dangermousie | Queen In Hyun's Man ep 13 - the one which gave me a coronary

This episode left me a gibbering mess and needing ep 14 asap.

I love how this episode dealt with all the consequences of the talisman - there is no safety now that the bad guys figured out the truth and turn it against Bong Do. It was horrible to see him stagger around Seoul wounded (because the talisman might prevent death but it doesn't prevent horrible wounds), but even worse seeing him realize what it means and later reading the Annals, his worst nightmares coming true. And my heart bled for Hee Jin, the truth of the violent time BD lives in coming home to her when he is in the ER (and her face when she sees those arrows coated in his blood). And of course she tries to keep the truth of the changed past from him but cannot and their last phone conversation broke me - it takes so much courage and honor to do what BD does, to go back knowing there is a good chance he'd get gruesomely executed, but he is not the type of person who could blissfully live with HJ and not be crippled by guilt. But my heart just breaks breaks breaks for the two of them.