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A goodbye group picture with LSG and OYS sitting next to each other and more photos from the wrap-up party
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A confession: When I was livestreaming the episode I was so baffled and disbelieving that they could end it simply like that I ended up watching the whole ending credits because I was seriously expecting an after-credit epilogue.
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The moment featuring Son Oh Gong heading off to hell to get his Seon Mi back is awesome but not for a conclusion. That’s something that should have happened in the first half of the episode which should have started with that goodbye on Namsan. What was the point of that pointless and ilogical amnesia plot?! Nothing it only killed 60 minutes of the episode - 60 minutes that ended up being a complete filler instead of giving answers and closure. The final episode was all over the place and anticlimatic.
Such an ending would be appropriate if there was going to be an epilogue, a movie or a second season but there won’t be so it feels incomplete and unsatisfying. The viewer doesn’t doubt that OG will get SM back since he is a deity now and can meddle with the fate of humans and no god can really compare to his powers. However, the point of watching 20 episodes of drama is because you expect a closure which unfortunately didn’t happen. It’s not the worst ending ever but one of the most unsatisfying definitely.
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I refuse to analyze the last episode because, frankly, there is no way anyone could make sense of this mess. I’m afraid my brain could explode from trying.
In the last few episodes, the Hong Sisters pretty much threw logic completely out of the window so at this point they could have Jesus snowboarding down a rainbow and I wouldn’t question any of it, as long as the OTP finally got the happiness they deserve. There were so many ways to end it but they gave us that unsatisfying open ending?!
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WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAVE I JUST WITNESSED! I WANT AN EPILOGUE! I DEMAND AN EPILOGUE!
THEY JUST DIDN'T! TELL ME IT'S A JOKE!!! PLEASE!!! GIVE ME BACK MY TEARS!
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Video of the cast arriving to the wrap-up party
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Final thoughts before the last episode:
SM never had the power to defeat the dragon on her own - it wasn’t her purpose, she never was another Buffy, the slayer - she helped people, understood them, protected them just like her umbrella protected her. She has always been the shield that protected others and stood in the monters’ way. It was Oh Gong who always killed the demons; he has always been the warrior in their monster-busting team and it makes complete sense that it would be like that even with their final mission. It doesn’t mean that SM is the weaker one it’s just that their powers are different and because of that they complete each other.
OG would have never used the sword if there were a chance to protect SM from the dragon and more importantly, he would never use it as long SM were alive that’s why he hid it in his garden where no one could find it. And that sword was the only thing that could kill the dragon. Obviously, there are still some missing pieces of information, and as always the devil is in the tiny details - for instance, what exactly did the Patriarch tell to SM? However, we can deduce that SM must have known about how OG needs kill the dragon in her body considering she was prepared to take it in. However, when that plan fails and OG comes she sends him after te dragon because she knows how powerful he is and knows that if anyone can defeat the beast it’s him - the heartwrenching thing is that she thinks that OG can’t refuse because of the GGG, completely unaware that he is doing it because he loves her. However, that fate has changed now. And this whole drama has been about fighting and changing one’s preordained fate, even if it might seem futile. As I mentioned, their fate has already changed so much - OG AND SM HAS DEFEATED THE DEATH BELL FATE - she didn’t get killed by OG not did she kill him - THAT’S SO IMPORTANT. And their journey still hasn’t come to the end - it just takes more time to the happy ending than just that. And remember this, what we’ve learned about SB and the gods so far is that they are lying liars who lie.
People often mention how the gods in Hwayugi are unfair, evil and petty and that SM doesn’t deserve none of what happened to her but isn’t that the perfect analogy for real life ? LIFE IS UNFAIR! The innocent die, people and children don’t deserve to die from terrible illnesses, be killed or hurt. All people can do is to barrell through and fight against fate, fight to survive; even if it’s futile in the end. The strongest messages of this show and one that has been there from the very beginning is to live your life to the fullest. Why do people constantly pray to various gods even if it ends up being futile in most cases - BECAUSE THEY HOPE - and hope isn’t something that is logical - it can not be extinguished easily. Maybe it’s fitting then that’s OG’s power is fire, that he is a fire that can’t be extinguished and he triumphs in the end over the dragon, over his fate and just maybe the last enemy he might defeat will be death.
