Yay! I just finished watching this for the first time, no skimming involved!
Because, to be frank, I'm not into Hyun Bin, though he has talent, and Yoon Sang-Hyun is so adorable at playing losers... At first I was "eh, typical cool bitch secondary girl, over it" about his plotline, but then...she was actually, you know. Awesome. Quirky. Cold in a highly maintained way.
:now goes to actually read your analysis, that intro of My Feelings out of the way:
WAIT WE FEEL ALL THE SAME THINGS I am somehow unsurprised by this.
I see your point about the emotional journey they undergo being much more maturing. I'm so glad they had 20 episodes so these two COULD have a journey of their own. Ra-Im and Joo-Won are having a first-love experience of being drawn to people they shouldn't be despite themselves, where their primary obstacles are their own unwillingness and the unawesomely played MOM BEAST. I mean, the actress was fine for the role, but she didn't bring the more to it needed to sustain that much screen-time.
Unlike Goo Joon-Pyo's mom. She was horrifying, but amazing.
Oska and Seul instead have to work out a relationship that failed. Oska hasn't grown emotionally because he really only wants her BUT he likes girls too much to just languish alone. (He's actually the fabulously realist second-guy for Seul's drama. Maybe she was the only one for him, but it's been years and years and years. And he's a guy. With girls throwing themselves at him. He's also very accepting of himself as well as others...)
And for Seul, I really didn't get where she was coming from for the first half of the show before it reveals how much she still feels for him, in hatred. When she was being cold I was like, "Bwu---why is she so tenacious about Joo-Won, dude's not into you." But the fact that it's been long enough, she has this calculated revenge she's trying to railroad into action and she's not giving up though the pieces aren't coming together...
It also was hints from the DramaBeans recaps. Since I don't speak Korean I was missing the notes of drama-parody until they were pointed out. I rewatched the episode where she takes the other calculating chaebol-girl outside to start off my campaign to watch the rest of the episodes, and she's totally digging being in character.
No wonder Oska couldn't figure out what was going on inside her head, to put the pieces together originally! She's good at acting.
...that's also why they're a good match. They're both a dash of crazy, and kind of into themselves.
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Date: 2011-12-01 08:24 pm (UTC)Because, to be frank, I'm not into Hyun Bin, though he has talent, and Yoon Sang-Hyun is so adorable at playing losers... At first I was "eh, typical cool bitch secondary girl, over it" about his plotline, but then...she was actually, you know. Awesome. Quirky. Cold in a highly maintained way.
:now goes to actually read your analysis, that intro of My Feelings out of the way:
WAIT WE FEEL ALL THE SAME THINGS
I am somehow unsurprised by this.
I see your point about the emotional journey they undergo being much more maturing. I'm so glad they had 20 episodes so these two COULD have a journey of their own. Ra-Im and Joo-Won are having a first-love experience of being drawn to people they shouldn't be despite themselves, where their primary obstacles are their own unwillingness and the unawesomely played MOM BEAST. I mean, the actress was fine for the role, but she didn't bring the more to it needed to sustain that much screen-time.
Unlike Goo Joon-Pyo's mom. She was horrifying, but amazing.
Oska and Seul instead have to work out a relationship that failed. Oska hasn't grown emotionally because he really only wants her BUT he likes girls too much to just languish alone. (He's actually the fabulously realist second-guy for Seul's drama. Maybe she was the only one for him, but it's been years and years and years. And he's a guy. With girls throwing themselves at him. He's also very accepting of himself as well as others...)
And for Seul, I really didn't get where she was coming from for the first half of the show before it reveals how much she still feels for him, in hatred. When she was being cold I was like, "Bwu---why is she so tenacious about Joo-Won, dude's not into you." But the fact that it's been long enough, she has this calculated revenge she's trying to railroad into action and she's not giving up though the pieces aren't coming together...
It also was hints from the DramaBeans recaps. Since I don't speak Korean I was missing the notes of drama-parody until they were pointed out. I rewatched the episode where she takes the other calculating chaebol-girl outside to start off my campaign to watch the rest of the episodes, and she's totally digging being in character.
No wonder Oska couldn't figure out what was going on inside her head, to put the pieces together originally! She's good at acting.
...that's also why they're a good match. They're both a dash of crazy, and kind of into themselves.
SO CUTE.