I agree with most of what you said.However, "The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure…
I think she had him call her aunt as she was going to assume the role of a concubine and as such, it was the role of the main wife to become the mother of the children of the household.
She told her son to call her aunt but added that the main wife would now be his mother.
I think she did that to ensure that her son would have a more secure life. She lost her daughter because of poverty and now her son akso wanted to hustle to ensure they'd survive. By living in this house as the concubine and having her son become one of the son of the family, it's possible she wanted him to become one of the heirs. She couldn't foresee that her son would resent the situation so much that he'd end up running away. She might also have thought that boys would be boys and the bullying wasn't so bad. I don't think bullying was a thing at the time.
Yeah, she's a piece of work. Despite being a sweet faced old lady. She heaped abuse and neglect on her son's head…
I remember how -during one of the previous episodes- OD tried to interact with DS and he literally exploded.
I think that she simply doesn't know how to deal with him anymore. He ran away and forsake her more than 20 years ago and even before that, their relationship had been in tatters for years as he gradually lost respect for his mother and grew resentful.
It's true that he doesn't owe anything to his mother but at least, it might be a way for him to finally make peace with the situation.
Also, his mother seems like a woman on a mission. I wonder if the fact that she wants him to accompany her to the memorial is so that she will be able to see her plan to secure her child's future into fruition-if an inheritance is indeed involved. Maybe it will be a way for her to finally open up to her child about the reasons she acted like this at the time or it might be a way for her to help DS to finally make peace with the situation and let go of the burden of all that resentment or hurt.
The step-brothers are scum but it might not have been easy for them to have a woma n come into their house and take up their sick mother's side of the bed. And it might have been easier to handle their father's death by rationalising it was all DS's fault as they had always made him the scapegoat.
Yeah, she's a piece of work. Despite being a sweet faced old lady. She heaped abuse and neglect on her son's head…
We have to take into account the generational Gap between the mother and the son. She didn't live during a time when people shared their thoughts and hardships with their kids.
Even to this day, some parents don't understand each other because of generational or cultural gap. The parents don't k ow how to communicate their love to their children and still think that providing for them is showing their love.
That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.
The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter. That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.
She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.
She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.
I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.
We have to take into account the generational Gap between the mother and the son. She didn't live during a time when people shared their thoughts and hardships with their kids.
That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.
The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter. That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.
She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.
She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.
I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.
It's not the kind of drama you watch waiting for something to happen. It's much more introspective and about people…
I won't spoil you as you're only 3 episodes in but there is movement in this drama.
It's not in your face though. As it's about changes that are being operated within the characters and the change in dynamics it subsequently has in their relationships. Hence the title "My Liberation Notes".
The characters are seeking to liberate themselves from the stillness of their lives but also from the rigidity of the Korean society. Each of then has a different journey.
To illustrate how good this drama is, Our Blues was much more popular from the get go but people began watching MLN and liking it more (in the sense that they liked discussing the episodes) It generated much talk and the actors and the drama where the most buzzworthy for 3 to 4 consecutive weeks.
When you finish watching episodes and if you have time, go on Reddit and read some of the discussions people had about the drama. It's very thought provoking.
I won't spoil you as you're only 3 episodes in but there is movement in this drama.
It's not in your face though. As it's about changes that are being operated within the characters and the change in dynamics it subsequently has in their relationships. Hence the title "My Liberation Notes".
The characters are seeking to liberate themselves from the stillness of their lives but also from the rigidity of the Korean society. Each of then has a different journey.
To illustrate how good this drama is, Our Blues was much more popular from the get go but people began watching MLN and liking it more (in the sense that they liked discussing the episodes) It generated much talk and the actors and the drama where the most buzzworthy for 3 to 4 consecutive weeks.
When you finish watching episodes and if you have time, go on Reddit and read some of the discussions people had about the drama. It's very thought provoking.
Yeah, she's a piece of work. Despite being a sweet faced old lady. She heaped abuse and neglect on her son's head…
It doesn't seem to me she had many choices in life. Being a live-in mistress cum nurse ensured she could have a roof over hers and her son's head and they could could eat at their will.
Let's not forget that she was a widow who also lost her older daughter -who brought home some income. Remember how DS mentioned he threw his pee at his sister the day before her death because she had eaten everything so quickly and he was still hungry ?
