Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016)

This isn't a drama that you need a reason to watch... Just, watch it and feel it....

This drama is actually the top launch..... hats off to the cast and crew who dedicated their hard work to this drama...The screen play was soo amazing. and it never made me , who always forward the scenes to watch it quickly , to fastforward it.
This drama made me laugh and cry along with it....It also made me regret for not watching it 1st when it came on my recommendation...>< I just wish for the second part to be released...though I know its not possible....
Yet let me hope it happens some day... and I'm also waiting for Lee Joon Gi's next work...
#waitingffor2ndpart #moonlovers2 #scarletheartryeo2

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I love the concept, acting and the OST is the best ! This drama will make you cry like a baby, I hate it because there is no 2nd season ??, I bet everyone is waiting for the 2nd season, but the is no any rumour saying that huhu... Great drama to watch, I dont usually like historical drama but this one is an exception! Before you watch better you prepare boxes of tissue !

Sipnopsis :
When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, a 21st-century woman, Go Ha Jin, is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo, an aristocrat living with Lady Hae, her cousin who happens to be married to one of the sons of King Taejo. She soon befriends several of the princes, who find her carefree and exuberant attitude refreshing. Although she knows she should not get involved in palace intrigues over the succession to the throne, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the struggle, as several of the Princes fall in love with her.

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This is less a review and more of a memoir of how I feel right after I've finished watching.
The story definitely made me feel. I was angry and heartbroken at various stages, particularly the end, I started watching this because of IU but by the end, I was really tired of her character. I was surprised by myself because my I was not th The inking of her as IU any more but Hae Soo, and Hae Soo's misplaced compassion and lack of understanding of So bogged me. I really could not understand how she felt so strongly about the death of her 'sister' when it was a story of utter betrayal. are we to accept that the worst crimes are forgivable because someone was in love? The martial part of me really wanted more use of the sword instead of just accepting the usual needs of politics. In the end, it seemed that even So did not have fierce defiance and will to overcome everything that had been promised at the beginning.
I almost felt like skipping the last two episodes even as they were running because it was so predictably going wrong. The flashbacks did not help. They reinforced the fact that the leads got almost no happiness through it all. It was just fleeting. i don't think the 13th prince's love story's closure was handled properly.
I still give it a high rating because the pain moved me and I could see such a lot of IU. However, I won't be able to rewatch it. I had expected tragedy throughout the time but i felt a lot of it was preventable and the characters just wanted it to be tragic; they were just so stupid at times. That's not like how I like my characters.

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Second half of show was a melodramatic mess. The thing I hated the most was when the 4th prince (the scarred face) would grab Hae Soo’s waist and pull her close to him. It happened way too often and it looked more like he was shoving the lower half of the her body onto his own. She was always grabbed and the guy was manipulative and toxic.
Yeah, the second half of the show, after it’s “dark turn” in it’s storyline, fell into a sinkhole. It felt like The writers didn’t know how to write Hae Soo’s character anymore and she became a dull, flat, boring character. Maybe the second half of the show was written by another team of writers. Her character wasn't appealing to begin with. The ending also sucked.

IU's acting was bland and still the same in other shows I've seen her in.

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Even though I watched it a long time back, this is still a memorable drama for me as it was my first kdrama (thanks to this I ventured onto watching so many more wonderful ones). Lee Joon gi nailed the role and all other characters had great chemistry with each other which made it pleasant to watch it. Every time I watched an episode, I was transported to another universe and it was absolutely refreshing. The story was good and although I did feel it dragged a little towards the last few episodes, the ending made me tear up. I would definitely recommend everyone to watch this drama and be prepared to be snatched away from real life as this drama will surely take you to a whole new world.

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Even with the tough reviews online… it is worth watching

I did not check the reviews before starting… trying to avoid being biased and all that.. just read them afterwards… and a lot of what has been said is true.

Let me clarify that I have not watch the original Chinese version… only this one.

It is true… I was very frustrated with this “love story” between Hae Soo and Wang So…. It did not happen until mid season. It came to a point that I actually thought I read it wrong..l that she would end up with The brother Wook… but no… finally after more than 10 hrs, it happened.

The best in this drama comes from Wang So… he is amazing.
I was rooting for him since ep1….

But Hae Soo… well… it took me very long to like her. She is supposed to be modern-contemporary woman… and in the beginning she was… but also very naive and clueless to the actions of others. Very self centered.

She meets 7 princes.. and after 3 episodes, almost all of them started to like her. Like she would just smile to them and they would be immediately smitten. For princes that had any woman in the kingdom at their disposal… it was hard to believe.

The actors playing the brothers were also very good. You will immediately like/hate them .

Having said that… this story has the most iconic scene I had scene ever…
Wang So covering Hae Soo from the rain, while she is on her knees in front of the palace.. beginning for the life of her friend.
No words were needed…. His action spoke of his courage and his love for her.

This scene made it worth watching…

I admit, I cried at the end… Wang So’s karma came back to bite him in the ass…

And yes.. the ending could have been different.. it is obvious they made it in mind of a season 2 that will never happen… leaving us with unanswered questions.

Do I recommend it? Yes…. Wang Wook and Wang So make it worth it.
Will I watch it again? No

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Perfection !!

