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TvN Drama "Bride of the Water God" 2017 - Nam Joo Hyuk, Shin Se Kyung, Krystal etc.


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So even though Hoo-ye has been built up as being this big sinister villain character because of his supernatural backstory, "Bride of the Water God 2017" promptly undercuts this by reminding us that Bi-ryeom is a genuinely malicious person (well, god, whatever) who's fine with threatening children. It really is a badly mixed message. If Moo-ra and Bi-ryeom are allowed to enrich themselves with supernatural connections, why is it so bad for Hoo-ye to do it too?


 


That's perhaps the most questionable worldbuilding element at play in "Bride of  the Water God 2017".  The gods don't serve any obvious purpose to anyone, even themselves.  They're not even an excuse for director Kim Byeong-soo to liven up proceedings with special effects. They just ramble on and on about pointlessly complex backstory and rules that lack any obvious relation to currently ongoing problems.


 


But then even currently ongoing problems lack any obvious relation to the greater plot. I frequently feel as if "Bride of the Water God 2017" is missing entire important establishing scenes. Take the whole bit with the amnesiac monk. It took me way too long to figure out who that was supposed to be and why Ha-baek finding him was such a big deal. No doubt part of this confusion stems from how until Ha-baek finds him, it didn't seem like anybody was even looking for him in the first place. 


 


We're far more likely to get exposition of  the romance between Ha-baek and So-ah, which at this point rather hilariously has nothing to do with the plot at all anymore. At one point, Moo-ra even explicitly asks why So-ah is in the room while all the gods are discussing plot points that have nothing to do with her. So-ah's only apparent contribution to "Bride of the Water God 2017" is that she is the titular bride apparent to the water god, even though there's no indication that Ha-baek wants or needs a bride.


 


 


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Our water god is having a harder and harder time denying his feelings the longer he stays in the human world, even when he has every reason to know better. He has a lot of friends and people to help him, but his quest on Earth is one he’ll ultimately have to complete alone. Ha-baek still has a lot to learn about the hearts of humans and gods, and until he understands both, he’ll never be ready to be king.

 

EPISODE 9 RECAP

After meeting with Hu-ye to discuss canceling the sale of her land, So-ah heads out to meet Ha-baek. Hu-ye watches her go, and he takes a call from Bi-ryum, who’s at his land. Bi-ryum sneers that he wants to get to know Hu-ye better, referring to Hu-ye’s earth god mark as “that thing on your body that doesn’t suit you.â€

A small voice pipes up, and Hu-ye looks stricken when Bi-ryum hands the phone to the little blind girl, whose name we learn is Min. Furious, Hu-ye bellows that Min has nothing to do with this. Bi-ryum tells him to come quickly and sends Min away with Jin-geon, the silent minor god. When Hu-ye arrives, Bi-ryum officially introduces himself and Mura. Bi-ryum notes that Hu-ye doesn’t act like a god, with the way he’s so nice to the blind girl. He says that when they were younger, Mura thought of Hu-ye as a disgrace to the gods, but that now she’s giving him a chance.

 

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Bi-ryum adds that Ha-baek’s feelings are clear, and as for himself, “I just hate you. I always will.†Mura tells Hu-ye to explain why he carries the earth god’s mark. Hu-ye says that he met the owner of the mark when he first arrived in this world.

We see the younger Hu-ye running through the forest after his father shoved him through the portal to the human world. Someone had flown at him out of nowhere, and they’d gone crashing to the ground. Hu-ye says that a bolt of lightning hit the person in the back and that’s when he got the mark. Bi-ryum says that he’s heard Hu-ye has killed gods, accusing him of killing Joo-dong too, but Hu-ye hotly denies it. Mura orders Bi-ryum to stop, and Hu-ye looks like he’s barely keeping it together.

 

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Ha-baek arrives to see So-ah, but when he spots her, something seems to alarm him. He runs across the street and grabs her Vanuatu pen map from her hands. On the map are three glowing marks — his lost coordinates. Heaving a sigh of relief, Ha-baek realizes that at the moment he fell to earth and knocked So-ah unconscious, her map must have caught the coordinates.

