i love this series so much so i was kinda disappointed that the ending was so unsatisfying, like even if mr queen had to go back to his body, i feel like it’s really unfair that the real queen was able to be the one that received the fruits of his labor whilst mr queen wasn’t even able to say goodbye to the people he had formed strong connections with
For me the ending made sense.... He came to the past suddenly and unexpectedly.... And he went back to the future suddenly... But while it lasted, their destinies changed... Both for the king and Bong hwan... They both learnt from each other... So it's a fair ending... The real queen loved the king and was equally badass as bong hwan... So it's not as if the king won't love her... And bong hwan cannot lose his real identity just coz he started liking the king... So it makes sense from all perspectives...
Bong Hwan: "if you keep trying to change your life, the world will get changed someday. Just like Chejiong and I did." His words broke me into tears. The ending was so sad when the two people who fell deeply in love with each other, spent life and death moments together, eventually still can't be together. They were separated in the most painful moment, especially for The Queen, not So Yong. I don't need the right ending. I would prefer a happy ending because Bong Hwan doesn't want to come back either. He was taken back out of his will. So so sad.
Well eventually so yong was along with Bong Hwan in every moment. Even tho we didn't see clearly,but she was there. It was So Yong who fall in love with the King,not Bond Hwan. The emotions were So Yong's but those ideas from future and fighting skills were Bong Hwan's. So I can't say it was a particularly sad ending. But it was sad for a reason. I wish Bong Hwan could've said his last goodbye to king and court lady and Hong yeon.
@@princesstaylor514 It's still sad because even if the Queen fell in love with the King, the King fell in love with Bonghwan as the Queen. He'll never know the real person he loved is gone forever.
honestly, I would have almost forgiven this ending if it ENDED with him saying these words. when he said "Just like Cheoljong and I did" and at least ACKNOWLEDGED the deep connection between them, and that it WAS them, not so yong, it at least felt like a bit of a closure. but then to show us So Yong, who was originally nothing like him, and is not the person everyone around her fell in love with, living the life he built for her... to see all the people around her still look at her like that person when she is NOT, was so dissatisfying. its not the character whose story I followed and cared to see a happy ending of. it was weird to see her even keeping the same relationship with the king when he DESPISED her before Bong-Hwan
I decided to think ( in order to get over the somewhat disappointing ending) that So Yong was just Bong Hwan...like the same soul, but without having lived all the lives till the present time. It would also explain how SY's body accepted BH's soul - cause it was the same soul,but "upgraded". I'd like to believe that everything SY lived through with the king after BH left her body is hidden in BH's memory. The conscious mind doesn't remember past lives, only the subconsious, so everything is there, hidden in our chef's mind. Also, I believe that every soul, no matter how many lives it lives, has a core personality, an essence that stays the same while it accumulates other layers. SY and BH have the same essence, but in SY's case, she needed the future self, BH, to awaken this core personality...It wasn't that BH fell in love with the king, he just remembered all the love he had already experienced and felt from his past life. I think that's why he feels so daunted by his own actions sometimes. His soul remembers, but his present self doesn't....It's the only thing that makes sense to me. BH couldn't have stayed in the past cause he was still bound to his present body and cause the past belonged to his past self which is So Young....at least, that's what I'd like to believe.
Yeah, that's originally what I thought had happened, before I saw this scene..... Like the big question was always why was it BH's soul in particular that traveled back in time if not for this reason??? Honestly would've been better if they'd really made it that way, but I guess it actually could be that way but they just don't make it obvious at the very least. **sigh**
I had this same theory and i'm rewatching Mr Queen to figure out what I missed and honestly, I don't think the ending is as disappointing as people are making it out to be because BH got his closure by reading the history books and he found out that his actions did make a change in the past. The writers could've expanded on this though because it was the main plot, until it slowly became the side plot.
That's for sure. There are both such amazing actors, and I absolutely loved this drama. ❤️ Every character in it was fantastic and played yhere parts so well 👏 😊
The thing is, I could totally forgive how they ended it because the series as a whole was just totally amazing. It could've made a difference in the end by giving us closure. I kind of like expected Bong Hwan to meet people like the king or Kim byeong in or the people he knew in the past in general.....in the present. I thought he'd see somebody of similar face or something like that, and it would show him going after them or something. That would've given Bong Hwan and the audience, a type of closure..... Other than the ending, I gotta say that I loved this series so much!
This drama shud have a second season!!! I hv never ever watched such an entertaining period drama.This drama was a complete package.I looked forward to weekends just bcoz I could watch this drama.uhhhh I am going to miss this one terribly!!!!
@@sai-lh1ej If they went by original,they would have had a boy that was indeed a genius.It was hilarious seeing the Queen brag about him as she was overseeing his studies...
