I’ve going to miss writing about King Flower. The recaps while swooning over Terry, the venting over the narrative impasse and the emotional misdirections, the preview translations that give me hope only to dash it when the episode airs. It’s been an exhilarating roller coaster ride and I sure hope I don’t barf when I get off when it pulls into the station. I think the preview for episode 20 is either exactly what it seems on the surface, a feint for a total reversal at the end, or a little bit of both but maybe the ending will still be Da Hua-Terry. I really don’t know, trying to guess SETTV is like a blind man asked to describe a movie. There is another possibility considering the official powers to be have claimed the ending is super exciting (rolls eyes). There have been folks teasing that what if this is all Liang Yen’s dream and she wakes up not yet having gone on the hike and the ending is everyone back in their places. I hate deux et machina endings that say everything is one big dream because it just negates the entire point of the journey. But I think the dream ending is definitely a possibility, but I think odds are much higher that this is Da Hua’s dream, and not Liang Yen’s.
In episode 2 when Da Hua met gorgeous Liang Yen and handsome adoring Terry, she said to herself “I wish I could become her, wouldn’t that be wonderful?” and then later to Liang Yen she said “I wished I had a guy as handsome as your man.” The title of this drama is Jin Da Hua’s Extravagant Adventure, and the opening credits and ending credits ALL point to this being one big dream. Da Hua is choosing between two guys in the opening credits when her mom rips up her dreamscape and chases her off to work. She ends up in her room looking out of the window continuing her daydream. In the ending credits, she’s sleeping on a patch of grass and then she tosses a coin into a fountain to make a wish. Then her fairy Qin Mo appears to make her wish come true and she gets a make over from Terry and then later Guan Jun takes her to an amusement park to play. At the end Da Hua wakes up from her dream and looks into a crystal ball and there is Terry and Guan Jun. I’m not suggesting all signs point to a dream ending, I am merely pointing out that if it ends that way, perhaps the producers laid the clues all alone. Would anyone be upset if it turns out to be Da Hua’s dream but the ending is that Liang Yen is alive and Terry and her live happily ever after? I am so down with that, and could care less where Da Hua and Guan Jun end up in that scenario. I can’t believe I’m postulating the acceptance of normally lame ass dream endings.
I’m fairly certain the groom holding Da Hua’s hand is Terry. My guess is this is a scene with them taking outdoor wedding pictures, hence she’s in a different dress than at the wedding. But her hairstyle is similar to when she took wedding pictures with him at the studio pretending to be Liang Yen.
Preview for episode 20 of King Flower:
Da Li and Ah Xi: What? You and Da Hua are getting married?
Terry: Jin Mom, please trust me, I genuinely am in love with her.
Mom: If you’ve thought it through then Mom supports you. But can you really let go of Guan Jun?
Da Hua: Guan Jun oppa, Terry and I are getting married.
Xiao Fei: The person you love the most is getting married. And you agreed to be their groomsman!
Guan Jun: If I see Da Hua wearing a wedding dress walking towards me, I will be very happy as well.
Da Hua: Jin Da Hua! So many people love you, you have to be happy!
Guan Jun: Jin Da Hua, you have to be happy!
Xiao Fei: I can’t stand watching you sacrifice yourself to let others be happy.
Guan Jun: Let’s finish this show first.
Cheng Hong: Ladies and gentleman, please give your warmest applause for today’s male and female leads.
Oh finally… I can breath.. I know I’ll never meet a Terry in my lifetime. So I promise myself to go get him. Gotta go…
Take a deep breath…
breathe.. hehe
I’m down for whatever ending has Terry happy. I could care less about Da Hua and Guan Jun. They can do whatever. I just want the last shot to be of Terry 😀
Terry must be happy, otherwise the universe has no purpose.
if this was a dream then…..what a long, long dream it was! ENOUGH TO BE A 20 EPISODE DRAMA?! :))) Sigh…..if only I had those kind of dreams…. 🙁 Anyways, I hope will have a very satisfying ending (crosses fingers)
Fingers-crossed.
If this were my dream, hopefully, I wouldn’t be so stupid!
I ABHOR dream endings. It completely takes the piss out of the whole thing. But like you, I will make the exception if it means Terry’s happiness.
I can make any exception for Terry. Any.
