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The King : Eternal Monarch - Episode 1

I opened Netflix this morning, thinking I would continue watching Eternal Love as even as a second time viewing, it’s amazing, however, this was in my suggestions and it looked like a new drama. So I clicked on it. I am not a huge fan of Lee Minho’s acting, let’s face it, but since he’s so popular, he ends being in very promising dramas. They don’t all end up being very good (like I had to force myself through the Heirs even though there was a fabulous cast for this drama), however, I’m still curious. So since there’s only two episodes on now, I’ll just give this a try before going back to my Yang Mi and Mark Chao. And it’s been a while I didn’t watch any K-drama so I am happy to change things up a little bit.

Okay so we start the story in a questioning room. The guy is telling a story about a flute that was given to the king by the sea dragon king, or something like that. That bamboo wasn’t just any flute, when you used it, it would solve all the problems in the country (war, drought, diseases, etc). That guy clames that he’s 70 but still looking 40 because he has that flute that he took from his brother. The inspectors don’t care much about the flute, they want to know if he killed his brother. He says he did because he had the world in his hands but didn’t do anything about it, that he was king only because of being born as a legitimate king.

Which takes us to a flashback of 1994, when he took the four tiger sword. And kills his brother with it. Before he takes the flute. Than a little king comes. He’s not afraid from stepping in all this blood, but gets to tons of crying when he sees his dad dead on the floor. So he grabs the four tiger sword to avenge him, the uncle is like who do you think you can hurt with this? Little kid says at least I’ll try and slices the flute in two while trying to do so. Uh oh. I don’t think mister uncle will be happy about that.Plus he cuts his hands, which drenches the flute in blood. Well the half that’s left in his hands. That little kid orders to punish that evil uncle, but woops, those men are all working for him. Then, footsteps, someone else is coming!

While the uncle tries killing is nephew with the flute, it becomes very graphic and bloody. Anyways, that persons shoots pew pew pew, the little prince hides the second half of the flute and they leave because the royal guards are coming. That masked person checks on the prince, the prince takes his id card, the guys leaves.

And switch to people morning the king’s death and another prince coming along, but like a grandpa old one. They are looking for the uncle, Lee Rim, but he’s nowhere to found yet and the grandpa prince says he must have planned an escape route.

Which he did, in the bamboo forest he went through some kind of portal or whatever it is. Then he finds his double self, a guy in a wheelchair, most likely paralyzed. Wow, he just kills the disable guy. Then the double of that little prince comes in too, seeing his uncle dead and tries to fight again. But we don’t know if he gets killed this times we jump to the coronation of the little prince.

The throne is so beautiful. Okay I am weird, but I love props. So little prince is now little king and he mourns his father for 26 days.

Next, is the officer from earlier asking a woman if the corpse is her husband. She doesn’t seem very interested in her dead husband and wants to go back to work. Okay, back home she’s more than happy that her husband is dead, she didn’t like him so now she can leave with her son. But then the creepy uncle stands up and who knows what happens, we are back to the little prince mourning. And another kid bugging him. His father’s friend’s son. Seems, according to some granny that it’s a plan. I like that little guy with his mushroom head.

So far, I am at the middle of episode one, it seems interesting, however, I wonder if it will always be like this, jumping back in forth between the two worlds... Because it gets a little confusing for me when they do that.

So finally, that little boy collapses crying, saying that he misses his dad. But where is his mom? Awww, that mushroom head starts crying when he sees the king crying. Awww they make friends. Lee Gon (the little king) gives mushroom head a sword and names him the unbreakable sword. How cute is this.

At night somebody found a corpse. I think it’s the other uncle from the the other world. The doctor coming for the autopsie says it cant be a suicide, it has to be a shooting by the royal guards. So he will have to lie about the autopsie... I don’t like that. Lies always bring bad luck...

So one of the guys working for Lee Rim is now a farmer and ten years go by. One day, Lee Rim suddenly shows up to him saying he has seen another world and he’s taking him there.

