Ithink she said she wasn't going to reincarnate again. But what I'm confused about is doesn't the surviving twin have Hwal's soul? The bus driver monster said he sensed it on her. The twin aspect makes this super confusing, but I'm thinking the lead that we're following can't be completely untouched by the main conflict.
Yeah, in so many particular involving multiple lives, everything seems tied into a supposedly universal belief system that should involve all humanity, but every important life or adventure happens only in Korean or China or Britain or Norway or Maine. I suppose it would not be any fun if "two souls fated to fall in love" from a Viking saga never meet because the next dozen reincarnations are Chinese or Indian peasants and a few others lived their lives in South America or Southern Africa.
Omg! I just remembered about a story I once read where it is nearly impossible for 2 fated souls to meet each other again in reincarnations due to right placing and timing. Don't remember anything other than this fact about the story and now I'm frustrated.
I liked it too. I'm still not convinced about Kwon Nara's acting skills, she hasn't really needed to do much for now. The cinematography is breathtaking. I don't think it was bulgasal who slaughtered her family, it looked like it might have been the other Monster hunting his soul. And i'm guessing that will be Lee Noon's role?? Anyway, interesting opening episodes
The one story I hope there isn't going to be a romance between the two leads. Still highly entertaining and am enjoying the grey morality of each character. Tiny bit confused about the Kwon Nara's Bulgasal's motivations but there is certainly time to get more backstory.
What I got from their story is that they are in a vicious cycle. It's unclear who the original Bulgasal is but they keep holding a huge grudge against each other. Once one of them resolves their grudge it leads the other to hold the grudge. Thus reversing their roles. As to why she saved him, that is probably to make him suffer.
I think the scene I was most confused about was when she was standing underneath the tree were an attack had previously occurred, as if she was investigating the attack. But then the reveal of her being Bulgasal didn't make that scene make sense any longer. Ep 4 cleared up my confusion because there are more people in the grudge-cycle than just the two of them.
Based on EP3 there might have been a past love line but then again I'm not sure if the vision they showed at the end was from the past or future. This is my theorizing but potentially Nara and Jinwook were lovers in a very distant past before she became a Bulgasal. Something must have happened or someone double crossed someone and she was cursed to become a Bulgasal and he owed her a soul. Or maybe they've both been alternating as the Bulgasal chasing each other for the soul to become human. Currently the wife and father in law have been reincarnated as people who have ties to Nara and I'm willing to bet the blonde kid was the blind son with the bleeding eyes. So all the past characters have been reincarnated except the other soldier who didn't like Jinwook in the past because of his low birth or whatever and also the villagers. I don't think we've met most of them yet. Willing to bet most of them will be enemies.
Thanks for the recap! I really wanted to talk about this one. It's absolutely gorgeous. The world building was really well done. I liked the twist with the Bulgasal reincarnating as twins. Given that the bus driver attacked Sang-eon, it seems like she may have inherited the soul or part of the soul? Knowing the cast list, it was pretty easy to recognize the jaw of the monster who killed her family lol.
I've only watched the first episode, and plan to watch the second shortly. However, as beautiful as this show is to look at, and as much as I want to be sucked into a fantasy story like this during the coldest time of the year (where I live anyway), I'm also struggling to connect with the characters and relationships so far.
So much time was spent on the worldbuilding and basic foundational plot in the first episode and it sounds like the second was more of the same. If it doesn't shift soon to more emotional connections and conflicts I'll be disappointed.
I too struggle to connect to the characters. I think they try to squeeze in too much too fast. For instance the scene with the son would be much more powerful have we get to view him coping with family/parenthood life rather than have the son being introduced and kill in what feels like 5min span.
I found the second episode to be better on this front in that I did feel for both twins and although the fine details were confusing--why was the one twin digging through the wall? how and why were they discovered? what does the ML actually want with the girl with the scar and if it's just revenge, how will that make anything better?--but I know I will continue to watch at least the next episode.
