't go well, why would she show her hand like that? On the whole I feel like the show lost what they were doing with her as a character.
+ Na-ri should take up palm reading full time because she nailed Lim.
+ I wish we'd actually met Se-jin, perhaps at her grand-father's funeral or as a child with child Gon or preferably both, to give their relationship some basis and make her an actual character instead of simply a name. It would have given her unexpected death some meaning instead of just 'okay that happened'. Was this really what the pregnant lady's purpose was this entire time? I don't think we needed to spend that much time on it.
+ I did like that Gon brought up in his talk with Shin-jae how him changing the past would radically alter the course of Shin-jae's life but also it's far worse than Gon knows because if he stops Lim then most likely Hyun-min and his mom will both die. No one knows about that so they won't know to stop it and that's not okay!
+ I'm curious about what Lim's ultimate plan was becoming master of the Manpasikjeok. He was going to bring Jung-hye out at the queen's memorial mass and reveal the truth about the parallel worlds and... ??? What was the next stage of that plan?
+ I liked Lim's covetousness of what he called "his father's gate" and learning that he saw his father use the gate before and wanted that power himself. I wish we'd gotten a flashback showing that way back at the beginning of the show.
+ It was deeply unfair of Jung-hye to lay the blame of Ji-hoon's death at Gon's feet. He did not die because of Gon. He died because of Lim. If Gon had died that night I feel like Lim would still have gotten around to killing Ji-hoon/his father/his uncle because there is no way Lim would leave duplicates of them hanging around.
