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The most anticipated moment of next week - the threeway bromance is on
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Episode 7 preview
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Lee Gon in full regalia is an amazing sight to behold
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This scene is peak comedy
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The first kiss
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Lee Gon has a type - it’s tiny, feisty, no-nonsense women who have zero tolerance for his bulls***, cuss and hit him.
It’s amazing that the aloof, all-powerful king completely melts and becomes powerless in front of them, turning into a touch-starved, needy puppy who wants to cuddle with them.
Also, how awesome is that Lee Gon got himself a girl who is basically a younger version of his beloved Lady Noh? The likeness is uncanny - they even have the same height.
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Jo Young = the passive agressive icon
(I think the mystery where Lee Gon learnt to threaten everyone in his vicinity with death has been solved)
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WHAT IF---
THE AU SHIP I DIDN’T KNOW I NEEDED! And I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed.
At this point I’m shipping Young with Tae Eul, Lee Gon and half of the female cast and it says a lot about how epic and charismatic Woo Do Hwan is in this show. Hell, the man would have chemistry with a rock and could melt icebergs with his intensity.
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4 minutes ago, Heretorant said:
More about the couple, less about everything else. Most of it was JTE exploring his world. Cute and easy going episode.
I wish it would have been a bit more exciting? I’m not sure if the ratings will go up.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it and honestly do not mind getting a whole entire episode of our couple. But I’m beginning to think the writer took on too many characters because all I want to see is LG and TE and LG’s story that has to do with his uncle. I don’t really care about PM at this point and I almost feel like she’s wasted screen time? I don’t quite see how she’s necessary to the bigger picture right now. Hopefully the writer can prove me wrong.
I think the PM has a huge potential as a character and alse being important to the plot but I completely agree with everything you said. I love that the story is complex but I think that it is OVERPOPULATED which makes it very hard to follow and it confuses the audience and it prevents the story from being compact. There simply way too many storylines. It would be better if there would be more focus on the main and secondary characters. Lee Min Ho, Kim Go Eun and Do Woo Hwan belong to the best of their generation and the writer should use that potential, particularly WDH is being wasted. I still think TKEM is a very good drama but there are certain flaws which keep dragging it down and preventing it from being excellent.
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Lee Gon, the King of Corea, dodges his own guards, finds the right room, sneaks into it in the middle of the night and steals a kiss from the woman of his dreams! Long live the King!
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Lee Gon doesn't lose any time - a surprise kiss
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One piece of advice, if you’re using the national surveilance system for your personal reasons to track down a man because he disappeared from your life, it’s time to seriously re-evaluate what your relationship with him is.
SpoilerLee Gon always kept going to Tae Eul and now that he’s gone it’s her who keeps trying to find him and learn about him.
They both think about each other but it’s really TE who is much more affected by the separation. In the short time they spent together, Lee Gon became a constant in her life and now that he’s gone, there is this emptiness in her life after he left behind. It’s painfully clear how much she misses him and how curious she’s about him: she remembers the things he said to her, visits the places where they spent time together, reads books about parallel worlds, retracts his movements and even munches on an organic carrot because of his 7th grade civil servant! The girl has it bad, she only doesn’t know it yet!
SpoilerThere is something really bittersweet about the fact that no matter how much she tries and looks for him she can never find him unless he comes to her because he literally doesn’t exist in her world. He left it just as unexpectedly and quickly as he had entered it. I love how the drama employs symbolic and visual means to convey this sense of melancholy and emptiness:
- the empty seat in the library,
- the bare trees and the colourless bleakness and cold in his absence starkly constrasting with the yellow vibrancy full of life and sunlight and warmth when he's with her,
- the water symbolically reflects the truth about the world each time - a world in which Lee Gon exists and is lovingly gazing at Tae Eul and a world where he's gone and she’s searching for him.
SpoilerTHE SHEER DEPTH OF THIS SHOW!
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He was totally the best fighter in his batallion, wasn’t he? Judging by Lee Gon’s incredulous and offended reaction, his former superior’s making fun of him. Plus since he’s a part of the Navy which clearly involved combat training it pretty much means Lee Gon is a marine, one of the most elite soldiers and the closest thing to a legally trained killer. All these little hints mentioning LG’s expertise in combat prove even more the theory that the masked man in 1994 was a time-traveling Lee Gon.
