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[dangermousie]

Holy Fuck!!!

I am in the middle of ep 4 of K2H which is the most amazing thing ever that is leaving me speechless and proper post and caps coming but I simply had to pause to yell WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, PSYCHO KING?! I am now rooting for Batman Villain to off you! Who the hell conducts this sort of experiment? What, the annals of the Stanford Prison Experiment were giving you no peace?

Seriously, you are a sick sick freak and I want you off my screen.

I suppose it does showcase my prior point that Jae Ha does have a hella spine in a crisis, but seriously, what the fucking fuck?!

Grrrrr, die Kingie!!!

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[quaggy]

Okay, fair warning, I'm only reading recaps right now (because that's all I have time for) but here are my impressions...

The King takes himself far too seriously. Jae Ha calls him on it in an earlier episode when he told his brother that it wasn't Joseon anymore. In a constitutional monarchy, the head of state is a largely ceremonial role, but the King doesn't get that. On the other hand, Jae Ha does appreciate that a figurehead royal still has an important role to play and he even seems to value it.

That's why Jae Ha acts the way he does during that stupid test. He knows that, during a war, a dumb, dead martyr is worth to his more to his country than a cowardly, live hostage. And Hang Ah understands that probably more than his brother ever could.

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I do think the King is too stuck in the past. He'd be happy to wear those beaded hats and have ministers intone 'Jonaaaaah' from the floor.

And I agree, JH gets the realities of the modern world a lot better. His actions in the bathroom were not just brave, they made a ton of sense (of course, the King didn't see them). The King is stuck in some sort of utopia (also, his idiotic test was only testing SKoreans, which is weird - I mean, the NKoreans got orders to escort the SKoreans out so that wasn't much of a dilemma for them). But then we see it even when they were kids - he needed JH to defend him back then. There is such a thing as being so nice as to be stupid.

Side note: He is lucky nobody died in his little experiment. If Hang Ah decided to break someone's neck, does he really think his soldiers would get there on time? Guns with blanks are all well and good, but all of the people involved, with the possible exception of JH, are commandoes, they don't need guns to kill. And blanks can do plenty of damage too - if JH actually pulled that trigger he held to his temple, at that range it doesn't matter this isn't a real bullet - temples are super-fragile and he could very well have killed himself that way. This is pretty much the most idiotic plan ever.