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The Lonely Shining Goblin: Episode one
by javabeans
It was a successful premiere for tvN's aggressive buzz projection The Solitary Shining Goblin, on several fronts: Ratings-wise, it logged a 6.9% average (9.iii% existent-time loftier), which for a cable premiere is pretty impressive. I'm less concerned with the numbers than the content, though, since I was more worried about whether the reality of the testify would survive its promotional hype, and how the fantasy element would play out.
Very well, as it turns out. The bear witness traverses past and present well, and combines a backstory that non simply feels ballsy but looks it, as well—fantasy dramas need these huge budgets and scales, because otherwise they get a whole exercise in "what could have been"—with a lighter present day that's whimsical and romantic. Information technology's been a long time since Gong Yoo has been in a good drama, and I'k super relieved that this projection volition be a good one for him. Possibly not bad.
EPISODE 1 RECAP
A narrator tells the old saying of how one becomes a goblin if the soul seeps into an item stained by a person's manus or claret.
An old, worn sword sticks out of the ground, its hilt wrapped in a bloodstained cloth. The narrator notes, "This sword that has been stained with the blood of thousands, and its owner's claret equally well—how could it non happen?"
On the hilt of the old sword is an engraving of a goblin'due south face. As a butterfly lands on that hilt, images flash by onscreen: A screeching auto. A woman's hand. White expanse turning ruddy. The narrator declares, "Only the goblin's bride will pull out that sword. If the sword is pulled, may it return to aught and be at peace."
An old grocer woman (heyo, is that a wrinkly Lee El?) tells this story to a woman browsing her wares, who bursts out laughing at the line that the immortal goblin may roam the world even now. She finds that idea silly only still calls information technology a sad story, since the goblin has to notice a bride in order to die. "The gods are hateful," she says while admiring a jade ring in granny'due south stash of goods.
The granny confirms that, maxim they were always mean, and selfish and jealous to boot.
The woman gets upwardly to go with a cheery goodbye, merely the granny grabs her hand and turns of a sudden intense. She warns her that if she comes to a life-or-death situation, she must pray earnestly: "You never know when a soft-hearted god may exist listening." (Audiences are probably expected to recognize her equally Samshin Halmeom, a kind of fairy godmother.)
1968, Paris. A well-dressed man (Gong Yoo) waits exterior a building, and when a teenage boy walks out with a luggage purse and a battered face, he stops him to warn him not to leave home. "If y'all leave home now, you'll live an even worse life than y'all accept at present. And you'll never see your mother over again."
The man casually moves a planter on the steps, then advises the male child to speak upward to his parents: Tell Dad to raise him well, and Mom to assist. At to the lowest degree this way, the boy volition merely damage one hand and not lose his life.
The boy is suspicious but intrigued, asking if the man will have responsibility if the male child gets beaten to death. The man replies, "That's why I broke a rib for you."
The adoptive father storms outside screaming at the boy… and trips over the moved planter, which sends him into the street, clutching his rib. The human being hands the male child a tiffin, tells him to become to school, and even gives the right answer for a math problem he'll confront later. The male child stares after him, transfixed.
Narrator: "He is water, burn down, and wind, and also light and dark. And once, he was human."
Centuries ago, nosotros meet him again on the battlefield, equally the accordingly named General KIM SHIN (shin = god). Battle rages around him and bodies fall. Clutching that goblin-etched sword, Shin stands upwardly to face up a wall of attackers without fear.
"The people chosen him god," the narrator tells united states, now in Shin's voice. "Covered in blood, his eyes flashing, he struck down his enemies, a literal god of war."
Shin flings himself into the battle, killing enemies brutally, blood flying everywhere every bit he and his sword cut down everything in his path. He slashes his way across the battleground and locks eyes with an enemy soldier (the general?), who's spooked and runs. Shin jumps on horseback and charges after the human, taking him downward readily.
Shin'southward regular army is greeted with cheers from grateful citizens every bit they ride toward the palace gates. His 2nd-in-control proudly announces their inflow—only to receive a hostile reception, as they are ordered to strip off their armor. It'due south an insult, but Shin and his men grudgingly comply.
And then, Shin is declared a traitor—clearly a false charge, just not 1 he's in a position to overturn. Guards assemble at the top of the wall and aim bows and arrows at Shin's regular army.