I read some theories that it might have been Shin Jae because it must be someone who has experience both with guns and close combat. I already mentioned in my previous posts all the reasons why it must be Lee Gon - physical appearance, shape of the nose, the ownership of the flute, the knowledge of the room’s layout,... I completely agree that it must have been someone who knows how to use guns and fight but the thing is that a normal policeman just wouldn’t be able to singlehandedly take out so many men at once, coldheartedly killing them - you need a soldier for that who is used to violence and mortal danger. Moreover that kind of shooting precision the masked man exhibited is something only special army forces can do.
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Inside Jo Young’s head
Jo Young (tears in his eyes and heart breaking): You traitor!!!
Jo Young: SHE seems to be shocked?! SHE?!! What about ME?! Right, stupid question, you never think about me! I’ve been chasing after you for 25 years only for you to disappear on me one day and bring a strange girl out of a freaking bamboo forest! And she is the very same woman over whose photo you’ve been mooning all those years I’ve spend protecting your sorry butt!
SpoilerJo Young: By the way, WHY DOES SHE LOOK THE SAME?!! WHY ARE YOU HOLDING HER? You hate other people touching you! And you even allowed her to ride with you on Maximus! Why is the horse not biting her?! Maximus, et tu Brute?! What about our RPS romance?! It’s only just begun! I even started an Instagram account for you! I’m extending the silent treatment indefinitely! Can anyone explain to me what the hell is going on here because I sure don’t?!
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Lee Gon:
Also Lee Gon:
I adore how whenever he is with Tae Eul the self-proclaimed haphephobe that is Lee Geon turns into a touch-starved puppy with masochistic tendencies who is on cloud nine and smiles blissfully whenever she beats him or tosses him around.
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There is something both powerful and heartwrenching about the way Lee Gon accepts and embraces himself for who he is without any shame, reconciled with things he can’t change about himself but being genuinely curious without a hint of bitterness or envy about how other people choose to live their lives when they are given a choice - something which was taken away from him the moment he was born as a crown prince because for all his wealth and power being a king makes him the closest thing to a serf in a democratic country. Furthermore, Tae Eul is the first person he can ask about it because she is also the first person he trusts enough and who isn’t his relative or serve him.
There is this amazing contrast between TE’s ironic skin-deep description, which is how everyone else sees Lee Gon, as a king, and what he allows them to see - his public mask; while the way he sees himself is his true self: the things which make him who he is and it’s not anything so superficial as money or looks. His physical abilities, his mind, his family and its legacy.
He is a king who doesn’t have anyone who would treat him as just a man because no one is even allowed to call him his real name. And that’s who Tae Eul is for him - the one person who wouldn’t see him as a king or a man but the man who happens to be a king because being a king is an integral part of him just like his brilliant mind or brutal honesty. The only person who will call him by his name. OMG, it’s going to be so awesome!
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I love how genuinely curious he is about the person Tae Eul is even if she has turned out to be completely different from how he had imagined her for 25 years. If anything it only makes her more intriguing to him - as if she were the most fascinating math problem he wouldn’t mind spending his whole life solving.
It’s clear that Lee Gon finds her beautiful and goes as far as admiting it in front of other people but I love how it isn’t so much Tae Eul’s physical beauty that he admires the most but her inner strength. It literally stuns him and he needs a moment to look at her, to drink her in and make sure she is real.
What sets LG apart from most kdrama male leads is that he doesn’t even try to hide his fascination with her by bravado or other excuses - he never hesitates to tell her how he sees her, what he thinks or feels for her - and that’s huge from someone so guarded. It’s no wonder the girl is beginning to fall head over heels in love with him.
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There is absolutely nothing straight about this!
Poor clueless Lee Gon, who only left his palace for a week, has no idea that while he was taking his vacation in a parallel world and wooing the girl of his dreams he has become an LQBTQ icon in a relationship with his best friend/bodyguard thanks to his PR department (read: his beloved Court Lady Noh and her favourite fanfic author).