Living in this island at that time wouldn't have been easy eapecially for a woman alone and worse if she had a lid to take care of.
wow i really dislike their mom, no wonder junyoung thinks the world revolves around her.. does no one in this…
This ! They're so damn selfish! Also what happened was an accident, the sister is as responsible regarding for me. She was consentant and made the conscious choice to cover for FL when she thought her injury wasn't too bad. She only grew resentful when she was told she wouldn't be able to play at pro level anymore.
She really self-centered!
Don't get me started on the mother whi jas an unhealthy obsessiin for her daughter to the point she made her the golden child. I think she has some nerves demanding ML leaves his gf because his sister would have a hard time handling it.
ML is being too nice! I would have told then to mind their own business. When the mother chose to care more about the sister, she forfeited the right to make demands on her son's life and when the sister chose to not to follow the rules and go play with her teammate instead of staying put, she took on the responsibility of what would happen to her. It's not even as if FL took the choice out of her because she had become unconscious or something. She lied right alongside FL at the time.
It's a solid 8.5 for me because ML was awesone, story was epic and entertaining and the production value was very good.
It could have been higher if not for FL, SML and SFL.
FL should have woken up earlier imo. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent, cultivated, empathetic and nice, she was too biaised toward ML even when she knew he endangered himself time and again to save her. Even when he changed from the arrogant heir of the Xiao family to a responsible commander...
She was always talking about trust but she never once gave him the benefit of the doubt when it's what he always did with her. She demanded trust but never did anything to deserve it and couldn't trust her own husband over what other people were doing. She facilitated people coming between them imo.
SML could have been better imo. I think his role would have been more impactful if he'd turned rogue after having been kicked out of YMCA. Instead, we are make to see him work for the japanese because they are holding his mother hostage. For me, this guy wasn't as interested in his counties freedom from the corrupts as we were made to believe. We more than once witnessed him putting his obession for FL and one-sided rivalry with ML over his missions. The way I see him, he was someone who couldn't be faithful. He worked with the revolutionaries because it suited his situation (a young lord from a fallen family who resented having nothing to his name when he used to come from upper society), he worked for the warlord (he liked prancing around with his borrowed power to try and one up ML) and finaly for yhe japanese (because he wanted to fuck over ML even if it meant working for those who were harming the country he claimed he wanted to protect).
SFL is one character I disliked because she was useless. Her little shenanigans were okayish at first but when she turned to the Japanese after losing everything, she was just THERE. It's at the very end that we get to see what was her role in the japanese plan and it wasn't so great. I feel that for someone who was crazy in love for ML, her love turned to hate and that's all. She wanted to destroy him at all cost when she used to claim she couldn't live without him. I feel it would have been interesting if her character was the one who killed the japanese to save ML at one point because though she hates him, she can only remember the times she loved him.
For me SML is the one who should have had a pathetic death without the FL shedding a tear for him. He should even have had a pathetic, lonely and anonymous end in the chaos because that's how pathetic he was for me.
She told her son to call her aunt but added that the main wife would now be his mother.
I think she did that to ensure that her son would have a more secure life. She lost her daughter because of poverty and now her son akso wanted to hustle to ensure they'd survive. By living in this house as the concubine and having her son become one of the son of the family, it's possible she wanted him to become one of the heirs.
She couldn't foresee that her son would resent the situation so much that he'd end up running away. She might also have thought that boys would be boys and the bullying wasn't so bad. I don't think bullying was a thing at the time.
I think that she simply doesn't know how to deal with him anymore. He ran away and forsake her more than 20 years ago and even before that, their relationship had been in tatters for years as he gradually lost respect for his mother and grew resentful.
It's true that he doesn't owe anything to his mother but at least, it might be a way for him to finally make peace with the situation.
Also, his mother seems like a woman on a mission. I wonder if the fact that she wants him to accompany her to the memorial is so that she will be able to see her plan to secure her child's future into fruition-if an inheritance is indeed involved.
Maybe it will be a way for her to finally open up to her child about the reasons she acted like this at the time or it might be a way for her to help DS to finally make peace with the situation and let go of the burden of all that resentment or hurt.
The step-brothers are scum but it might not have been easy for them to have a woma n come into their house and take up their sick mother's side of the bed. And it might have been easier to handle their father's death by rationalising it was all DS's fault as they had always made him the scapegoat.
I wonder how their meeting will play out.
Even to this day, some parents don't understand each other because of generational or cultural gap. The parents don't k ow how to communicate their love to their children and still think that providing for them is showing their love.
That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.
The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter.
That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.
She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.
She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.
I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.
That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.
