I usually buy love at first sight (have seen too many around me in real life) but I must say I’m now convinced with everyone’s opinion that the romance between CP and Ga-Eun is not quite believable. 🙁
Poor peasant Sun. I feel really bad for him the moment he volunteered to be the CP’s stand-in. Boy would have never known what he let himself into.
I’m kind of secretly hoping for a twisted ending where he and Ga Eun rode the horse off together into the sunset, but I know it’s not possible. Here’s hoping the boy can at least confess his feelings, because I sense a tragic end to his life.
Yes, I also feel like that a tragic end is in store for him. As for your imagined ending, while it would be awesome, romantic pairings in Korean dramas are pretty much determined from the beginning.
Ikr! I stopped caring last night. It’s not even the lack of their screentime together and the lack of romance, but it’s the lack of building up to that romance, either through conflict or through understanding.
Same! I stopped caring as well.
And honestly, I’m actually fuming as I watch the scenes unfold.
I want to care and be interested in what Lee sun is doing. But all the talk about copper are just flying past my head. I don’t feel the conflict to be real enough and Dae Mok also took a back seat today.
And Hwa Gun is actually becoming more interesting to me as a character…
But I wish I cared enough about her to root for her and the prince. But I can’t care for her either. Her obsession with the prince still makes no sense…and she even chose to help her father and ended up betraying the prince. So i really have no idea where she is standing at the moment.
I’m annoyed too, and it’s not even minor annoyance.
Somewhere on the Internet the viewers actually have to make sense of Ga Eun’s motives and romance toward the CP by drawing details out of thin air. Much of those aren’t solidly set in the show itself, but pure speculations about her actions. One example is Ga Eun is convinced by the King’s protection and the King Consort’s kindness toward her so she had decided to lay low and put her revenge at rest.
I don’t criticise such interpretation, though I personally find it being based on rather flimsy backdrop. I do criticise the writing and directing, because such work of making up situations to explain for the lack of characters’ motives speaks volume about the writing quality. It’s not our job as the viewers to make up details to understand the main characters for god’s sake!
Hahaha…this was before I watched 7DQ. I love it! The vibes it gives me are very different from Ruler. Although I liked Ruler a lot when it first started, I was aware of certain things which might pose problematic. I didn’t have such issues with 7DQ, it felt so smoothly executed.
Regarding Ruler, I have not watched this week’s episodes. From the comments at soompi, it is confusing at best. I can generally take plotholes but I can’t deal with characters who make no sense. This is the biggest issue I have with Ruler. I can’t understand GE, Queen, DM, ex King and even the CP! Forget about HG. The characters’ actions and motives are written just to fit a scene or certain direction(even that they can’t seem to find one direction and stick to it!). Looking at tonight’s ep, it ain’t getting better.
I really like what I saw in 7DQ too. It indeed feels so different when a sageuk falls in a capable directorial hand. I really hope it will stay good until the end. The scar from Ruler is still burning ouch! so I’m trying to keep my expectation down a notch. Better be pessimistic then proven wrong than the other way round 🙁
I’ve just read the comments on Soompi for tonight’s Ruler eps too. I must say I’m on the verge of giving up since they keep adding things to make the plot and some characters more complicated while neglecting the main focus. When it comes to Ga Eun’s plot I really don’t like what they are writing for her. Don’t even let me start on the whole poison and copper sub plots.
Will have to wait for subs but from the comments, it seems the Queen is making use of GE to get to Lee Sun. Why does she need to do that? She hasn’t done anything for 5 years and now, she’s woken up? I think this is merely another subplot to create crisis for GE and CP. I see that some fans are happy that GE and CP have OTP moments but honestly, this couple doesn’t excite me. The so called squee worthy stuff are staged.
I am thinking this drama has the same problem with Moon Lovers. The writer and PD are too focused on creating scenes which they think will delight fans. I don’t know about you but I was never sold on Hye Soo and Wang So’s romance.
@outofthisworld
Tbh I wasn’t watching ML for any of the cast XD nor for the romance. There were interesting elements in there and I kept watching for the vain hope that things would get better and prove me wrong but the whole drama failed to do so. I remember one beanie back then said something like, ML is so bad it becomes amusing to watch, and I’ve got to say I agree with them XD. I really liked the scene where Lady Hae died on her husband’s back. That scene is iconic in itself, but the show failed to create any other that had similar impact on me. Too bad, it had the potential to be epic, but it ended up no more than a teenage cosplay.
