One OTP clings while another endures a break-up from hell - ah, Gloria
I have resumed my watch of Gloria and it continues excellent as always. I will try to continue the recaps but they are really time-consuming and, let's face it, I want to spend my time watching more more more. So who knows how it's going to go.
So for now, I bring you my two favorite scenes in episode 35. One involves Kang Suk/Jin Jin and another Dong Ah/Yoon Seo.
Kang Suk comes to find Jin Jin to tell her Yoon Seo let him know she's tired of fighting trying to be with Dong Ah. Which means he, KS, doesn't have to pretend to be engaged to YS any more to protect her. He can now announce to his father he wants to marry JJ. I love the way KS clings to JJ so desperately - Yoon Seo's behavior - getting tired of fighting for a forbidden relationship and giving up - has gotten KS terrified that Jin Jin will be like that too. And, of course, he is still (rightly) scared of what will happen if Jin Jin ever fins out what Creepy did to her family. You know, with KS and JJ, all their obstacles are really internal, not external like they are with Dong Ah/Yoon Seo - Kang Suk's father will cut up rough but he's unlikely to send goons to kill Jin Jin; Kang Suk has a company of his own, that he bought with investor money, so they won't starve; Creepy isn't really meddling - give Creepy Yoon Seo and the construction business and I get the sense he will be happy to let younger bro do whatever, the less to do with him the better. BUT. The obstacle is huge and emotional and internal - I cannot even imagine the reaction Jin Jin will get when she will find out (and it's a drama, we know she will) that her fiance's older brother is the one who killed her parents, made her sister mentally handicapped, and turned her childhood into hell. How do you get over that? Yes, she loves Kang Suk. Yes, Kang Suk had nothing to do with any of it and is an amazing person. But this is so huge.
You know, normally I am not a fan of long dramas - the point inevitably gets lost, meandering kicks in. But when (rarely) done well, they really are a treat - Kang Suk's character development is one of my favorite things in this drama - it's slow, and painful, and complex (thawing always is) but it's gradual and believable. KS of ep 1 and KS of ep 35 are almost like two different people but it's a believable progress and you see every step of how one ended up into the other.
In the other part of Seul, one of the most awful kdrama break-ups is happening. Yoon Seo must break up with Dong Ah, the man who literally made her want to go on living after her suicide attempts, in order to save his life - she was told otherwise Creepy and her father will have him killed. Oh. They are such fragile innocents, this scene kills me.
DA: Yoon Suh ssi! It's Yoon Suh ssi, right? I am not hallucinating right now, right? I missed you so much I thought I would go insane. Since I can't even hear your voice through the phone. I thought I was gonna die.
YS: It's not an illusion. This is the daughter of President Jung of Hae Woo Company. Jung Yoon Suh, you are correct. What I am telling you, this isn't the same woman that you loved like crazy in the past.
DA: Yoon Suh shi.
YS: While I was held at my house, I realized it. That this was not something possible. No matter how much I loved Ha Dong Ah, I know we can't make it till the end.
DA: Yoon Suh shi. Why are you like this?
YS: Where could we hide in this world? Did you think my father would never find us? Even if we went far and hid in the jungle in Africa, my father would find us no matter what. To live running away your whole life, I won't live like that.
DA: Yoon Suh shi.
YS: Now, the festival is over. I wanted to break up without meeting. But it looks like our fate isn't quite so cruel, to see that we met like this. Since we met like this, I will say my last goodbye. For presenting me, the most beautiful days of festival in my life. Thank You.
DA: How much were you pestered? How much pain did you suffer, I ask.
YS; It's not that. I am just tired from everything.
DA: Let's leave now. No matter an island or inside the mountain. If we can run, let's run anywhere. If they catch us, we can run away again, and run away together.
YS: Wake up from your dream, Dong Ah. Dong Ah ssi and me, we dreamed a dream that we shouldn't have dreamed.
DA: I know it is because it's been stressful. That you're tired of it. I more than understand. I know there must be the kind of pain that a punk like me can't even begin to imagine.
YS: That's not what matters, I just want it to stop. Loving the man Ha Dong Ah..I am tired of it. Don't you know that love loses its strength when you're exhausted by it? Right now, I am like that. Now I finally realize. How feeble my love was. You know what a feeble person I am. I am someone that kept on trying to die, yet kept on living. If I really wanted to die, I would not have let anyone save me, I would have...gone onto any building and jumped off of it but I didn't. That is because I am still childish. Now I wish to stop my childish acts. And live in reality. So, Ha Dong Ah. Step away from my life. If you appear before me again, I will take it as you torturing me.
