The King: On 11.11.2019

There are my notes. *********** They met on Sept 11, 2019. They met on Monday, Sept 30, 2019. Thanks. @Welmaris He returned on Nov 11, 2019. This was two months after they last saw each other. I know there’s lot of theories about 11/11. (Thank you, @mychoiyoung.)  I’ll pick one for the purpose of the […]

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The King:  On Slow-Burning Romance

WEnchanteur said: I liked that final hug scene. The emotion was there. I haven’t analyzed why, but the last part of your article gives clues. Reading a few comments on another site, viewers were disappointed, because the sentimental story didn’t seem natural, too fast. So why does this scene give me emotion, others don’t? The […]

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The King: Number Theory for Bitches, part 1

For Lee Gummybear and Capitalistheart. Thank you. Updated 5/11/2020 to include @Wenchanteur’s take on TaeEul’s Zero. Thanks WEnchanteur!! ****************************** In mathematics, number theory is just studying numbers to discover their attributes and special relationships when you put them together. For instance, These are even numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,… These are odd numbers: 1, […]

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The King: Character Information

Welmaris, Since you’re the Royal Historian for this kdrama, would you mind if I give you a big project? Please? Thanks. 🙂 We need to gather what we know about the characters, especially ShinJae and the minor ones. It might become more confusing as the drama continues. Please post them as comments here, and I’ll […]

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The King: Eps 5 and 6 Dialogues

The problem with this drama is it’s full of CONTEXT.  It’s so easy for viewers to lose sight of meaning behind the words if they’re rushing through the dialogues. You know there are kdrama writers were the words don’t have much “density” to them. What you see is what you get. But there are screenwriters, […]

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