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tansu-bomb · 7 months

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Musings on the most important and least explained pivotal conflict between Jin Seol-Ran & Choi mage + parallels 200 years ago vs now

1. A severe drought dried up Lake Gyeongcheondaeho.

2. Jin Seol-Ran performed a sacred dance & used her divine energy so the energy from the skies flows down to earth as rain; and with the rain came ice-stones (plural).

3. Choi mage extracts ice-stone(s) from the lake, and experiments with it - thus documenting the Alchemy of Souls book that much later, Shaman Choi (likely his grand-daughter), attempts to save during Jang Gang’s raid & gets burnt in the process.

4. All across Daeho, folks kill each other to obtain the ice-stone(s) and use it primarily for soul-shifting as they please, thereby creating the great chaos.

5. Jin Seol-Ran cannot end the chaos by herself so she chooses to partner with Seo Gyeong - the one with King’s Star energy - and puts an ice-stone into his body (just like she much later does with Jang Uk, the next King’s Star) thus turning him into the most powerful weapon.

6. Jin Seol-Ran and Seo Gyeong use their complementary powers to end the chaos — she by using her divine power to track down ice-stones and he by using his muscle power to single-handlely squash armies (like Cho Yeong & Jang Uk do towards the end).

7. Up until then, folks likely physically possessed the ice-stone but not anatomically like Seo Gyeong (courtesy: Seol-Ran), but Choi mage - the mastermind behind AOS - probably figured out a way to do so as well. (Even Shaman Choi and Jin Mu were unable to accomplish this)

8. As it would’ve been difficult to kill Choi mage who also possessed the ice-stone, Jin Seol-Ran must’ve trapped his soul in the Gwido barrier (along with others). Much later, when Seol-Ran/Cho Yeong enter Gwido again, all soul-wraiths fear her but one chases her with vengeance.

9. In one of the flashbacks, Jin Seol-Ran and Seo Gyeong are shown standing shoulder-to-shoulder and extracting the power of the ice-stone that Choi mage possessed. Seol-Ran most likely turned that ice-stone into one that seeks (not gives) energy and left him to die a painful death in Gwido (like Cho Yeong does Jin Mu).

10. In return, the Choi mage must’ve cursed Jin Seol-Ran and Seo Gyeong that they too will turn into soul-shifters - in this life or the next. This curse is most likely what plays out 200 years later for both Jang Uk & Cho Yeong both of whom are Seo Gyeong and Jin Seol-Ran’s supposed reincarnations.

11. Seo Gyeong falls in love with Jin Seol-Ran; but most likely Seol-Ran is already a married woman with a heir in tow (likely Jin HoGyeong’s mother) coz, by the time great chaos ends, Seol-Ran is injured and about to die — most likely due to overusing her divine powers that accelerated her aging —and we know the Jin family line continues. That makes theirs an impossible, forbidden romance on multiple fronts (which comes full circle with Jang Uk & Cho Yeong finally defying fate and falling in love twice)?

11. After the great chaos ended, Jin Seol-Ran likely removed the power of ice-stone from Seo Gyeong as well (but unlike Jang Uk who died and had his soul resurrected only due to the ice-stone), Seo Gyeong lives on even without it.

12. At this point, only one final ice-stone remains which Seo Gyeong wished to use to protect Seol-Ran but Seol Ran, who sees future, about the fire bird and the Choi mage’s curse, chooses to attach her soul to the ice-stone itself (which Jang Gang & Jin HoGyeong think resurrected a dead baby Jin BuYeon)

The Choi mage’s curse, I think, is critical for what follows.

13. When Jin Seol-Ran’s memories & divine powers start to come back (likely around ages 8-10) while she is resurrected in dead Jin BuYeon’s body, she likely figures out that A) Choi U-tak (the grand-son of Choi mage) is her father (the blasphemy this is; ties perfectly to Chois wanting revenge against Jins above all), B) Jang Uk, the King’s star, was born through AOS, and C) Jin Mu destroyed Cho Yeong’s family.

14. While Jin HoGyeong and Jang Gang engineered BuYeon’s birth star, Cho Yeong was likely naturally born under that same birth star - the one that’s destined to accompany the King’s star. The King’s Star and the accompanying star are likely binary stars — stars whose gravitational fields are interconnected (example: Alcor/Mizar or Vasishta/Arundathi binary stars in Ursa Major).