They must have shared a soul. If the sister who could remember was killed by the Lee Joon character, doesn't that mean that he now has her soul and there has our MLs original soul, and the other sister has the matching one???
So this is what I understood from watching the scene - Nara was reincarnated as twins but only one twin got the soul (younger twin) and the other got the scar along with all the memories (older twin). The monsters were chasing the soul not the person with the scar. The older twin didn't immediately feel the monster because she doesn't have the soul but she could identify him since 600 years of memories. I think the whole point of the writer killing off the older sister was to allow the leads to eventually resolve their bad karma once and for all since she was no memory of why she has to run from him and eventually won't be able to answer his questions of why she turned him into a Bulgasal. Which means they'll have to work together to find those answers which will be our adventure. I'm guessing a forced cohabitation arc is coming soon.
I definitely think we're supposed to assume it's Hwal who did the killing, although it's certainly possible that we'll later be told it wasn't him. Because if it is, even with the convoluted revenge and monster-made-me-do-it narrative we've got going on, it would be hard to root for someone who brutally murdered a young girl and her mother.
My assumption about the bus driver is that he was a monster attracted to someone with a soul so he could possess them. But initially he didn't know for sure which twin's soul he was smelling (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write, lol).
Since we already know Lee Joon in the cast and is a Bulgasal plus his side profile being shown I don't think the audience is supposed to think that way but Nara is. Then again she is potentially running from everything that makes her skin crawl when her soul senses a monster without knowing exactly which monster she's running from. My question is if suppose near the end Nara returns the soul to Lee Jin Wook will she die or will the older twin's soul magically enter into her body? There has to be some plot point where she gains both the memories and the scar from the past lives otherwise how will we ever know the whole backstory behind Bulgasal Nara? I doubt Lee Joon or the reincarnated Gong Seungyoon will have an answer to that. Another point that just struck me all past reincarnations of Nara have they been killed by monsters like the bus driver? Is that why Lee Jin Wook still hasn't been able to retrieve his soul?
Good question. I have a feeling all (most of?) her past lives have met gruesome ends. That soul she harbors must be too tempting for the monsters to ignore, lol. I wonder, however, with such a soul, how would any of her past incarnations have been able to make it to adulthood. Then again, in the current timeline, I wonder if her life had not been in danger until recently. Sang-eon seems to have been living a normal teenage life up until we see her in the drama. And when did her older twin actually keep herself to her room? So, maybe it's only at a certain point that monsters are able to pick up on her special soul.
Maybe she got lucky and didn't meet any past life monsters. I think all the monsters they killed back then some of them got weaker during subsequent incarnations. Or maybe only specific monsters chase her soul. The person that was following the younger twin in the car was Lee Jin Wook I think and she told her twin he asked to see her scar does this mean he can't see her soul and can only recognize her by her appearance and scar? If that is true then I want to know why he can't feel her soul when other monsters can.
I watched this while i had covid so i may have not been focusing all that well, but i did enjoy it. There was some confusing parts which i hope will sort themselves out tho as we go on.
Like other i disagree he has had human blood. He definitely fedon the horse in the past, and i don't think he is the one who killed her family as we didn't actually see who it was. He strikes me as someone who wants to keep his humanity as much as he can, so if he promised his adoptive father he wouldnt consume human blood, i think he sticks to that vow.
Shows like this make appreciate the iron souls of people who work in emergency wards. Endless, relentless, often pointless slaughter of human beings, with an occasional pause for torment and misery, and then more slaughter. And none of the characters seem willing to take advice from anyone who understands how to stop it. I'll give it another shot in episode three, because hopefully we'll get some characters who survive more then ten minutes.
I'm relying on this review to try to follow the supernatural plot. It made very little sense. Lee Jin-wook is always charismatic to watch. Kwon Nara is less so, particularly as she blips in and out of the Goreyo scenes and obviously isn't wearing the same "war and famine" make-up as everyone else.
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