Queen Seon Deok (2009)

The show is exciting from the very beginning till the end.

The fact that I can watch 10 episodes continuously WITHOUT feeling the need or being able to skip is itself saying a lot. And I think I can do it again. (Even though when I finished it, I said to myself "If I've ever gone crazy and thought of rewatching it,...")

At some point came one of my favourite actors of all time on screen, and this guy’s stance is no joke. From that point on the show cruelly stole my heart.

I couldn’t stop watching because of my hopeful pipe dreams. And the great drama threw my heart back and forth.

Strangely, I didn’t hate the villains, they were understandable. But I sometimes hated the main characters. They were the ones causing each other pain!

The confrontations between the characters were daunting. My emotions were overflowing when truths came out

I was engrossed in every part of it. It was full of ups and downs. It was breathtaking.

I thought that I’ve been there several times and that I can handle it and stand strong…

And I cannot say enough about the state the drama left me in…(writing it down took 2,189 words)

The OST’s amazingness goes without saying

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Queen Seon Duk (2009) - not my first time to watch a Korean historical drama but the impact unto me is so great that I want to watch more historical drama (because of this). I basically don’t like historical dramas, but this drama is an exception. I felt the emotions of the drama; it was fun, exciting, and heartbreaking. I think the ending is what it should be - which is usually the case for these types of dramas. I thought that I would give up halfway because of the lack of something in the story line but it keeps getting better and the cast too are getting better. This drama is awesome in many ways. Highly recommended.

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The best Kdrama of all time <3

QUEEN SEON DEOK still my favorite drama series ever!. <3 It has been 10 yrs since the first time I saw it from the TV, I got hooked right away! What a great drama series.. I can still remember the whole story. The humble beginning of Deokman as Hwarang until she became Queen Seon Deok. I'll never forget the story how she met the Princess when they are young, the story of their friendship. What a great plot twist! watch it.. The writer of series did really great job. The casts portrayed their roles really good.
QUEEN SEON DEOK will always have a special place in my heart.

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I loved everything about this drama... the acting, the storyline, the visuals, the Hwarangs, historical movie. It amazes me that most of what is told is the truth of what really happened during this era. The visuals, the martial art, the fighting, I loved it. I also loved the strong woman role in which actress Lee Yo Won played. She was on point and it was so sad that in this drama Queen Seon Deok loved but could love. I commend the actor who played the person that loved her but gave up that love so she can be Queen. The storyline of someone having twins born to royalty is not the first time that I have watched it. It saddens me that twins born that one of them is given to commoners or killed. Watching Historical dramas like I'm in a classroom learning how they began and end historically in Korea and China. The costumes were beautiful both for females and actors. Thank you!

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The Lame Queen Seondeok

It would have been such a good show if they packaged it into 30 episodes. They had two subplots about Hwarang side quests that were a total waste of time, they paused the main story for them. While they might have served a small tiny purpose but the drama could've accomplished that without these easily. I read somewhere that the drama was extended from 50 to 62 episodes and I can't help but wonder if there was a direct correlation between extending the drama and introducing the character Kim Chun Chu at episode 36. Because both decisions were worse than one another. What made me more suspicious that this was the case was because it felt like someone has pushed the soft reset button on the story as a whole around episode 36 and everything took a big step backward. At this exact point I was about to mentally check out. Prior to episode 36, they had this Hwarang competition which was already the weakest checkpoint at this point so what came after only made things worse. Fast forward to the last chunk of episodes, all events post Lady Mi Shil involvement were clearly an unplanned afterthought which led to an underwhelming final climax. The is exactly at the extension gap between 50-62. Away from the poor pacing, the characters showed promise until they stopped. Guess what? It happened also after episode 36, the female lead who used to be a character full of characterization became a soulless blank of wood, boring, bland and dumb. There were many other examples of characters who went through the same downgraded transformation around the cursed episode 36.

The story had one major point of disconnect that the writer blatantly swept under the rug, it single-handedly broke the story apart. The female lead came from a hermit living in the woods into her position of power immediately without any regard to any other factors concerning anything. The only justification we were given is that she read books while growing up and was raised in the streets. Her parents had no role in the process despite being the king and queen, not even for emotional support. All I see is just poor storytelling. The background music mixing was trash. Every scene started with low-ish background music, got progressively louder and became unbearably loud and intense until the scene is cut. Repeat this 20 times every episode and endure the nausea. Around midway through I was thinking this is a good 7/10 drama despite the Hwarang nonsense but it turns out that this drama was the perfect example of a drama having a good 1st half and fumbling the 2nd half so hard. I wouldn't give it more than a pitiful 5.5/10.

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true enemy of nation was royal family not Mishil

whole drama was good to get 9/10
and i write it only to tell you one spoiler that real enemy and villain of this drama wasn't Mishil
but Vile Kim Chanchu, he was a real MF of that time, if his mother would not have died then he would have killed and eaten her raw , that kind of demon Chanchu was ,
Mishil had morals but Chanchu was worst kind of human, he was disgrace to human race
his lust for throne and his aunt Queen Seon Duk was so big that it can swallow whole Korean peninsula itself
Bidam man that try his everything to save his mother Princess was killed by Chunchu who wasn't even a man

how deokman uses son against his own mother, and then kill that son merciless
just like her great grandfather jinhaung uses mishil and then order to kill her after her use
Royal family did all sins to keep throne because that belong to them,
Grandfather was evil his son was evil, his granddaughter great seonduk was evil and the most evil Bitch CHUNCHU

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I have mixed feelings!

Honestly, I started watching this drama because of Park Eun Bin, who has like 30 minute screen time overall?? But I have to be honest. The first couple of episodes were hard to watch, also the makeup for the hair and beards were terrible most of the time and I couldn't focus on the story because of that. I don't know why no one cared about the fake hair and beard on the male characters, but maybe there's a reason for that. After like 30 episode or so, these fantastic actors made me forget every bad thing about this show. It's far from perfect, but overall I think I will watch it again one day when I want to be sad again. I really don't know what the hell is wrong with me, why I love so much shows with sad endings.?

I don't really know how to describe what Lee Yo Won, Go Hyun Jung, Kim Nam Gil and Uhm Tae Woong did on this show! All of them are exceptional actors. Also, the music, Jesus Christ! Every time I heard: "Step by step" and "Come people of God" just made me cry, honestly.

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