Beans of Wisdom: Sideburn amulets and army coffee

by DB Staff

This week in Beans of Wisdom…
 
In “1% of Anything: Episode 8” comment #12, Martin J Simwaba writes:
 

Wait! I am 27yrs old, and for a man i find very fond dramas. Is that bad? Please tell me…[cause here in Zambia, Africa, mind you, watching dramas, novelas is pressumably for women but i ‘involuntarily’ find myself drawn to them everyday.] i need some convincing.

nannah replies:

I think it’s great that you love k-drama (& especially this one) I don’t know of any rule that would stop men from liking them & I think many do, so you’re not alone

So..keep watching & enjoy yourself

For me, k-dramas are a pleasure of life I wouldn’t want to give up

Reba Wechoki:

The fact that every African on the continent who likes Kdrama finds their way to the dramabeans website is a testament to how great Javabeans and the team are.And nope nothing wrong with a man liking Kdramas aren’t they all made for both men and women. Your preferences are valid to sort of steal a quote from a fellow Kenyan ?

Mermaid Scribbler adds:

And the power of story speaks to men and women. A good story is a good story. Period!
Glad you are enjoying them as much as we all do. ?

And sumi:

Rest assured that among the millions of people around the world who enjoy watching k-dramas, there are lots of men. Fidel Castro’s son, Alex, said he is a fan. I watched a show about the making of the k-pop group WINNER, and when the members (who are young, “cool” guys) were in a room that they thought was free of cameras watching them, they eagerly watched a k-drama together. There are some men who post on Dramabeans, and I’m sure there are lots more who lurk. We’ve also had male recappers in the past.

If you really enjoyed this episode, I’m guessing that means that you’re a guy with a romantic heart– and that’s a wonderful thing!

YY prepares to say goodbye to Moon Lovers in “Beans of Wisdom: Scarred hearts and amnesia-proof helmets” (#11):

Bye, Scarlet Heart
(Sung to John Denver’s Leaving on a Jetplane)

Got my tissue packs
I’m ready to bawl
I’m waitin’ here for this week’s show
I hate to go to sleep, such a waste of time
But the dawn is breakin’
It’s Monday morn
My laptop’s waiting
I switch it on
Already I’m so miserable
I could die

So, kiss Soo and smile for her
Tell Soo that you’ll wait for her
Hold her like you’ll never let her go
‘Cause you’re leavin’ this comin’ Tuesday
Don’t know when you’ll be back again
Oh, So, my life is over

Spi

There’s so many times I drag you around
So many times I marry someone else
I’m telling you now they don’t mean a thing
Every place I go, I’ll think of you
Every person I’d kill, I’ll stop for you
When I come back, I’ll bring your new hairpin

In “This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair: Episode 1,” Rose writes in comment #8:

I think what this drama is doing a good job at, is showing us that, at the end of the day, cheating or not cheating, it is not the core of the issue.

The simple fact that their couple came to a point where she could, potentially, envisage cheating on him and that he could picture it, say a lot about how this couple is a dysfunctional one.
I, sincerely, doubt that she is cheating on him, but I think that the road he is taking will , hopefully, allow him to open his eyes about the real state of his couple.

Yes, he was happy with their couple dynamic, but was she ? She appears as the enduring type, so it is more than likely that behind her smiles, she is hiding her wounds.

I think that for our 3 “couples”, this drama will be about being able or not to feel empathy, being able to put themselves in the other person’s shoes, discover their truths and see through their eyes their reality.
And next is the following question : can he, she, they change and found a new equilibrium in their couples ?

And in “This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair: Episode 2” comment #1, Nana writes:

I’m really into this show. I’m already so invested, also the acting can’t be beat. I like how everything is hinted, allowing the viewer to be in pace with our main character. The wife seems perfect, I’m not sure why I don’t see how they got married. Their life seems so artificial, am I the only one who feels this? It’s like their only connection is their son, but maybe this what happens in some marriages. I might be feeling this because I haven’t seen them have conversations.

