Arang Episode 11 And How I Died.
Some shows make you squee in your bed as you lie in the most awkward positions possible so that you can watch them on your phone while it's charging. Other dramas come, beat you shitless with their awesomesauceness, and then go on to become the stuff of legends. The King 2 Hearts was one such example. Queen In Hyun's Man was another.
But you know what's the most hurtful? When you get hit with a double whammy of the dramas that hit you outta yer damn mine (aka Faith and Arang) and you feel like your under medieval Chinese torture. I am sure if dramas had existed back then, they would have used them.
I promised myself that I would write this post about my favourite/note-worthy bits as soon as I got home from classes, and then I came home, ate, and promptly fell asleep. So now, before doing/reading/breathing anything, I am writing this.I haven't even eaten guys!!1 This is my best effort at dedication guys *waits for cheers and only hears crickets*
Ok, I get the message. On with the baby-cap~
Fight scenes! Between this and Faith, I am getting completely spoilt. And have I mentioned how awesome it is to have orchestralxtraditional musicxrap as the background music for these scenes? It's this bombshell combo, listen yourself~ MC Sniper, between this and Vampire Prosecutor, you have outdone yourself.
He paces there worrying. Still in denial I see. Gaaahhhh
Just look at the look he gives her hair ribbon. Ok, I honestly canna believe I typed a sentence like that. What in the world have you done to me Show?
He's all "DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON HER" and she has this complete trust in him, that even though he's outnumbered something like 20 to 1, and it completely doesn't matter, cos it's her Saddo, so she's all I'm fine so will you stop worrying about me and kick some rat bums please? And then some idjit pulls a knife to her throat telling Eun Oh not to move or she gets it (I swear, even centuries ago, baddies still had the same lines... like, what is it with ya'll and the lines? Is it some holy rule that you must say these lines? Get creative for once dammit), and she's still I'm fine, but then Eun Oh stops fighting.
Even though they both know that she'll only feel pain at most because of the whole immortal for two months shtick, but it'll still hurt her, and she's died so many times, and her line about not knowing how it feels to die.
So even then. He stops.
Seeing Eun Oh get beaten is right up there with every Boys Over Flowers' Domyouji/Goo Joon Pyo/Dao Ming Si/ Chu Yu Xun getting beaten. Go on Jun Ki, join the club of Those Who Broke Moya. You'll be in good company I assure you.
This is the bit that completely broke me and made sure I was thrashed to bits. Arang is so. so. so. so. so strong. And she keeps on seeing Eun Oh get beaten, and she keeps on yelling at him to fight but he just won't and she just canna handle that. And she starts whimpering. Just whimpering at him to fight. I don't even know how to express it in words. This is the female who lived fighting tooth and claw to survive for three years without any memory of what happened to her, without knowing the reason for her existence. She lived for 3 years on handouts for food, on one set of clothes. She went and fought with the Jade Emperor and Hades for her right to live and know of her death and her past. She's fought with enough supernatural creatures that would scare the bejeezus out of the most muscular grown men, and come out on the winning side. And she's whimpering. Maybe I'm being maudlin. But I sorta just broke.
He tells her to go, because with her around her canna concentrate fully (again, with moya goggles: love confession). She hesitates, but then she grabs Shamanie's hand and runs. She has that much faith in him~
I hate being this broken record, but Arang is definitely one of the bravest women ever. Shamanie's scream is earth-shattering. But thanks to that scream, Eun Oh finds them.
and completely loses it when he finds Arang prone in Shamanie's arms. He holds her face. I die.
The cut starts healing right under his hand (it's on the neck, eerily similar to where Nogook was cut... I suppose all baddies take bio 101), but she doesn't come to. So then this happens.
She's comes to, groggily, and questions him on what exactly he's doing to her, and he's all it's CPR~ She promises to kill him when she comes to properly, and he just grins like a big buffoon.
Here, have one more for the road. CPR my bum.
He gently tucks her in, and Shamanie questions Arang's existence (She cottoned on when Eun Oh lost it and screamed at Arang to come to her senses). How can a ghost become human? Or not human, since human don't die and then come back to life. Eun Oh tells her not to mention it to anyone, but Shamanie just tells him not to worry; "I may be a weakling and fickle-minded in appearance, but I do know how to keep my mouth shut." (So cool~ Why are all the women in here and Faith so cool~)
She wakes up to find her Saddo fast asleep beside her. Still in denial? Yes.
He wakes up and is all gruff concern, so she is gruff concern in return, so he's all gruff bluffing "Che, they barely touched me." To which she goes ok good... and then socks him one.
She had told him she wouldn't let him off and he goes butbutbut it was CPR~ and Arang goes "There's no need to do that I woulda come to in my damn good time." Ok, on one hand I admire the spunk, but on the other hand I want to shake some sense into her. Listen, when someone that hot kisses you, I'm pretty sure most other things don't matter.
