RAAAAAAAGE! SCREAMING RAAAAAAGE
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dangermousieSo, did anyone watch the preview for episode 18 of Pick the Stars?
A lot of juicy things going on such as dreaded gangster-selling. I have seen enough kdramas to recognize what a heroine being in the den of mobster loan-sharks looks like. What I want to (worriedly) know is what she used as a collateral - I still remember Slingshot, thanks!
I bet it's money for Nami's operation, too. And this leads me to the other thing that made my eyes pop - THE SLAP. Kang Ha, honey, we were doing so well! I've been loving you for over 10 eps. And then you go and ---
SERIOUSLY. I understand I am completely intrepreting a 10-second preview, utterly out of context and with no knowledge of Korean whatsoever. And I know dramas are slap-happy. Whatever.
(warning, about to enter capslock zone. If sensitive, exit now)
How dare Kang Ha slap Pal Kang? HOW DARE HE? I don't know whether he is slapping her because she is planning to leave Nami in the orphanage, because she sold herself to loansharks, because she didn't even ask him for money before picking these drastic courses of action, or some combo thereof. Fine, whatever, these are all horrific/stupid actions (especially as he may not know she is leaving Nami out of necessity, so Nami gets treatment). And I get that he has issues about families abandoning children due to his own frelled-up background. TOUGH LUCK, SON OF A BITCH.
Who is he to her? Her lover? Her spouse? Her family member? Is Nami his child? His sibling? Nope nope nope. Even if he was related, he still has no right to raise his hand to a woman but when that fact is coupled with the fact that he has no relation to her? THE HELL.
He isn't smacking his evil crazy fiancee who is blackmailing him into marriage - no, he's smacking a woman who never did him any wrong and is at the end of her rope. Pal Kang was so so very wrong to do this (but I have sympathy for her - she is so stuck into a corner and messed up by now, thanks to, in part, Kang Ha) but ooooooh, the rage, IT BURNS BURNS BURNS. I hope she never takes you once you confess or whatever. I hope she stabs you in the eye.
I reserve the right to change my mind once the ep airs :P
A lot of juicy things going on such as dreaded gangster-selling. I have seen enough kdramas to recognize what a heroine being in the den of mobster loan-sharks looks like. What I want to (worriedly) know is what she used as a collateral - I still remember Slingshot, thanks!
I bet it's money for Nami's operation, too. And this leads me to the other thing that made my eyes pop - THE SLAP. Kang Ha, honey, we were doing so well! I've been loving you for over 10 eps. And then you go and ---
SERIOUSLY. I understand I am completely intrepreting a 10-second preview, utterly out of context and with no knowledge of Korean whatsoever. And I know dramas are slap-happy. Whatever.
(warning, about to enter capslock zone. If sensitive, exit now)
How dare Kang Ha slap Pal Kang? HOW DARE HE? I don't know whether he is slapping her because she is planning to leave Nami in the orphanage, because she sold herself to loansharks, because she didn't even ask him for money before picking these drastic courses of action, or some combo thereof. Fine, whatever, these are all horrific/stupid actions (especially as he may not know she is leaving Nami out of necessity, so Nami gets treatment). And I get that he has issues about families abandoning children due to his own frelled-up background. TOUGH LUCK, SON OF A BITCH.
Who is he to her? Her lover? Her spouse? Her family member? Is Nami his child? His sibling? Nope nope nope. Even if he was related, he still has no right to raise his hand to a woman but when that fact is coupled with the fact that he has no relation to her? THE HELL.
He isn't smacking his evil crazy fiancee who is blackmailing him into marriage - no, he's smacking a woman who never did him any wrong and is at the end of her rope. Pal Kang was so so very wrong to do this (but I have sympathy for her - she is so stuck into a corner and messed up by now, thanks to, in part, Kang Ha) but ooooooh, the rage, IT BURNS BURNS BURNS. I hope she never takes you once you confess or whatever. I hope she stabs you in the eye.
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Date: 2010-03-08 08:35 pm (UTC)http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/holi_2010.html
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Date: 2010-03-08 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-03-08 08:53 pm (UTC)Actually, I thought a transplant was going to come up from way back when - question was just which of the kids - that's the best way for Kang Ha and Jun ha to learn the kids are not related, Grandpa find out PK is his granddaughter etc.
I am weird, but I think what DG did is so much worse. Slapping someone is so much better than calling her all sorts of vicious names, sticking a weapon to her neck and making her kneel, and then taking off her husband for torture so she is left defenseless with the prince everyone wants to kill. Oh, and getting her brother and bodyguard killed. Kang Ha is waaaay ahead.
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Date: 2010-03-08 09:01 pm (UTC)Kang Ha: we are not sure about the context yet. I can do with "come to your senses" slap , if she slaps him back.
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:11 pm (UTC)Re: DG. I get so torn. I fluctuate between feeling sorry/liking his character and wanting to stab him in the eye - during different rewatches of the same scenes!
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Date: 2010-03-09 01:28 am (UTC)And maybe it will be a stereotypical kdrama smack which would be the equivalent of being lightly brushed against the face with a handkerchief.
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 02:46 am (UTC)That's called "FATE".
Emma
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 04:21 am (UTC)And I'm with the other commenters re: the slap, it could be a "get a hold of yourself, woman!" slap, in which case it might be understandable. I'd have to see it in context; usually I despise any man who raises a hand to a woman but I'd need to know the situation first.
From what I've read, he's put up with a fair bit, what with her brood of siblings taking over his house. It would have to be something epic to provoke him into a slapping rage.
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:19 pm (UTC)he's put up with a fair bit, what with her brood of siblings taking over his house. It would have to be something epic to provoke him into a slapping rage.
LOL. Indeed. Also, seeing he managed not to beat his horrible sociopathic fiancee senseless indicates a freakly level of restraint :P
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Date: 2010-03-09 05:35 am (UTC)I suppose I can deal with the slap if (a) Kang-ha immediately apologizes and (b) Pal-gang tells him off for believing she would abandon Nami. (And maybe, just maybe because if Pal-gang really was abandoning Nami, she'd deserve to be slapped.) And even if both those things happen, it's still only fair because Pal-gang slapped Kang-ha when her protective instincts were ranging.
(I wonder if Pal-gang is going to the orphanage to see if they have any medical history at all for Nami.)
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:17 pm (UTC)I read spoilers re: slap and it doesn't bother me now. Yay!
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