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The Lonely Shining Goblin: Episode one
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It was a successful premiere for tvN'southward ambitious buzz project The Lonely Shining Goblin, on several fronts: Ratings-wise, it logged a six.ix% average (9.three% existent-time loftier), which for a cable premiere is pretty impressive. I'one thousand less concerned with the numbers than the content, though, since I was more than worried about whether the reality of the evidence would survive its promotional hype, and how the fantasy element would play out.
Very well, as it turns out. The prove traverses by and present well, and combines a backstory that not merely feels ballsy simply looks information technology, too—fantasy dramas demand these huge budgets and scales, considering otherwise they become a whole practise in "what could have been"—with a lighter present day that'due south whimsical and romantic. It's been a long fourth dimension since Gong Yoo has been in a good drama, and I'm super relieved that this project will exist a good one for him. Possibly smashing.
EPISODE 1 RECAP
A narrator tells the old proverb of how 1 becomes a goblin if the soul seeps into an detail stained by a person's mitt or blood.
An old, worn sword sticks out of the basis, 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 blood also—how could it not happen?"
On the hilt of the old sword is an engraving of a goblin's face. As a butterfly lands on that hilt, images flash by onscreen: A screeching car. A adult female'southward hand. White expanse turning red. The narrator declares, "Merely the goblin's helpmate volition pull out that sword. If the sword is pulled, may it return to nothing and be at peace."
An sometime grocer woman (heyo, is that a wrinkly Lee El?) tells this story to a adult female browsing her wares, who bursts out laughing at the line that the immortal goblin may roam the world even now. She finds that thought giddy but still calls it a sad story, since the goblin has to find a bride in lodge to dice. "The gods are mean," she says while admiring a jade band in granny'southward stash of goods.
The granny confirms that, saying they were always mean, and selfish and jealous to boot.
The woman gets upwards to go with a cheery good day, but the granny grabs her paw and turns suddenly 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 be listening." (Audiences are probably expected to recognize her as Samshin Halmeom, a kind of fairy godmother.)
1968, Paris. A well-dressed man (Gong Yoo) waits exterior a building, and when a teenage male child walks out with a luggage bag and a battered face up, he stops him to warn him not to leave dwelling. "If you go out home now, you'll live an even worse life than you have at present. And you'll never run into your mother again."
The man casually moves a planter on the steps, and so advises the boy to speak up to his parents: Tell Dad to raise him well, and Mom to help. At least this way, the boy will simply damage one hand and not lose his life.
The male child is suspicious merely intrigued, asking if the man will take responsibility if the boy gets beaten to death. The homo replies, "That'south why I broke a rib for yous."
The adoptive begetter storms exterior screaming at the boy… and trips over the moved planter, which sends him into the street, clutching his rib. The human being hands the boy a lunch, tells him to go to school, and fifty-fifty gives the correct reply for a math problem he'll face later. The boy stares later on him, transfixed.
Narrator: "He is water, burn, and wind, and besides light and dark. And once, he was human being."
Centuries ago, we see him over again on the battlefield, equally the appropriately named General KIM SHIN (shin = god). Battle rages around him and bodies fall. Clutching that goblin-etched sword, Shin stands upwards to face a wall of attackers without fear.
"The people called him god," the narrator tells us, now in Shin's phonation. "Covered in blood, his eyes flashing, he struck down his enemies, a literal god of state of war."
Shin flings himself into the battle, killing enemies brutally, claret flying everywhere as he and his sword cutting downward everything in his path. He slashes his style beyond the battleground and locks optics with an enemy soldier (the general?), who'due south spooked and runs. Shin jumps on horseback and charges after the man, taking him downward readily.
Shin'south ground forces is greeted with cheers from grateful citizens as they ride toward the palace gates. His second-in-command proudly announces their arrival—just to receive a hostile reception, as they are ordered to strip off their armor. Information technology'southward an insult, just Shin and his men grudgingly comply.
Then, Shin is alleged a traitor—conspicuously a fake charge, but not one he's in a position to overturn. Guards assemble at the superlative of the wall and aim bows and arrows at Shin'south ground forces.