And then she goes "And don't ever let rat bums like those beat you up either." Awwww~
Meanwhile, on the Brains and Brawns couple's side...
Oh, and we find out that Shamanie has a name, and a very pretty one to boot: Bang Ul Ri~
He gets her her clothes~ Marshmallow center? Deffo.
She comes out and he canna stop staring and she's all, you're bewitched by me, don't worry, I know how beautiful I am~
Secretly husband and wife alert! Secretly husband and wife alert!
Is it ok to call the Jade Emperor an adorable dork? No? Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinneee
P.S. Elvis Tsui will forever be Jade Emperor Daddy in my head~
Poor baby, no wonder you had Mommy issues... My heart bleeds for you...
So. Pretty.
And in case that was pretty overload for you, here, have some evil botox mama, popping vein et. al.
Dude. I have this sinking feeling that your teacher was The Jade Emperor. Which would explain your powers and your fan. It would also mean that you have a huge debt to pay. The sort that you have to give up your life- or something equally important- for. Oh, and before I forget... Jade Emperor is sort of Arang's Daddy (she has 2 Daddies now, Jade Daddy and Yeom Ra Daddy, since they reincarnated her into Madame Super-Not-Quite-Human, at least that's how it works out in my head), so your lie about her being your teacher's daughter is actually not a lie at all. You *do* have to take care of her. Who woulda thunk it?
They look more like a newlywed couple come in to have their fortune read than a Magistrate and his... Supernatural Partner (yes, I'm borrowing from Eun Soo and I love it) coming to solve the mystery of a dozen or so skeletons.
She wants to go with him, but he tells her it's ok, so she grabs his sleeve and tells him to be careful.
And he smiles and tells her not to worry.
What is it with these gruff warriors and them being told to be careful and for some reason that's what gets them to smile and I mean why are their smiles so adorable like who decided to make them so good and how do I get one here take my money I have lost all my sanity and coherence anyway.
Eun Oh goes to investigate, and he's THATCLOSE and then-- ending song~
Mini-Thoughts:
This may be mean, or whatever, but seeing as how his mama is Madame Evil, I want him to go to heaven with Arang.. or better yet they can both get second lives/extensions and just live on earth because I cannot handle sad endings. Last night I decided to watch the penultimate episodes (that I had skipped) of a completed show, and even though I knew the ending was amazing, I completely lost it and almost died due to excessive crying. I just cannot manage. But I want to sit through Arang, from start to finish, so I beg you writer-nims, don't break me. Any theories on happy endings welcome~ Anything welcome, basically.
But you know what's the most hurtful? When you get hit with a double whammy of the dramas that hit you outta yer damn mine (aka Faith and Arang) and you feel like your under medieval Chinese torture. I am sure if dramas had existed back then, they would have used them.
I promised myself that I would write this post about my favourite/note-worthy bits as soon as I got home from classes, and then I came home, ate, and promptly fell asleep. So now, before doing/reading/breathing anything, I am writing this.I haven't even eaten guys!!1 This is my best effort at dedication guys *waits for cheers and only hears crickets*
Ok, I get the message. On with the baby-cap~
Fight scenes! Between this and Faith, I am getting completely spoilt. And have I mentioned how awesome it is to have orchestralxtraditional musicxrap as the background music for these scenes? It's this bombshell combo, listen yourself~ MC Sniper, between this and Vampire Prosecutor, you have outdone yourself.
He paces there worrying. Still in denial I see. Gaaahhhh
Just look at the look he gives her hair ribbon. Ok, I honestly canna believe I typed a sentence like that. What in the world have you done to me Show?
He's all "DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON HER" and she has this complete trust in him, that even though he's outnumbered something like 20 to 1, and it completely doesn't matter, cos it's her Saddo, so she's all I'm fine so will you stop worrying about me and kick some rat bums please? And then some idjit pulls a knife to her throat telling Eun Oh not to move or she gets it (I swear, even centuries ago, baddies still had the same lines... like, what is it with ya'll and the lines? Is it some holy rule that you must say these lines? Get creative for once dammit), and she's still I'm fine, but then Eun Oh stops fighting.
Even though they both know that she'll only feel pain at most because of the whole immortal for two months shtick, but it'll still hurt her, and she's died so many times, and her line about not knowing how it feels to die.
So even then. He stops.
Seeing Eun Oh get beaten is right up there with every Boys Over Flowers' Domyouji/Goo Joon Pyo/Dao Ming Si/ Chu Yu Xun getting beaten. Go on Jun Ki, join the club of Those Who Broke Moya. You'll be in good company I assure you.
