Hong Cheon Gi / Red Sky 홍천기 [2021]

[mademoiselle]

Hahahaha @abs-oluteM they have so much trouble kissing! AHS kept sliding down as he leans forward trying to kiss her I'm just FF-ing at the moment. Haven't had time to watch the whole thing.

 

E6 their first kiss was nicely shot. I was even more surprised this time they showed the child actors' BOBO. I thought that was a taboo on national TV. But it's so cute though.

 

Also I thought it was silly of Haram to reject Cheon Ki, telling her to forget the boy (which the way it was said meant he's admitting he is the boy) and then goes and spent 300 seok on her painting.

Edited September 17, 2021 by mademoiselle

[mademoiselle]

LOL, still on the BTS... they had to kiss a lot of time. After the sliding down...the juyeong (bead string) kept getting in the way blocking the view of two lips locking so it's NG.

 

By the way, how in the world Haram can vote Pass or Fail when he can't see the painting? Felt like he's just followed what was described to him and judge through that.

[ktcjdrama]

O yay! All caught up to ep.6 now... I love the drawing/painting competition, although it took up 2 episodes. The ending of ep.6 is so tense though.

 

One thing I don't understand is the relation of HaRam with those bad guys who scammed HCG her money and later chasing after her. I haven't back read yet, so has this been mentioned? 

 

Another thing I love is how the words/conversation from childhood were remembered by each of them when they met again as adults. Spent one day together, but so much ingrained in their memories. 

17 minutes ago, mademoiselle said:

I was even more surprised this time they showed the child actors' BOBO. I thought that was a taboo on national TV. But it's so cute though.

I thought so too!! But I guess if too little, still okay, but not as teenagers?  haha....

On 9/14/2021 at 11:19 AM, Chocolate said:

I am admiring the actress who plays Cheon Gi. She's got the wide-eyed innocence but is also strong-willed. Really pretty when she smiles. It's a pleasure to watch her. [Edit: She's only 22!!! But has a long list of movies and dramas - acting since she was a child. Wow.]

 I have watched her since she was less than 10 yo. She's very pretty.

 

Edited September 17, 2021 by ktcjdrama

[mademoiselle]

3 minutes ago, ktcjdrama said:

One thing I don't understand is the relation of HaRam with those bad guys who scammed HCG her money and later chasing after her. I haven't back read yet, so has this been mentioned? 

Those bad guys worked at the painting shop/place Haram owns (when he's in his alter ego). They weren't supposed to sell fake paintings.

19 minutes ago, mademoiselle said:

Also I thought it was silly of Haram to reject Cheon Ki, telling her to forget the boy (which the way it was said meant he's admitting he is the boy) and then goes and spent 300 seok on her painting.

BTW, I just wanted to add it's like @bairama kept spazzing about YY and deny he's not in VIP Oppa tier and then goes and make his birthday banner

7 minutes ago, ktcjdrama said:

I thought so too!! But I guess if too little, still okay, but not as teenagers?

Maybe SBS is taking a risk. Coz by the time they receive warnings from the Association, the show is almost over

 

[bai]

2 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

BTW, I just wanted to add it's like @bairama kept spazzing about YY and deny he's not in VIP Oppa tier and then goes and make his birthday banner

HEYYY YOU DRAG ME HEREEEE   I just need convinced by another his filmography in the future!! As you know he is a dark horse atm, it's a honorable place already 

[Alice Wonderland]

Ep 5 to 6 are really fun! I enjoyed the painting contest. I don't know much about painting. But I am glad how those judges or painters interpret the meaning of what they drew.

 

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Even it was too predictable that CG would win but it shown quite well that she worked hard for the conpetition. The moment she confronts the prince decision to fail her is best scene of this episode. I think I can relate to what she feels at this point, you failed for some unfair judgement. Luckily, she got free pass stick. It's dramaland, but real life works diffrently, it won't alway goes that fair and square easily. It's why I like the scene. 