Instead of kneeling, Shin draws his sword and demands to be let in to meet the king. As soon as he advances, all the same, arrows wing and strike down his men, and he turns back in horror to run across them lying in their own claret.
His second-in-command rages at beingness turned on subsequently fighting on the hellish battlefield for the king. The gate opens and Shin heads inside alone, where a young queen and king (Kim So-hyun, Kim Min-jae) expect him.
An Iago-like eunuch whispers into the rex'south ear, telling him that Shin'south incredible victories have made him popular with the people, and his growing ability makes a mockery of the throne.
Our narrator tells us, "He saw clearly his enemy's sword, but he could not see the jealousy and fear of the young king, directed at him. That was the sharpest sword wielded at him, but he did not know information technology."
The king orders him to stop advancing and die every bit a traitor to save anybody else. I more than pace volition get everyone killed. Simply the queen, who looks upon Shin fondly, tells him to go: "I am fine."
Shin starts to protest, just she cuts him off: "I know. And if this is the terminal, this is my fate. So go. Exercise non terminate, and get to the rex, Full general."
Then he continues his approach, and the king gives the order to kill anybody in the traitor's family. An pointer flies into the queen'southward breast. Ah, is she Shin's sis?
The queen falls, and Shin doesn't turn dorsum, continuing forrad. More members of his family are brought forward and killed before his eyes.
The treacherous eunuch orders the traitor brought down, so a guard slashes Shin across the dorsum, forcing him on his knees.
Shin's second-in-command runs in and screams at the king, "Practice you not fear heaven?" The king smirks that heaven has never helped them, and Shin glares upwardly at him as the social club is given to behead him.
A soldier starts to strike, but Shin knocks his sword aside, telling him that'south not a job for him to practise. Instead, Shin turns to his 2nd-in-command to make a last request, and gives him his sword.
His friend sobs as he takes the sword and promises to follow him before long. He thrusts the sword into Shin's chest, and is cut down moments later.
All the same alive, Shin hears the eunuch guild the traitor's body to be unclaimed, left out for the beasts to ravage. The king leaves the courtyard without even waiting to see Shin die.
The queen lies in a pool of claret and looks at Shin in her dying moments. On her finger is the jade ring from Samshin Grandma's stash, stained with her blood.
Per orders, Shin is left out in the field, not even dead yet. Nobody is immune to interfere with the trunk, so the people who do mourn his loss weep from a distance.
The sword sticks out of his breast, and Shin lives out his final moments like that, staring up into the empty sky.
The narrator tells us, "Do non pray to everyone. The gods are non listening. At the brightest fourth dimension of twenty-four hour period, by the general's sword that had protected him, he died."
1998, Seoul.
A man in a black suit and overcoat (Lee Dong-wook) walks into a crosswalk and is immediately hit (ah, Seoul), caput-on, by a auto. The car slams to a stop, its front bashed in and windshield shattered—but the man in black remains unmoved. Just continuing there, upright.
The commuter takes in this incommunicable tableau and gets nervous, just the man in black tells him just, "Yous hitting a wild boar." The commuter's optics glaze over, and the mysterious stranger literally disappears into wisps of black smoke.
When bystanders stop to help, the driver explains hitting a boar. But people scream to notice a torso inside the body of the car—and a passing woman falls in horror, recognizing the body as her own.
The mysterious man appears before her to read the woman her expiry statistics. He's the grim reaper, and he takes her to an odd tearoom and pours her a loving cup of tea that volition brand her forget her life in this world. The adult female asks what happens if she doesn't beverage, and he supposes she will regret that.
Shin walks by the street outside the reaper's tearoom, and pauses to expect in the window. The two men lock optics, and the reaper wonders, "Goblin?" Shin wonders dorsum, "Grim reaper?"
And then nosotros see that Shin is staring at what looks like a stone wall; the window must but be visible to otherworldly optics.
"Yous're wearing a terribly vulgar hat," Shin says. The reaper glares, offended.
Shin carries a luggage handbag into a large, blusterous business firm, where candles flicker on automatically and furniture covers fly away of their own accordance. Okay, probably his accord. His magical goblin accord.
An one-time man greets him with the antiquated word for "milord," happy to see him for the get-go time in twenty years. He'south with his grandson, YOO DEOK-HWA, who doesn't have grandpa's deference and says Shin doesn't seem all that cool, to his gramps'southward horror.
