Queen Seondeok: 47-51

SPOILERS, Y’ALL, SPOILERS!!!!!

I just can’t believe she’s gone.  GONE!!! Mishil has left the building! As the series went on, she just kept getting more and more gangster!  You know you are bad when your ENEMIES cry when you die.  But, we got 12 more episodes to go! How much fun is that going to be?

Let’s explore the departure of The Evil One, shall we? The thing about Mishil is, yes she’s bad, but she’s the kind of villain who thinks she is actually doing something for a cause.  So while she did some bad, BAD things, Mishil had an up side.  How do we know? Because way back in the day that the show doesn’t show us, she was down with people like Munno.  In several of her final speeches, she waxes poetic about her love of Shilla, her lost comrades, how she and the former king basically “built this city.”  She’s got loyal followers that don’t include her pathetic husband Sejong, her puppy-love boyfriend Seolwon, and her in-need-of-serious-help relatives.  She did surround herself with the best, and they remain loyal, perhaps loyal out of fear, but loyal nonetheless.

Like so many good serialized historical dramas with swords and intrigue, no one is saccarhine-ly sweet good, or dark black heart-of-darkness bad. Can we talk about Munno for a minute? You think he’s all loyal, down for the cause, working to get Deokman as queen. Dude’s got his own agenda, and it don’t include the queen! Can we talk about Chunchu for a minute? I know our righteous side is the forgiving sort, but am I wrong in believing that dude had Munno whacked? You can’t act all innocent now, buddy. And I’ve been fighting it, but hey, I know that Bidam is headed for disaster, but he looks very sexy manly doing it!  I can totally see how his behavior is motivated by his failure to work out his abandonment issues coupled with Deokman’s mixed signals when it comes to him and Yushin.  I just wonder as I head into the final episodes, how do we go from “yay, we’re number one” to coup #3.

I know I’ve said it before, but Deokman and Yushin work a nerve.  Just putting it out there, again.  And while I’m at it, Archeon is still my boo. He definitely needs more screen time!!!