Instead of kneeling, Shin draws his sword and demands to be let in to come across the king. As soon equally he advances, nevertheless, arrows fly and strike downwardly his men, and he turns dorsum in horror to encounter them lying in their ain claret.
His second-in-command rages at being turned on after fighting on the hellish battleground for the male monarch. The gate opens and Shin heads within alone, where a immature queen and king (Kim So-hyun, Kim Min-jae) expect him.
An Iago-similar eunuch whispers into the king's ear, telling him that Shin's incredible victories have made him pop with the people, and his growing power makes a mockery of the throne.
Our narrator tells u.s., "He saw conspicuously his enemy'southward sword, but he could non see the jealousy and fearfulness of the immature king, directed at him. That was the sharpest sword wielded at him, but he did non know it."
The king orders him to stop advancing and die as a traitor to salve everyone else. One more step will get everyone killed. But the queen, who looks upon Shin fondly, tells him to become: "I am fine."
Shin starts to protest, merely she cuts him off: "I know. And if this is the last, this is my fate. So get. Do non stop, and go to the rex, Full general."
Then he continues his approach, and the rex gives the club to kill everyone in the traitor's family. An arrow flies into the queen's chest. Ah, is she Shin's sis?
The queen falls, and Shin doesn't turn back, standing forward. More members of his family are brought frontward and killed before his eyes.
The treacherous eunuch orders the traitor brought downwards, so a baby-sit slashes Shin across the back, forcing him on his knees.
Shin's 2d-in-command runs in and screams at the rex, "Practise you not fear heaven?" The king smirks that heaven has never helped them, and Shin glares up at him as the society is given to behead him.
A soldier starts to strike, but Shin knocks his sword aside, telling him that's not a chore for him to exercise. Instead, Shin turns to his second-in-control to make a final asking, and gives him his sword.
His friend sobs as he takes the sword and promises to follow him soon. He thrusts the sword into Shin's chest, and is cut downward moments later.
All the same live, Shin hears the eunuch society the traitor'southward torso to be unclaimed, left out for the beasts to ravage. The king leaves the courtyard without even waiting to see Shin dice.
The queen lies in a pool of blood and looks at Shin in her dying moments. On her finger is the jade ring from Samshin Grandma'south stash, stained with her blood.
Per orders, Shin is left out in the field, not even dead however. Nobody is immune to interfere with the body, and so the people who practice mourn his loss cry from a distance.
The sword sticks out of his chest, and Shin lives out his last moments like that, staring up into the empty sky.
The narrator tells the states, "Practice not pray to anybody. The gods are not listening. At the brightest time of mean solar day, 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), head-on, by a auto. The motorcar slams to a stop, its front bashed in and windshield shattered—but the man in black remains unmoved. Merely continuing in that location, upright.
The driver takes in this incommunicable tableau and gets nervous, but the man in black tells him simply, "You hit a wild boar." The commuter's optics glaze over, and the mysterious stranger literally disappears into wisps of black smoke.
When bystanders stop to aid, the driver explains hitting a boar. Merely people scream to discover a trunk inside the trunk of the motorcar—and a passing adult female falls in horror, recognizing the trunk as her own.
The mysterious man appears before her to read the woman her death statistics. He'southward the grim reaper, and he takes her to an odd tearoom and pours her a cup of tea that volition make her forget her life in this earth. The adult female asks what happens if she doesn't drink, and he supposes she will regret that.
Shin walks by the street outside the reaper's tearoom, and pauses to wait in the window. The two men lock eyes, and the reaper wonders, "Goblin?" Shin wonders dorsum, "Grim reaper?"
And then we come across that Shin is staring at what looks like a stone wall; the window must just be visible to otherworldly eyes.
"You're wearing a terribly vulgar hat," Shin says. The reaper glares, offended.
Shin carries a baggage handbag into a large, airy house, where candles flicker on automatically and piece of furniture covers wing away of their own accord. Okay, probably his accord. His magical goblin accord.
