City Hunter - ep 14
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dangermousieYup, still amazing.
There is something inexorably just about Target 3 meeting his demise via being hit by a car. But oh, Prosecutor is never going to forgive YS, not even if he learns YS did not push him over - bad or not, the man was his father. FWIW, I do hold YS responsible for the death - if it wasn't for his cold-blooded moment of walking away plus threats, this would have never happened. Do I excuse him? Yes, because he snapped out of it and was going to save the guy - it's just his horrible luck that his brief loss of sanity led to this.
The scene does make me want to weep - for YS who looks as if he's damned, and for Prosecutor who breaks utterly.
Oh my God, Undaddy, I'd curse you but I have run out of adequate words. When he calls YS afterwards to tell him that if he turned to save Target n3, it makes Undaddy hitting Ahjusshi with a car meaningless...
.....I mean, what IS the point of letting YS know that he was set-up and went after the wrong person for revenge who is now dead as a result? What is the point - there is none except to torment YS in the worst possible way by letting him know his 'father' did his best to kill someone he loves to set him up and man whose death he now caused was blameless of what turned YS into a homicidal maniac. Oh God. Honestly, I can't even get angry any more, I am just numb.
Oh, the scene with Undaddy and YS - when Undaddy tells him the only way to end it is for YS to kill targets personally. ????!!! Honestly, at this point I am just believing he is doing it to torment YS as much as possible because he associates him with constant reminder of deaths of his comrades and also hates that anyone can try to be normal. Because Undaddy - wtf do you need with an unwilling pet assassin - you are more than capable of killing them yourself. I think you are just violent, sadistic control freak who likes torture and killing and control and are wroth YS is trying to shape a life of his own and are getting a kick out of punishing him.
HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK DID YOON SUNG JUST STAB HIMSELF THROUGH HIS HAND IN FRONT OF UNDADDY AS SOME SORT OF PSYCHO "I am the closest to an important person to you and since there is nobody else close to you I can hurt to punish you for hurting my loved ones, I will hurt myself." HOLY FUCK THERAPY THERAPY THERAPY NOW. And then he stares at the man, blood dripping from his hand, dagger still embedded in his hand (!!!!!!!) asking 'did it hurt you too? It has to..It has to' with almost a triumph? Oh my GOD. You insanely tough, insanely screwed up darling OH MY GOD. I wonder if it's also YS' way of punishing himself and also seeking for one last drop of Undaddy's humanity. Not to mention, he doesn't value himself as a person at all (why would he, treated as a weapon, a thing not worthy of feelings all his life, someone who believed his mother threw him away, etc. Nana is the first person to give him unconditional love). And then he tells Undaddy he will never kill anyone.
OMG, Nana sees him and is all 'you are bleeding' but he shrugs it off and yells/cries at her to leave him or she will turn like Ahjusshi and then, with tears in his voice tells her it was his father who made Ahjusshi like that, to manipulate him (I love how honest he is with her but at this point he is so at the end of his rope, I don't think he could hold it in) and almost whispers that to his father he is neither a son nor YS (i.e. a person, even if not important like a relative) but a possession. Oh God. NANA, HUG HIM NOW before I crawl into my laptop and do it!!!!
And she tells him "I am by your side" and I die.
And he tells her he doesn't want to hurt anyone or lose anyone and he just needs not to see her and he just needs to endure not seeing her. Oh God, Yoon Sung, I understand but nooooo. You need her more than breathing. But of course, he's giving up everything, removing himself from the world to protect others and also to protect himself because he cannot take any more hurt. Oh God. And he tells her he made Ahjusshi like this (no, you did not!) and that he ignored Target 3 so he fell to his death... and all of a sudden she swoops in and hugs him. I just love it so much because he's baring his worst to her, showing all his unworthiness in an unsparing fashion and what does he get - love and understanding and touch. GUUUUUH. And then she tells him she wanted to kill Target 3 for years and if he didn't do it, she would have and so he didn't do it, she did so not to be tormented. Oh my God, she is trying to take his burden onto herself (because the difference is she didn't go after Target 3 and she told YS eps later she wanted the man in jail not dead) because truth is second priority to his well-being for her. And you see him start to cry and swallow and close his eyes as if he can finally relax and he leans into her. Oh my God, they could not be a better OTP if they tried. It's official - they are my new N1 kdrama OTP. Also, on a technical note, I love how off-tilt this scene is because it correlates to their emotional state.