Bubu:

I totally agree that their lives seem too artificial and they only seem to talk about their son. I know this drama is about adultery but I think more than anything else, it also shows that some couples tend to be indifferent with one another as time goes by. Hyun-woo barely has a conversation with his wife which is why he finds it so hard to question her about Michael. Even if she isn’t cheating ( I don’t think she is)-I hope he will come out to be a better man and have a more intimate marriage. Also, some women cheat just to have sex. I think the opinion that women cheating is only about emotion is wrong. If that were the case why would some women sleep with a guy if its all about the emotion. I hope this drama is able to break that stereotype. Men and women are not that different.

MapleSilver:

Sadly after eight years of marriage many couples do drift apart from each other with only their children keeping them together. That seems to be the case with our characters. We are not told why they get married in the first place other than he falls in love with her. She seems to be the cold one, not even wanting to kiss him on the lips on their wedding day. I wonder if that is meant to tell us something. But even if he starts out all lovey-dovey toward her, constant rejection from her could turn the warmest guy into a self-doubting man who will protect himself by putting a distance from his wife. We see that they both avoid sleeping in their bed, preferring to sleep with their son instead. I hope this aspect of their relationship gets explored fully as the show goes on.

In “On the Way to the Airport: Episode 11” comment #13, Diana asks:

To be honest, why Doo Woo didn’t see Su Ah when he was the one who drove the minibus??

Didn’t he able to see his passanger’s face from the mirror?

watching this episode made me think sometimes this world is so small, wherever you run, you’ll meet same person,..

Pebble replies:

Well, since the name of this drama is OTWTTAirport, all the significant events which coincidentally brought SA and DW together and sealed their fate must happen at the airport or be linked to it. This explains why the writer didn’t arrange for DW to recognise SA on the bus, or when he beamed the bicycle light in her path when she walked past him. Else this drama would have to be named “Journey of Destiny on the Jeju Bus” or something along the line of movie title “Driving Miss Daisy”, or “Girl on A Bicycle” lol

Klurker adds:

Lol. Or “Lovers in Malaysia,” “On the Way to the Job Interview,” “Scarlet Heels of Jeju”. Indeed, every fated reunion or breakup has to take place at the airport.

JC writes in comment #1 of “1% of Anything: Episode 7”:

What started as a complete frustration of ill-placed machismo has become one of my all time favorite mutually encouraging sweet OTPs. Happy beyond words the hauling around of the female lead has stopped. He is still very physical with her, but it is different…not demanding and he steps back when she says no (although that bit is more seen in ep 8). With all the episodes so far, we have an excellent contrast on how not to and how to respect a woman. My little fan heart is bursting.

Wag_a_Muffin:

I agree completely. (Except I wasn’t so upset at the beginning.) People need to be given space to learn, mature, and grow as humans. If you throw out a person (or character) every time they disappoint you, you are going to have a very small circle of associates.

I am happy for his growth. (But I have a feeling this is going to be a two steps forward, one step back kind of deal. And he’ll do stupid, macho, man-dumb things again before the end. (I will be patient with him, though.)

Mermaid Scribbler:

As a woman, it was hard for me to love the earlier version because a subtle sense of sexism seemed to creep into that show. The heroine got dragged around most of the time (although it was beautifully acted and she was endearing in many ways), the leading man stayed petulant, and I couldn’t root for her to marry him because I felt like her life would always be a sacrifice for his wants. There were even times when the boy cousins would tell their girlfriends to go inside while they fought things out like men. It just hit me all wrong.

So, I wasn’t going to watch this show, but now I am happily relieved to find that Dada holds her own without having to change her character. I doubt she’ll ever be the woman who saves the day in a fist fight, but she has some fantastic gifts/powers of patience and kindness, and she corrects what needs correcting. She holds fast to her beliefs, and it’s so refreshing to see that they balance each other in strengths and weaknesses. So much so, that I believe that they will really take care of each other. That’s good writing and acting, to make me want to root for them. Well done show!

Jenn shares an observation in comment #19 of “1% of Anything: Episode 7”:

I haven’t read all the comments, so someone may have pointed this out already, but in a couple episodes I’ve seen some percentage signs and think this is related to how far along the couple are falling in love with each other…

In one case, they are on a date and pass a 40% sign and it occurred to me that they are about 40% there in their relationship….if it’s deliberate, it’s a great little detail by the show’s creators!

Denali in comment #20:

When Jae-In agreed with Da-Hyun that “only someone less than human would lay his hands on a drunk woman”, his actions matching his words, I mentally offered a standing ovation to the writer. Thank you for stating the obvious which sadly isn’t that true in this ugly world.