 

I was wondering with HR's way of thinking, he expects CG to forget him but he did something that made her can't forget him even more. What is his logic? Lols. But I love that he willingly lost a house for her painting. At this point, he always there for her whenever she needs help. That revenge and all that ill-fated destiny around them are the barrier to their love. But once again that's how fate will play them, they will end up falling in love all over again.

[Alice Wonderland]

 

@mademoiselle they finally reveal what was cut in the previous episode. I thought they wouldn't really take the scene since the child actress is too young for that scene, no? But surprisingly they show us. 

 

Have you watched now? If not yet, then don't reveal this now. 

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I just love how the adult HR and CH exchanges their old memories into their conversation. And that kiss comes fron HR this time. Lovely.

 

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And I agreed that Kim Yoo Jung is getting better with her acting career. I think I watched her first in TMTETS as the young crown princess, she's really young there, and very talented. I see that her project selections are also varied. It shows how well she develops through the years. 

Edited September 17, 2021 by Alice Wonderland

[mademoiselle]

Yes @Alice Wonderland I do like the scenes of Haram reciting the exact same dialogues once spoken by Cheon Ki. There's a bit of sadness I feel for it though because now he's the one who couldn't see it. The sense of loss is much greater when we once had something and lost it.

 

 

 

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[Chocolate]

 

5 Moments From Episodes 5-6 Of “Lovers of the Red Sky” That Stole Our Hearts

Sep 18, 2021 by shalini

 

“Lovers of the Red Sky” speeds on ahead as the Makjuheon Painting Gathering gets underway and characters start to reveal their true colors.

 

Everyone has their own reason for being there. Hong Chun Gi (Kim Yoo Jung) fights to enter in order to get ill father the medicine he needs, which can only be obtained from the Palace. Ha Ram (Ahn Hyo Seop) is there for revenge but is torn when the girl he fell in love with 19 years ago walks into the middle of his plans. Prince Yangmyung (Gong Myung) is there to catch the imitation painter and find a divine painter who can fulfill the king’s wish of painting his portrait and sealing Ma Wang back into it. And Prince Juhyang (Kwak Si Yang) is there to sway Yangmyung to his side. That’s a pretty full chessboard, and the pieces are about to start moving!

 

Here are the moments that stole our heart this week!

 

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 below.

 

1. Chun Gi standing up to Yangmyung

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The Makjuheon Painting Gathering introduces us to a host of lively characters like Monk Man Yu (Shin Jae Hwan) and Shim Dae Yu (Jang Won Hyung) blessed by Hwacha (a goblin who lives off the energy in paintings and the green-eyed man who visited Chun Gi when she was locked in the barn). Interestingly, this is the same hwacha that possessed the man who helped Chun Gi’s father back when he was painting the king’s portrait.

 

We know that Chun Gi is skilled, but the question arises as to whether a girl who paints (brilliantly) for money can hold her own among specialists who paint for the sake of art. It’s the age-old battle between commercial artists and so-called real artists, which is why it’s all the more gratifying when Chun Gi’s painting during the first round is given favorable reviews. That is, until Chun Gi’s signature butterfly gives her away to Prince Yangmyung who immediately nitpicks about everything he can find in order to fail her.

 

 

He does come off a little snobby and distanced from reality by essentially penalizing Chun Gi for her paintings being so good that they fooled the head of the Painting Institute, Ahn Gyeon (Jang Hyun Sung), especially because she’s only painting to make a living.

 

So, it’s satisfying when she not only stands up to him but eloquently expresses her intentions for doing so in a manner that doesn’t come across as brash or unrealistic. Fittingly, it isn’t Yangmyung who changes his mind over the course of a brief conversation with Chun Gi but Ahn Gyeon who uses his all-pass tile and judges Chun Gi for the merit of her work.

