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We’re heading to the beach again this weekend. This time to get in touch with my inner lobster and to feast on crabs. My sons and their girlfriends are joining us so I’m excited. I recently bought a mahjong set which I’d like to play with them ala-Crazy Rich Asians. 😂
Sanchez suffered a broken heart this time. It was so sad to see him cry. Man weol and chung aung had some cute moments. Chung myung did love man weol it seems, because it looks like he waited for her in the lake side after all. Anways IDK why i feel like this episode is one of my least favorites so far.
Room 404. Wasn’t it supposed to be ominous? Can’t remember now.
@Lily, still good but not my favorite either. Feeling restless re the love story. And poor Sanchez. This episode didn’t do a lot to move the story further along, imo, but also won’t lose viewers.
The opening scene… it can not be Manwol’s memory, can it? Which means that CS is seeing either the Captain or (more likely?) the Princess’s memory? Of our four main characters, as far as we know YW was not there.
Beginning of the rehabilitation of the Captain character or a troll for the likes of me, biting at such things….
Room 404. Hah, I knew there was more to that room than just an internet joke!
Still an interesting development; a child conceived in that room under certain conditions became a world class champion. And one can bribe Manwol for access for those purposes. I wonder how this will tie back in to the rest of the tale of Moon’s Hotel?
@Barbrey, I think this episode is set up for Manwol to face the risk of losing her gang all over again. The head of housekeeping is about to do something to cost her soul, the 4th candidate hotel manager and the current one are about to be the next victims of the serial murders, … the bellhop and the bartender…next episode?
The 4th Mago was pretty clear that her fear will cause the flowers of the moon tree to wilt…
Yeah, definitely more of a set up episode. I’m used to those being the even numbered eps but we seem to have switched. Next one should be good.
I’m liking that what was mentioned in early episodes plays out now in the latter half. We heard MW say before that she hates seeing the full moon. We see her this episode practically grinning from ear to ear over the lunar eclipse.
We heard before that a previous manager (the one before Mgr Noh) had done much to set the hotel afloat and making money, and this episode we meet her, Candidate Moon Sook … would that be a candidate for a presidency or THE presidency … hmmm.
The Water Spirit episode where CS stood in the bottom of the well and looked up to see the cover of the well moved by MW above … it was dark/new moon, and then crescent and then full moon when MW removed the entire cover. This episode we see this in reverse from full to new to full again (so to speak). CS was right … we are looking at a new kinder Moon Man Wol, and he hopes she’ll be more saving as well! LOL.
So if we take her full moon to be full of grudges, then can we interpret her joy at seeing no moon (empty moon?) to be herself, fresh and new with no grudges to bear?
I did love the restaurant scene. They had ao much chemistry there haha. The way she laughed at his jokes so natural and made me smile as well 😍
Re that candidate Candidate Moon Sook
There is something unscrupulous about what she did there. Knowing Manwol’s weakness, she bribed her with that jewelry. Then she called in a favor, being the former manager who made Hotel del Luna solvent. All this just to ensure that her future grandchild would become a famous person.
But what if the grandchild turns out mediocre? Will the child still be loved?
Tsk tsk tsk.
I think there’s an alternate way of looking at MaGo’s interference. Sure, MaGo had the ex-manager drink the pill because she was going to be successful at enriching the country. Her management skills were better applied to overseeing the nation’s fiscal policies.
But as a manager to guide Manwol to the afterworld, she wasn’t the ideal candidate. If I were MaGo, I’d get her out, too, because she’d indulge, rather than restrain, Manwol’s greediness and materialism. If the mission is to rehab Manwol, then the ex-manager wouldn’t cut it.
But I’m glad that she’s there to help CS after MW is gone.
Re full moon/new moon
Yes. I mentioned this when we were discussing the logo and what it meant. Lol. See how our obsessive analyses were right on the money? Even the word “agreement” was spot on. 🤪
The new moon would mean a new her.
Since it was only a lunar eclipse, it was still uncertain whether she’d change for good. Her trial is about to begin.
(Rolling my eyes here) Yes, let the rehabilitation of the Captain’s character begin!!!
The Hong sisters really don’t make villains villainous anymore. Sigh. There’s always a saving grace in the villains nowadays. Used to be, antagonist are good because they’re so bad. They’re black because readers view world as black or white. Nowadays, readers see and LOOK for 50 shades of gray (yes that title was very apt in describing the moral and cultural ambiguities found, not only in the bedroom but also in the corporate world). Viewers want villains they can identify with and relate to. Kinda like Snape in Harry Potter. He was a victim, too.
And to create a morally ambiguous villain, the writers make them have a sympathetic origin or a justifiable cause or — this is what I hate most — a “misunderstood” character.
“He’s really not rotten to the core!” “He had abusive parents!” “He was serving a cause!” “He was nation-building!” “He was bullied!” “He’s just misunderstood!”
I’m facepalming here.
But yes, CS isn’t seeing Manwol’s memory. No.
He’s seeing the “severed” relationship that was his curse for having a ghost eye. 😂
Agree. It seems to be set up that way: whether she reverts to her “berserker” ways once her loved one is in danger, or not.
We have to remember MaGo asking her, “Who else died for the sake of the dead?” That was Manwol’s indictment, the charge against her.
Will she do it again.
And that’s why I said it wasn’t necessary for me to see the Captain’s reincarnation for her to be tried and tested. Just the Captain’s essence (or what he represented and signified to her) could trigger her. Her animosity for the guy is so deep-seated that anybody would do.
With the Captain’s face, she can be easily forewarned to be on her best behavior because he is her nemesis and her wrong move will mean her “eternal damnation.” But without the Captain’s face, then she has to recognize her own weakness — and her violent and destructive self — all on her own.
Last time, it could be said that the Captain pushed her to do bad things. This time, it’s all on her.
PS.
Re. The “severed” destiny, relationship, or spirit that Chansung could see in his dreams
At this point, it’s the reaction of Manwol that we’ve to focus on, that is, her reactions that stemmed from her traumatic past and will determine whether she’s damned or not.
Not the director’s misdirection or trolling. 😂
CS is getting these dreams so he can understand her better and reasonably predict her reactions and next move. He’s got to stop her before she sets herself to auto-destruct. 🙂
So CM gets a sob story? To make it easier for MW to forgive? Sigh. That’s the BIG difference between CS and MW. He was abandoned by his Mother. From the looks of it, he never got a full explanation as to why she just upped and left and never made any attempts to explain herself other than the fact that she kept the photos. Yet he offered grace and forgiveness regardless. He never acted out the abandonment with bitterness or resentment to those around him. His is the act to be lauded. But it would appear that HS would be supplanting CS’s gracious act with the MW/CM story (probably because it’s more mainstream and there are already a lot of fan girls wanting it). That the Captain will be vindicated 🙄. And all those years of hate and resentment (and how she dealt it out with little regard for another) wasn’t justifiable? Or was it?? Isn’t that far worse?? That it was all just a terrible “misunderstanding”?? And she acted in hate all those years based on a lie that she was led to believe? Where’s the justice for all those she treated badly then?? Sorry, I was mean and taciturn to you because I mistakenly believed the love of my life betrayed and abandoned me. Even though you had nothing to do with it? Hmm…Where’s the morality in that? 🤔