aww :(

Pity about it being chopped. I didn't watch it but it's kinda sad a story/drama gets the short shrift. The actors/actresses involved must have felt awful, I feel bad for them.

honestly, i watched this drama straight through and i just finished the last episode today....the thing is, they kind of put goguryeo and king muhyul is a negative light, and that's doesn't mesh well with the audience. daemushin and muhyul along with goguryeo are all looked at as a historically proud time for korea, so putting them in a negative light and making nanglang the "virtuous country" doesn't bode well.
i wish jung ryeo won could've chosen a better drama as her first sageuk :(
i mean, she's really talented as an actress. i hope she stars in another drama soon! :D

Well, it can't be helped... the ridiculously long prologue phase pretty much doomed it...

And yeah I agree with Sophia, making out goguryeo and king Muhyul to be the bad guys and so corrupted probably didn't sit well with the audience who loved Jumong and the young Muhyul in Kingdom of Winds (something like that).

Oh dear... 8% for The Man Who Can't Get Married is rather low for a drama that got me laughing like a loon. It's really quirky fun. Guess rating really isn't an accurate indication of whether a drama is good. Yet to watch Ja Myung Go though. The initial 50-ep length deterred me. Now that it's ended at ep 39, I might watch it. :)

So glad this has ended. At least now both JRW & PMY are free to work on their next project and hopefully it'll be something modern this time around since both of them do not suit in period costumes and setting at all.

this drama was great. but rating was just....
writer Jung, Sung-Hee wrote seoul 1945, fashion 70 and Gukhee.
i think she is one of the best drama writer in korea.
this year i saw almost every kdrama(queen sunduk, triple, story of a man, bof, cityhall, sol pharmacy, who can't get married,,,) and i'm pretty satisfied with this year. but to me, Ja Myung Go was the best.

too bad, i planned on watching it but i decided to wait a few episodes to see people's input on it, then i noticed that it was going very slow to introduce the lead cast, and then when they did introduce the main cast i was already watching something else and didn't feel up to it, but i kept an eye on it and kept observing other people's take on it, then towards the end i sort of started skimming through it like i had been doing before except near the end it really got exciting, like REALLY exciting. surprisingly. i think they should have kept it exciting from beginning to end. guess it was just a result of bad writing which is a shame because i think it was great storyline and they could have done wonders with it.

It's a shame the finale had low ratings. Once the story got to the adult characters, it got really good and exciting. I thought the finale was rushed but still bittersweet. I'm glad I stuck with it through prologue...

i personally loved it. but yea it was just a little slow paced in the beginning.

I skimmed through the last episode because I couldn't resist and I'll watch it again when the subs come out. I have to say that I enjoyed the show, not every bit of it of course, but I loved railing at the characters I hated and cheering for those I liked. Like all dramas it had its pros and cons and I'm glad I had started watching it.

I was a little sad Ja Myung Go did so poorly in the ratings too. I watched the last episode today and although it was a bit rushed, the overall quality of the actual series was good. The beginning was bogged down with too much time spent on the child actors but the veterans were all amazing. And both Jung Ryeo Won and Park Min Young were pretty good with their own roles for actresses who've never done sageuks before. Also historically speaking this drama's interpretation, while it may not be popular, has a point to it. For Daemusin to conquer so much land in one lifetime, he probably had to be ruthless and politically astute.

I did not watch this drama from the beginning but caught two episodes last week and thought it was an interesting drama. It has a strong storyline and some good acting. I might try to catch it later.

aww... DREAM will make it up for sure.... cos of the cute guy... tranformed from the cute rich guy to the badass cute boy....

I like sageuks and wanted to like this drama, but the actors and the storyline just didn't do it for me.

Maybe it was too much expectations and poor choices which led to its demise. Not all sageuks are created equal.

I sensed everything was wrong in the beginning. The cast was wrong, Jung Ryu Won and Jung Kyung Ho don't have the charisma for sageuk. After you saw Song Il-Gook as Muhyul in Kingdom of the Wind, Moon Sung Geun becomes a total weirdo. The story could be good, but everything else is a catastrophe.

I'll try watching a couple episodes just to see Jung Ryeo Won.

I agree with all4movies; I like sageuks and I really wanted to enjoy this, but the directing was all over the place. I was excited when the first episode came out, and certainly looked forward to it more than Empress Cheon Chu and Queen Seondeok.

