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dangermousieDie, monster!
Take your crocodile tears with you!
Ep 3 of The Equator Man was one of the darkest things out there and I loved it. (K2H may get my fangirl heart going more, but TEM is the best airing drama right now).
It's all the more interesting because I love Sun Woo and like Ji Won but hate hate HATE the rest of the characters - every time I see Jang Il, I feel visceral hate I haven't felt since Bali. But all those monstrous people are complex and fascinating and I want Sun Woo to grind (most of) them into dirt but, until then, I cannot take my eyes away from them.
Unlike in Mawang, where both the avenger and the target were victims, who in another reality could have been good friends, this is going the Resurrection route by having the antagonist be a monster. I use the word 'moster' advisedly - Jung Il commits a brutal murder of his only friend, a friend he knows risked his life and future to protect him (even without knowing the stunt with the gangsters, he knows the rest) in order to preserve his own cushy life and future in Seoul. And you can't even chalk that one to a homicidal impulse, regretted as soon as committed - no, as Sun Woo is falling, reeling, you see Jang Il pause, dart his eyes back and forth and hit him again. And then drag and dump him in the ocean. The fact that JI is crying during this makes him complex but even more loathsome - if he had no sense of right/wrong, if this was a random stranger, not a person he owes to so much, this would be much more tolerable.
Jung Il is quick enough to be friendly when there is nothing at stake:
But his own interests always come first no matter the cost to others. When he learns his father is a murderer, his horror doesn't lead to anything but eventually attempting a murder of his own.
Yeah - here is Sun Woo, forced to stab a gangster, beaten within an inch of his life, barely escaping - all to better and protect the future of the man who will, at the end of the ep, do his level best to kill him to save his richie-rich prospects. It makes me sick to think of Jung Il enjoying a decade of the good life!
I love that brittle, vengeful Soo Mi who is obsessed with JI knows the secret of the murder (not of SW but of SW's father) because I want her to make his life a living hell, and you know she will.
Btw, the actor playing his father's friend is very familiar but I can't place him. I hope he turns out to be Sun Woo's father and not the horrid Chairman Jin (who I loathe less than Jung Il - he did not profess friendship to his victim).
The drama's cinematography continues to be gorgeous and the music has finally toned down.
This is pretty much perfect, so far.
Take your crocodile tears with you!
Ep 3 of The Equator Man was one of the darkest things out there and I loved it. (K2H may get my fangirl heart going more, but TEM is the best airing drama right now).
It's all the more interesting because I love Sun Woo and like Ji Won but hate hate HATE the rest of the characters - every time I see Jang Il, I feel visceral hate I haven't felt since Bali. But all those monstrous people are complex and fascinating and I want Sun Woo to grind (most of) them into dirt but, until then, I cannot take my eyes away from them.
Unlike in Mawang, where both the avenger and the target were victims, who in another reality could have been good friends, this is going the Resurrection route by having the antagonist be a monster. I use the word 'moster' advisedly - Jung Il commits a brutal murder of his only friend, a friend he knows risked his life and future to protect him (even without knowing the stunt with the gangsters, he knows the rest) in order to preserve his own cushy life and future in Seoul. And you can't even chalk that one to a homicidal impulse, regretted as soon as committed - no, as Sun Woo is falling, reeling, you see Jang Il pause, dart his eyes back and forth and hit him again. And then drag and dump him in the ocean. The fact that JI is crying during this makes him complex but even more loathsome - if he had no sense of right/wrong, if this was a random stranger, not a person he owes to so much, this would be much more tolerable.
Jung Il is quick enough to be friendly when there is nothing at stake:
But his own interests always come first no matter the cost to others. When he learns his father is a murderer, his horror doesn't lead to anything but eventually attempting a murder of his own.
Yeah - here is Sun Woo, forced to stab a gangster, beaten within an inch of his life, barely escaping - all to better and protect the future of the man who will, at the end of the ep, do his level best to kill him to save his richie-rich prospects. It makes me sick to think of Jung Il enjoying a decade of the good life!
I love that brittle, vengeful Soo Mi who is obsessed with JI knows the secret of the murder (not of SW but of SW's father) because I want her to make his life a living hell, and you know she will.
Btw, the actor playing his father's friend is very familiar but I can't place him. I hope he turns out to be Sun Woo's father and not the horrid Chairman Jin (who I loathe less than Jung Il - he did not profess friendship to his victim).
The drama's cinematography continues to be gorgeous and the music has finally toned down.
This is pretty much perfect, so far.
