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Right this moment I’m sharing my episode 1-2 notes on The Haunted Palace, as a result of I’m having fun with it greater than I’d thought I might, and I used to be questioning if you happen to’d like to affix me? 🤗
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Episode notes:
E1-2. My pals, that is understanding to be extra enjoyable to look at than I’d initially anticipated.
Let me make clear upfront, nevertheless, that this isn’t a comedy, and extra of a drama with spots of levity, which is probably going why I truly discover the comedic beats entertaining – as a result of Present isn’t making an attempt too exhausting, to make me snicker, if that is smart?
Initially, I hadn’t been tremendous on this one, as a result of, not like phl1rxd, I’m not naturally enthusiastic about tales about shamans – sorry, phl1rxd! 😅
Nevertheless, I made a decision to test it out anyway, and whaddyaknow, I’m truly feeling fairly entertained and engaged, despite myself. 😁
There’s some set-up that you must get via in episode 1, however by episode 2, I believe it’s rather a lot clearer, what sort of story we’re working with, and who our key gamers are.
Let me clarify.
I believe it’s fairly essential to handle our expectations round our male lead; that our male lead is the demon, and never the human.
As you would possibly already know from Present’s synopsis, Yun Hole turns into possessed by an imugi, Gangcheori, performed by Kim Younger Kwang.
I would really feel in another way, if Yun Hole have been nonetheless alive in our story, as a result of then there’s the opportunity of Gangcheori leaving Yun Hole’s physique.
Nevertheless, by the top of episode 1, Yun Hole will get killed by males despatched by an clearly scheming political dude, and it’s solely afterwards, that Gangcheori enters his physique, thus resurrecting him.
As a result of Yun Hole’s life has already ended, as Gangcheori factors out greater than as soon as, I don’t assume it’s potential for Yeo Ri to carry him again to life, though she’d actually like to take action.
And so, my thought is that Gangcheori is our actual male lead, and this story might be about him determining easy methods to reside on this human physique, whereas falling for Yeo Ri – due to course he’ll, sure?
I believe that it’s fairly essential to get this lens on from the start, as a result of I do assume that if you happen to’re hoping for Yun Hole to take again his physique from Gangcheori, you’d largely be dissatisfied, since I doubt it could be potential for Yeo Ri to carry Yun Hole again from the lifeless. 😅
Backing up just a little bit, I do quite just like the set-up, that Yeo Ri is such a particular woman – with a righteous and pure character – that she is favored by the heavens with the power to work together with the supernatural realm, though she doesn’t change into a shaman like her grandmother had as soon as predicted.
I purchase the concept, that as a result of Yeo Ri is that particular, that’s why Gangcheori had been drawn to her within the first place, 13 years in the past, when he’d first set eyes upon her – and when she’d checked out him, proper again.
In accordance with Present’s inside mythology, Gangcheori believes that if Yeo Ri would settle for him as her patron deity, he’d be capable to regain his dragon type, as an alternative of being caught as an imugi, and I purchase that, for that purpose, he sticks to Yeo Ri’s aspect, all these years.
I do love the casting of Kim Younger Kwang as Gangcheori; I really feel he provides Gangcheori a pitch-perfect mix of jadedness and offhanded badassery.
No offense to Yun Hole, however I genuinely discover Gangcheori a extra fascinating character, and so, I’m truly not mad about the truth that Gangcheori seems to be to be our actual male lead.
It’s true that Yeo Ri considers Yun Hole to be her past love, and may be very unhappy about his demise, nevertheless it actually seems to be to me to be a mixture of her having a childhood crush, and her feeling grateful to him, for having protected her, when everybody else had pointed fingers at her for being a supply of unhealthy luck, as a result of Gangcheori was following her round.
I don’t truly assume that she was deeply in love with him, and so I’m additionally not mad concerning the thought of her finally falling for Gangcheori, though she’s at the moment actually upset with him for inhabiting Yun Hole’s physique.
By way of the beats I used to be entertained by, there are a couple of.
First, there’s how I’m fairly tickled by how Gangcheori retains grumbling about how weak this human physique is, and on the identical time, fairly thrilled by the truth that, for probably the most half, he’s nonetheless superhumanly sturdy – besides when he’s stopped in his tracks by Hole’s stab wound.
After which there’s additionally how Gangcheori discovers items of the human expertise, and is overwhelmed.
We begin with how amazed he’s by the style of plain rice gruel, which then naturally escalates to him making an attempt out all kinds of meals and wine, and getting fully blissed out, to my amusement and Yeo Ri’s chagrin. 😁
After which there’s additionally how he discovers the consolation of mendacity on a heat flooring, wrapped in tender bedding, and refuses to stand up, once more to Yeo Ri’s chagrin.
After all, let’s additionally not neglect how he discovers that he will get flustered on the sight of Yeo Ri in his arms, when he saves her from that water ghost.
I’m inordinately tickled at how he’s discovering the fun and sensations of the human expertise, and determining easy methods to really feel about all of it. 😁
On that be aware, I’ve to say, Yook Sung Jae is doing an ideal job with the function.
He’s completely nice and bland as Yun Hole, however completely channels an animated, mischievous and badass power as Gangcheori, that I discover similar to how Kim Younger Kwang feels, within the function – besides Gangcheori wasn’t truly animated, earlier than taking possession of Yun Hole’s physique.
I discover the swap in actors very plausible, and I do really feel like we’re seeing a sparky form of chemistry between Yeo Ri and Gangcheori in Yun Hole’s physique, versus Yeo Ri and OG Yun Hole.
Which additionally implies that I’m in precept fairly into the concept of Yeo Ri and Gangcheori having a little bit of an enemies-to-lovers bickering romance. 😁
Typically talking, I don’t discover myself very fascinated by courtroom politics, however this time round, it does lean quite totally different than most dramas, since, on the coronary heart of the goings-on within the palace, is an evil spirit that has possessed the crown prince.
And, I’m additionally wanting ahead to Yeo Ri and Gangcheori working collectively to defeat the evil spirit, whom we glimpse on the finish of episode 2 (eek, such creepy eyes! 🙈).
General, I discover myself fairly a bit extra engaged and entertained than I’d anticipated to be, and so, I’m truly wanting ahead to see what unfolds subsequent, between our reluctant central pair.
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