[[Drama 2017-2018] A Korean Odyssey/Hwayugi 화유기]

I think that OG was attracted to SM right from the start when their eyes met with him walking past her car. And more attracted and all smug to see that she recognized him.  I keep going back and forth about whether he had her brought to his place to officially meet him right after that chance encounter. That footbridge he was standing on was also visible in the episode when he took her there (MW's SJ blood addiction episode). And she kept that attraction going by pretending she knew his name while bringing him down to size. 

 

He beat up the bookseller for trying to haul him in with the contract, so the contract alone wasn't enough to cause that noticeable downturn to his face when he turned around and realized that SJ was HER. 

 

I think both OG and MW want to be deities. That's probably always been a big deal to both of them. With OG that was about being forgiven and getting back to where he had been before X happened 1000 years ago (I'm convinced he was drunk or something when whatever it was happened  ). With MW, it's about getting in a position where he can help his wife. If you can't convinced the higher ups to do something, you have to become a higher up so you can do it yourself. 

 

Other thing - regarding the bookseller episode. I love the fact that SM's book was Peter Pan. Because that's pretty much her story with OG. 

[[Drama 2017-2018] A Korean Odyssey/Hwayugi 화유기]

Can I throw something out there?

 

If OG gives up the whole deity/immortality thing and becomes mortal because he loves SM - he will die. 

 

Doesn't mean he will die NOW. He might live to old age with SM. 

 

We've already seen this with the deeper in love he he falls with SM, the less focused he is on becoming a deity. And he's the one who doesn't want to think about how short her life really is. 

 

Maybe the GGG has been making him mortal. Besides training him by making him more sensitive to human emotions and feelings. 

 

I would wager that he already liked SM before she put the bracelet on him. She turned his head more than once and really got into his head. Prior to putting the GGG on, he attributed the unfamiliar emotions to coming from his contract with her. After putting the GGG on, he started attributing all the emotions to the GGG. Lots of denial going on there.

 

Him becoming mortal for her is taking the different route from the one that HAS BEEN FOLLOWED by MW who has lived over 1000 years in the human world seeing his wife live and die repeatedly. With MW, I get the impression that he wants to step in and stop his wife's oft repeated bad fate. Currently he's forbidden to step in and do anything to help her or get her to "remember" him.

 

Also. 

 

Comments on the preview glimpses...

 

Was that a dragon or dog statue that MW put his hand on? 

 

Did anyone notice that both SM and the MW's dog secretary were MIA on the parts where MW was collapsing and OG was freaking out and table cracking with SB?  

 

Also, looking at the wiki page for the series... what the heck is with the bold part?????

 

• Cha Seung-won as Woo Hwi-chul / Woo Ma-wang (based on the Bull Demon King)^[5][6]

CEO of Lucifer Entertainment. A gentle and charismatic businessman, he is the object of others’ envy due to his popularity. He has a bad history with Son Oh-gong in the past, and now has become rivals with him for Jin Seon-mi.

 

Also. Comment on close to the end of Ep12. 

 

Was I the only one who noticed the way OG lingered with meaningful hand caresses and looks and unspoken "fences are mended" messages with SM???