[K-Movie] The Fatal Encounter 역린

Wiki link, here.
Pictures from the movie, here.

The story is not mainly about King Jeongjo, it highlighted the devotion of his eunuch to save his master's life at all cost.

Gapsoo was trained as an assassin and put into the palace by a secret organization to kill Joengjo. But since his adolescence, the young king and Gapsoo became close friends and Gapsoo vowed to protect the king.

Eulsoo was Gapsoo childhood friend, both trained as an assassin, when Eulsoo was instructed to kill Jeongjo, he tried to runaway from this organization by taking her lover Wolhye. But Wolhye herself was actually also a spy planted by the secret organization. Somehow Wolhye's act was found out and she was executed by King Jeongjo, therefore Eulsoo got no choice but kill the king.

In the end Gapsoo saved the king, sacrificing his life. Both Gapsoo and Eulsoo died. Jeonjo then found out about the secret organization and had them all banished from the land forever.

WAIT A MINUTE....
I watched this movie for HAN JIMIN, where's she ?

Well, Queen Jeongsun was a very young wife of Jeongjo's grandfather, this is the truth history. Political standard that time, didn't allowed concubines to be elevated to queen status. Therefore, if the queen died, a new queen must be selected from respected clan. That time Jeongjo's grandfather selected Jeongsun who was still a young teen, as his queen.

The age gap between Jeongjo and Jeongsun was about 8 years, but he gotta respected her as his grandmother.
Guess that's why in one article, Hyunbin told viewers that the reason why the grandmother was so young is because it is based on true history.

Thou history doesn't really emphasize Queen Jeongsun's involvement to get rid of Jeongjo, but most believed she got the power to control Jeongjo's rival party. After all, the Kim clan (Jeongsun's clan) was well-known for providing queens from generation to generation.

Jeongjo's mother, knowing the secret schemes Queen Jeongsun's did at back, secretly told a young maid to poison the queen, but was found out. Queen Jeongsun used this opportunity to threat Jeongjo by pointing out that she could execute her mother. But Jeongjo said the law must be obeyed and he is the protector of that law.

Jeongjo managed to convinced veteran general to defect to his side. The rebellion failed and Jeongjo finally settle down the matter. At the end, Jeongjo told the queen that he'd known already that the queen and her subordinates were behind his father's death, but his grandfather wanted to protect both side, therefore hid the proofs that could bring disaster to the queen and her political sides. Realizing she is no match for him, Queen Jeongsun no longer threatening the king anymore.

Histroically, after Jeongjo passed away, he was succeeded by Sunjo, but since the young king was very young, Queen Jeongsun as the most senior at that time, control the political temporary.

RATE : 4/5
Because there's not many Jimin's scenes T_T

[Review] Hyde Jekyll Me Ep01-20

this is not a review, sorry, the title distracted a lot....this is about my bias over seojin and hajina, but of course ... my love for this drama mainly because i like han jimin sooo much ♥

OUR SACRED MONK SEOJIN FINALLY GOT HIS KISS AT THE VERY LAST MINUTES BEFORE THE DRAMA ENDS. WHAT A WORTH-WAITING ENDING *facepalm*

Seojin-Hana romance :

1. hana closed seojin's ear in the aqua park
2. seojin returned hana her blanket and handed her an umbrella
3. seojin listened carefully to hana's request to at least employ her circus band and she would left wonderland
4. seojin unable to sleep feeling uneasy to hana after what she said about leaving wonderland
5. seojin started to worry about hana when she's about to fall from stairs, thou he didn't admit it
6. seojin ate hana's sweet potatoes and shared a blanket to her
7. seojin's heart beating fast after hana's confession
8. seojin erased hana's msg to robin out of jealousy
9. seojin started stalking hana, showered her circus team with gifts and suchs
10. seojin gave medicines to hana after hearing she got fever
11. seojin blamed himself not knowing hana was suffered enough to take taejoo's hypnotize session
12. seojin embraced hana at the staircase
13. hana took care seojin when he was ill
14. after argued each other and being called he's the ghost, seojin felt sorry but cant do anything
15. hana advised seojin about at least trusting himself when no one to be trusted
16. hana worried and followed seojin to ghost house and warehouse
17. hana took a distance from seojin after he told her he got DID
18. seojin asked hana to come back to his house, asked her to ride the car, followed her from behind 
19. hana worried of seojin after he switched off the communicator when visiting taejoo
20. hana praised seojin he'd done his best to survive up til now, having such uneasy childhood and burden all his life
21. hana convinced seojin not to runaway and face soohyun
22. seojin admitted his love to hana (but got rejected, ouch!)
23. hana got no reply from seojin after she said she's not in love with seojin
24. hana followed lonely seojin from behind to cinema and watched him watching movie

hana in seojin's eyes :