I am usually very careful when it comes to dramas rating , I don't walk around distributing high ratings for every drama I've liked ; it has to be perfect !
There are (so far ) only two dramas I rated 10/10 , and moon lovers is one of them . It has been 5 years and it still siting on the top of my K-dramas list. I remember crying my eyes out and getting into depression after finishing it .
This is neither a typical time traveling drama nor a usual historical drama ; it's deeper than that. The leads did a great job presenting us the complex characters of the story ; I must also applaud IU's acting that has improved a lot since her last drama. And the OST is just OMG , amazingly amazing !
The love story is unprecedented , it's not the sweetest one but definitely the deepest one.
It's a drama full of life lessons ; family love , sacrifices , greediness , power struggle ...
To sum up , it's a MUST WATCH !

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Daebak!

First of all let me get this straight that i watched this drama for IU. In episode 1, the whole cast is introduced and I was really happy to see JiSoo and NamJooHyuk there. They are really my fav ones.

Story line was epic. The fact that it was all in goryeo with all these cute princes and ofc Hae Soo it became really intresting.
How the story moved on from all the comedy to the actual politics and fight of attaining the throne was at a good pace. REALLY GOOD PACE.

Thing which made me quite sad was that people were judging on the basis of a scar. These things are considered Taboo in today's time and I am really relieved for that.

As we all know their is supposed to be this one bitch whom we all mutually hate and can never like her. That was the princess Yeon Hwa. I just can't stop hating her.
We can justify the greed for throne of others as they wanted to protect something or someone but this girl was just playing to get to the throne which litreally made no sense. She could have married some other king and could have became a queen but idk why she was so obsessed with the throne of goryeo.

After all this time the one person who was trested the most unfairly was Wang So followed by Hae Soo.
Wang So never got the love of his mother. He was hated by her over something for which he was not even at fault. Even though he was not greedy for the throne still she was misunderstood by people for no reason. At the end after becoming the king, he still did not kill his brothers and was a really good king. All efforts he did for the Baekje Slaves are Daebak.

Coming to Hae Soo, she was unexpecteely in goryeo where she was not even supposed to be. Even in modern times, she was sad and cheated by people. See ing how many people were there to save her, she was way less lonely that Wang So. After all this, she was cheated by the girl she trusted the most. It kind of makes her pitiful.

All other characters were there as jewels to decorate this long lasting love which was between ages.
Cinematography was one of a kind.

Points to look forward:
1. That amazing friendship and bond between the princes and Hae Soo.
2. The slow yet amaizng romance in the middle of all the chaos.
3. Lots of cuteness, which was later taken over by maturity.

P.S.
Also, get a handkerchief after episode 8-9 as you will really cry a lot

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Great Drama - Recommending It to History Lovers

This drama is fantastic if you're into historical romances. It isn't 100% accurate to the true story, but how can we blame them? The influence takes place around 925 when Prince So was born up until, I believe, 970-980. Not talking about Hae Soo. Although, making that poor girl relive some crucial moments in history where she would experience so much pain is cruel. Her main goal changes from avoiding the murderous king to wanting to change him.

I do HIGHLY recommend watching this series with your brain turned on. All of the character's outcomes and stories are very tragic. But no matter how high their hair goes, don't fall for these types of men in real life. Hae Soo is an example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in both life times. So, keep an open mind, and do not project for the sake of your own sanity, they will not be the same as these fictional characters.

I will say, when you get to episode 15 or 16, the writing gets a little carried away and reels more into filler. Those have to have been my least favorite episodes out of the two.

The score they set up for the heavy emotional scenes is very well-done. Really good music does set a nice tone for a drama, don't you think?

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I was watching moonlight and moon lovers one after the other, While Moonlight was light sweet and fun, Moon lovers is dark heavy and melodramatic.
It certainly is addictive and engrossing, but tends to frustrate you on a lot of issues.
I loved the part with the princes meetings, they were the lighter moments of the drama. Lots of intrigues and twists which sometime you like and sometime you feel...why??
The first love story su/wook is given much more time to develop and grow than the Su/So love story, confusing the audience who to root for. Besides how can a nice kind person suddenly change overnight. not possible. All in all I found the character of Su very fickle and indecisive, switching princes..its annoying. Just not well written, to top it off the actress although better here than her previous works, is so expressionless. I don't know about others but I had very little sympathy with her and found her choices annoying.
The end was kind of incomplete. Lots of things are left for the audience to figure out themselves. I would have liked it better if they had some parts of the present day life between characters.
Overall I liked it but not as much as the other sageuk I have seen earlier. Don't expect too much but deserves to be watched atleast once.

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Even though I had seen the original version of this drama, I gave it a try because of Lee Joon Gi.

First, this drama is not similar completely to the original ( include the number of the princes, the personalities of princes and so on).

Second, of all people, Lee Joon Gi's acting is dominant in this drama. He is so good to convey complicated feeling of Wang So- the fourth prince. He is 11/10 acting. Just perfect! Of course, his character is different from the fourth prince in Chinese version.

IU is neither stiff nor good. Her acting can be accepted. She knows how to act innocent and how to cry. However, she cannot show the different faces of her character and she cannot express the complex feeling when it is necessary. Her acting only improved in the last two episodes.

Kang Ha Neul is also so good at his role, especially first few episodes, but now his character does not shine brightly as the first few episodes. The writer perhaps has not invested in Wang Wook character right now. I do like his personalities in the beginning but I do not like how they solved the triangle Hae Soo- Wang Wook- Lady Hae.

Other princes are handsome but I do not understand why they need many princes when the number of episodes is limited. The other princes such as the tenth prince and thirteen prince is too stiff. They need to improve a lot.

The quality of the direction and music and even story are going up and down. Some episodes are good, some are bad.

Those episodes in the middle of this drama are well done. But both the beginning and the other half of this drama from episode 14 is very boring. The final episode is ok.

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