The first episode was terrible, though, and discouraged me from watching anymore of it; it was like an insane fantasy epic with really bad CG and a laughable opening score. The long explanations of the background and text popping up on the screen was actually kind of reminescent of Star Wars. Then they did a confusing "present" scene before jumping back, and at that point, my excitement went from 100% to zilch.

I *had* wondered whether I should've given this another go, so I followed the commentary on the Soompi thread closely, and from what I saw, I'm glad I gave up after the first ep.

Athough rating of drama "Ja Myung Go " is low, I watch for this drama on internet. I love Jung ryeo Won ( Ja Myung ).....She is very beautiful with costumes of princess .

I watched ja myung go and i pretty much loved this drama
i even helped segment it on viikii.net
its a shame others didnt like it
because i know i got so into jamyung go

well, Queen Seon Deok truly deserves to be the winner, and the man who can't get married is a very fun story, no wonder it beat out Ja Myung Go. Too bad now, I hope Seon Deok keeps on delivering good episodes!

I love Ja Myung Go. The story is good, and all the acting is fine. Jung Ryeo Won did a very good job portraying Ja Myung. People in Korea do have DVR and VCR's. I sure they first watched Queen Seon Deok and then go back to watch Ja Myung. At least that it what I am doing with MBC America and SBS-Int. Both series are very good.

That is sad. It was one drama i really liked.

This drama was good...well Jung Ryeo-won and Jung Kyung-ho have chemistry...the last episode made me cry :(

I agree with the overwhelming majority about the slow-paced painfully dragged out "introduction" of the main characters, but the side-character women in this drama were intriguing and worth notice! They are the ones that kept me watching. The second queen in particular! Ruthless and cruel and ambitious but utterly human. Still, it would have been painful to have stretched this to 50 episodes. Cutting it shorter helped the later parts exemplify what the early episodes should have been like--faster, eventful, and exciting!

Ok move on, there's "Dream" waiting to air !

I love it! I love it! I wish it could have shown until Ep 50! I was crying at the end! I REALLY like it! GO JA MYUNG GO!

I think the story had potential, but too bad they dragged it in "children phase". The ending is beautiful, i like how they end it. I`m so gonna miss this drama.

And I love Jung Kyung Ho`s performance, i think he did a good job potraying Prince Ho Dong, because it`s not an easy character, despite all the wrong doing, he`s essentially a kind-hearted man...so there`s love and hate with this character. I`m looking forward for his next project.

Loved this drama.

were war good

I love this drama, i just finished watching it, i wish it could have been 50 episode though, because some parts were cut off, and the drama ended too quickly, i love this drama, too bad ppl in Korea didnt like it

***********SPOILERS WARNED************ >-P

Neeeeh....disappointed indeed. If I knew that the end was like that, I wouldn't watch it. I should have read the sypnosis in "Dramawiki" that says clearky "self-destruction". Ja Myung survived for what? For nothing. At least, she would have saved her country and then, it would have been okay that both the prince and Puku (Ja Myung) died. But nooooo...everything remain lost and all what they really loved are dead or all that they really cared dies along with it.

All this hope so that the end remains in vain. What's the message from all of this? That love is not powerful. If love is expressed, it becomes negatif. And if the feeling of love is controlled, it becomes death.

Here, the cruelty wins in material things.

Perhaps as in spiritual won. After all, only death is allowed the "true love" and virtuous people (if it were against upon the cruelity).

So, in that story line, fate is considered important while it should be faith that should have considered important. Once negatif fate is in track, they'll believe that that's their destiny and that they should follow it.

Faith can also be considered negatif too but it should've been stronger than the fate. That's what that the "movie" disappointed me greatly.

When Jamuk said...dammit, I forgot, but he somewhat said that fate is entangled with humanity, that both can't be controlled one another. They follow each other (in his last words with Puku). There, I was hoping that Puku would notice that IF fate don't controlled humanity, then she should have FAITH in herself that she can make FATE to follow her. That she can make changes in a positif way.

It would be more interesting that once she's faced what fate "told her", she would become more stronger in many ways by changing her fate. Perhaps not getting everything she wanted but close with it. Like I said up there, that at least, saving Nakrang would be awsome and that she would die afterward.

