IRIS has ended

[dangermousie]

I am considerate and not posting even a mood outside the cut





Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I am crying.

Fuck.

NOT FAIR.

They saved the President, Seung Hee is not evil, Sa Woo dies but redeems himself, all awesome.

And then Hyun Joon is driving to meet Seung Hee who is waiting for him only to be killed by an unseen sniper.

FUCK FUCK FUCK.

It makes sense - it bleakly does - there is no way he could have rooted IRIS out, not really. But oh GOD. Oh GOD.

I am crying, I can't stand it.

FUCK.

It's like that really famous scene in All In where Song Hye Kyo is waiting for him, happy and unknowing, as he gets shot, but there he wasn't killed after all - not like this here.

Oh God.

He never got to really enjoy life, to have a truly happy stretch with Seung Hee!

And after all of the stuff he went through.

And OMG, what will happen to Seung Hee? She almost went insane the first time!

FUCK.

FUCK.

It makes sense, it totally does, it's not a bad or sloppy ending that way, but I can't deal.

Seriously guys, I am crying. I am just sitting here, bawling. I can't stop.

This is the first drama that truly broke my heart (I have cried for other endings before but I was never invested like this). Oh God.

ETA: I am still upset, I can't deal with it, I've been thinking about nothing but this for half an hour now. I am so not doing this again with an airing drama - never.

ETA2: An hour, and I am still sobbing levels of upset. Someone at soompi had a really interesting theory - that Hyun Joon is killed not just to punish him for foiling IRIS but as a punishment to Seung Hee - because she refused to join IRIS, this is her punishment - to have the man she loves more than life taken from her. Which actually correlates with where he is killed - they could have as easily stabbed him on a Seoul street. But they waited until he was almost at his meeting place with her - I bet I know who will find him and how she will react. FUCK. This is brutal.



Talk to me, someone!

I am not sure I can face repeating this torture of suspence with Chuno, Christmas and IRIS s2. But I am sure I will do so anyway.

ETA3: Oh, for goodness' sake, soompiers - the ending does not suck merely because you did not get what you wanted. If the ending makes logical sense, then it's good. Thank you.

Comments

[raffaella.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Damn. I followed your posts on it (because I never mind being spoiled for dramas and this looked potentially interesting) and this must be heartwrenching, after falling so hard for this pairing. Heartbreak over characters one is deeply invested in is...GAH.

Er, hugs?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am so upset, you have no idea! The thing is, I know it's a well-written and even logical ending (honestly, as soon as IRIS declared him an enemy, it was a matter of when not if, for him to die - it's like the Mob, you can never truly root it out). And so the sheer randomness makes sense - the off-kilter viciousness.

But OMG - I think Hyun Joon is my favorite drama character ever so this is - I am not really rational about it. And to do it just at the moment of OTP happiness is so brutal.

I suppose it could have been worse. He could have been shot in her arms. GRAH.

Thanks for the hugs!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

But then Seung Hee is not evil!!! And the ending makes sense!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It does! It could have been so much worse!

But I am still heart-broken.

Also

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Apparently he was going to propose! *bawls and curls up in a corner*

Look at them so happy earlier :(

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I'm sorry, but I just can't watch Iris now. I'm so glad I didn't pick it up while it was airing - I spend my life in an effort to avoid exactly this kind of ending/situation - because I simply can't handle it. GAH.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

feel better though! (why does this remind me of Fanaa? much worse though) Take a day or a few hours off and then watch something else that is happy and which you love(preferably not a drama).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He was going to propose to her! He was driving with a ring and everything!

I grew up on Russian novels and 19th century French lit so this sort of an ending is not uncommon to me (and it's a well-written unhappy ending not one just thrown in there) but oh God - I am such a wreck!

I mean - guess who is going to find him! Shot to death! With an engagement ring for her! His true love, that's who.

My God, the writers are SADISTS. But it could have been so much worse. If they were going to kill one of them, it's just as well it's Hyun Joon. If Seung Hee was the one who died, they might as well killed him too because her being there was the only way he was functional.

[uhmbrr.livejournal.com]

what.the.hell.


why.did.i.click.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Sorry :(

Were you watching this?

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Awwww, sad to hear it D: I was really rooting for those two crazy kids. One of the few times I feel really convinced by a couple. (and that's just from your recaps!)

What happened to Sun Hwa I wonder...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah - they were so right together.

Sun Hwa is OK - she got wounded in the 'protect the President' melee but survived.

I wonder if Sun Hwa and Seung Hee will now team up and hunt down and destroy whoever killed Hyun Joon. Yes please.

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

D8

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know!

[doublethink101.livejournal.com]

;_;

Oh God! WHY?!?

I don't think I can handle this...

I'll be marathoning it today and tomorrow (I stopped at 9). At least I'm kinda prepared...