An old man greets him with the antiquated discussion for "milord," happy to see him for the kickoff time in 20 years. He'south with his grandson, YOO DEOK-HWA, who doesn't have grandad's deference and says Shin doesn't seem all that cool, to his granddaddy's horror.
The boy wonders who Shin is, and Shin replies that he volition become Deok-hwa'due south uncle, brother, son, then grandson. He kneels down and says it's nice to meet, but the little boy has mental attitude and eyes Shin suspiciously, and grandpa apologizes for his manners.
So Shin is struck with a look of recognition, and explains that at that place was a boy born in Goryeo who is Deok-hwa'southward ancestor—and Deok-hwa looks just like he did. "Was he good-looking?" the male child asks.
Grandpa keeps apologizing, but Shin assures him that he's never been allow down past anybody in his family. Shin smiles, thinking of the ancestor boy, who'd visited Shin's grave with his mourning grandfather a m years agone.
The Goryeo grandfather speaks to the sword every bit though Shin'due south still live, and introduces his grandson to accept over his function in serving him, as he senses that he is nearing death. The boy asks, "Is this sword the chief?"
But then, a strange free energy emits from the sword, and it rocks back and forth. A voice from the heavens declares, "The soul of your subject field has saved you." Even so, the god notes that Shin'due south sword has been stained with the blood of thousands—and while they were his enemies, they were too the claret of the gods.
"Live alone in immortality and witness the deaths of those you love," the god tells him. "No death volition be forgotten. This is the prize I requite to you lot, and the penalization you receive."
Shin's body revives, and the sword glows brightly, still embedded in his chest, every bit the god continues, "Only the goblin's helpmate tin can pull out that sword. If the sword is pulled, may y'all return to nothingness and exist at peace."
The faithful servant and his grandson gape as Shin comes dorsum to life, looking whole and well. Immediately, Shin sets off for unfinished business, arriving at the palace to confront the eunuch who'd twisted the rex against him.
Shin sends i eunuch flying through a newspaper-lined wall, and then summons the treacherous eunuch through the air toward him. The human being recognizes him with horror equally Shin chokes the life out of him.
Approaching the bed, Shin sees the wrapped body and says regretfully, "I was as well late."
When Shin returns to the little male child, his grandfather has died and the boy sobs over the grave. Dismayed, Shin kneels before the mound and says, "You must be my offset penalization."
The little boy bows and tells Shin, "I volition serve you from this moment on." Shin is filled with guilt over beingness blinded by his need for revenge, and asks if he notwithstanding wants to serve him. The male child nods.
As they cantankerous the sea on a transport, Shin notices the boy watching other passengers eat and hands him a ball of rice, which the male child almost takes earlier lying that he'southward not hungry, and that Shin should eat it. Shin offers him half, only the boy speaks like a tiny adult, proverb that sharing ensures that nobody is full, assuring Shin that he tin piece of work on the send and earn scraps.
Shin tells the boy to trust him, and the boy accepts, eating hungrily. And so Shin waves his hand, entertaining the boy with the flecks of low-cal that float into the heaven.
Suddenly, a sailor grabs the male child, stomps on his rice ball, and dangles him over the side of the ship. The other men notice Shin and the boy suspicious, and intend to sell Shin every bit a slave and let the boy drown.
The boy is thrown overboard, and the men reach for their weapons and face Shin menacingly. Wearing an ominous confront, Shin asks, "Do you know what happens when humans human action lower than beasts?"
The waves grow rough and Shin rises to his feet, maxim, "They meet god." The tempest rages around them, and one man gasps, "It'due south a g-goblin!"
The transport whirls, ropes catch effectually men'south feet, and a mast falls. Flames erupt around Shin'southward caput. The entire send starts to tilt and sink, and men fall into the stormy sea. Ane man begs for mercy, and Shin says grimly, "Information technology's too late."
He draws his sword, which glows with bluish-green burn down, and slams it into the deck, splintering the wood and sinking the ship.
Seoul. Shin sits high above the city, hearing the sounds below, and the people's voices.
A car hits a woman and squeals away, leaving her bleeding in the snow. Information technology's the aforementioned woman who had chatted with Samshin Grandma virtually the goblin, and she begs for help: "If there is a god, delight save me."