 

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COMMENTS

While the story may be disjointed and a bit confusing, I’ll admit that as far as the romance goes, I’m all in. Ha-baek and So-ah are obviously falling hard, yet they couldn’t possibly be any more star-crossed. He has to go back to the Realm of the Gods and be king, and because the last human who was allowed to live among them betrayed them horribly, there’s very little chance So-ah would be welcomed even if she wanted to go with him. Ha-baek looked so sad when he found his coordinates and realized that going home meant leaving So-ah, then again at the end when he kept saying he has to go, while kissing her like leaving is the last thing he wants to do. And as beautiful as that kiss was, it breaks my heart, because Ha-baek has been through this before and he knows falling for a human again will only bring heartache, but he can’t help falling in love with So-ah.

I just love Ha-baek’s character development to this point, because he hasn’t changed who he is in any significant way — he’s just becoming a more aware, more sensitive version of himself. He’s still an arrogant ass, but now he’s an arrogant ass who actually cares, and I love that. I’m also glad that he seems to be more consciously aware of his feelings for So-ah, because she’s definitely been having feelings for a while now, so it’s cute to see them dancing around it (especially when they’re angry!). Watching Ha-baek get all cranky about So-ah avoiding his kiss, then get jealous in advance that she might hug another man after he’s gone, was so much fun. I love nothing more than a couple who shows their attraction through petty bickering, and Ha-baek is nothing if not petty. For a god who’s nearly three thousand years old, he can be such an obnoxious child, and it’s hilarious.

 

 

The character development in this episode wasn’t all positive – Hu-ye is definitely struggling to hold onto his resolve to be a good human being. What’s ironic and frustrating is that if Ha-baek and Bi-ryum were treating him with the slightest bit of kindness, he probably wouldn’t be going dark. I really believe that he wants to just live a quiet human life, and that it’s his fear of discovery and his traumatic past that are causing his so-far-controlled destructive powers to reawaken. So I still have sympathy for him, even though he’s on the verge of losing control and hurting someone, because it’s really not his fault he’s in this situation. He’s not to blame for being raised in isolation by a father who despised him, or for the fact that Ha-baek and Bi-ryum can’t get over their prejudice to give him the benefit of the doubt and at least give him a chance to prove he’s done nothing wrong.

But I think that So-ah is going to be a big factor in Hu-ye’s going to the bad side, because now he has a reason for why eh’s so drawn to her and wants to possess her. I still don’t fully understand how it works, but it sounds as though, as a half-god, Hu-ye cycles through lives for eternity, and that the difficulty of that is what causes half-gods to turn evil. He probably lived many lives in his three thousand years in that cave, and I wonder what happened twelve hundred years ago that Geol-rin almost mentioned (that seems tied up in Ha-baek’s trauma too, since that also happened twelve hundred years ago). But as a gods’ servant, So-ah could be made to bond to him, and take away his loneliness. Ironically, it could be Hu-ye’s quest to be happy that finally pushes him to embrace the darkness inside.

I think that a big part of the reason I’ve felt like the conflict in this show is so watered-down (no pun intended) is because the stakes in the primary conflict just aren’t that high. Ha-baek wants to become king, so he needs the stones, but the worst thing that we’ve been told will happen if he doesn’t find them is that he doesn’t get to go back to the Realm of the Gods and be king. There’s no real consequences for anyone but him, and we don’t know what being king means to him, so it just doesn’t feel like it would be a huge tragedy if he doesn’t find the stones and become king. But the conflict of Hu-ye trying to steal So-ah for himself or he’ll turn evil, yet turning evil in the attempt, is a lot more compelling because it actually carries serious consequences. Ha-baek could lose So-ah, So-ah could lose her freedom, Hu-ye could lose his humanity, and the human realm could disappear altogether if Hu-ye controls the divine gate and the gods can no longer visit. Now those are stakes that mean something.

 

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  • love changed the title to TvN Drama "Bride of the Water God" 2017 - Nam Joo Hyuk, Shin Se Kyung, Krystal etc.

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