Dude, he didn't want to leave. I'm so upset rn. I don't watch modern day dramas, but if they made a S2 where the king reincarnated and found the chef, i would watch the hell out of that.
The ending ruined this show for me. Mr Queen was the driving force behind this drama yet when he left so suddenly, no one even noticed. Not a single person he loved registered that this brash, opinionated, and vibrant personality switched to one that was unrecognizable - and I don’t count a slight hiking of the skirt and a bit of cussing in a side room to be enough for them to think that SY was just the “upgraded” model. As for SY, because the writers gave her no interaction in the drama nor any self-made accomplishments, she was made into a villain of sorts in my eyes. Reminds me of the story of the little mermaid - not the Disney version with its happy ending but the original one in which the prince marries another, never recognizing the person who actually saved him. SY hid from her life while someone else cleaned it up for her and gave her everything she ever wanted and was never able to achieve for herself. The true crushing blow was that even CJ never really noticed. I wonder if HWJ and BI’s stories both served as a parallel to this moment. HWJ’s deception leading the king to state that not pursuing a truth that no one wants might be for the best. BI for his introspective moment at death as to why, when he knew SY the best, he still couldn’t see the change. It could help explain CJ’s obliviousness - that it was something he willed himself in order to maintain his happiness. Why else would a man whose intelligence brought down the most powerful family in his nation fail to realize his wife (the one who was an indispensable and active partner in helping achieve his dream) was a different woman?
i agree with a lot but from the moment Mr queen got SY's memories he wanted to help her. in the extra episodes, you see that the king did fall in love with SY at first sight but because of the clan he disregarded her, I completely agree that the reason he fell back in love was because of Mr queen and I won't forgive the writers for not giving them a goodbye scene but at the end of the day he went back as sudden and unexpected as he got there.
@@dandywelosky1023 The King never fell in love with the Queen at first sight. That was just out of curiousity or familiarity. He was in love with the other girl that was the noble consort remember.
@@KingOfThePirates101 we can fall out of love. But what the King and Chef had was not just love, but a lot of respect for each other's intellect and uniqueness, trust, camaraderie and a very sweet friendship. The King did not have these things with anyone else, but people are failing to see that. That's why I strictly maintain the fact that the person who the King always stayed in love with was the chef. And the chef loved him back... this man who always played around actually learned about caring for someone so deeply that he didn't want to go back in his own time and instead wanted to hold the King for just a second more.. that desperation is born from love.
@@dandywelosky1023 As I've come to believe that JBH is KSY's reincarnation, I agree that CJ/SY had an initial connection and believe that SB's attraction to CJ was bc his soul has always loved CJ, but you're right...CJ fell in love bc of Mr. Queen, and the writers did an injustice to viewers who followed them on their journey of acceptance and love. Plus the plot inconsistencies drove me nuts. CJ freaks out that Mr. Queen tries to be a perfect queen but is just mildly curious when she reverts back to a very demure type who addresses him as Your Majesty instead of calling him by his name. Then Choi and HY just accept that they went from being considered family to servants again, no questions asked. SY seems to remember some, if not all, that transpired but she can't possibly remember everything from BH because she's still excited about the baby. Had she still had access to his memories, she'd know that her baby dies in under a year and CJ dies 12 years later. BH's mother was a history professor, so his knowledge of the past and of CJ was pretty extensive; the show kept his natural lifetime the same - CJ's death was both in the book BH looks at as well as mentioned in episode 1, and since the ruler after him was still GoJong, the baby would have passed the same as historical accounts as well. Then they expect us to believe that BH is just perfectly fine returning to his time with his dragon. I realize his dragon made him happy but come on! He lost his first love/soul mate. He lost his friends (something he didn't have in modern times). He lost his baby - and it was his as much as SY's...yet he expresses nothing but a trite idiom about justice prevailing? Maybe they were afraid that would make it too "gay," but in glossing it over, it made it too unbelievable and unsatisfactory. Agree with you 100% that he should have been allowed to say goodbye and have the audience feel his loss and move on with him. Perhaps have him acknowledge that this was SY's lifetime, and that a part of him would always be with CJ. That would have given viewers so much closure. My ultimate wish would have been for him to stay. He was happier in the past. They should have gone with a fictional king without a death sentence hanging over his head, ixnayed SY from the start, and just gave us the happy ending many of us thought they were going for. The only thing BH had going for him in his own lifetime was his mother, and a time capsule and some narrative letters would have assured her that her child lived a full and happy life. Or, barring that, have BH meet CJ's reincarnated soul. That could have so easily been the final episode in the spinoff. We wouldn't need to see the entire romance play out...just have them meet and recognize each other. The end. So frustrating.
The ending was really disappointed. I loved this drama soo much more than the chinese one but dang even the chinese one had a better ending. Im soo disappointed that after all bong hwan did to make the king love her and everything he didnt get the credit for it at the end. I expected the king and him to be together just like the chinese one. Soo disappointed.
