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dangermousieI am almost all caught up on all my four airing dramas (Cinderella Unni, Dong Yi, Oh My Lady, and Prosecutor Princess). I have also tried ep 3 of Personal Taste - and it's official, I give up. I gave that drama 3 eps and - just no. Leaving aside any problems with the characters, this drama is just boring. My attention keeps wandering. I am finding all the characters dull and their situations are only sporadically funny. Blah. Let me know if it improves though and I will check it out again.
I have also watched ep 4 of Prosecutor Princess and such total total love!
Bonus 1. I approve of any situation which gets both our leading men wounded and shirtless. Did I mention the part where In Woo is wounded but what he is freaking out about is that Hyeri was in danger? SQUEE. OTP.
Anyway, the sequence in question. Hyeri is about to head out when this woman approaches her. She was accused of assault and Hyeri believed the accuser. Woman was proven innocent and is pissed.
Fellow prosecutors are appalled even if they are not the biggest Hyeri fans.
In Woo sees the whole thing at a glance - shivering Hyeri, frozen prosecutors, passerby filming. And this is what happens.
Too bad, so sad, Prosecutor Yoon! You are too late to the rescue! I don't feel too bad for you - she confessed her love to you and you turned her down.
Plus, I ship you with Lady Prosecutor anyway.
I love them!
He takes her to his apartment, shows her the bathroom and lays out a change of clothes for her (said change of clothes - his clothes, of course, OMG). I took a few too many caps of Park Shi Hoo's gorgeousness here. I hope you don't mind :D
Shall we repeat?
Hyeri cheers a bit until she gets a call that this whole incident has been uploaded on-line - she is a public laughingstock and people are posting horrible comments.
OMG, his face. That is certainly a guy madly in love and he totally cannot bear to watch her cry. Awwwww.
He drops her off home:
Bonus 2. End of ep. She is fed up with this whole thing and so she plans to run away but guess who stops her (and pulls her into a hug?). Guess? (Side note - considering how much time In Woo spends making sure she is OK, I am wondering, does he not need sleep ever or something? Where can I get a fairy godmother like that?)
In other news, have finally watched ep 3 of Cinderella Unni with subs.
Despite my love for both Oh My Lady and Prosecutor Princess, CU is definitely my drama of the season - it bypasses any logical centers of my brain (though it's well-written enough to please them too) and hits me in the emotional gut no drama has since IRIS.
After watching ep 3 with subs, I confess to liking, pitying, and understanding both Eun Jo and Hyo Sun. I can completely understand how with her unstable, abused backround Eun Jo keeps lashing out at Hyo Sun, pushing any possible affection past the breaking point - testing it to feel secure and/or to prove to herself that affection is safe. Someone older and much wiser (Ki Hoon, with his rather similar to Eun Jo background) could understand that Eun Jo is lashing out is a defense mechanism and adjust accordingly, but Hyo Sun (or to be fair, most people) couldn't deal with it.
But I also completely understand why Hyo Sun snaps. Frankly, Eun Jo is being a gigantic bitch to her and it's to HS's credit she put up with it as long as she could. I would have called her every name I could lay my tongue to and probably tried to hit her too, and I would have snapped a lot earlier than HS would have. I cannot possibly blame HS for anything she has done so far, including the infamous letter incident in ep 4.
Whatever Hyo Sun may or may not do in the future to put spokes in Eun Jo's wheels, Eun Jo has nobody but herself to blame.
And speaking of blame - can I blame Ki Hoon's horrific family for even existing? His brother is awful, his father is a selfish weakling, but his stepmother is horrifying - she is a waste of oxygen and the worst excuse for a human being I've seen in a while. Ep 3 makes explicit the parallels between Ki Hoon and Eun Jo's background minus the sexual abuse. (The way she reacted to the drunk exbf of her Mom crystallized her past abuse to me even further - the way she trembles in fear and loathing whenever he's in her space, the way she asks Ki Hoon to kill the ex for her (reminded me of the scene in Mars where Qi Luo wanted Ling to kill her abusive stepfather) - I loved the look on Ki Hoon's face at that - I want to call it compassion or understanding (never pity - there is a huge difference) but it's not just that. Those are selfless, a little detached feelings but whatever he is feeling is mixed with love).
OK, to get back to Ki Hoon's background - I thought back to his comment to Eun Jo in ep 1 that she shoudn't run away from home before she reaches the age of majority (20yrs) because otherwise nobody would hire her or if they do it will be for pittance and working night and day she'd barely make enough to stay alive - it became pretty clear that this is what Ki Hoon himself went through earlier (side note - any parent who forbids his son to call him father and kicks him out of the house when the kid is still a minor, after gifting him with a miserable childhood before that, deserves to rot in hell. I speak as a Mom. Seriously. A person who mistreats their (or anyone else's) child does not deserve to live).
I have already raved about Ki Hoon and Eun Jo's hug-not-hug - it is so huge for both of them - and Eun Jo is comfortable enough with Ki Hoon that even though he's a man she allows him so close, almost hugging - that is huge.
I loved Eun Jo's fierce desire to learn and Ki Hoon cramming in secret so he'd be able to teach her Spanish because he knows she is so smart and quick and if he doesn't keep up he will lose some of her reliance and respect.
I loved her stunned reaction to Ki Hoon calling her name, and not just her name but a diminutive form of it (just as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexandral, I also grew up in Russia with its diminutive forms for names where suffixes add all sorts of meanings - I tried to teach my husband those because calling me by my full name is very different from my diminutive with or without suffixes which indicate extra tenderness. Just as I never call Baby Mousie by her full name, but I always use a Russian version of her name's diminutive plus a suffix - 'ochka' or 'on'ka' or 'usya'. OK, that was a random digression.)
