#TKEM ep 15

[coreancitizen]

"Where are you going this time?" "Yeong ... " "Don't even think about it. Wherever you go, you can't go alone. I will go with you, no matter where it is, whichever battlefield it is. Even more so if it's somewhere you can't return from."

[v-vernon-wang]

Ep 15 got me stressed on another level. I'm not confused and confused at the same time 🙃

The fact that we have to wait another week for the last episode. The LAST DAMN EPISODE I'M-

[maculate-mango]

Tell me you’ll come back. That’s the 10th rule.

No matter what happens you have to come back. That’s the 11th rule.

Catch Lee Lim, and even if the door closes, open all the doors in the universe, and return to me. Promise me you’ll do that. That’s the 12th rule.

[cheerupcha]

The King Eternal Monarch Ep. 15

"When it's fate, there are no coincidences."

[ms-interpretation]

It is a truly beautiful and heart-wrenching moment

This scene really fucks me up. In this episode this is the first time we seen them be selfish by having some time for each other regardless of the impending doom looming over their worlds. Everything has quieted down and it’s time to truly say goodbye but they won’t allow it. Just basking in each other’s presence like this you can feel their yearning, they desire to remain together even when there’s a high probably of never seeing or remembering each other again.

Quietly looking at each other in the eyes makes them realize that this is truly their last time. The way they are positioned, Tae-eul looking down and Lee Gon looking up, is a visual cue to us the viewer to reminds us, regardless of what cute time they spent together, they are still from different worlds and with major responsibilities. And while the space between them in the bed is small and could be easily breached by either of them, no matter how much they try to be together and close off that distance between worlds, it still feels large and vast. We are supposed to have visceral reaction to this scene not just for its small ntimacy but also for the yearning they feel to be a normal couple.

This might be my favorite scene composition of the whole drama. It was beautiful!

[clementineesotsm]

THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH EP 15, My Appreciation and How It Made Me Feel

PM Koo teams up with LR. At least that is what PM was thinking. But for LR, slight different. He thinks PM will somehow give advantage for him but ended up disappointed, because PM cannot become a queen, and suspended as a PM. She cant even near a high position now. She cannot get Gon or Kingdom of Corea and that pisses LR off. PM become greedy and put her guard down. He thinks LR wanted a cooperation and inform him that she will take Gon’s flute for her. Which makes LR mad and choke her 🤣🤣 LR asking her to bring him into Gon’s mom mass memorial day and leave her

Gon is back to kingdom now. He hugs Lady Noh so tight 🥺 he is thankful to her for everything that she have done for him. Apparently Gon indebted to her much. I loved her punchline “i know pyeha / 압니다 폐하” means she understand things that Gon cant even / doesn’t have to explain. I love their relationship

Gon exiled Prince Buyeong’s son so that he cannot go back to Corea, because he found out that he is LR accomplice on the treason night. Gosh i hate that man!

Apparently Gon took KSJ to Corea to let him see his real mom. This scene was well made! Acting wise, amazing. KSJ lines, amazing. Music, amazing! Poor KSJ. He is also growing up becoming a stoic character 🥺🥺

Conversation between KSJ and Gon feels a bit heavy. Gon told KSJ about his plan, apparently he dont plan to save himself this time. The target is to get or kill LR. So Gon is planning to go and sacrifice himself for the good 🥺🥺 i loooove Gon’s facial expression here. And his eyes speaks his fear but also trying to accept his fate. Something like “sigh-ing”

LR was back to Korea to prepare his big plan. But unfortunately he let his guard down, SJH put poison in the food to kill herself basically. And LR minion couldn’t save her because Gon was set to cross the portal at that time so times stops. SJH was finally relief to be able to die, but here i am crying 🥺🥺 and her using LR punchline before while dying was cool thought by the writer! “Did you pray?��� !!!

And did you realize? LR face most of the time was always stain with blood. Poor him 😅

Another appreciation was to the editing team, they did a great job in this scene. Especially for the scoring 💯💯💯

LR took his gun and run outside, then he met Gon!