Shin initially ignores it, merely the words ring in his ear and send him to the woman in the snow. He says it's his dominion not to interfere in the life and death of humankind, but when she sobs that she can't die like this, he realizes that she's non begging to save her own life.
The woman clutches her belly and begs, "Just the child…"
She goes decumbent, and Shin says she'south lucky to take met a weak-hearted god who doesn't desire to see anyone die tonight. He kneels down and hovers a hand over her face up, and wisps of blue energy flow out. She gasps awake, alive.
By the time the grim reaper makes his manner to the pool of blood, he finds no body. He checks his death cards: a 27-year-old woman and an unnamed unborn.
A short while later, the revived adult female gives birth to a girl. She doesn't see the crowd of ghosts hovering exterior her window, whispering, "The goblin'south bride."
Eight years after in a seaside boondocks, the baby is now a young girl, JI EUN-TAK, with a birthmark on her neck. The daughter asks for a altogether cake this year to wish on, and Mom happily agrees. Merely her eyes turn sad when Eun-tak spots a puppy on the beach and pets information technology—considering to her eyes, at that place is no puppy. Eun-tak is petting empty air.
Later when Eun-tak comes home from school, her mother has a birthday cake waiting. Eun-tak chatters as she lights the candles, but then sees something and freezes. She starts to cry, proverb, "Information technology's not you. Information technology'southward non really Mom, it'south Mom'southward spirit."
Mom says, "Yous really do see everything. I'd hoped you didn't." Eun-tak asks if her mother is dead, and Mom nods.
Mom has just only 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 come across ghosts' eyes in the future.
Eun-tak apologizes for seeing ghosts, "But because I can run across those things, I can see you like 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 up in Mom's big red scarf to head out, and tells her cake that she won't brand any wishes: "Nobody listens anyway. Who would I wish to?"
Mom's spirit visits Samshin Grandma to ask her to check in on Eun-tak from time to time. Grandma grumps that Mom should take 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, then thanks her and says goodbye.
Eun-tak steps outside and talks to the man standing there, and but realizes her mistake when Reaper asks curiously, "You meet me?" She tries to pretend she didn't, only the Reaper makes the connexion, guessing that she was the one who wasn't meant to be born.
Before Reaper can claim her, Samshin Grandma appears to tell Reaper to leave her solitary. Reaper calls it obstruction of justice and is intent on rectifying the old error, but Grandma points out that the child marked for death had no proper noun, merely this child has one. She demands a death card with this girl's name on it.
Reaper grimaces, since that'll be a bureaucratic hassle. Just Granny refuses to back down, so he grits his teeth and tells Eun-tak he'll exist seeing her again.
Granny tells Eun-tak to move away speedily, so that Reaper won't be able to find her. She also tells her to go with the "one male, two females" who will show 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 equally a altogether present and leaves.
As Granny walks forth the span, she crosses paths with a schoolboy. We transition to ten years subsequently, and Granny transforms into a cute woman, and the schoolboy becomes twentysomething Deok-hwa (Yook Sung-jae).
Young Granny catches Deok-hwa'south eye, and he asks her out for a drinkable.
At home, Shin idly flips through a book while, on speakerphone, panicked-sounding "nephew" Deok-hwa begs him to pick up, because his credit carte all of a sudden stopped working, and the unfriendly men at the bar aren't very pleased nigh it. Shin doesn't seem inclined to help.
In a high schoolhouse lunchroom, nineteen-year-former Eun-tak eats past herself while her classmates whisper most her having no friends and how scary it is that she supposedly sees ghosts. Eun-tak ignores them, just as she ignores the ghost who pesters her on her walk dwelling, calling her Goblin's Bride.
Eun-tak does a successful task of pretending non to see her, but the ghost doesn't like beingness ignored and screams in her confront, forcing a response. The ghost smirks triumphantly… but when she sees something in the distance, she apologizes to Eun-tak and scampers off, saying how "information technology" was true after all.
Information technology's Shin, walking downwardly the street in her direction, and they lock optics for a long moment equally they laissez passer. Images flash through Shin's mind, and he stares with something alike to recognition.
