I don’t actually have time to finish this tonight, so I don’t know why I started it (and I’m not doing a Squid Game and staying up till 2 again woops) but
1. the latter
2. A: you’re the chosen one or something I guess, maybe ask the Water Deity. He might be the guy in the cell next to you idk.
3. … will these two get mad at Samsin at any point I wonder? I have kinda given up on this doing anything nuanced with the whole fate issue.
4. If I know anything about rings of fate, usually they would benefit from being thrown into volcanoes. I can give you directions to Mount Baektu should you be unsure of the way.
More tomorrow gnite allll~
#RedSky11
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    4. Skip the hike and just ask for a lift fr the larger than life bird so you can just drop the ring directly in the volcano.

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    3. I was so mad at samshin in ep 11-12, considering how she just casually involves two innocent kids in such tragic fate, she’s no better than the selfish and ruthless royal family. I hope that Haram and Cheon Gi will derail her plan and defy the fated ending. The thing is the writer has been playing pretty safe with this sageuk, so I’m not sure if she can cook up any surprising elements toward the end.

    Also, what’s up with the new prison-mate? Who’s he? Did I miss anything?

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      I am not confident that this is the kind of show that will go for the “changed fate” ending. We will see. If it does, I won’t think it will have done it very well anyway alas.

      Prison mate is currently unknown. Possibly the missing divine character. Otherwise *shrugs*.

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        After reading your reply, I now have a very low expectation for a good ending. I’ll be content if they at least give us some more lovey dovey scenes between the leads and keep the styling as amazing as they did in ep 10 🤩

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    What drama(s) do you think did a good nuanced job with Fate?

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      Uh… probably none if I’m being very honest.
      Mystic Pop Up Bar comes to mind, but I also don’t recall Fate ever being a massive part of its thematic story? Not sure.
      9Tails could’ve if it were internally consistent. (you know, if it were all as good as episode 9 was and it didn’t contradict itself in the end…)

      The problem is I think most of them approach it from the wrong angle.
      You either have a story wherein you CAN change a set fate- and this is possible, and allowed, and therefore actually happens in the story.
      But if you don’t want to do this, you want fate to be set it, the difficulty in it comes from allowing your characters choice and agency, whilst also dealing with the paradox of fate or prophecy. You have to have a pretty complex narrative with pretty complex metaphysics behind everything for that to work.
      (Think, Frodo chooses to take the Ring to Mordor, but it is also implied that the Ring “came” to him, and that he was “chosen.”)

      But hold on let’s think for a second about dramas that AREN’T fantasy and don’t explicitly mention Fate like Red Sky (or 9Tails) does. Something like Healer, Tree With Deep Roots, or even You Are My Spring, definitely plays with the idea of childhood connections being fated or destined, and they’re all done very well (JBL too). TWDR explores ideas of duty, which is a term and idea I prefer over fate. The contemporary drama examples there however don’t really touch on the idea of a set outcome or fate, in fact all of them, some stronger than others, are about fighting against that almost. Still you could argue they are nuanced jobs of the first concept of Fate I listed.

      (My actual answer is the Japanese movie Your Name, but that’s not a kdrama hahaha)

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