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dangermousieThank you everyone for your well-wishes! I am finally feeling like a human being, i.e., much better!
So it's back to drama gushing.
Considering that I had to pause ep 12 of Arang and the Magistrate in the middle due to developing a severe allergy to my strep medication and having to go to the ER, and only resumed it a day later and still liked it - that must have been quite the episode.
It moved forward the plot and also the romance is now firing on all cylinders - perfect balance. People who were complaining earlier episodes weren't sufficiently romantic for them, would be amply satisfied.
I love the confrontation between Eun Oh and Killer Jr. I mean, I love it when our Magistrate melts in front of Arang, but I might like his hard-nosed attitude towards the bad guys even more.
See what I mean about melting? Look at all those grins! Look how pleased he is when he realizes she was worried about him! Eps 12 of both this and Faith have our heroes turning into lovestruck grinny schoolboys. Awwwwwww.
Arang and Eun Oh planning together. I especially love how he forbids her to infiltrate the Choi grounds - a far cry from the man who was trying to drag her to a grisly mass tomb where she possibly died just to get some clues.
She hires some ghosts for patrol. LOL. And he is not super happy so she is pouring her contrition on super thick (manipulating gal, LOL) and he puts his hand over her mouth to shut her up only...seriously, if they could bottle this chemistry, they could make millions!
Until she shoves him, that is.
Confronting Lord Choi and Killer Jr. Seriously, I love competent, in-your-face Magistrate.
The ghosts are repelled from coming in though. Time for more strategizing. :)
This scene! Arang is wondering how on earth Lee Seo Rim's father was OK with giving her into marriage to a household like that, an evil one. And she also wonders what kind of person LSR was - she was hoping LSR was loved (Arang, you are not unloved! Eun Oh loves you!), or at least had a one-sided love but it doesn't seem the case. It seems LSR had no personality. She still refers to LSR in the third person, which is quire significant. And you see it's killing him but he gives her LSR's diary that he just found, even though this diary, he knows, is full of how much Lee Seo Rim loved and longed for Killer Jr. Ohhhh. (And the irony. If only Killer Jr wasn't a murderer for a demon, he would have found that unconditional love he so longed for, with the very woman he fell for now). And you know, it's so significant - Eun Oh is restoring selfhood and humanity to Arang, bit by bit - from clothes, to treating her as a damageable human and not an unkillable being in that scene in ep 11, to giving her that diary, connecting her with her past self.
She reads the diary and remembers LSR falling in love with Killer Jr at first sight and asking her father to arrange the union...
He is waiting for her. And his face when she tells him that Lee Seo Rim thought Killer Jr was her once in a lifetime love. And that her heart beat for him. Lee Jun Ki is so amazing with his face - so expressive. He breaks my heart in that scene. And he asks her, desperately, whether she still thinks she and LSR are two different people because he used to think that was crazy, but he needs it to be true. (He says every last bit of that last sentence - he is so open with her). And she doesn't answer but rushes off because to answer would open a whole emotional can of worms that she is unwilling to do, with only a month left.
Dol Sae generally annoys me, but in that scene I felt pure, visceral rage - he found Arang was a ghost and lays into her, demanding she leaves his master alone, despite Eun Oh's attempts to stop him. And Arang's face, as her non-humanity is thrown in her face (the way Eun Oh's illegitimate/slave-birth status gets thrown into his), and Eun Oh's face, so terrified he may lose her. You know, Arang and Eun Oh are so the same - both touched by the supernatural and not fully human - can see ghosts, were brought back from death, have powers, and of course neither fits into the world - his due to his social background, her due to her death.
He remembers all their interactions. I have this here because these are some of my fave scenes.
This! He senses something is wrong and she is in danger (OMFG, they are now psychically attuned). And he is right, Killer Jr is there to kill her, again, for the demon (does the demon want to bring the unconscious body to her and enter her when Arang is not back to life yet? In which case why does she need to know what Arang wants most? Or is it just to have her there, bring her to life, find out what she wants, offer to grant it and kill her again? Or is some sort of cosmic bargain - she can enter bodies if she grants their wish, whether they want to trade or not?) Killer Jr can't bring himself to kill her but I still don't care. He is a killer for a demon who's done it many times before. He is a disgusting, pond life scum and I want him dead.