Dean shares an observation in “The K2: Episode 11” comment #30:

Speaking of both episodes this week, I really do see why the opening credit is playing chess. The political framework and interwoven relationships of the characters are quite interesting.

It really is like playing chess, where 1 side makes a move and then the other side fires back, but each side advances further in winning the game. All the moves have been strategic and it propels the character further in the story.

Very solid week actually and very interesting cliffhanger for next week.

While Sua asks in “The K2: Episode 12” comment #8:

Okie this might or might not be a stupid question but.. I’m kind of confused here, so would someone mind clarifying for me please? So…. is Song Yoon-ah a villainess anymore or not?

Miranda answers:

She’s coming across as more of a learned sociopath, if such a thing exists. A product of her environment who now uses people like tools and manipulates through emotion instead of responding to it. Someone that clinical and driven can seem to be a villain. That and she’s done a hell of a lot of shady crap.

Her reactions with Je Ha are different, though – and curiously, her interaction with Master Song was also a little different. It’s like she sees them both as truthful and upright, and lets them talk back to her even when it enrages her. And with Je Ha she might actually be seeing the person she wanted all along, either to be or have by her side. During those moments she seems more like a general in a war than a villain.

She’s probably a normal woman who responded to cruelty and manipulation over time until she learned how to use it, and now seems evil. And maybe is evil.

In response to rentenmann’s story of letting our loved ones go in last week’s “Beans of Wisdom: Scarred hearts and amnesia-proof helmets,” PakalanaPikake writes in comment #9.2:

I haven’t watched FANTASTIC, but you post makes me want to add it to my to-watch list. It seems we’ve had similar experiences vis-a-via dealing with kinfolk with terminal illnesses. Your comments echo the process of witnessing my mother-in-law’s final bout with a brain tumor after 25 years of surgeries and radiation. She took the disease as a personal affront and was mad as hell. She was a fighter who lasted a year beyond the 6 months the docs gave her.
One of the things that helped me immensely was a small book entitled Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying, by hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley. Unfinished business and waiting for permission were two of the issues of concern to their dying patients. Knowing that enabled me to discern unfinished business that the family took care of for her peace of mind — moving her dead infant’s remains to the family plot. Giving permission meant telling her to do whatever she needed to do, while reassuring her that the rest of us would watch out for my father-in-law, so she could stand down.

Please don’t second-guess yourself. Giving permission to your dad was the ultimate act of compassion.

blnmom adds:

Blessings and thanks to you, and to rentenmann and capt_blackdog. I believe this will help a lot of people. In this day and age when there are so many medical advances to keep fighting a terminal illness, it is increasingly more difficult to let go when it’s time.

In comment #5.5 of “Jealousy Incarnate: Episode 20,” Fish N’ Chips shares a story in relation to Hwa-shin’s actions:

Getting back to understanding where HS’s coming from though, I feel like this may be because my mum’s side of the family has a mentality that’s very much like Hwa Shin’s brutal honesty. Don’t volunteer someone if you think they’re not actually up to doing it. Be honest if someone’s done a bad job, even if they’re a loved one. Never compromise your morals or judgement just because you care about someone.

For example, ever since I was a kid, I loved to write. I wrote and wrote and wrote. And I was good at poems, but stories? Not so much. From ages 10-12, my mum would tell me, every single time, without holding back, without softening the blow: “This is bad. This part is confusing. This doesn’t make sense. This dialogue is immature. You’re not very good at this.”

Never once did that make me get mad at her for “not believing in me”. My writing was sucky. My mum did love me, but she was still going to be honest about my abilities. I never once resented her or begrudged her for it- rather the opposite, I valued her honest feedback more than anything because it helped me know how good I was doing, and aim for improvement (compared to my dad, who proclaimed that anything I wrote was better than Shakespeare, nonstop, ages 10-now).

And now, my writing is good. My mum recognises it, and praises me for it, clapping her hands in delight: “This was funny! This was well worded. The flow was good here. That made me tear up!” And her praise feels 1000x better than my dad’s, because I know she is telling me all of that genuinely, without the slightest bit of exaggeration to make me feel good since I’m her loved one and she “believes” in me.

