""(Which is something Yugyeom himself admits to in the Epilogue to Episode 2: "Whether it's from my own will or…
I've wondered the same thing.
Since Doyeon doesn't get up from her seat when Yugyeom comes into the classroom and greets him only the typical way a junior would greet a senior, it seems they're not too close yet.
Which lets me continue to theorize that Yugyeom got close to Doyeon mainly because she's friends with Sunwoo.
(And I like the little detail of her seeming to notice the way that Yugyeom looks upon Sunwoo so happily after giving him the drink.)
You didn't misremember. She has talked to Sunwoo about how much Yugyeom frustrates her, so if it's a fake relationship…
Interesting that you say that, because I've started to hope that the way the Doyeon-Sunwoo-Yugyeom triangle gets resolved is that she goes on that scouting assignment with that other guy and ends up liking him.
In that earlier scene where Yugyeom tells the other guy that they're in a relationship, I got the feeling that he was doing it as a favor for Doyeon, perhaps because the other guy was flirting with her too much.
Sunwoo seems to have been on Yugyeom's radar from the beginning. I even wonder if Yugyeom first got close to Doyeon because he saw that she was Sunwoo's friend.
During the Freshman Orientation in Episode 1, you can see Yugyeom watching in the background as Sunwoo shows up late, and then you can see him watching again as Sunwoo gets his face painted (for the loss of a game that Sunwoo wasn't even involved in!)
Yugyeom later tries to force an interaction when he purposely misspells Sunwoo's name on the name tag, but Sunwoo is too averse to conflict to get draw in by that.
But then there's the Epilogue of Episode 1, which also takes place during the Freshman Orientation, where Yugyeom approaches Sunwoo as he's trying to make a purchase at the vending machine.
Yugyeom finally gets the interaction he wants. He pays for Sunwoo's drink and in the process notes the choice that Sunwoo made. Then, a full year later, he remembers that choice enough to know which drink to buy and "accidentally" leave for Sunwoo at the convenience store on the night of the back-to-school party. I don't know about you, but after a year's time I'd be able to recall that kind of detail only if the person had been on my mind almost constantly.
(Which is something Yugyeom himself admits to in the Epilogue to Episode 2: "Whether it's from my own will or not, I'm so attracted that I can't stop thinking about it.... What brought him to me wasn't magic, but rather my subconscious will.")
We eventually see Yugyeom stalking Sunwoo to take pictures and video, but for me the real eyebrow-raiser is when Yugyeom is ready to skip Doyeon's birthday party (that's some kind of boyfriend Doyeon's got there) but changes his mind (and ditches the guys at the group blind date) when he realizes Sunwoo is there, because Sunwoo texted him about it.
(iQIYI's subtitle shows Sunwoo's text as "Why r u not here?" ... cute, huh.)
When Yugyeom gets to the restaurant he makes a momentous choice between the drunk Doyeon and the drunk Sunwoo, which of course marks the start of a new phase between him and Sunwoo.
Yugyeom is manipulative, and this is a definite yellow flag. After he spends that first night sleeping next to the drunk Sunwoo, he tells Sunwoo that he didn't leave because he'd also been drinking -- which isn't true. And did he really need a model to pose for him for a photography assignment?
In Episode 6, after Sunwoo keeps giving Yugyeom the failed-confession brush-off, Yugyeom decides to treat the entire Directing class to drinks as a ploy to get Sunwoo to show up to participate. It's a lot of trouble to go to, but it doesn't work. As soon as Yugyeom realizes that Sunwoo won't be coming he runs off to find him. (Btw, I think Sunwoo was lying about having to work.)
So, yes, Yugyeom is manipulative, but I sense that it comes from a good place. I think that deep down Yugyeom is lonely and afraid. He needs to experience a cathartic moment where he is honest with Sunwoo and himself, and the preview for next week -- where we see Yugyeom in tears as he talks to Sunwoo -- makes me hope we'll get that before the series ends.
I'm a little confused about the latest episode.. I thought Yoo Kyeom was dating Doyeon, didn't they confirm that…
You didn't misremember. She has talked to Sunwoo about how much Yugyeom frustrates her, so if it's a fake relationship it would seem to be fake only from his end.
Their status is clearly up in the air, though. He has yet to have her with him at any of the social events we've seen. He even skipped her birthday party without telling her what other plans he had ... which was a group blind date involving other girls!
When Yugyeom told the Student Council member to scout event locations with Doyeon while he does other stuff, the council member also seemed pretty confused.
In Episode 5, when Yiwon is walking away from Jioh, Jioh calls after him and adds "ah" at the end of his name: "Yi-won-AH".
Yiwon then stops in his tracks and says to himself, "Did he always call me that?"
In Korean, the particle "ah" is added to the end of someone's name when trying to get their attention, but more importantly it also signifies closeness, like when you're calling out to a family member or close friend.
(A person in authority can also use it, so the professor in the acting class addresses Yiwon as "Yiwon-ah".)