Eun-tak continues on, and Shin turns back for another look.
At home, Shin's grandpa retainer presents him with travel papers for his trip abroad. The rules aren't explicitly given but it sounds like we're in a transition period, and Shin comes in xx-year intervals. Gramps notes that Deok-hwa is now 25, and will be here to serve Shin when he returns. He also notes a little sadly that if Shin leaves now, he probably won't see him once again in his lifetime. Shin thanks him "for every moment."
Deok-hwa bursts in, withal sputtering virtually his canceled credit cards, lament to Grandpa that it'south no good being a chaebol if he'due south going to cut him off like this. So Deok-hwa notices the travel documents and asks if Shin is going away to search for his bride. Shin ignores the questioning, and sighs at the thought that Deok-hwa will be serving him when he comes back.
Eun-tak wakes up early and gets breakfast going for the "one man, two women" she lives with: her grouchy aunt and two spiteful cousins, who mutter that Eun-tak cooked seaweed soup on her own altogether. Aunt orders her to produce her bankbook today, and when Eun-tak insists that she doesn't have a surreptitious account, Aunt throws her rice bowl at Eun-tak's head, saying that the insurance money from Mom'due south decease has to exist somewhere.
Eun-tak swallows her tears and retorts that Aunt was the ane who sucked everything dry, including their onetime business firm deposit. Her female person cousin mutters about Eun-tak seeing ghosts, and Eun-tak gets in ane dig by proverb at that place's a ghost stuck to her cousin's dorsum.
Later, she sits alone with a altogether cake by the shore, looking out at the water.
Shin sits out in a sunny field of flowers, and thinks back to a previous conversation with servant-grandad, who'd asked if he was leaving alone once again. Shin had sighed that no woman was able to see his sword. The old homo had called it human greed to wish for the bride to appear whenever the sword brought pain, and to then also wish at other times that nobody would know about it.
Shin had smiled at him, saying that for tonight he was happy: "You are still with me, the liquor is plentiful, and for tonight at least, I want to exist alive." They clink glasses.
So at present, as Shin plucks a handful of flowers and paces in the field, Eun-tak lights her altogether cake. She'd vowed at the age of nine not to make wishes, but is breaking that now because her situation is then urgent. She closes her eyes and prays: "Help me get a part-time job and do something virtually Aunt'south family unit and please let me get a swain. Please!"
That please rings in Shin'southward ear from miles away, every bit does her plea for a solution to her miserable living situation. So Eun-tak opens her optics and wonders what she's doing, and whom she's praying to, as though god fifty-fifty exists.
The skies rumble and the current of air picks up, and Eun-tak quickly blows out her candles—and somehow, the wisps of smoke appear in Shin's hand. Eun-tak yells indignantly at the skies, asking if information technology's going to pelting on top of everything else.
Suddenly, Shin's voice calls out, "Is it y'all?"
He's standing there by the sea with her, and asks if she's the 1 who called him here, and how she managed it. Confused, she says she didn't phone call him, just he instructs her to think about what she did to make it happen.
Eun-tak informs him that it isn't that she called him, "Information technology'south simply that I see you. Because I met your heart by blow in the street the terminal time. That's you, right?"
She explains that he's a ghost, and she sees ghosts. He denies information technology and asks what her deal is, pointing out that she doesn't see any of the normal things she should see—things like her future.
"I must not have a future," she replies. She continues to talk as though he'south a ghost, instructing him to cull the skilful place (afterlife) and to not wander around too long, which isn't skillful for him.
Noting the flowers he'southward holding, she asks to have them, maxim they don't suit him. He identifies them as buckwheat flowers, and when she wonders what their significant is, he replies, "Lovers."
Recalling that she'd been crying, Shin asks which of her wishes (job, aunt's family, boyfriend) prompted the tears. She'south startled that he knows well-nigh the wishes, and he replies that he sometimes grants wishes.
Eun-tak asks if he's a wish-granting genie and wheedles for some money. Instead, he gives her the advice to say goodbye to her family, and work hard at her craven store job, which she'll be getting before long. He vanishes into smoke, and Eun-tak calls after him, "Hey! What about my swain?"
