Gloria - is there anything more perfect?
I remember when I was looking for a wedding dress, by far my N1 critera was "such that it would stun Mr Mousie when he first saw me in it" And if I had to pick a fictional example of such a moment it would have been the type of look Ally Sheedy got at the end of Breakfast Club after her makeover. If I had seen Gloria by that point, I would undoubtedly have substituted "the look Kang Suk gives Jin Jin when he sees her dressed up at the theater" instead. It looks as if he stops breathing.
Not that the other OTP are slackers in these eps.
P.S. Yes, I did get that sort of a dress :)
Creepy continues his rampage by punching Kang Suk ind is all "hey, it's all your fault, because this makes me feel better." Good practice for your stellar career as an abusive husband, buddy. Also, seeing what KS likes to do for a hobby, you are lucky you still have all your fingers attached and your nose in a more-or-less original shape.
The aforementioned scene where KS looks...I don't even have the words for it...when he sees JJ all dressed up. He manages to snark she looks only average but huh! If it was anyone but practical, oblivious JJ, they'd call a lie on that so quick :)
Guess who else is there? Ahhhh, I love the dress-up fanservice.
You guys! The way he looks at her! Even DA notices (I love that later he tells JJ the guy was looking at you in a stupefied manner and her response is 'he was just watching to see if I paid attention to the music.' LOLOLOL. JJ, who is nothing if not pragmatic, knows she is 30, not drop-dead-gorgeous, and of completely the wrong class, so she doesn't even think that way. In a way, that is precisely why KS ends up falling for her - he feels uncontrolled and unpushed. He can contemplate and figure out his feelings on his own time).
Seriously, I just want to squish them into one big ball of awesomeness.
They go their separate ways and heeeee. Two awesome dates ensue. My favorite part is when she says she will treat him to dinner and ends up taking him to this dirt-cheap place and he is snarking about whether she is not concerned about having sauce all over her face in front of a man (the more he is with her, the more his very dry, sarcastic sense of humor manifests itself) and she replies "You are not a man." Heeeeeeeeee. When he asks her "Am I a woman?" she replies "No, you are just President." LOLOLOL.
She buys him vending machine coffee as desert and they have yet another one of their start-out-funny-end-up-emotionally-raw conversations. (You know, he opens up to her so well because she listens. Nobody else in his life does. Also, I like that the more I see of his family life, the more unpleasant and maddening it is but it's everyday nastiness, not kdrama abuse or anything. So his stepmother dislikes him and says nasty things all the time or his father is emotionally locked up or his brother is a creep and his birth mother was never overly affectionate because she knew she will give him away. These are 'normal' things not the usual kdrama OTT catalogue of horrors).
Meanwhile YS and DA have their own adorable date. I love how strong and alive YS has gradually become.
Be still, my heart!
The way he looks at her, so open and vulnerable and intense and a little lost, with all his heart in his eyes - this kills me. The thing is, in addition to everything else, he has fallen so hard and so fast because she is his sole emotional outlet - she is his N1 best bet for being human (the way he's become such a wonderful human being without JJ having to put titanic efforts into it, but with just a little teasing, example and sympathy makes me feel really angry at his family - if they showed an ounce of caring, he would have been like that long ago. Birth Mama is not off the hook either - if you stopped telling him he is an icicle all the time, lady, maybe he wouldn't have been).
He got her an apartment! Because it keeps driving him nuts she doesn't have running water! He says it's for trainees but yeah...
She can't move there for plot reasons (long story, and he later then has a water heater installed in her old place). But it is her time to share about her own traumatic past, this time. I love how neither of them does it with any whining.
I just like this shot.
The more I see of Mama Singer the more it occurs to me how high maintenance she is. It would be exhausting to be near her. She is the best parent figure in the drama and she isn't bad, but I wish she'd acknowledge that part of KS' issues is her fault.
The roses thing I posted about earlier!
The part where she tells him she doesn't want him to go to the fight club, even though she understands why he goes, because she doesn't like him to get hurt.
Why is he so gorgeous? Mmmm. I think it's connected to character for me - I didn't think he was ugly in the beginning (I am not blind) but now I am finding him more and more gorgeous with each ep.
Ahahahahahaha. Getting grilled by the nephew on being her boyfriend.
Dong Ah and Yoon Seo having a confrontation. She wants him to run away with her because he is all she wants and he tells her he can't because he loves her and that would ruin her life. Living the way he has has kicked out all hope and optimism out of him and all he can see is possibilities of horror. (Side note - everyone assumes her parents would dismember DA if they found out and I am sure they are correct, but that's insane of the parents! If my daughter decided to get hitched to a not-even-high-school-degree dirt-poor bouncer, I would not be happy but I'd meet him and try to figure out if they really love each other etc. And if a child is suicidal the way YS is, I'd just be happy that anyone makes her want to go on living, whatever his status).
Did I mention she moved in?
So adorable!
OK, I did a whole post on Kang Suk/JJ kiss, but have a brief recap:
KS: I'm sorry.
JJ: Of course you should be. You saw me as easy.
KS: It's not because you seemed easy.
JJ: You don't have to explain.
KS: Just, without even my realizing, it happened. I was thinking, "Why am I always subjected to this sort of crap?" I felt like I'd go crazy, like my head would explode. But, no matter how much I throw punches and get smacked around, I don't feel any release, so I felt like I'd go mad. And then you took my arm. I just...I just... felt like you knew me. I got the feeling like you
knew why I live like this. Couldn't you...be understanding of me in this state?
JJ: I will. Because you're going through a hard time, because you made a mistake without realizing it yourself, I will be understanding. I'll go now.
KS: I'm...a guy that doesn't even have a single friend. Couldn't you be that to me? A friend?
