Well, that was more kdrama than any kdrama I've ever seen! This thing is written by my deepest id.
Yes, this is only Melitta's fantasy, but it's ridiculously hot, so here it is...I ship those two so hard it hurts.
Naevia is so gorgeous!
Just the looks they give each other, without a word spoken. My heart!
This scene killed my heart. When he tells her he resolves a thousand times a day to forget her but "Then I catch a glimpse of you, and my world ends." Oh my God. And she tells him "I have never felt greater love than when I hold my husband in my arms." Because she is killing her own yearning due to duty. And his face. You guys, this is better than any kdrama ever!
OK, that was beyond creepy. Lucrezia has Crixus brought up and orders him to 'service' her, so she can give a son to her husband. There is fucked up, and then there is this. The moment any of the good guys (or gals) will have a happy, uninterrupted, consensual sexual encounter with someone they like, I will faint from shock. Also, I have realized that except for Batiatus' elderly papa, we have yet to meet a non-rapey Roman, of either gender.
Gannicus is set to fight Crixus, and if he loses, he gets sold to Tullius. And he looks at Melitta and loses on purpose because he cannot bear to be in the same house with her and not have her. My heart my heart my heart!
She comes to find him afterwards and, perhaps because she knows that is the last chance, she finally gives in to her feelings.
But in the middle of it, she starts choking, because she's been poisoned (long story), and as screams at her to breathe, she dies in his arms. No words, you guys, no words. This has got every kdrama out there beat for angsty dysfunctional tragedy. Holy fuck.
Yeah. Your owner's wife killed the woman you love. Good job, Team Evil!
