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dangermousieToday, I woke up in an excellent mood because there were more Defendant of Love episodes for me to watch and bash. I now understand why people watch things they hate - bashing this is so very fun (and dreadfully easy - seeing how many appalling flaws it has, it's rather like beating a cripple. Almost unsportsmanlike).
Btw - this is a self-selected viewing - I rather fastforward through anything that does not involve Heroine - business machinations of Hero's rivals and some sort of a complicated love hexagon of Heroine's evil cousin get uniformly skipped. I think it's the same impulse that prompted me to get "Devil in the White City", a nonfiction account of the Chicago World Fair AND a serial killer, and read only the serial killer parts - I love a good trainwreck.
Anyway, the latest from the island of rich and psychotic is Hero being terribly terribly sorry for all the mistaken torturing and raping but still not doing the best thing he can (next to offing himself, but alas...) i.e. letting Heroine go home. Nah, she's still captive even if she doesn't have to do housework for her rapist any more. He can't let her go because he LUUUUUURVES her.
"Anger can make people do things without thinking" qouth Hero to Heroine when explaining the kidnapping and all that followed. Hmmm, some angry people yell. Other angry people kidnap women and torture them for months. Same thing.
Awwww, Hero promises Heroine not to rape her again, and acknowledges he did her wrong. Awwww. What a sweetheart! STABSTABSTAB. (You know, the sad thing is, Hero's actor is crazy hot and does wounded puppy look so well - only problem is his character is a torturer rapist! I might need to find something with him that has no raping.)
I am pleased to note, btw, that in the midst of her travails, even when she was chained up, Heroine never once forgot to put on her concealer, eye liner and lip gloss. She clearly has her priorities straight.
Hero has promised Heroine to send her home. Awwww. So sweet. He finally decided to let the woman he kidnapped for no reason go. He's a saint, I tell you, a saint.
Btw, did I mention that I am watching this on youtube and comments are full of swoony shippers for Harit and So (the characters) many of whom think it would be utterly romantic for So to have Harit's baby from that lovely night of rape. Sample non-babyish comments aren't much better: "I like the he tells her, talk to me nice or I drag you into the car and never bring you back, and you know I can do it. LOL Love it, love it!!!"
ETA: And now I finished. Happy endings all around, with hugs, hand-kissings, and eternal love promises (though I must say I did crack up at the part where she made him do everything he made her do even if a major part of me was screaming that it makes a huge difference that he could call quits atany time and she couldn't. Still, it was amusing at least).
Moral of the story: Girls, be good and you will marry a hot and rich rapist. After all, it isn't rape if the guy is hot:
Soraya tells you so:
You know, so much angst in Korean dramas could have been avoided with a little judicious raping and torturing - You remember how angsty Gong Chan was in My Girl when Yoo Rin ran away for two years and then after he found her, she pretended she didn't love him? If instead of trying to find out what was wrong and proposing marriage he would have just dragged her off, almost drowned her, and raped her until she liked it, I am sure it would have solved the problem much faster. Or that bit in Last Scandal where Jae Bin got Sun Hee a cake to cheer her up after her scummy husband divorced her? He should have just chained her up and raped her until she cheered up. Duh!
Btw - this is a self-selected viewing - I rather fastforward through anything that does not involve Heroine - business machinations of Hero's rivals and some sort of a complicated love hexagon of Heroine's evil cousin get uniformly skipped. I think it's the same impulse that prompted me to get "Devil in the White City", a nonfiction account of the Chicago World Fair AND a serial killer, and read only the serial killer parts - I love a good trainwreck.
Anyway, the latest from the island of rich and psychotic is Hero being terribly terribly sorry for all the mistaken torturing and raping but still not doing the best thing he can (next to offing himself, but alas...) i.e. letting Heroine go home. Nah, she's still captive even if she doesn't have to do housework for her rapist any more. He can't let her go because he LUUUUUURVES her.
"Anger can make people do things without thinking" qouth Hero to Heroine when explaining the kidnapping and all that followed. Hmmm, some angry people yell. Other angry people kidnap women and torture them for months. Same thing.
Awwww, Hero promises Heroine not to rape her again, and acknowledges he did her wrong. Awwww. What a sweetheart! STABSTABSTAB. (You know, the sad thing is, Hero's actor is crazy hot and does wounded puppy look so well - only problem is his character is a torturer rapist! I might need to find something with him that has no raping.)
I am pleased to note, btw, that in the midst of her travails, even when she was chained up, Heroine never once forgot to put on her concealer, eye liner and lip gloss. She clearly has her priorities straight.
Hero has promised Heroine to send her home. Awwww. So sweet. He finally decided to let the woman he kidnapped for no reason go. He's a saint, I tell you, a saint.
Btw, did I mention that I am watching this on youtube and comments are full of swoony shippers for Harit and So (the characters) many of whom think it would be utterly romantic for So to have Harit's baby from that lovely night of rape. Sample non-babyish comments aren't much better: "I like the he tells her, talk to me nice or I drag you into the car and never bring you back, and you know I can do it. LOL Love it, love it!!!"
ETA: And now I finished. Happy endings all around, with hugs, hand-kissings, and eternal love promises (though I must say I did crack up at the part where she made him do everything he made her do even if a major part of me was screaming that it makes a huge difference that he could call quits atany time and she couldn't. Still, it was amusing at least).
Moral of the story: Girls, be good and you will marry a hot and rich rapist. After all, it isn't rape if the guy is hot:
Soraya tells you so:
You know, so much angst in Korean dramas could have been avoided with a little judicious raping and torturing - You remember how angsty Gong Chan was in My Girl when Yoo Rin ran away for two years and then after he found her, she pretended she didn't love him? If instead of trying to find out what was wrong and proposing marriage he would have just dragged her off, almost drowned her, and raped her until she liked it, I am sure it would have solved the problem much faster. Or that bit in Last Scandal where Jae Bin got Sun Hee a cake to cheer her up after her scummy husband divorced her? He should have just chained her up and raped her until she cheered up. Duh!
