In Episode 9, as Lee Gon is looking through a series of surveillance videos on Jo Young’s laptop, he comes across one in which Tae Eul is dressed differently from when she was actually in the Kingdom of Corea.
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In the video, we see Tae Eul walk past a young boy with a yo-yo. The young boy then looks up and directly into the camera. The date on the đoạn clip tells us that it was taken on May 27, 2022.
We’re 15 episodes in & we’re still no closer to lớn ascertaining the identity of the scruffy kid with the yo-yo that keeps showing up và speaking in riddles.
There are times in which he appears khổng lồ be observing events as they unfold. There are times in which he directly intervenes and changes the course of history. Like when he frees Tae Eul from captivity và gives her a knife to help her escape. When she asks him who he is, he simply responds by saying that he’s “trying to lớn restore the balance.”
In episode 10, during the funeral of Prince Buyeong, the episode suddenly cuts lớn the Republic of Korea where we see Lee Gon show up to give Tae-Eul a bouquet of flowers. She knows there’s something different about him but doesn’t let on. He tells her he loves her deeply và walks away, leaving her sobbing uncontrollably on the ground.
Later, in Episode 12, when Tae Eul sees the jacket that Lee Gon was wearing và asks him about its significance, he tells her that it’s what he’ll wear at “the most glorious moment.” He adds: “For example, when I’m holding flowers in my hand.” We realise then that for the Lee Gon of this timeline, the moment in which he gives Tae Eul the xanh bouquet hasn’t yet happened.
Which Lee Gon, from which timeline, shows up to give Tae Eul her bouquet of flowers? Why vì the flowers disappear – Back lớn the Future style – in Episode 15?
At various points throughout the series, Chief Park disappears from time-to-time & asks different members of his Violent Crimes Squad khổng lồ serve as his alibi. When they ask him about his whereabouts, he simply replies: “Solitude.”
Towards the over of Episode 15, Tae-Eul frees Luna from her restraints & tasks her with protecting her father & family in her absence.
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What did she promise Luna? Or did Tae Eul give Luna exactly what she’s always wanted by allowing her to lớn be part of a family?
From what we’ve seen so far, we know that the time travel in The King: Eternal Monarch doesn’t exist within a single continuum. This isn’t like Bill & Ted or Harry Potter, where the experiences in those characters’ futures were always a part of their stories. This is made clear in Episode 14, when Lee Gon travels through time implanting different memories in those around him.
What’s unclear, however, is whether these characters can only change some things in their past, or everything about their past. The former would mean that there are certain fixed points in their history that cannot be altered. (Think Terminator and the inevitability that is the rise of Skynet.) While the latter would lead lớn an infinity of alternate timelines. (Think Back to lớn the Future, or J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, or X-Men: Days of Future Past.)
Why is this important? Because it could determine whether or not Lee Gon và Tae Eul have a happy ending.
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The King: Eternal Monarch will air its much anticipated conclusion on Friday, June 12. You can stream it on Netflix.
You can read our review of the series here.
Uma has been reviewing things for most of his life: movies, television shows, books, đoạn phim games, his mum"s cooking, Bahir"s fashion sense. He is a firm believer that the answer lớn most questions can be found within the cinematic canon. In fact, most of what he knows about life he learned from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. He still hasn"t forgiven Christopher Nolan for the travesties that are Interstellar & The Dark Knight Rises.