14. Seol-ran attempts to fight fate & masterminds the attempt to find the ice-stone with Jin Mu and Choi U-tak — to once and for all destroy the ice-stone and the greedy men — in one ago. Despite her supreme divine powers, she fails given how weak she physically is having been reincarnated in a baby who’s been dead in the womb for atleast few hours if not few days (plus she’s only 10 years old and has overestimated herself).

15. There is no way Seol-ran can now go back to Jinyowon coz she has gambled and revelaed her supreme divine powers — and if she goes back, she’ll certainly meet death at the hands of her own family (Jin Mu) and Choi family (Jin U-tak). So she bides time in Sari village to let future unfold so she can interject at a more optimal time. (Seol-Ran says this at the end; that seeing into the future, one can cleverly interject. While one may not change the pre-fated outcome as she painfully learns, she knows optimal points to interject at to tightly control the flow of events & minimize damage)

16. The Choi mage’s curse of her turning into a soul-shifter is also likely the biggest reason why Seol-Ran lures in and traps Cho Yeong’s soul in the first palce coz Yeong’s compatible and immense energy would be useful for their survival when they’d both run wild (at end of S1)

17. All along S1, Jin SeolRan keeps on protecting Jang Uk & Cho Yeong. She orchestrates it all — a) allowing Yeong her power back in the lake very early on so that these two don’t drift apart, b) the exposure of ice-stone so she can inject the ice-stone into Jang Uk knowing that he’ll be hunted for his King’s star fate (she probably also knows that his death would happen at Naksu’s hands), and c) she doesn’t stop Jin Mu from causing her to run wild coz she very likely calculates that she’d be saved by the King’s star or Jinyowon or both.

17. Ultimately, Choi mage’s curse comes true — both the King’s Star Jang Uk & Seol-Ran/Cho Yeong eventually become soul-shifters — the last two that will continue to live on.

18. Seol-Ran stayed true to her purpose for 200 years and must’ve been very happy to witness that the King’s Star and his accompanying star’s love saga. An unrequited love story finally becomes requited through their reincarnations.

19. Seol-Ran’s restorative justice was to leave everything to Cho Yeong — all of her divine powers, all of the burden of protecting Jinyowon, all of her blessings to protect & live happily with the King’s star, and the responsibility to carry on the lineage of girls with unparalleled divine powers. Of course, Cho Yeong, with all the choices she makes through S1 and S2 proves herself more than worthy of this role.

#alchemy of souls #all about Jin Seol-Ran #the most fascinating character of the show #the mastermind #the ultimate badass #yes even more so than Naksu #i mean Seol-Ran chose the right woman to leave her legacy with #no wonder Seo Gyeong loved her ardently #just like Jang Uk loving Yeong to death and beyond

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helianthus21 · 9 months

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thinking again about if Vincenzo’s mom had met Han-seo,,,, hugging him and saying "on behalf of all the adults in your childhood that have failed you... I apologize."

#idk this line popped up in my head and now im unwell🤕#vincenzo #jang han seo #oh gyeong ja #he would’ve been her new son!!!

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meenawrites · 6 months

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Jin Ho Gyeong – A Discussion

So I want to talk about one of the major players in Alchemy of Souls: Jin Hogyeong.

As matriarch of one of the four great families of Daeho, protector of relics, able to defy Royal orders, and mother of Naksu's body, Jin Buyeon, she is one of THE most important characters in the show.

I want to preface this post by saying I don't like her. As a person. As a character, I think she's interesting.

In Part 1 we're introduced to Hogyeong (or Mama Jin as I will likely call her) as a powerful woman who is still grieving the loss of her first daughter like a decade after she disappeared. It makes her sympathetic to the audience even though she might be a bit cold and harsh at the beginning, especially to her second daughter Jin Choyeon.

I have to say that I was waiting like all of season 1 for Mama Jin to realize that how she treats Jin Choyeon is super wrong. Like she's constantly ordering her around, doesn't care about her feelings, and overall doesn't really treat her like her daughter, more like an extension of herself and someone she can just order around.