Before that moment with Jioh in Episode 5, however, in regular conversation Jioh would almost always call Yiwon simply by his name "Yiwon".
There were a couple other times Jioh used "Yiwon-ah", but they were more in a taunting mode, like when he interrupted while Yiwon was begging their professor to let him switch partners in acting class.
Jioh said, "Let's go, Yiwon-ah. You know I'm taking the class because of you, right?" This was for the professor's benefit, to make her think they were closer than they were.
He would also do it to mock him in a way, like when he said, "Yiwon-ah, you're not curious about me anymore?"
Otherwise, most of the time when they were alone and having one of their confrontations Jioh would simply use "Yiwon": "Jung Yiwon, just act at your own pace."
Or when Jioh was pissed because Yiwon got the stuffed animal that he wanted from the claw game.
In that moment in Episode 5, Jioh is using "ah" sincerely for the first time.
(I noticed that Max and Nat also speak to Yiwon using "Yiwon-ah".)
I'm still dying at Kim Ji Oh putting on glasses WITH NO LENS, to see. One thing I'll give the first couple, they're…
In Sunwoo's defense, I think at the end of Episode Six he wasn't drunk, he was sleepy.
As for the convos that go nowhere, make sure you're not watching on Viki. The subs there are terrible. iQIYI's are much better and in that regard are often very different from the translations that the Viki subbers provide.
but doesnt Yoo Kyeom have a girlfriend? 🤨 or did they break up (off-screen lol) already? 🤨 or not? 🤨…
Right. Another question is why would Sunwoo be saying "I like you" to the very guy that his close friend Doyeon wants to date. Twice now, Doyeon has confided to Sunwoo about how troubled she is over Yugyeom and their true status as a couple.
Is she simply deluding herself? We hardly ever see them together, and in Episode One when Yugyeom told that other classmate that he and Doyeon were dating, I got the sense that Doyeon had put him up to it as a way to get the classmate to stop flirting with her.
This love triangle needs to be resolved before the end of the series, otherwise any victory putting Yugyeom and Sunwoo together will seem hollow.
I'm hoping that Doyeon will end up liking the Student Council President who's going with her to scout film locations. (That guy's reaction to them was pretty funny in itself. You could practically hear him wondering if those two could possibly be dating for real.)
I think Yiwon is hiding a buff bod under those t-shirts. In Episode Six the rolled-up sleeves of his yellow tee deserve special mention for giving us a good look at those beefy biceps.
That's a long "movie" for them to Netflix and Chill to. (Although I know they didn't Netflix and Chill. That will come later!)
Maybe they were watching the Saifah-Zon BL Cut, which it happens YouTube suggested to me just yesterday. It's five hours long, so it would be feasible to watch the whole thing in one evening.
He's so good with looking hostile and sinister for the first few episodes that I started to wonder how a viewer could start to identify with this guy. But then there's the period where he looks hurt after realizing Yiwon's interest in Yoori, then the period where he's a bit smitten as Yiwon takes Sunwoo's advice and starts acting sweet with him.
Finally there's that freezeframe at the end of in Episode 4 after he comments about accidentally falling in love. He's clearly done for, and you're right, from there on he's very attractive in his puppy mode. That smile after Yiwon followed him on Instagram just killed me.
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I mean seriously, flashing back to dialog that happened only seconds earlier ... They must think viewers have the attention span of a flea.
Since Doyeon doesn't get up from her seat when Yugyeom comes into the classroom and greets him only the typical way a junior would greet a senior, it seems they're not too close yet.
Which lets me continue to theorize that Yugyeom got close to Doyeon mainly because she's friends with Sunwoo.
(And I like the little detail of her seeming to notice the way that Yugyeom looks upon Sunwoo so happily after giving him the drink.)
In that earlier scene where Yugyeom tells the other guy that they're in a relationship, I got the feeling that he was doing it as a favor for Doyeon, perhaps because the other guy was flirting with her too much.
During the Freshman Orientation in Episode 1, you can see Yugyeom watching in the background as Sunwoo shows up late, and then you can see him watching again as Sunwoo gets his face painted (for the loss of a game that Sunwoo wasn't even involved in!)
Yugyeom later tries to force an interaction when he purposely misspells Sunwoo's name on the name tag, but Sunwoo is too averse to conflict to get draw in by that.
But then there's the Epilogue of Episode 1, which also takes place during the Freshman Orientation, where Yugyeom approaches Sunwoo as he's trying to make a purchase at the vending machine.
Yugyeom finally gets the interaction he wants. He pays for Sunwoo's drink and in the process notes the choice that Sunwoo made. Then, a full year later, he remembers that choice enough to know which drink to buy and "accidentally" leave for Sunwoo at the convenience store on the night of the back-to-school party. I don't know about you, but after a year's time I'd be able to recall that kind of detail only if the person had been on my mind almost constantly.
(Which is something Yugyeom himself admits to in the Epilogue to Episode 2: "Whether it's from my own will or not, I'm so attracted that I can't stop thinking about it.... What brought him to me wasn't magic, but rather my subconscious will.")
