Man Up, Goo Jun Pyo - this is your second warning!
You know, ambergold was so right - BOF is like a bad relationship - you know the guy is no good for you but you keep coming back. I am so irritated with the drama by now, but I still check both the comms and soompi for spoilers, previews etc. And will be watching ep 20 as soon as it's on. Meanwhile, Preview for Boys Over Flowers ep 21:
Much as it's awesome to see Jun Pyo kneel to and beg Jaekyung to let him go, I refer to my previous Man Up post. You know, a wedding involves two people, right? Why beg the girl to call it off when you can freaking call it off yourself! Once again, borrowing from Hanadan2 with odd modifications does not work - in Hanadan2 it made sense for Domyouji to kneel to Rui and ask him to let go of courting Makino because Domyouji has no control whatsoever over what Rui does - he cannot do something unilaterally to stop Rui - he has to ask. Not to mention, Rui is his best friend and he wants to keep the friendship intact, and to go after Makino (who has indicated she is quite willing to be with Domyouji) without clearing it with Rui first, would definitely wreck the friendship. But the relationship with Jaekyung is different, uniquely so - it's a wedding and he has all the power in the world to end it himself. Neither Domoyuji in the manga or jdrama nor Dao Ming Si in the Taiwanese version had any hesitation in calling it off when they felt they couldn't deny their love for Makino (and it didn't go anywhere near close enough to the altar, either). So, MAN UP, Goo Jun Pyo! Seriously, man up.
Honestly, the only time I've seen something close to this was in Save the Last Dance kdrama, but it made sense there - the hero's company was going to be wrecked without the marriage (just as here), but the other girl was a childhood long-term friend, one of his best friends, who tried to kill herself because he wouldn't marry her, and the reason he begged her was not because he was afraid of consequences to himself/company but because what he really was begging was for her not to kill herself, because he could not obtain his happiness at the cost of her life. And even then, he wouldn't marry her until his OTP ditched him in a brutal, brutal fashion to save him. Ahem. Sorry for the sidetrack, I love StLD to bits.
Jun Pyo, go rent Return of the Condor Heroes and take notes - the dude in that one was willing to die a hideous slow agonizing death rather than betray his OTP by marrying someone else. Take notes until it sinks in. Kthanks, bye.
Side note: I can't even be bothered to be irritated that they turned the awesome Shigeru of the manga/twdrama and less awesome but ultimately not too bad Shigeru of the jdrama into the typically evil kdrama other woman - she knows her fiance loves someone else, yet she is happily planning her wedding asap and asking his OTP to be her bridesmaid on purpose, and when he begs her to call the wedding off, telling her he only loves Jandi and will only love Jandi, she is all "I know, it makes me want to marry you all the more". Heh. I've exhausted my ire on all the other character modifications and have none left for this :)
Click to viewMuch as it's awesome to see Jun Pyo kneel to and beg Jaekyung to let him go, I refer to my previous Man Up post. You know, a wedding involves two people, right? Why beg the girl to call it off when you can freaking call it off yourself! Once again, borrowing from Hanadan2 with odd modifications does not work - in Hanadan2 it made sense for Domyouji to kneel to Rui and ask him to let go of courting Makino because Domyouji has no control whatsoever over what Rui does - he cannot do something unilaterally to stop Rui - he has to ask. Not to mention, Rui is his best friend and he wants to keep the friendship intact, and to go after Makino (who has indicated she is quite willing to be with Domyouji) without clearing it with Rui first, would definitely wreck the friendship. But the relationship with Jaekyung is different, uniquely so - it's a wedding and he has all the power in the world to end it himself. Neither Domoyuji in the manga or jdrama nor Dao Ming Si in the Taiwanese version had any hesitation in calling it off when they felt they couldn't deny their love for Makino (and it didn't go anywhere near close enough to the altar, either). So, MAN UP, Goo Jun Pyo! Seriously, man up.
Honestly, the only time I've seen something close to this was in Save the Last Dance kdrama, but it made sense there - the hero's company was going to be wrecked without the marriage (just as here), but the other girl was a childhood long-term friend, one of his best friends, who tried to kill herself because he wouldn't marry her, and the reason he begged her was not because he was afraid of consequences to himself/company but because what he really was begging was for her not to kill herself, because he could not obtain his happiness at the cost of her life. And even then, he wouldn't marry her until his OTP ditched him in a brutal, brutal fashion to save him. Ahem. Sorry for the sidetrack, I love StLD to bits.
Jun Pyo, go rent Return of the Condor Heroes and take notes - the dude in that one was willing to die a hideous slow agonizing death rather than betray his OTP by marrying someone else. Take notes until it sinks in. Kthanks, bye.
Side note: I can't even be bothered to be irritated that they turned the awesome Shigeru of the manga/twdrama and less awesome but ultimately not too bad Shigeru of the jdrama into the typically evil kdrama other woman - she knows her fiance loves someone else, yet she is happily planning her wedding asap and asking his OTP to be her bridesmaid on purpose, and when he begs her to call the wedding off, telling her he only loves Jandi and will only love Jandi, she is all "I know, it makes me want to marry you all the more". Heh. I've exhausted my ire on all the other character modifications and have none left for this :)