Aug 24, 2025
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty 폭군의 셰프 (2025) | Episode 1
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Bon Appétit, Your Majesty 폭군의 셰프 (2025) | Episode 1
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I love this show man
lee heon in bon appetit, your majesty - ep.1
People are entitled to their own opinions about the drama, but I just think it's funny to go into a historical, romantic, comedy, fantasy drama that's never been disingenuous about what it is and expect anything else.
The trailers clearly show Bon Appetit, Your Majesty is a romance. The synopsis on MDL clearly states it will be a romance
"Yeon Ji Yeong is a modern woman caught in a cutthroat world of palace politics, survival cooking, and unexpected romance. Her mission? Survive the royal kitchen, win over the impossible King, and maybe, just maybe, rewrite the future. King Yi Heon is a ruler whose sharp mind and sharper tongue make him both feared and misunderstood. With an unparalleled sense of taste and zero tolerance for mediocrity, his court lives in fear of his next meal. But when a fiery new chef enters his palace, the king’s taste buds – and perhaps his heart — begin to change.
The drama itself starts off the timeslip after Yeon Ji Yeong reads the the love letter (My dearly beloved, if you were to read this someday, may you come back to my side.) and her wondering if it's a Joseon dynasty romance novel.
Like if people go into this drama, they should have gone in fully aware and prepare for romance between the main leads, no excuses. To go in and say if the romance starts, they're going to dip, then they just set themselves up for failure from the start, because the romance is going to happen.
The second thing is the fantasy bit. This one you think is pretty obvious because of the timeslip and we get a character from 2025 transported to Joseon Korea. But some viewers don't extend that same courtesy to Yi Heon, the other main character. And it's character because while he shares some similarities to him, Yi Heon is not the historical figure Yeonsangun/Yi Yung, so Yi Heon, the character, deserves to be given the opportunity to be seen as a character that can grow and change in this journey that we're embarking on and not a static placeholder for the historical figure. Also, if we don't want to root for a character to grow and change alongside the plot, what's the point of going on that journey with them? And we know Yi Heon will grow and change, both from the part of synopsis included above about him personally and Ji Yeong possibly rewriting the future, and within the first 4 episodes.
We see that change when Yeon Ji Yeong called him out and said that the chaehong is just an excuse in Ep 1. In turn, Yi Heon admitted the same to Im Song Jae in the following episode, that it was an excuse, not for what Ji Yeong thought, but for him to go after the people involved in his mother's deposition, and when he got his revenge on Governor Hong, he told Song Jae to release everyone else, even the granddaughter. We continue to see him change in response to his interactions with Yeon Ji Yeong, from his roundabout way of trying to protect her during the cooking competition to him showing concern for her comfort by asking if she needed someone to notify her father that she's at the palace now. Also when Yi Heon comforted Ji Yeong after learning that her mother had also passed away as well, her voice-over pointed out that he's trying to comfort her when he went through the same thing. So Yi Heon, as a character, is someone that we're still learning about and seeing grow and change, and he should be allowed the room to change with the story and not be pigeonholed.
I love bon appétit your majesty so much, I had to draw this scene of them from ep 4 <3 speedpaint under the cut!
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to be honest, i have several not exactly good thoughts about the ending, but even more honestly i don't care because they ended up together.
bon appetit, your majesty questions that i wish we could get answers to:
IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS SINCE THE FINALE BUT IM STILL NOT OVER IT AND THIS HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS SINCE THEN.
so let me preface this by saying that i absolutely loved the ending. i mean sure, it was rushed, and i have a feeling it was a last minute change because it felt... off. but that's a conversation for another day. i love the ending in the sense that it could've been worse LOL and it had everything i wanted so i won't complain. it was cute and cheesy, you bet i ate that up! i say that it's fan service but i'm a fan who definitely got serviced :p
with that said, these are questions i have that i was hoping they can answer:
Time loop questions:
what did the flashback Jiyoung have at the beginning of ep 1, when it occurred to her to cook her dish over the open flame, mean? she thought about the ancient way of cooking - does this mean she was already in a time loop (like she already went to the past) or was it something she "saw" because it's something she remembered from like, reading about it?
was this a closed time loop? honestly just getting an explanation regarding the mechanism of the time loop would be nice. bc we saw on the first ep that the last page is already torn so the events of the coup/purge/jiyoung dying already took place. so jiyoung going to the past didn't affect the future bc the past already took place. EXCEPT WHEN IT DID...?
considering the two points above, re: Jiyoung already going to the past -- had the events already happened, but she gets killed and then just gets sent back to the future with her memory wiped?
in the last ep, in current-day, Jiyoung researches Yeonhuigun and she realized that history was rewritten. meaning the "future"/current day Jiyoung is at isn't the same one she left in the first ep? this implies that a new timeline branched out, right?
Mangunrok power questions:
what "activates" the Mangunrok? like yeah it was implied that the moon has something to do with it but how?
does the Mangunrok itself have the powers or is it the moon? how did it get time travel abilities omg
how did Yi Heon use just one page of the Mangunrok to travel to the future?
the most important question here is how the heck did Yi Heon travel to the future???? although i feel like that can be answered had they just explained the mechanisms of the time travel + Mangunrok's abilities. idrc how he managed to find her when he made it to the present bc she's a public figure and all he needs to do is ask for her name + the fact that she's a chef and he could easily find her.
anyways, them pulling this move is the funniest thing:
My dearly beloved if you were to read this someday may you come back to my side