I am so very back on Dae Gil/Un Nyun ship!
OK, I had time to watch eps 13-15 of Chuno properly and I...I...I totally have to eat my words - I am back on the Dae Gil/Un Nyun ship with a vengeance.
Good luck with that, self. Yeah. (Luckily, I am still shipping Tae Ha/Un Nyun as well and that has somewhat more chance).
I am totally torn between whom I want to win the Baeksang, btw - Lee Byung Hun or Jang Hyuk. LBH's character Hyun Joon is my favorite male drama character ever but Jang Hyuk is so intense as Dae Gil I want to look away sometimes because I feel I am intruding. Hmmm.
This scene, of UN and TH marrying intercut with DG leaving, unseen, and collapsing, made me bawl. I ship TH/UN but that is so so so wrong - not when DG spent 10 years looking for her and when finding her has been the reason for his existence. My God. I love how he collapses as if he literally cannot even move without the hope of her. And how huge is it that he's been hunting TH for so long and you'd think seeing that he is the husband of the woman DG loves would give him even more motivation to go after TH but instead he sees UN happy with TH and 'their little kid' (or the kid DG thinks is theirs) and...he leaves.
You know - Sul Hwa is in such a catch-22. I think the biggest reason she loves Dae Gil is because he loves Un Nyun like this - all-consumingly and hopelessly and for so long. She is a former hooker - she has only known men who don't love but muster lust for 15 minutes. But where does that great love leave her?
Evil Incarnate himself. Soompi ladies call him El Diablo and it is so fitting.
This scene of an almost-meeting. Shivers. He is praying so hard and his hands are shaking and just...guuuuh, ep 13 killed me.
Tae Ha and Un Nyun wedding night cuteness.
I think of all the scenes in the episode this silent one killed me the most - because it's night, and TH and Un are consummating their marriage and DG is watching their shadows from outside, and stroking her dainty shoes and remembering when UN loved him. It's both sad and very very frakked up.
And then, as the love of his life in inside, making love to her new husband, he puts the shoes back heel first so she could just slip into them when she steps out in the morning. For some reason that small gesture killed me more than any gestures or talk anybody has ever done in this drama.
And next morning, Un Nyun is at the market and...she sees the love of her life, the man she thought dead and mourned for a decade, alive. Now it's her turn to break down and remember. This drama is so jolly.
Have some angsty violent pretitness to feel better:
Yup, I still ship them. I multi-ship. And I want to sniffle seeing Tae Ha's slave brand even through the mesh head-covering.
And it would have ended thus - DG wasn't even going to let UN let know he was alive but thanks to El Diablo he now believes Tae Ha killed his two friends and so he is after TH now - the scene where he burns UN's portrait as if giving up his love (or trying) - ouch.
And so this is how Dae Gil and Un Nyun meet again after a decade apart - after he's scoured Korea looking for her and after she's mourned him for a decade. He threatens her for TH's whereabouts, acts as if he's forgotten her utterly (and never cared to start with), and puts a sword to her neck, But that sword keeps shaking and shaking and he is devouring her with his eyes. And she - seeing her former sweet-natured idealistic boyfriend has turned into a violent, hurtful borderline-lunatic? Tell him she is glad he is alive and kneels asking forgiveness (for the deaths of his family by her brother). That is the scene I went back into rabid DG/UN shipper territory. Not that they have a chance in hell but can we have at least a make-out before rocks-fall-everyone-dies inevitable ending? Though an honorable woman like UN - how would she ever make out with someone else while married, and to a man she admires and loves (even if not as much as she loves DG). Argh. I am going to rewatch Robbers stat to see Lee Da Hae and Jang Hyuk make-out and can just pretend they are DG and UN reincarnated :P (Side note - second most frakked up OTP reunion ever, because nothing shall top my love IRIS).
Tae Ha and Dae Gil scenes are crazy-intense btw. And UN looms so huge for both of them - TH tells DG he won't kill him because UN asks (and then loses his fight advantage when he goes mental finding out UN used to be a slave) and DG can't kill TH even to avenge the deaths of his friends - he stabs the ground instead, weeping UN's name.
I am dying to know what they talk about btw.
And now I realize why they stuck both men in the torture chamber at the end of ep 16 - they are running out of awful things to do to them. A few more eps and they'll have to resort to lopping off limbs.