 

2. Chun Gi realizing who Ha Ram is

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Thus far, Ha Ram’s been doing all the realizing and pining after figuring out that Chun Gi is the girl he met 19 years ago. But Chun Gi didn’t forget him either. This week, with Ha Ram’s prompt during the second round, she finally puts two and two together over the course of the second round of the Painting Gathering and realizes that the gentleman scholar who keeps protecting her is very likely Ha Ram.

 

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It’s no surprise that she channels that realization into her painting and visibly moves Yangmyung with her work. Sincerity does move the heavens after all! And a running theme thus far in the competition is that if there’s anything that sets Chun Gi’s talent as a cut above the rest, it’s her sincerity and the emotions she expresses in her work.

 

However, the depth of Ha Ram’s and Chun Gi’s feelings for each other is certainly surprising for a pair that met for only one day 19 years ago. They even remember the exact conversation they had back then, which is certainly unusual. Perhaps Ma Wang can be blamed for that one. But Ha Ram has a contender for Chun Gi’s feelings because Prince Yangmyung is stepping up his game.

 

3. Prince Yangmyung’s true colors

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Yangmyung certainly made a right buffoon of himself during the initial quartet of episodes, but he’s becoming more and more likable. The first night of the competition, his conversation with Chun Gi reveals not a deeply-held snobbery but a genuine concern for Chun Gi’s future as a painter. If he noticed Chun Gi’s trademark, then there’s no doubt others could. Her past as a painter of brilliant forgeries could nip her budding career in the bud. It’s a valid concern to have.

 

 

Yangmyung also noticed that Chun Gi’s working during the first two rounds, while worth of passing, lacked their own color. She paints with sincerity but in the spirit of mimicry. For her first painting, she imitates the peach blossoms she saw that night 19 years ago with Haram, and for her second, she replicates the landscape she saw upon first being able to see. They’re beautiful, but at the end of the day, they’re replicas and imitations. Yangmyung asks her to depict her own interpretations without hesitation in herself, and that’s always a great message, even if it does depress Chun Gi to hear it at first.

 

4. Yangmyung versus Juhyang

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If Juhyang doesn’t go completely psychotic, he could actually be a compelling villain. He seems to genuinely care for his young brother and doesn’t storm in demanding that Yangmyung come to his side or else. For his part, Yangmyung shows a surprising backbone of steel, not losing his temper with his brother but gently informing him that he won’t be taking part in any plot to dethrone their oldest brother, the current Crown Prince.

 

 

Juhyang’s questions to Yangmyung indicate the sort of villain he might become. He asks Yangmyung if their grandfather, who led his own coup against the throne, was a traitor. Yangmyung is left flummoxed but insists that he wasn’t. Then, by the same logic, can Juhyang really be a traitor himself? Even Ha Ram has noted that the Crown Prince is unfit for the throne, and it’s simply that the King Seonjo (Jo Seong Ha) is desperate to rid himself of it. It’s an interesting quandary that’s bound to get even more complicated once Ma Wang and Samshin (Moon Sook) get involved.

 

5. That kiss

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For some reason, it feels early for a kiss, because while Chun Gi and Ha Ram are both smitten, they’re also quite hesitant around each other. But that appears to be the point. Ha Ram cannot afford to be swayed at this point as he starts putting his plan in action, but he needs to take that initial step in order to back away and for the tension to begin.

 

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The rules surrounding the butterfly seal on his neck are still unclear. Is it that it vanishes every time they touch? If so, the last time it vanished, Ha Ram transformed straight into Ma Wang, but why didn’t the same thing happen after he kissed Chun Gi? Is there a memory we might be missing between Ha Ram falling unconscious and waking up unscathed? Is Chun Gi Ma Wang’s trigger? Or does she keep him at bay?

 

For her part, Chun Gi is still the heroine of a romance, not knowing yet that it’s a fantasy romance set against political upheaval and a revenge plot as Ha Ram attempts to make those who killed his father pay. So she’s naturally confused when the man who kissed her distances himself almost immediately afterwards and curious on what happened to him such that he didn’t make their meeting 19 years ago.