Maybe it would’ve been ‘nicer’ for HS to just believe in NR and send her out anyway, or get someone else to do his brother’s report. But good isn’t always nice.

And lying or faking confidence or turning a blind eye so that you don’t hurt someone’s feelings may seem like the ‘kinder’ thing to do on the surface, but deep down, I believe it’s demeaning and patronising to everyone involved.

A lie is still a lie at the end of the day, and while HS has many faults, dishonesty has never been one of them. Nor, frankly, do I think it’s something he has to apologise for.

And Ty talks about Jung-won in #5.5.3.1.3:

JW’s actions post-breakup have been a big fat NO. I’m sure we all agree that he needs to let go.

On the other hand, I don’t think his maddening jealous behaviour is all that weird. In fact, I’d say it’s been the intention of his character all along.

JW is HERA. The wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage, and pretty notorious for being jealous of all of her husband’s affairs. Man, I love it when shows/films include these allusions!

Here we have JW who is all about marriage. He’s portrayed as ideal marriage material and his main desire is to marry Na Ri (sometimes without taking her feelings into consideration, I might add). He’s Na Ri’s first boyfriend and then when HS throughs a spanner into the works, JW gets cheated on, JW gets crazy jealous. Plus, I remember we got a taste of JW’s jealous nature earlier in the show when he first found out that HS liked NR. At that point, I thought he was really not acting like boyfriend material.

So yeah. I expect this of JW’s character. Even though it’s painful to watch. Not to mention unjustified. He is in no position to accuse HS of swapping out NR.

Kay writes in #15:

You know…for all the times this drama highlights the immature actions of all three adults and what fools they made of themselves….there are such moments of brilliance in their characters that I absolutely love.

For example:

Hwa Shin making the swapping decision – totally sucks for Na Ri but I love how he was all about being professional. So many times, kdrama characters don’t make tough professional decisions cause we’re always dealing with chaebols or guys who do nothing but drive around in sports cars and wrist grab. I like how Hwa Shin was put in a rock and hard place and did what he thought was right.

The part where he wants to “fight it out”. I thought that was SO mature for him and didn’t expect him to think about that sort of thing.

Anyway, I’m adding Hwa Shin to my list of “absolutely awesome kdrama characters” because he’s just written so well. You want to hate him sometimes, but love him other times.

Zoe praises the show in #21:

God, this drama is just so good with the emotional beats, it’s crazy. That moment in the elevator, when it opens and Nari’s slumping against it, clearly exhausted and despondent and hurt, and Hwashin just watches her silently, which shifts to the wounded look in his eyes when she finally realizes he’s there and her happy mask slides back on, and she’s suddenly bright and chirpy, and he’s almost visibly desperate with how distant that makes him feel and with the realization that he can’t get to her because she’s pushing him away, is so incredibly well done. The fight about not fighting was beautiful of course, but it was truly phenomenal from the set-up onwards. I love that Nari feels like she has to be strong in front of him and not be whiny and petty and you can tell in that moment that he hates that she feels that. Just, wow.

In “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo: Episode 19” comment #94, YY writes:

What I learnt from watching this episode:

1. Make soap while the sun shines.
2. Behind every great man is a miserable woman.
3. A single candle is worth a thousand images.
4. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin

dragonsflame writes an alternative plot in comment #114:

With everybody commenting on what might have been I thought I’d put in my 2 cents.

I think that instead of trying to copy the C version they should have just adapted it.

Instead of having an unknown character from the 21st century get sent back to inhabit the body of an unknown character from Goryeo, the show could have been about a well educated chaebols daughter getting sent back to inhabit the body of Yeonwha.

It would keep the premise of the original while being able to take the story in new and hopefully more interesting directions.

You would have someone who is already used to a life of privilege as well as being a completely independent woman.

The love triangle could have been between Yo, So and herself. Wook could have been portrayed from the beginning as someone who wants the throne. Being the kings daughter Taejo would have immediately known that she had changed, so what would he and/or Jimong told her.
what would her reaction be to knowing that she is going to end up Queen and that Wook would never realize his dream.

Just a few thoughts on what might have been.