When Shin returns dwelling, he'south startled to observe the reaper there, and asks what he'due south doing in his abode. Reaper says in surprise, "You lot live here?"
That'south when Deok-hwa appears and explains that this house goes empty for xx years at a time, which amounts to a lot of missed rent opportunities. Ha, Deok-hwa's such a scammer-in-the-making. Shin indicates Reaper and asks, "Do you even know what that matter is?" Deok-hwa chides him for existence 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's already paid. Deok-hwa slinks abroad quietly.
Shin tells Reaper to take dorsum his money, just Reaper holds up the signed contract. Shin sets it on fire. Reaper says it'south 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 accept away his buddy Deok-hwa. Conceding, Shin tells Reaper to pick a room and consider this his house. Reaper: "This is my business firm." Shin: "It's mine."
Dinner continues the animosity betwixt them: They sit down at opposite ends, and Reaper picks at his vegetables while Shin cuts into a steak. They bicker some more than, and Reaper sends a pepper shaker flying into Shin's water glass, calling information technology a fault. Shin sends ruddy pepper flakes spilling into Reaper'south dinner—another mistake.
Bolstered past Shin's prediction, Eun-tak goes from eatery to restaurant applying for jobs. She gets roundly turned down from shop later shop and grumbles at Shin'southward words.
A passing man tosses a cigarette into a trash can, and Eun-tak jumps up to put out the burn that starts. Shin suddenly appears to say she chosen him once more, and she just as strenuously insists she didn't. She asks him what his verbal nomenclature of supernatural beingness he is, and complains that he got her hopes up about this supposed chicken shop job she'due south 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 draw everything about her, and he rattles off details: "Compatible. Pretty." (She smiles.) "The uniform is pretty."
She asks if he sees wings, calling herself a fairy, like Tinkerbell. Shin practically rolls his eyes and vanishes into fume.
And so as Eun-tak sits in a church service, something gives her an thought and she tests it out afterward. Lighting a candle, she blows it out and waits.
Around the corner, Shin appears. She exclaims that she'south figured out how she called him, while he chides, "However, don't you think it's not quite correct to phone call me here?"
He explains that he can't vanish in the church ("Consider it a type of DMZ") and starts walking out, while she pesters him well-nigh her three wishes, none of which have worked out. He says the chore volition happen presently, but she cuts him off to say she wants the boyfriend wish instead. Shin: "And so you lot put in some attempt!" Haha.
Later, Eun-tak tests out her theory using a candle-bravado app on her phone, so lights up when Shin shows up, right on cue.
Annoyed that she was just testing it out, he turns to become, and Eun-tak grabs his arm—and suddenly, it lights upwards with wispy blue-greenish fume, similar the kind that enveloped his sword. She lets go, saying, "It's so hot! I thought information technology would exist common cold because it was bluish."
He reminds her that blue actually indicates the hottest heat, and she pesters him to simply give her money instead of the wish. Shin'due south eager to get going, having a memorial service to attend, but she pesters him so much that he tells her to hurry and say her slice.
Eun-tak asks him not to misunderstand before launching into her explanation: She thought he was a reaper at first, but a reaper would have taken her abroad. 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 once more what her bargain is. "It's a footling weird to say it myself," Eun-tak replies, "but I'yard the goblin'due south bride." She thinks the birthmark on her cervix is why ghosts say she's the goblin's bride.
She shows him the mark, and Shin thinks dorsum to the night he saved her female parent and makes the connection. He tells her to prove she's the goblin's helpmate, and she asks how. He tells her to draw him, giving her no other clues, and then she sizes him upwards and goes with: alpine, expensive wearing apparel, thirtysomething.
He replies that if that'south all she sees, she's not the goblin's helpmate, and is useless to the goblin. While information technology's too bad she can see ghosts, he says that it's a side event of breaking the rules, so she should live gratefully.