1. she's kind, like seojin said, she helped seojin to track dr kang's kidnapper, enduring taejoo's scary hypnotize session
2. she's caring, took care seojin while ill, followed him to the ghost house and warehouse
3. she pushed seojin to bravely face soohyun rather than hiding again behind robin
4. she realized robin is "fake" by acknowledging to press that robin is only a pen name of seojin

my view on hana-robin-seojin :

1. she loves robin more than seojin, it is obvious, seojin gave her too many bad impressions at the beginning. you know first impression is important....and robin is her prince charming. it is impossible for her to just DUMP robin and cling onto seojin just because robin is "fake".
2. robin showed signs of jealousy to seojin and refused to be considered as "fake", so hana took it somehow as an "order" to side on robin
3. hana is not really smart, she is more using heart than brain ... she never read books, never gives a damn care about psychology books, she read comics just because robin took her to his workshop...so, hana is CLUELESS what she got to do about this TWO people in ONE body.
4. she could just runaway like the girl from 5 years ago. but she didnt want to because she loves robin too much and might as well worry if this robin will turn into terry bomb something. 
5. that seojin is purely a sage monk, even there is no robin around, he wouldn't have any idea how to get a woman. he only rely on his "sincerity" and "sacrifice" ... and admit it, his words of LOVE are too intellect to be digested by simple woman like hana. 
6. seojin is not joowon from sega. even me as viewers also doubtful what kind of romance-screen of that pure sage monk should have with hana... *facepalm* 
7. at first hana thought it might be fine if they could just live like that three of them ... but later she felt uneasy knowing seojin actually could get rid of robin at anytime by asking dr kang hypnotize robin, however this monk would prefer to pertain his illness in order not to make hana sad. 
8. therefore in hana's mind, she treated robin the best before that day comes. maybe inspired by k-dramas, where the leads married because one of them gonna die, so hana married the-start-loosing-memories-robin and asked him to take their wedding memory to 'graveyard'.
9. seojin told robin to just live his remaining days to make hana happy. so it seems he is fine with the marriage.
10. when robin kept loosing his memories, there's not indication seojin got the lost memories, seojin only "felt" some memories of robin lingers in his. therefore there's no sign if robin disappears, their memories will merge.
11. since hana was ever told by seojin that this monk can't remember anything when he was robin, so in hana's mind, loosing robin means loosing everything. to accept seojin means to start all over again from zero. she's not ready for that yet, even seojin said he loves her.
12. in the last minutes, seojin must use a simple words to explain his current situation to hana, he avoid using the word "merged with robin" or "having robin memories", instead, he said "i remember it all now when i was robin"....by this way, hana would start seeing "robin is actually seojin". 

IF I WERE HANA ?
1. run. i dislike complicated things.
2. but on 2nd thought, i might be more like the female lead in KMHM.
3. however on the 3rd thought, bringing KMHM female lead in here cannot be applied because in KMHM all became clear after male lead "solved" his 'childhood trauma' while in Hajina, even things got clear, monk seojin kept his illness in the name of love--because the female lead love his alter, and since it's gonna be crappy if they let it so, therefore finally they made them merged anyway.
4 ...never falls for 2nd lead unless 1st lead is too crappy....and SEOJIN is perfect, not crappy (that's why we want to see more SEOJIN), but Hana fine with Robin's dominated romantic screen...(because both r HB)

This good....I'm not ready to let go this drama yet even it had ended.

Conclusion :
Don't care anymore about the previous E01-E19...
Just give us extended version of Ep20 for more PRECIOUS romance between Seojin-Hana

this drama is greaaaaatttttt..........it's just we want more seojin-hana moments for extended Ep20 !!!

my personal rants :

silly hana, you've just realized it now? you avoided seojin just because you felt uncomfortable knowing he willing to keep his DID illness for life, just for you ?

this seojin is such a monk, isn't he ?

hana should have a heart-to-heart conversation with seojin ... no, i think seojin's words are too intellect, hana won't reach that level. seojin should speak it slower like robin, speak it without too much poetical.. hahaha~

damn right. every lines from his speech sounds like a poem, from a divine voice of seojin.
*banging head again*

.... i don't want to become one of hyunbin's fans just because of seojin T_T
but how come T_T