This is the bit that completely broke me and made sure I was thrashed to bits. Arang is so. so. so. so. so strong. And she keeps on seeing Eun Oh get beaten, and she keeps on yelling at him to fight but he just won't and she just canna handle that. And she starts whimpering. Just whimpering at him to fight. I don't even know how to express it in words. This is the female who lived fighting tooth and claw to survive for three years without any memory of what happened to her, without knowing the reason for her existence. She lived for 3 years on handouts for food, on one set of clothes. She went and fought with the Jade Emperor and Hades for her right to live and know of her death and her past. She's fought with enough supernatural creatures that would scare the bejeezus out of the most muscular grown men, and come out on the winning side. And she's whimpering. Maybe I'm being maudlin. But I sorta just broke.
He tells her to go, because with her around her canna concentrate fully (again, with moya goggles: love confession). She hesitates, but then she grabs Shamanie's hand and runs. She has that much faith in him~
I hate being this broken record, but Arang is definitely one of the bravest women ever. Shamanie's scream is earth-shattering. But thanks to that scream, Eun Oh finds them.
and completely loses it when he finds Arang prone in Shamanie's arms. He holds her face. I die.
The cut starts healing right under his hand (it's on the neck, eerily similar to where Nogook was cut... I suppose all baddies take bio 101), but she doesn't come to. So then this happens.
She's comes to, groggily, and questions him on what exactly he's doing to her, and he's all it's CPR~ She promises to kill him when she comes to properly, and he just grins like a big buffoon.
Here, have one more for the road. CPR my bum.
He gently tucks her in, and Shamanie questions Arang's existence (She cottoned on when Eun Oh lost it and screamed at Arang to come to her senses). How can a ghost become human? Or not human, since human don't die and then come back to life. Eun Oh tells her not to mention it to anyone, but Shamanie just tells him not to worry; "I may be a weakling and fickle-minded in appearance, but I do know how to keep my mouth shut." (So cool~ Why are all the women in here and Faith so cool~)
She wakes up to find her Saddo fast asleep beside her. Still in denial? Yes.
He wakes up and is all gruff concern, so she is gruff concern in return, so he's all gruff bluffing "Che, they barely touched me." To which she goes ok good... and then socks him one.
She had told him she wouldn't let him off and he goes butbutbut it was CPR~ and Arang goes "There's no need to do that I woulda come to in my damn good time." Ok, on one hand I admire the spunk, but on the other hand I want to shake some sense into her. Listen, when someone that hot kisses you, I'm pretty sure most other things don't matter.
And then she goes "And don't ever let rat bums like those beat you up either." Awwww~
Meanwhile, on the Brains and Brawns couple's side...
Oh, and we find out that Shamanie has a name, and a very pretty one to boot: Bang Ul Ri~
He gets her her clothes~ Marshmallow center? Deffo.
She comes out and he canna stop staring and she's all, you're bewitched by me, don't worry, I know how beautiful I am~
Secretly husband and wife alert! Secretly husband and wife alert!
Is it ok to call the Jade Emperor an adorable dork? No? Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinneee
P.S. Elvis Tsui will forever be Jade Emperor Daddy in my head~
Poor baby, no wonder you had Mommy issues... My heart bleeds for you...
So. Pretty.
And in case that was pretty overload for you, here, have some evil botox mama, popping vein et. al.
Dude. I have this sinking feeling that your teacher was The Jade Emperor. Which would explain your powers and your fan. It would also mean that you have a huge debt to pay. The sort that you have to give up your life- or something equally important- for. Oh, and before I forget... Jade Emperor is sort of Arang's Daddy (she has 2 Daddies now, Jade Daddy and Yeom Ra Daddy, since they reincarnated her into Madame Super-Not-Quite-Human, at least that's how it works out in my head), so your lie about her being your teacher's daughter is actually not a lie at all. You *do* have to take care of her. Who woulda thunk it?
They look more like a newlywed couple come in to have their fortune read than a Magistrate and his... Supernatural Partner (yes, I'm borrowing from Eun Soo and I love it) coming to solve the mystery of a dozen or so skeletons.
She wants to go with him, but he tells her it's ok, so she grabs his sleeve and tells him to be careful.
And he smiles and tells her not to worry.
What is it with these gruff warriors and them being told to be careful and for some reason that's what gets them to smile and I mean why are their smiles so adorable like who decided to make them so good and how do I get one here take my money I have lost all my sanity and coherence anyway.
Eun Oh goes to investigate, and he's THATCLOSE and then-- ending song~
Mini-Thoughts:
This may be mean, or whatever, but seeing as how his mama is Madame Evil, I want him to go to heaven with Arang.. or better yet they can both get second lives/extensions and just live on earth because I cannot handle sad endings. Last night I decided to watch the penultimate episodes (that I had skipped) of a completed show, and even though I knew the ending was amazing, I completely lost it and almost died due to excessive crying. I just cannot manage. But I want to sit through Arang, from start to finish, so I beg you writer-nims, don't break me. Any theories on happy endings welcome~ Anything welcome, basically.