#can't BuJa catch a break?

[somuchkdrama]

Hwayugi ep 11-12 (III)

But Who Kills Whomst?!

@dramajib: Oh also - Kristin, did you mention the mirrors waaaay earlier on in the show? Because I noticed them so much in these two episodes. It’s probably just some artistic license in direction but it was so obvious to me this week

@triangularlily: I might have I don't remember lol but I did notice that too

@rocknghorss: so do either of you think Ma Wang is right about the Oh Gong/Sam Jang issue?

dramajib: That Oh Gong is stringing her along?

rocknghorss: Yupo

dramajib: Hells nah is my vote. He is so smitten.

rocknghorss: lol agreed.  But the show is making me worried!!  He's smitten but how smitten is he??

dramajib: Like he may try to trick the situation into working for both of them, but if he can't, he's ready to drop. BUT if I understood correctly, the bracelet hurts him when he refuses to do what Samjang tells him to, correct?

rocknghorss: Yup you got it

dramajib: So I'm really hoping this doesn't happen, but it’s still a kdrama so it might - she could find out about this one-of-us-kills-the-other thing, insist he kill her, he might refuse to do it, and then die that way? Although I still think the most likely outcome is that he sacrifices himself in order to stop this apocalypse and then they all get reincarnated

triangularlily: I won't be convinced of the romance until the bracelet comes off, I really wish they would remove it sooner rather than later but at this point I don't think they will

dramajib: Lol I love that we all have such different opinions about this at the moment. The show really improved at the halfway mark, I hope it keeps it up in the second half

triangularlily: I'm definitely enjoying it more

rocknghorss: Me as well.  It feels like we’re finally getting to the heart of the story and there’s less of the “baddy of the week” type stuff going on.  And I actually really like that they haven’t removed the bracelet because it makes Oh Gong still this sort of unknown element.  On the one hand, Ma Wang keeps talking about Oh Gong as if he’s this terrible person, but then Oh Gong is showing his kinder/sweeter side with every episode. So which face is the real one?  

dramajib: Well... They also have this weird (but adorable) friendship where they refuse to admit they care about each other, so he could just be saying that for appearances sake?

rocknghorss: Perhaps so!

Is a Rose Still a Rose?

dramajib: But speaking of baddies... 

You know how they kept referring to Professor Kang as having the potential to become a king? And then this shaman ghost shows up who used to be the king's shaman? I mean I really don't understand this rose petals thing that's happening, but I assume it's all related somehow?

rocknghorss: Yeah, I guess it has to be or else why do all the foreshadowing?  But like, if evil!BuJa makes the Professor a king then is he the final bad guy that Sam Jang will defeat? and maybe if Oh Gong is being mind controlled by the rose petals then he’ll working for the bad guy that Sam Jang has to take down :(

triangularlily:  Yeah I don't understand what the shaman’s goal is.  I mean she wants to be Sam Jang or something? And the king thing?

rocknghorss: Why isn’t there an emoji for “confused shrug”?  Because I’m also lost about the whole shaman-wants-to-be-Sam Jang thing.  Does the shaman just want a living body?  Or is it because Sam Jang has special powers?  Hopefully they’ll explain next episode.

triangularlily: I'm assuming because of the special powers but maybe also because she wants oh gong? Like he is powerful so I'm thinking that's why she wants to control him?? Idk

dramajib: I don't even have any theories to put forward about shaman BuJa. Except that I'm once again impressed by the actress.