And it all went down as Kokdu had planned. So when Kokdu shows up at Chairman Kim’s office, hairpin in hand, acting menacing and claiming that Gye-jeol has stripped him of his no-kill training wheels, it’s no wonder that a terrified Chairman Kim grabs the hairpin when he gets the chance and uses it to stab Kokdu right in the chest.Ĭhairman Kim’s hubris is his downfall, though, and as he boasts about how he killed a god, he fails to see the obvious: that he, like, totally just killed someone. With a little help from Cheol, Kokdu finds a way to make Chairman Kim believe that Kokdu’s stab wound from Joong-shik, which hasn’t healed yet, is Kokdu’s weak spot. So… does this mean that there is no escaping the curse, or is it proof that they can break it? Not sure, but Kokdu sets out to try and end the cycle and, at the very least, prevent Gye-jeol from killing Chairman Kim and herself. On the bright side, Yi-deun lives, but he’s in a coma. I guess I should be thankful that the writers were trying to be creative and avoid the truck of doom cliché, but it was still just as random and over just as quickly. In what is probably the most WTF scene of this drama thus far, Chairmen Kim hires some men to drop a sign on some poor unsuspecting child in the lobby of the courtroom, and while Kokdu uses his powers to rescue the kid, another hired thug shows up and stabs Yi-deun. Yeah, that uplifting we’re-about-to-turn-the-tide-in-our-favor moment doesn’t last long. Instead, Yi-deun volunteers to be a witness and provide his body as evidence to prove Chairman Kim’s new drug causes cancer. With Joong-shik in a coma after an attempt was made on his life, Kokdu is in need of a new witness, and - much to Kokdu’s annoyance - Yi-deun doesn’t get on his plane to the U.S. Unfortunately, all signs point to the curse doing its thing again and making history repeat itself. Oh-hyun still feels like an outlier, though. However, if he was selfish enough in his past life to woo a princess for personal gain and the destruction of her country, then his modern day personality checks out. I always thought Kokdu’s selfishness seemed at odds with what we’d seen of Oh-hyun, and I was confused how centuries of being a god of death and destruction would warp his personality in such a way. And the hairpin is what the Princess of Nakrang used to destroy her kingdom’s mythical drum and betray her people, which caused a war and a whole lot of death.Īhhhhh, now the severity of Kokdu’s curse makes a lot of sense, but I wish we’d learned about this sooner because it explains so much about the curse and Kokdu’s personality. Yeah, yeah, nothing new here - except, if I’m interpreting the ajumma’s cryptic words correctly, we’re to believe Kokdu was the Prince Hodong in his life before he was Oh-hyun. Instead of telling the truth about the suspicious circumstances of her relative’s death after participating in the drug trial, one of the witnesses accuses Ok Shin of bribing her to give a false statement.Īfter a bad day in court, Kokdu finds the hairpin in Gye-jeol’s room and seeks out the mysterious ajumma, who tells him that all his misfortune is his fault. Case in point, on their first day in court, Chairman Kim threatened Kokdu’s key witness into lying on the stand. And because Kokdu: Season of Deity hasn’t tried to be a legal drama yet, Kokdu follows through on trying to punish Chairman Kim through the judicial system, which is (realistically) the only setting in which Chairman Kim can fight dirty and still come out on top against a god. And if that last sentence confuses you, get used to it because this couple is on a seesaw, going back and forth trying to hide their own feelings - or certain key details about curses - in order to prevent each another from feeling pain.īut hey, miscommunications are the best way to eat up time in a K-drama, and when the main villain is a weak ol’ human, the writers have to find some way to delay his inevitably anticlimactic takedown. You see, Gye-jeol decides to keep it a secret that she has remembered her past life in order to spare Kokdu from being miserable that she is feeling guilty over being the cause of his curse. The weather forecast calls for at least six inches of dramatic tears.Īlthough there were a few bright spots of humor this week, our story mostly took another long and depressing turn as we dived deeper into the convoluted mythos that has tried to hold this drama together like a metaphorical duct tape. As the countdown clock ticks closer to zero, our OTP realizes they’re on the path towards repeating history, so grab an umbrella, Beanies. Our drama doubles down on the angst this week because our (not a) grim reaper’s days are almost up. 25 MaKokdu: Season of Deity: Episodes 14-15 by DaebakGrits
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