Park Si Eun (Hae Myung) confirmed in a recent interview that originally she was supposed to appear in three episodes only. Because the early scripts got leaked, the writer had to rework it and her presence was stretched to five episodes.
The episodes we've seen didn't deviate that much from the leaked scripts except for the pace and minor details. In fact, what we saw still lacked some key scenes like the beginning of So-Baek bond and So-Soo nightmare/stone pile scene that were only partially added in the director's cut or Korean version later on. The one thing that truly did change was the mask kiss scene that went by in less than the blink of an eye.
Darn it, Kang Hannah's interview revealed that there was more of Go Ha Jin's story before the time jump that would have explained Hae Soo's character better in the first episodes. Also, there was an edited scene (of possibly the real Hae Soo) that explained why Yeon Hwa hated Hae Soo so much. Seriously! It's all the director's fault that the domestic ratings suffered from the beginning. Even while stretching out the first few episodes, they left out such important scenes (that they had filmed!) (there's also several scenes with Chae Ryung that were cut that would have made her and Hae Soo's bond more convincing later on) from them. Just what have they done?!
Both Yoon Sun Woo (9th prince) and Kang Hannah have mentioned that the scripts were so spotty that they had to flesh out the characters themselves (to the extent that 80% of Wang Won's lines were ad libbed on the spot).
There was also a long interview with the designer of all the hairpins and other jewelry used in the show that showed how much detailed planning went into the design of each prop. It's really sad to see how all the other members of the cast and crew worked so hard on this show, but the director (who hid all those details with dark filters and extreme closeups) and the writer (who shoehorned in elements from the C-version blindly and reset all character development in each episode) screwed up. While I'm glad for the international recognition MLSHR received, I really hope that this director and writer never work on another Kdrama.
@ruizaio (soompi thread)
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Post time 3-11-2016 05:33 PM
