I'm so excited for this, despite there not being a magic horse. This also looks totally different and that it might be more seriously written than season 1. Season 1 was unintentionally camp, so hilarious, this is not looking that way, hmmm, we shall see. This doesn't look funny.

This looks so much better than season 1, so excited!

So I know people didn't like season 1, but gosh, this looks like fun. I might try it just to see...

I hope that there is a good explanation of what has transpired in the intervening years between the end of season one and the beginning of season 2. I'm also wondering if the story will continue past a second season. Once again, it sucks that the streaming platform was changed. :(

The change in styling is rather distracting - did we just time-travel an era or two? - I'd prefer them to stop at recasting half of leads. Taealha looks like she's cosplaying Disney cartoon witch with that feathered collar and crazy crown. SSK looks lethargic, like she always does in serious non-lively roles. And where did they lose Eunseom's curls (new wig is meh, LJG deserves better) and twin bro? OK, MDL says Saya's teaser is coming in a few days, phew. Got all worried for a second. Saving the best for the last, I see you, show^^ Don't they dare to mess with his styling as well, THAT would be really unforgivable.

I've heard S1 was a mess but idk the costumes and LJG are enough to convince me to give this a go!! But based on the teasers, it looks like it's quite promising!

Ooooh Taealha! She's not a physical fighter so it'd be cool to see more action from her besides what other trickery she has up her sleeve.

Everyone looks epic. Really want a serious, intense battle!

At least we can finally see something this time. It was hurting my eyes and trying to adjust my screen brightness didn’t work.

But the costume looks so cheap (like the one in Scarlet Heart compared with the expensive one in The King Loves). How much did they have to cut the budget down? Probably no trip to Brunei either.

Lee Jun-ki is so beautiful. ....no no...Clips will do. Just clips.

Give me Lee Jun-ki in an action, romance, adventure, saeguk, mystery, yeah, just about anything and I will be there to watch him. (it). Add the rest of this cast and I am so excited for it to begin!

I just want to see Lee Jun-ki and Kim Ok-bin in action.

I skipped Season 1 but excited to watch Season 2 because of LJK 🤭

Checking in to say I'm re-watching Season 1 and like it a lot (episode 8 so far). Song Joong Ki playing twin roles is gold. The passion he put in his Wahan tribe-self, versus the more quiet, calculating and superior Saya, made me forget there was one man playing two parts. Also admired the interwoven plotting the writer gave us. Too often characters are given sudden strengths or interests out of the blue, which restrains our belief in the story. However from the beginning, the writers low-key underscored Tanya's Dad as the tribe's inventor & maintenance genius who came up with fire for the tribe and was always puttering, lost in his "pre-historic tech". By including this character note in the intro, then later, when the Wahan tribe is scattered into Arthdal as slaves, it would have seemed forced to make us believe that Tanya's Dad's curiousity about the metal forge, or learning Arthdal's written letters just popped up. And you can bet his working in the 'Forge' will impact the plot more later on too. The writer did such awesome job of 'seeding' the plot ahead of big events to give the story credabilty. Same with the well-nuanced characterization, especially Tagon, who, unlike the simple greed Taelha has for power, fights regularly with doubts and guilt/hate feelings in his psyche formed by his harsh Dad as well as his self-loathing for being a 'monster...an 'Igutu'. He was a villain I found easy to be drawn to, likely because he was an outsider. Not easy for a writer to accomplish this in an action drama, but the writers succeeded also with Eunsom, his twin Saya, and Tanya too, who makes some iffy choices 'for the good of all'. The side characters in this drama were functional but our red-headed bodyguard "Hae Tuak" stood out for me. So now I find myself in a binge-watch state of mind...wanting to see what will happen next. But waiting a week to see the next chapter puts dents in my memory for detail and lessens my character addiction. The large world of Arthdal is a lot to take in, so watching it all in a week and a half has changed the intensity for me. I could barely take-in the set design or costuming, so if they weren't up to standard, it didn't register, or keep me from liking this drama a lot. Loved the period it's set in too...so unique for an historical. Looking forward to seeing how this pair of writers do with the next season. Lee Joon Ki alone is worth the ride.