The boy wonders who Shin is, and Shin replies that he will become Deok-hwa'south uncle, brother, son, then grandson. He kneels downwards and says it's nice to come across, but the piffling male child has attitude and eyes Shin suspiciously, and granddaddy apologizes for his manners.
Then Shin is struck with a look of recognition, and explains that there was a boy built-in in Goryeo who is Deok-hwa's ancestor—and Deok-hwa looks merely like he did. "Was he adept-looking?" the boy asks.
Grandpa keeps apologizing, just Shin assures him that he's never been let downwardly by anybody in his family. Shin smiles, thinking of the ancestor boy, who'd visited Shin'southward grave with his mourning grandad a thousand years ago.
The Goryeo grandfather speaks to the sword as though Shin'southward still live, and introduces his grandson to take over his function in serving him, as he senses that he is nearing death. The boy asks, "Is this sword the primary?"
Just then, a strange free energy emits from the sword, and information technology rocks dorsum and along. A phonation from the heavens declares, "The soul of your subject has saved you." However, the god notes that Shin's sword has been stained with the claret of thousands—and while they were his enemies, they were also the blood of the gods.
"Live alone in immortality and witness the deaths of those yous love," the god tells him. "No death will be forgotten. This is the prize I give to you, and the penalisation y'all receive."
Shin's body revives, and the sword glows brightly, all the same embedded in his breast, equally the god continues, "Only the goblin's bride can pull out that sword. If the sword is pulled, may you return to nothingness and be at peace."
The true-blue servant and his grandson gape every bit Shin comes back to life, looking whole and well. Immediately, Shin sets off for unfinished business concern, arriving at the palace to confront the eunuch who'd twisted the king confronting him.
Shin sends i eunuch flying through a newspaper-lined wall, so summons the treacherous eunuch through the air toward him. The man recognizes him with horror every bit Shin chokes the life out of him.
Budgeted the bed, Shin sees the wrapped trunk and says regretfully, "I was too late."
When Shin returns to the little male child, his grandfather has died and the male child sobs over the grave. Dismayed, Shin kneels before the mound and says, "You lot must be my commencement punishment."
The footling male child bows and tells Shin, "I will serve you lot from this moment on." Shin is filled with guilt over existence blinded by his need for revenge, and asks if he still wants to serve him. The boy nods.
Equally they cantankerous the body of water on a ship, Shin notices the boy watching other passengers consume and hands him a ball of rice, which the boy almost takes before lying that he's not hungry, and that Shin should eat it. Shin offers him half, just the male child speaks like a tiny developed, maxim that sharing ensures that nobody is total, assuring Shin that he can work on the send and earn scraps.
Shin tells the male child to trust him, and the boy accepts, eating hungrily. Then Shin waves his hand, entertaining the male child with the flecks of light that float into the sky.
Suddenly, a sailor grabs the boy, stomps on his rice ball, and dangles him over the side of the ship. The other men observe Shin and the male child suspicious, and intend to sell Shin as a slave and let the boy drown.
The boy is thrown overboard, and the men achieve for their weapons and face Shin menacingly. Wearing an ominous face, Shin asks, "Exercise y'all know what happens when humans act lower than beasts?"
The waves grow rough and Shin rises to his anxiety, maxim, "They encounter god." The storm rages effectually them, and one man gasps, "Information technology's a yard-goblin!"
The ship whirls, ropes catch around men's anxiety, and a mast falls. Flames erupt around Shin's head. The unabridged ship starts to tilt and sink, and men fall into the stormy sea. One man begs for mercy, and Shin says grimly, "It's too late."
He draws his sword, which glows with bluish-green fire, and slams it into the deck, splintering the forest and sinking the send.
Seoul. Shin sits loftier above the city, hearing the sounds below, and the people's voices.
A car hits a woman and squeals abroad, leaving her haemorrhage in the snow. It's the same adult female who had chatted with Samshin Grandma near the goblin, and she begs for help: "If there is a god, please relieve me."
Shin initially ignores information technology, but the words ring in his ear and transport him to the woman in the snow. He says it'south his rule not to interfere in the life and decease of humankind, simply when she sobs that she can't dice like this, he realizes that she'southward non begging to save her own life.
The woman clutches her abdomen and begs, "Just the child…"
She goes decumbent, and Shin says she's lucky to have met a weak-hearted god who doesn't desire to see anyone die tonight. He kneels down and hovers a manus over her face, and wisps of blue free energy flow out. She gasps awake, alive.
