The Princess' Man - episode 18
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dangermousieSo amazing.
All the interactions between SY and SR in this episode are tinged with bittersweetness of impossibility, and they are miserable enough, but I can't help but find it immensely hopeful that SY is recovered enough (both in sanity and believing SR loves him and knowing she is worthy of his love) to actually feel grief at not being able to be with her, to discuss (even if it's in terms of 'no we can't') the possibility of leaving it all and escaping with her.
Take, for example, this scene - SR, caught between her father and the man she loves (each of whom wants to kill the other), is begging SY to ditch revenge and for them to run off. And you can see SY is tempted and actually has to fight against the impulse - he's come so far from the shattered automaton of a few episodes ago. But of course, I don't think he could live with himself if he just ran off, and his comment "we live in Sooyang's world' holds truth - they could not hide in Korea or China (if the Ming approve of Sooyang being King, the lovers will find it hard to shelter in China if Sooyang wants to track them down) - best case scenario they will always be on the run, looking over their shoulder. I suppose they could escape to Mongolia or somewhere but that is so far and hard to get to as to be pretty much impossible.
The thing that gets me in this scene the most is that SY doesn't pull down her hands right away - no, he cradles them in his, as if he doesn't want to let go.
Jung Jeong asking SY to take care of Kyung Hee if SY survives and he, JJ, doesn't. You know, only JJ could see beneath KH's brittle, polished, strong mask to the scared woman within.
I really love KH and JJ together and that's pretty awful because unlike SY and SR, who are fictional, and thus there is some hope for them, KH and JJ are real people with their fates written in history books a long time ago. And yet I can't help but hope, however ridiculous it is. Here she tells him she loves him and what really gets me is that the way JJ won her is by being good and kind and loving and not pressuring her in anything. So he basically won her love by being a good person.
Awwwwww.
This just made me bawl because they are so happy and hopeful (and she asks him to put his mother's heirloom rings on her - the ones she so haughtily refused earlier) and we all know how the attempt against Sooyang ended so I, as a viewer, know that this is the last moment of happiness they will get.
SY brooding because if he kills SR's father, he knows they can't be together (I do love that he's even starting from the position of 'we could be together except for...')
He's so young, a whole other person, with his little niece. All those flashes of the man he was before the world ended - a man full of happiness and laughter and confidence in the world - they just highlight how different he is now (though he's better than he was few eps before).
Yeah, the attempt failed and JJ is arrested. And that is why I love him - in the middle of marching to what is likely his death, he still has the presence of mind to warn KH to tell SY to stay away (did I mention how much I hate Myun by now? His attitude seems that he's the greatest victim in it all 'how dare my friends give me extra work by making me torture and execute them? They are so selfish!' is pretty much his modus operandi).
Myun demands to know if this is SY. Yes, and I hope he takes your head! In a way, Myun is haunted by how much he is a fairlure - societally he's not, being the new king's flunkie, but morally he is, and he knows it.
A part of me think all the nobles and JJ are crazy, sacrificing their lives for a technical bloodlines question (it's different for SY - he's seeking vengeance for his family) but it is consistent with their moral code and Myun is a good example of the personal destruction that awaits someone who abandons his moral code. Death is almost preferable.
All the interactions between SY and SR in this episode are tinged with bittersweetness of impossibility, and they are miserable enough, but I can't help but find it immensely hopeful that SY is recovered enough (both in sanity and believing SR loves him and knowing she is worthy of his love) to actually feel grief at not being able to be with her, to discuss (even if it's in terms of 'no we can't') the possibility of leaving it all and escaping with her.
Take, for example, this scene - SR, caught between her father and the man she loves (each of whom wants to kill the other), is begging SY to ditch revenge and for them to run off. And you can see SY is tempted and actually has to fight against the impulse - he's come so far from the shattered automaton of a few episodes ago. But of course, I don't think he could live with himself if he just ran off, and his comment "we live in Sooyang's world' holds truth - they could not hide in Korea or China (if the Ming approve of Sooyang being King, the lovers will find it hard to shelter in China if Sooyang wants to track them down) - best case scenario they will always be on the run, looking over their shoulder. I suppose they could escape to Mongolia or somewhere but that is so far and hard to get to as to be pretty much impossible.
The thing that gets me in this scene the most is that SY doesn't pull down her hands right away - no, he cradles them in his, as if he doesn't want to let go.
Jung Jeong asking SY to take care of Kyung Hee if SY survives and he, JJ, doesn't. You know, only JJ could see beneath KH's brittle, polished, strong mask to the scared woman within.
I really love KH and JJ together and that's pretty awful because unlike SY and SR, who are fictional, and thus there is some hope for them, KH and JJ are real people with their fates written in history books a long time ago. And yet I can't help but hope, however ridiculous it is. Here she tells him she loves him and what really gets me is that the way JJ won her is by being good and kind and loving and not pressuring her in anything. So he basically won her love by being a good person.
Awwwwww.
This just made me bawl because they are so happy and hopeful (and she asks him to put his mother's heirloom rings on her - the ones she so haughtily refused earlier) and we all know how the attempt against Sooyang ended so I, as a viewer, know that this is the last moment of happiness they will get.
SY brooding because if he kills SR's father, he knows they can't be together (I do love that he's even starting from the position of 'we could be together except for...')
He's so young, a whole other person, with his little niece. All those flashes of the man he was before the world ended - a man full of happiness and laughter and confidence in the world - they just highlight how different he is now (though he's better than he was few eps before).
Yeah, the attempt failed and JJ is arrested. And that is why I love him - in the middle of marching to what is likely his death, he still has the presence of mind to warn KH to tell SY to stay away (did I mention how much I hate Myun by now? His attitude seems that he's the greatest victim in it all 'how dare my friends give me extra work by making me torture and execute them? They are so selfish!' is pretty much his modus operandi).
Myun demands to know if this is SY. Yes, and I hope he takes your head! In a way, Myun is haunted by how much he is a fairlure - societally he's not, being the new king's flunkie, but morally he is, and he knows it.
A part of me think all the nobles and JJ are crazy, sacrificing their lives for a technical bloodlines question (it's different for SY - he's seeking vengeance for his family) but it is consistent with their moral code and Myun is a good example of the personal destruction that awaits someone who abandons his moral code. Death is almost preferable.
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:36 pm (UTC)I mean look at Scent of A Woman...what a surprise that was!
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-02 05:30 am (UTC)Princess KH and Jeong Jong break my heart. Their love - Episode 22 had me wondering if the Princess's Man in question actually was Jeong Jong.
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Date: 2011-10-04 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-04 06:25 am (UTC)I don't know if you've seen Let's Go to School, Sangdoo, but I felt a bit of the emotion I'd felt at the end of Sangdoo.
If you already think ill of Shin Myeon, before all that transpires in 22, I wonder how you'll feel about him after Ep 22. There are some who feel for him. I despise him. Given all that Se Ryeong has done, all his claims about sticking with his clan amount to pathetic excuses for his being a second rate human being.
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Date: 2011-10-05 02:13 pm (UTC)