I wished he really said that but he said hearing your voice makes me uncomfortable
oh well, close, i know it meant that but not that it was taken literally this time. So disgust is just another word for uncomfortable in my book. Actually, i am just trying this more freely translating thing like the advanced korean speakers hahaha :)
Okay, listen up. I have a MAJOR major issue with how YD is handling this and in effect treating TK. This is due…
oh lawl i am looking forward to this point where she notices how fucking stupid she has been all along because her oh so noble sacrifice meant NOTHING.
Watch her run away again, or trying to because she feels guilty. Yeondoo really is such an one-track pony and i have lost all empathy for her during this episode. Motherhood really has rot her last braincells lmao.
Keeping this brief, or at least trying to, because I cannot bring myself to care for most of today’s episode.…
truuuuuue i take back that i take it back, lol. I think she left all behind tho, like cutting it all off like an useless tail. Which tells you everything you need to know about YD going forward
Here is part 2 of my takeaway from eps 34, Post Haneul era and the most frustrating part of this episode imo,…
And while I am still crying we are thrust forward 5 months in time and I am DIZZY as hell. Anyway TK is about to leave for work and what seems like a daily ritual to keep him functioning is talking to Jinjja with the babyphon “Jinjja, where are you with your mother? I would like to know, but most of all don’t trouble your mother, don’t get sick.” And TEARS omg that dry up immediately when spittle-dripping peekgoose calls TK and he, lmao, does not take the call. So this base-born witch text him to call her instead, just briefly for a matter, and he is as enthused as we are with this asshole. I don’t even care what she tells him to cozy up bc I waited for these words of his for 34 eps: Stop it. Stop calling me. Your voice disgusts me, and hangs up HAHAHAHAHAH perfect.
YD gives birth to Haneul, a girl all alone which is a misery of her own making. No pity here, sorry. Well almost alone bc she has become besties with Hee, unfortunately. I am really tempted to skip bc I am SALTY AS THE SEA, because while she thinks of Taekyung, she does not even notify him. And writer YOU HAD ONE JOB. In not making the delivery doc a hallucination but again we can’t have nice things. I do like the cut to TK who jerks awake in his office as tho he had felt the birth of his child. Neat little transition here. It also shows how dreary his life is without YD in it, ike he has gone back to the stare at wall hobby days but not due to his own choosing because well HE WAS NEVER GIVEN ONE, YEONDOO. It is so sad that he has no one now and is as alone as YD is, WHEN THIS ALL IS SO NEEDLESS PAIN FOR BOTH OF THEM.
I miss my mom and him so much FUCKING CALL THEM, stop this shitty self-flagellation for fucks sake. I am sorry I have like zero understanding for her here. My sympathy goes to TK alone and her fam. Sure it is hard being alone out there on her own but she does not NEED to be. At least stay in contact via phone, give a sign of life an update JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I have problems with the audio going forward so I am not sure if I can continue writing this but I will try. Another illogical thing is how this stalking shitstain is still turning up, most likely every day without anyone in her family telling him off more resolutely? Like TK does and Uncle and finally BN snaps too and I love her for that. But she will need a restraining order too, since this fucker refuses to not come back tomorrow. OMG where is the WTOD when you need one? Uncle gets a phone call and I am a little salty that he does not tell the other two about it despite even seeing TK being devastated after Bongnim basically destroyed all hope and perseverance in him with her too harsh words. Aka “if YD wanted a father for her child she would have let you know by now and you better give up and move on, find another nice woman as she is not coming back and wonderful thousand cuts of harshness like that. I know it is her brand of tough love because she really cares for Taekyung but still. It has been months and no one has hugged this man, since uuuuugh.i am cryyyyying. BN is as frustrated and on the verge of giving up on YD, but unfortunately vented this frustration toward tk bc she could no longer watch how he is keeping hope foolishly alive for she hates herself for doing the same. I AM SAAAAAD.
DS visits YD and I am salty af he does not tell anyone about it, ever. Hee sees DS and snuck away but she knows now these two are connected, moving on. To another scene of TK crying and being tortured and a broken man. What months of disappearance of YD have not managed BN did in five minutes. Got to be an achievement somewhere. He is about to give up. On YD, on basically everything that kept him afloat all these months and we see him taking off the ring after months of refusal doing so. But hey TK, you should do either way because MOMZILLA bought these rings so you should fling them out of the window and buy new ones instead when the time comes. But I get it, this is goodbye for him, now Hard as it is BN’s words shook him to move on and ugh I HATE EVERYTHING. I am reminded of his sentence of the one who loves more suffers. And it is definitely him. Always him. I am so sorry my man, you deserve better than this uuuuuuuuugh.