By the fourth dimension the grim reaper makes his way to the puddle of blood, he finds no torso. He checks his expiry cards: a 27-twelvemonth-erstwhile adult female and an unnamed unborn.
A short while later, the revived woman gives nativity to a girl. She doesn't run across the crowd of ghosts hovering exterior her window, whispering, "The goblin's bride."
8 years later in a seaside town, the babe is at present a young girl, JI EUN-TAK, with a birthmark on her cervix. The girl asks for a altogether cake this yr to wish on, and Mom happily agrees. But her optics turn sad when Eun-tak spots a puppy on the beach and pets it—considering to her eyes, there is no puppy. Eun-tak is petting empty air.
Afterward when Eun-tak comes abode from school, her mother has a birthday cake waiting. Eun-tak chatters as she lights the candles, but and so sees something and freezes. She starts to weep, saying, "It's not yous. It's not actually Mom, it'south Mom's spirit."
Mom says, "You really do see everything. I'd hoped you didn't." Eun-tak asks if her mother is dead, and Mom nods.
Mom has only simply died, and she tells Eun-tak what to expect when the hospital calls to permit her know. She tells her to stay warm, and to never meet ghosts' eyes in the future.
Eun-tak apologizes for seeing ghosts, "But because I tin see those things, I can see y'all similar this." Mom senses her fourth dimension running out and tells Eun-tak she loves her. They exchange tearful goodbyes, and then Mom's spirit fades away.
When the infirmary call comes, Eun-tak bundles upwardly in Mom'due south big red scarf to head out, and tells her cake that she won't make any wishes: "Nobody listens anyway. Who would I wish to?"
Mom's spirit visits Samshin Grandma to ask her to cheque in on Eun-tak from time to time. Grandma grumps that Mom should have died with the girl in the past, instead of living on. Mom protests that Grandma was the one who told her to wish to the gods, and then thanks her and says goodbye.
Eun-tak steps outside and talks to the man continuing at that place, and only realizes her error when Reaper asks curiously, "Yous see me?" She tries to pretend she didn't, merely the Reaper makes the connection, guessing that she was the one who wasn't meant to be born.
Earlier Reaper can claim her, Samshin Grandma appears to tell Reaper to get out her alone. Reaper calls it obstacle of justice and is intent on rectifying the onetime error, simply Grandma points out that the child marked for decease had no name, only this child has 1. She demands a death card with this girl'southward proper name on information technology.
Reaper grimaces, since that'll be a bureaucratic hassle. But Granny refuses to dorsum down, so he grits his teeth and tells Eun-tak he'll be seeing her once more.
Granny tells Eun-tak to move away chop-chop, and then that Reaper won't be able to find her. She too tells her to go with the "1 male, two females" who volition testify up at the funeral.
Eun-tak asks why Granny is helping her, and Granny replies, "I was happy when you came into being." She gives her a head of cabbage as a birthday present and leaves.
As Granny walks along the bridge, she crosses paths with a schoolboy. We transition to ten years later, and Granny transforms into a beautiful woman, and the schoolboy becomes twentysomething Deok-hwa (Yook Sung-jae).
Young Granny catches Deok-hwa's center, and he asks her out for a drink.
At home, Shin idly flips through a book while, on speakerphone, panicked-sounding "nephew" Deok-hwa begs him to pick up, because his credit card all of a sudden stopped working, and the unfriendly men at the bar aren't very pleased virtually it. Shin doesn't seem inclined to aid.
In a loftier schoolhouse lunchroom, nineteen-year-old Eun-tak eats by herself while her classmates whisper about her having no friends and how scary it is that she supposedly sees ghosts. Eun-tak ignores them, just every bit she ignores the ghost who pesters her on her walk domicile, calling her Goblin's Bride.
Eun-tak does a successful task of pretending not to see her, simply the ghost doesn't like being ignored and screams in her face up, forcing a response. The ghost smirks triumphantly… but when she sees something in the distance, she apologizes to Eun-tak and scampers off, proverb how "it" was true subsequently all.
It's Shin, walking down the street in her management, and they lock optics for a long moment as they pass. Images flash through Shin'southward heed, and he stares with something alike to recognition.
Eun-tak continues on, and Shin turns back for another wait.