Same here. I have always disdained dream endings as a juvenile writer’s cop-out – but for Terry’s sake…to have him get the ending–and the girl–he deserves, I would not only let it slide, I would watch happily.
This show makes me laugh.
It’s terrible how we’ll take any ending that will leave Terry happy.
Haha! So true. I’m 99.99% sure this is going to have a lame ass ending and I don’t care…as long as Terry is happy. He really is the only thing worth caring about in this whole mess.
Terry was worth every second I spent on this show.
the very least i care is what would happen to GJ… as long as perfect Terry ends up happy, i am so into it, in whatever shape and form.
and yes koala sis, it’s Terry’s jawline right there looking at DH. 🙂
See! I knew I could spot my Terry anywhere. 😀
And his sensitive hands!
I have bad feeling that DH will end up with GJ.
If so, those two inane idiots deserve each other and the writers need to get smacked on the head. Terry was too good for her anyway—I DESERVE TERRY! LOL!!! And if this was just DH’s crazy dream, that’d be the lamest ending EVER! What a cop-out.
Anyway, I feel like no plot development has been happening ever since the Chairman found out the truth an that alone was very non-climatic. I think the producers are at a loss of what to do since Terry (Chris Wu’s awesome acting) totally stole the show away from DH and GJ in the drama.
Well, whatever happens, I still want to smack DH on the head for loving her brother. They’re not blood, but that’s JUST NASTY! Lol!
No, in Taiwan there was a lot of adoptions after the war or re-marriages or combined families. There isn’t a lot of stigma with a sister marrying an unrelated guy that she grew up with. And here Guan Jun didn’t take the Jin family name so he wasn’t officially adopted.
I do agree that whatever relevant plot evaporated for the GJ-DH moping show. With a lot of Terry awesomeness thrown in.
I watch KF exclusively for the Terry moments and pretty much just skip the rest. You know what after all this I don’t want Da Hua to end up with Terry, she can have Guan Jun. She doesn’t deserve Terry after all this, he has been with her through thick and thin and she is just “accepting” her faith and marrying him for the heck of it!!! GRRRRR so angry right now, Terry deserves someone who recognizes his love and kind spirit someone who will love him even more for it. Dear God I can’t even remember a past drama that had such a spectacular character as Terry, Chris Wu is really amazing in portraying Terry, dude needs an award:).
Chris deserves an award for sure, but I doubt he’ll get it. The GBs are notoriously anti- rich/goodlooking male characters from idol dramas.
Our Terry-fest reminds me of another character who just stood out for his all-around epicness: Boong-Do from Queen In-Hyun’s Man.
Kim Boong Do. Good times, good times. If he somehow didn’t make a deux et machina time-traveling cell phone call with a zero juice cell phone, then I would have loved him for all time.
I love all the fans of KF, some of the analysis and comments in the last few weeks have been hilarious or wonderfully profound.
This comment recently made me crack up. So true:
所以如果Terry跟我求婚的話，我一定馬上、即時、立刻押他去戶政事務所辦登記，完全不給他機會反悔～當然婚戒要記得先收下來
If Terry proposed to me, I would immediately, right away, promptly dragged him to the registrar’s office and register the marriage. He won’t even have the chance to change his mind. And I’ll hold on tight to the wedding ring first.
I can’t even… rofl 🙂 🙂 🙂
That’s a girl with the right priority in life.
That’s a girl who deserves to be cast with Terry instead of the lame people around him. I mean we all ralized a long time ago that the only person in this drama that might remotely deserve him died nearly ten episodes ago.
I haven’t watched a single episode of this show Ms. Koala, but your recaps and Terry rants have certainly made me a huge Terry fan! I hope he gets the ending he so deserves.
Awww, I’m so happy my ranting was worth it if more people can meet and love Terry.
Omg, someone have to cut Terry’s scenes for us replay it over and over.
I can watch Terry forever and never get bored LOL.
I’m now really sad his fiancee died. She was the right person for him… so lovely and awesome. Writer should kill her off if she wanted to make DH go back to GJ.
*shouldn’t
I miss Liang Yen….
This is why I aid that SETTV should make “King Flower: The Terry Edition.” Every fan would by that dvd in a heartbeat because all we care about is Terry. It could end with the scene above of him smiling at DH in his tux. Frankly , Chris Wu could just shoot alternate scenes with him wearing that tux and that purple sweater, and I would be fine with that, too.
