I can't wait for next week's episode! KiTae's mom's story is truly heartbreaking. Her sobbing at the end of the episode really got me. I really hope that she is able to find happiness and get away from that sleazeball of a husband. I'm glad that Ki-tae and Jang-mi are sort of on the same page now.
I'm glad they are more in tune with how they feel about each other, and the more we can get away from the second leads, the better. Speaking of second leads, I know many people will feel sorry for Yeo-reum, but he really put himself in that situation.
I give him kudos for pursuing the girl and being active unlike a lot of second leads. However, he entered this relationship knowing that the girl was semi-attached and therefore couldn't be with him completely. I partly blame her for leading him on, yes, but I give her slack because of her circumstances. She was dumped humiliatingly, got dragged into a contract engagement with some guy she barely knew, and was being hit on by a hot youngster.
Her feelings were clearly confused, but Yeo-reum wasn't. So I did not like it when he was pretending he didn't know about her feelings and blaming her for not hiding her "true feelings.
Which leads me to my next gripe: Is this the only way to progress the story? There's gotta be other ways! Lastly, I felt sorry for Ki-tae's mom here. She's been kind of a controlling witch these last few episodes, so I'm happy to see a bit more depth thrown her way. I maintain the hope that she and Jang-mi will eventually have a wonderful relationship, and if they don't, it would be a seriously wasted story in this drama. Would it kill drama writers to have a heroine who has healthy relationships with both her her mom AND her mother-in-law?
I felt ep 9 was a drag for once, in this whole series , so ep 10 was very welcome for its catalystic "upswing". I am kinda of tired of them. Not his supporter, yet I also didn't see him as totally 'fake' even as in later episodes his constant smile was getting tired and irritating. And frustration for YR's constant presence as 'rescuer' - from first kiss to soup incident where he was the one hugging even as Ki Tae was frantically worrying.
Just felt that smile was his 'easy-going' way of masking all underlying issues, real and otherwise, including his won deep-seated vulnerabilities.
But while I like her kindness, gung ho spunk and totally relate to her bzbody tendencies to help and save people, I also think Jang Mi should take responsibility for her flakey partner decisions and blowing hot-cold. Afterall she is the one constantly reassuring YR that it's all fake and choosing to cosy up to him on couch in Ki Tae's living room while ostracizing Ki Tae.
Then upon realisation that Ki Tae's kisses were the real thing While I was getting increasingly annoyed with YR for his cockblocking presence and increasingly irritating grin, ep 9 changed my sympathies. What is the dude supposed to read from all that?!? And Jang Mi going to all those lengths to drag Ki Tae from cafe to office - just to hide and not talk about the fact they kissed. Isn't that some of HER doing? Kt mom is second worse for me.. The lady doesn't deserve sympathy since she has prolonged the situation for god knows how long.. The mother does water necessary to avoid it. My guess is Yeo Reum won't object as much as Ki Tae who seems way more possessive, and YR also seems at home and likely to fit a bromance I actually loved that the last straw for him wasn't the kiss remember, in an earlier episode he said it didn't matter if KT and JM had slept together.
What hurt him was seeing JM make such an emotional connection with KT. And in my youth, I was - at one time or another - on both sides of that couple where one is slowly falling for someone else, which made that 'barging in' scene particularly painful to watch. How can a show be so funny and still make cry when it hits certain notes? This show and It's Okay That's Love know exactly which heartstrings to pull at and I will probably rewatch this drama once it's over.
Words also cannot describe how much I appreciate Jang Mias a character and a person. She's not afraid to overstep certain boundaries for the good of other people and she always means well regardless of the results. I can't wait until our OTP is officially together because from what we've seen so far, they're bound to be even more adorable and precious then they already are.
Thanksssss lollypipppp here ill give you a nemo kiss. I agree with you that this show just gets better!!! I mean on ep 7 and 8 i lost a little interest bc everyone seemed flat and was just there to separate our leads but these last two eps just proved that i was wrong! We're given backgrounds of the questionable actions we saw on ep 7 and 8. I have like a thesis on this show but now i just need to. Thanks for the great recap! I noticed you didn't comment much about Hyun-Hee. For some reason, I kept feeling her character is very manipulative. I never fully trust what she's saying or her feelings toward Hoon-dong are genuine.
Every action seems calculated. Not sure if it's just me feeling that way or anyone else sharing the same feeling. I wondered about them and concluded that they probably got more uneven because of increasing exhaustion from the filming schedule.
I have uneven eyes too and hate it when they are magnified through my eyeglasses. Actually, in this episode, it looked like a lot of eyes were very strange. Thanks for the recap! I think this episode brought a lot of things to light, especially the parallels between the characters have with each other. We now know that Yeo Reum is imperfect for Jang Mi in every way, because he chose to ignore the fact that he saw her and Gi Tae falling in love and pretend that everything was okay-much like what Se Ah and mom-in-law do, and what Gi Tae and Jang Mi hate most about their previous partners.
Jang Mi doesn't want someone to overlook her action, she needs someone who acknowledges them and does something about them, because she is just emotional that way, and whereas we see that Gi Tae is now changing for the better as well, that doesn't seem to be the truth with the Se Ah or Yeo Reum. Yeo Reum also finally seems like no more than a flimsy shield that Jang Mi keeps between herself and her emotions for Gi Tae-a way for her to deflect the affection she feels for him sue to the fear that they won't be reciprocated as seen by the last seen where Jang Mi said she was happy she could finally go back to Yeo Reum, even though she now knows she really doesn't feel anything for him at all I was also really happy that for once, we see that mom-in-law finally let her emotions out,and what made me even happier was that Jang Mi was the cause of it.
I was also glad that we were finally getting rid of the are-we-getting-married-or-not plot because 1. It was getting boring and 2. Saranghae, Gi Tae and Jang Mi, and I look forward to seeing you finally confess to each other and yourself what your true feelings are! You know it's messed up when even Hyeon Hee and her baby daddy can see the sparks-especially with how oblivious the latter is. I really hope the one posting recaps are always. Either its always girlfriday or lolypip. Otherwise their comments about the show won't be constant. I notice in ep 9 girlfriday dissapointed with the show, then i read ep 10 recap lolypip is just in love with it.
I appreciate your fast recaps though. Otherwise, we will be very confuse in which side dramabeans is, the love team, or the hate team.
They said since they had so much on their plate thay they were splitting th recaps.. The recaps are very inconsistent but since we have comments from the people ot remains true..
I didn't care much for girlfriend review the other day but at least I saw everyone else's thoughts which stays constant week to week. Ooooh, I loved her review. Thought it was hilarious. The recap was wry and pithy Stylistically it was a perfect complement to her comments.