At home, Shin'due south grandpa servant presents him with travel papers for his trip away. The rules aren't explicitly given but it sounds similar we're in a transition period, and Shin comes in twenty-year intervals. Grandpa notes that Deok-hwa is now 25, and will exist here to serve Shin when he returns. He also notes a little sadly that if Shin leaves now, he probably won't see him again in his lifetime. Shin cheers him "for every moment."
Deok-hwa bursts in, still sputtering well-nigh his canceled credit cards, complaining to Grandpa that information technology'south no adept existence a chaebol if he's going to cut him off like this. And then Deok-hwa notices the travel documents and asks if Shin is going away to search for his helpmate. Shin ignores the questioning, and sighs at the idea that Deok-hwa will be serving him when he comes back.
Eun-tak wakes up early and gets breakfast going for the "1 man, two women" she lives with: her grouchy aunt and ii spiteful cousins, who complain that Eun-tak cooked seaweed soup on her ain birthday. Aunt orders her to produce her bankbook today, and when Eun-tak insists that she doesn't have a secret account, Aunt throws her rice bowl at Eun-tak's head, saying that the insurance money from Mom's death has to be somewhere.
Eun-tak swallows her tears and retorts that Aunt was the one who sucked everything dry, including their old house eolith. Her female person cousin mutters about Eun-tak seeing ghosts, and Eun-tak gets in one dig by saying at that place's a ghost stuck to her cousin'southward back.
Later, she sits solitary with a birthday cake by the shore, looking out at the h2o.
Shin sits out in a sunny field of flowers, and thinks dorsum to a previous chat with servant-grandfather, who'd asked if he was leaving lonely again. Shin had sighed that no woman was able to see his sword. The sometime human being had called it homo greed to wish for the bride to announced whenever the sword brought pain, and to then also wish at other times that nobody would know about it.
Shin had smiled at him, maxim that for tonight he was happy: "You are still with me, the liquor is plentiful, and for tonight at least, I want to be alive." They clink glasses.
So at present, equally Shin plucks a handful of flowers and paces in the field, Eun-tak lights her birthday cake. She'd vowed at the age of ix not to make wishes, but is breaking that now considering her state of affairs is so urgent. She closes her eyes and prays: "Help me go a part-time chore and do something about Aunt's family unit and please permit me get a fellow. Delight!"
That please rings in Shin's ear from miles away, as does her plea for a solution to her miserable living situation. Then Eun-tak opens her eyes and wonders what she's doing, and whom she's praying to, as though god even exists.
The skies rumble and the wind picks upwards, and Eun-tak quickly blows out her candles—and somehow, the wisps of fume announced in Shin'due south hand. Eun-tak yells indignantly at the skies, asking if it's going to rain on top of everything else.
Suddenly, Shin'south voice calls out, "Is it you?"
He's standing in that location by the sea with her, and asks if she's the one who called him here, and how she managed it. Confused, she says she didn't phone call him, only he instructs her to think most what she did to make it happen.
Eun-tak informs him that it isn't that she called him, "Information technology's just that I come across you. Because I met your eye by blow in the street the last time. That's yous, right?"
She explains that he's a ghost, and she sees ghosts. He denies it and asks what her deal is, pointing out that she doesn't see any of the normal things she should come across—things similar her time to come.
"I must not accept a future," she replies. She continues to talk every bit though he's a ghost, instructing him to cull the good place (afterlife) and to not wander around as well long, which isn't proficient for him.
Noting the flowers he'due south holding, she asks to have them, saying they don't accommodate him. He identifies them as buckwheat flowers, and when she wonders what their meaning is, he replies, "Lovers."
Recalling that she'd been crying, Shin asks which of her wishes (chore, aunt'south family, boyfriend) prompted the tears. She's startled that he knows about the wishes, and he replies that he sometimes grants wishes.
Eun-tak asks if he'south a wish-granting genie and wheedles for some coin. Instead, he gives her the advice to say goodbye to her family, and piece of work hard at her chicken shop job, which she'll be getting soon. He vanishes into fume, and Eun-tak calls after him, "Hey! What about my young man?"
When Shin returns dwelling house, he's startled to find the reaper there, and asks what he's doing in his home. Reaper says in surprise, "You lot live here?"
That'due south when Deok-hwa appears and explains that this house goes empty for 20 years at a fourth dimension, which amounts to a lot of missed rent opportunities. Ha, Deok-hwa'south such a scammer-in-the-making. Shin indicates Reaper and asks, "Practise you fifty-fifty know what that thing is?" Deok-hwa chides him for being rude to their new renter and says he runs a teashop.
