Best marriage announcement ever

[dangermousie]

Yes, am still selectively rewatching Baker King and I've forgotten how much Ma Jun's announcement to his family of his upcoming wedding to Yu Kyung fills me with glee.



He's basically talking to his comatose daddy, evil Mom and confused two sisters :)

Ma Jun: Father, I have something to tell you. I'm marrying Shin Yu Kyung this Sunday. I was going to wait until you regained consciousness but I don't think that will work out. I'm sorry.
Momster: Ma Jun. What are you doing right now?
Ma Jun: You don't have to attend our wedding, Mom. Actually, it might be more of a blessing if you didn't. (dm: at this point I started laughing and did not stop until the scene was over.)
Momster: What!
Sister N1: Ma Jun.
Ma Jun: You two don't have to come if you don't want to either. I won't force you to come. I just thought I should tell Father and my family about my wedding.
Momster: Ma Jun, you! Are you really going to do this until the end? Will you only feel better after stabbing me in the heart like this?
Ma Jun: You're the one! Who needs to stop stabbing me in the heart. Don't mess with me anymore. This is the last time I'll ask you like this.

And then he leaves. Presumably to order wedding breakfast :)

And that is why, evil parents, you should stop meddling! It always backfires! If it wasn't for Momster's evil manipulations, Yu Kyung would have probably become Mrs. Takgu and Ma Jun would have just had to console himself with his right hand and a really vivid imagination.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was rooting more for MJ and YK than the main OTP. I just enjoyed the tension whenever they're together! The wedding was also one of my favorite and totally savored each angst-y scene where MJ was tormented by thoughts of YK still being in love with TG after the wedding.

I loved the writer for giving them a happy ending. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was rooting more for them too (though I am not sure which otp was main - I thought MJ/YK actually got more screentime!)

All the post-marriage angst was delicious. Mmmmmm.

I am so happy they got a happy ending - I was totally worried. But it turned out how I wanted! I mean, Takgu is sweet and awesome and cuter than a litter of puppies but I was firmly Team Ma Jun - all that intensity and insecurity wrapped in aristocratic hauteur was irresistible to me.

All their scenes just sizzled like mad.

And on a shallow note I loved how tiny she was next to him :)

[popaddict.livejournal.com]

what episode was this?

and did she marry him because she had slight feelings for him or was it an arrangement?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ep 27. Yeah, she has feelings for him. They end up having one of those "he thinks she doesn't love him and she thinks he doesn't want her any more" misunderstandings for a while though, in their marriage. It's delish.

He was comforting her after she was having nightmares about her abusive father and then the proposal happened:


















MJ: Are you done crying? Now...don't cry about that sort of thing anymore. That kind of person isn't your father. Don't hold him in your life anymore. Crush it up, step on it, and throw it out with the trash.
YK: Parent-children relationships can't be erased just because you try. It's there forever. Like a fingerprint or a scar on my skin, they're the people who were embedded in me when I was born.
MJ: You don't need them. People who gave birth to us, hurt us too...Just ignore them. That kind of father...crush him mercilessly. You can do that. Got it? [pause] Take time off work this Sunday.
YK: Why?
MJ: On that day, will you marry me? There won't be many people congratulating us. And it won't be the fancy wedding that most women dream of. But I still want to do it. I want to marry you, Shin Yu Kyung. Will you do it? Hmm?
YK: Do you mean it?
MJ: More than ever before.

It's actually one of my favorite kdrama proposals ever. And proves why MJ is right for her and TK is wrong - while this is going on, Takgu is having a convo with YK's abusive father and he's trying to give him another chance, wants them to reconcile etc, which are lovely idea in abstract but kinda awful in practice, especially in this case - I mean, the man used to beat her into a pulp on a routine basis. That's not something to get over or forgive. Takgu himself is saintly enough to be able to do so perhaps, if that happened to him, no idea. But he does not realize that this is not what YK wants - this is not who she is nor should he, TG, be like this about it. Ma Jun's reaction (which is in part based on his own issues with his own awful parents) is not just the one that resonates more with me, it's the one that also fits what YK needs and wants, even more than she needs the knowledge that he saw her at her "lowest/dirtiest" and still wants her.

I loved that at the end the happy end for MJ/YK did not involve their parents at all - they are free to be together and work through their issues together and learn what it is they want to do in this world, and even have families of their own making (Takgu and MJ's sisters) but neither YK's abuser father, nor MJ's monster mother and murdering birth father and horrible bringing-up father are anywhere in the picture. They've cut all ties. It's unusual for a kdrama but it makes so much sense.

OK, sorry for rambling. It's the rabid shipper in me.

[popaddict.livejournal.com]

I really think you're winning me over. I may just have to try watching this again, this time with my hand on ffwd button for the other characters.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Let me know if you need help figuring out which eps are ship-centric