I love the way they’ve slowly made Choi Doha more deranged over the course of the drama. He starts off a bit sus and now he’s full on psycho. Wouldn’t have been fun if we knew he was this insane from the start
If after all the cases they have worked on together he doesn't see Young Woo as deserving of her position then…
Absolutely. He definitely does seem to be getting worse. But I have a little hope that his redemption will be good. And even if he does end up redeeming himself, he isn’t entitled to the forgiveness of the people he has hurt. I don’t think it’s too late for him to change for the better but it is understandably too late for him to undo any damage he has done.
Min Woo is being an asshole no doubt. However I can understand and have even been where he was. When you feel like you have been wronged, it's easy to be blind to other circumstances and only focus on what happened to you. We can see this all the time with affirmative action for marginalised communities where the group that doesn't recieve affirmative action feels like opportunities are being gifted to people who don't deserve it and only get it because of some external characteristic like gender or race. This is obviously not true but it points to a larger flaw in this type of thinking about merit and it's consequences.
That's why I also love how Suyeon calls him out for not attacking the CEO. It really exposes the myth that is the "meritocratic" society we live in. CEOs inherit companies from their parents. Most people inherit some level of capital, either through wealth or connections from their parents. At some level Min Woo understands this because he too inherited some wealth and connections from his parents albeit not as much as others so he sees this as natural. Which is why he can understand and not have a problem the CEO inheriting a company, while being annoyed that Young Woo gets treated differently because of her autism. The idea of a self made anything is a lie that we tell ourselves to justify this notion that hard work makes one deserving of anything. The truth is everyone needs help and support and individualism doesn't exist except in the heads of people like Min Woo who want to climb up and shut the door behind them.
Having been there myself I hope Min Woo can get more exposure to Young Woo and understand why she deserves to be a lawyer at Hanbada or anywhere.
The only difference between the barbarians who kidnapped Koo Ryeon and the people in the village who threw stones at her is that they were born on different sides of a wall.
I'm not making excuses for his behaviour - he's a grown ass adult now - but if you were an abused child/teenager…
I think this is very harsh on both the characters. They both had rough childhoods at home and Dong Seok was also bullied relentlessly. These things really affect a person long after they happen and while they have not handled it the perfect way I don't think villifying the for this is the right thing either. Let's just hope they are able to grow around what happened to them.
I just want them all to grow around their differences and become wholesome friends please I don't have the emotional energy for another Reflection of You 😭😭😭
Am I the only one thinking throwing YJ all the way to NY was a stretch? I’m sure there were major events happening…
Yeah exactly. And we got no warning that YJ might be sent to another country. He was just reporting non-sports news in Korea and all of a sudden he's Mr. Worldwide. It just felt like a very shoehorned way to create the conditions for their breakup. Wish they had sold it better.
Honestly the 9/11 part did not work for me. Yes it was a big moment in American history and the world does mostly revolve around America, but having that entirely uproot the life of a reporter mostly doing news in South Korea seemed a bit forced to me. I'll admit I don't completely know how things were at that time but it just ruined the immersion for me personally.
But everything else with their relationship and the trauma Yijin faces while reporting was very well written.
Just watched the finale and i straight up ugly cried for the entire last 30 minutes. It was such a beautiful ending to a show that has had so many criticisms.
I'm in the camp of people who liked it despite it becoming a sad drama instead of a fun frendship drama as promoted initially. Despite it causing me 1000 points of emotional damage i am so glad i stuck around till the end because the way they wrapped it up was incredibly good writing.
The last 30 minutes of the drama dealt with loss and grieving and yearning for a person in a way that I've not seen since the montage in the beginning of the Pixar movie Up with Carl and Ellie. There are probably a lot of things that went wrong with the drama as evident from all the reviews but right now i can't see any of that probably because I'm seeing through a pool of tears. Maybe i only love it because I love sad stuff.
Joohee makes every scene much better when she's in it. I have waited till the end and I will never forgive the writers for absolutely ignoring her. It's okay two friends to be closer in a three friend group but it's not okay to completely leave out one of your main characters. Joohee best girl!
I was a little upset about it too, especially when she told him he shouldn't have went to the blind date, though…
I think from her perspective, she sees him choosing Tae Moo over her all the time. Their relationship almost didn't start because of his loyalty to Tae Moo and she does not even know yet why Tae Moo means so much to him. She only thinks they work together. So I don't think it's too unreasonable of her to be a bit sensitive when it comes to this. But yeah I think and hope they'll resolve this by just communicating with each other better.
That's why I also love how Suyeon calls him out for not attacking the CEO. It really exposes the myth that is the "meritocratic" society we live in. CEOs inherit companies from their parents. Most people inherit some level of capital, either through wealth or connections from their parents. At some level Min Woo understands this because he too inherited some wealth and connections from his parents albeit not as much as others so he sees this as natural. Which is why he can understand and not have a problem the CEO inheriting a company, while being annoyed that Young Woo gets treated differently because of her autism. The idea of a self made anything is a lie that we tell ourselves to justify this notion that hard work makes one deserving of anything. The truth is everyone needs help and support and individualism doesn't exist except in the heads of people like Min Woo who want to climb up and shut the door behind them.
Having been there myself I hope Min Woo can get more exposure to Young Woo and understand why she deserves to be a lawyer at Hanbada or anywhere.
But everything else with their relationship and the trauma Yijin faces while reporting was very well written.
I'm in the camp of people who liked it despite it becoming a sad drama instead of a fun frendship drama as promoted initially. Despite it causing me 1000 points of emotional damage i am so glad i stuck around till the end because the way they wrapped it up was incredibly good writing.
The last 30 minutes of the drama dealt with loss and grieving and yearning for a person in a way that I've not seen since the montage in the beginning of the Pixar movie Up with Carl and Ellie. There are probably a lot of things that went wrong with the drama as evident from all the reviews but right now i can't see any of that probably because I'm seeing through a pool of tears. Maybe i only love it because I love sad stuff.
Joohee best girl!
Also side note, Taemoo sending drunk Sunghoon video to Youngseo as a bribe was such a perfect way to make those two characters interact