AND HURRAY ANOTHER TIMESKIP BC THE WRITERS ARE UNORIGINAL HACKS AT THIS POINT. And because we had not enough of those lmao, so ANOTHER 7 months later, my guess is, because they can’t afford to let BJH run around with a newly born baby bc hell you cannot just shoot dramas with a little earthworm like that, so yeah. So many restrictions so little time you can actually use for shooting I imagine. Very very disappointed into too many characters by now tho, bc here is where noble idiocy turns into noble INSANITY with Yeondoo, if it has not already. Taekyung is completely back to his episode 1 antisocial self and honestly I cannot blame him one bit with how shitty EVERYONE of the people in his lfe treated him. Yes even yeondoo, especially yeondoo, who does not even find it important enough to give him any kind of sign of life ever. Like if I were TK I would also be screw everyone I don’t need anybody. The nurses at the clinic gossip about exactly that how they miss the old TK who would greet them and be more social and stuff like that. TK is renting out the room he had as nursery I think which is to show how he has now moved on but uuuuugh. HW the wishy washy idiot tries to get him out for drinks I think, but he denies bc fuck HW that is why. We get a scene of sourgrapes not so sour anymore happy marriage and because this is gong I skip the hell out of this shit bc fuck them all.
YD is searchin for a new stay, so she is going back to seoul. Haneul is very cute but I am hard pressed to care atm. Hee is probably Yeondoo upgraded but again I am hard pressed to care. Wake me up when the leads meet, okay? Bc this shit is way too drawn out with little substance in between and sorry not sorry I care for little else but the leads meeting right now which will be exactly one min before the ending and by chance because Yeondoo certainly does not care enough about TK to have happen otherwise. Moving on
Not this fucker again, I refuse. So does uncle, for that matter. Still salty he never told anyone about YD and Haneul. This asshole needs a restraining order. Love the new hairstyle of uncle. Very stylish.
TK meets up with Asshole bro for lunch, but ofc it is a setup for a blind date and TK does not bother the name of that broad as much as I did and leaves. TK gets to know that it is a setup from momzilla who has changed zero like this whole rotten family lmao she fits in better than ever before. So Taekyung never shy about confrontation steps into the horror house for what must be the first time in nearly a year only to tell Howler Monkey to go fuck herself which I admit is one of the very few satisfying scenes of this eps. You are no longer my mother.
We cut to YD continuing not giving a shit about TK when asks by her former TA, uttering the name as if she has never heard it. Haneul is still cute but I begin to hate its mother, sorry not sorry. TA tells her that TK searched for her everywhere and she is like “ah, I see.” WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN? Did birth rot away her last braincells? Moving on before I scream at the screen.
And ofc this callous woman ends up in the apartment TK is renting out so they meet by pure kdrama induced chance after she rifled through the nursery that is forgotten about ever since. She finds some very familiar items and is scolded by TK by it and thus they both meet face to face and a world of feelings crashes over TK as you see in his eyes while YD, idk is ready to bolt probably because RUNNING AWAY IS WHAT SHE DOES BEST, after all. YES I am salty as the sea about everything. Don’t ask. Especially the writing decisions in the last two eps at least where all the few good things that happen are totally ruined by all the tropey and badly written BULLSHIT around it. YD did all of it to herself with a hefty help of Howler monkey and the psychotic horror clown duo, but still I have zero empathy for her at this point. She has to earn it back, especially because “thanks” to her noble insanity the marriage was never registered so she actively endangered her child to give fuckboi a way in with NOT making TK the legal father. Well done you fuckin idiot. And don’t get me started on the preview which on the surface is cute as hell bc it has Haneul/Taekyung moments I have been waiting for forever and granny is turning up but it is all mired in so much frustrating bs I just uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. And ofc YD gets ready to run again, bc this is what she does best. At this point I just want to take TK out of this universe and transplant him into another kdrama where people actually CARE about him, or at least treat him better/like a human. Uggggggh. See you next week friends I am going to punch my pillow for an hour or so, lmao.
Here is part 2 of my takeaway from eps 34, Post Haneul era and the most frustrating part of this episode imo, aka the thousand ways i scream at yeondoo who can really FUCK off at this point in time:
okay since this episode is clearly split into a before and after timejump i will post my summary in two parts…
Keeping this brief, or at least trying to, because I cannot bring myself to care for most of today’s episode. And I will be yelling, like a lot. As always interpretation of dialogue may be completely off but so is the writing atm, so it just fits in super well with the summary. Basically episode 34 is watching Taekyung suffer for an hour and ten minutes and I hate everything. Yes, even Yeondoo. Especially her and her noble insanity, but more of that later.
