Revenge is a dish best served immediately.

[dangermousie]

MAY YOU DIE IN A HORRIBBLE FIRE YOU HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE JERK!!!!

DIE DIE DIE WHY DON'T YOU DIE.

God, I hate the bad guys in Resurrection even more than I love the good guys.

Also, oh, poor poor Haeun. ((())).

You know, I can definitely see this as a predecessor to Mawang/The Devil in its themes but revenge here is, while corrosive, is a

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[dangermousie]

Yup, there is someone using Assemblyman and Builder, someone even more hateful.

I just bet it's the Stepdaddy. There is something not right about him. Ugh.

It hurts to see Ha Eun go through with all that. He was such a lovely, sweet guy to start with and yes, sane. Not broken like Seung Ha, who never had anyone after his mom and brother were gone.

I think the difference is not just having the people around (after all, Seung Ha was taken in by his 'older brother' for a while so he had someone for a bit) but the fact that he does not remember his past. He is free from the burden Seung Ha carried for over a decade until it made him into a total mess he is when Mawang starts. For Haeun, the clock only starts ticking when he meets Shinheyok really. And we see what it does to him asap - in a way, while we meet Seung Ha years after he got shaped by revenge, with Haeun we start at count zero. And it's also better for him because he can start right away, he doesn't have time to let it fester even more (Seung Ha at 14 or however old he was, was clearly in no shape to embark on vengeance - that's another reason why he is more warped - he did not have a normal upbringing or the back-up of being an adjusted adult to start from).

Do you know who Seung Ha reminds me most of, in Resurrection? It is not Haeun. It is Shinhyeok - the withdrawn, icy, over-controlled walking-wounded filled with guilt over family death. Which is rather interesting.

I adore this drama to bits - not as much as Mawang which (to me) is a rare perfect drama, and which seems to deconstruct the notion of futility/necessity of revenge even further, but it's still amazing.