I cannot wait to watch more!
I have also watched ep 4 of Prosecutor Princess and such total total love!
Bonus 1. I approve of any situation which gets both our leading men wounded and shirtless. Did I mention the part where In Woo is wounded but what he is freaking out about is that Hyeri was in danger? SQUEE. OTP.
Anyway, the sequence in question. Hyeri is about to head out when this woman approaches her. She was accused of assault and Hyeri believed the accuser. Woman was proven innocent and is pissed.
Fellow prosecutors are appalled even if they are not the biggest Hyeri fans.
In Woo sees the whole thing at a glance - shivering Hyeri, frozen prosecutors, passerby filming. And this is what happens.
Too bad, so sad, Prosecutor Yoon! You are too late to the rescue! I don't feel too bad for you - she confessed her love to you and you turned her down.
Plus, I ship you with Lady Prosecutor anyway.
I love them!
He takes her to his apartment, shows her the bathroom and lays out a change of clothes for her (said change of clothes - his clothes, of course, OMG). I took a few too many caps of Park Shi Hoo's gorgeousness here. I hope you don't mind :D
Shall we repeat?
Hyeri cheers a bit until she gets a call that this whole incident has been uploaded on-line - she is a public laughingstock and people are posting horrible comments.
OMG, his face. That is certainly a guy madly in love and he totally cannot bear to watch her cry. Awwwww.
He drops her off home:
Bonus 2. End of ep. She is fed up with this whole thing and so she plans to run away but guess who stops her (and pulls her into a hug?). Guess? (Side note - considering how much time In Woo spends making sure she is OK, I am wondering, does he not need sleep ever or something? Where can I get a fairy godmother like that?)
In other news, have finally watched ep 3 of Cinderella Unni with subs.
Despite my love for both Oh My Lady and Prosecutor Princess, CU is definitely my drama of the season - it bypasses any logical centers of my brain (though it's well-written enough to please them too) and hits me in the emotional gut no drama has since IRIS.
After watching ep 3 with subs, I confess to liking, pitying, and understanding both Eun Jo and Hyo Sun. I can completely understand how with her unstable, abused backround Eun Jo keeps lashing out at Hyo Sun, pushing any possible affection past the breaking point - testing it to feel secure and/or to prove to herself that affection is safe. Someone older and much wiser (Ki Hoon, with his rather similar to Eun Jo background) could understand that Eun Jo is lashing out is a defense mechanism and adjust accordingly, but Hyo Sun (or to be fair, most people) couldn't deal with it.
But I also completely understand why Hyo Sun snaps. Frankly, Eun Jo is being a gigantic bitch to her and it's to HS's credit she put up with it as long as she could. I would have called her every name I could lay my tongue to and probably tried to hit her too, and I would have snapped a lot earlier than HS would have. I cannot possibly blame HS for anything she has done so far, including the infamous letter incident in ep 4.
Whatever Hyo Sun may or may not do in the future to put spokes in Eun Jo's wheels, Eun Jo has nobody but herself to blame.
And speaking of blame - can I blame Ki Hoon's horrific family for even existing? His brother is awful, his father is a selfish weakling, but his stepmother is horrifying - she is a waste of oxygen and the worst excuse for a human being I've seen in a while. Ep 3 makes explicit the parallels between Ki Hoon and Eun Jo's background minus the sexual abuse. (The way she reacted to the drunk exbf of her Mom crystallized her past abuse to me even further - the way she trembles in fear and loathing whenever he's in her space, the way she asks Ki Hoon to kill the ex for her (reminded me of the scene in Mars where Qi Luo wanted Ling to kill her abusive stepfather) - I loved the look on Ki Hoon's face at that - I want to call it compassion or understanding (never pity - there is a huge difference) but it's not just that. Those are selfless, a little detached feelings but whatever he is feeling is mixed with love).
OK, to get back to Ki Hoon's background - I thought back to his comment to Eun Jo in ep 1 that she shoudn't run away from home before she reaches the age of majority (20yrs) because otherwise nobody would hire her or if they do it will be for pittance and working night and day she'd barely make enough to stay alive - it became pretty clear that this is what Ki Hoon himself went through earlier (side note - any parent who forbids his son to call him father and kicks him out of the house when the kid is still a minor, after gifting him with a miserable childhood before that, deserves to rot in hell. I speak as a Mom. Seriously. A person who mistreats their (or anyone else's) child does not deserve to live).
I have already raved about Ki Hoon and Eun Jo's hug-not-hug - it is so huge for both of them - and Eun Jo is comfortable enough with Ki Hoon that even though he's a man she allows him so close, almost hugging - that is huge.
I loved Eun Jo's fierce desire to learn and Ki Hoon cramming in secret so he'd be able to teach her Spanish because he knows she is so smart and quick and if he doesn't keep up he will lose some of her reliance and respect.
I loved her stunned reaction to Ki Hoon calling her name, and not just her name but a diminutive form of it (just as
alexandral, I also grew up in Russia with its diminutive forms for names where suffixes add all sorts of meanings - I tried to teach my husband those because calling me by my full name is very different from my diminutive with or without suffixes which indicate extra tenderness. Just as I never call Baby Mousie by her full name, but I always use a Russian version of her name's diminutive plus a suffix - 'ochka' or 'on'ka' or 'usya'. OK, that was a random digression.)I cannot wait to watch more!
