#Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

[tenartist]

silly goblin au!

[ikjun]

You have to summon me right away. That's easy.

쓸쓸하고 찬란하神 - 도깨비 GOBLIN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD | EP. 13

[mostlyfate]

I don't want you to die. There's no particular reason. It's just that I would be a little bored if you cease to exist. You can get mad at me. How can I get mad at you? You used to want me to die, and now you don't anymore. Also, there's no guarantee I won't turn into something hideous.

We really became friends with each other. Actually, it's been a while since we were.

Take care. You too. Regardless of the time or how your life may be, be happy. I've had a good life until now. Don't make it rain.

[fuckyeahgongyoo]

Happy New Year from Goblin and Reaper!

[destinnaaa]

[dramashii]

GUARDIAN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD (2016) in Canada 🇨🇦

[userchali]

She says I'm a strange man. I guess I lack a lot of things. Especially a business card.

[0ut-of-my-head]

Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet… A girl who flutters like a flower petal… pulls me with more force than that of the Earth. Just then, like Newton's apple, I rolled and fell on her helplessly… with a thump. With a thump, thump.

Goblin || Dokkaebi (2016 - 2017)

[bengiyo]

Goblin is One of the Best Shows Ever Made

Thanks to @lurkingshan using @kyr-kun-chan against me, I completed Goblin aka Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.

I will say plainly that I think this is one of the most excellently-calibrated pieces of media I have ever watched. The show balances the attention span and varying interests of its audience perfectly. I like romance well enough, but I am so much more invested in stories about the Warrior's Bond. As soon as they revealed that Goblin was a loyal general betrayed by his king, and now forced to roam the earth in search of connection as he intervened in the lives of people struggling with ideation I was HOOKED.

This show gives so much attention to everyone's loneliness in a way that no other show I've watched balances correctly, because Goblin uses its comedy as a relief valve so well. I cried so many times because this show has so many decent people in it trying to do their best. I also ugly cried about a dog.

It's rare that I enjoy a tragic piece of media as much as this, and I get why a quarter of the Korean population was tuning in live to watch this. The timing of this scene is the best episode ending I have seen in years.

I'll probably have more to say about this later, but Goblin is an excellent piece of media because it makes me want to watch more historical kdrama. I enjoyed this and Kingdom a lot, and am genuinely interested in more now.

Bonus: This show let me read Deok Hwa as gay the whole time and I respect that.

[jjessayy]

Goblin KDrama is proof that the best trope is “immortal gods are just as immature as the rest of us”

[alifelivedtwiceover]

Rewatching Goblin and thinking about how the death of a centuries-old god lies in the hands of a small, unlucky girl.

How he looks at her with age old eyes that hint at I-have-seen-it-all-nothing-can-surprise-me and yet we see him surprised and flustered by her. We see him at her mercy. She is the love of his life. She is his life and death. The irony in the fact that she lives because he saved her and her mother but he has to die at her hands. His strength in being able to carry that. She is so so young, he is so old. She has poisonous relatives who wish her ill. He makes it rain when he is sad. He has seen the entire world and then some. She is laughably young and lost. And yet. Somehow. They manage to save each other. No matter how briefly.

This young misery-befallen, persevering, surprising girl. With an uncertain future. With no where to go. This old lonely guardian god who keeps serving his punishment. And both of them living, in spite of it all. And both of them of them, finding each other, precisely because of it all.

[no-where-new-hero]

i do enjoy kdramas for the shameless romance, of course, but actually most of my favorite OTPs are the platonic ones. ji eun tak and the reaper. hong seol and baek in ho. lee rang and ki yu ri. lee rang and lee yeon. lee eun bi and gong tae kwang. hae soo and baek ah. kim moo chan and kwon seok-joo. i do recognize that a lot of this is second lead syndrome at work and also homoerotic tension, but i do love how the way that kdramas are structured means that all the relationships are fully fleshed out, which lets my personal gravitation toward supporting characters get free rein.

[ikjun]

Any last words?

@kdramaspace 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW | BLAST FROM THE PAST ↻ drama revisited: GOBLIN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD (2016)

[mostlyfate]

Grim Reaper + drinks with straws*:･ﾟ✧

LEE DONG WOOK as GRIM REAPER GOBLIN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD (2016)

[kdramafeeds]

Wang Yeo moments 

06.22.2023

[dramashii]

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016)