He leaves right before Eun Oh bursts in, in his nightclothes (both of them are in their nightclothes, their armor gone).
Yes, their enemy the moon. I love that he decides to tell her how he feels precisely after he realizes how little time is left.
asjsksskkdkdsldksfk!!! I have to quote word for word:
"Arang, I don't know why I'm like this...But me being like this...Also makes me flustered. But then...I will think about it later as to why I am being like this. First...I've decided to do this. You...may have told me not to like you, but...I...I... am..."
And she desperately tries to stop him, because once the words are out, nothing can put them back in and everything changes, but he perseveres and tells her: "I am going to like you, Arang." Deeeeed. Deaaaad! Remember the totally closed off Eun Oh of the beginning? Yeah. And he begs her to tell him how she feels, telling her he knows she is honest, but of course Arang (who, btw, is fully clothed by now, i.e., her armor is back on) tells him she doesn't like him. Nooooooo! Don't lie!!!! And his face!
And she moves to walk in, but he stops her, so desperate and passionate and tells her that this is the last time (I assume that he will ask her) and then credits. ARGH!!! You are killing me, drama!
What I want to know is not even the outcome of this conversation but a peace of mind regarding a horrible theory I have. If Jade Emperor made Eun Oh into his weapon, does that mean he needs him to kill demon while she is wearing his mother's skin (horrific) or, even worse - once the demon manages to possess Arang, he will have kill Arang's body? Hell, if that's the case, that's as bad as the season finale for Buffy s2.
Random question - are there any good recent Arang MVs? I can't seem to find any. Tons for Faith, nada for Arang.
So it's back to drama gushing.
Considering that I had to pause ep 12 of Arang and the Magistrate in the middle due to developing a severe allergy to my strep medication and having to go to the ER, and only resumed it a day later and still liked it - that must have been quite the episode.
It moved forward the plot and also the romance is now firing on all cylinders - perfect balance. People who were complaining earlier episodes weren't sufficiently romantic for them, would be amply satisfied.
I love the confrontation between Eun Oh and Killer Jr. I mean, I love it when our Magistrate melts in front of Arang, but I might like his hard-nosed attitude towards the bad guys even more.
See what I mean about melting? Look at all those grins! Look how pleased he is when he realizes she was worried about him! Eps 12 of both this and Faith have our heroes turning into lovestruck grinny schoolboys. Awwwwwww.
Arang and Eun Oh planning together. I especially love how he forbids her to infiltrate the Choi grounds - a far cry from the man who was trying to drag her to a grisly mass tomb where she possibly died just to get some clues.
She hires some ghosts for patrol. LOL. And he is not super happy so she is pouring her contrition on super thick (manipulating gal, LOL) and he puts his hand over her mouth to shut her up only...seriously, if they could bottle this chemistry, they could make millions!
Until she shoves him, that is.
Confronting Lord Choi and Killer Jr. Seriously, I love competent, in-your-face Magistrate.
The ghosts are repelled from coming in though. Time for more strategizing. :)
This scene! Arang is wondering how on earth Lee Seo Rim's father was OK with giving her into marriage to a household like that, an evil one. And she also wonders what kind of person LSR was - she was hoping LSR was loved (Arang, you are not unloved! Eun Oh loves you!), or at least had a one-sided love but it doesn't seem the case. It seems LSR had no personality. She still refers to LSR in the third person, which is quire significant. And you see it's killing him but he gives her LSR's diary that he just found, even though this diary, he knows, is full of how much Lee Seo Rim loved and longed for Killer Jr. Ohhhh. (And the irony. If only Killer Jr wasn't a murderer for a demon, he would have found that unconditional love he so longed for, with the very woman he fell for now). And you know, it's so significant - Eun Oh is restoring selfhood and humanity to Arang, bit by bit - from clothes, to treating her as a damageable human and not an unkillable being in that scene in ep 11, to giving her that diary, connecting her with her past self.
