I am so obsessed with this drama, it's not funny.
This scene between Gongmin and Nogook! How angry Gongmin was (and jealous that Nogook might care for Choi Young) and then, he asked her, almost as a challenge, whether she did all that because she was concerned for him and she answered yes, she was worried sick, and his face OMG his face. And then when she added she won't do so again and won't seek him out and his face again...Oh God, I ship them, don't I? His shields are so close to crumpling.
I just love this shot, and I love that it's Eun Soo's compassion that gets her taken away by the bad guys.
Good Lord! This is like every shoujo fantasy come true - all the cravings I used to get fulfilled as a much younger Mousie when I used to devour Fushigi Yuugi. Because he barely comes awake and finds out she's been taken and gets dressed, while he can barely stand (I am noticing a pattern, Choi Young - you won't love long if you are so brutal to yourself!), and goes off after her - all by himself! Into the bad guy's stronghold! The bad guy who has hundreds of soldiers! And Jang Bin asks him about his plan and he replies 'frontal assault.' OMFG. OMFG. But all of it pales to the fact that he is told it is a royal order that Eun Soo be given to the bad guy and Jang Bin asks him if he's going to disobey a royal order and 'perfect soldier' Choi Young, who has obeyed every order to the letter, no matter how much he loathes, just looks at him, and proceeds with his rescue plan, disobeying the royal order without a pause. OMFG.
Here for the prettiness of the bad guy's assistant and the gorgeousness of Choi Young.
This scene! RDH is an amazing actor, especially for his age. He is playing perhaps the most complex character and he is doing it so well - you can just feel the mind and the will and the inexperience and everything warring. What almost breaks him isn't the insults or disregard of his enemies, it is the distrust of his wife and Choi Young - that neither of them even contemplates he can have a plan and a conscience, that he didn't just send Eun Soo away because he was weak or uncaring, but because he had a plan for her survival. But the thing, Nogook is worried for him and he doesn't share his plan with her, so how would she know? And Choi Young barely knows the King, knows nothing of any plan, and the past King he served was a monster who destroyed his soul, so he is not the most trusting or emotionally healthy man out there...
The whole sequence, with Choi Young fighting his way through all the soldiers and the supernatural flunkies, cutting them like grass to get to Eun Soo...my heart!
He is so prettily homicidal...
You know what really gets me? He actually tries to clean off his blood before he goes in to see her - in the middle of battle and everything. Somehow this small gesture really got me.
This scene! Their chemistry! Their chemistry! The way she still calls him 'psycho,' the way she cups his cheek to check he is not ill any more, the way they look at each other, and that chemistry chemistry chemistry!
And then bad guy with his retinue shows up and Choi Young confesses he came to rescue his woman because he loves her! I love the look on both the bad guy's and Eun Soo's face! LOL. I don't think he (consciously) means it, he is just saying it to throw them off kilter and to keep it personal and not political but I am still !!!!!!
I need ep 6! Now!