May Queen eps 9-10. You have been reprieved, drama!
I confess I almost dumped May Queen due to the utter makjang stupidity of the first 8 eps (and seeing that's me, that's saying a lot). Luckily, this week we finally got the adult cast and so MQ is staying on, for now - the plot is still done by monkeys with brain damage and passion for melodrama, but the individual scenes sparkle (especially every time the irreverent Kang San shows up) and the cast chemistry is whoa.
My problem is I ship our heroine with both Chang Hee (Jae Hee) and Kang San (Kim Jae Won) - threesome, please!
Jae Hee, you can prosecute me any time! I am having such flashbacks to Delightful Girl Chun Hyang, which I was obsessed with years ago.
Everyone in this drama has insane chemistry. Everyone.
The most awesome first meeting ever. Kang San is dancing with a girl in a club and then the girl's older sister bursts in to drag away her delinquent younger sibling and totally punches Kang San out. Heeeee.
Why are they so perfect when they are not the endgame, drama! Seriously, threesomes, look into it!
I love that Kang San is seemingly laid-back and smiley but with a real dark bite to him flashing on and off, and not just in regard to vengeance. He just cost our heroine her job (even if it wasn't the intent of his breaking in) and he just shrugs and grins 'oops' (now, granted, if someone beat me up, I'd probably want to get my own back too, but still, it's not what saintly heroes do).
Confronting Il Moon. Still smiling but pretty scary. There is a lot of rage under that laid-back demeanor. I have to say, I know Il Moon is a classist jerk blah blah blah but with a father like his, it's a wonder he isn't murdering puppies. Not to mention the whole thing with his Daddy making him pretend stepmom is real Mom and forbidding even the mention of the real Mom. WTF, psycho!
My heart is going to be so broken because I know, due to synopsis that he leaves her and marries Il Hwa when he finds out what his father did, and she ends up with Kang San. I mean, I adore Kang San and KJW is a huge crush, and the main reason I checked out this drama, but Chang Hee (and Jae Hee!!!) - I love him with her so much! I know they are subtly incompatible because CH is using his prosecutorial power rather corruptly, helping the Chairman etc, but still! He is so amazing with her, and considering who his father is and what atmosphere he grew up in, he is doing the best he can and waaaaaaaaa! Someone clone Han Ji Hye please!
Kang San learns that it's his childhood friend and crush who he inadvertently cost a job to (hmm, to his credit, before he learned who it was, he was still worried it was his comments about her being a gangster that cost her his job. Perhaps he isn't as uncaring as he likes to pretend).
So cute! He calls her and asks her all these questions about her childhood and he is so excited because she was totally his first love etc but she doesn't recognize who he is and thinks he's a creepy pervert and pushes him into the water. And then she finds out he really did offer her a job so she goes to fish him out so he pretends he cannot swim so she'd do CPR. And she realizes he is faking so she is about to whack him when he goes 'Hello, Tinker!' (his childhood nickname for her) with that grin and my heaaaaaaaaart! All of a sudden, I am fine with Chang Hee losing her.