She reads the diary and remembers LSR falling in love with Killer Jr at first sight and asking her father to arrange the union...
He is waiting for her. And his face when she tells him that Lee Seo Rim thought Killer Jr was her once in a lifetime love. And that her heart beat for him. Lee Jun Ki is so amazing with his face - so expressive. He breaks my heart in that scene. And he asks her, desperately, whether she still thinks she and LSR are two different people because he used to think that was crazy, but he needs it to be true. (He says every last bit of that last sentence - he is so open with her). And she doesn't answer but rushes off because to answer would open a whole emotional can of worms that she is unwilling to do, with only a month left.
Dol Sae generally annoys me, but in that scene I felt pure, visceral rage - he found Arang was a ghost and lays into her, demanding she leaves his master alone, despite Eun Oh's attempts to stop him. And Arang's face, as her non-humanity is thrown in her face (the way Eun Oh's illegitimate/slave-birth status gets thrown into his), and Eun Oh's face, so terrified he may lose her. You know, Arang and Eun Oh are so the same - both touched by the supernatural and not fully human - can see ghosts, were brought back from death, have powers, and of course neither fits into the world - his due to his social background, her due to her death.
He remembers all their interactions. I have this here because these are some of my fave scenes.
This! He senses something is wrong and she is in danger (OMFG, they are now psychically attuned). And he is right, Killer Jr is there to kill her, again, for the demon (does the demon want to bring the unconscious body to her and enter her when Arang is not back to life yet? In which case why does she need to know what Arang wants most? Or is it just to have her there, bring her to life, find out what she wants, offer to grant it and kill her again? Or is some sort of cosmic bargain - she can enter bodies if she grants their wish, whether they want to trade or not?) Killer Jr can't bring himself to kill her but I still don't care. He is a killer for a demon who's done it many times before. He is a disgusting, pond life scum and I want him dead.
He leaves right before Eun Oh bursts in, in his nightclothes (both of them are in their nightclothes, their armor gone).
Yes, their enemy the moon. I love that he decides to tell her how he feels precisely after he realizes how little time is left.
asjsksskkdkdsldksfk!!! I have to quote word for word:
"Arang, I don't know why I'm like this...But me being like this...Also makes me flustered. But then...I will think about it later as to why I am being like this. First...I've decided to do this. You...may have told me not to like you, but...I...I... am..."
And she desperately tries to stop him, because once the words are out, nothing can put them back in and everything changes, but he perseveres and tells her: "I am going to like you, Arang." Deeeeed. Deaaaad! Remember the totally closed off Eun Oh of the beginning? Yeah. And he begs her to tell him how she feels, telling her he knows she is honest, but of course Arang (who, btw, is fully clothed by now, i.e., her armor is back on) tells him she doesn't like him. Nooooooo! Don't lie!!!! And his face!
And she moves to walk in, but he stops her, so desperate and passionate and tells her that this is the last time (I assume that he will ask her) and then credits. ARGH!!! You are killing me, drama!
What I want to know is not even the outcome of this conversation but a peace of mind regarding a horrible theory I have. If Jade Emperor made Eun Oh into his weapon, does that mean he needs him to kill demon while she is wearing his mother's skin (horrific) or, even worse - once the demon manages to possess Arang, he will have kill Arang's body? Hell, if that's the case, that's as bad as the season finale for Buffy s2.
Random question - are there any good recent Arang MVs? I can't seem to find any. Tons for Faith, nada for Arang.
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Date: 2012-09-23 01:17 am (UTC)I just got back home and sat straight down and was in the middle of writing this post but then I had to take a break so I decided to lurk here and I read through this, and your post is a much better version of my post and I backspaced everything. How are your recaps so perfect TT_TT It has every single thought I had while watching this episode. Also: the ending made me literally claw my face and I have scratch marks and everyone thought it was a cat and I said yes but I don't even have a cat.