The problem with Ruler is that the writers are too ambitious and want to create something great which has some classic feels to it but fails because they didn’t get their focus right from the get go. The Queen is someone whose motive I can’t read and she completely came out of the left field. If she really wants to counter DM’s power she should have been shown to aid the late King in one way or another. If her purpose is to get rid of DM herself then what’s her role to play in the King’s assassination? If back then she just wanted to lay low to save her life why did she reveal her claws to DM as soon as the CP was enthroned? And now she wants to get rid of the fake CP, for what? Has she got a substitute? If yes, then why haven’t we seen hide nor hair of him? Has she always wanted the throne for herself? Then she must have wasted the last 5 years for nothing as you have mentioned.
Then when HG helped her father and the Water Bureau official to escape, she didn’t let out a single scream but suddenly CP turned around and noticed her, when he didn’t see her before on the cliff top, and the first thing he saw was both men galloping away as soon as he arrived at the foot of the cliff. I thought his first instinct would be to chase after them, but somehow miraculously his peripheral vision was activated (what a rare thing in Kdrama!) and he noticed something that he needed to turn 180 degrees around to see.
Sigh, at this rate I think a piece of Swiss cheese even has fewer holes than this.
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Hye Mi
May 31, 2017 at 2:01 PM
I have a thing for the underdog.
Can these two poor souls be together in their next lives 🙁 ???
Peridot
May 31, 2017 at 3:45 PM
His character is the one for whom I feel the most.
Hye Mi
May 31, 2017 at 3:48 PM
Fellow Beanie, I feel you. I have officially jumped ship from today’s ep 🙁 That line got me completely.
Peridot
May 31, 2017 at 5:55 PM
And the prince’s noble idiocy does not help. I think the connection is stronger between peasant Sun and Gaeun than between Prince Sun and Gaeun.
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 12:04 AM
I usually buy love at first sight (have seen too many around me in real life) but I must say I’m now convinced with everyone’s opinion that the romance between CP and Ga-Eun is not quite believable. 🙁
Poor peasant Sun. I feel really bad for him the moment he volunteered to be the CP’s stand-in. Boy would have never known what he let himself into.
I’m kind of secretly hoping for a twisted ending where he and Ga Eun rode the horse off together into the sunset, but I know it’s not possible. Here’s hoping the boy can at least confess his feelings, because I sense a tragic end to his life.
Peridot
June 1, 2017 at 4:57 AM
Yes, I also feel like that a tragic end is in store for him. As for your imagined ending, while it would be awesome, romantic pairings in Korean dramas are pretty much determined from the beginning.
outofthisworld
May 31, 2017 at 7:24 PM
Omo! Is this 7DQ?
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 12:00 AM
I wish the rest of this episode were at 7DQ premier’s level XD
ravennightstar
June 1, 2017 at 12:23 AM
Omg this!
Where is Kim So Hyun in this drama? She barely gets any screen time.
The more separate the leads are, the less I seem to care!
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 12:31 AM
Ikr! I stopped caring last night. It’s not even the lack of their screentime together and the lack of romance, but it’s the lack of building up to that romance, either through conflict or through understanding.
ravennightstar
June 1, 2017 at 1:00 AM
Same! I stopped caring as well.
And honestly, I’m actually fuming as I watch the scenes unfold.
I want to care and be interested in what Lee sun is doing. But all the talk about copper are just flying past my head. I don’t feel the conflict to be real enough and Dae Mok also took a back seat today.
And Hwa Gun is actually becoming more interesting to me as a character…
But I wish I cared enough about her to root for her and the prince. But I can’t care for her either. Her obsession with the prince still makes no sense…and she even chose to help her father and ended up betraying the prince. So i really have no idea where she is standing at the moment.
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 1:29 AM
I’m annoyed too, and it’s not even minor annoyance.
Somewhere on the Internet the viewers actually have to make sense of Ga Eun’s motives and romance toward the CP by drawing details out of thin air. Much of those aren’t solidly set in the show itself, but pure speculations about her actions. One example is Ga Eun is convinced by the King’s protection and the King Consort’s kindness toward her so she had decided to lay low and put her revenge at rest.
