just wondering if we might think about our wording choice and change the narrative a bit. those of us who are posting that uea attracts "those types of guys", can we try to answer the question of what uea is doing to "attract" them? those type of guys are sexual predators and are the ones doing the doing -- seeking out victims. i am sure that uea is not the only one those types guys have sought out.
I know a lot of people don’t seem to be liking this series but it’s currently the only one all week that I…
please be aware that young children who are sexually abused can become hypersexual and engage in dangerous sexual activity when they are older which i think is the case for the mc to some extent as he said that he wanted to further ruin his life... though it's easy to miss this. i think the team is walking a thin rope by not allowing any character to articulate some of these things early in the narrative. i expect and hope they address it before the series end.
i've seen a lot of bl over the years.. don't often shy away from graphic content... but the bar is so low on this one. nevermind that it watches like porn.. which i can get over... it also has really unfiltered, disturbing, and potentially retraumatizing images of sexual abuse that are not addressed appropriately in terms of processes of justice (reporting and /or healing). i lived under the exact same childhood circumstance and it bothers me that childhood abuse is used as pure entertainment so far having no commentary on it. this is what i would call irresponsible art.
I have never seen such a selfish father, like what does Cheol family have on him that his own son had to make…
i would like to take a stab at my observation regarding the father's behavior which might reduce your hatred towards his choices even if you don't agree with them. i totally went into explaining a bit much :). also, these are not my personal views just my observations. 1) the father is from an era (and also a more rural area) where there are accepted differences in station between people at the time and where wealth literally equates to human nobility and poverty equates to ignobility --the mother is forward thinking as her son said she could have been more wih education and human rights as well as individualism are a modern phenomenon -- this is why it's easy to accept being treated that way by the wealthier family. 2) the wealthy adopting into the family from within the clan was a traditional practice and makes sense considering the relationship between the two fathers even though they were not family -- obviously any mother losing her child especially to her perceived rival would be upset hence how upset dh's mom was with the situation. 3) dw's father received schooling in cw's adopted grandfather and so expresses loyalty through servitude (a traditional way of showing gratitute to your "life saver"). 4) in some ways, the father sees dh's role (traditional) as the older brother who is supposed to sacrifice to protect his younger sibling hence hitting dw for not protecting cw on the way from school and eventually relenting so that dh goes to prison for cw. it would seem, from this perspective, that the father is not being selfish but rather making the best choices based on his values and the given cirmumstances - -cw and his adopted mother exploits this for their own ambitions of course. so, the father is facing a moral dilenma between traditional values of virtue and modern values of virtue and he chooses traditional which, of course, is bringing suffering to everyone (including himself) especially because secrets are involved. i think the show is trying to portray the changing values of the period, the difference between the generations, the difference between the political elites who were shaping the social landscape, as well the difference between what was happening in rural korea and the rapid modernization of the urban areas. And, finally, how this forces shape the three protagonists aspirations, choices and actions.
Well, I wasn't expected to watch a blatant yet subliminal Christian message in this show but I got one. The older…
Wow, the more I think about the story the more it troubles me. It's definitely told from a religious colonial worldview making use of the soft power of the media. Oof.
Well, I wasn't expected to watch a blatant yet subliminal Christian message in this show but I got one. The older sister finds love in a guy but before she was able to pursue him she had to spend a night repenting then when she chooses to love with a Christian kind of love, she was soooo happy and vulnerable. The younger sister loves a guy who wears a cross around his neck and the cross takes up dominant positions in some of the shots especially when he takes that leap of faith (leaping for the hat) and starts the relationship with her. It's that Christian kind of love that they have for each other. And then there is that cross (subtle) above the words that bring hope. I don't mind Christian values, but they way it's conveyed in the story....
i have such a hard time with the costume of this season because they remind me of japan - too much cognitive dissonance. i keep getting 19th C samurai/ronin vibes. even the hairstyles remind me of that time period.
1) the father is from an era (and also a more rural area) where there are accepted differences in station between people at the time and where wealth literally equates to human nobility and poverty equates to ignobility --the mother is forward thinking as her son said she could have been more wih education and human rights as well as individualism are a modern phenomenon -- this is why it's easy to accept being treated that way by the wealthier family. 2) the wealthy adopting into the family from within the clan was a traditional practice and makes sense considering the relationship between the two fathers even though they were not family -- obviously any mother losing her child especially to her perceived rival would be upset hence how upset dh's mom was with the situation. 3) dw's father received schooling in cw's adopted grandfather and so expresses loyalty through servitude (a traditional way of showing gratitute to your "life saver"). 4) in some ways, the father sees dh's role (traditional) as the older brother who is supposed to sacrifice to protect his younger sibling hence hitting dw for not protecting cw on the way from school and eventually relenting so that dh goes to prison for cw.
it would seem, from this perspective, that the father is not being selfish but rather making the best choices based on his values and the given cirmumstances - -cw and his adopted mother exploits this for their own ambitions of course. so, the father is facing a moral dilenma between traditional values of virtue and modern values of virtue and he chooses traditional which, of course, is bringing suffering to everyone (including himself) especially because secrets are involved. i think the show is trying to portray the changing values of the period, the difference between the generations, the difference between the political elites who were shaping the social landscape, as well the difference between what was happening in rural korea and the rapid modernization of the urban areas. And, finally, how this forces shape the three protagonists aspirations, choices and actions.