In comment #2 of “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo: Episode 20 (Final),” cali writes:

i think it’s safe to say that the application of mustaches is the true kiss of death of everyone in the show. within a couple episodes of donning the 소 stache any character is inflicted with madness and bull-shittery until they die in a weak sauce way (or, if you’re extra pathetic like wook, you die off screen).

moon lovers should really be called DEATH NOTE: mustache edition.
victims:
dick king dad
mu
dick king yariru
wook

the only men who survive are clean shaven. moral of the story? DON’T GROW A MUSTACHE. EVEN IF IT’S FOR CHARITY FOR NOVEMBER. YOU WILL BECOME KING OF GORYEO, GO CRAZY, AND DIE.

ok. that’s what i got out of this series. any further remarks?

Lessa adds:

This is why Jung only grew sideburns as he became older.

Sure he looks weird but hey, he’s alive.

aversive:

The power of the ugly sideburns is real.

You say clean shaven but we have Eun…

But then againim still confused. Was he a man? Or was he a boy?
Or was he somewhere in the middle like a boy-man.

Damn. That’s probably the worst superhero name ever.

aversive

Superhero/ Villain names for everybody.

Jung: Shady Sideburns
Wook: The Dead Hawk
Won: Greedy Sidey
Eun: It’s Bakehyun-Man!
Chae Ryung:Torture Taco
Yo: Guyliner Dude
Moo: Mercuric-Man
So:The One Man Army
Su: Wrong Generation Girl
Wo Hee:Correct Generation Girl (My puns are so crappy.)
Baek Ah: The Bulgarian Rose

Who else am I missing?

kz writes about So in #32:

That he ended up alone was really sad. Everyone had left. There was nobody else to whom he can pour his heart out. We seem to get the impression that in order to be a great monarch, you must be isolated and really experience deep loneliness. But don’t we often hear that statement “Your benevolence is great, your majesty?” That comes from the heart of a king. But what if he loses his heart in the process of owning the throne? There’s a disconnect. You can be a great king without losing your heart in the process, because it if were all politics and no emotions, how can a king extend graces, then? The heart is what feeds the soul, the life of a person. I wish they had shown that he would carry the love of Hae Soo with him throughout his lifetime. That he knew deep in his heart their love was real and was going to stand the test of time. But we don’t get that, here. We just see him all alone. It’s so sad.

Gehrel describes the show in #39:

Well, that’s a plot twist I didn’t anticipate!

Scarlet Heart is really a makjang drama who stole his brother’s sageuk costumes, copied his sister’s romance novel and hired his favourite pretty boys and pretty girls to act in it.

Bravo, show! You really did well for a makjang masquerading as a sageuk drama. You really fooled me. It makes sense all the ‘want to pull your hair’ scenes we’ve been given for the last 20 episodes.

Side note, I’m okay with the ending. Wasn’t perfect or as good as I wanted it to be but hey, it was an ending of some sort.

Hye Mi views a sad scene differently in #44:

I also hate to say this but I found So’s barging into Jung’s house and his following grief a little bit over the top, as if the PD said: ‘we’re short on time so let’s get it done in 3 minutes’, so the acting had to be made overly dramatic to make up for the lack of screen time. The result is a lack of emotional resonance for me. Yet I’ve got no prob with LJG so far and after that scene (erm apart from that hideous headpiece he wore in the scene with YH) so it’s just a minor distraction.

darkheart writes in comment #69:

this show really ripped my heart out of my chest and stomped on it when So realised that the little girl was his daughter but he had to turn around and walk away, leaving her in Jung’s care because he realised that Soo is right and that there is no way he can ever fully protect her in the palace.

It was so heartrending especially when the girl was clinging onto Jung and calling him father… So had already never enjoyed the mother’s love that Queen SMS lavished on Jung and now he has to endure the fact that his daughter (that child that he had so badly wanted with the love of his love) is so affectionate with Jung – who, by the way, in a cruel almost tit-for-tat though unintentional twist (when So stopped Jung from seeing their mother at her deathbed), was the person who got to hold Su while she breathed her last…

At least mexmax got something from the finale. In comment #121:

All I know is that now I have a great breakup line:
“If we had met in another world, and in another time, I can’t help but think how great that would have been…If only that were so, I wouldn’t fear anything. I could freely, truly, love you all I wanted.”

Definitely poetic enough to send over text. It’s like a twist on “It’s not you; it’s me” line but instead, “It’s not you or me. It’s the century we live in.” (Hint: It’s still you).