LR “i even transcends death, but how is it that im unable to avoid you? How did you find me here?”

Gon “it would be good if it was me alone, but im not.”

“Some one sets the time (SJH)

Someone chases after you (i assume this was KSJ/the detectives)

Someone prays for you to get caught (this could be Lady Noh and JTE)

And someone is going to fight you (Gon, JY, KSJ) “

Then LR said that Gon should have wait him at the memorial not confront him here. This kind of storyline was fresh for me too. Because usually story like this always go with “make the doomed happen first then resolve it after” but with TKEM, the main character manage to prevent the doomed before it happened. Which im fine with it because its possible. But i kind agree with LR. Can we get that chaos in the mass memorial first then solve it? That would be epic. But then maybe they dont have enough time to explore that. Maybe in another timeline, reality or universe. But this is also satisfying and well done. If you can prevent it, why not? That is more work in a smart way.

Gon then took LR to bamboo forest to check on how to use the flute to travel back to 1994. What Gon knew, the flute need to be whole inside to do so. But then how to do it was a bit tricky. It needs both LR and Gon to be inside the space between 0 and 1. Because each of their blood soak into each of the flute. Gon was a bit in dilemma because he need someone to go inside the gate with LR in order for it to happen. What scary was nobody knew whats going to happen with that person if he succeeded or fail. All assuming that person will go inside and dead. Then KSJ volunteered to do so. OMFG! P.S then we also got a glimpse of the portal when the flute was whole. Kind of cool. If fills with so many universe and possible of eternity life !

SO THE LR INTERROGATION THAT WE SAW IN EP 1 WAS ACTUALLY FROM EPS 15! Wahh im impressed. I did not see that coming! Gon also doing his final honor for SJH and buried / burned her body properly (brb cry 😭) and to prepare if something bad happen he ask secretary Mo to announce that Se Jin (Prince Buyeong granddaughter) will be the first in line to replace Gon if something happen to him 🥺🥺 Secretary Mo and JY looks worried

Then something weird happened. Suddenly the flower that Gon gave to JTE on eps 10 disappeared. JTE worried that Gon already preparing for the reset and he will be gone forever from her memories 🥺 she comes to see LR and ask where is the flute? LR was pissed here, because he don’t understand why people are not scared and tend to give their lives away to make things right. He doesn’t understand love 🥺🥺 and LR was stays evil to the end because he kills Se Jin and swap PM Koo mother. Which is very scary! KGE, LJJ, LMH, JEC acting in this sequence was out of this world. The director and all team was making this sequence very well too. All the thrilled was there even though it was just a short scene each. I loved them more now but we are left with only 1 episode for the finale 🥺🥺🥺

In Korea, JTE released Luna. JTE have a planned to go with LR into the space between 1 and 0 because she is afraid if Gon will alone doing his duty 🥺 She basically ready to leave Korea forever because she asked Luna to take her place while she was gone. JTE asking Luna to steal LR to bring him to JTE and JTE come to KSJ to ask for the flute and let her replace him to do the duty. And it was the most heartbreaking conversation between this two friends and one of the most heartbreaking confession i have ever watched. I loved how they shot this scene, the camera seems to be shaking, i think its cool and also the way KSJ holds JTE hand 🥺🥺

Kudos to KGE and KKN here! Damn! Where is your daesang again?!

Finally here we saw that jacket of doomed which we saw on eps 1 and eps 10 worn by Gon. Its his ceremonial outfit that he supposed to wear during his most glorious moments. And him following his destiny to die for the sake of doing right things, teared me up. Before he go back to the past, he visit Lady Noh for a final goodbye, seriously i cried. He told Lady Noh about kim sowol poems, Gon knew that she was coming from Korea. Gon was also conveying his feelings to her “thanks to you, i can read such a beautiful poems”. Gon asked Lady Noh to let him go again and the way she said “if i let you go this time, will you ever comeback?” And cried, teared me up too. Meanwhile JTE also prepared to go with LR inside the portal, she is using the necklace from Gon, the one that has the symbol of Corea 🥺 its for her also her glorious moments. Surprisingly Gon going inside the portal not alone, JY was there to company him. As what he promised, he will be there in any battlefield Gon is about to go through 🥺🥺🥺

How it made me feel:

What a solid episode! This eps making my eyes swelled. It was full with bittersweet moments, thrilling moments, a lot of goodbyes, a lot of revelation, and it left me anxious for the finale. How can they solved this all? Can we still get a happy ending? Also this episode was so cool because the ending is the beginning. What we saw on eps 1 was actually a flashback! No wonder the screen size was different. Like what they usually used for past events! Cool!

