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Thanks @pkml3. I am also wondering if those are CGI. There’re so many long shots like that. I read that they have spent the biggest budget among dramas, but CGI is not cheap too.
I was about to complain that unlike Goblin, this show is sad and dark with little respite. Poor main protagonist is alone, friendless, living in a dirty, broken down house. Then the show gives us possible friend(s) and even family. Interesting twist.
What Goblin did better was not just the world building but the character and relationship building. It’s Ep 3 before I get more of a sense that I might root for the characters.
The other thing that strikes one by it’s frequency is the number of times jack knives appear, ML/people get stabbed, blood flows and the number of times hands are holding on to blades or being pierced by them. I’ve been cringing a lot. There still is blood letting, although less than in Ep 2.
Okay, I finished episode 3 and there is a twist about a character identity which I kind of guessed. Wonder where the show is going with all these immortal souls tied together.
@GB The ML was stabbed twice in ep.3 but not much gore. I do think there was some sort of relationship between the two leads even before they became bulgasal.
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Hi @Phoenix, looks like this show will bring in all the main ‘players’ of Hwal’s past into the present. We should have the present incarnation of shaman lady as well, so that we get someone to tell us what’s happening between characters, LOL.
I’m pleased to see that my guess, that Hwal would change from hunter to protector of Min Sang Un has come to pass. Show did the great start of the building of trust between Hwal and Sang Un, too, so it’s doubly difficult to come to terms with taking revenge on her. I like the twist where it’s going to be really difficult to outright kill Sang Un, when his ‘wife’ is her sister.
I’m thinking that there’s some kind of misconception about Sang Un being able to sense Bulgasal. In all the times when she had hand trembles and goose bumps, it was the other soul-eating monster that she sensed. However when they were carrying carpets into the laundry, neither Hwal nor Sang Un felt anything that would have given their identities away to each other.
It’s a nice set up now, where Sang Un may actually ‘help’ Hwal recover from his wounds while he keeps the other monsters at bay.
Yes, @GB, seems like Hwal will indeed become the protector as in eo.4, Sang-un requests him to be.
But the show is still too dense in its logic – really, show? Two of these supernatural beings suddenly pop up without any explanation?🤔🤔 There was no mention of the other Bulgasal in Joseon era.
@GB the shaman is indeed reincarnated. I just saw episode 4.
Btw I think that yellow haired teenager might be ho3s son reincarnated, but I may be wrong. He should have recognized the son though.
Too much bloodshed and stabbing again in ep.4, I felt a bit queasy. If this continues, I will have to drop it😑 Still hoping this turns into a romance with less gore soon.
I think @Cleao was right that there is a back story to the back story of why the original lady bulgasal was tied to Hwal. When the current reincarnation touched Hwal in present era for the first time, he saw visions of a laughing lady. Were they lovers in some lifetime before either of them became Bulgasals and how is the actual villain bulgasal connected to their story?
I missed that thread and I wrote in the Open one instead…
Here is again my comments after watching Episodes 3+4:
For Episode 3:
Things got a bit complicated on Episode 3.
So, we have Hwal’s dead wife being reincarnated as the little sister of the twins who bore Hwal’s soul. How is he going to react on that? I will watch Episode 4 shortly!
As it seems, there is another Bulgasal who killed the one twin – ex Bulgasal and her mom.
Monsters are keep coming to the other sister, meaning that somehow she is connected to Hwal’s soul. I do hope they will explain to us more…
For Episode 4: So, things got complicated!
What we have suspected is right, we have indeed another Bulgasal!
There is also a hidden story / deep connection between the oldest Bulgasal who killed mom and the twin sister (Lee Joon is playing the crazy 1000 y.o. Bulgasal). The ex-Bulgasal lady, now the mortal other twin lady and lastly Hwal now as Bulgasal.
Was the Lady Bulgasal an ex-witch? The older Bulgasal is having a grudge against her. He accused her that she gave him that dark hole.
Did she make Hwal a Bulgasal in order Hwal to kill the older Bulgasal?
So many questions from the beginning of the series. Let us see the answers…
@Phoenix,
I also think that the boy is the reincarnation of Hwal’s son but he was way younger when he died in Joseon era. The only person who can recognize him, is his mom in their previous life, since she has the same gift as before!
From what we have gathered so far, the older Bulgasal has a connection with the Lady Bulgasal now human. When she was Human she must have known Hwal from a previous life. They could be lovers, it is a plausible scenario.
Something happened and she made that dark hole to the older Bulgasal and then she became Bulgasal herself. She was waiting until the day Hwal was going to be reborn and she made a grudge on him.
If they were lovers, then why did she take Hwal’s soul?
Did she want to create another Bulgasal in order to erase what she did wrong with the older Bulgasal?
The pieces are not right. Something is missing for a clearer view.
Ok, I think what I wrote before might be plausible i.e. Female bulgasal (FB) aka Sang woon (SW) has a romantic history with Hwal in their past lives, hence the vengeful look in her eyes when she killed him or decided to kill his family and the flashback that Hwal experienced when he touched her.
Now to the older Male Bulgasal (OML) aka Lee Joon, I think he wants to kill her because the dark hole on his body is actually the wound the FB inflicted on Hwal. He and Hwal are like one body. When Hwal pulled out the sword from his body, MB was in pain and stopped attacking SW. He wanted to kill SW because with her keeps reincarnating she will be hunted by Hwal, killed and become Bulgasal with a vengence towards Hwal and hunts him and kills him and him hunting her and the cycle will never end with MB becomes the bearer of that killing wounds and endless connection to Hwal, physically. Like a body double. It is not Hwal he wants to kill but SW/FB because she will always have that yet unknown grudge towards Hwal.
However, what interest me is the hidden power that SW unleashes whenever she is threatened. Show is hiding that from us. We were only shown the after she did something to defend herself i.e. she wounded that rain monster and presumably MB when he killed her sister and mother i.e. she was the only one alive. Just like FB did not kill Hwal when he was a child, MB did not kill SW when she was young. 🤔🤔🤔
Hi pkml3 please open a thread for the next episodes.
@Miracle23 are you still watching this show? I watched Ep 5 and somehow, Show still fails to ‘convince’ me or to draw me into its dramaverse. I’ve seldom had trouble buying into the fantasy with other shows, but this one is somehow lacking.
I’m staying to watch the ‘I’ll avenge my family’ objective change to ‘become my family’. It’s a stopgap show for when I’m waiting for something else to watch. 😝 😬 🙄