And CSA thinks it’s all a great drama activity in comment #211:

I think this show was about nothing, at the end nothing really happened, I mean nothing relevant, It was just a series of events, meaningless most of the time, things happened and that was all, nothing was beyond that. Applies here: “Jack of all trades, master of none”, so many characters and stories to present that they can’t develop all of them. Then, everything feels vague and superficial. I never realized what was the central plot, if there was one. Time travel?, change the future?, epic love?, reigns?, none of that was developed properly, so I don’t know. I saw betrayal and suffering, but presented in such a strange and caricaturesque form, that sometimes it felt like watching one of those comedy shows where they mock soap operas.

However, I should give credit to the show, because it was really playful and interactive, every week the audience had to fill the holes in the plot, imagine the scenes of events that happened but never showed us, try to give some logic to a total illogical characters, find the differences between the versions of the episodes. Maybe this was a way of getting the viewers involved in the story, in the narrative. Instead of writers, viewers create the story in their heads with the clues they gave them, very educational. Now that it’s finished, there may be a quest game to find the culprit of this, who was it?, the writers in the library with a pencil?, the editors in the editing room with a mouse?…This show had the base to be at least a decent story, but I don’t know what the writers and producers did, and why they did it.

kanz writes in “Hwarang’s beautiful warriors: Take two” comment #3:

I’m convinced yestesday’s ridiculous poster was made by an antis. Maybe KBS anti-fan. No one in his sane mind would actually approve the poster and not laughing at the hideous hairstyles and poor photoshop.

Sua:

Or maybe even a SBS supporter XDD

Mindy demands in comment #13:

These sure are pretty, but I want to see some badass promo material. Just because hwarang were the Silla equivalent of flower boys doesn’t mean they have to literally just be surrounded by flowers all the time!

I want to see these beautiful warriors fighting!

GIVE ME BLOOD!!!!!!!!

And lessa in #20:

It looks better.

But since finishing Scarlet Heart, Im going to start looking at all historical drama pretty posters with careful, doubting, anxious eyes.

Lola explains the indecisive heroine in “The Man Living in Our House: Episode 4” comment #4:

I don’t blame the whiplash from Soo Ae. The fact that she’s trusting Nan Gil at all is bizarre and speaks to her gut instinct about him (perhaps also some repressed memories). It’s when she’s faced with the logic of the situation that she wavers. On paper he is incredibly suspect as every man and his dog who knows about the situation has said.

If Nan Gil wasn’t so adorable, you’d have wanted her to call the cops a loooooong time ago.

While Growingbeautifully writes in #8:

What I like is the irony of how Deok Bong who has a father and sister, has a warped idea of family, while Nan Gil who is an orphan with possibly a gangster-like background, has a better take on what family is supposed to be. It’s sweet and funny that he really tries to play the role of daddy, especially if he would really like to be related to Na Ri in a not so fatherly way. But probably some kind of relationship is better than none, from his point of view, and so he gets to be dad and to extract all the priviliges that fathers have… from carrying Na Ri around like she’s a little girl to interrogating her suitors. Such a hoot…love it all!

I really enjoy the quirky characters and how the show hints at them having much more behind the facade for us to discover. The hero-worshipping Deok Shim, the covetous, pathetic Yeo Joo, the scheming bloodless Deok Bong and not forgetting his unsmiling Secretary Kwon who knows Nan Gil from the past.

With such intriguing characters and a great plot in a made-to-be-farcical way, what a great show this is to sink one’s teeth into! ?

In “Shopping King Louis: Episode 12,” redfox writes in comment #6.1.3.1:

oh my god….what if it ends with Louis having to go to the army… just like SIG…

Namu:

Omg it will be funny! it can be a new drama material
Shopping King Louis Goes to Army!

Lord Cobol:

He would buy them the best weapons ever.

rentenmann:

Or he’d buy them a bunch of light sabers. It could go either way with that kid. Hee!

ObsessedMuch:

With the uniforms made up of patches? Patch Man to the rescue literally?

Crysta:

He would spread Maxim around their camp to determine if anyone tried to sneak up on them throughout the night.

mexmax:

I want to see how many soldiers and commanders he magically transforms into butlers and maids.

As always, thanks for posting great comments, beanies!

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