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I'm in awe of how fleshed-out and developed LG's character is. I mean, the sheer attention to detail! I remember how people kept complaining about him not being enough damaged and tormented by the terrible assault in his childhood and they couldn't be more wrong. The hints have been there from the beginning - his dislike of other people's touch (with the exception of Court Lady No and Young),... - and episode 4 shows it openly for the first time : LG's trauma and PTSD, his fear of being strangled and losing breath. The thing is that he's been so well-adjusted and trying so hard not to show any weakness to anyone that it confused people and made them think that he's OK. He's been always wearing shirts with open neck and now when he needs to wear a tie for a funeral it's clear why and how deep his trauma goes. He could have refused to go or wear something less appropriate but his army comrade deserves this honor so he does it, showing his loyalty and dedication to others and his duties as a king of the nation even if it makes him uncomfortable. Only in the car does he allow himself to lose control and freak out. Poor Gon.
SpoilerAlso, this is basically the confirmation of my theory that Lee Rim was trying to actually strangle LG with the flute.
On 4/20/2020 at 4:07 PM, briseis said:IWhen LG cuts the flute in half, LR becomes livid and decides to kill Gon with his own hands in the most brutal way possible. He uses his left hand to pick up the fallen half from the floor and uses both halves of the flute to kill the boy. Most of the time, the camera shows Lee Rim pushing the flute in his right hand to LG’s neck, but we never see him actually cutting him with this half because he isn’t, instead LEE RIM IS USING THE RIGHT HALF TO PUSH ON LEE GON’S WINDPIPE, SUFFOCATING HIM. On the other hand, there is an an actual shot of LR slowly cutting his nephew’s neck with his left hand. And then LG faints. Not because of the blood loss since the cut is still too shallow and he hasn’t lost too much blood but because of the lack of oxygen (you can actually his heavy breathing as he tries to catch his breath).This basically proves that LR didn’t use his right hand to slit LG’s neck.
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It's Euler's number and it seems that it denotes the amount of time for how long the time stops when someone is using the gate.
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I don't know what hairspray Lee Gon is using but I want it! While Tae Eul's hair is blowing as if she were starring in a L'oréal commercial, his hair doesn't move even an inch in full gallop.
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The second half of episode 4 was absolutely awesome - after all the prolonged build-up the story is finally shifting to a higher gear and the puzzle pieces are beginning to fit together- and it looks like episode 5 is going to be even better and more exciting.
Episode 5 preview
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Bigger version of the OTP stills
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1 hour ago, Geolyvseven said:
I have a feeling that Luna will somehow enter next episode and I thought he was in pain from his right shoulder due to her hitting him there when they were eating and drinking? he got home and than he was in pain all of sudden? Is there is some sort of negative effects due to him crossing over from another multiverse or am I reaching for straws here
I'm also very curious why LG is so affected by traveling between the worlds to the extent that it brings him pain. I don't think it's because of TE's hitting him on the back because this isn't the first time she touched him roughly. The explanation is probably different. It might be because LG is in a world where he doesn't belong but is LR also suffering from these consequences? It doesn't seem so. Plus episode 4 shows him suffering from the pain even after he returns to his own world. It might be a sign of LR using the portal or abusing its or the flute's power. Or it might be LR who is either causing it or is responsible for it. It might be that LR has affected both worlds to such negative extent that the pain might be a warning to LG, the flute's rightful owner, that he should stop his uncle from destroying both world because normally, pain is something the body uses to tell its owner that there is something wrong with it. Either way, it's a very intriguing question.
One thing is certain, the pain and scars triggered by thunder and lightning - the same two occurences which happened when the gate opened for LG, therefore these two things are extremely crucial.
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[Drama 2020] The King: Eternal Monarch, 더 킹: 영원의 군주
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Well, damn! This is so symbolic! When Lee Gon came first time to the Republic the first thing he did was to run towards TE and hug her because he finally found only for her to push him back. And now it's her who is running towards him, who was waiting for him and even admitted it to him. The visual and narrative parallel is simply beautiful. What a progress!