I really love this drama, I got to learn so much from them, since a revolt in the past there is the suffering you have to go through for being royalty, I watch a lot of historical dramas but this one has a special place in my heart, I really cried in the In the end, I was hoping his reincarnated versions would be chaotic to find, but when I saw that he just knew everything through the book I was sad, it was an AMAZING drama that I will remember for a long time.
Im not much into bl but the ending honestly ticked me off i wished bong hwan and the King could be together the scene where bonghwan looks at the picture of the king near the ending, the tears in his eyes as if he is relieved just makes me feel so sad and devastated that they couldn't be together :'(
The two souls should have talked. And they should have decided where they want to stay. The Chef, being female now, should have chosen the king. And the queen, chosen modern Life as a fresh start. The king is in love with the Chef and vice versa
I mean the ending is ok. I still enjoyed the rest of the series so much that I think I can overlook the ending. Idk it was a happy ending but a sad ending might’ve been more impactful? not a cope out sad ending maybe a real one!? A lot of people were hoping that bong hwan stays in the past but that would leave the present unfinished. Idk just wished that bonghwan got a goodbye with the king at least.
The only reason it was so upsetting to me was because of the damn Queens Dictionary 😭😭 like mannn he loved all the things that made Bong-Hwan, him.. like he loved all his traits that were the Queens “flaws” and now they’re just gone.. like yeah she got a back bone.. but he should feel incomplete in my opinion without Bong Hwan 😫😫😂💀💀💀
I just finished this last night. The fact they just totally gloss over the fact he fell in love with the king is a little annoying? Playing it off that it was "her" that fell in love with him when it was him in her body is dumb. And as others have pointed out, the king fell in love with him too. I mean it was the queen's face, but his soul. She was around for a good portion of that at the end, but still. He was running the show when he was in her body. It makes me wonder if he was given the choice, if he'd stay with the man he loved or return to his time? Both would be bittersweet, but if he stayed, at least he'd be with him. I would love to see like an epilogue episode where he meets a descendent of the king that looks like him, in the way he met that director's ancestor back then. It would be interesting to see how that story goes.
I was disappointed with the ending but i have to say that i can see why they went with it. The writers had two options: 1. The chef stays in the queen's body and lives happily with the king, but that would mean that the queen will never be able to 100% control her own body, and the chef's actual body in the present dies. 2. He goes back to his actual body (which is the ending). That means the queen gets her body back and would have a loving husband. No one dies, everyone is in the right body. Both options have their pros and cons and i don't think they could've ended the story in way that makes everyone happy. I would've been disappointed either way honestly.
best kdrama show. worst ending☠ anyone else feels like there NEEDS to be a second season where they reunite, and either Mr Queen goes back, or the king comes to the persent?
I'm soo late for this drama actually.. I'm just Tdy finished watching this drama for the first time but I actually little dissapointed because of the end.. I'm agreeing that chef has to be back but I'm just very least expected that chef and king just speek to each other for 1 one last time they just give both at least the goodbye time also.. They spoiled the end that quite big disappointed for me because I just really involved with love of the Mr. Queen and kind but they both never ever not again see each other was really painful I'm cried actually 💔🥀😥
They really could have done better with the ending, I think they focus so much on the comedic side they kind of messed up on the seriousness of the show towards the end... nevertheless it did bring me lots of laughs but they could of ended it better. They could of used those 2 special episodes to show the son or do something better than what they've shown
Why the hell would i watch this...and even worse look at the comments, now i spoiled the whole drama for myself...and idk if i wanna watch it anymore..
100000% watch it you will enjoy every single minute of it until the very very end. but its worth it. and the ending isn't THAT hellish. its not what you want but you're still happy for what they've been through yk?
After watching this series recently and seeing all the retrospectives on the ending I can agree with the end of this series being so underwhelming. Besides the lack of closure between Jang Bong Hwan and the characters he came to care for, his return didn't feel like a meaningful change and therefore did not have a character arc. If the series started off with him treating all his subordinates with distain, only to realize that in the final episodes that they were the ones that lifted him up to help save the king and then when he came back to the present he could have shown growth by actually lifting up those around him that supported him the most - instead we get, "he's a whistleblower". Jang Bong Hwan realizing his own sexuality for being a womanizer at the start would have been super progressive as he realizes what his true sexuality is, but might be a little much for the more conservative viewers. Or I guess a really interesting idea is that if both Jang Bong Hwan and Kim So Yong were both inhabiting the same body at the same time that her qualities that made her a good person would meaningfully have rubbed off on him, however we don't spend enough time with Kim So Yong's past to really get a full picture of who she. It feels like the time travel aspect was sort of added on as how to get a gender swap at the start but they did not really figure a way to pay that off for the end of the series. Great series overall, but I think the part that makes me think about the series the most is how half-baked the ending felt after a mostly solid series.
