![]() Huge thanks to all my patrons, I couldn’t do this without you. It’s August 1st time for a Patreon update! If you’ve ever wondered what the Patreon experience is like, &/or when various reviews will post, this post is for you! I hope you find it helpful. Oh, and I am still infatuated with Shin Se Gi and his guy-liner □ It’s actually gone much darker than I imagined at the start. Am guessing at some point, she’s going to remember the way Do Hyun’s dad hurt her… □ Is Do Hyun going to end up having to heal her as much as she’s healing him? I’ve a feeling that the torture Shin Se Gi has been through (the part of Do Hyun that defied his father? I hope so!) is going to make it even harder for Ri Jin to shut away – or whatever shaky psychiatry they’re going with. The year where he lived with Ri Jin is the year his mind shattered into fragments. Well, we knew Se Gi had met Ri Jin before, and now we know when and probably how as this is the year Do Hyun doesn’t remember. Oh, and I hate Dad is evil as I’m very fond of the actor, Ahn Nae-sang – who just about pops up in every kdrama going! I love his gentleness, but he often seems to play less than pleasant characters… ![]() Not punishment, this goes way beyond any parental punishment. Anyone would lose there sense of self, to be forced to witness / literally cause such brutality. Maybe that’s why she’s so good with Do Hyun / Se Gi because she knows them – albeit, she’s blanked it out.Īnd, gah □ how perfectly awful was Dad’s treatment of them? It hurt to watch the truly terrible manipulation of his own son by hurting Ri Jin so that he’d “do better”. She does pretty darn well, doesn’t she? I feel especially impressed now, given we know she’s clearly had a childhood of suffering too. Sigh, I so loved seeing Shin Se Gi being all hard-as and then all soft-as and under the gentle handling of Ri Jin. Thank you for such thoughtful commentary, kfangurl. He has got this playing this competent businessman with an edge of ambivalence down to a tee. Plenty of tragedy to go around, but for now I’m just focusing on how sad it is that Ri Jin seems to be the only one in her family who is unaware of her background (do the parents know that Ri On knows?).įinally, I just realized this week where I recognize Ryu Dong-ryong from – “Misaeng”. On the other hand, the RJ/RO revisiting their childhood “galactic savior” shtick was just cringy. The comedy is still pretty hit and miss, but there were a few bits that I thought were hilarious, such as the fight between Ri Jin and Ri On that segued into a 2-second little rap bit and the hilarious rapper get-up that the one company toady got into to sync w/ Se Gi. We’ve already seen how a little Shin Se Gi is pretty useful in the business world that a version of Do Hyun that integrates all of his alters will, indeed, be pretty cool. We all have different aspects to our personas and in Do Hyun’s case those have been artificially separated Ri Jin’s approach to acknowledge the legitimacy of and unify these various alters is both humane and pragmatic (within the concept of the show) and, from a metaphorical view, is thought-provoking insofar as we all need to come to peace with the various versions of ourselves. I’ve adjusted my personal lens to see the different alters of Do Hyun from a metaphorical perspective than a medical one. The show does take these neck-snapping turns from drama to comedy and, as you and Ele have noted, it is definitely turning a shade of dark. Your commentary and interpretations are, as always, spot-on and help with my enjoyment of the show. Thanks for carrying the torch on this one, kfangurl. What I like about this development, is that Do Hyun stands firm, and refuses to leave for America like Chairman Gran instructs. I question Professor Seok’s professionalism, since he just reveals everything about Do Hyun’s condition to Chairman Gran, even without knowing whether he has Do Hyun’s permission, but no biggie, since we’ve long established that the psychiatry in this show is not meant to be realistic in the least. Holier Than Thou that she’s engaged to be married to someone else, and really shouldn’t be obsessing over Do Hyun! Ri Jin’s remark, “I thought you were getting engaged to President Cha Ki Joon,” is just polite enough, while also being pointed enough to be low-key savage, and I have to love the subtle discombobulation, on Chae Yeon’s part. In a slightly different but kinda similar vein, I was also very pleased with the way Ri Jin answers Chae Yeon, when Chae Yeon confronts her about Do Hyun, and says that perhaps Do Hyun’s using Ri Jin to provoke Chae Yeon.
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