Prosecutor having his nervous breakdown in the park - oh, it hurts. And then the confrontation with YS - I love that both men know the truth about each other but are dancing around it because there is no proof. And then Prosecutor tells him - 'you are not a hero. You are just a killer' and YS' face - because that is what YS thinks, fears about himself. Just see the following scene where YS stares and stares at the mirror - such a contrast to his scene with it yesterday.
OMG, Nana went to find Undaddy. Ovaries of steel, that one! I do love that she has to nerve herself going in - she knows the risks (look at how he treats his 'son' and she is nothing to Undaddy) but she will try to protect YS to the utmost anyway. And she demands he let YS go to have a life, and not treat him as a puppet and asks just how broken does YS have to be before Undaddy stops? OMG, she has spine of titanium. Seriously. And Undaddy points a gun at her and cocks it and all she does, when confronted with a psycho levelling a gun at her point-blank, is glare at him with infinite contempt and tells him to shoot because she's a bullet-shield anyway. Oh NANANANANANANANANANANANANA I LOVE YOU SFM. Even Undaddy backs down OMFG. And she tells him to leave YS alone or else she will come after him and that she is going to go because YS is waiting for her, gives him the smallest possible inclination of the head (total, deliberate rudeness LOVE) and walks out. NANANANANANANANANANANANNANANANANANA When she appointed herself Yoon Sung's protector henceforth, she was not screwing around.
Nana comes back to the hospital and YS is all freaking out where she went (if only you knew) and the way he is anxious about her is not even romantic as much as heart-breaking that he has to be this worried. Oh, poor messed-up, brutalized darling! And then he asks her if she's OK after finding out Prosecutor is son of her mom's murderer and part of it is that even in the middle of insanity that is his life, he worries about everything related to her, and part is it is an indirect way of asking if she forgives him for hiding the fact from her, and her response is so matter-of-fact and sane that I love her more and more.
Ooooh, Target 4 is so smart and scary. Mmmmm.
Ahjusshi is awake! YS's relief and thankfulness is --- OK, I am not crying, I am not.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The scene where he found his mother and how she hugs him and says everything he's always wanted to and didn't dare hope he would hear about loving him and missing him and he's frozen from sheer emotional overload and then his arms very hesitantly and slowly go around her and he says "Omma?" Oh God, I am a watering pot today. Oh, and when he tells her later he hated her and wanted to keep her alive so he could keep hating her and he is sorry. He's unsparing with the truth, isn't he, no matter how much it costs him.
Oh, Yoon Sung, you break my heart - when he tells his Mom that Undaddy raised him but not to worry, Undaddy was ambitious for him and made sure he had studies and sports. Oh. Well, I suppose you can tell punishing physical assassin training and learning to hack and being brought up in drug camp that. Mom: "He doesn't put you in danger?" Yoon Sung (with a smile): "How could that be possible?" The sound you hear is my heart breaking.
OMG, what he replied to his Mom when she asked about his bandaged hand (losing someone or hurting someone has to be punished, whatever the reason) totally proves my hypothesis he did this to himself to punish himself. THERAPY THERAPY THERAPY.
Nana shows up, sees them eating and happy and snaps a pick and walks away quietly. Awww.
OK, Undaddy is looking at YS' Mom's pic and not only am I getting the sensation he had a thing for her, a horrible thought just came to me - what if he's YS' real father? Mommy was a bit evasive when asked to describe Daddy. Oh no please, let it be my overactive imagination.
Once the revenge plan is done, YS is going to take Mom for treatment in the US - huh? He wants to do it to protect her from bad guys but if revenge is complete, none should be left. Maybe he means Undaddy? Or medicine is better there or something? I understand but noooooo, YS, how could you just say it to Nana without asking her to go with you?
