Witch Yoo Hee

[dangermousie]

I rather hate Yoo Hee as a person. She is a total total bitch. And not like Bo-Ra in early eps of Snow Queen where she was bitchy but you could see the fragility and unhappiness and a little girl peeking out

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Re: scarily enough

[dangermousie]

"Change everything before you can even consider someone looking at you in an attractive light,"

Haven't gotten to that point, but honestly, while generally a bad thing to say, it's totally true in her case. Also, if she can dish it out and try to boss, correct and insult everything, she should be able to take it, too. And hey, if it's after anyone encountering her for more than five minutes, I am totally on the side of the speaker.

She also seems to really not like anyone having any fun. Her secretary does the duties she is supposed to do. If she can't find the housekeeper for Yoo Hee, it's because Yoo Hee is such a bitch no one wants to work for her, not because the secretary is at fault. And there is certainly no need to insult her clothes/perfume/whatever to her face.

The thing is, I have RL glasses on too, and when I start thinking of what it would be like to work in an office with someone like that, or have to interact with her in any capacity, I want to smash her face in. But then I am all 'it's a drama and in a drama she is funny.'

I don't mind a kdrama heroine who is strong-willed (Chun-Hyang in DGCH comes to mind since my brain is in Jae Hee mode), in fact I like it. But there is difference between strong-willed and a total bitch who doesn't really see other people at all. The way she behaved on those dates? My God.

Seriously, in the drama I find her amusing, but in RL I'd want to kill her in two seconds flat. If we saw some inner vulnerability, I might like her better as a (fictional) person (as opposed to liking her as a character. I do that already as she amuses me), but we haven't seen enough of it yet. With Bo Ra in Snow Queen, she started as a bitch, but I never disliked her, because somehow she still came across as lonely, and troubled and just...adorable somehow. Too charming. Yoo Hee I don't get this with. I am amused by her, but I don't like her. The way she is now (after ep 1) I don't want her to end up with anyone yet.

Re: scarily enough

[fivil]

I see WYH in a way as the role reversal of the classic kdrama set-up; the cold, mean dude who lets no emotions show and the poor but lovely, big-hearted, spunky girl are reversed into nice poor guy with awesome personality and cold, mean, awful lady who lets no emotions show.

So it won't be about Moo-ryong changing *her*, it's about discovering who she really is behind that awful character. My money's on her father raising her to become like that - she obviously doesn't like him and it's very possible it's because he's the reason for her becoming such a cold bitch.

Of course, it could be me reading too much into this at this point but honestly? I refuse to believe anybody with healthy family background becomes like that. Especially when this is a drama where everything ties together.

Re: scarily enough

[dangermousie]

Yeah, I do think it's her Dad's fault.

Re: gender reversals. You are totally right. Some of the cold guys do change though in dramas (even Shin melted, rather) and she is so extreme she will probably be one of those, at least somewhat. Yay :)