 

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Chun Gi really came into her own this week, so here’s hoping she enters the main narrative (the darker narrative) more. As wonderful it is to see her succeed, it appears it’s time for her to join Ha Ram’s world and see that the higher she rises, the greater the stakes are. And with Prince Juhyang’s sword at her father’s throat, perhaps that time is next week!

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[abs-oluteM]

@Chocolate, the writer brought up a good point - the rule of this universe is not clear. What triggers the demon in him to go all out? I suppose the last time it went full force since the skinship caught him by surprise? 

 

AHS was on My Little Old Boy and talks about the difficulties of filming historical shows, as well the challenges of playing a blind man. What I love is his soothing voice. Anyway what do you think of this hairstyle @mademoiselle?

 

[mademoiselle]

@abs-oluteM This one not too bad. It looks like he had styled it. The other one was just too flat and he didn't look good that day (face was very bloated).

[stroppyse]

It's time for the Red Sky Lovers Event!

 

Okay, seriously, it may actually be the Red Eyes Lovers Event, but we'll just let it slide. Show your love for this story of Haram and Hong Cheon Gi by posting your thoughts and reactions on this thread.

 

Points will be awarded so that you an buy the Red Sky Lovers badges in the Member Shop! 

 

Happy viewing! Happy posting!

[NiteWalker]

On 9/18/2021 at 1:39 PM, mademoiselle said:

Yes @Alice Wonderland I do like the scenes of Haram reciting the exact same dialogues once spoken by Cheon Ki. There's a bit of sadness I feel for it though because now he's the one who couldn't see it. The sense of loss is much greater when we once had something and lost it.

 

 

honestly the girl look a bit scary from here lols hahahhaa

 

maybe its the black and white tones that make it seems a bit scary

  

[mademoiselle]

@NiteWalker It's the colour tone of the gif. xD

[im0202]

Oh my are there no episodes this week?? I just found out it’s Chuseok 

What a long wait if so *cries

[NiteWalker]

58 minutes ago, im0202 said:

Oh my are there no episodes this week?? I just found out it’s Chuseok 

What a long wait if so *cries

 

okie at least i still have episode 6 to watch for this week then **ahem**

[mademoiselle]

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[NiteWalker]

1 hour ago, mademoiselle said:

@NiteWalker It's the colour tone of the gif. xD

 

yea totally...it make the cute girl a lil eerie to be honest lols

[Alice Wonderland]

8 hours ago, NiteWalker said:

9 hours ago, im0202 said:

Oh my are there no episodes this week?? I just found out it’s Chuseok 

What a long wait if so *cries

 

okie at least i still have episode 6 to watch for this week then **ahem**

Huuuhh??? I was going to ask wether we will have it or not, then here you told me it was cancelled. Ah, why oh why, why they always like this, cant they just air it while celebrating chuseok?? 

[NiteWalker]

12 hours ago, Alice Wonderland said:

Huuuhh??? I was going to ask wether we will have it or not, then here you told me it was cancelled. Ah, why oh why, why they always like this, cant they just air it while celebrating chuseok?? 

 

er....because they want the emphasize on chuseok **ahem**

 

Happy Mooncake festival dear

[mademoiselle]

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@Alice Wonderland I'm with you about Chuseok, LOLLLL. Everytime it is this time of the year, I sulk because no kdrama to watch. Also some Sports event too, like this year is Olympics or soccer. ARGH! 

[JeannieBean]

I just started watching this and I love it so far. 

[abs-oluteM]

Awesome @JeannieBean. What episode are you now?

 

Happy birthday to KYJ! Just 22 - I forget how young she is sometimes since she has been acting like forever. 

 

[gween97]

start watching this i like kim yoo jung

[mademoiselle]

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