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The King: Eternal Monarch
I finished it and I’m very satisfied with the ending.
Major spoilers below.
Mainly because I really thought it would be more tragic. On the contrary, everyone (but the villains) got a happy ending. Well, in that way that they are alive (if they weren’t in previous timeline) and have a good and happy life now. Lee Gon managed to defeat and kill the main villain and it changed the timeline of their two words completely and nobody but Lee Gon and Jeong Tae-Eul and Jo Yeong remembers how it was before.
And the ending for the main couple reminded me so much of the ending of Crush Landing On You. It’s almost identical situation – there are both from different worlds. And neither of them can leave their world and be with their beloved in the other one. The couple in Crash Landing On You had only two weeks each year to be together. Lee Gon and Jeong Tae-Eul have only weekends when they can be together and then they have to returned to their worlds. And in their worlds they can’t be together openly. Nobody can know about their relationship and the existence of parallel worlds. So for me again it’s kind of sad and bittersweet, but the drama presents it as, maybe not as exactly unequivocal happy end, but happy and romantic nonetheless.
The other reason for my loving the ending is the fact that Jo Yeong is one of the only three people who know what happened before and remembers everything.
And yet another reason is that they establish that a lot of parallel words exist, and this is such a wonderful ground for fanfic. In one of those worlds Lee Gon is still the king, but he is a tyrant. And I so want fics about that world.
I finished watching the drama on Friday and then I spent the weekend reading fanfic, watching fanvids and BTS vids, and re-watching my favorite scenes.
Lee Gon/Jo Yeong is my favorite pairing and the most popular on AO3, but the quality of fanfic is not good. It’s telling that after reading about 20 fics, my favorites were the fics for 3 other pairings. And the only one I bookmarked for now is the one when Jo Yeong is in unrequited love with Lee Gon, but gets over it and finds love and happiness with a different guy.
And as an additional incentive for watching the drama here have two fanvid recs:
Believer – Jo Yeong fanvid
The King & His Unbreakable Sword – Their Story
Both vids have English subtitles and are full of spoilers, especially the second one.
Hamilton
It premiered on Disney+ on Friday. And I was prepared to pay for another subscription just to watch it, since Disney+ was supposed be already available in Poland in July. But then I found out that it won’t be available here until 2021. And since I’m too impatient to wait half a year I acquired it by different means and watched it on weekend. It was wonderful. And, as always, I cried buckets during It’s Quiet Uptown and Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. I wish it was also available on DVD, so I could have an official hard copy.
Fic writing
My RMS fic is finished and sent to my beta-reader. So that’s finally done, yay! Now I plan to finish my pre-threesome The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fic. It just needs the last scene. Come on, Muse, cooperate, please. :)
I finished it and I’m very satisfied with the ending.
Major spoilers below.
Mainly because I really thought it would be more tragic. On the contrary, everyone (but the villains) got a happy ending. Well, in that way that they are alive (if they weren’t in previous timeline) and have a good and happy life now. Lee Gon managed to defeat and kill the main villain and it changed the timeline of their two words completely and nobody but Lee Gon and Jeong Tae-Eul and Jo Yeong remembers how it was before.
And the ending for the main couple reminded me so much of the ending of Crush Landing On You. It’s almost identical situation – there are both from different worlds. And neither of them can leave their world and be with their beloved in the other one. The couple in Crash Landing On You had only two weeks each year to be together. Lee Gon and Jeong Tae-Eul have only weekends when they can be together and then they have to returned to their worlds. And in their worlds they can’t be together openly. Nobody can know about their relationship and the existence of parallel worlds. So for me again it’s kind of sad and bittersweet, but the drama presents it as, maybe not as exactly unequivocal happy end, but happy and romantic nonetheless.
The other reason for my loving the ending is the fact that Jo Yeong is one of the only three people who know what happened before and remembers everything.
And yet another reason is that they establish that a lot of parallel words exist, and this is such a wonderful ground for fanfic. In one of those worlds Lee Gon is still the king, but he is a tyrant. And I so want fics about that world.
I finished watching the drama on Friday and then I spent the weekend reading fanfic, watching fanvids and BTS vids, and re-watching my favorite scenes.
Lee Gon/Jo Yeong is my favorite pairing and the most popular on AO3, but the quality of fanfic is not good. It’s telling that after reading about 20 fics, my favorites were the fics for 3 other pairings. And the only one I bookmarked for now is the one when Jo Yeong is in unrequited love with Lee Gon, but gets over it and finds love and happiness with a different guy.
And as an additional incentive for watching the drama here have two fanvid recs:
Believer – Jo Yeong fanvid
The King & His Unbreakable Sword – Their Story
Both vids have English subtitles and are full of spoilers, especially the second one.
Hamilton
It premiered on Disney+ on Friday. And I was prepared to pay for another subscription just to watch it, since Disney+ was supposed be already available in Poland in July. But then I found out that it won’t be available here until 2021. And since I’m too impatient to wait half a year I acquired it by different means and watched it on weekend. It was wonderful. And, as always, I cried buckets during It’s Quiet Uptown and Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. I wish it was also available on DVD, so I could have an official hard copy.
Fic writing
My RMS fic is finished and sent to my beta-reader. So that’s finally done, yay! Now I plan to finish my pre-threesome The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fic. It just needs the last scene. Come on, Muse, cooperate, please. :)
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Ooh, that is very appealing. Is it OT3ish?
Also, I really approve of this trend in Kdramas towards long-distance happy ever afters! *g* My partner and I don't live together, so I really like seeing alternatives to traditional getting-married-and-settling-down endings. :-)
Anyway, I'm glad to hear it has a satisfying ending (and is slashy)! :D
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It has a possibility for OT3, especially post-canon. One of those fics I enjoy was for that threesome. If I cared more for main romance I would be all for OT3, because I love M/M/F threesomes.
Also, I really approve of this trend in Kdramas towards long-distance happy ever afters! *g* My partner and I don't live together, so I really like seeing alternatives to traditional getting-married-and-settling-down endings. :-)
Heh, yes, this is kind of a refreshing change, isn’t it? I mean, comparing to Crash Landing On You’s only two weeks each year, every weekend is really not that bad. I knew about couples in real life that lived like that, and sometimes even happily for years, because they worked in different cities. My feeling of sadness was more for the secrecy. Jeong Tae-Eul can’t tell her father or her friends. Lee Gon can’t have her queen officially with him in his kingdom. But the drama glosses over that problem in that “they have each other, what more do they need” way.
But still I loved it and I’m very glad I watched it. And it introduced me to Woo Do Hwan, and that boy is simply fantastic. 😊