Oh, that explains it, he's freaking out at her happy demeanor because isn't she scared to be with him, as it's constant danger - so of course he wants to give her every out and distance and not push etc etc but oh, his eyes betray him because when he asks her how she can want to be with him, his eyes are begging for reassurance so badly - it's like he's a little kid who's testing boundaries to make sure, to feel safe, because he can't believe someone loves him like that at last. And she tells him 'I told you my feelings are my own, and you are not responsible for me.' And she adds Target 3 will wake up soon because she can tell it's unstated part of his self-loathing kick. Nana = amazing. Well, one of them needs to be sane, after all.
Nana is moving back to her house and woobie is POUTING awwwwww.
The scene in her house when he pulls her on top of him, stop teasing me, drama, and give me a sex scene NOW!!!!
Oh, his reaction to her telling him even coffee reminds her of him now is not good - it's bolting and thinking 'it shouldn't be like this' - is he worried how she'll go on if something happens to him? All the more reason to HAVE SEX NOW LIKE BUNNIES.
Oh, no, everyone is ostracizing Prosecutor.
Heee, he totally came back to work for Blue House so he can see Nana more, since she moved out of his place and went back to work. Awwww. And she bought him a tie! I love how she has to reassert for him not to lock her out of his justice-seeking repeatedly - because with his protectiveness and feeling of unworthiness, he'd totally have to be told and reassured again and again.
Bwahahaha Nana's jealousy.
OMG, Target 4 just ordered Prosecutor killed. Noooo!
Yoon Sung wearing a suit and kicking ass of multiple flunkies simultaneously is the most perfect sight on God's green earth.
EEEEEE! He rescued Prosecutor from certain death. Maybe they could team up for a bit now?
Is it me, or are odd-numbered eps' cliffhangers more brutal? It's quite nice because then we only have a day to agonize.
Also, I can't believe I am saying that, but all those near-deaths - some of them have to turn into genuine deaths at some point, right, because otherwise the stakes will get deflated.
This ep gives me hopes again for a happy ending btw. This show is like an emotional yo-yo.
Congrats if you read through this huge tome.
There is something inexorably just about Target 3 meeting his demise via being hit by a car. But oh, Prosecutor is never going to forgive YS, not even if he learns YS did not push him over - bad or not, the man was his father. FWIW, I do hold YS responsible for the death - if it wasn't for his cold-blooded moment of walking away plus threats, this would have never happened. Do I excuse him? Yes, because he snapped out of it and was going to save the guy - it's just his horrible luck that his brief loss of sanity led to this.
The scene does make me want to weep - for YS who looks as if he's damned, and for Prosecutor who breaks utterly.
Oh my God, Undaddy, I'd curse you but I have run out of adequate words. When he calls YS afterwards to tell him that if he turned to save Target n3, it makes Undaddy hitting Ahjusshi with a car meaningless...
.....I mean, what IS the point of letting YS know that he was set-up and went after the wrong person for revenge who is now dead as a result? What is the point - there is none except to torment YS in the worst possible way by letting him know his 'father' did his best to kill someone he loves to set him up and man whose death he now caused was blameless of what turned YS into a homicidal maniac. Oh God. Honestly, I can't even get angry any more, I am just numb.
Oh, the scene with Undaddy and YS - when Undaddy tells him the only way to end it is for YS to kill targets personally. ????!!! Honestly, at this point I am just believing he is doing it to torment YS as much as possible because he associates him with constant reminder of deaths of his comrades and also hates that anyone can try to be normal. Because Undaddy - wtf do you need with an unwilling pet assassin - you are more than capable of killing them yourself. I think you are just violent, sadistic control freak who likes torture and killing and control and are wroth YS is trying to shape a life of his own and are getting a kick out of punishing him.
HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK DID YOON SUNG JUST STAB HIMSELF THROUGH HIS HAND IN FRONT OF UNDADDY AS SOME SORT OF PSYCHO "I am the closest to an important person to you and since there is nobody else close to you I can hurt to punish you for hurting my loved ones, I will hurt myself." HOLY FUCK THERAPY THERAPY THERAPY NOW. And then he stares at the man, blood dripping from his hand, dagger still embedded in his hand (!!!!!!!) asking 'did it hurt you too? It has to..It has to' with almost a triumph? Oh my GOD. You insanely tough, insanely screwed up darling OH MY GOD. I wonder if it's also YS' way of punishing himself and also seeking for one last drop of Undaddy's humanity. Not to mention, he doesn't value himself as a person at all (why would he, treated as a weapon, a thing not worthy of feelings all his life, someone who believed his mother threw him away, etc. Nana is the first person to give him unconditional love). And then he tells Undaddy he will never kill anyone.
OMG, Nana sees him and is all 'you are bleeding' but he shrugs it off and yells/cries at her to leave him or she will turn like Ahjusshi and then, with tears in his voice tells her it was his father who made Ahjusshi like that, to manipulate him (I love how honest he is with her but at this point he is so at the end of his rope, I don't think he could hold it in) and almost whispers that to his father he is neither a son nor YS (i.e. a person, even if not important like a relative) but a possession. Oh God. NANA, HUG HIM NOW before I crawl into my laptop and do it!!!!
And she tells him "I am by your side" and I die.
And he tells her he doesn't want to hurt anyone or lose anyone and he just needs not to see her and he just needs to endure not seeing her. Oh God, Yoon Sung, I understand but nooooo. You need her more than breathing. But of course, he's giving up everything, removing himself from the world to protect others and also to protect himself because he cannot take any more hurt. Oh God. And he tells her he made Ahjusshi like this (no, you did not!) and that he ignored Target 3 so he fell to his death... and all of a sudden she swoops in and hugs him. I just love it so much because he's baring his worst to her, showing all his unworthiness in an unsparing fashion and what does he get - love and understanding and touch. GUUUUUH. And then she tells him she wanted to kill Target 3 for years and if he didn't do it, she would have and so he didn't do it, she did so not to be tormented. Oh my God, she is trying to take his burden onto herself (because the difference is she didn't go after Target 3 and she told YS eps later she wanted the man in jail not dead) because truth is second priority to his well-being for her. And you see him start to cry and swallow and close his eyes as if he can finally relax and he leans into her. Oh my God, they could not be a better OTP if they tried. It's official - they are my new N1 kdrama OTP. Also, on a technical note, I love how off-tilt this scene is because it correlates to their emotional state.
Prosecutor having his nervous breakdown in the park - oh, it hurts. And then the confrontation with YS - I love that both men know the truth about each other but are dancing around it because there is no proof. And then Prosecutor tells him - 'you are not a hero. You are just a killer' and YS' face - because that is what YS thinks, fears about himself. Just see the following scene where YS stares and stares at the mirror - such a contrast to his scene with it yesterday.
OMG, Nana went to find Undaddy. Ovaries of steel, that one! I do love that she has to nerve herself going in - she knows the risks (look at how he treats his 'son' and she is nothing to Undaddy) but she will try to protect YS to the utmost anyway. And she demands he let YS go to have a life, and not treat him as a puppet and asks just how broken does YS have to be before Undaddy stops? OMG, she has spine of titanium. Seriously. And Undaddy points a gun at her and cocks it and all she does, when confronted with a psycho levelling a gun at her point-blank, is glare at him with infinite contempt and tells him to shoot because she's a bullet-shield anyway. Oh NANANANANANANANANANANANANA I LOVE YOU SFM. Even Undaddy backs down OMFG. And she tells him to leave YS alone or else she will come after him and that she is going to go because YS is waiting for her, gives him the smallest possible inclination of the head (total, deliberate rudeness LOVE) and walks out. NANANANANANANANANANANANNANANANANANA When she appointed herself Yoon Sung's protector henceforth, she was not screwing around.
Nana comes back to the hospital and YS is all freaking out where she went (if only you knew) and the way he is anxious about her is not even romantic as much as heart-breaking that he has to be this worried. Oh, poor messed-up, brutalized darling! And then he asks her if she's OK after finding out Prosecutor is son of her mom's murderer and part of it is that even in the middle of insanity that is his life, he worries about everything related to her, and part is it is an indirect way of asking if she forgives him for hiding the fact from her, and her response is so matter-of-fact and sane that I love her more and more.
