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So what are the impacts of the change of history? How come it still lead to an identical South Korea like in real life if the King is so successful? No stronger Korean economy even with the stronger head start? No United Korea? Still divided into South & North which mean the same tragedies (abolishment of monarchy, Japanese colonization, Korean War, division into South & North) happened anyway? How come these were not avoided by the King's success?
If we assume everything still proceed the same way despite the King being a great reformer, the implication is that CJ's heir would still be deposed by the Japanese & lived in house arrest for the remainder of his life. In the real history this King (Gojong) was some distant relative of CJ but here it would be CJ's & BH/SY's unborn child (if the baby is a boy).
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57 minutes ago, partyon said:
My conclusions
- I will stay away from body swapping dramas from now on
- I will stay away from k-dramas that touch on any topic deemed too conservative for South Korea
To be fair, regardless of countries, overwhelming amount (I would say maybe more than 90%) of the movies & tv shows dealing with magical gender swap would end up with the character(s) restored to their original body. So when watching this kind of movies and shows it's better to set the expectation from the beginning that the swap is only temporary.
So yes, maybe Korea is really conservative and all that, but how many gender swap movies & shows in the supposedly more liberal countries that have the protagonist(s) permanently stay in their new body?
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9 minutes ago, aisling said:
Chinese version didn’t have a backstory for the queen, the chef’s soul wasn’t affected by the queen’s memories and desires for the king. The Chinese version also kept male inner voice until the end. So I think the Chinese version was clearly an indirect BL drama. But it’s funny that they had to film 3 different endings and all of them were crappy.I think in the novel it was said the god messed up their genders? Like the queen was supposed to be born as a man and the chef as a woman.
Was the protagonist in the Chinese version a chef too? I thought that is only the Korean version only.
The Chinese version is typical of the Chinese time travel dramas which must have the protagonist return to the present day no matter what. Maybe that is required by the censorship board or something. Like for the Chinese version of Scarlet Heart, in the novel the story just ends with the main character dies of old age in the past, but the TV version has that AND also has the main character back to present day after her death.
Of the GPG novel yes they were born in the wrong bodies and they were "restored" to their supposed original bodies but what I don't understand is that the why the different rules for them post body swap. One went from straight woman to gay man & one went from straight man to straight woman. Though it already stretching credibility that someone from the past could survive in the modern world especially she didn't have the memory of the new body that she was in.
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20 hours ago, Mila said:
An ending that would make people happy would be like that of Moon Lovers: Scarlat Heart Ryeo, in which ... (spoiler ...) the protagonist lived for a period of time in the past and when she died she returned to the present. However, I do not know if they will follow a similar path, because in that episode when BH returned to the present they said that time had passed equally in both Josen and Korea (they had spent a week in both places).
So far, I am really happy with the development that the writers have presented to us. So, I am giving a vote of confidence that they will present us with a satisfactory ending. I hope the writers don't let us down ...The ending of Scarlet Heart Ryeo followed the ending of original Chinese version. If Mr. Queen follows its original Chinese version there would probably be riots haha...
On the other hand if they follow the ending of the original Chinese novel (the two of them permanently swapped) it would probably be better, but so far no indication that the original SY would be inhibiting SB's original body.
Though how the GPG novel handled it seems inconsistent with me. Why would the original princess who was straight woman becomes a gay man while the former playboy who was a straight man becomes a straight woman. Either both of them should retain their original preference or both of them adjusting to the preference of their new body.
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I think she will go back to the present time since there is still the present day plot to resolve.
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[Drama 2020/2021] Queen Cheorin/Mr. Queen, 철인왕후
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Could be that he already had child before that.