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yeah the flashback to jeongyo looking into the truth of his kidnapping and getting that misunderstanding wasn't convincing at all but i'm gonna tolerate it for now

navillera! it's been on my list for a while and now that i'm in love with song kang it felt like the perfect timing lol there's some similarities with 4 hands (minus the melodrama) and it's been fun spotting them

i think because pio is the more famous/popular name, the kidnapper was being hit and he probably didn't have time to explain in detail. he lumped the mother and the son as being on the same side. i imagine the convo going like this 'who ordered this?' and then the answer '(the side of) kang pio'

what a cruel thing to say

what an emotionally draining episode, i feel exhausted !

it's true pio was reluctant at first but they did have a strong bond nurtured by their shared passion for music. they were friends but their friendship was short lived and didn't have the chance to blossom properly because of the toxicity of their environment and circumstances

perhaps because the story is predominantly told from pio's pov and it's a shame we don't get to see much of jeongyo's life especially post kidnapping so a lot of it goes unseen and creates an emotional distance with what he must have gone through mentally and emotionally just to be where he is now. there's a whole journey that must have been extremely difficult and damaging but we didn't witness any of it

ofc this is all true but what i'm saying is that for a moment and at least on the surface jeongyo, in his frustration, did sound like the grandfather, in the way he disliked pio's playing and how he basically told him there's no emotion in it. also i wouldn't call the grandfather 'just cold', that man constantly told pio he had no talent and that he amounted to nothing as an artist and so all his attempts were worthless, that's more than cold, it was plain cruel

today's scariest thing for me is the moment jeongyo started resembling the grandfather in the way he was so harsh and brutal with pio. i knew it was coming but it hurt to see him lose himself like that to the ugly emotions festering inside him. another thing that i found painful is how jeongyo still kept that part of the composition he wrote at 17, when his heart was overflowing with passion and love for pio. despite the rage and vengefulness, it's a part he still can't let go of and is desperate for pio to acknowledge and understand along with his pain. i really can't bear to see jeongyo like this, i hope things will start getting better after this 😭

if they're not going to reveal the identity of his father, then i'm assuming his mother shut that door a long time ago, maybe saying it was only the two of them and making him believe they only had each other and the only thing that mattered was to prove himself to his grandfather. i can imagine pio growing up with the idea of his father abadoning them and being too focused on gaining his grandfather's approval to make his mother happy so he never cared to look into it

i almost gasped at the parallel, they can't be clearer about it is it even considered subtext at this point?

i also think what's killing jeongyo right now is that pio is both the object of his anger (because of feelings of betrayal from what happened) and also the only person who can feel and understand his pain and thus bring him relief by acknowledging his suffering and playing his music like no one else could. he loathes pio but he also needs him viscerally and it's tearing him up

pio has been like this from the start except for the brief happy times he shared with jeongyo, then it only got worse with every episode. i thought this was clear from the beginning but you will be surprised by how many people just don't get his character and only have harsh things to say about him. he is depressed, mentally and emotionally abused, zero support system and literally no trustworthy adult he can turn to, then some people are upset because he makes frustrating choices and doesn't always act rationally

i'm glad there will be some kind of confrontation next episode because it's been too painful to watch them being tortured like this. i need the drama to start giving me a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel because i can't take this anymore

yeah especially in that flashback with the grandfather, claiming pio has no father lol it was suspicious but sometimes i think it's just her religious background combined with mental issues making her speak like that

it looks like pio's mom was following jeongyo and almost found out he didn't have amnesia but thank god! jeongyo seems to have noticed and caught her stalking him

so there was another preview for ep9 released last night https://x.com/CJnDrama/status/2103628114756526186?s=20

there's plenty of interesting discussions about the plot and especially the characters dynamics and psycholgy. maybe you should focus on that instead

officially saturday here, happy four hands day! and congrats on making it for another week!

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