Eun-tak gets upset to exist told she'south useless, asking who he is to determine her value. He reminds her of her birthday wish to improve her life by as little as a penny's worth, and calls himself someone who worries about a penny's worth near her miserable life. "Live in reality," he advises, since she's not the goblin's bride.
She follows him out the door angrily to have her say, and then they both look around in stupor considering all of a sudden, she'southward in a different country. He's stunned that she could use the same door-portal that he did, landing them in Canada.
Eun-tak takes in her surroundings and the extent of his powers, then declares that she has come to a decision: "I'll ally you! I call up you lot are a goblin. I dearest you."
She beams at him, while he stares dorsum blankly.
COMMENTS
Overall, I thought the showtime episode was strong and stirring, once I got by the needlessly long running time that crammed ii 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 simply meeting, but it really did feel similar the producers intended the episode to terminate at the hour mark (when the goblin meets his bride), and and so just tacked on the side by side episode to fill out the xc minutes. So it actually felt like the episode slowed in the 2d 60 minutes, because things had arrived at a natural climactic signal, and so simply kept going past information technology.
That aside, it was an impressive start, and the loftier product 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.) It's quite an interesting plot setup, and I think we might want to brace ourselves for tears down the line, because, as Eun-tak's female parent noted, the goblin'south predicament is romantic and sad, needing to find a human bride in order to dice. Expiry isn't simply a possibility only his entire goal.
The gods were certainly cruel when they leveled their punishment on him, and I like this drama'due south interpretation of deities every bit the stuff of Greek mythology—they're powerful, just indifferent and jealous and arbitrary. I detect it oddly satisfying, in a vengeful sort of manner, whenever a human says at that place's no signal to prayer because the gods don't bother listening, and knowing they're right. I suppose you tin can discover that kind of thinking angry or nihilistic, merely trust Shin to take the positive approach in treating information technology equally a reminder to live your reality on your ain, 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 information technology is unfair and harsh: As a man, he did nothing wrong, and was hated for existence exceptional at his duty, and for that he is cursed with eternal mourning. The penalization is peculiarly effective because Shin is loyal and loving, and seems to take every expiry very hard. I wouldn't blame the guy for choosing to get after revenge as the first matter he did post-revival, but he was quite torn upwards almost being blinded by that need while the true-blue granddad died. (I'one thousand hoping the little male child survived and will reappear, and will cling to the thought that Deok-hwa's lineage had to proceed from him.) I'thou sure there are more people for whom this expletive would exist more of a benefaction—just as long as you're non also sad near the people yous outlast!—just Shin says little and feels securely, and it lends him tremendous pathos.
There'south zero that guarantees a sad ending, necessarily, since the writer tin always find a dissimilar resolution to the setup than having Shin fulfill the curse and disappear. Merely the prospect of him dying will e'er hover in my heed, and information technology lends a bittersweet smoothen to everything, doesn't information technology?
Speaking of the writer, she was the greatest source of my wariness, because [insert rail record], simply I practise think she does better when there's a fantasy or genre chemical element to her story, rather than a simple romance, because I oft want more substance to the bantering and glib coaction. She hasn't done fantasy in a while, and Secret Garden was fantasy-lite, so I'm very curious to run into how deeply she'll accept us into this mythology, and how much worldbuilding we're in for. I hope lots, considering 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 all the same work, given that the goblin's trajectory is and then moving on its own.
The goblin-reaper tension is shaping up to exist quite entertaining, but I like that there'due south more to it than uncomplicated grudging roommates or bromance. If the goblin'south bride is the reaper's lost quarry, their whole relationship puts everything in peril, and I look frontwards to seeing how each political party reacts one time the identities are made known.
The story definitely lightened upwardly and brought in the sense of humour once the couple met, and then I'1000 not sure how much of the bear witness will turn to rom-com, but I hope it retains that sense of melancholy and blahs, which is the thing that grips my emotions the well-nigh. I recall Kim Go-eun is a great extra, but her chipper moments sort of rang fake at times, and the grapheme kind of seemed a flake all over the place, emotionally. I'm hoping it'due south more of a graphic symbol thing than an acting thing—mayhap the character is forcing cheer to encompass up her despair, which works for me. I'll go with that for now.
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