This is basically a romance saeguk so ya they are gonna lean more on the romance part. But a spin off just showing the story of dami conquering the power would be great too. I think episode 3 and 4 though were slow but were actually important to give a dynamic to jiwoon's position in the palace and is that he is capable enough to be at hwi's side for whatever bad situations are gonna come in the future. Episode 5 was imo was more of a filler one to proceed the story further and to change a little bit of dami's personality from cold to a warm one. The story got pretty interesting from ep 6 though and ep 7 and 8 were actually fabulous. While many people take the dagger fight between jiwoon and hwi in the forest as a fight between a man and a woman thing, I see it as a fight between a Commoner(jiwoon) and the crown prince(hwi). We can also see the shock on her face when he disarmed her because she wasnt expecting some herb collector to be as skilled as her in fighting skills. As of now i think only hyun knows that she is a female aside from eunuch hong and the court lady so i think everyone trying to protect her is just them fulfilling their duties to protect the crown prince. Although i agree it gets tedious at times. And i think jiwoon and his story to serve the unfortunates was the major turning point where she wanted to start to use her postion as the crowned prince and serve her country while until then she had no ambition to do so and thus her passive stance. In a sense jiwoon inspired hwi to fight back.
I guess no, because everything go well at the mid of this serie. The romance part of this couple helped to heal everyone from a political of dynasty. I think the story have to conclude a love that challenged this couple and fight back together from many chaos events in the remaining episodes. I still watching too because of Ein-bin. Ha ha.
Haha, the only "powerful" parts of Dami I saw in the early episodes were how good at fighting and archery she was. Which is just physical strength. Then just when I was losing hope in the show they brought in an excellent cameo by Park Ki Woong. He even had a back story! I think they took so long to show Dami's awesomeness because they probably had to drag out the whole drama to 20 episodes. 🙄 I felt sad when the envoys had to go. But now that they're going into the forbidden romance part of the story, maybe they'll focus more on that rather than how a woman gets to secretly rule as a man? 😔 I wouldn't mind an equal amount of both. The longing from both of them gets me in the gut but I also want me some gurl power. Let's just wait and see with low expectations. 😬
Precisely. Until the end of episode 6, Dami was an extremely passive hero, who reacted to every obstacle like a deer caught in a headlight. I LOVE her in the episodes since. She's firm and clever and forthright. And when she lost his temper at Park Giwoong, I was pretty much clapping. Cause when was the last time we saw a woman losing her temper and just letting her fist fly without it becoming a hair pulling contest that the men around her had to calm her down from. This is the aspect of gender bending that I love. The freedom from performing gender norms. Anywhoo. Yes I'm happy with the show now too. This vid should really have come out last week. 😄 I couldn't finish up the edits. Thanks got watching! ❤️
@@TheDramaNotes exactly! I hate it when they show "women's fights" or catfights as hair pulling and screaming and make up streaming all over. That doesn't happen all the time. Haha. Haha yay glad you got the video up anyways :) :)
Rowoon is so cute apart from being a good actor that he stole the show from Park Eun Bin, who is the main character of the drama. I became his instant fan.
It was survival story from the get-go! I just wanted the poor kid to survive..and she will I guess otherwise why make a drama..and I get your fantasy..I do..but the title is Kings Affection ..so I had my hopes capped.. Coming to building up Haru(he will be Haru forver for me)..they had to build him up for being worthy of Kings affection no..and he has many swordsfight scenes to his credit...anyway..so far I still stick with this one..
Hahaha, them be fighting words. Saya loved Hwarang to death and will do the fighting on PHS's behalf. He's the swoony king. You're not allowed to call him weak. XD But in all seriousness, I get WHY the drama has to build up Haru (heh) but it seems to comes at Dami's expense. The guy can surely be shown as super masculine and swoony without making the girl be the one he's besting all the time. It's a complaint I'll continue to have with romances for many more years, I guess. I'm still watching it, but my super enthusiasm has dampened a bit. XD P.S. Thanks for liking the intro! I wanted to try something new.
I think we didn't see the same drama... Dal-Mi is the lead and only one. Her story is not to be King but to be herself. It was a fusion sageuk, not a fantasy one. She couldn't be a Queen and being a King meant to hide. Her father protected her because he knew she would be killed if people discovered her true idendity. Her grandfather wanted to use her. They didn't look down on her. Because she had to create walls to survive and be cold to everyone, she couldn't be a good ruler. It's Ji-Woon who helped her to open herself to others. But she was the one who fought against her grandfather, with the help of people, but she was the one who stopped him. Ji-Won didn't take at all over the story. Until the end, it was her fight and only. She drank poison to save her people from her grandfather.
By the end of the drama, I agree that's the story. By the point when I made this video, about 8 episodes in, it had started to feel ridiculous how much proving her femininity in love had taken over the plot.
Oh I'm sorry. 😅 I'm saying I agree with your take on her character arc. It's just that for some episodes in the middle the drama spent too much time on setting up a traditional romance. It's a personal opinion of course and I accept that other viewers loved the same thing.
It wasn't just a romance. She finally could be herself. Ji-Woon gave her the freedom to express herself when her father or cousin didn't say they knew. They made her lonely. Ji-Woon made her remember who she was.
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I lovve this interview format..pls do continue..
Love the video and the editing is 👌👌
Glad you liked it!! ☺️ Thank you for watching it.
This is basically a romance saeguk so ya they are gonna lean more on the romance part. But a spin off just showing the story of dami conquering the power would be great too.
