There must have been a sale because they bought all the dysfunction there is - TPM ep 14 with subs.
They are officially the most dysfunctional couple I have ever shipped. Yes, shipped. Notice the past tense.
I really can't ship them after ep 14, if by ship you mean 'hope and wish for them to end up together in a happy life.' I find them incredibly interesting and emotionally involving separately, I find their dynamic fascinating and tragic and I cannot take my eyes off them. I can understand how SY ended up the way he is and even feel pity for the horrors that drove him to this act and place (and I do feel tremendous pity - his life was dismantled, his family killed and he tortured and hunted by her father - his family was destroyed by hers), but I cannot possibly ship her with him - it is impossible in every way, not just because of their families, but of what he has become - I think he's too destroyed to be with any woman, but especially her - considering who she is and what he's done (kidnapping!!! threatening to kill her!!!! shooting her father in front of her!!!). No way can I condone his actions even if I can understand why he did them., because what he did is despicable (even if he believed she was in on her father's plans and participated in conspiracy to destroy him, and he wants to believe that but I don't think he really does, which is what drives him even madder because I do think he hates himself). I mean, she may not love Myun but between him and SY, the former is the much better choice!
Myun did some questionable things but none towards her.
I mean, this is SY/SR reunion:
And that is the tragedy - Seung Yu and Se Ryung were once so sane, so compatible, so happy together. If his father picked Sooyang's side and agreed to the marriage proposal, they would have had a blissful wedded life. But not after this. After all that's happened, blissful existence, separately or together, is forever impossible. I do want them to rediscover sanity and happiness together for just a little bit, for their sakes - because I know they need it, but I know nothing between them can last - the world won't let them be, but neither will his trauma. Nor should it - some things should be relationship breakers - the fact that her family killed his is one. The fact that he kidnapped and threatened her is another, and a much bigger one because it involves the two of them, not their families. I mean, she still loves him after all that - she takes the arrow for him! and helps him escape
and he still loves her (which makes him hate himself the more - he's desperate for her to hate him and tries to get that result because than it would fit into a comfortable paradigm) because they are both beyond screwed-up, broken people but I cannot see them having a future. Also, let's face it, he should not be allowed to have her after what he did.
But I cried throughout the ep, I cried for them both - I cried for her because the man she loved so came back as a nightmare. And I cried for him because of what has been done to him, to turn the gentle, teasing, sweet-natured scholar into this monster. Her dignity and strength is greater than his damage though, greater than anything. SR >>>> everyone. The scene with the rings OMG.
I do like the irony of the contrast between their first visit to the gisaeng house together and this. Or their first horse ride together and this. Also, the fact that their reunion is him kidnapping her and her trying to stab him to death (OMG, that girl is tough!) before she realizes who that is and goes into shock.
Here he is telling her he will kill her if she calls him "Seosangnim" again (that is what she used to call him when they were together). Clearly he's snapped beyond any hope of fixing:
My favorite scene - so much emotion and pity and thwarted love and anger and regret everything mixed in. My favorite part was his pause when he sees the scar on her neck, remembers Myun telling him she tried to kill herself to protect him and does his best to push the thought aside.
OK, enough with the tying up. Unless she is into major BDSM, you are not winning any OTP points here!
Ummm, yeah, that is why I don't think he should ever get her.
All his talk about killing her and he totally falls apart when she protects him from the arrow with his body. What's the Joseon equivalent of 'all hat, no cattle?'
You know who I do ship? Transgender gisaeng and that guard that rescued himself along with SY. They are adorable together!
Also, I like Sooyang and his wife as a couple - they have a very functional marriage.
I actually love Sooyang, evilness or not. Other factions would have totally done to his family what he did to theirs.
