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dangermousieI had all sorts of metaish thoughts on eps 16-17 of City Hall but I am afraid most of them have fled after this scene:
The only reason I did not scream out loud was because it would wake up Baby Mousie.
NO WAY. NOWAYNOWAYNOWAY. Jo Guk kneeling and begging and totally abasing himself. To save Mi Rae. There is NO WAY. He is about the most proud person ever. Oh, God. This drama is just...*goes incoherent*
I am a total utter sucker for drama men kneeling to save someone they love or similar. I really need a list of those sorts of scenes (Tree of Heaven, Capital Scandal, Something Happened in Bali, My Girl what else...). This sort of broke my heart. Well, at least in this case it didn't end up with golfclubs, major injuries, and death threats against the guy's girlfriend, a la Bali (still the most dysfunctional kdrama romance and family ever).
Jo Guk with his fiancee. One of the things I love is that he is no mistreated/misunderstood woobie - he can be calculating and ice-cold and utterly ruthless - he basically tells her he is fine with being engaged to her because he needs her family's money but he loves another. You know, Mi Rae is so his salvation - he could become a total monster and a very successful one with his fiancee by his side - a perfect political couple united by ambition and coldness. Mi Rae doesn't just teach him about caring and ideals, she teaches him about humanity.
Episode 16 had plenty of interesting dirty politics. And then it had scenes like this, highly pertinent to plot.
Gosh, I ship them so much. They are just so alive together. (The bit with the apartment hunt - as contrasted with the fiancee action - was priceless).
The mistress and the fiancee. I loved this scene. I actually love Jo Guk's fiancee as a character - she is an incredibly ambitious, cold-blooded woman, and so whip smart. She is not a nice person or a good person, but she is talented and interesting. I didn't cap the whole conversation but the highlights. I do love that the fiancee is beautiful, more beautiful than Mi Rae. But her beauty is so horrifyingly cold.
The begging scene. I went so incoherent. He is totally abasing and sacrificing himself and just...you know what makes it truly frelled up? That man is his father (who from what I can tell dumped him and his mother on the side of the road when the kid was 5 and kept the relationship running on the same loving lines ever since, except when he wants something) - gosh, whenever I think kdrama can't offer me an even more screwed-up family dynamic or a more awful family member, it always surprises me.
Sort of a nonsequitur: You know, I don't care about "niceness" in my protagonists - short of them being a serial killer, I can understand almost any action if it's written/acted well and presented well - what I mean by that latter is that the way I perceive the character/situation and the way the drama does correspond. E.g. I don't mind having a self-destructive character like Jo In Sung and Ha Ji Won in Bali as the leads and I can love them desperately because the drama presents them that way too - what drives me crazy if I think is character is flawed/weak/dark but the drama insists they are saintly/strong/light. See BOF.
The only reason I did not scream out loud was because it would wake up Baby Mousie.
NO WAY. NOWAYNOWAYNOWAY. Jo Guk kneeling and begging and totally abasing himself. To save Mi Rae. There is NO WAY. He is about the most proud person ever. Oh, God. This drama is just...*goes incoherent*
I am a total utter sucker for drama men kneeling to save someone they love or similar. I really need a list of those sorts of scenes (Tree of Heaven, Capital Scandal, Something Happened in Bali, My Girl what else...). This sort of broke my heart. Well, at least in this case it didn't end up with golfclubs, major injuries, and death threats against the guy's girlfriend, a la Bali (still the most dysfunctional kdrama romance and family ever).
Jo Guk with his fiancee. One of the things I love is that he is no mistreated/misunderstood woobie - he can be calculating and ice-cold and utterly ruthless - he basically tells her he is fine with being engaged to her because he needs her family's money but he loves another. You know, Mi Rae is so his salvation - he could become a total monster and a very successful one with his fiancee by his side - a perfect political couple united by ambition and coldness. Mi Rae doesn't just teach him about caring and ideals, she teaches him about humanity.
Episode 16 had plenty of interesting dirty politics. And then it had scenes like this, highly pertinent to plot.
Gosh, I ship them so much. They are just so alive together. (The bit with the apartment hunt - as contrasted with the fiancee action - was priceless).
The mistress and the fiancee. I loved this scene. I actually love Jo Guk's fiancee as a character - she is an incredibly ambitious, cold-blooded woman, and so whip smart. She is not a nice person or a good person, but she is talented and interesting. I didn't cap the whole conversation but the highlights. I do love that the fiancee is beautiful, more beautiful than Mi Rae. But her beauty is so horrifyingly cold.
The begging scene. I went so incoherent. He is totally abasing and sacrificing himself and just...you know what makes it truly frelled up? That man is his father (who from what I can tell dumped him and his mother on the side of the road when the kid was 5 and kept the relationship running on the same loving lines ever since, except when he wants something) - gosh, whenever I think kdrama can't offer me an even more screwed-up family dynamic or a more awful family member, it always surprises me.
Sort of a nonsequitur: You know, I don't care about "niceness" in my protagonists - short of them being a serial killer, I can understand almost any action if it's written/acted well and presented well - what I mean by that latter is that the way I perceive the character/situation and the way the drama does correspond. E.g. I don't mind having a self-destructive character like Jo In Sung and Ha Ji Won in Bali as the leads and I can love them desperately because the drama presents them that way too - what drives me crazy if I think is character is flawed/weak/dark but the drama insists they are saintly/strong/light. See BOF.