That's a yes.
It's been such a horrible day for him (the company is getting closed because stepmom hates him - wtf - she is kicking everyone out of petty spite? All the workers? Bitch) but JJ can still make him laugh.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Finally! She won!
Not that the other OTP are slackers in these eps.
P.S. Yes, I did get that sort of a dress :)
Creepy continues his rampage by punching Kang Suk ind is all "hey, it's all your fault, because this makes me feel better." Good practice for your stellar career as an abusive husband, buddy. Also, seeing what KS likes to do for a hobby, you are lucky you still have all your fingers attached and your nose in a more-or-less original shape.
The aforementioned scene where KS looks...I don't even have the words for it...when he sees JJ all dressed up. He manages to snark she looks only average but huh! If it was anyone but practical, oblivious JJ, they'd call a lie on that so quick :)
Guess who else is there? Ahhhh, I love the dress-up fanservice.
You guys! The way he looks at her! Even DA notices (I love that later he tells JJ the guy was looking at you in a stupefied manner and her response is 'he was just watching to see if I paid attention to the music.' LOLOLOL. JJ, who is nothing if not pragmatic, knows she is 30, not drop-dead-gorgeous, and of completely the wrong class, so she doesn't even think that way. In a way, that is precisely why KS ends up falling for her - he feels uncontrolled and unpushed. He can contemplate and figure out his feelings on his own time).
Seriously, I just want to squish them into one big ball of awesomeness.
They go their separate ways and heeeee. Two awesome dates ensue. My favorite part is when she says she will treat him to dinner and ends up taking him to this dirt-cheap place and he is snarking about whether she is not concerned about having sauce all over her face in front of a man (the more he is with her, the more his very dry, sarcastic sense of humor manifests itself) and she replies "You are not a man." Heeeeeeeeee. When he asks her "Am I a woman?" she replies "No, you are just President." LOLOLOL.
She buys him vending machine coffee as desert and they have yet another one of their start-out-funny-end-up-emotionally-raw conversations. (You know, he opens up to her so well because she listens. Nobody else in his life does. Also, I like that the more I see of his family life, the more unpleasant and maddening it is but it's everyday nastiness, not kdrama abuse or anything. So his stepmother dislikes him and says nasty things all the time or his father is emotionally locked up or his brother is a creep and his birth mother was never overly affectionate because she knew she will give him away. These are 'normal' things not the usual kdrama OTT catalogue of horrors).
Meanwhile YS and DA have their own adorable date. I love how strong and alive YS has gradually become.
Be still, my heart!
The way he looks at her, so open and vulnerable and intense and a little lost, with all his heart in his eyes - this kills me. The thing is, in addition to everything else, he has fallen so hard and so fast because she is his sole emotional outlet - she is his N1 best bet for being human (the way he's become such a wonderful human being without JJ having to put titanic efforts into it, but with just a little teasing, example and sympathy makes me feel really angry at his family - if they showed an ounce of caring, he would have been like that long ago. Birth Mama is not off the hook either - if you stopped telling him he is an icicle all the time, lady, maybe he wouldn't have been).
He got her an apartment! Because it keeps driving him nuts she doesn't have running water! He says it's for trainees but yeah...
She can't move there for plot reasons (long story, and he later then has a water heater installed in her old place). But it is her time to share about her own traumatic past, this time. I love how neither of them does it with any whining.
I just like this shot.
The more I see of Mama Singer the more it occurs to me how high maintenance she is. It would be exhausting to be near her. She is the best parent figure in the drama and she isn't bad, but I wish she'd acknowledge that part of KS' issues is her fault.
The roses thing I posted about earlier!
The part where she tells him she doesn't want him to go to the fight club, even though she understands why he goes, because she doesn't like him to get hurt.
Why is he so gorgeous? Mmmm. I think it's connected to character for me - I didn't think he was ugly in the beginning (I am not blind) but now I am finding him more and more gorgeous with each ep.
Ahahahahahaha. Getting grilled by the nephew on being her boyfriend.
Dong Ah and Yoon Seo having a confrontation. She wants him to run away with her because he is all she wants and he tells her he can't because he loves her and that would ruin her life. Living the way he has has kicked out all hope and optimism out of him and all he can see is possibilities of horror. (Side note - everyone assumes her parents would dismember DA if they found out and I am sure they are correct, but that's insane of the parents! If my daughter decided to get hitched to a not-even-high-school-degree dirt-poor bouncer, I would not be happy but I'd meet him and try to figure out if they really love each other etc. And if a child is suicidal the way YS is, I'd just be happy that anyone makes her want to go on living, whatever his status).
Did I mention she moved in?
So adorable!
OK, I did a whole post on Kang Suk/JJ kiss, but have a brief recap:
KS: I'm sorry.
JJ: Of course you should be. You saw me as easy.
KS: It's not because you seemed easy.
JJ: You don't have to explain.
KS: Just, without even my realizing, it happened. I was thinking, "Why am I always subjected to this sort of crap?" I felt like I'd go crazy, like my head would explode. But, no matter how much I throw punches and get smacked around, I don't feel any release, so I felt like I'd go mad. And then you took my arm. I just...I just... felt like you knew me. I got the feeling like you
knew why I live like this. Couldn't you...be understanding of me in this state?
JJ: I will. Because you're going through a hard time, because you made a mistake without realizing it yourself, I will be understanding. I'll go now.
KS: I'm...a guy that doesn't even have a single friend. Couldn't you be that to me? A friend?
That's a yes.
It's been such a horrible day for him (the company is getting closed because stepmom hates him - wtf - she is kicking everyone out of petty spite? All the workers? Bitch) but JJ can still make him laugh.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Finally! She won!