The Secret Romantic Guesthouse thread spoiler version
It’s not that I am giffing every nook and corner of this drama, but I am giffing some stuff that is super spoilerish in the comments, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t go here.
Starting out with a non-spoiler just for fun here in the opening post.
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    The Secret Romantic Guesthouse spoiler comment #1
    I liked him best already.
    ANd I had guessed this identity already (as had many others). And I am not to keen on this kind of adoration of royalty.
    Why, then, do I like him even better after this scene? [swoon sigh]?
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    When finally mr. Destiny Prone and FL kiss, her role likes it, but the actor does not. See her neck muscle – she wants to have her head somewhere else. I could do that better – even with a less attractive co-player.
    Except if that male actor has a bad breath or has just said something offensive and personal to her.
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      Her head’s at an awkward angle. I’m thinking it must have been the direction. Because… Ryeoun? He looks like he’s doing a fine job. Why the resistance otherwise?! 😂

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        I imagine she finds kissing oversteps her limits. I just think as an actress, she ought to, so to speak, get her act together.
        The awkward angle? Maybe if she bent her neck backwards a bit instead? But true, it can have been bad direction. I see women in k-dramas often look down, when kissing a tall man, modest, prudent, very impractical. She is not looking down, but …
        Otherwise it might be one of the reasons I said would make me kiss badly, too: Bad breath or ruining the mood. I don’t mean “not being sexy”. I mean “making her uncomfortable” and the worst would actually be to “warm up” to the kiss with dirty talk. That is the worst turn-off in this situation.

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        She was just going for that lower lip… Angles, my pretties, work on your angles in team!
        Unless that flowery brooch in her hair would have detach herself and she has to choose fashion instead of smooch. A painful choice and we can only hope she’ll get a better hair brooch next time.

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      1/ Who would’t love Shi Yeol? He is the real scene stealer in this show.

      2/ That kiss was noticeably awkward. And maybe that’s why it left me cold.

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        I am getting to the last episodes and it’s so stressful, everybody taking their time while being in mortal danger, and one gets all COME ON! and there is not even a speed-up button – I mean, most people would not react completely rational, but it’s like seeing an opera, where people need to sing for ten minutes about how busy they are, before running.
        And many decisions are so dumb, like, not doing anyone any good, except (spoiler indeed) that administrator, who just loves murdering, it seems.
        I can only just enjoy Shi Yeol in this bog of a disturbed chicken coop, everybody running around looking for their heads.

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    The Secret Romantic Guesthouse spoiler comment #1

    SOmeone commented on VIKI that this guy should stay with the brainy task of being the head of a coup.
    But no no no … he should much rather stay here, where it is only the head of the symbolic axe, that falls off.
    Or he should just read his books and enjoy scholarly things.
    Outside of this yard, he is clearly this axe, and I’m afraid we will have to wave goodbye to his mild and helpful person before this drama ends.
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      Everybody are losing their heads, … here at the end, I am beginning to miss ppl, because instead of trying to persuade each other to be less noble while the murderers move swiftly and kill here and there … If they just all said they needed a massage and had one in a chair plugged into the nearest tree, that would be less annoying.

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    I first “met” Jung Gun Joo in Extraordinary You and he has been such a bright spark here as the Korean Beauty.

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    Is he going to be that kind of character – the one a creepy dude fantasises about? lol

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      I think it symbolizes his innocence, his helpfulness AND helplessness (he was trying to help sweep the yard, or “broom” it, as the subtitles say), his being-open-for-romance (like the girl in that movie is, too, and though I don’t like it either, she is coming on to him quite strong AND before anything really happens, he does realize that he is not with an equal partner and should totally leave her to become adult slower than she is trying to, and he does back down) … okay … hrm hm, symbolizes his being open for romance, like, “come and take me, please”, and also, I should not be surprised if this scene is echoed later, but with blood. There are quite a few strong hints that some persons are going to die. Nice persons, who ought to not die. 😭
      Mr. Axe Head Falls Off is number one on that list.

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        ooooh a quite violent “take me” interpretation if the scene is echoed in blood later… But, somehow, am I mad for thinking this would be a “beautiful” image too (not the haemoglobin bath, the symbolic of it) as an echo to his innocent introduction?

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          No, it would. I would love to find out I was wrong, though.
          But look at his laughing face – also that grin could be a last, crying grin. Sigh.

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            May the dramagods grant your wish. 🤪

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            They did, as you already knew. 😉
            But as Ceecee said, now I almost wanted it to be echoed clearly – like, he could have been in a battle, falling, wounded, so that you’d think he was dying, but most of the blood was someone else’s – or if the stretching scene had been in the snow, and the echo would have been a white one, with the snowflakes …
            But okay, it was great even so. And so beautiful to let the king have been so happy and innocent at one time.
            Also, I loved that the meaning of getting accepted by the Queen Dowager was much more about grandma and less about titles for him. That was beautiful.
            A sweet Queen Dowager and Oh Wonder! a good Left State Minister … that is like something that just never happens!

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    The Secret Romantic Guesthouse spoiler comment about Heung Jo, FL’s sister
    The Heung Jo I like: I love this girl … And I love her in My Demon, too:
    The curious, freedom-longing, funny, daring girl.
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    The girl who hears this:
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    And then does this:
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      Heung Jo, continued

      The girl who, as opposed to her sister, likes to be kissed good and proper:
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      So what I’m saying is I don’t get why she should turn into this, … not even once wondering about the circumstances of what happened before, considering how her murderous was-once prospective family-in-law is:
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      I can’t even blame the character; I just think this is so disappointedly written. And if they need some angsty self-inspection, and some time of longing and grumbling, she could question her own sense of other human beings and request some time to practice “being with other people” and “how to judge character” and that could lead him – because he is super smart and a lovely person – to hope to never have to fight again ever, the way he did in the drama.
      BTW I was hoping he would reach her some martial arts, before that conflict. Like her sister who learns to use a bow and saves a live that way.

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        You know… that kiss was my chosen one in the Beanies Roundup 2023. It was so sweet and sad at the same time. Uri Shi Yeol is not only a smart and lovely person, as you said. It happens he is a good kisser too.

        About Heung Jo, I totally agree with you. Her character was a disappointment since the moment she told him she wanted him to live, so she could hate him… 😟
        They wasted two years of their lives.

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    The Secret Romantic Guesthouse spoiler comment about poor Yoo-ha
    Forewarning: So, Yoo-ha did not end in a pool of blood, as I had expected. But here he is, arms stretched, his whole person stretched, grinning a pained grimace, body trembling not with his own laughter, but from the suspended ropes:
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    I tried for comparison to give him some petals, but … nah …
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    The Secret Romantic Guesthouse spoiler comment about a habit of the king
    Impertinence: The queer-coded king has a habit of ending his impertinent sentences with an open mouth.
    I have seen that done before: Park Bo Gum does that in more than one role. How come it looks so irresistibly cute, when he does it?
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    *Queer-coding: Here’s a link with something about it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsO4fZYHQic
    Also, this:
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