#now featuring more of my sleep deprived over thinking ✌✌

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Shout out to my fandom wife and fellow poetry nerd Jojo for going on rants with me about the symbolism of bridges on this show. It's no coincidence that both past and present counterparts meet at that same wooden bridge.

There's the:

past meets present

friendship to lovers

journey to destination

life and death

passage of time symbolism more generally

Also love how Mujin named Aengcho after primrose, the floral symbol of youth and love. (Another shoutout to Alex who also noted the symbolism of flowers). Very fittingly and perhaps intentionally in a way that belies Mujin's hidden romantic/infatuated side (that he hides under insults, much like Shin Yu).

The full moon is another constant in both past and present. All these characters have been looking at the same face of the moon since joseon era. Not to be That Girl but is anybody else reminded of Zhang Jiuling's poem Looking at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away. 🥲

It's interesting that the spells in Aengcho's spell book can only be succesfully performed under a full moon. The moon in some cultures symbolizes prosperity, fortune and the passage of time (again), so I wonder if casting spells under the full moon is just considered prosperous or auspicious, or whether it has a deeper meaning in shamanism/in this drama.

The white (pure, clean) spell casting outfit perhaps is meant to imitate the white glow of the full moon.