What i also wants to appreciate is Kim Eun Sook writing skill. I have to admit im not a big fan of her, sometimes her script was a bit cheesy, overly dramatic and predictable. But since mr sunshine and especially TKEM she changed that all and turns out to be more mature. And darker? For me TKEM is focusing more on doing the right things, it has values more than just a rich boys/cool boys meets a cool ordinary girls and falls in love premise and finish. But this time its about true value of love, true value of relationship, about responsibility, vulnerability. At some point it reminds me of harry potter. TKEM gave me the same feelings/premise to while i was reading/watching HP. I loved how it turned out so far, its up to the finale. Will it be one of the best series i have ever watched? Or no?

Also, i really loved how KES writes KSJ character, he has so many reason to be bad. But he did not. I loved how she portrays a very good example of stoicism in his characters. Very good 💯

Another appreciation is for the directing and cinematography, guys, you blown me away!

[crayonflop]

Sierra have you seen the plot of the new KES drama skskskjs, I feel like you’ll have things to say about it...

you are so correct skfjskd it’s sooo funny to me bc the production company absolutely saw the tkem reactions and was like grandma we are NOT giving the money to do this fairytale romance shit again for the 4th time just so we can be laughed at find something new and trendy like school bullying and makjang so she watched like itaewon class and saw how popular twotm and penthouse is and said to her assistants write me something like THOSE but make it about a woman bc we have to prove to the viewers that i can write them finally and so they frankensteined this girlboss revenge plot together skfsdsfjsd but then the network was like well let’s try it out for 8 eps call it multiple seasons and if it doesn’t hit 15% we can just make 8 more and say that was the plan from the beginning anyway this is gonna be like 90% ghostwritten and i live in fear every day until they announce the casting for the male lead

[bublegunn]

TKEM ep 15

[baek1nho]

watching tkem ep 14: i’m so confused

watching tkem ep 15: i’m even more confused

[nettlestonenell]

Re: TKEM aks

1. top 3 would be: ep. 10 "that's why i crossed the universe for you" scene; iconic ep. 13; ep.15 (hospital reunion scene)

2. I think he wanted complete control of KOC but eventually his greed would spread😔 over parallel universe and will attempt to take control of that too. Also to gain immortality or realllllllly long life lol

3. I didn't think it was romantic or at least not yet. But big possibility of going that route.

4. Yes, he'd rather be overly cautious than risk it since if lee gon got fooled albeit for a short time he still got fool. So, who's to say jo yeong wouldn't?

5. Jangmi! lol he's pretty funny lol + twins eps kabi(?) the girl twin and joyeong lmao

Citizens of the Republic, Subjects of the Kingdom, and Gentle Readers, a nice anon has jumped into the fray and submitted answers to some of the questions I posed in this prior post.

[coreancitizen]

"Yeong, just for today. Let me just say goodbye."

[asena-queenslayer]

TKEM Ep. 15 Reactions

SPOILERS

BELOW!

Can the Manpasikjeok open a portal into the screen so I can walk in and punch the living daylights out of Lee Lim

Thank the drama gods for my sarcastic af child Sin-jae; good on you for not bending, mate

I would die for Eun-sup (that's a given at this point)

Ahahaha Yeong's back

Sin-jae and Yeong being good bros and telling Tae-ul to call them if anything happens; I am LIVING

GON AND TAE-EUL ARE BACK TOGETHER - yeah ik it was just one episode IDC - I AM HERE FOR THIS

Aw, the YeongJae bros: Yeong tearing up to see his king again, and Sin-jae pulling out the sarcasm to cover up his feelings

JOGON IS BACK TOGETHER

I'm glad they didn't go the cliche route of an apology being able to fix everything; it is unfortunately true that her son is dead because of him

but at the same time I feel bad for him too; how hard it must be to finally see your mother's face after only imagining her all these years, and even though you know she's not your real one, being rejected so harshly - that hurts.