Are you feeling better now? I just read through all of your posts, and I felt so bad >.<;; Are you sure it's allergy to penicillin? Or is it maybe cortisones? Either way, I hope you get back to full steam soon~ Just relax and treat this as a break~ And I hope baby mousie stays well too ^u^
And I saw some Arang mvs floating around, but I haven't had a chance to see them.. I'll link them if I like them ^^~ In the meantime, some piccies to cheer you up~
(I just like how awesome she is even in sweats in that one)
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Date: 2012-09-23 01:55 am (UTC)Noooo, don't erase your post, I love your posts! I have your LJ bookmarked (and am about to rec your awesome awesome ep 11 post, after I comment on it, that is :P)
No, it's penicillin. The only med I took yesterday was a penicillin-based antibiotic. So unless I am allergic to dramas (nooooooooo! :P), that's what that was. People have penicillin allergies - my MIL has one, frex. I am going to go to an allergist to get it checked out for sure jic.
That ending was INSANE! I have a bad feeling that she is going to lie and take up with Killer Jr to discourage EO. Noooo!
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Date: 2012-09-23 05:50 am (UTC)Allergic to dramas? Blashphemy! I know that people get diagnosed with allergies to penicillin, but a similar thing happened to my mum (and it was so scary oh god) and they initially diagnosed it as allergy to penicillin, only to revise it and say it was an allergy to cortisones. Deffo get it checked.
If. She. Goes. There.
No no, mental breakdown, abort abort.
But seriously, Arang isna getting enough love TT_TT
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Date: 2012-09-24 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 01:26 am (UTC)I hope you feel better soon!
Agree with everything you wrote about Arang ♥
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Date: 2012-09-23 01:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 02:08 am (UTC)My mom is allergic to ibuprofen and that totally sucks for her :-(
I am allergic to shellfish and saffron but fortunately that doesn't interfere too much with medication ... I reiterate that I hope you feel better soon!
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Date: 2012-09-23 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 02:00 am (UTC)www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e4PsxU0GKQ
a pity it is so short T.T
DM, hope you won't have allergy anymore and hope you aren't in pain, get well soon :)
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Date: 2012-09-23 02:06 am (UTC)I am on the mend - only thing is I am a bit tired but that's not a big deal.
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Date: 2012-09-23 08:12 am (UTC)I think your threory might be correct as I have had a bad feeling ever since he stressed that he was the one to send her to Heaven. On the other hand, he might be just the same as Arang as he was resurrected by the Jade Emperor ... and that foreboding voice over of JE that once EOh has made the connection he will know what to do. That drama is killing me and I was never into wuxia/historical Kdrama LOL
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Date: 2012-09-24 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 09:00 am (UTC)I loved seeing EO putting his heart out there and being the one to confess. It was so touching and heartbreaking. And the way he gave her the diary when he knew what was in it. Yeah, I might have melted in a puddle of goo.
Re-"let's kill Arang a second time" thing, I don't think it served any other purpose than checking if Evil Jr could actually do it. Evil Mama wanted to see how deep his feelings for Arang ran and she had her answer.
Re-your theory, I don't know if that's what will happen but I do think we're being lulled in a dangerous "look how cute the bickering twins are" state. Fact is, they're gods and they'll do what they have to ensure the balance between the worlds is restored. Both Arang and EO died at one point. They're "tools" living on borrowed time.
Hope you'll feel completely fine soon!
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Date: 2012-09-24 12:16 am (UTC)Yes, the gods are entertaining, but they are immortal beings with power over life and death and ultimately, EO and Arang are just blink in their eye. Worrisome.
Kill Arang as a test makes sense...
I love how forthright and fearless EO is with his feelings. When he melts, he really melts.
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Date: 2012-09-23 10:52 am (UTC)www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkGfo1iQ76M
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Date: 2012-09-24 12:11 am (UTC)