Thanks, Andy. I wrote this because I simply can't understand the direction the story took. Ironically,
#OrNil is still at the top of many fan rankings to this day. Yet in the series, the two were barely present together after Aspo was introduced, and in the final ep they didn't even share a single scene. As a result, the historical core was lost and even replaced, just to glorify a character or her actress. That's no longer artistic freedom to me, but a distortion of history that sacrifices its very core for the sake of a particular narrative.