So I saw in the cast list: FL's fiancee, the state councilor's son, is Han Seong On and he is also ML Yi Hwan's best friend. Bruh, another palace love triangle???
What a short reunion!!! Also... Wu Xin: "Wu Jie, protect him [Xiao Se] on the way to the celestial mountain!" Si Kong Qian Luo: "Why did you only tell Lei Wu Jie that? What about me?" Me: Because there is no need for romance in this drama, damn it!
do you think Kat is also involved in this? planning with Pat without the others knowing? I mean her scream (when found he is dead) is very lame. She is the one who said Pat is not breathing. I mean, if I were her I would be panic.
Just commenting: " I initially thought Jang Uk and Jin Bu Yun will take a while to meet but they met right away and ended up “getting married” right away. Anticlimactic, it was." Not anticlimatic, Hong Sister just wanted to insert that boring ol' trope of arranged/contract marriage. The same with the other boring ol' trope: amnesia...
I hope you won't mind my comment but I'd like to comment on a few points you made.I feel like calling Beom Seok…
Thanks for your critics. Let me explain:
Beom Seok and "nutcase" I'm quite surprised you think that term is too insensitive. I'm actually expecting there would be reader comments stating that I'm too soft or sympathizing with Beom Seok's character. I watched and started writing about WHC1 a few days after it was released (8 episodes in one go). Before and during the process, I read all comments and reviews to get other viewers' POVs and some ideas for my articles. Most of them were very negative and harsh towards this character and many were angry when the drama shifted focus to him and his story. To summarize them: Beom Seok, go to hell. While a few feel sorry for Beom Seok and can understand his deeds, I chose to remain neutral by giving the readers my opinion taking from development psychology theory.
Shi Eun and "psycho" Do you know that Soo Ho once called him "psycho" too? It's a joke. A few comments also stated that Shi Eun needs psychological therapy/counseling. What he did when facing his bullies can give the impression to viewers that Shi Eun may have a mental health issue. But I beg to differ. That's why I put it as a question on the last GIF to give readers/audiences another impression that Shi Eun has pretended all along
The drama's dialogues actually have a lot of curse words that you regard as insensitive. And if you read the Webtoon, there are more curses and crude words. The dialogue in the drama is already toned down.
Elegy. I wrote in the article "In broad terms, impersonally elegy is a piece of literature to express grief over some aspect of contemporary life. In this article's case: youth fragility." It's a figurative word. Think about the Kdrama Hymn of Death or Cdrama The Long Ballad. The elegy/lamentation is not about the brutality and violence of the story. It's about the fragility of youth.
I hope the explanations help clarify my intentions.
Great article!I personally think Shi Eun did understand Beom Seok (in that gif where he asks why he did that to…
I agree with you, and your comment doesn't sound like a stretch.
Besides math as his favorite subject, Shi Eun also loves psychology and applies science, especially when facing bullies (the clicking pen, etc). Although he seems apathetic and detached, he is actually observant and later becomes thoughtful once he befriends the other characters. So the same like you, I also believe to a certain degree he understood Beom Seok's personality. It started when Beom Seok freaked out seeing his former bullies at the karaoke, Shi Eun already sensed something happened to him. When the latter went to the bar with the bullies and the next day smoked with them, Shi Eun also asked Beom Seok first what was wrong before threatening the bullies and discussing it with Soo Ho. Were he not caring about Beom Seok, he probably would just not say anything or just talked to Soo Ho.
I love that WHC1, despite seeming like just an action youth drama with lots of fights and cursing, it's very deep in portraying the characters and the coming-of-age environment.
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Wu Xin: "Wu Jie, protect him [Xiao Se] on the way to the celestial mountain!"
Si Kong Qian Luo: "Why did you only tell Lei Wu Jie that? What about me?"
Me: Because there is no need for romance in this drama, damn it!
Not anticlimatic, Hong Sister just wanted to insert that boring ol' trope of arranged/contract marriage. The same with the other boring ol' trope: amnesia...
Beom Seok and "nutcase"
I'm quite surprised you think that term is too insensitive. I'm actually expecting there would be reader comments stating that I'm too soft or sympathizing with Beom Seok's character.
I watched and started writing about WHC1 a few days after it was released (8 episodes in one go). Before and during the process, I read all comments and reviews to get other viewers' POVs and some ideas for my articles. Most of them were very negative and harsh towards this character and many were angry when the drama shifted focus to him and his story. To summarize them: Beom Seok, go to hell.
While a few feel sorry for Beom Seok and can understand his deeds, I chose to remain neutral by giving the readers my opinion taking from development psychology theory.
Shi Eun and "psycho"
Do you know that Soo Ho once called him "psycho" too? It's a joke.
A few comments also stated that Shi Eun needs psychological therapy/counseling. What he did when facing his bullies can give the impression to viewers that Shi Eun may have a mental health issue. But I beg to differ. That's why I put it as a question on the last GIF to give readers/audiences another impression that Shi Eun has pretended all along
The drama's dialogues actually have a lot of curse words that you regard as insensitive. And if you read the Webtoon, there are more curses and crude words. The dialogue in the drama is already toned down.
Elegy.
I wrote in the article "In broad terms, impersonally elegy is a piece of literature to express grief over some aspect of contemporary life. In this article's case: youth fragility."
It's a figurative word. Think about the Kdrama Hymn of Death or Cdrama The Long Ballad.
The elegy/lamentation is not about the brutality and violence of the story. It's about the fragility of youth.
I hope the explanations help clarify my intentions.
FL [smh]: "It's horrible"
Is that foreshadowing?
Besides math as his favorite subject, Shi Eun also loves psychology and applies science, especially when facing bullies (the clicking pen, etc). Although he seems apathetic and detached, he is actually observant and later becomes thoughtful once he befriends the other characters. So the same like you, I also believe to a certain degree he understood Beom Seok's personality. It started when Beom Seok freaked out seeing his former bullies at the karaoke, Shi Eun already sensed something happened to him. When the latter went to the bar with the bullies and the next day smoked with them, Shi Eun also asked Beom Seok first what was wrong before threatening the bullies and discussing it with Soo Ho. Were he not caring about Beom Seok, he probably would just not say anything or just talked to Soo Ho.
I love that WHC1, despite seeming like just an action youth drama with lots of fights and cursing, it's very deep in portraying the characters and the coming-of-age environment.