I think episode 3 and 4 though were slow
but were actually important to give a dynamic to jiwoon's position in the palace and is that he is capable enough to be at hwi's side for whatever bad situations are gonna come in the future.
Episode 5 was imo was more of a filler one to proceed the story further and to change a little bit of dami's personality from cold to a warm one.
The story got pretty interesting from ep 6 though and ep 7 and 8 were actually fabulous.
While many people take the dagger fight between jiwoon and hwi in the forest as a fight between a man and a woman thing, I see it as a fight between a Commoner(jiwoon) and the crown prince(hwi). We can also see the shock on her face when he disarmed her
because she wasnt expecting some herb collector to be as skilled as her in fighting skills.
As of now i think only hyun knows that she is a female aside from eunuch hong and the court lady so i think everyone trying to protect her is just them fulfilling their duties to protect the crown prince.
Although i agree it gets tedious at times.
And i think jiwoon and his story to serve the unfortunates was the major turning point where she wanted to start to use her postion as the crowned prince and serve her country while until then she had no ambition to do so and thus her passive stance. In a sense jiwoon inspired hwi to fight back.
I guess no, because everything go well at the mid of this serie. The romance part of this couple helped to heal everyone from a political of dynasty. I think the story have to conclude a love that challenged this couple and fight back together from many chaos events in the remaining episodes.
I still watching too because of Ein-bin. Ha ha.
Haha, the only "powerful" parts of Dami I saw in the early episodes were how good at fighting and archery she was. Which is just physical strength. Then just when I was losing hope in the show they brought in an excellent cameo by Park Ki Woong. He even had a back story! I think they took so long to show Dami's awesomeness because they probably had to drag out the whole drama to 20 episodes. 🙄 I felt sad when the envoys had to go.
But now that they're going into the forbidden romance part of the story, maybe they'll focus more on that rather than how a woman gets to secretly rule as a man? 😔 I wouldn't mind an equal amount of both. The longing from both of them gets me in the gut but I also want me some gurl power.
Let's just wait and see with low expectations. 😬
Precisely. Until the end of episode 6, Dami was an extremely passive hero, who reacted to every obstacle like a deer caught in a headlight. I LOVE her in the episodes since. She's firm and clever and forthright. And when she lost his temper at Park Giwoong, I was pretty much clapping. Cause when was the last time we saw a woman losing her temper and just letting her fist fly without it becoming a hair pulling contest that the men around her had to calm her down from. This is the aspect of gender bending that I love. The freedom from performing gender norms.
Anywhoo. Yes I'm happy with the show now too. This vid should really have come out last week. 😄 I couldn't finish up the edits. Thanks got watching! ❤️
@@TheDramaNotes exactly! I hate it when they show "women's fights" or catfights as hair pulling and screaming and make up streaming all over. That doesn't happen all the time. Haha.
Haha yay glad you got the video up anyways :) :)
Please finish all episodes and comment
Rowoon is so cute apart from being a good actor that he stole the show from Park Eun Bin, who is the main character of the drama. I became his instant fan.
That's another way of looking at it, of course. 😄🙌 Try Extraordinary You and She Would Never Know. Great Rowoon dramas.
It was survival story from the get-go! I just wanted the poor kid to survive..and she will I guess otherwise why make a drama..and I get your fantasy..I do..but the title is Kings Affection ..so I had my hopes capped..
Coming to building up Haru(he will be Haru forver for me)..they had to build him up for being worthy of Kings affection no..and he has many swordsfight scenes to his credit...anyway..so far I still stick with this one..
Anddd..I haven't seen many saguks but aren't all crown princes ..weak and vulnerable..PHS in Hwarang and few others..soo yeah..
Hahaha, them be fighting words. Saya loved Hwarang to death and will do the fighting on PHS's behalf. He's the swoony king. You're not allowed to call him weak. XD
But in all seriousness, I get WHY the drama has to build up Haru (heh) but it seems to comes at Dami's expense. The guy can surely be shown as super masculine and swoony without making the girl be the one he's besting all the time. It's a complaint I'll continue to have with romances for many more years, I guess.
I'm still watching it, but my super enthusiasm has dampened a bit. XD
P.S. Thanks for liking the intro! I wanted to try something new.
@@TheDramaNotes I just noticed that it's a 20 episoder!
I noticed after recording this video. 🤣
I think we didn't see the same drama...
Dal-Mi is the lead and only one. Her story is not to be King but to be herself. It was a fusion sageuk, not a fantasy one. She couldn't be a Queen and being a King meant to hide.
Her father protected her because he knew she would be killed if people discovered her true idendity. Her grandfather wanted to use her. They didn't look down on her. Because she had to create walls to survive and be cold to everyone, she couldn't be a good ruler. It's Ji-Woon who helped her to open herself to others. But she was the one who fought against her grandfather, with the help of people, but she was the one who stopped him. Ji-Won didn't take at all over the story. Until the end, it was her fight and only. She drank poison to save her people from her grandfather.
By the end of the drama, I agree that's the story. By the point when I made this video, about 8 episodes in, it had started to feel ridiculous how much proving her femininity in love had taken over the plot.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Oh I'm sorry. 😅 I'm saying I agree with your take on her character arc. It's just that for some episodes in the middle the drama spent too much time on setting up a traditional romance. It's a personal opinion of course and I accept that other viewers loved the same thing.
It wasn't just a romance. She finally could be herself. Ji-Woon gave her the freedom to express herself when her father or cousin didn't say they knew. They made her lonely. Ji-Woon made her remember who she was.