Her mother’s spirit also requests to take care of herself and to not meet the eyes of ghosts and disappears. Finally on her birthday her mother’s ghost visits her and asks her to be brave when the hospital calls. The Grim reaper who comes to the scene sees that a woman and an unborn child who was supposed to be dead is missing.Ī while later the baby is born and the ghosts swarm around and exclaim “The Goblin’s bride is born!”Īs the baby, Ji Eun Tak grows, we realise she can see ghosts. The Goblin turns up and hears her pleas to save her baby, but the kind hearted Goblin saves both of them. The grandpa diea and the little boy dedicates his life to serve the powerful Goblin.īack to the year 1998, the woman the grandma talked with meets with an accident and desperate for help prays to the Gods. The heavens declare that although he’s been brought back to life, his sword contains the blood of thousands for which he must be punished with immortality that only the bride of the Goblin can end. The grandpa prays to the heavens and to the sword and a sudden swirl of energy ressurects Kim Shin to The Goblin. Meanwhile another flashback to the Koryeo era shows a dying Shin and an ailing grandpa and his grandchild next to him. A brief scene shows that The Goblin and The Grim Reaper, both mythical beings are able to see each other as well although invisible to mortal eyes. The woman asks what happens if she doesn’t drink the tea to which the Grim Reaper says that regret will be upon her. She is taken to a room and given a cup of tea to forget her life on Earth and ascend to the heavens. We are introduced the Grim Reaper collecting the soul of a woman who died an accident. The narration mentions how there were no God’s to protect him. Kim Shin’s body is ordered to be left out in the open and the people mourn in the distance. The soldier does so and Kim Shin watches his sister die as the blood stains the green jade ring we saw with the grandma in yhe beginning. Knowing his end is near, Kim Shin asks his trusted right hand soldier to thrust his sword into his chest and kill him. As Kim Shin walks forward, the Queen is shot down. The young Queen tells Kim Shin she is ready for anything. The King filled with jealousy warns that Kim Shin’s loved ones will be killed if he takes a step further. The young King and Queen arrive and we see that the King’s mind is poisoned with jealousy by the eunuch who whispers that Kim Shin is more revered by the people than the King. Unable to beleive this treachery he asks to see the King. But as he steps into the palace court he is asked to take off his armour and is labelled a traitor, which is essentially a frame up. He returns after a victorious war much to the happiness of the people. The Goblin we know of is General Kim Shin of the Goryeo dynasty. And once, he was human.” Episode 1, The Goblin.Īnd thus, the flashback starts – The Goblin as General Kim Shin, the General of the Goryeo dynasty “He is water, fire, and wind, and also light and dark. The narration starts to describe the friendly God as such – The old grandma who I think is a mystical being herself tells the young woman to pray earnestly if in a life-or-death situation so that a helpful God will save her.Ĭue the year 1968 in Paris, as we meet our helpful and kind hearted God help a small kid from his parents and even give an answer to his math test. The customer laughs at the idea of a god like Goblin existing in this modern day as our attention is focused on a jade ring (I bet everything that the jade ring is the key to the story here). Episode 1Ī seemingly old grandma who is selling her wares on the street recounts the story of the Goblin (about his immortality and how he can only be saved from that fate by the Goblin’s bride)- and how spirits can be stuck in articles that contains the bloods of thousands. I will try to keep it to-the-point as much as possible, and as always my commentary will be in bold italics. To check out all those posts on “Goblin”, go ahead and click the link here! Also for more on entertainment from South Korea, check out It’s called Hallyu! And for more TV series deep dives, check out The Couch Potato!Īs always TV series deep dives consist of synopsis versus expectations, mid run reviews, penultimate episode predictions and segmented episode recaps, such as this one. Hello and welcome back to another TV series deep dive where our series in question is the hit series “Goblin : The Lonely and Great God”! It’s obvious what this post is about, so enough intro, let’s get into it.
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