dangermousie | And now, about shipping :)

People at soompi are quite heated discussing potential ships of East of Eden. Well, I have no clue who will end up with whom or anything, but here are my thoughts and caps 7 eps in.

1. We have the stalkery/obsessive/sick yet still fascinating relationship between MH (the bad guy's 'son') and JH, the stationmaster's granddaughter, who MH liked since they were children, but she has never paid attention to him and only had eyes for Dong Wook. I find this relationship (if you can call it that) fascinating because clearly MH is desperately in love with JH. But because he has been brought up in a sociopathic household, he cannot express this feeling in any but a posessive, offputting manner (even if JH was neutral on him, this sort of behavior would turn her off) and he has no grace to admit defeat or give up possessiveness. There is no doubt he truly loves JH but there is no way I want them together(I want him stabbed in the face, actually). Still, it's fascinating to watch.

Here she is on the phone, thinking it's Dong Wook:

Here he is, to drag her with him, when she is attending a party for DW.

2. My favorite ship so far, and the only one I really ship: a bit of playfulness in the sea of angst that is EoE: Dong Chul and Grace, the fun, extremely unshy and quirky daughter of the rich Congressman/mob don. It has everything I like: the actors have chemistry, the girl is pushy (but not offensively so) and open and the guy angsty and a bit stand-offish (but clearly attracted). He is dirt-poor, she is super-rich, there is threatened kidnapping and his getting shot to protect her. Basically, there is nothing I don't love about this.

Here she is, checking him out after he saved her quasi-boyfriend (I posted an earlier scene where she was checking him out, it was LOLtastic).

Now, that is the face of a lady who wants to go slumming most desperately. She probably is dying for him to take her off to his hovel :P

Her quasi-bf wants DC to take Grace on her errands.

Her idea of flirtiness is to be super pushy. But cutely so.

"Want a bite of my sandwich?" "That's not what I want a bite of." That's what they should be saying.

This was LOLtastic and adorable. (Yes, she invited herself over to his house).

Especially when she stole his food...

He is so amused.

And then he takes her home:

*squissssssh*

smoooch:

Heee. She is back!

From previews:

3. Dong Wook and JH. They are both nice people but honestly, I know they are supposed to have loved each other since childhood but I just don't feel invested or even very interested in this ship. They are nice though.