dangermousie | Stairway to Heaven ep 7: wherein we achieve a Shower of Angsty Plottiness

Clearly, Stairway to Heaven in the title refers to the path down Kwon Sang Woo's abs.

Heroine may enter the hotel room where Sexy Hero is at intending to tell him she wants to break their contract but he has other things on his mind. And who can refuse an angsty birthday boy when he looks like this and wants to gift you with expensive jewelry? I have to say I adore Sexy Hero but entirely sane he is not. He is very very functional but sanity is an iffy proposition. Poor woobie! I think Heroine should console you ~~with her tongue.~~

Sister Luster calls her and she turns off the phone (!!!) You know, neither Sexy Hero nor Heroine should be anywhere near getting married - whether she is Jung Suh or not (it would have been such an interesting, dark drama if she were not - a Korean Vertigo), the mere fact that he is so consumed by his need to find Jung Suh means he is not ready to get hitched to anyone else. And if she is turning off the calls of her boyfriend in order to spend with a man she barely knows getting almost-kissed, she should rethink her relationship as well. I actually love their relationship pre-her-getting-memory-back so much: he is hoping she is Jung Suh but not caring too much about the truth as long as he has her around. And she doesn't know him but can't help but be drawn in because of subconscious connection but also because seeing a man pine so for a woman is devastatingly attractive. But at the same time she knows he is only pining for her, Jisung, because she looks like his lost love, not on her own merits. Oh God, they need therapy.

This whole sequence made me bawl.

Oh. Sister Luster's angst and despair were brilliant to behold. Suffer more, monster gargoyle!

Scheme, scheme, it shall all come to naught! Good may not prosper in a melodrama but evil certainly does not!

Mmmmm.

Ugh, my skin crawls when she says that to Sister Luster. Btw, genius, what are you going to do if she recovers her memory?

You know, I just thought about it - I really hope that despite all odds she and Sister Luster never knocked boots (the drama can be interpreted either way). Not out of some weird 'she must be pure for the Hero!' idea (because I am pretty sure he's not a virgin, seeing that the way he copes with his issues is through a playboy mask. I wonder if he calls them all Jung Suh in bed). No, because that would definitely be rape and also there would not be enough soap in the world to scrub Sister Luster out.

This? This made me so happy.

It's not really a jolly gathering and I rage at Hero's mother consideration for poor poor Psycho Bitch. (Lady, why are you pushing your kid into a marriage he clearly is averse to? It's not like he's 50 and needs to get married asap).

Yes, Psycho Bitch, it is all about you. Always.

Heroine tries to distill the atmosphere, stabbing daggers into poor Sexy Hero's heart with every word. Ahhhh, how I love you, angst.

She insists she's not Jung Suh and as a last-ditch effort he takes her into the attic to show her Jung Suh's things. This happens. Guys, you should NOT marry anyone else. Also, crying boys trying to kiss you? HOT.

Of course she leaves and goes back to scumbag Sister Luster. In a Douche Move Supreme, he makes her throw away her necklace, the one Song Joo gave her all those years back. DIAF, you incestious freak! Well, at least some homeless person is going to get rich.

Aha! Time for a Meaningful Angsty Korean Shower (tm). Mmmmmm. Even in the shower, Song Joo is clutching his matching necklace. Poor guy, that necklace is going to do you little good unless it's covered in arsenic to feed to all of the monster characters in this.

There are many caps for it is significant to PLOT.

Next time they meet, he notices she now sports an engagement ring. By now he's 90% sure she is not Jung Suh but he just cannot let go. Their relationship at this point is so sexy and dysfunctional and complicated and mmmm. He taunts her about her fiance, she flaunts her relationship in his face. Oh, such messed up woobies.

He totally uses Psycho Bitch to follow Jung Suh and Sister Luster on their date. A really awkward experience for everyone but him ensues. He is just quietly desperate and angry. Psycho Bitch's bug eyes are especially delicious in this scene.

I love this scene, with him deliberately playing the tune he showed Jung Suh at the beach house a couple eps back and Psycho Bitch thinking he's looking at her when he's looking at Jung Suh and Jung Suh being unable not to flashback to their hug. So delicious.

But it all fails.

Poor thing.

This was such a wrong scene and I really loved it. Because he's basically grinding with some nameless girl at the club right in front of Psycho Bitch, and he keeps looking over at her and at one point brings his dance closer so as to almost be in her face, and she is just sitting there smiling. Seriously, so screwed up. I think Psycho Bitch is an idiot to want to marry him, tbh. Yes yes, he's rich and good-looking and belonged to Jung Suh and Psycho Bitch has a thing about taking away stuff from Jung Suh. BUT. She's an idiot to want to be married to him - he's screwed up as hell and I can totally see him acting out his damage by bringing hookers home and making out with them in the living room daring her to say anything. And she really can't control him in any way. And if she was just in for the money, I'd say go for it, but she has this ego thing which wouldn't stand it well at all.

Ugh, unclean, unclean!

Jung Suh was working really late and the building's heat shut off. She woke up to find Sng Joo's coat on her and went to return it and things just went from there. Yay, some happiness at last!

(Here she is describing Sister Luster. Ahahahahaha)

The rink thing was utterly adorable! Utterly.

The preview promises me Sexy Hero contemplating suicide and also having an another angsty shower, with hero screaming/sobbing heroine's name (sadly, he's clothed - for shame!)