Being new to posting I'm not sure if my comment constitutes as a spoiler so will play it safe.
My observation from Ep.2: I think Kim Mi So has the same "phobia" as Lee Young Joon in that she doesn't liked to be touched. I noticed x2 in the episode that she pulled away when touched, firstly on the upper arm by jealous "girlfriend" (@ 6.40 min) and 2nd time I can't remember when during the episode but I think it was on the street outside her apartment and the person leaving was holding her wrist and Mi So gently removed the person's hand without breaking her rhythm of dialogue.....or maybe it's nothing at all.
1. Han Yang’s “withdrawal” (i.e. being Looney) isn’t actually withdrawal, it’s a conscious affectation.…
femmedesneiges Thanks for your well thought out dissection of Han Yang's character. 1. For me I was becoming frustrated with why was he continuously picking fights and what you said (for me ) was spot on and makes perfect sense. Maybe picking fights therefore resulting in being kicked around continually was like a drug to him as well since he had low or no self-esteem at all. He obviously thought he deserved being kicked around as it was a continuation of his childhood.
2 & 3. good interpretation as well...liked it!
4. Still thinking about that ending, didn't like it as it was left unfinished for me. My initial thought was the minute he stepped out of the prison gates he knew where he was heading...to seek out what it was he went cold turkey for...drugs, especially since he didn't want anyone to meet him when he walked free of he prison. I think Min Chul, in Ep.15, said something about drug addicts finding it difficult to get off the drugs (or something to that effect). All I could see, sadly, was "dead man walking".
Bloody great show…loved it from the first scene to the final scene.
I’m not Asian and my first and only language is English so I watch all Asian shows with subtitles. Because of my non-Asian background it has taken me a long time to come to grips with some of the Korean culture (not initially when first starting out watching Kdramas but slowly developed the more shows I watched) and I was on the verge of taking a break from watching Korean shows only.
Sometimes once in a while a show comes along that is perfect and this one was it for me. I don’t know anything about the genre of Writing but what made this drama perfect for me was the exceptional writing and finding the right actors to speak the written dialogue. The dialogue wasn’t complicated, flowed effortlessly and was easy to understand (for me). I believe every actor gave 110%, they were right for their roles.
There were a few faces I recognised (yummy Jung Kyung Ho who was in one of the very first Kdramas I watched and started me on the road to my addiction to Asian dramas) and it was a joy to watch Jung Woong In play a decent, empathetic character for a change … oh and also Sung Dong ll who I just finished watching in a re-watch of It’s Okay It’s Love.
And of course, with many other commenters, Lee Kyu Hyung (Looney) was the stand-out character for me and this role will certainly IMO catapult him into mainstream popularity, 12 years after his debut. Funny, that’s how some careers go, you do the hard yards for many years and then a role comes along and KAPOW you’re off (I’m thinking Sally Field here with many thinking that she’d always be just The Flying Nun and then KAPOW the right role came along “Places of the Heart” and she hasn’t looked back especially with 2 Academy Awards under her belt).
Good luck Lee Kyu Hyung with your future endeavours.
Lee Kyu Hyung “This actor was a nobody for 12 years, but his life changed after one drama. The public is falling in love with him”. (koreaboo.com) “A man of a thousand faces”. (sg.news.yahoo.com)
Well, I’ve rabbited on for long enough but can I say here I think that Asian actors run rings around their English speaking Caucasian counterparts.
My observation from Ep.2:
I think Kim Mi So has the same "phobia" as Lee Young Joon in that she doesn't liked to be touched. I noticed x2 in the episode that she pulled away when touched, firstly on the upper arm by jealous "girlfriend" (@ 6.40 min) and 2nd time I can't remember when during the episode but I think it was on the street outside her apartment and the person leaving was holding her wrist and Mi So gently removed the person's hand without breaking her rhythm of dialogue.....or maybe it's nothing at all.
Thanks for your well thought out dissection of Han Yang's character.
1. For me I was becoming frustrated with why was he continuously picking fights and what you said (for me ) was spot on and makes perfect sense. Maybe picking fights therefore resulting in being kicked around continually was like a drug to him as well since he had low or no self-esteem at all. He obviously thought he deserved being kicked around as it was a continuation of his childhood.
2 & 3. good interpretation as well...liked it!
4. Still thinking about that ending, didn't like it as it was left unfinished for me. My initial thought was the minute he stepped out of the prison gates he knew where he was heading...to seek out what it was he went cold turkey for...drugs, especially since he didn't want anyone to meet him when he walked free of he prison. I think Min Chul, in Ep.15, said something about drug addicts finding it difficult to get off the drugs (or something to that effect). All I could see, sadly, was "dead man walking".
I’m not Asian and my first and only language is English so I watch all Asian shows with subtitles. Because of my non-Asian background it has taken me a long time to come to grips with some of the Korean culture (not initially when first starting out watching Kdramas but slowly developed the more shows I watched) and I was on the verge of taking a break from watching Korean shows only.
Sometimes once in a while a show comes along that is perfect and this one was it for me. I don’t know anything about the genre of Writing but what made this drama perfect for me was the exceptional writing and finding the right actors to speak the written dialogue. The dialogue wasn’t complicated, flowed effortlessly and was easy to understand (for me). I believe every actor gave 110%, they were right for their roles.
There were a few faces I recognised (yummy Jung Kyung Ho who was in one of the very first Kdramas I watched and started me on the road to my addiction to Asian dramas) and it was a joy to watch Jung Woong In play a decent, empathetic character for a change … oh and also Sung Dong ll who I just finished watching in a re-watch of It’s Okay It’s Love.
And of course, with many other commenters, Lee Kyu Hyung (Looney) was the stand-out character for me and this role will certainly IMO catapult him into mainstream popularity, 12 years after his debut.
Funny, that’s how some careers go, you do the hard yards for many years and then a role comes along and KAPOW you’re off (I’m thinking Sally Field here with many thinking that she’d always be just The Flying Nun and then KAPOW the right role came along “Places of the Heart” and she hasn’t looked back especially with 2 Academy Awards under her belt).
Good luck Lee Kyu Hyung with your future endeavours.
Lee Kyu Hyung
“This actor was a nobody for 12 years, but his life changed after one drama. The public is falling in love with him”. (koreaboo.com)
“A man of a thousand faces”. (sg.news.yahoo.com)
Well, I’ve rabbited on for long enough but can I say here I think that Asian actors run rings around their English speaking Caucasian counterparts.
Thanks for listening...cheers!