Deok-hwa tries to make off with the rent by saying that he hasn't received payment yet, though Reaper contradicts him, maxim he'south already paid. Deok-hwa slinks away quietly.
Shin tells Reaper to take back his coin, simply Reaper holds up the signed contract. Shin sets information technology on burn down. Reaper says it'southward a copy and the original is at the realtor's.
They exchange retorts until Reaper points out that Shin knows what a reaper contract entails, and that he'due south entitled to take away his buddy Deok-hwa. Conceding, Shin tells Reaper to option a room and consider this his house. Reaper: "This is my firm." Shin: "Information technology's mine."
Dinner continues the animosity betwixt them: They sit at opposite ends, and Reaper picks at his vegetables while Shin cuts into a steak. They bicker some more, and Reaper sends a pepper shaker flying into Shin's h2o glass, calling it a error. Shin sends red pepper flakes spilling into Reaper's dinner—some other fault.
Bolstered by Shin'south prediction, Eun-tak goes from eating place to restaurant applying for jobs. She gets roundly turned down from shop after shop and grumbles at Shin'south words.
A passing man tosses a cigarette into a trash can, and Eun-tak jumps upwards to put out the burn that starts. Shin suddenly appears to say she chosen him again, and she just every bit strenuously insists she didn't. She asks him what his exact classification of supernatural being he is, and complains that he got her hopes up about this supposed chicken shop job she's meant to get.
Shin insists she did something to call him, and that it's never happened before. That makes her stop to wonder why. She tells him to depict everything nearly her, and he rattles off details: "Uniform. Pretty." (She smiles.) "The uniform is pretty."
She asks if he sees wings, calling herself a fairy, similar Tinkerbell. Shin practically rolls his eyes and vanishes into smoke.
Then equally Eun-tak sits in a church building service, something gives her an idea and she tests it out after. Lighting a candle, she blows information technology out and waits.
Effectually the corner, Shin appears. She exclaims that she's figured out how she chosen him, while he chides, "Even so, don't you call up information technology'due south non quite right to call me here?"
He explains that he tin can't vanish in the church ("Consider information technology a blazon of DMZ") and starts walking out, while she pesters him about her three wishes, none of which accept worked out. He says the job will happen soon, but she cuts him off to say she wants the swain wish instead. Shin: "So you lot put in some attempt!" Haha.
Later, Eun-tak tests out her theory using a candle-blowing app on her phone, and then lights up when Shin shows up, right on cue.
Annoyed that she was just testing it out, he turns to go, and Eun-tak grabs his arm—and of a sudden, it lights up with wispy blue-green smoke, like the kind that enveloped his sword. She lets go, saying, "Information technology's so hot! I thought it would be common cold because it was bluish."
He reminds her that blue actually indicates the hottest heat, and she pesters him to just give her coin instead of the wish. Shin'due south eager to get going, having a memorial service to attend, but she pesters him and then much that he tells her to hurry and say her piece.
Eun-tak asks him not to misunderstand before launching into her explanation: She thought he was a reaper at kickoff, just a reaper would have taken her away. And so she thought he was a ghost, but he has a shadow. Thinking it over, she concluded that he was a goblin.
He doesn't react, and just asks again what her bargain is. "It's a picayune weird to say information technology myself," Eun-tak replies, "just I'm the goblin's bride." She thinks the birthmark on her cervix is why ghosts say she'south the goblin'south bride.
She shows him the mark, and Shin thinks back to the night he saved her mother and makes the connection. He tells her to prove she'south the goblin's helpmate, and she asks how. He tells her to draw him, giving her no other clues, so she sizes him up and goes with: tall, expensive clothes, thirtysomething.
He replies that if that's all she sees, she'southward not the goblin's bride, and is useless to the goblin. While it'due south too bad she tin can run into ghosts, he says that information technology'due south a side effect of breaking the rules, so she should alive gratefully.
Eun-tak gets upset to be told she's useless, request who he is to make up one's mind her value. He reminds her of her birthday wish to improve her life by as little as a penny'south worth, and calls himself someone who worries well-nigh a penny's worth about her miserable life. "Live in reality," he advises, since she's not the goblin'south bride.