I don’t criticise such interpretation, though I personally find it being based on rather flimsy backdrop. I do criticise the writing and directing, because such work of making up situations to explain for the lack of characters’ motives speaks volume about the writing quality. It’s not our job as the viewers to make up details to understand the main characters for god’s sake!
outofthisworld
June 1, 2017 at 7:14 AM
Hahaha…this was before I watched 7DQ. I love it! The vibes it gives me are very different from Ruler. Although I liked Ruler a lot when it first started, I was aware of certain things which might pose problematic. I didn’t have such issues with 7DQ, it felt so smoothly executed.
Regarding Ruler, I have not watched this week’s episodes. From the comments at soompi, it is confusing at best. I can generally take plotholes but I can’t deal with characters who make no sense. This is the biggest issue I have with Ruler. I can’t understand GE, Queen, DM, ex King and even the CP! Forget about HG. The characters’ actions and motives are written just to fit a scene or certain direction(even that they can’t seem to find one direction and stick to it!). Looking at tonight’s ep, it ain’t getting better.
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 9:42 AM
I really like what I saw in 7DQ too. It indeed feels so different when a sageuk falls in a capable directorial hand. I really hope it will stay good until the end. The scar from Ruler is still burning ouch! so I’m trying to keep my expectation down a notch. Better be pessimistic then proven wrong than the other way round 🙁
I’ve just read the comments on Soompi for tonight’s Ruler eps too. I must say I’m on the verge of giving up since they keep adding things to make the plot and some characters more complicated while neglecting the main focus. When it comes to Ga Eun’s plot I really don’t like what they are writing for her. Don’t even let me start on the whole poison and copper sub plots.
outofthisworld
June 1, 2017 at 10:09 AM
Will have to wait for subs but from the comments, it seems the Queen is making use of GE to get to Lee Sun. Why does she need to do that? She hasn’t done anything for 5 years and now, she’s woken up? I think this is merely another subplot to create crisis for GE and CP. I see that some fans are happy that GE and CP have OTP moments but honestly, this couple doesn’t excite me. The so called squee worthy stuff are staged.
I am thinking this drama has the same problem with Moon Lovers. The writer and PD are too focused on creating scenes which they think will delight fans. I don’t know about you but I was never sold on Hye Soo and Wang So’s romance.
Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 10:36 AM
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Hye Mi
June 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM
@outofthisworld
Tbh I wasn’t watching ML for any of the cast XD nor for the romance. There were interesting elements in there and I kept watching for the vain hope that things would get better and prove me wrong but the whole drama failed to do so. I remember one beanie back then said something like, ML is so bad it becomes amusing to watch, and I’ve got to say I agree with them XD. I really liked the scene where Lady Hae died on her husband’s back. That scene is iconic in itself, but the show failed to create any other that had similar impact on me. Too bad, it had the potential to be epic, but it ended up no more than a teenage cosplay.
The problem with Ruler is that the writers are too ambitious and want to create something great which has some classic feels to it but fails because they didn’t get their focus right from the get go. The Queen is someone whose motive I can’t read and she completely came out of the left field. If she really wants to counter DM’s power she should have been shown to aid the late King in one way or another. If her purpose is to get rid of DM herself then what’s her role to play in the King’s assassination? If back then she just wanted to lay low to save her life why did she reveal her claws to DM as soon as the CP was enthroned? And now she wants to get rid of the fake CP, for what? Has she got a substitute? If yes, then why haven’t we seen hide nor hair of him? Has she always wanted the throne for herself? Then she must have wasted the last 5 years for nothing as you have mentioned.
Then when HG helped her father and the Water Bureau official to escape, she didn’t let out a single scream but suddenly CP turned around and noticed her, when he didn’t see her before on the cliff top, and the first thing he saw was both men galloping away as soon as he arrived at the foot of the cliff. I thought his first instinct would be to chase after them, but somehow miraculously his peripheral vision was activated (what a rare thing in Kdrama!) and he noticed something that he needed to turn 180 degrees around to see.
Sigh, at this rate I think a piece of Swiss cheese even has fewer holes than this.