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Half of me feels like I should be mad at this show’s obnoxiously perfect happy ending and the other half of me is like “no it was in character with the rest of the show it’s a bloody fairytale it’s not gonna end sadly”. Like one side of me is going “does the perfect bow on the end mean the stakes are meaningless and the sacrifices have no emotional weight?”, and the other side is going “but Guibangjang and Weol Ju would’ve died 100000 times over for each other and for Kang Bae and they accepted their fates selflessly with no expectations, and then were rewarded for their sacrifice, so no, the sacrifices didn’t mean nothing.”
On the other other hand all you had to do, Show, was explain why Guibangjang didn’t have to go to Eternal Hell or whatever it was in place of Weol Ju and I would be like 100% happy with the ending instead of you know, 98% happy. Oh and maybe also explain why they suddenly aged like 20 years after dying in Joseon, too.
That’s like it.
Like, I can come up with an explanation, (1) Heaven was like well you already died for her once so that cancels the contract, 2) Heaven negotiated with him and said if he went to find Weol Ju in the staircase abyss they’d consider the contract void or something, 3) he really did just trade her soul for some police files), but that’s not my job, and you didn’t SHOW me any of those.
Ahem.
Anyway.
I’m gonna go to bed before I start overthinking in what capacity of mortality they returned to the Living Realm and and tomorrow you might even get like a very rare thing that is a uhm positive essay on a kdrama, so please mentally prepare yourselves for that truly once in a lifetime event, you know, as horrifying as me liking something sounds, it does happen occasionally.
If your impression of me has been shattered, I’m so sorry, there are free returns at the bar.

(Was I still kinda holding out on a cheesy True Love’s Kiss despite the fact that I got a double familial sacrifice instead, which is in many ways objectively better? Yes…)