Scarlet Heart Ryeo Ep 19 Lee Joon Gi Junki Boring

Tuesday  1 Nov 1:12p.m.

So boring. No wonder the ratings fell to Moonlight Drawn by Clouds.

Moonlight Drawn by Clouds above 20% ratings. That's because they have a cute & lovable heroine & a super handsome Yoon Sung (Section Chief for Education & Culture played by Jin Young). I don't care for the Crown Prince but Moonlight has a refreshing sense of humor, is upbeat & with better OSTs.

Scarlet Ryeo is so boring. Joon Gi is trying so hard to lift the whole drama by himself. Now that everyone is dead, it shows that it's weighing too heavily on him. He can't carry it all by himself. He's not handsome, face so thin & sharp. Eyes beady & small. Small thin body. Which part is handsome? He glares all the time. Misunderstood by everyone. So boring.

Worst of all, Hae Soo is so boring. Completely transformed instantly from being the life of the party to being completely dead. Of course with the death of the Court Lady, it's understandable she won't be the same as before. But she's so subservient, so dead, so obedient as if she belongs there.

Hey, she isn't from that time. She's from our time. Why is she falling into that palace role thing so easily & so fast? And so miserably? And got herself so badly tortured that she won't be able to walk normally again. What the heck for? She's not from Goryeo. So irritating watching her.

Because they removed the element of her fighting to get back to her own time, the whole thing became just another boring historical-type drama with a dull female lead.

That's why the ratings fell. Also, Joon Ki was gross in dripping saliva in Ep 18. I forwarded that part. What's the matter with him? Did the actress who played his mother mind that his saliva was dripping on her hand (or on her)?

It's like you need to drip loads of snot to be credible that you're grieving? Singapore actors & actresses used to do that. Completely gross. I tell you, real grieving people don't cry & drip snot like that.

Ep 18, I  actually completely forgot to watch. Usually, I will tune into the Chinese-subbed site first thing it came out. But that night, I was watching Moonlight Drawn by Clouds replay (since it ended at Ep 18 earlier than Scarlet). I was downloading to watch the early episodes & completely forgot about Scarlet. I only remembered I didn't watch Scarlet the next morning when I realized that "yesterday was Monday".

I wonder how they are going to end Scarlet. Where else can it go? Hae Soo left the palace. Very few elements left to play with. It's like the chess board is at a point where the few pieces got nowhere to go.