Go back and watch again. It's open to interpretation and they show more than they tell, but she's there. If the body is the car, then he's in the drivers seat but she's the GPS, not just the passenger. Aside from the inner monologue changes, the memories and skills returning, the emotions emerging almost against BH's will, the changed pronouns where he talks about KSY as 'me' 'I' "my dream died that day.' "I threw myself away.' Earlier he spoke of her as 'this woman'. Also the merged personality is him on the surface in terms of speech and actions because it's funnier, but her underneath. It's pretty clear that he's losing his identity in her. There's also some music cues that non Korean speakers might miss. Listen to 'Here I am'' on the OST and read the translated lyrics. It's a pretty clear message what's going on when that song plays.
I really disliked the last episode. Why cant he stay inside the queen's body. The King loved the queen because of his personality, not because of the real so bong
Prop issue. They had to rush the filming of the ending due to a Covid infection delaying filming. As far as I'm concerned it was a percussion cap paper cartridge. They knew most would not see the difference, and were under significant time pressure to get it wrapped. It was originally all supposed to be pre produced, but pandemics gonna pandemic.
Yes, and surprisingly I found out that one of the earliest bulletproof vests also existed (though just a little bit past the events of the story). One of the earliest ones discovered was actually a Korean one and was displayed in a museum. It used several layers of cotton, which some might discredit at stopping bullets, but you have to remember that bullets back then didn't have the speed and impact of modern firearms.
Lots of people. It was a prop issue and they were under a lot of time pressure to get it wrapped due to filming delays. The main leads also had modern boots for the outdoors scenes. That I understand, as if they sprain an ankle while filming, then you have no drama.
in this timeline what did it matter? did japan not takeover, is there a north and south divide? is there a royal family? did the maid keep the will and 200 years later her many great grand children are wealthy? and why in the hell didn't you setup a way to keep that all from happening. lastly every man's fear of being converted to the gay side of things.
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i love this series so much so i was kinda disappointed that the ending was so unsatisfying, like even if mr queen had to go back to his body, i feel like it’s really unfair that the real queen was able to be the one that received the fruits of his labor whilst mr queen wasn’t even able to say goodbye to the people he had formed strong connections with
Yes.
Don't blame the poor Queen though. None of it was her fault.
I liked the ending of Mr Queen 😊
i felt the same way... i actually wanted him to stay in that time period for good. xD but all good things must come to an end....
For me the ending made sense.... He came to the past suddenly and unexpectedly.... And he went back to the future suddenly... But while it lasted, their destinies changed... Both for the king and Bong hwan... They both learnt from each other... So it's a fair ending... The real queen loved the king and was equally badass as bong hwan... So it's not as if the king won't love her... And bong hwan cannot lose his real identity just coz he started liking the king... So it makes sense from all perspectives...
I’m ngl I feel like that there was no closure between Bong-Hwan and Cheoljong I wish they got a chance to finally say goodbye to each other.
man tbh I laughed when grand queen dowanger getting scared due to sound of gunshot she looked like a scared bird lol
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lol hadn't even noticed that😂🤣🤣
Bong Hwan: "if you keep trying to change your life, the world will get changed someday. Just like Chejiong and I did." His words broke me into tears. The ending was so sad when the two people who fell deeply in love with each other, spent life and death moments together, eventually still can't be together. They were separated in the most painful moment, especially for The Queen, not So Yong. I don't need the right ending. I would prefer a happy ending because Bong Hwan doesn't want to come back either. He was taken back out of his will. So so sad.
Basically Bong hwan return to his world because he sacrificed himself protecting Cheoljong from the gunshot...
@@MikyM88 Yes, my friend. I still prefer a less painful way for Bong Hwan's heart.
Well eventually so yong was along with Bong Hwan in every moment. Even tho we didn't see clearly,but she was there. It was So Yong who fall in love with the King,not Bond Hwan. The emotions were So Yong's but those ideas from future and fighting skills were Bong Hwan's. So I can't say it was a particularly sad ending. But it was sad for a reason. I wish Bong Hwan could've said his last goodbye to king and court lady and Hong yeon.
