Did you see her distancing JH from the real translator? She mentions him out of the blue a couple of times. I guess she had to do that because they were to similar, she inspired JH completely after him as what he did in S city but gave him a good guy twist. Loved the whole show, loved mostly how she portrayed the CP. I can love this CP and not what they let us believe him to be for centuries. She is making a political statement, she is showing us the korean version of him, none of that fake christian martyr nonsense that has been falsely attached to his name. She really gave the CP his life back. Love her and the show!

@kodra, I just re-watched EP 20 for the third time today … what a brilliant episode! Regardless of the outcome in EP 21 and if that were «scraps of the cutting table» as some said, to elaborate on the various relationships from this drama by extension with another episode is worth it in my view.

There are several scenes I want to hint at (without wanting to spoil for people who read this and have not seen EP 20 yet):

1) the interaction between King and Jang Hyeon, then including Ingguldai:
mimic and gestures of the actor portraying the king are excellent when he and the translator are alone. — When it is the three of them the whole dialogue points to the fundamental problem of the times and the ultimate humanity which even the Qing dignitary shows now. It reminded me of the scene where Hong Taiji asked why the loved that king so much …. (That was out side tent in the war camp outside the fortress).

That links to the storyline around 2) the emerging clear ideological and humanitarian frontline between Lee Jang Hyeon and Nam Yeon-jun, his father’s disciple. Isn’t that a fantastic dialogue? And then Jang Hyeon’s statement … I fully agree, the writer makes a clear political (and social) statement here, one that reverberates into today’s time!

I am reading at the moment a selection of accounts on Korea’s history and in one of them, there is the statement that Korea, with all its tragedies, has prevailed because of its Buddhist and Neoconfucian heritage, which are —so to speak— in the DNA of the peoples. Isn’t this dialogue something to rally savour … alongside this comment?