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Awwww, this is so cute - all the child actors and actresses are in the house
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More members of the cast have arrived as well
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OYS arrives to the wrap-up party
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That moment when Seon Mi realizes that not even all the gods in Heaven could stop Oh Gong from coming to her rescue and risking his life for her!
It’s such a heartwrenching moment that SM died but after all she has been through and the lonely, unprotected life she lead, thinking that she would die alone and unloved, untouched, it’s comforting that she died being protected, loved, cherished and mourned for by a god and a man who loved her so much that he saved the world for her even after she was gone from it and his heart shattered to million pieces. In episode 4, OG promised SM that he would protect her even if the world fell apart, the world is falling apart around them right now and he is still there holding her in his arms, calling her name like a spell that could keep Death at bay.
You can pinpoint the exact moment OG realizes SM is going to die and he can’t do anything to save her; the hopeless, desperate look when he realizes that for all his strength he’s powerless to prevent it. So he takes her away to a beautiful place, he takes her home because he can’t bear for her to die in such a terrible, evil place; it’s heartwrenching that he has to watch her die in the very place where they hoped to live happily after together.
The way they mirror each other’s touch!!!
And as he is holding her in his arms while the life is leaving her body, Oh Gong becomes the most hopeless person in the entire universe because he can’t tell SM that his love for her has always been real because that would destroy her and break her heart so he shatters his own instead. That’s the tragedy of the Great Sage and his greatest defeat as he has to watch as the only woman he has ever loved dies in his arms; and all that’s left to him is to cling to her lifeless body; her blood still on his cheek.
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It’s not a dream! I’ve pinched myself sadistically several times already and the same thing still keeps appearing on my computer screen. However, just in case this was all a dream after all, PLEASE, someone tell me which drugs induced it and where I can get them? I think the upcoming dramas can just stop trying because the 2018 winner of the most romantic, swoonworthy moment has already been decided!
I don’t know who decided to cast LSG opposite OYS but that person deserves a medal because she/her is a genius. THEY MAKE THE LOVESTORY FEEL REAL and that’s an art on it’s own not every pairing is capable of! From the very first second the camera focuses on OG holding SM in front of the window, you BELIEVE that they are LOVERS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD, you BELIEVE they’ve spend the whole night making love to each other, whispering endearments and silent promises, holding each other in the darkness of the night; and Oh Gong with his touches wordlessly conveying all the emotions and answering all questions he is not ready to voice just yet…
The sight of OG’s and SM’s clothing haphazardly discarded on the sofa while they’re both wrapped in each other’s arms, their bodies intertwined in the afterglow of their lovemaking - it’s a stolen moment between two lovers, spellbinding and magical in its intimacy, as if the time momentarily stopped for them. The expression on OG’s face speaks volumes - wonder, fulfillment and complete reverence.
The way he holds her in his arms so tenderly, yet possessively; the way he gently kisses her hand,… HE WORSHIPS HER LIKE A GODDESS AND TREATS HER LIKE A WOMAN! I mean how poignant is that IT’S THE GOD WHO WORSHIPS THE HUMAN HERE?!
The backdrop of the starlit sky only enhances that these two are star-crossed lovers;, however, at the same time, the sight of them standing there gives the illusion that they are in Heaven, as if OG spirited SM away to the celestial realm and now they stand together high above the mortals. The Great Sage and his lover.
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It took the Hong Sisters 13 long years to write a bed scene but they managed to do it right on their first try. I might have issues with their writing in this show but this whole moment was FREAKING FLAWLESS! Subtle, understated, poetic and tasteful but at the very same also one of the most explicit, sensual and physical bed scenes in primetime kdramas.