@@princesstaylor514 It's still sad because even if the Queen fell in love with the King, the King fell in love with Bonghwan as the Queen. He'll never know the real person he loved is gone forever.
honestly, I would have almost forgiven this ending if it ENDED with him saying these words. when he said "Just like Cheoljong and I did" and at least ACKNOWLEDGED the deep connection between them, and that it WAS them, not so yong, it at least felt like a bit of a closure. but then to show us So Yong, who was originally nothing like him, and is not the person everyone around her fell in love with, living the life he built for her... to see all the people around her still look at her like that person when she is NOT, was so dissatisfying. its not the character whose story I followed and cared to see a happy ending of. it was weird to see her even keeping the same relationship with the king when he DESPISED her before Bong-Hwan
I decided to think ( in order to get over the somewhat disappointing ending) that So Yong was just Bong Hwan...like the same soul, but without having lived all the lives till the present time. It would also explain how SY's body accepted BH's soul - cause it was the same soul,but "upgraded". I'd like to believe that everything SY lived through with the king after BH left her body is hidden in BH's memory. The conscious mind doesn't remember past lives, only the subconsious, so everything is there, hidden in our chef's mind. Also, I believe that every soul, no matter how many lives it lives, has a core personality, an essence that stays the same while it accumulates other layers. SY and BH have the same essence, but in SY's case, she needed the future self, BH, to awaken this core personality...It wasn't that BH fell in love with the king, he just remembered all the love he had already experienced and felt from his past life. I think that's why he feels so daunted by his own actions sometimes. His soul remembers, but his present self doesn't....It's the only thing that makes sense to me. BH couldn't have stayed in the past cause he was still bound to his present body and cause the past belonged to his past self which is So Young....at least, that's what I'd like to believe.
Many people share this theory. I think it's what the writers intended...just handled poorly.
Yeah, that's originally what I thought had happened, before I saw this scene..... Like the big question was always why was it BH's soul in particular that traveled back in time if not for this reason??? Honestly would've been better if they'd really made it that way, but I guess it actually could be that way but they just don't make it obvious at the very least. **sigh**
I had this same theory and i'm rewatching Mr Queen to figure out what I missed and honestly, I don't think the ending is as disappointing as people are making it out to be because BH got his closure by reading the history books and he found out that his actions did make a change in the past. The writers could've expanded on this though because it was the main plot, until it slowly became the side plot.
Thanks for this closure 💜
that’s what I assumed too! I think this was the intention
They both are so damn good actors.
Everyone was great in the film. Their acting was on point.❤
That's for sure. There are both such amazing actors, and I absolutely loved this drama. ❤️ Every character in it was fantastic and played yhere parts so well 👏 😊
Can ask why historical drama never have happy ending 😭😭😭
Silly rabbit, watch the full ep.
Not all historical but usually events based on history were actually sad so
It has happy ending
@@Mibs-Mibby lol this is fiction. In Korean history, there was no Chuljong.
StoicHR there was Cheoljong in Korean history but the achievements he made was fictional
The thing is, I could totally forgive how they ended it because the series as a whole was just totally amazing.
It could've made a difference in the end by giving us closure. I kind of like expected Bong Hwan to meet people like the king or Kim byeong in or the people he knew in the past in general.....in the present. I thought he'd see somebody of similar face or something like that, and it would show him going after them or something. That would've given Bong Hwan and the audience, a type of closure.....
Other than the ending, I gotta say that I loved this series so much!
This drama shud have a second season!!! I hv never ever watched such an entertaining period drama.This drama was a complete package.I looked forward to weekends just bcoz I could watch this drama.uhhhh I am going to miss this one terribly!!!!
Can we have season 2? Just when the king died and reincarnated ,he looks for his soul mate , Sobong 😏
I wanna see the royal baby ;(
@@sai-lh1ej If they went by original,they would have had a boy that was indeed a genius.It was hilarious seeing the Queen brag about him as she was overseeing his studies...
100 %
I NEED this to exist. this closure is not a want, its a need. otherwise I will never forgive them having the king end up with the wrong person
But gender swapped
i just finished watching the last ep and idk how will i move on 😭😭😭
Dude, he didn't want to leave. I'm so upset rn. I don't watch modern day dramas, but if they made a S2 where the king reincarnated and found the chef, i would watch the hell out of that.
SAME OH MY GOSH
Mr. QUEEN SEASON 2 please. 😭 Do King soul in modern day. 😂😎 Come to look for Mr Queen.
If so he'd be the girl this time. Mrs King.
@@krob9145 Guy would be fine.
Than it's gonna be a bl drama 😂😂😍😍💐🌟
@@krob9145 lmao why should he be the girl?
The ending ruined this show for me. Mr Queen was the driving force behind this drama yet when he left so suddenly, no one even noticed. Not a single person he loved registered that this brash, opinionated, and vibrant personality switched to one that was unrecognizable - and I don’t count a slight hiking of the skirt and a bit of cussing in a side room to be enough for them to think that SY was just the “upgraded” model. As for SY, because the writers gave her no interaction in the drama nor any self-made accomplishments, she was made into a villain of sorts in my eyes. Reminds me of the story of the little mermaid - not the Disney version with its happy ending but the original one in which the prince marries another, never recognizing the person who actually saved him. SY hid from her life while someone else cleaned it up for her and gave her everything she ever wanted and was never able to achieve for herself. The true crushing blow was that even CJ never really noticed. I wonder if HWJ and BI’s stories both served as a parallel to this moment. HWJ’s deception leading the king to state that not pursuing a truth that no one wants might be for the best. BI for his introspective moment at death as to why, when he knew SY the best, he still couldn’t see the change. It could help explain CJ’s obliviousness - that it was something he willed himself in order to maintain his happiness. Why else would a man whose intelligence brought down the most powerful family in his nation fail to realize his wife (the one who was an indispensable and active partner in helping achieve his dream) was a different woman?