Like I get that you're devastated over the loss of your daughter; no mom should ever have to go through that, but that doesn't give you leave to be a dick to your remaining kid. And it clearly isn't even because she's lost one daughter so she doesn't want to lose the other and is thus controlling of Choyeon. She just clearly disregards her as her own person entirely, constantly just reminiscing about Buyeon instead. And we see from her flashbacks that she's capable of being a good mom, but apparently the kindness that we see in these memories doesn't extend to anyone other than Buyeon, who is long gone in her perspective ( we know better of course).

So strike one against Mama Jin to be honest.

Still, because she has this one weakness of desperately searching for her first daughter, Jin Mu is able to take advantage of her and use her power as the guardian of Jinyowon by promising her to find her daughter (who he made disappear in the first place, like damn no morals at all this guy). Smart move and totally believable successful manipulation.

Strike 2 against Mama Jin is honestly how fine she is with knowingly going against the greater good, aiding and abetting crimes, if something's in it for her. Like as someone with such an important role of guarding the relics of Jinyowon from falling into the wrong hands AND having the plaque (I can't remember what it's called) that allows her to both call forth the Unanimous Assembly and exempts her from obeying royal orders, she is not being faithful to her duty at all. She takes great pride in her Jin family line and being protector of all these relics, but when it comes down to it, despite acting so high and might above everyone else she is totally fine with abusing her power for herself.

This is where her and Park Jin are actually contrasted. Park Jin too is in a big position of power within Daeho as the head of Songrim. He has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders, and we do see him struggle with how his responsibility and duty binds him to act and what his heart wants. Because Park Jin actually isn't a moral absolutist. He is more one that Jang Uk for sure, but we can see in his moral dilemma over how to treat Jang Uk and what he should do for him and what he WANTS to do for him, that his heart does sometimes stray from the path described by his duty. But as opposed to Jin Hogyeong, he never abuses his power to assist in a crime or something that will be bad in the larger scheme of things.

(I'm not being very eloquent rn but bear with me).

The most he'll use his power for are to protect Jang Uk as much as possible (the little troublemaker hehe). But what's important to note about Park Jin is that he's taken what I call a '100% decision' that if anyone around him does something against the greater good, even Jang Uk, he will cut him down.

Park Jin recognizes the weight of his own position and responsibilities, and does his best to rise to meet them. Not to say that he's perfect. He's only human after all. But he assumes his role and duty as a leader and someone with the power to change the trajectory of the nation if he actually wanted to.

This is marked even with the change in his attitude between season 1 and season 2. Like in season 2, Park Jin has become this retired farmer who's a terrible cook, and he's jarringly happy. Very laidback, very happy to just host people and have cute moments with his fiance. This is a huge change from season 1 where yes he had comedic moments, but he was way stricter and constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown (man holds his heart at least once every episode). This is because he is no longer in this position of power, his responsibilities are no longer weighing on him. Which also just goes to show how seriously he was taking it when he was leader of Songrim.

I hope I'm making sense.

So yes, Park Jin and Jin Hogyeong are also narrative foils to each other! (I'm starting to sense a pattern, Hong sisters, but I'm not complaining)

Let's circle back to Mama Jin and get into the meat of season 2, where she just continues to go down hill. No introspection this lady I swear.

Having gotten her daughter's body back, Mama Jin decides to lock up Jin Buyeon/Naksu basically forever. That's the plan anyway. Like I get it's probably hard to know that it's your daughter with an assassin's soul, don't get me wrong. But the way she's acting and with her plans for Buyeon, it's kind of clear that she is valuing the body's Jin blood more than the fact that it's her daughter.

Like Mama Jin literally imprisoned Jin Buyeon for three years, not allowing her to even actually step outside the BUILDING she's locked in, and then was like btw I found a submissive and breedable husband for you. You'll be able to leave just for the wedding ceremony but then you're going to come right back here and pop out babies for me.

Like. Absolutely insane. Crazy. How can you even call yourself a mother, let alone her mother?

I can't believe she was even surprised that Buyeon ran off and got married as soon as possible.

Not to mention the guy she picked was slimy as hell, like yuck, go away.

And then, instead of having some self-reflection on her controlling methods that got her to this point and taking a different approach if only for her bloodline's sake, she was like, 'actually I'm going to torture you until you're in so much pain you cave in and come back to me'. Because for real what she did was basically the equivalent of putting a shock collar on her daughter.