Ooooh, Target 4 is so smart and scary. Mmmmm.
Ahjusshi is awake! YS's relief and thankfulness is --- OK, I am not crying, I am not.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The scene where he found his mother and how she hugs him and says everything he's always wanted to and didn't dare hope he would hear about loving him and missing him and he's frozen from sheer emotional overload and then his arms very hesitantly and slowly go around her and he says "Omma?" Oh God, I am a watering pot today. Oh, and when he tells her later he hated her and wanted to keep her alive so he could keep hating her and he is sorry. He's unsparing with the truth, isn't he, no matter how much it costs him.
Oh, Yoon Sung, you break my heart - when he tells his Mom that Undaddy raised him but not to worry, Undaddy was ambitious for him and made sure he had studies and sports. Oh. Well, I suppose you can tell punishing physical assassin training and learning to hack and being brought up in drug camp that. Mom: "He doesn't put you in danger?" Yoon Sung (with a smile): "How could that be possible?" The sound you hear is my heart breaking.
OMG, what he replied to his Mom when she asked about his bandaged hand (losing someone or hurting someone has to be punished, whatever the reason) totally proves my hypothesis he did this to himself to punish himself. THERAPY THERAPY THERAPY.
Nana shows up, sees them eating and happy and snaps a pick and walks away quietly. Awww.
OK, Undaddy is looking at YS' Mom's pic and not only am I getting the sensation he had a thing for her, a horrible thought just came to me - what if he's YS' real father? Mommy was a bit evasive when asked to describe Daddy. Oh no please, let it be my overactive imagination.
Once the revenge plan is done, YS is going to take Mom for treatment in the US - huh? He wants to do it to protect her from bad guys but if revenge is complete, none should be left. Maybe he means Undaddy? Or medicine is better there or something? I understand but noooooo, YS, how could you just say it to Nana without asking her to go with you?
Oh, that explains it, he's freaking out at her happy demeanor because isn't she scared to be with him, as it's constant danger - so of course he wants to give her every out and distance and not push etc etc but oh, his eyes betray him because when he asks her how she can want to be with him, his eyes are begging for reassurance so badly - it's like he's a little kid who's testing boundaries to make sure, to feel safe, because he can't believe someone loves him like that at last. And she tells him 'I told you my feelings are my own, and you are not responsible for me.' And she adds Target 3 will wake up soon because she can tell it's unstated part of his self-loathing kick. Nana = amazing. Well, one of them needs to be sane, after all.
Nana is moving back to her house and woobie is POUTING awwwwww.
The scene in her house when he pulls her on top of him, stop teasing me, drama, and give me a sex scene NOW!!!!
Oh, his reaction to her telling him even coffee reminds her of him now is not good - it's bolting and thinking 'it shouldn't be like this' - is he worried how she'll go on if something happens to him? All the more reason to HAVE SEX NOW LIKE BUNNIES.
Oh, no, everyone is ostracizing Prosecutor.
Heee, he totally came back to work for Blue House so he can see Nana more, since she moved out of his place and went back to work. Awwww. And she bought him a tie! I love how she has to reassert for him not to lock her out of his justice-seeking repeatedly - because with his protectiveness and feeling of unworthiness, he'd totally have to be told and reassured again and again.
Bwahahaha Nana's jealousy.
OMG, Target 4 just ordered Prosecutor killed. Noooo!
Yoon Sung wearing a suit and kicking ass of multiple flunkies simultaneously is the most perfect sight on God's green earth.
EEEEEE! He rescued Prosecutor from certain death. Maybe they could team up for a bit now?
Is it me, or are odd-numbered eps' cliffhangers more brutal? It's quite nice because then we only have a day to agonize.
Also, I can't believe I am saying that, but all those near-deaths - some of them have to turn into genuine deaths at some point, right, because otherwise the stakes will get deflated.
This ep gives me hopes again for a happy ending btw. This show is like an emotional yo-yo.
Congrats if you read through this huge tome.
