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Hotel Del Luna Review

First of all, Yeo Jin Goo and IU doesn't have any chemistry for me at all. Even if the scene is sweet I feel that it was bland. Maybe because of age differences and IU must be good with other male actors except yeo jin goo. I don't hate yeo jin goo it's just that I didn't feel any romance between jang man weol and Ku chan Seong, I fell for the second lead instead.

What I like about Hotel Del Luna is the story behind those every ghost even if it's vengeful spirit or spirits that came to Hotel Del Luna. Their individual stories is really great and the writers did well about that. The 3 hoteliers really had great stories and it's really painful.

Third, every outfit of IU my goodness it was worth to die for👏 IU is always one of my favorite and she's always worth to watch for in any dramas that she starred in.

Fourth, most of the scenes is really funny. Seriously I laugh a lot more than scared.

Fifth, the cameos! My goodness I didn't count how many cameos that Hotel Del Luna had.

Sixth, I love the 6 Ma Go's the actress really did a good job to portray the 6 different characters👏

After all, it was worth to watch. I love the 3 hoteliers and IU💞😍 How I wish that Hotel Del Luna really exist in real life👏

Take note: If you love Goblin you will literally like it with a mix of Hwayugi feels.

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Thoughts: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

I waited two whole years to watch the final 7 episodes of Scarlet Heart Ryeo. I stopped at 13 in December 2016 because I read that the ending was going to be tragic. I didn’t want to deal with the headache because up until episode 13, I really was rooting for both leads. That changed a few days ago when I finally finished the series. And I believe that the ending is justified. I don’t even think it’s tragic.

In short, Wangso and Haesoo are very different people. And it’s not because she came from the future. It’s because they didn’t match each other in any aspect, except maybe, visuals - because both are gorgeous people. Right, back to the not-exactly tragic ending. Even if she was a woman of Goryeo, the conclusion would still be the same. She couldn’t see past Wangso being Gwangjong and wanting to have him all to herself; while Wangso had a whole country to run, technically thousands of people to worry about every single day. Two very different people loving each other very differently - what could ever come out of it?

In the beginning, their so-called love was an obsessive neediness on Wangso’s part, rather than a healthy attraction towards Haesoo. He could set the whole world on fire for her, and he would. But towards the end she simply became someone he desired; just another person he could live without. She was no longer someone he needed because other than emotional comfort, she had nothing else to give - no views on politics, no significant family name to offer in support of the throne, she was not even fully committed to the relationship as her visions of him as Gwangjong was always in the back of her mind. She’d always had one foot out the door, ready to drop everything and leave at the first sign of trouble.

These two characters don’t see eye to eye on anything - let’s take Wangso’s marriage to Yeonhwa as an example. This one is easy to explain. I know it’s messed up because she was his half-sister, but marrying into royalty was the only way to concentrate power at that time, while marrying a woman from a noble clan would mean an increase of influence of noble families. And if you have a little bit of knowledge in Goryeo history, you’d know that noble families have their own armies. As a king, you can’t have these people becoming stronger because they might join other clans and raise a rebellion against you. You’d want them tame enough to be on your side to fight for you. In order to do that, support has to come from within the royalty - not the nobles - so making Yeonhwa queen was the only clear choice. Basically, marrying Yeonhwa means more power, more power guarantees Haesoo’s safety and we all know that was all he ever wanted.

Right. Marrying Yeonhwa was something he had to do, he needed a queen with the right family name to secure his position on the throne in order to keep Haesoo safe. Because the only way for him to be with her, and to protect her, was by becoming the most powerful man in the kingdom. Leaving the throne for her would seem like a good idea if you don’t consider the fact that the moment another king rises, all males who are possible threats to the throne will be killed. And Wangso was always seen as a threat to the other princes, long before he even wanted to be king. So if you don’t think he was going to be the first to die right after another Wang rises, you’re wrong.

Haesoo seemed to fail to understand this and the other decisions he made in order to stay together with her - which explains my point; they are not a match, thus they are not meant to be together. For Haesoo, having one man to love was enough, as long as he loves her back. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, having a limited outlook on life. However, the man she half-heartedly loved was destined for something bigger and she didn’t have a place in that grand scheme. She never had. It reminds me of the Chinese proverb ‘to have fate without destiny’ which describes two people who are fated to meet each other but are not destined to be together. It’s sad, but that’s just how life is. We can’t have everything.

They are very different people, Haesoo and Wangso. She didn’t want much, didn’t need much. She didn’t even want him enough to try to understand his difficult decisions. She wanted a man who could stay loyal to only her, and she actually had him. Wangso could never love another as much as he had loved her even if we offer him ten more Goryeos. But they viewed the world differently. What to her was disloyalty was an obligation for him as the king and unfortunately, that wasn’t the only problem.

There was a universe of differences and two millenia’s worth of Korean history between them. It’s just not possible to be born in the 21st century and comprehend the political choices of the royalties in Goryeo and that’s fine. It’s also not possible to both be born to serve and at the same time hope to make choices only people with power should, and that’s fine, too. That’s just how things were. That’s why they couldn’t stay together. That’s why it wouldn’t have worked even if she was a woman of Goryeo.

Personally, I do feel that if Haesoo had been decisive and less insecure, things might have been different but then again, that’s not the point of the story. It has never been that. Because some things are just not meant to be and life does get crazy sometimes. There’ll be moments when everything in your life will go so wrong that you just wanna quit and let everything go, but giving up wouldn’t be one of the choices. You just have to pull through and grow, no matter what. And that’s all there is to the so-called tragedy that is the ending of Scarlet Heart Ryeo. But I really don’t think it’s a mess. I believe they both deserved better, just not each other.