dangermousie | a rant on Myung Wol rants :) (Reply)

I have been seeing massive freak outs about the lovemaking scene in ep 13 and I just do not get it!!! I mean, what we have is Kang Woo, drunk and desperate, believing (correctly, I might add) that Myung Wol had nefarious motives in approaching him and getting him to fall for her, telling her that if she loves him, she should prove it by sleeping with him. And she does.

That's it. Is it dysfunctional and screwed up as all get-out? Heck yeah. That's why I love this drama. Is it in any way rape or some sort of sexual assault or even an evil act???? You've gotta be kidding me! He doesn't lay a finger on her (just as well - if he tried to even touch her without her blessing, it is pretty clear he would be in a coma, seeing she is a trained North Korean commando and he is an actor who I severely doubt has any fighting skills whatsoever). She says yes because she loves him, not because she is feeling threatened or coerced. If she said no, I am sure that would have been the end of it (might have been better for them both in the long run actually because instead of giving up his quest for truth, he maybe would have had an honest if uncomfortable conversation with her once he sobered up in the morning - as it is, he still doesn't know she is a NK agent and is now willfully blind to finding out anything actually - blind trust is good in lovers but not when it leads you to Kim Jong Il land!)

And let's face it, while KW picked a screwed-up and ultimately futile way to demand a proof of her love (she gives herself to him because she loves him but if she was just an agent carrying out her mission at all costs, she would sleep with him anyway even if she liked him as much as a tree. KW is bright enough to realize that a user would sleep with him anyway to keep using, it's just he is so in love and drunk and overcome and desperate to believe she loves her, he is willing to put that knowledge in the back of his mind) but he has a right to demand SOME proof after what he has discovered. And when people talk about rights and wrongs, they seem to igonore that one of the couple was a NK agent who infiltrated the country under a false identity for the express purpose of initially killing the other and then, after a change in plans, with a plan to seduce the other to make them defect. Hint: that person wasn't Kang Woo. In any balance of rights and wrongs between them, MWprettyt much holds the upper hand.

Ultimately, they are both screwed-up and their overall situation is equally messed-up - anything arising out of that would be dysfunctional of course. But what happened between them at night was fully consensual and a result of their loving each other. I just do not get the fits people have over it. I loved that it wasn't a simple 'we love each other so let's do it' but at it arose out of their issues and addressed their circumstances and that it was dysfunctional, angsty and hot. But mmv, I suppose.

Overall, I just realized that MWtS has pretty much been designed to meet all my narrative kinks, even ones I did not know I had. It is pretty much a drama made just for me. That is why I cannot help but adore it so. Mmmmmm.

In other news, I got my hands on Laura Kinsale's The Shadow and the Star. I mean, the hero is an English virgin ninja. This is so wtf, I have to read it.