he DID NOT deserve that.
"i beg you. with your own hands, send me across the river."the acting. OUTSTANDING. park jihoon never fails to surprise me with his acting. they deserved all the awards that they got from this.
i thought that i wouldn't cry when i watch this... but it broke my heart. y'all could've just stabbed me instead and it would hurt less.
he was just 16. yes, 17 in korean age, but still, 16. he was dethroned, exiled, and he even had to witness his loved ones die with his own eyes. he couldn't risk it again. at first, he made sure he was detached from the exile village people. but then, they became the reason why he wanted to live, and serve people. they were his last straw. in the end, he'd rather die in the hands of his loved ones, than the ones who betrayed and exploited him. that was his dying wish. it took 241 years, for him to be restored as king danjong... 241 years. he died not knowing that he was restored as king 241 years later.
P.S. don't make them touch cgi ever again.
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my babies
the cinematography was TOP-TIER. i love how it portrayed society's view towards lgbtq+, the different perspectives of minato's mom, their teacher, and minato himself showed a lot about how we humans see the world from different points of view. just because yori seemed "girly" and "gay" in his dad's pov, his dad keeps saying that he has a "pig's brain" like wtf that pissed me off so much and since that's what his dad calls him, he started to think that he is wrong for being different. the scene where yori said "i'm cured now, i'm normal now.... i lied," then his father just grabbed him aggressively back to their house made me cry so bad.. another scene that made me cry was the trumpet scene with the principal, the line "if only some people can have it, that's not happiness. happiness is something anyone can have."Was this review helpful to you?
peak.
"suho-ya, i got into another fight.. i'm sorry."for me, season 1 >>>> season 2.
however, i do love sieun's constant yearning for suho. baku asking sieun over the phone, "are you home?" and sieun saying 'yes' while he was in the hospital, suho's hospital, never fails to make me tear up. the way sieun always updates suho by messaging him, while he's outside suho's hospital room because of his guilt ruins me every time. the way sieun got a call from the hospital saying suho's in a critical condition left him in uttermost shock and getting into a car accident himself and the first thing he said when he woke up was suho's name, looking for him, and asking for his condition. he was desperate to go to him.
"my friends say it wasn't my fault."
he really needed to hear that from someone, he was so hard on himself to the point that his guilt is practically eating him out alive. he couldn't sleep, eat, and all he did was study. studying, once again, became his coping mechanism. i hate how this season ended, so i hope there'll be a third season wherein sieun and suho will kiss.
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the best kdrama ever.
"maybe we were a married couple in our past lives."just for some people to say that they're just friends.
the way they'd die for each other, the way they find out that the other is hurt and go extreme lengths to hurt the ones who hurt the other, the way they look at each other, the confession that suho made when sieun smiled at him, the way suho taught sieun how to 'fight' but then told him to run instead because he will protect him, the way every scene that shows sieun from behind was suho who had his eyes on sieun before he knew him, the way sieun hunted those who laid hands on suho not caring about his grades, his future, not when his everything is in a coma because of them.
was it all casual?
"you're a psycho, you know that?"
i saw in an interview that this line was their way of saying 'i love you' to each other. and the amount of times suho said this to sieun was immeasurable. i love how it shows how often they said these to each other, and only the two of them understood what it meant.
whatever they had means so much to me, idc what you guys call it but they're definitely soulmates. they're meant to be, and it's fate. they were meant for each other, and they will find each other no matter what.
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EASILY one of the best k-dramas ever.
"i came up with a name for you.""for me? my name? what is it?"
"shining voice. i can't hear your voice, but i can see it, i feel it. you shine the brightest when you're doing music, it's when you look the coolest."
words can't express how much i love this kdrama.
it was full of life lessons and it made me realize a lot of things. no matter how much eungyeol tries to stop yichan's accident, it will always be his fate and it's inevitable. it shows that not everything goes the way you want them to be, and we just have to learn to accept that that's how life works. the scene where yichan's grandma finds out he got deaf, and said "i will give you my ears" made me cry so much it hurts. when yichan tried to turn up the volume of the tv and proceed to hear nothing... and when eungyeol was talking and he said, "what are you saying? i can't hear you... i can't even hear my own voice." 😭💔
i love yichan and cheongah's relationship. i wish i saw more of their past life (without eungyeol's time travelling) like how they met in college, and fell in love. i also wish i saw their wedding (it would've been cute) and the band as the groomsmen. eunho also deserved more than 5 mins of screentime. honestly, i wish this series was longer! 16 eps wasn't enough.
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