president of the prince jingim eyebrows club

lol! that could be one reason. another reason which a user hilariously pointed out was that remy hii was growing out his facial hair. 

i noticed the difference, too anon. but zhu zhu is so captivating onscreen, she just has this regal aura. i’d love to see her in more roles in the future.

i’m glad he sort of stood up for her? he was disappointed how is mother was solely invested in the fate of the baby and treated kokachin as a baby vehicle (fuck you, writers). i’m just saddened jingim was made a passive in all of kokachin’s struggle and couldn’t honour his promises from ep1

how much do you think marco getting a love interest (kokachin) was probably in part to appeal to the male audience w/ yellow fever?

i would have actually found kokachin’s identity crisis a really interesting arc if it didn’t intersect with her trauma/rape, like so much could have been expanded on that and her being nergui with marco, and being kokachin with jingim... coulda made for a lot of interesting contrasts imo

instead the males had to let her down AGAIN (remember her fuckboy fiance), because of course anyone with a dick has to have a disconnect with ~female issues

i’m curious as to the backgrounds of jingim’s other wives; were they all highborn as well? And how come the show never mentions them, I’d like to see them shit-talking Jingim over tea or something

if that’s how it all transpired well she fucked up real bad b/c they’re now backed up in a corner with a secret to protect. ngl seeing chabi and kublai’s confrontation at the end of the finale, giving us full frank/claire underwood vibes, was something i admittedly have been wanting to see for a long time but when i remember the reasons why & at who’s expense i just

that it’s an actual thing MAKES ME CRACK UP SO MUCH

You mean Jamie Chung, anon? She watches the show, I’d be thrilled if she were to join. She’s unbelievably gorgeous & needs to be in more things!

yeah, i can see where you’re coming from. so maybe he has a soft spot for chabi but you gotta wonder if he had given chabi’s fate any aforethought if things unwinded the way he intended them to be. i wish they explored their relationship more but once they made him go full oedipus rex, they took his arc into a place where it could never go back. now it is all what the audience will associate him as, rather than having a reflective and earnest reasoning on his motives

isn’t impersonating a figure of royalty (and one who is long dead), a grave offense? i really have no idea, but i don’t think it’s something a khan would take lightly

i believe jingim had to leave on the quest with marco for the counter-raid. i’m assuming he came to kokachin’s tent to say goodbye which was why he walked in on the outburst. and i’m not sure kublai would take it lightly if his son wanted to stay tending to an ailing wife instead of carrying out a mission which could potentially save everyone from jeopardy 

all the men have been bottom so far in this show, it seems like a recurring theme

to the writers:

lol! jingim’s beautiful, for sure, a truth universally acknowledged 

he was drunk af and she was high, i’m sure it was… interesting. also jingim never tops with his women and i wonder what that says about him hmmm

i don’t want you to get your hopes up, anon! but which of the TV Gods could we pray and sacrifice to so we make this happen srsly

yes, thank you for wording it better than i could, anon. i have a bone to pick at with how it was handled (the entirety of it), especially where the two men whom kokachin was close to (and swore to protect her) seemed like mere accessories in her struggle, and yet we have chabi, her abuser, rapist, but hey! she’s a ~woman!! and no one understands psychological torment better than women right~~! was the one to shoehorn for their responsibilities. and lol, boy, look how that turned out!

i agree, the fights and battles were very well done (netflix has never failed on that front), poor horses though :( my favorite moment from episode 9 was how jingim walked out from the fire and smoke and said ‘cousins’ that was SUCH A moment, this Shakespearean realness. also how khutulun came in between the jingim/orus fight as if trying to stop them from killing each other. 

jingim leveled up this season in every way possible! i’m glad he isn’t wiping the throne room floor with his tears anymore. THANK THE LORD for the costume department; all that fur and leather, holy shit. 

in another universe kokajing would have been a power couple. imagine them riding through the plains together, challenging each other, testing who is the more exemplary rider. hearthside makeouts. i repeat: hearthside makeouts. i wonder what jingim was going to finish saying about kokachin to marco in episode 6 had the horses not interrupted his musings. just want to claw my face off when i think of them 

i totally feel your pain, anon. i am saddened why they devoted that screentime for marco and that foreign girl when it could have been for jingim/kokachin instead. 

i was actually glad Kokachin initiated it... she chose to ride that princely d, yass queen. i was glad it came from her own resolve. you can tell jingim was suprised. ahaha.

IA it’s a traumatic experience but many might argue that it’s not a complex and even reasonable motive. Sure the circumstances were unfortunate and it gave him sufficient reason to turn against the khan (he was told his parents were murdered and yet here is his mother, alive and well, working in a brothel under the khan’s jurisdiction.. sleeping with her removed him of any chance to mend and pursue any normal relationship with his mother, tainted any fond memories of her, so he blames the khan for that). 

if ahmad simply wanted personal vengeance i would have given it to him – had it ended at kublai – but no, he wants to rule the entire breadth of the empire, and that’s where the show failed to convince me of his motives. there was no staunch political reasoning (vengeance for his clan and persian faction? they didn’t even touch that). to me his reasoning was not at all far-thinking and the show wrote it off as melodramatic, card-carrying villainy for the sake of it. 

give us a more than two-dimensional reason than simply ‘yeah i fucked my mom’