This is my first drama where the protagonist dies (Sang-doo doesn't count because at least their together). I hope you feel better and watch something that is happy.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know! It makes total sense, storywise, so I am not mad at the writers, but I am so very devastated.

If there was anyone who deserved to be happy, it was those two - they went through so much horribleness and they loved each other so much.

[clairiere.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I saw your post earlier in the day, but wasn't in a state to offer much comfort and I'm still not sure I reached it. I think I'm somewhere between depression & acceptance. Pretty sure went past the early stages weeks/days ago.

How about just some hugs?

I should be happy HyunJoon & SaWoo (and SeungHee) reconciled and yet... the first time I watched it, which was hours ago, I was too depressed about how they got there (it may make more sense once you see it) & too busy coping with it to really absorb what was happening. It's only just now I had myself a good cry watching those scenes again and it helps a bit.

As for the finale's ending... of course, pretty much everyone's in an uproar about it but I hashed it over with some others @DCgall & if the point they were trying to make was that if an individual, a mere mortal (be it the president or someone like HJ or SH or ultimately SW) tries to defy an organization like IRIS, they'll pay a price, well, the finale made that point. Someone @DCgall summed it up as forbidden fruit=free will and I think it fits into the overriding point.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That point about individual free will makes sense.

And honestly, even though I find it devastating - because I loved Hyun Joon the way I never loved another drama character, ever - it does make sense to me (maybe I've read too much John LeCarre). There is no way they could have ever rooted out IRIS - how could they? It's like the Mob - you can weaken it or get rid of individual leaders, but you cannot eradicate it fully and you will pay the price, sooner or later (look at the Voice - it took them years but they tracked him down).

It's true, if you think about it, all the good guys got punished either through death (Hyun Joon or Sa Woo - so glad he was redeemed) or through death of a loved one (Seung Hee, Sun Hwa). In a way, after it all, IRIS still wins. Logically and narratively I like this bleakness (it's not as if our protagonist was facing one small underground mob unit a la Dog/Wolf) but emotionally, it's still ripping me to shreds.

In some ways, Hyun Joon is the luckier one - if a sniper did his job right, he'd never even know he was dead. But I honestly cannot imagine what this will do to Seung Hee. This time there is no wiggle room, there is no Sa Woo to give her strength, not even Baeksan (who had a soft spot for her), nothing. And she will probably be the one to find him, too. I can see her snapping at last.

[sundae-sweet.livejournal.com]

I'm not even watching this series (don't think I can stand to anymore reading this) and even I will go on a limb and say that is the most f****d thing ever. EVER.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's the most brutal ending I've ever seen and I've watched Something Happened in Bali so that's saying something.

The worst part is it totally makes sense - it's almost inevitable - so I can't even rage at phoniness or bad writing.

[scanky-chops.livejournal.com]

Oh, i've been through the WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED HERE ending with Kimura's A Sleeping Forest and trust me, that ending was WAY MORE shocking in that with IRIS you sort of had an idea that the ending wasn't going to be good. ASF was amazing and then ruined me with the ending 'cos it was such a random tangent and gah.

DAMN YOU ASF! DAMN YOU TO HELL. YOU CAN TAKE TAKASHI SORIMACHI'S CHEAP LOVE AND ITS SHODDY ENDING TOO!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLOLOL. Thanks for making me giggle :)

I am so unhealthily invested in IRIS it hit me more than it might have otherwise.

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

THIS.

I should have known. Should have heed the title of your post but stupid me, who loves to spoil myself decided to just read this anyway.

Now, I am torn. Torn between subjecting myself to this kind of torture OR missing out on such an awesome drama and save myself from being emotionally drained!

GEEZUS FUCKING CHRIST IN HEAVEN.

I,too have watched some really fucked up ending but this has got to top the list.

Ugh.

The look on Hyun Joon's face...haunting.

Oh IRIS!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Don't miss out - it totally is worth it, esp. if you spoil yourself so it's not a shock.

I am so devastated for Hyun Joon I can barely bear it. I keep writing a ridiculous au in my head where he isn't dead, just wounded, and he gets rescued and he and Seung Hee are spirited into hiding and live happily ever after.

God.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I JUST FINISHED

I AM WRECKED

WRECKED

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh fuck I'm making it worse by reading your posts.

I cannot help but think and replay in my head what will happen after the last minute of the drama. Seung Hee waiting by that lighthouse, eager and happy and slowly getting puzzled and worried not seeing him. And calling his phone and nobody picking up, and growing more and more panicky. And then driving off, to look for him, and seeing his car on the road, and finding him there, dead, with a ring for her.

My God.

That is horrific.

I CAN'T STOP CRYING. I'VE BEEN CRYING FOR PRETTY MUCH AN HOUR. Ever since Sa Woo gave Hyun Joon that joyful smile and threw him a clip like old times. AUGH. This will be a drama that haunts me.