First, thanks to Ms Koala for the wonderful recaps! They are hilarious and awesome and I really appreciate them, especially since I can’t bear to actually watch the full episodes anymore (I read your recaps and then go watch all the Terry scenes – like pretty much everyone else).
I agree with many people that I could care less now about DH and GJ and whatever happens to them. I just hope that Terry gets a happy ending. I absolutely hate dream endings (such a cop-out), but if the writers can somehow manage to get their shit together and write a good ending for ep 20 even if this is all a dream of DH, then it just might make it ok. My expectations for this are low. Very low. Almost underground. That’s sad.
I have to admit though, part of me doesn’t want the show to end at 20 episodes. Maybe Terry and DH actually DO get married and we start to see all those other characters come back into play (Kai Le, the Chairman, etc) and then conflict arises from all that. DH will see that Terry is perfect and realize she loves him, just when GJ realizes he is an idiot but now she definitely loves Terry (you snooze, you lose, Guan Jun!) While this works in my mind, it may not work for the drama, but given that the writers are definitely high on something, I think anything is possible.
This all said, I can barely wait till ep 20. I can definitely say I will probably be eating chocolate to console myself for the rest of the week (and most likely after).
I need some therapy after this is all said and done. It’s been nervewracking like waiting for a slap that might never fall.
I’m still going to think that DH ends up with Terry. 🙂 I will believe it when I see it (that DH ends up with GJ). Maybe she ends up with no one. And Terry ends up with someone different.
Only one more week of Chris gracing my screen with new stuff. 🙁 Sniff, sniff… will miss you!
I hope you’re right, and I will miss seeing Chris every week. Terry FTW~
Thank you for this preview Koala. I can’t wait for your recap next week. I have been staying away from viewing KF but reading your post and watching the clips keeps me contented. I just hope SETTV has a happy ending for Terry, I could care less for DH and GJ.
On a rabbit trail… Check out ep 14 of GFB especially the last 2 mins. His hotness Wol Ryung did his magic again. He was so hot especially when he smiled…sigh… I could not believe my computer did not melt from heat. 🙂
*the heat
I think the opening is so misleading. In it, Xiao Fei is pulling over Guan Jun from Da Hua while Kai Le is doing the same with Terry. At first, I thought it was going to be about two nice guys who very much show love and affection to Da Hua. And, I thought Xiao Fei and Kai Le will be the one’s who will be getting in the way of Da Hua’s decision. That’s the only reason why I started watching this drama. Instead, Kai Le has mysteriously disappeared from the drama and Guan Jun’s noble idiocy got Da Hua conflicted. What is wrong with the writers!!!!!??
I am totally addicted to your recaps and rants for this show. This drama has been cray cray and nonsensical but totally worth it for Chris Wu’s performance as Terry. Your recaps piqued my curiousity and I was sucked in by the awesome Terry/DH moments in episode 11 that I went back and saw watched the previous episodes (tried but couldn’t endure anything outside of Terry). Hoping against all hope that Terry does get the girl! I would swoon and totally forgive the producers/writers for DH’s lack of spine/maturity/intelligence if they spent some time showing happily ever after.
Btw does anyone find it weird that Hu Xiao Fei is part of the wedding party?
If you had an epiphany two weeks ago, I have my epiphany now through your words on the open and end credits! IT IS SO POSSIBLE and at present, I actually think it would be great if that’s how it ends up being – one elaborate dream. LY and Terry together as they were always meant to be and GJ with the ‘real’ DH would be a welcomed end too because at least we have the comfort of knowing that GJ really does love DH (regardless of looks!)
omg, I can buy DH was only dreaming end if this means LY is back and marrying Terry and being forever happy.
I am trying to figure out who it is Da Hua is marrying at .21 of the preview. She is wearing a different wedding type outfit with a blue polka dot shawl.
At 21 seconds in, you can see the right side profile of the guy’s face and if you watch closely or freeze it, the guy has a mole on the right side of his neck.
I scanned though a ton of the pictures Koala posted for her previews and this is the closest thing I can find. What do you all think?
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae145/ockoala/TW%20Dramas/King%20Flower/King%20Flower%202/kingflower-19rmvb_003687980.jpg
Just to inform everybody that there will be episode 21, so episode 20 is NOT the ending of this series.