Bonus - the awesomeness of Kang Suk. Him snarling at Creepy makes me happy. So happy.
In conclusion - Die die, Creepy.
So for now, I bring you my two favorite scenes in episode 35. One involves Kang Suk/Jin Jin and another Dong Ah/Yoon Seo.
Kang Suk comes to find Jin Jin to tell her Yoon Seo let him know she's tired of fighting trying to be with Dong Ah. Which means he, KS, doesn't have to pretend to be engaged to YS any more to protect her. He can now announce to his father he wants to marry JJ. I love the way KS clings to JJ so desperately - Yoon Seo's behavior - getting tired of fighting for a forbidden relationship and giving up - has gotten KS terrified that Jin Jin will be like that too. And, of course, he is still (rightly) scared of what will happen if Jin Jin ever fins out what Creepy did to her family. You know, with KS and JJ, all their obstacles are really internal, not external like they are with Dong Ah/Yoon Seo - Kang Suk's father will cut up rough but he's unlikely to send goons to kill Jin Jin; Kang Suk has a company of his own, that he bought with investor money, so they won't starve; Creepy isn't really meddling - give Creepy Yoon Seo and the construction business and I get the sense he will be happy to let younger bro do whatever, the less to do with him the better. BUT. The obstacle is huge and emotional and internal - I cannot even imagine the reaction Jin Jin will get when she will find out (and it's a drama, we know she will) that her fiance's older brother is the one who killed her parents, made her sister mentally handicapped, and turned her childhood into hell. How do you get over that? Yes, she loves Kang Suk. Yes, Kang Suk had nothing to do with any of it and is an amazing person. But this is so huge.
You know, normally I am not a fan of long dramas - the point inevitably gets lost, meandering kicks in. But when (rarely) done well, they really are a treat - Kang Suk's character development is one of my favorite things in this drama - it's slow, and painful, and complex (thawing always is) but it's gradual and believable. KS of ep 1 and KS of ep 35 are almost like two different people but it's a believable progress and you see every step of how one ended up into the other.
In the other part of Seul, one of the most awful kdrama break-ups is happening. Yoon Seo must break up with Dong Ah, the man who literally made her want to go on living after her suicide attempts, in order to save his life - she was told otherwise Creepy and her father will have him killed. Oh. They are such fragile innocents, this scene kills me.
DA: Yoon Suh ssi! It's Yoon Suh ssi, right? I am not hallucinating right now, right? I missed you so much I thought I would go insane. Since I can't even hear your voice through the phone. I thought I was gonna die.
YS: It's not an illusion. This is the daughter of President Jung of Hae Woo Company. Jung Yoon Suh, you are correct. What I am telling you, this isn't the same woman that you loved like crazy in the past.
DA: Yoon Suh shi.
YS: While I was held at my house, I realized it. That this was not something possible. No matter how much I loved Ha Dong Ah, I know we can't make it till the end.
DA: Yoon Suh shi. Why are you like this?
YS: Where could we hide in this world? Did you think my father would never find us? Even if we went far and hid in the jungle in Africa, my father would find us no matter what. To live running away your whole life, I won't live like that.
DA: Yoon Suh shi.
YS: Now, the festival is over. I wanted to break up without meeting. But it looks like our fate isn't quite so cruel, to see that we met like this. Since we met like this, I will say my last goodbye. For presenting me, the most beautiful days of festival in my life. Thank You.
DA: How much were you pestered? How much pain did you suffer, I ask.
YS; It's not that. I am just tired from everything.
DA: Let's leave now. No matter an island or inside the mountain. If we can run, let's run anywhere. If they catch us, we can run away again, and run away together.
YS: Wake up from your dream, Dong Ah. Dong Ah ssi and me, we dreamed a dream that we shouldn't have dreamed.
DA: I know it is because it's been stressful. That you're tired of it. I more than understand. I know there must be the kind of pain that a punk like me can't even begin to imagine.
YS: That's not what matters, I just want it to stop. Loving the man Ha Dong Ah..I am tired of it. Don't you know that love loses its strength when you're exhausted by it? Right now, I am like that. Now I finally realize. How feeble my love was. You know what a feeble person I am. I am someone that kept on trying to die, yet kept on living. If I really wanted to die, I would not have let anyone save me, I would have...gone onto any building and jumped off of it but I didn't. That is because I am still childish. Now I wish to stop my childish acts. And live in reality. So, Ha Dong Ah. Step away from my life. If you appear before me again, I will take it as you torturing me.
Bonus - the awesomeness of Kang Suk. Him snarling at Creepy makes me happy. So happy.
In conclusion - Die die, Creepy.