Resurrection - this is a dark dark drama!
Am through ep 20 of Resurrection, with a lot of marathonning and selective fastworwarding. It's such a solid, well-written, well-acted drama even if it doesn't (IMO) approach Mawang's masterpiece status.
It is brutal to see what his complex revenge plot and using people for that plot is doing to Haeun, who started as one of the sweetest, sanest drama heroes ever. It's an interesting parallel/echo of Mawang - we meet Seung Ha, Mawang's avenger, once he's already been destroyed by revenge but with Haeun we slowly watch his fall. (There are other differences of course - Haeun did not have as long to dwell on vengeance and powerlessness and started from a much more stable place as he only discovered the need for vengeance when an adult and not a frightened hopeless boy. But perhaps that makes Haeun less excusable - he was a whole person when he started so he should have known better. Except I can see how he could not take it, could not let it go. And I can see he also did not have much choice - if not for his masquerade, the bad guys would have killed him without a second thought).
It hurts to see Haeun turn into this monster, this dark mess, and he knows his transformation and is horrified by it (biggest reason he is hiding from Eunha - he does not want her to see what he has become) but he can't and won't stop it.
Honestly, by now, I'd rather Eunha was with Jinwu (who is such a heart-breaking character. He is going to go down so badly in Haeun's revenge against his father, isn't he? Even though he is innocent and is actually a good person). I rather despise Haeun for what he is going to collaterally-damage do (knowingly) to Gangju, the intrepid girl reporter, and to Jinwu, and to Heesu the swindler and even to Haeun's former friend the cop. But at least the cop is in possession of all the facts and is free to choose. The others are not. It's despicable. It makes me want to stab Haeun. But then I see how tortured he is, how he literally is not sure of his own identity any more, how he tries to create outs for himself, and I just want to comfort him and send him to a shrink and make it all better.
But he is still not worthy of Eunha. Sane, good-hearted, strong, pure Eunha. Not any more.
It is brutal to see what his complex revenge plot and using people for that plot is doing to Haeun, who started as one of the sweetest, sanest drama heroes ever. It's an interesting parallel/echo of Mawang - we meet Seung Ha, Mawang's avenger, once he's already been destroyed by revenge but with Haeun we slowly watch his fall. (There are other differences of course - Haeun did not have as long to dwell on vengeance and powerlessness and started from a much more stable place as he only discovered the need for vengeance when an adult and not a frightened hopeless boy. But perhaps that makes Haeun less excusable - he was a whole person when he started so he should have known better. Except I can see how he could not take it, could not let it go. And I can see he also did not have much choice - if not for his masquerade, the bad guys would have killed him without a second thought).
It hurts to see Haeun turn into this monster, this dark mess, and he knows his transformation and is horrified by it (biggest reason he is hiding from Eunha - he does not want her to see what he has become) but he can't and won't stop it.
Honestly, by now, I'd rather Eunha was with Jinwu (who is such a heart-breaking character. He is going to go down so badly in Haeun's revenge against his father, isn't he? Even though he is innocent and is actually a good person). I rather despise Haeun for what he is going to collaterally-damage do (knowingly) to Gangju, the intrepid girl reporter, and to Jinwu, and to Heesu the swindler and even to Haeun's former friend the cop. But at least the cop is in possession of all the facts and is free to choose. The others are not. It's despicable. It makes me want to stab Haeun. But then I see how tortured he is, how he literally is not sure of his own identity any more, how he tries to create outs for himself, and I just want to comfort him and send him to a shrink and make it all better.
But he is still not worthy of Eunha. Sane, good-hearted, strong, pure Eunha. Not any more.