i agree with a lot but from the moment Mr queen got SY's memories he wanted to help her. in the extra episodes, you see that the king did fall in love with SY at first sight but because of the clan he disregarded her, I completely agree that the reason he fell back in love was because of Mr queen and I won't forgive the writers for not giving them a goodbye scene but at the end of the day he went back as sudden and unexpected as he got there.
Same, this show was my favorite, but this ending ruined all :((
@@dandywelosky1023 The King never fell in love with the Queen at first sight. That was just out of curiousity or familiarity. He was in love with the other girl that was the noble consort remember.
@@KingOfThePirates101 we can fall out of love. But what the King and Chef had was not just love, but a lot of respect for each other's intellect and uniqueness, trust, camaraderie and a very sweet friendship. The King did not have these things with anyone else, but people are failing to see that.
That's why I strictly maintain the fact that the person who the King always stayed in love with was the chef. And the chef loved him back... this man who always played around actually learned about caring for someone so deeply that he didn't want to go back in his own time and instead wanted to hold the King for just a second more.. that desperation is born from love.
@@dandywelosky1023 As I've come to believe that JBH is KSY's reincarnation, I agree that CJ/SY had an initial connection and believe that SB's attraction to CJ was bc his soul has always loved CJ, but you're right...CJ fell in love bc of Mr. Queen, and the writers did an injustice to viewers who followed them on their journey of acceptance and love. Plus the plot inconsistencies drove me nuts. CJ freaks out that Mr. Queen tries to be a perfect queen but is just mildly curious when she reverts back to a very demure type who addresses him as Your Majesty instead of calling him by his name. Then Choi and HY just accept that they went from being considered family to servants again, no questions asked. SY seems to remember some, if not all, that transpired but she can't possibly remember everything from BH because she's still excited about the baby. Had she still had access to his memories, she'd know that her baby dies in under a year and CJ dies 12 years later. BH's mother was a history professor, so his knowledge of the past and of CJ was pretty extensive; the show kept his natural lifetime the same - CJ's death was both in the book BH looks at as well as mentioned in episode 1, and since the ruler after him was still GoJong, the baby would have passed the same as historical accounts as well. Then they expect us to believe that BH is just perfectly fine returning to his time with his dragon. I realize his dragon made him happy but come on! He lost his first love/soul mate. He lost his friends (something he didn't have in modern times). He lost his baby - and it was his as much as SY's...yet he expresses nothing but a trite idiom about justice prevailing? Maybe they were afraid that would make it too "gay," but in glossing it over, it made it too unbelievable and unsatisfactory. Agree with you 100% that he should have been allowed to say goodbye and have the audience feel his loss and move on with him. Perhaps have him acknowledge that this was SY's lifetime, and that a part of him would always be with CJ. That would have given viewers so much closure. My ultimate wish would have been for him to stay. He was happier in the past. They should have gone with a fictional king without a death sentence hanging over his head, ixnayed SY from the start, and just gave us the happy ending many of us thought they were going for. The only thing BH had going for him in his own lifetime was his mother, and a time capsule and some narrative letters would have assured her that her child lived a full and happy life. Or, barring that, have BH meet CJ's reincarnated soul. That could have so easily been the final episode in the spinoff. We wouldn't need to see the entire romance play out...just have them meet and recognize each other. The end. So frustrating.
The ending was really disappointed. I loved this drama soo much more than the chinese one but dang even the chinese one had a better ending. Im soo disappointed that after all bong hwan did to make the king love her and everything he didnt get the credit for it at the end. I expected the king and him to be together just like the chinese one. Soo disappointed.
How is the Chinese one called?
@@sophiegray6587 go princess go
How did the Chinese one ended?
I really love this drama, I got to learn so much from them, since a revolt in the past there is the suffering you have to go through for being royalty, I watch a lot of historical dramas but this one has a special place in my heart, I really cried in the In the end, I was hoping his reincarnated versions would be chaotic to find, but when I saw that he just knew everything through the book I was sad, it was an AMAZING drama that I will remember for a long time.
看見奉煥倒下，不知哲宗是否平安，努力的爬到他身邊時，卻回到現實……我看見這幕久久無法止住心痛的感覺，感同身受😭😭😭😭😭
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請編劇寫一齣
讓她們來世遇見彼此並認出對方，哦～～～我一定會哭死啦！🤣🤣
This is one of the most unsatisfying endings to a kdrama I've ever watched tbh.
