The Princess' Man - episode 9
If there is one drama which is giving City Hunter a run for its money as my favorite drama of 2011, it's The Princess' Man. The OTP kills me (separately and together), every character is exquisitely fleshed out, and the brutal politics of a coup (the focus of this ep) is just as fascinating as the romance.
Without a doubt, ep 9 belongs to Park Shi Hoo's Seung Yu, as his world is destroyed and he goes through hell.
I spent most of the ep clutching my arms and gasping.
I don't particularly feel sorry for Myun - he picked his bed to lie in. But I do wonder how he thinks he will continue - he didn't start out a monster and so how does he see his life? Married to a woman who hates him for killing the man she loves. Having to deal with the fact that he caused the death of his best friend.
It's odd that I despise Myun but not Sooyang who is, after all, the mastermind. Maybe it's because for Sooyang it's politics, even if of a homicidal variety. For Myun, it's doing harm to his own principles and his own friends.
The drama continues to be gorgeous.
I feel so horribly sorry for the royal siblings. You just know that nothing good will happen to them. They are helpless and their world is disintegrating around them.
To see Seung Yoo go from this smiling scholar into blood-spattered desperado with a sword in his hands, trying to protect his family, kills me. Because unlike a lot of angsty period heroes, SY is not a mess going in. He is not a warrior. He's not even a politician. But the times won't let him be.
Here he is, hiding among corpses of the ministers. Even in the middle of all the murder and brutality around him he pauses to close the eyes of one of the dead men. That little gentle gesture somehow got me by the throat.
Nobody is likely to dethrone Song Tae Ha from Chuno as my n1 period guy, but Seung Yoo comes close...
All her efforts were in vain, and she believes Seung Yoo is dead. Not only that, she now sees her father for the monster he is. Her world is pretty much over.
Realizing he is the sole survivor.
He wanders through town, looking like a maniac, and comes across the head of his father on a pike, courtesy of Sooyang.
Park Shi Hoo plays broken like nobody else.
He makes his way to where Sooyang is set to greet his family, so as to kill him. And then he sees...
Yes, the woman he loves, the woman he almost died for. The woman he believed a handmaiden. And she is Sooyang's daughter, the daughter of the man who killed his family and ended his world.
I almost screamed. Surely this will be the last straw that will topple him straight into insanity.