16 Comments to “Captivating the King (2024) Episode 5”

1. GREAT ACTING by Jo Jung-suk! I see why he gets these lead roles! He was a stand-out star in Nokdu Flower also 🙂

   I thought for sure she would reveal herself to be a woman when she was cornered.. but like a true baduk player, she came up with a compelling argument to save herself without losing the game. She also did well in this episode. BRAVO.. !!

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2. Did the King just give warning to his Mother that Mongwoo was bringing karma to her? I think that the King intends to use Mongwoo’s thirst for revenge to clean house of corrupted persons. Mongwoo will strike a deal with Kim Myungha, but she underestimates his intentions. She is his end game.

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3. Damn, becoming the King really took a massive toll on his personality, just as it did for his brother

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4. Looking forward:

   • how will Mongwoo laid out her revenge plan

   • the King’s reaction once she discovered the true identity of Mongwoo.

   • Will Mongwoo succeed on her revenge plan?

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5. I am only interested in how much she won in that betting house? I guess she won everything, but how much was that? I want to see the minister reaction, after he lost his money.

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6. What an episode!

   Its so obvious that Mongwoo came back to win the King’s trust inspite the latter got it right re Mongwoo’s intention.

   AND once she regained the King’s trust… that would be easy for her to do her main purpose. But, it wont be easy. So, she needs to take Myungha’s help.

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7. Dumb b****! Why was she hiding in the mountains? Why wasn’t she back to the capital as herself with her maid and as a woman? Like, three years ago!!! Being a noblewoman, everyone must have known her servants, anyone would’ve wondered who was that “man” walking with them!! Dumb script! The King’s character is the only one interesting!

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8. Couldn’t pass the 1st episode. Sooooo boring

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9. What a waste of such brilliant actors. The standard of Kdramas keeps dropping. It’s like I have to take out my brains for me to enjoy this drama. Stupid plot and lazy writing. Hopefully the actors will continue carrying this drama on their backs until the end otherwise, they have amazing chemistry. 🤞🏽

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10. I don’t like the fact that she asks the SML to be her partner in crime for revenge

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11. I wonder why MongWoo did not come back as a woman. She is so pretty dressed up as her normal self and apply to work as one of the palace girls, by chance, the king would spot her🤷🏾‍♀️. The king would have fallen for her straight up. Then she can plan her revenge easily😂

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12. The preview, though

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13. Wow, the tension at the end, I loved it!
    The King chose on purpose KM as an opponent to KMW because he remembered that “she” chose him while she promised the King to play with him.
    I think the drastic change in the King’s behavior is partly due to the fact that he/she died. Now he will get intellectual stimulation in her presence.

    She is going to join hands with the person who wrote the fake confession on her behalf. That gutless guy will stay quiet and do nothing. Their revenge is meaningless because it was all his father’s and his underdog’s plot.

    I don’t remember the guy with the covered eye. Is he a new character?

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14. so let me get this straight….

    she has come to avenge Jongang and the fact that the King ordered to kill her as well, right??? dun tell me she’s avenging her father as well, cz her father didn’t go to Qing as per the current King’s orders, in fact he tried to stop him from turning himself in….

    and i think Jongang is alive, dun know y, i could be wrong, but when they left Jongang’s body, someone was there hiding and i think it was either the King’s man or someone who just happened to be there and probably had saved her….

    so Mong woo apparently has just this reason that the King killed Jongang and her and she’ll use Kim Myung ha’s hatred towards the King for support, as he killed his father……

    but what plan does Mong woo have??? I mean she came back with the same name, same appearance, the King has recognised her and her intentions, obviously….so is she gonna try to win his trust??? by doing what??? by becoming his baduk partner and probably saving him from an attack or two which most probably she and her “group” will execute????

    i would’ve liked it if she had returned as a woman and then tried to pave her way into the palace and King’s heart and then executed her revenge…..

    well his father deserved what he got, and dun know what he’s trying to take revenge for, cz he’s also involved in forging the confession at that time and actually his stupidity played a major in getting his father killed…. so I dun feel an ounce of pity towards him and if he dies quickly, that would be better…..

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15. he’s the one who’s doing all the killings and the King is being blamed for it….???

    the King, as i said last time, has and had none of “His own” in the Royal court, and he knows all what anyone is doing but can’t do anything about it other than giving them warnings cz the moment he tries anything, the three Hwans will go against him as well and he would be dethroned and killed that very instant….

    and exactly the reason the King doesn’t trust anyone and knows people’s intentions, or at least of those, whom he ordered to be killed and they came back alive…..he might look senile as well and i dun blame him, he’s been in Hell himself for the last three years…..and him having trust issues is a must….

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16. Many things to talk about here. First off is her plan in the beginning is flat out stupid. Getting in close to what? Slay a killing blow for the revenge of all through the old Prince Deok somehow? That failed so you decide to go do it in person?!?! REALLY?!?!? Recognized twice before even getting face first back within the King’s presence only to immediately be recognized by himself and the bodyguard? Give me a break………And let’s not talk about the obvious name bringing direct attention even before all that. None of this is credible from the start but ok~
    Again, let’s remind everyone that our newly appointed 6th Secretary has only to blame himself for the plight of everyone in the drama. It all started with those words, wanting protect things that did not belong to him at all. That false testimony he concocted resulted in the death of his father, HER near death, and the future King becoming an angry individual with trust issues equal to that of his late brother. That deception is what has the King on such a murderous path because we all know for both intents and purposes he was a righteous man with fairness for all in his moves. Both FL AND ML are not aware of this yet and this dude really needs to be brought to task for this ASAP. Hope he fails in the Peach tree revival~
    The court officials the dramas always have undermining the King’s power. The main two from the original King’s court are some of the most incompetent ones I’ve seen in awhile. They aren’t sly or intelligent at all. The tactics used to bring down the 1st will obviously not work with the new one yet they keep bulldozing ahead with idiotic actions and decisions both. And it seems to me the newest and youngest one of the 3 seems to have more smarts then all. The weird thing to me is the court lady still in the employ, did they not mention the King here seems to be slowly developing paranoia and the sickly symptoms that ended his brothers life?

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