Basically, girl just got worse and worse throughout the season. Constantly blaming other people for her problems, still somehow bragging about her own family after being complicit with everything that happened last season. Just no no no no no.

Her plans for Buyeon/Naksu? Strike 3 man. And I haven't even gotten through another incident that angered me so much.

Strike 4: refusing to help Seo Yul when he was dying from the parasite.

Like.

EXCUSE ME! OUT OF SHEER HUMANITY YOU SHOULD BE HELPING HIM

Like she has known Seo Yul forever probably because it seems the four kids largely grew up together even if Jin Choyeon isn't as close to them as the four boys are. He's the only heir to the Seo family WHO COULD LITERALLY DECLARE WAR ON HER AND WIN.

If anything, it came from Jinyowon, which is HER responsibility, so ya know, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!

But she was like no, I won't save him. I don't care if he lives or dies. I was so ready to throw hands guys you don't understand. Like how can you say that? Not only about a person in general, but someone she knows is a good person, has known her kid his whole life, and has literally never wronged her in any way?

And she leveraged that to manipulate Jang Uk into giving Jin Buyeon back, as if her daughter is an object. Not respecting her daughter's agency and personhood is what had gotten her in this situation in the first place, but it seems like WE DON'T LEARNNNN

I cannot accurately describe how mad I was. Like I have no words. I wanted her to die so bad.

Jin Hogyeong is super self-centered, a terrible mother, a terrible leader, and just overall a terrible person. Not as bad as Jin Mu! But let's be honest his bar is in hell.

Even besides my own personal opinion and reactions though, I do truly thing that Mama Jin should have died at the end of the show.

She has this "awakening" moment where she realizes how much she's fucked up (not about everything she's done wrong but whatever), and she finally FINALLY does the right thing, and is prepared to lay down her life to try to stop as many relics from escaping as possible. It's satisfying as a viewer to see someone who had made so many mistakes through the story finally get some redemption by deciding to do the right thing, and this was one of those moments.

However, I really felt like the moment was cheapened by the fact that she was alive after all of that. I really think she should have died to bring her character arc to a close, to have a satisfying ending for her with the viewers, and also show what the consequences of abusing your power (and just generally being a terrible person) lead to. Narratively speaking, I think her dying would have been the best choice.

Or she should have at least returned maimed in some way, maybe drained of her divine powers. But it doesn't seem like she came out of it with any problems.

We do see her finally decide to let Jin Buyeon/Cho Yeong go (as she should, took her long enough) but it's just not satisfying. Because there's no apology, no actual recognition that she did anything wrong. Just a 'I'm at peace with my daughter's fate now so I guess I'll let her go". Like... what?

And Jin Choyeon STILL is cowed by her mom. Which is a post for a different time but likely clearly she hasn't made amends with her daughter either.

Anyway, that's what I wanted to say. Both personally and from a narrative standpoint, I think Jin Hogyeong should have died. Maybe the writers didn't do it because they didn't have enough episodes to deal with what the aftermath of that would mean, but who knows.

#Jin Hogyeong sucks #I don't know if this is a hot take #But I feel like it might be #She should have died fr #alchemy of souls #Jinyowon #Jin family #Jin Ho Gyeong #Jin Choyeon #Jin Buyeon #Seo Yul #Jang Uk #Park Jin #Songrim #Naksu #Mudeok #Cho yeong #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #Narrative foils

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based-and-rinpilled · 1 year

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“Every friend group should include….”

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#yea ik Mi-jin isn’t in class 2-5 but I couldn’t think of anyone else except maybe Ji-min #aouad #all of us are dead #lee su hyeok #choi nam ra #park mi jin #nam on jo #lee cheong san #lee na yeon #seo hyo ryung #han gyeong su

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allofusaredead-incorrectquotes · 2 years

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Na-Yeon is a bitch. Prove me wrong.

Na-yeon: Some of us are just victims in this situation.

Nam-ra: That’s probably true. How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Lee Na-yeon?