The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter.
That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.
She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.
She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.
I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.
It's not in your face though. As it's about changes that are being operated within the characters and the change in dynamics it subsequently has in their relationships. Hence the title "My Liberation Notes".
The characters are seeking to liberate themselves from the stillness of their lives but also from the rigidity of the Korean society. Each of then has a different journey.
To illustrate how good this drama is, Our Blues was much more popular from the get go but people began watching MLN and liking it more (in the sense that they liked discussing the episodes)
It generated much talk and the actors and the drama where the most buzzworthy for 3 to 4 consecutive weeks.
When you finish watching episodes and if you have time, go on Reddit and read some of the discussions people had about the drama. It's very thought provoking.
It's not in your face though. As it's about changes that are being operated within the characters and the change in dynamics it subsequently has in their relationships. Hence the title "My Liberation Notes".
The characters are seeking to liberate themselves from the stillness of their lives but also from the rigidity of the Korean society. Each of then has a different journey.
To illustrate how good this drama is, Our Blues was much more popular from the get go but people began watching MLN and liking it more (in the sense that they liked discussing the episodes)
It generated much talk and the actors and the drama where the most buzzworthy for 3 to 4 consecutive weeks.
When you finish watching episodes and if you have time, go on Reddit and read some of the discussions people had about the drama. It's very thought provoking.
This drama generated a lot of conversations lately as people talked in depth about he characters, their motivations and relations.
This drama generated a lot of conversations lately as people talked in depth about he characters, their motivations and relations.
Let's not forget that she was a widow who also lost her older daughter -who brought home some income. Remember how DS mentioned he threw his pee at his sister the day before her death because she had eaten everything so quickly and he was still hungry ?
Living in this island at that time wouldn't have been easy eapecially for a woman alone and worse if she had a lid to take care of.
Also what happened was an accident, the sister is as responsible regarding for me. She was consentant and made the conscious choice to cover for FL when she thought her injury wasn't too bad. She only grew resentful when she was told she wouldn't be able to play at pro level anymore.
She really self-centered!
Don't get me started on the mother whi jas an unhealthy obsessiin for her daughter to the point she made her the golden child. I think she has some nerves demanding ML leaves his gf because his sister would have a hard time handling it.
ML is being too nice! I would have told then to mind their own business. When the mother chose to care more about the sister, she forfeited the right to make demands on her son's life and when the sister chose to not to follow the rules and go play with her teammate instead of staying put, she took on the responsibility of what would happen to her.
It's not even as if FL took the choice out of her because she had become unconscious or something. She lied right alongside FL at the time.
It could have been higher if not for FL, SML and SFL.
FL should have woken up earlier imo. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent, cultivated, empathetic and nice, she was too biaised toward ML even when she knew he endangered himself time and again to save her. Even when he changed from the arrogant heir of the Xiao family to a responsible commander...
She was always talking about trust but she never once gave him the benefit of the doubt when it's what he always did with her.
She demanded trust but never did anything to deserve it and couldn't trust her own husband over what other people were doing.
She facilitated people coming between them imo.
SML could have been better imo. I think his role would have been more impactful if he'd turned rogue after having been kicked out of YMCA.
Instead, we are make to see him work for the japanese because they are holding his mother hostage.
For me, this guy wasn't as interested in his counties freedom from the corrupts as we were made to believe. We more than once witnessed him putting his obession for FL and one-sided rivalry with ML over his missions.
The way I see him, he was someone who couldn't be faithful. He worked with the revolutionaries because it suited his situation (a young lord from a fallen family who resented having nothing to his name when he used to come from upper society), he worked for the warlord (he liked prancing around with his borrowed power to try and one up ML) and finaly for yhe japanese (because he wanted to fuck over ML even if it meant working for those who were harming the country he claimed he wanted to protect).
SFL is one character I disliked because she was useless. Her little shenanigans were okayish at first but when she turned to the Japanese after losing everything, she was just THERE. It's at the very end that we get to see what was her role in the japanese plan and it wasn't so great.
I feel that for someone who was crazy in love for ML, her love turned to hate and that's all. She wanted to destroy him at all cost when she used to claim she couldn't live without him.
I feel it would have been interesting if her character was the one who killed the japanese to save ML at one point because though she hates him, she can only remember the times she loved him.
For me SML is the one who should have had a pathetic death without the FL shedding a tear for him.
He should even have had a pathetic, lonely and anonymous end in the chaos because that's how pathetic he was for me.