Love Rain - episode 10
This episode was so cute that it must have spontaneously produced puppies somewhere in the Universe, I swear! Just as well, because I think the angst!hammer might just fall next week.
We start where we left off - with that mind-melting kiss. I love how ridiculously giddy he is and she's shy and uncertain but the way she looks at him when he takes her hand and interlaces them is adorable. It amazes me how open he can be about affection with her despite his FUBAR upbringing, how he can't stop touching her in some way throughout the episode - whether it's kissing and hand-holding or a simple lean. He is like an addict - he's never been in love before and never been loved back (romantically or otherwise - he parents are horrible as parents and Miho et al.'s 'affections' are hormonal crush and nothing more). It's like he just discovered affection and cannot have enough.
On the phone, flirting and jealousy and being such darlings.
OMG, how adorable! Due to an understandable misunderstanding, he freaks she's in danger, rushes over there, climbs the fence etc etc to make sure again and a whole comedy of errors ensues. What I love is that even without any guideposts whatsoever of what makes a healthy, caring relationship, he tries so hard - not just his running over to check on her in the middle of the night, but even when he tries to open the car door for her (she gets out by herself before he manages to do that) or sitting there, with his ankle hurt, but still, matter-of-factly, taking off his jacket and covering her hair because it's wet from the shower and she might catch a cold (how different from Jun of few eps back who was bitching about his clothes getting wet and trying to hog the umbrella). I love that it's these gestures that make her shine so. In some ways, Jun is such a kid.
Cutest, most adorable roommates ever!
Busted! Heee, she finds out he can see into her room.
He gives her the ring he found (that was hers) and she tells him it's a couple's ring she was going to give the guy she liked. He asks her 'are you a kid? [pause] just give it to me.' Ahhhh, Jun.
I love their slow warmth...
Texting to each other and giggling like silly kids (I love how surly Jun is so high on happiness).
Seriously. How are they so functional and happy and adorable?
Yoon Hee trying to break it off with In Ha. I love that it wasn't Hyejung's threats or attempted emotional manipulation (her lies that she and In Ha were planning to get back together are just...argh. I mean, she and In Ha have been separated since Jun was 10! And wouldn't have married except for a one-night stand and her lies that Yoon Hee died). It's her fear of further loss if she opens up (and probably her own illness). But faced with his trying to save her and almost losing him she finally abandons her caution...
Bwahahaahaha jealousy! Also, serves you right, horrid sunbae!
Even in the middle of their fight he has to kiss her. Heeee. He honestly is so at a loss of how to function in a relationship.
Ohhh, finally. I love how In Ha and Yoon Hee's getting together is intercut with Jun and Hana's getting together, interlaced hands to interlaced hands.
Hana sneaks into Jun's room to get back the couple's ring she put on his desk (she really is pissed) but she drops the ring and he finds it and his face! And he puts it on, and look how happy he is. Awwwwww.
Ohhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhhh, Meeeeelting...
My favorite part. She tells him, a little hesitantly, "I like you." EEEEE! His face. JGS has a ridiculously expressive face. And then he tells her "then you put it [the ring] on me." Seriously, I am way way way melting here. There should be a new word for melting...
Meanwhile...Yup, I love the parallels.
Jun and Hana...
In Ha and Yoon Hee...
And back to our young lovers...
And we close on this...