Open-mouthed kisses, intimate touches and embraces, physical intimacy involving naked skin touching naked skin - those are all extremely rare yet, this scene had it all. That montage featuring the shots of disregarded clothes, falling petals and blinking lights intercut with the OTP dialogue was definitely inspired by the first OTP bed scene in Secret Love Affair. It’s like poetry in motion and it’s basically perfect in every sense of the word.
Also huge kudos, for including the shot of Oh Gong rolling SM over and straddling her, literally showing him (his backside!) astride SM because that’s something that is always out of shot in dramas. And if it were not enough there is a moment where he is ALSO HOLDING HER WRISTS AND PINING HER DOWN! And it just might be one of the most explicitely erotic things I’ve seen in a primetime kdrama. And that fact we see only its reflection only enhances and intensifies the intimate position, making it even more sensual than if it were shown directly.
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Nationwide - 5.945 %
Seoul - 6.205 %
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3 hours ago, ParvinStar said:@briseis I also like angsty and dark love but when it’s done properly. But I think here the plot was shakey. Like they said it’s sj job to kill the dragon but at the end SOG killed it. Like why they couldn’t team up if the goal was to destroy the evil aka black dragon. I can’t relate to it when I don’t see why this was the only way
No, she wasn't, and I think this is one of the reasons why people are getting angry because they forget about it. It was NEVER said that SJ would kill the dragon that was OG'S JOB. Seon Mi's task was to contain it, to take it in her body, she was a vessel for the dragon from the start - it was mentioned pretty much in every of the last 9 episodes. However, that fate has changed now. And this whole drama has been about fighting and changing one's preordained fate, even if it might seem futile. As I mentioned, their fate has already changed so much - OG AND SM HAS DEFEATED THE DEATH BELL FATE - she didn't get killed by OG not did she kill him - THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. And their journey still hasn't come to the end - it just takes more time to the happy ending than just that. (I plan to elaborate on this later in a longer post)
Don't get me wrong I also have my issues with the drama, plotholes and the storytelling which I will mention after the last episode airs (since I won't judge before I watch that) but this one isn't one of them because the main love story, the way how it is written, is this drama's strongest point (together with the acting and the way the main three characters are written)
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On a different, more lighter note, at least she didn't die a virgin and got to make love to the sexiest god alive who treats her like she the center of the entire universe. I have no doubt there is going to be a HEA and that the preview is once again misleading as hell and people are mostly freaking out; and let's stay positive because even if SM becomes a ghost/spirit for a while at least she won't become a virgin ghost (Cheonyeo Gwishin)
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14 minutes ago, countingstarz said:
Moral of the story ?
LOL but they killed her off so fast that she probably didn't have the opportunity to get pregnant. I get this is only fun. However, let's seriously contemplate it for a moment (this is purely hypothetical and absolutely NOT something that happened but I really love this heartwrenching, dark stuff and it would be truly awesome set up in the case the story was much more darker than it originally is) - if SM really got pregnant then that would change her death completely. It was already so tragic but imagine OG's heartbreak if he learned that not only did he lost the love of his life but also his child? Imagine his self-blame that he couldn't protect them? Imagine SM's immense self-blame for unwittingly getting their child killed?
I'm sorry I just got carried away since I'm a huge fan of angsty, dark love stories and today's episode is basically all my fantasies come true.
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LOL but they killed her off so fast that she probably didn't have the opportunity to get pregnant. I get this is only fun. However, let's seriously contemplate it for a moment (this is purely hypothetical and absolutely NOT something that happened but I really love this heartwrenching, dark stuff and it would be truly awesome set up in the case the story was much more darker than it originally is) - if SM really got pregnant then that would change her death completely. It was already so tragic but imagine OG's heartbreak if he learned that not only did he lost the love of his life but also his child? Imagine his self-blame that he couldn't protect them? Imagine SM's immense self-blame for unwittingly getting their child killed?
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It seems that CSW, LE and ONE weren't there but "Han Joo", "General Frost" and even "Jonathan" made it
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