Im not much into bl but the ending honestly ticked me off i wished bong hwan and the King could be together the scene where bonghwan looks at the picture of the king near the ending, the tears in his eyes as if he is relieved just makes me feel so sad and devastated that they couldn't be together :'(
The two souls should have talked. And they should have decided where they want to stay. The Chef, being female now, should have chosen the king. And the queen, chosen modern Life as a fresh start. The king is in love with the Chef and vice versa
Don't erase it please
It's a great dorama
I'm so sorry about what the actress is going through.
I just finished the drama now and im cryinggggg
I will miss them so much😭😭😭😭😭
the ending was ruined for me the moment Kim Byeong died. plus he didn’t deserve all that hatred and ARROW from the Queen. 😭😭
Well he did try to kill her husband, and then faked his death when that didn't pan out. So there is that.
I mean the ending is ok. I still enjoyed the rest of the series so much that I think I can overlook the ending. Idk it was a happy ending but a sad ending might’ve been more impactful? not a cope out sad ending maybe a real one!? A lot of people were hoping that bong hwan stays in the past but that would leave the present unfinished. Idk just wished that bonghwan got a goodbye with the king at least.
best drama i've watched in a while. by a while i mean it's been a month lol
Well it took me 4 days to complete
The only reason it was so upsetting to me was because of the damn Queens Dictionary 😭😭 like mannn he loved all the things that made Bong-Hwan, him.. like he loved all his traits that were the Queens “flaws” and now they’re just gone.. like yeah she got a back bone.. but he should feel incomplete in my opinion without Bong Hwan 😫😫😂💀💀💀
I just finished this last night. The fact they just totally gloss over the fact he fell in love with the king is a little annoying? Playing it off that it was "her" that fell in love with him when it was him in her body is dumb. And as others have pointed out, the king fell in love with him too. I mean it was the queen's face, but his soul. She was around for a good portion of that at the end, but still. He was running the show when he was in her body.
It makes me wonder if he was given the choice, if he'd stay with the man he loved or return to his time? Both would be bittersweet, but if he stayed, at least he'd be with him.
I would love to see like an epilogue episode where he meets a descendent of the king that looks like him, in the way he met that director's ancestor back then. It would be interesting to see how that story goes.
I'm soo early?? Seriously??? Btw this is the best drama ever!!
Even moonlovers gave me heart attack and never ever unhappy happy ending 😭😭😭
Best drama epic
I was disappointed with the ending but i have to say that i can see why they went with it. The writers had two options:
1. The chef stays in the queen's body and lives happily with the king, but that would mean that the queen will never be able to 100% control her own body, and the chef's actual body in the present dies.
2. He goes back to his actual body (which is the ending). That means the queen gets her body back and would have a loving husband. No one dies, everyone is in the right body.
Both options have their pros and cons and i don't think they could've ended the story in way that makes everyone happy. I would've been disappointed either way honestly.
The ending though... 🤬😡🤬🤬
Okay... i feel better now that i said it. 😇
best kdrama show. worst ending☠
anyone else feels like there NEEDS to be a second season where they reunite, and either Mr Queen goes back, or the king comes to the persent?
Yesss I agree with you we need to have a 2 season
I'm soo late for this drama actually.. I'm just Tdy finished watching this drama for the first time but I actually little dissapointed because of the end.. I'm agreeing that chef has to be back but I'm just very least expected that chef and king just speek to each other for 1 one last time they just give both at least the goodbye time also.. They spoiled the end that quite big disappointed for me because I just really involved with love of the Mr. Queen and kind but they both never ever not again see each other was really painful I'm cried actually 💔🥀😥
They really could have done better with the ending, I think they focus so much on the comedic side they kind of messed up on the seriousness of the show towards the end... nevertheless it did bring me lots of laughs but they could of ended it better. They could of used those 2 special episodes to show the son or do something better than what they've shown
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Why the hell would i watch this...and even worse look at the comments, now i spoiled the whole drama for myself...and idk if i wanna watch it anymore..
100000% watch it you will enjoy every single minute of it until the very very end. but its worth it. and the ending isn't THAT hellish. its not what you want but you're still happy for what they've been through yk?
And suddenly he is bi-
That's the security of king's palace
Where can I see this full series.....
This drama have so much of similarities with Chinese drama "Go princess Go"
that’s why it’s based on the Chinese drama
Que espectacular actuación de los dos muy buena la obra y todos hicieron un buen papel ❤❤
After watching this series recently and seeing all the retrospectives on the ending I can agree with the end of this series being so underwhelming.
Besides the lack of closure between Jang Bong Hwan and the characters he came to care for, his return didn't feel like a meaningful change and therefore did not have a character arc.