Gyeong-su: *raises hand*

Cheong-san: *raises hand*

On-jo: *raises hand*

Ji-min: *raises hand*

Hyo-ryung: *raises hand*

Su-hyeok: *raises hand*

I-sak: *raises hand*

Min-ji: *raises hand*

Joon-yeong: *raises hand*

Dae-su: *raises hand*

Woo-jin: *raises hand*

Eun-ji: *raises hand*

Hee-su: *raises hand*

Gwi-nam: *raises hand*

Myung-hwan: *raises hand*

Chang-hoon: *raises hand*

Cheol-soo: *raises hand*

Ha-ri: *raises hand*

Mi-jin: *raises hand*

Joon-seong: *raises hand*

Min-jae: *raises hand*

Ha-lim: *raises hand*

Jin-su: *raises hand*

Ms. Park: *raises hand*

Mr. Lee: *raises hand*

Principal: *raises hand*

So-ju: *raises hand*

Assemblywoman Park: *raises hand*

Dal-ho: *raises hand*

U-sin: *raises hand*

Jae-ik: *raises hand*

Ho-cheol: *raises hand*

Se-bin (the little girl): *raises hand*

Hee-su’s baby: *Jae-ik gently raises baby hand*

Commander Jin: *raises hand*

Orrangibberish: *raises hand*

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comixandco · 9 months

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i’m just

there must be so many gaps in jieum’s memory

she was the girl of many trades but can she remember how she learnt any of those skills? No they were all from her past lives so they’re gone. Can she remember leaving her neglectful family to live with ae-gyeong? No because she was from a past life, so where does ji-eum think she grew up? She remembers being good at school and her awards but not if anybody was there in the audience for her. She says in her phone call to her superior that she remembers switching departments before, but she doesn’t remember working in the hotel. She cooks meals the exact way as ae-gyeong taught her and she taught ae-gyeong, but she doesn’t remember having learnt them. if she can’t remember anything to do with her past lives, she wouldn’t be able to remember anything that had happened in the past few months the drama is set over.

that must be such an odd and confusing existence, to only remember small dots and flashes of your life, and a giant gap in recent memory, and she doesn’t even seem to be affected by it either? Did she go to the hospital after coming to consciousness standing on a bridge with no idea how she got there? Did they run tests on her brain to see if something had gone wrong? Does she think she suffered a mental breakdown?

What is going on in ji-eum’s brain in those final scenes i want to dissect her thoughts like a grape

#see you in my 19th life #did she move back into her old job on the suggestion of a therapist who is helping her with her sudden memory loss?#she was living with ae-gyeong where did she think she lived?#does she have monthly visits to a group of doctors that are fascinated by her oddly specific memory loss?#in those first few days after losing all her memories. did people she knew try to approach her and she freaked?#if she’d gone to the hospital ae-gyeong would be her emergency contact. maybe it just slipped through the cracks because she was also in #hospital recovering from surgery at the time.#there is a large set of contacts in ji-eum’s phone that she doesn’t recognise at all - not just numbers from her loved ones #but contacts for her job at the hotel as well and anybody she’d met during the show’s run #imagine with me if you will if there had been one final episode instead of those few scenes #ji-eum recovering from what she can only assume is some kind of mental breakdown from stress and her childhood #ae-gyeong coming to visit her in hospital and this deliciously heart-wrenching scene that mirrors ji-eum by her bedside when she was ill #and ji-eum doesn’t recognise her at all and only feels a base level of concern knowing ae-gyeong had surgery not long before #ae-gyeong promising to take care of ji-eum but turns her down because her head and heart hurt from being near her so she rents out an #apartment. she has no recollection of working at the hotel and seo-ha isn’t ready to see her yet it’s too soon so doyun has to handle her #transition back to the engineering track. and in her phone she deletes all the contacts she doesn’t know but when she looks at the photos #and icr if she took one with seo-ha but she must have but defo the one with her ae-gyeong and cho-won. she can’t bear to delete them #even though she doesn’t know them or remember why they were taking this photo. but bc it’s a romance she has to have a few photos of seo-ha #and she sort of ponders over them like. who are you. who were you to me. but it hurts her head so she puts down her phone #and there can be a bunch of times throughout the episode where she just misses him like. she’s asleep in hospital and he brings her flowers #and she wakes up just in time to see the back of his head leaving the room. she could visit ae-gyeong to try to rebuild this #parental relationship she doesn’t remember but has all the proof that this is the lady who raised her. and like in the show seo-ha could be #sat right behind her but he doesn’t interact with her directly they just do the napkin bit and then he leaves w/o looking at her #and the meet-up with cho-won could stay the same with the difference that ji-eum recognises her from their photo and says something like #’we know each other don’t we.’ and cho-won gets so excited and maybe even calls them sisters but then she realises what she’s doing and is #like. ‘that’s how it felt for me. we worked together just a few months ago. i’m cho-won’ and then ji-eum can do that #gorgeous reach for her memories from the show where she rolls the name around her mouth because it’s just so familiar #and ofc i’d change nothinf about the scene where she finally re-unites with seo-ha that was delicious af #but i feel like there were just too many gaps in her memories for it to have been smoothed over y’know?#disclaimer i read the webtoon first and loved it but think it had to change for the adaptation

