The Princess' Man - episode 7

[dangermousie]

Of all the airing dramas, I love TPM the most, but I am horribly behind because I always want to block huge chunks of uninterrupted time so I can wallow and have no distractions. Which is hard.



I keep adoring Sejo - he is a monster who is using his own daughter's feelings to commit a horrible act of political murder; he is a wannabe usurper; he convinces SY's friend that friend should kill SY as a favor to SY because SY will be miserable with his family dead etc. But he is so ruthless and smart and ice-cold that you just know he will be an incredibly effective king.

Watching SR and SY be happy is pretty terrifying at this stage because you just know what is coming. He wants to marry her even though he thinks she is not an aristocrat; they flirt with fans and are just generally the sweetest, sanest couple ever. If...
























































I feel horrifically sorry for both Kyung Hee and Jung - of course she lashes out at him - he is the symbol of everything that went wrong, of lack of control in her life (out of all the characters, she is the most constrained). But he is a nice person who tries to do all these sweet things and keeps getting rebuffed and doesn't even get mad. I hope they do work it out eventually because pretty soon, with Sejo's coup, they will only have each other to rely on.

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Might be spoilers, don't know where you are right now

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

I do have a teensy issue with SR deliberately lying to SY after she finds out their families are opposed (this is after they're not engaged anymore), because it's like she doesn't seem to realise she is getting him into trouble, and giving her own father a way to manipulate and hurt him. She's an intelligent girl, but really.

Um, re: princess Kyung-hye, she was pretty unhappy... I can't find records of her but apparently her husband died early, sorta at Sejo's hand too. D:

Re: Might be spoilers, don't know where you are right now

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I agree about her lying. It's been bothering me. But not too much because she's so trapped and desperate, I can't judge her too harshly.