We eventually see Yugyeom stalking Sunwoo to take pictures and video, but for me the real eyebrow-raiser is when Yugyeom is ready to skip Doyeon's birthday party (that's some kind of boyfriend Doyeon's got there) but changes his mind (and ditches the guys at the group blind date) when he realizes Sunwoo is there, because Sunwoo texted him about it.
(iQIYI's subtitle shows Sunwoo's text as "Why r u not here?" ... cute, huh.)
When Yugyeom gets to the restaurant he makes a momentous choice between the drunk Doyeon and the drunk Sunwoo, which of course marks the start of a new phase between him and Sunwoo.
Yugyeom is manipulative, and this is a definite yellow flag. After he spends that first night sleeping next to the drunk Sunwoo, he tells Sunwoo that he didn't leave because he'd also been drinking -- which isn't true. And did he really need a model to pose for him for a photography assignment?
In Episode 6, after Sunwoo keeps giving Yugyeom the failed-confession brush-off, Yugyeom decides to treat the entire Directing class to drinks as a ploy to get Sunwoo to show up to participate. It's a lot of trouble to go to, but it doesn't work. As soon as Yugyeom realizes that Sunwoo won't be coming he runs off to find him. (Btw, I think Sunwoo was lying about having to work.)
So, yes, Yugyeom is manipulative, but I sense that it comes from a good place. I think that deep down Yugyeom is lonely and afraid. He needs to experience a cathartic moment where he is honest with Sunwoo and himself, and the preview for next week -- where we see Yugyeom in tears as he talks to Sunwoo -- makes me hope we'll get that before the series ends.
Their status is clearly up in the air, though. He has yet to have her with him at any of the social events we've seen. He even skipped her birthday party without telling her what other plans he had ... which was a group blind date involving other girls!
When Yugyeom told the Student Council member to scout event locations with Doyeon while he does other stuff, the council member also seemed pretty confused.
(The sound is different from "ah" because Jioh's name ends with a vowel sound.)
In Episode 5, when Yiwon is walking away from Jioh, Jioh calls after him and adds "ah" at the end of his name: "Yi-won-AH".
Yiwon then stops in his tracks and says to himself, "Did he always call me that?"
In Korean, the particle "ah" is added to the end of someone's name when trying to get their attention, but more importantly it also signifies closeness, like when you're calling out to a family member or close friend.
(A person in authority can also use it, so the professor in the acting class addresses Yiwon as "Yiwon-ah".)
Before that moment with Jioh in Episode 5, however, in regular conversation Jioh would almost always call Yiwon simply by his name "Yiwon".
There were a couple other times Jioh used "Yiwon-ah", but they were more in a taunting mode, like when he interrupted while Yiwon was begging their professor to let him switch partners in acting class.
Jioh said, "Let's go, Yiwon-ah. You know I'm taking the class because of you, right?" This was for the professor's benefit, to make her think they were closer than they were.
He would also do it to mock him in a way, like when he said, "Yiwon-ah, you're not curious about me anymore?"
Otherwise, most of the time when they were alone and having one of their confrontations Jioh would simply use "Yiwon": "Jung Yiwon, just act at your own pace."
Or when Jioh was pissed because Yiwon got the stuffed animal that he wanted from the claw game.
In that moment in Episode 5, Jioh is using "ah" sincerely for the first time.
(I noticed that Max and Nat also speak to Yiwon using "Yiwon-ah".)
As for the convos that go nowhere, make sure you're not watching on Viki. The subs there are terrible. iQIYI's are much better and in that regard are often very different from the translations that the Viki subbers provide.
Is she simply deluding herself? We hardly ever see them together, and in Episode One when Yugyeom told that other classmate that he and Doyeon were dating, I got the sense that Doyeon had put him up to it as a way to get the classmate to stop flirting with her.
This love triangle needs to be resolved before the end of the series, otherwise any victory putting Yugyeom and Sunwoo together will seem hollow.
I'm hoping that Doyeon will end up liking the Student Council President who's going with her to scout film locations. (That guy's reaction to them was pretty funny in itself. You could practically hear him wondering if those two could possibly be dating for real.)
Maybe they were watching the Saifah-Zon BL Cut, which it happens YouTube suggested to me just yesterday. It's five hours long, so it would be feasible to watch the whole thing in one evening.
He's so good with looking hostile and sinister for the first few episodes that I started to wonder how a viewer could start to identify with this guy. But then there's the period where he looks hurt after realizing Yiwon's interest in Yoori, then the period where he's a bit smitten as Yiwon takes Sunwoo's advice and starts acting sweet with him.
Finally there's that freezeframe at the end of in Episode 4 after he comments about accidentally falling in love. He's clearly done for, and you're right, from there on he's very attractive in his puppy mode. That smile after Yiwon followed him on Instagram just killed me.
Although I think a "2.0" might be a little generous. :)