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hershey-wants-kisses · 1 year

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People are keeping so many unnecessary secrets in this show,,,

1. Soyi not telling Seo Yul abt the blood parasite that she know nothing about that she put into him

2. Park Jin not telling Jang Uk any information at all that affecting his whole life, esp after his gate of energy was opened (by pushing him so far away from becoming a mage and having no answers, park jin left jang uk with no reason to trust that park jin was someone to trust with his training)

3. Jin buyeon’s identity. Idk why everyone is so adamant on it being such a secret, wouldn’t it be better for her to be given the option to either pursue her memories or to live on as jin buyeon? The only person I kind of get is jin hogyeong and only because it’s her daughter that she wants to protect but her reasons become inexcusable once she tried to force her into marriage.

Like these people just get pushed into a corner when they don’t have the information they need to go on. This was all avoidable. Even for naksu’s identity like they couldn’t have just told her not to go looking for her memories for magic reasons if it’s that dangerous?

Park jin with holding so much information becomes so awful too when he only tells jang uk anything about his parents only to hurt him. He is not a father figure he is a villain😭😭 dead did nothing to that boy but traumatize him further every step of the way. He turned him away until he could draw his fathers sword knowing he’d never be able to, he would have let the poison kill him, punished him heavily, he only told jang uk who his father was and about the victims of his birth to use them to hurt jang uk when he was already grieving his fiancé😭😭 like that scene was actually so evil you can’t comfort him?? You can’t break that news gently??

#idk there’s def more but #that’s all I could think of for now #alchemy of souls #soyi #seo yul #park jin #jang uk #jin buyeon #naksu #jin ho gyeong

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still-love-the-moon · 1 year

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Even if you're gone, I'm gonna drive

#all of us are dead #nam on jo #lee cheong san #yoon i-sak #lee suhyeok #choi nam ra #han gyeong su #jang ha ri #jang wujin #jung minjae #park mi jin #yoo jun-seong #yang dae-su #oh joon yeong #seo hyo ryung #kim jimin

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glitterfairy-21225 · 1 year

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Fuck. Um. So, I wrote the aouad reaction fic. And I fully intended for it to just be season one. Like, I legit thought it would be a miracle if I accomplished that.

But you know, I did.

So, the more I think about it, the funnier I think it would be to do season two. Bring back all the s1 characters, who are essentially reacting how Ji-min did when the soldiers lowered her back down.

And when her parents died.

Hell, and during her death scene.

And all the new characters introduced in season two are just like ‘???? The fuck did I miss????’

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naksushadows · 1 year

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“You cannot grasp water but it is inside the soil.

You cannot touch fire but it is inside the tree. You cannot hold the wind but it is resting on the rock. If you let them be, they will exist everywhere. The faint, blue light makes me sigh.

My white breath turned into snow and tears. I could not let them drop and hid them, despite knowing that they will fill up once again. I am a fool who dares not shed a single tear.”

– Words Of The Heart by Master Seo Gyeong

#words of the heart #alchemy of souls #alquimia das almas #Seo Gyeong

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akai-ito-official · 1 year

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True Beauty 💄 | Red Velvet - Dumb Dumb |FMV

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There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

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solrosan · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/1 (522 words) Fandom: 더 킹：영원의 군주 | The King: Eternal Monarch (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jo Yeong/Koo Seo Gyeong | Luna Characters: Jo Yeong, Koo Seo Gyeong | Luna

Summary: This is the last place Yeong expected to end up when Gon sent him to keep an eye on Luna.