And we are back to 2019, with a girl probably extremely rich in a private helicopter. Oh, seems she’s the prime minister. I love her dress. That bright red lace ** I want the same (but I would probably look like a potato if I was to wear something like that). They are searching her because her bra rang to the detector. She’s like sorry, wireless bras don’t support properly my breasts hahaha. Oh god, I love her.

And okay. I am no Lee Minho fan, as I said previously, but wow wow wow. How gorgeous has he become. Loved that big shot on his face. Handsome. Hiiii!

So the old granny hides talismans all over the king’s room so he could find love. I love the granny. But he catches her on the spot. She tells him he can’t marry the prime minister, she almost called her names haha, and tells him to get married to stabilize his power haha. He says he’s not interested in getting married and producing heirs and she’s like how come you’re not interested when you are of age and a decent man hahaha. Love you granny. Did she just that he might be gay if he’s not interested in woman? I mean for him to say that she’s the first woman to be impolite to him ever since he ascended the throne. Must be of something like that. He tells her to stop with the charms and that he’ll meet as expected with the prime minister in two hours.

So he’s out horseback riding. I want to go horseback riding to. The prime minister comes to him before time, so they can take pictures and she makes sure that they look intimate. I am not sure if he likes her or dislikes her. Mushroom head grew up to be quite handsome too by the way. And so far, not sure if they made Lee Minho play a jerk that isn’t a jerk again. Please tell that’s not it. I want to see him play a different character...

So the king is reading Alice in Wonderland to the kids and one of the girls asks him if he has a girlfriend. Since he doesn’t, she suggest he does like Alice and follows the rabbit. How cute. And then it’s a rowing competition and somebody is running after a girl and because of the crowd he shoots in the air, which gets the army at him wooops. And the girl escapes, wearing a bunny hoodie. Which Lee Gon sees and remembers about Alice following the rabbit. Okay. Predictable, but adorable. What the hell? He’s like running barefoot? His feet are going to be injured. He loses her.

Okay I love mushroom head. And I should stop calling him mushroom head. He’s Jo Young. Bringing shoes to the king that he doesn’t want, telling him to wear a bullet proof shirt and saying he’s going to give himself a warning for not convincing Lee Gon to wear it. Because he is the highest rank so nobody could punish him. Jo Young asks him why does he want to find the culprit himself, but he just wants to find that person who came 25 years ago. Jo Young points that this person must have aged a lot so he might not recognize him.

Here I must say I am so happy about it that they used Alice in Wonderland because it is my favorite fairy tale of all times. Anyways. That’s all I have to say about it.

He kept the id card of the girl, Jang Tae-eul and she was born in 1990? How weird is this? How could she save him when she was for and be an adult? Strange. I love mystery! Good points for this drama.

Okay oh wow. She’s from the other world as to be expected and she’s a bad ass police officer. She crashed her car into a criminal’s car to make him come down of his house and then she smells something and decides to go back. There was a corpse in the trunk of the car. Wow. That girl is really something. And I love how she kicks their asses. I love fighting scenes and this is awesome **

Lee Gon spots the rabbit girl and runs after her, after he called his horse. But at some point the horse doesn’t want to keep on going. In the bamboo forest. He found the door. And he goes through it. I mean, that’s dumb. Why would he. Tae-eul seems him and tries to stop him from going on with his horse, but he doesn’t. Well he’s king where he comes from, I guess nobody tells him what to do. He recognizes her as that girl. She scolds him for causing traffic and asks to show her his ID card. He gets down his horse and checks her ID card, says he finally met her and hugs her. Oh my, why are all the ships happening so fast with Lee Minho? Is it because he’s a beautiful man? I mean, as he longed for her all that time because she’s pretty?

Okay, but the previews makes me think it’s going to get interesting. I am not hooked just yet, but I am enjoying this.

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