My Father Is Strange Episode 9

Ugh I really hope Joong Hee apologizes to…

Ugh I really hope Joong Hee apologizes to Mi Young for the way he's treating her now after he falls for her. I feel like whenever there's a chaebol/idol male lead, they always act absolutely awfully to the female lead in the first half of the show, but then all of that just kind fades away into "the past" when he falls for her, and everything is rainbows and puppies. But no! If he really likes her, he should think back on his past behavior with shame. Not just because he was terrible to the person he loves, but also because that's a terrible way to treat another human being period.I felt bad for Yoo Joo for getting pregnant (especially since they used contraception), but to be honest, I didn't feel that bad for her getting tricked by Joon Young. I guess I kind of felt like it was unwitting payback for how much she bullied and continues to bully Mi Young. I mean, seriously -- I know people are kind of awful in high school, so I would be willing to give her a grudging pass or at least give her the benefit of the doubt that she's grown up since then, but why does she still have to be so awful to Mi Young? What did Mi Young ever do to her?? Maybe we'll find that out as we go. To be honest, in a lot of family shows, you don't really know the deeper context of relationships people have with each other before we see them, so sometimes you don't know who to side with or who's being unreasonable. Like maybe a character seems unreasonable at first, but taken in the larger context of their relationship with the other person, they're reacting like that because the other person is usually the unreasonable one.

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