#tkem #the king: eternal monarch #jo yeong #koo seo gyeong #the king:eternal monarch fic #fanfiction

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helianthus21 · 6 months

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early adoption AU brothers being scared of losing each other to their biologic families (Miss Oh//Han-seok) when they go to korea

when in reality ofc, Han-seo sees thru Han-seok immediately and Miss Oh adopts her son's little brother right along with him<3

#not to be dramatic but if i don’t talk about them enough i die #vincenzo #early adoption au #jang han seo #oh gyeong ja #jang han seok #lbr vin's worry would be super unfounded #but maybe he sees hsk + hs being dramatic together or sth #and thinks due to genetics they are more alike

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lemon-inferno · 1 year

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Encyclopedia of Useless Facts on Unbelievable Human Beings

Episode 2 – Loving Oneself ✔️

I think what I’ll stick to when talking about this show is discussing the cast, their thoughts and behavior. I would really like to get more into the topics they talk about too, but they are so broad and there’s so much said in a single episode that I can’t keep up unless I spend 4 hours just taking notes and writing what I want to add. This show is quickly going to become an obsession for me and I wish so badly that I could take part in their conversations.

Speaking of episodes, I suppose the official run time will really remain an hour and forty minutes. I’m okay with that. I really needed something like this to keep giving me brain food and things to think and obsess over.

I have a lot of other things to say, but they do all tie down to one individual on the show and I have mixed feelings about him. Before I get into those, I’ll just note down a couple of other things, to get them out of the way.

Namjoon seemed a lot more comfortable in this this episode and he spoke more too. I’m always impressed with his knowledge on art. Not the same as surprised. You can really tell he has passion for art and an obsessive mind when it comes to his passion. His contribution to this episode was significantly more than the first one and from now on I think we’ll only be seeing him being more and more involved. It makes me really happy that he’s truly enjoying this show and its format. I think it’s great for hungry minds like his and this is a great opportunity for him.

By the end of the episode my respect for astronomer Shim Chae Kyung skyrocketed. Not that I didn’t respect her before, but she really made me inspired with her words and I think she’s quickly conquered a place in my heart. Her words were reassuring, inspiring and motivating. Thinking about it, most of my role models resemble her. Her confidence in herself and her love for herself. I think she nailed the topic for this episode and I want to see her more. Although I’m not sure if the guests will be replacing one of the cast members we have now, or they’ll be just joining without any changed to our current cast. I really hope Shim Chae Kyung stays on the show.

Speaking of guests, next week’s guest is going to be screenwriter Jung Seo Gyeong. She wrote the Korean drama adaptation for “Little Women” and is one of the scriptwriters for the movie “The Handmaiden”. (I’ll admit those are the only two things I’ve seen that she’s worked on, but if you’re interested there’s a bunch more you can check out.

Okay now let’s move on to the part I dread the most, because I’m so conflicted about it. Or him. I made some unpleasant observations about novelist Kim Young Ha in the first episode, but I held back on commenting about him, because I didn’t want to judge him that quickly (as a person), based on just a couple of screen hours. However, in this episode I gradually got more and more irritated by some of the behavior he displayed. One is interrupting people. Now, granted as this is a conversation there will be some interruptions to be made. What I noticed is that when all other cast members interrupted, it was to either a) ask a question or b) make a genuine contribution to the conversation with a different point of view/opinion, something in relation to the topic. With author Kim Young Ha, when he interrupted it was to either a) keep telling the story instead of its original storyteller or b) to repeat something someone had just said, but in different words. It’s like this man doesn’t know how not to get the last word. I feel like at times he has this patronizing or condescending attitude towards the rest. A know-it-all, if you will. It keeps getting on my nerves. Luckily, the other cast members seem to handle him well. I personally don’t know I’d be able to.

On a more positive note, he did come up with the storyline of the show, which I enjoyed a lot. I think that redeems him a little in my eyes. I find the fictional concept of the show cool and I really liked the intro animations of this episode. I hope they keep it for the duration of the show. I think it’s a really nice touch that contributes to the viewers’ immersion in the show. Since the episodes are long, it could be a fun thought to keep in the back of your mind, that you’re stuck on a spaceship with these people for the next few years and they pass their time having endless conversations about various things.

And this pretty much wraps up my review of the second episode. Enjoying it greatly and I recommend it to those who are okay with long episodes and have wildly varying interests.

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