If the series started off with him treating all his subordinates with distain, only to realize that in the final episodes that they were the ones that lifted him up to help save the king and then when he came back to the present he could have shown growth by actually lifting up those around him that supported him the most - instead we get, "he's a whistleblower".
Jang Bong Hwan realizing his own sexuality for being a womanizer at the start would have been super progressive as he realizes what his true sexuality is, but might be a little much for the more conservative viewers.
Or I guess a really interesting idea is that if both Jang Bong Hwan and Kim So Yong were both inhabiting the same body at the same time that her qualities that made her a good person would meaningfully have rubbed off on him, however we don't spend enough time with Kim So Yong's past to really get a full picture of who she.
It feels like the time travel aspect was sort of added on as how to get a gender swap at the start but they did not really figure a way to pay that off for the end of the series.
Great series overall, but I think the part that makes me think about the series the most is how half-baked the ending felt after a mostly solid series.
The ending ruined the drama for me tbh
This is the cop out part of this show, this is where the ending went wrong.
Can someone tell what is the name of the bgm in 0:39?
how to I see all episode of this awesome drama
Available on viki app for free.
Available on kdrama sites as well.
It was dissatisfying that the series did not describe the real queen's spirit and where she was all the time
Go back and watch again. It's open to interpretation and they show more than they tell, but she's there. If the body is the car, then he's in the drivers seat but she's the GPS, not just the passenger. Aside from the inner monologue changes, the memories and skills returning, the emotions emerging almost against BH's will, the changed pronouns where he talks about KSY as 'me' 'I' "my dream died that day.' "I threw myself away.' Earlier he spoke of her as 'this woman'.
Also the merged personality is him on the surface in terms of speech and actions because it's funnier, but her underneath. It's pretty clear that he's losing his identity in her.
There's also some music cues that non Korean speakers might miss. Listen to 'Here I am'' on the OST and read the translated lyrics. It's a pretty clear message what's going on when that song plays.
i hate that freaking sniper!
0:57 corona? What HQ to corona? 😂
Best drama
Question was there an old version of this same plot? The man was playboy and sent ancient time in female body?.
It’s called Go Princess Go
@@aerielcoats Thanks
Was that a M1 Garand?
It is an M1
Rooftop shooter using an M1 Garand and .30-06 bullet, the rifle was issued during WW2, so why is it 🤔 in the Joseon Dynasty.
Exactly!
Why is there an M1 Garand in the Joseon Era
My point exactly?
That what I say
Can any one tell me the story of this drama???
So sad he didn't want to go.. Worst ending tbh
Who played that sniper? As horrible as he was, I felt bad for him because he was a drug addict and might not even have been aware of it.
The king and queen was shot. Why their is no one to them. Where's the soldiers, their staff.?
I really disliked the last episode. Why cant he stay inside the queen's body. The King loved the queen because of his personality, not because of the real so bong
Why is there a M1 grand rifle?
There was no WW2 weapons during that time.
Prop issue. They had to rush the filming of the ending due to a Covid infection delaying filming. As far as I'm concerned it was a percussion cap paper cartridge. They knew most would not see the difference, and were under significant time pressure to get it wrapped. It was originally all supposed to be pre produced, but pandemics gonna pandemic.
So did the chef actually liek him?
But were there guns in that era?
Yes, and surprisingly I found out that one of the earliest bulletproof vests also existed (though just a little bit past the events of the story). One of the earliest ones discovered was actually a Korean one and was displayed in a museum. It used several layers of cotton, which some might discredit at stopping bullets, but you have to remember that bullets back then didn't have the speed and impact of modern firearms.
@@dostagirl9551 thanks for sharing! I love these factoids!
This was in the mid to late 19th century so yes guns were a thing then
She got a shot from the place still he was there keeeping her in his hand such
I really hated the ending. Why couldnt bong hwan stay inside the Queens body?? This is really unfair...
I think it's HWARANG place 🙄
I think so too!!! Sooo many similarities in the episodes…
1:18 idk its just me or not, but is anyone realized that the masked assassin use a M1 Garand?
Lots of people. It was a prop issue and they were under a lot of time pressure to get it wrapped due to filming delays. The main leads also had modern boots for the outdoors scenes. That I understand, as if they sprain an ankle while filming, then you have no drama.
Episode 1what
Is the king dead in the end or not?
No, he's still alive
So is this a BL or what
Hate the ending
in this timeline what did it matter? did japan not takeover, is there a north and south divide? is there a royal family? did the maid keep the will and 200 years later her many great grand children are wealthy? and why in the hell didn't you setup a way to keep that all from happening. lastly every man's fear of being converted to the gay side of things.
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Guns 🤔🤔 really
same thought
@@kristenheon1705 Guns were a thing in 1850, though this particular one is definitely out of its time. Should have been a percussion cap.
Que pena que acabou
What
Oh so that's why he said he had a dragon 😂