dangermousie | Lobbyist: so much hot manpain should be illegal. It's bad for my health...

filmi_girl came over and I started showing her Damo. We watched two first eps and, my God, I've forgotten how incredible this is. This definitely belongs in my Top 5 kdramas. Prepare for meta and caps (am dling eps for capping right now).

But this post is not about that.

LOBBYIST

LOBBYIST

LOBBYIST.

I love episodes 10 and 11 more than chocolate ice-cream.

What do I love? Maria being tough as nails and successful and aggressive and this not being portrayed as a bad thing. That girl is Hard-Core: she can fight, she can bargain, she can think. YES.

What else do I love? Harry's deep humanity. In a way, he is totally unsuited to his life, the way Maria is not. Maria has a hard edge to her a mile wide. But Harry? He can be incredibly tough, true, but he is a total softie under all that. I loved the scene where the guerilla leader sends him some anonymous young woman to 'take care of his needs' and he just gently buttons up her bra for her, and ends up talking to a mercenary, who thinks him foolishly soft-hearted, that she is too young and he has a sister her age.

What do I love more than those put together? WHEN THE GUERILLAS CAPTURE MARIA AND TIE HER TO A POST AND FORCE HARRY TO SHOOT HER OR ELSE THEY WILL KILL HIM AND KILL HER ANYWAY. Yes, this deserves caps. OMG. I sort of forgot to breathe. That whole scene, and Maria's steadiness, and Harry's desperation and just...GUH.

And how he promises to take care of her (later) and how they escape and how he is shot protecting her and just...

MY FAVORITE SCENE IN THE DRAMA HAPPENS THEN.

First, other scenes.

Harry got taken by the psychotic guerillas who he was supposed to sell guns to. They also, later, captured Maria who was selling to the government. These caps are here mainly to show how insanely hot Harry is and how huge the budget for this thing must have been:

He realizes it's Maria!

And they try to make him shoot her. That was an amazing scene.

He cannot and yet, somehow, manages to buy them a little time and isn't killed for it.

I sort of died here.

So pretty:

Other Guy (love him) prepping the ransom:

He is orchestrating their escape:

Seeing the man who helped them, die:

Being chased:

And shot:

God, I love Maria. She is the one who gets him back up, who takes charge of their escape. She is amazing.

They finally find shelter:

Yes, 11 eps in we finally got to the comfort part of h/c!

They have escaped but of course Harry us shot and barely conscious and she is trying to take care of him and he is in total agony and out of it and she discovers his amulet and she realizes he is her childhood love. And she is tough enough to dig the bullet out of him herself, with a knife, even if her hands shake. And he is screaming and she is holding on to him, and it's all so very awesome.