If your man doesn't blow dry your hair and take you out for walks and order you food when you've been stabbed, is he really your man?

NOT THE UPSIDE DOWN SHOT NO

NOT THE SAD PIANO MUSIC

NOT THE "JUST ONE DAY"

NO DRAMA NO DON'T YOU DARE

Oh my gosh the sibs

Noooo the Jo's noooo

Aww Yeong finally gave him the hug

Man this episode is really all about the pain isn't it

The PM is always dressed like a goddess, but damn does her coat look cool in this lighting

oops

Awww lady grandma Noh

Oh man, Sin-jae... my heart hurts so much for him

it's really not an easy choice for either of them, but I understand why he chose it

HAHA YOUR GUN DOESN'T WORK

oh no it does now

HECK YEAH MY YEONGJAE BROS

SHIT NO MY YEONGJAE BROS

Gon has really pulled the king power this episode and I. LOVE. IT.

number above elevator

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL LEE LIM WHAT THE FUCK

PM my girl...you really got played oh my god

I can feel this friendship shattering for good man nooo

they really had to do the "she was a poem. but he couldn't read." didn't they

HELL YEAH JOGON

BUT HELL NO BECAUSE THIS IS THE SECOND TO LAST EPISODE

guys I just want a happy ending

but I'm scared

so scared

[maculate-mango]

TKEM Episode 15

I mean it when I say I do not have the energy to unpack this episode like I do with every other episode. All I have to say is I’m emotional and this show is a masterpiece. There’s a lot I realize about the story now and I’ll probably be able to talk about that later. I just want to soak in this moment of watching ep 15. I refuse to talk through this episode and theorize as much as I usually would because I want to be blown away by the finale. I will just sob over this episode until next week. And then sob over the finale for the rest of my life. I honestly love shows that rip my heart apart, but I’ve only exaggerated when I said TKEM had made me sob because I haven’t ever gotten that emotional about any show. But this episode was the first time (along with the glorious moment) that actually made me tear up a bit and oof. Lee Gon I’m going to miss seeing you every week. Also all the actors killed it this episode!!

If you want to chat about the episode feel free to message me. I’m just going to be dazed for the next week.

[deinnos]

guess who just watched tkem ep 15-16 again 😭

Aaah! 😭 After much thought I think I really love the reunion/hug in Ep. 15 even more than the one in Ep. 12. Something about the way they hold each other is so intimate to me, especially since Lee Gon’s been away for 4 months.

[velvetierepost]

The King: Eternal Monarch Ep 16 Finale Release Date: TKEM Episode 15 Recap

The King: Eternal Monarch Ep 16 Finale Release Date: TKEM Episode 15 Recap

Netflix’s Korean Drama “The King: Eternal Monarch” is schedule to wrap up with its episode 16 finale on Friday, June 12. The “The King: Eternal Monarch” final episode will show if Emperor Lee Gon and Detective Jung Tae Eul can have their a fairy tale happy ending love story. It will also show the grown-up version of Lee Ji Eun in the Republic of Korea.

“The King: Eternal Monarch” Episode 16…

[crayonflop]

they really wrote a whole article about tkem viewership dropping because of excessive product placement.. we just gonna ignore the entire train wreck to focus on that being the reason?

well it is out of control tbh like okay they spend 10 mins an ep on coffee and boba or whatever, 15 mins on chicken, 20 mins on samsung phones, 5 mins on zooms of car logos, 5 mins on multi use beauty products and kimchi, 5 mins on jung eun chae’s light up face mask at that point they’ve got like 10 minutes left for any actual plot but we need to spend that talking about how good looking everyone is so i guess we’ll save the plot for next week so while ppl is not the reason i think it is a factor