She follows him out the door angrily to have her say, and then they both await effectually in shock because suddenly, she'south in a different country. He's stunned that she could apply the same door-portal that he did, landing them in Canada.
Eun-tak takes in her surroundings and the extent of his powers, so declares that she has come to a conclusion: "I'll marry yous! I think yous are a goblin. I love you."
She beams at him, while he stares back blankly.
COMMENTS
Overall, I thought the first episode was strong and stirring, one time I got past the needlessly long running time that crammed two episodes' worth of material into one blockbuster premiere. More story certainly isn't bad, and I enjoyed having the couple interacting with each other rather than merely meeting, but it really did feel like the producers intended the episode to end at the hour marking (when the goblin meets his bride), and then just tacked on the next episode to fill up out the 90 minutes. Then it actually felt like the episode slowed in the second hour, considering things had arrived at a natural climactic point, and then just kept going by it.
That aside, it was an impressive start, and the high production values and gravitas of the sageuk backstory lent the story a very effective sense of tragic, cursed sadness. (And the sageuk portions being filmed in widescreen probably adds to its epic, cinematic quality.) Information technology's quite an interesting plot setup, and I retrieve we might want to caryatid ourselves for tears downwardly the line, because, as Eun-tak's mother noted, the goblin'southward predicament is romantic and distressing, needing to find a man bride in order to die. Death isn't just a possibility but his unabridged goal.
The gods were certainly savage when they leveled their penalisation on him, and I similar this drama'due south interpretation of deities as the stuff of Greek mythology—they're powerful, but indifferent and jealous and capricious. I find it oddly satisfying, in a vengeful sort of way, whenever a human says there'southward no point to prayer because the gods don't carp listening, and knowing they're right. I suppose you can find that kind of thinking angry or nihilistic, but trust Shin to accept the positive approach in treating it as a reminder to live your reality on your own, instead of expecting anything from the heavens.
I'm impressed, really, that Shin isn't more angry or indignant about his lot, because the entirety of it is unfair and harsh: Equally a man, he did nothing wrong, and was hated for being infrequent at his duty, and for that he is cursed with eternal mourning. The punishment is peculiarly effective considering Shin is loyal and loving, and seems to take every death very hard. I wouldn't blame the guy for choosing to get after revenge as the first matter he did mail-revival, but he was quite torn up about being blinded by that need while the faithful grandfather died. (I'm hoping the little boy survived and volition reappear, and will cling to the idea that Deok-hwa'due south lineage had to continue from him.) I'm sure there are more people for whom this curse would be more of a boon—just as long as you're not as well sorry nigh the people you outlive!—but Shin says little and feels deeply, and it lends him tremendous pathos.
In that location'southward zippo that guarantees a lamentable ending, necessarily, since the writer can always find a dissimilar resolution to the setup than having Shin fulfill the curse and disappear. But the prospect of him dying volition always hover in my listen, and it lends a bloodshot polish to everything, doesn't information technology?
Speaking of the author, she was the greatest source of my wariness, because [insert track record], but I do think she does improve when there'south a fantasy or genre element to her story, rather than a simple romance, because I ofttimes desire more substance to the bantering and glib interplay. She hasn't done fantasy in a while, and Secret Garden was fantasy-lite, so I'yard very curious to come across how deeply she'll have us into this mythology, and how much worldbuilding we're in for. I hope lots, because already I find the rules fascinating and want to see how the pieces fit together, both for the goblin and the reaper. I want a lot more out of this drama than romance, which could even be secondary and notwithstanding work, given that the goblin's trajectory is and so moving on its ain.
The goblin-reaper tension is shaping upwards to be quite entertaining, but I like that there'southward more to it than unproblematic grudging roommates or bromance. If the goblin's bride is the reaper's lost quarry, their whole relationship puts everything in peril, and I look forward to seeing how each party reacts in one case the identities are made known.
The story definitely lightened up and brought in the humour once the couple met, so I'm non certain how much of the bear witness will plow to rom-com, just I hope it retains that sense of melancholy and wistfulness, which is the matter that grips my emotions the nearly. I think Kim Get-eun is a cracking actress, but her chipper moments sort of rang imitation at times, and the character kind of seemed a bit all over the place, emotionally. I'm hoping information technology'south more of a character thing than an acting affair—perchance the character is forcing cheer to cover upwardly her despair, which works for me. I'll go with that for at present.
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