Humanity is also a balanced between virtuous and nefarious. Some people have high virtuous and others very low. It means, we have the capacity to be one or the other. But we shouldn't forget the wicked part because afterwards, the prejudice will come along. What I am saying here that the virtuous people have to be more stronger than the cruelity and always be aware of it. The "movie" did become stronger for a little time (virtuous), but there was always cruelty around and won and yet again, the virtuous still is alive. In the end, they let the cruelty won. "Let".

So here, the message, yet again that blocking the feeling and being wicked is very powerful because suffering will end up dead.

I think, and I have to admit, that the true humanity was Lahee and the prince (there are some more examples too). Gullable Lahee was... but all the emotions she had was true: All the negatif and positif. She indeed, followed her heart when she should have followed her head too, like the prince.

I don't blame both of them. While Puku is made something that's not humanity, they made her something lame in the end. Very disappointed once again.

It's very mysterious that we don't know what happens once a person die. Netherland, reincarnation; This spiritual beliefs they had in this movie.

Self-Destruction indeed but a self-destruction that should be worth it. And what's worth it? I think, having FAITH in something beautiful they want to believe should won, and not fate.

It was frustrating and lame movie. lol :-p

Thanks for reading.

Everyone's complaining about the "slow" introduction with child characters, but that's why it struck a chord in my heart at the end. It was necessary, because the characters were pretty complex and morally questionable at times. That's why you had to understand their past to understand their present decisions. For example, we see how Prince Hodong was abused by his stepmom in the past and why he HAD to become king to know why he would be cruel enough to manipulate Lahee to destroy Nakrang.... And the similar sad pasts of Hodong and JaMyung (Puku) allowed us to understand why they truly loved each other, rather than Hodong loving Lahee...

Anyways, the child character introduction were really important. I felt the complexity of the characters brought them to life for me. There were no one "Good guy" vs "bad guy" and we could understand and sympathize with all of the characters, even Hodong's stepmother, Song Maeseolsu, for her actions, however cruel they were. In the end, I appreciated all the characters and though the ending was beautifully executed. Loved It!!

Princess Ja Myung drama was cut due to unexplainable reasons. This is a very well organized and written drama that moves the audience emotions. All the characters played their part so well that the audience is disappointed with the sad ending. Ryu Jung's performance has won the hearts of many. Her fans sincerely looking forward to another great drama. She is Korea's diamond.

Ryu Jung, u look great in costumes. Would like to see u and the Great General together in another drama.

The drama dragged like crazy at the beginning. Way too much time spent on the main character as children.

**Spoilers**

Once it got to them as adults, I rooted for Puku/Jamyung and Hodong, but it rode my nerves that Hodong was playing Princess Nakrang and stringing her along. Was that seriously necessary? But whatever. He lost any and all of my sympathy when, after Puku left Goguryo to follow her fate and protect Nakrang, he went after her and she met up with him (on instructions from General Hol) and told him that a) she was staying in Nakrang and b) she was going to marry General Hol, and he told her (I'm probably paraphrasing now) that she should prepare to die by his hand because he if he couldn't have her, no one would. *picks jaw up off floor* Excuse. Me? I get you're dealing with the shock of being dumped and finding out the woman you love is going to be marrying another man, and you're getting both pieces of news at the same time. I get you have a rather massive ego. Still, saying you're going to kill her? Seriously? There were female writers on this project, and I'd love to know what the hell they were thinking with that. Seriously, I'd love to know the reasoning behind that, because "If I can't have you, no one will" is a reason men give all the time for why they kill women who want to break up with them. After Hodong lays that classic line on Puku, the Great General tells Puku to please move out of the way so he and his men can move on in and capture Hodong, which she does, and there's fighting. Hodong, of course, manages to avoid being injured/killed and manages to get his hands on a horse. Before he rides off, he tells the Great General that (paraphrasing) he's going to lay waste to Nakrang, kill Hol, and take Puku back for himself, because no one but him is going to have Puku. And we're supposed to find this guy romantic? He says he's going to kill Puku, and then he says he's going to lay waste to the country she just told him she wants to call her home now? Seriously? He continues to up his asshole quotent as the show continues, and by the end, I was just glad to see him die.

The Queen of Gogoryo rode my nerves. The. Whole. Damn. Series. I blame the writing for that, but it also might have been the acting to a degree. I don't know. I just wanted her to wake up to the reality her son wasn't going to be made the Crown Prince, because that's something anyone with the sense God gave a tree stump would've picked up on.