Stranger danger.
When my sons were little, we told them never to trust strangers offering them sweets or balloons or news about their mum. (I was often traveling on missions.)
This applies for this drama. Don’t trust a drama that’s offering you sweets or misdirections or strange scenes.
There is something strange about the Captain. I teased @agdr03 about it earlier and I told her that it wasn’t the smile that set off my warning bell.
It was the bridegroom bringing his sword to the bridal chamber. Like, who does that? Sheathe his sword?
hahaha. And I’m not talking about condoms, okay? They also “sheathe” swords. Swords of procreation.
See that?
He was holding the sword with his left hand…as he was supposed to do. He was a right-y; he used his right hand to wield the sword.
He knew that she was waiting for him.
But if he had come in peace or for truce, then he should have ditched that sword or at least, he could have held his weapon with his right hand to give her the (slight) advantage to cut him down.
With his right hand, he was just as ready to fight her as she was ready to slay him.
On a side now: Do you see the relevance of the married ghosts earlier? She told them that they could kill each other as many times as their heart desired so they should pick their weapon.
The Captain brought his sword so he knew that she was going to be there. He goaded her to go on a killing spree. At the prison, he taunted her to stay alive if she wanted to see him dead. Moreover, he knew (of all people, he should know!) that the execution of Jeonwoo would push her over the edge. Then, the Princess came out, with him by her side, to order that Manwol be released. lol. Was he the one who gave the Princess this “bright” idea to let Manwol go? Surely, the Captain didn’t think Manwol would go gently into the night without avenging Jeonwoo’s death.
He enraged the bull. But why?
That’s the real question here. What on earth was his motive?
lol. That’s the bonus point on the homework.
“Swords of procreation.” LOL.
I pointed that particular scene out to my husband as well. I don’t quite understand why.
Is he doing this because he feels guilty and wants MW to take him down?
Is he truly going for something even bigger? Kill the princess, remove the king? Without dirtying his own hands?
We’ll find soon out enough in the next episode.
I try not to limit how twisted the Hong sisters want this plot to be.
For now, I’d go with the King because that will tie in nicely with the King Ghost and the scar that I mentioned in my other post. lol. I said, jokingly, that if we have to look for the reincarnation of the Captain, his scar should be an identifying mark. lol.
But just ignore me because I like to tease y’all.
Things we know that the Captain knows(IMO):
1. MW is in the bed chamber
2. MW has his death as the focus of her existence
So why did he go in with sheathed sword instead of blade in hand?
A. If he wanted to have time to talk to MW, he needed the unsheathed blade in his right hand to defend himself long enough to talk.
B. If he wanted to kill MW, he should have led with guards. If he wanted the credit for the kill, he should have come in with unsheathed blade in his right hand.
C. If he wanted to rescue the princess, he should have come in with unsheathed blade in his right hand.
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n. If he wanted to do anything other than give MW an “easy” kill, he should have come in with unsheathed blade in his right hand.
How the HS will twist this scene…?
To me, leaving MW alive was a deliberate choice by the captain. MW’s wine jug in the tree could have only one purpose – get MW out of the camp just in time for the attack. In a mass messy fight like the attack on the camp, there was no way to guarantee MW’s safety. A question related to the good captain/bad captain scenarios is whether the captain asked the princess to capture MW at the lake, or that was a separate action on her own.
Heh! Nice think-through @Flying Tool. From what we have been shown, I agree. There is still the part after she springs up to strike him though, that we do not get to see … like are there guards ready to pounce on her once her sword is out? …
On a sidenote: I also abhor the idea of those beautiful wedding garments getting all slashed and bloody.
That blood dripping down from the stool MW was sitting on, was the remainder of Princess’ blood that had pooled and was dislodged by MW’s hand?
@Kaxx and @packmule3, I like the idea of Captain aiming for kingship. Will marrying a princess automatically put him in line for the throne or, on the throne itself? If so, then all he had to do was aim to get married to the princess, have her quickly dispatched and take over the throne… he just had that little problem of a vengeful, loose killer to take care of.
I’m wondering why in that old timeline, we only see the princess and no king.
In the old time line, no parents or anyone above the princess. If there was, they would have been present at the balcony during the wedding celebrations. Which means local power would go to the captain on the death of the Princess, or so it seems to me anyway.
And no guards in the bed chamber. Visually, They would have to be between the captain and MW to do any good. So it looks to be the two of them.
Questions:
How do you interpret the look on the captain’s face?
Do you think MW regrets having killed (Of course that’s an assumption for now) the captain? .
@Flying Tool, I don’t have the time to re-watch the Captains face, however my impression of it was that he was stoically going in, knowing full well that he was going to kill or be slaughtered. As he didn’t have his sword drawn, it seemed like he was reluctant to initiate the fight, but the fact that he brought his weapon into a bedchamber (on his wedding night!) and walked in, in that deliberate way, means he knew what Man Wol had done and that he was still prepared to defend himself. It was practically suicide, I guess, but he wasn’t going to go without a fight.
My first impression of the captain’s face: he’s resigned. I’ll have to rewatch it to check it but I must work on the Part 2 of my Madcaps. I’ll get to that scene eventually. 🙂
Does MW have regrets killing the captain (assuming she did in fact kill him): not at first. She didn’t want to talk about it with the Old Woman, remember? She didn’t regret killing him then.
Instead, she regretted being played for a fool (hence, she was accused of the Old Woman as being arrogant and self-pitying). She thought her revenge was justified.
But if, in the next episodes, she finds out that she was operating based on wrong assumptions (i.e., the Captain intended to “save” her from execution…ha!), then yes, she would feel extreme regret and more self-pitying.