Yeondoo, the noble idiot she is, already has prepared to leave right before that ill-fated beach date that will forever hunt me because all the few good moments are mired in so much tropey bullshit I am unable to enjoy them. Yes, even the kiss. The writer surely has a way to ruin even beautiful things lately. Well, we get a repeat of that and an additional small peck on the check which would be cute if my heart wasn’t already breaking for TK right now. Especially since he is talking how he is intending to search for a baby safe home (I think) for them all right after the kiss. They leave and she gives him a bullshit excuse so he has to leave the car. Which she is using to dump the ring and cry like the noble idiot she is. OH GUUUUUUUURL, really?
Okay, listen up. I have a MAJOR major issue with how YD is handling this and in effect treating TK. This is due with my burning complete and absolute hatred for the noble idiocy trope WE WILL SEE APLENTY HERE I have in general. Because it is always always taking away the choice of the person you claim to love. And this for their own good, supposedly when this drawing away without giving any kind of heads up or choice to the beloved person actually IS what is causing the suffering in the first place. It is a clusterfuck of disrespect/disregard, non-communication and self-flagellation. Complete and utter nonsense to induce hurt… I mean angst for the sake of angst. Ill-logical and stupid. ALWAYS. We see this even here. I get, very much so, that the situation has become too much for YD but in order to PROTECT TK, aka to not make him choose between her and his crappy fam she is taking herself out without even giving him a chance or choice in the matter. (Which would be crystal clear in the first place, as we see him making exact choice as soon she is gone) Worse even, she is leaving him in a false sense of security and in the belief that everything is okay, that she is staying at his side no matter what. imo this is the worst part of it all. For me it is a betrayal of trust but bless TK’s kind soul that he is not seeing it as such, even months later after she vanished into the night without any warning.
In front of her house, he tells he NEVER ever has regretted meeting her and as she is about to leave the car he.adds a very clear, sincere “I love you” And I am completely losing it at this point as I sob hysterically like howler monkey in the whole last episode. I WILL NOT SURVIVE (RE)WATCHING THIS DAMN EPISODE. “why are you looking so shocked? Didn’t you know my feelings (for you?)” I am sorry but I hope her choking on the guilt just a little bit here. He is teasing her to say it back, but she only promises him “next time/soon” and we all know it won’t happen HAHAHAHAHAHAH I HATE EVERYTHING. “goodnight Yeondoo. Goodnight Jinjja,” this man says while watching her go inside and you better cherish this moment because this is the last time we see TK carefree and happy. For a very loooong time.”
Hee’s scam gets finally exposed so that is over and done with, same like uncle is with her, as he should. No time for this helfer or her sob story, screw her. Sadly not the last we have seen of her by far. Moving on.
Taekyung cannot sleep without wifey but oh my god here are the tears again, he has to get used to it because so many nights without her will follow now. Still it is cute how he is cuddling with her pillow (which smells like her I am sure) instead. Doesn’t take long to get a is YD with you, TK? Huh I brought her home call from BN so we all know she has stolen herself like a thief in the night and are rendered helpless as we watch her fam and TK scramble the pieces together. Again, my heart aches especially for TK here as we see realization of her having left him hit him like a sledgehammer. AJH does the subtle change from disbelief, denial to despair so so well with a few expressions that ugh hurt like a bitch as he reads the letter. “Don’t search for me, I beg you.” Her fam also breaks my heart especially when small and kind SK cries for her aunt. Like it is the contrast between their loud laments and his quiet desperation that absolutely kills me. Then, as if ripped out of shock he rallys her fam for a last ditch effort to find her. Someone pls hug SK tho.
Hee and Yeondoo meet and get to be besties over the next way too long months. Of course they are too late and narrowly miss her. I HATE EVERYTHING. Honestly if they were smart about it they would have checked where these busses are leaving toward and then check those places for her whereabouts but alas we can’t have smart, well written things atm. It is the next day and DW namedrops the creepy bastard so TK, who seems to have spent the night there, is alerted. Doorbell rings and of course it is stalking shitstain himself. I wish for once TK would not have held DW back because booooi does he hate this fuckers guts, almost as much as I do, I suspect. Disappointing that TK instead to murder him shows him the letter to make him shut up and then of course asks what this asshole told her And to recap it were totally psychotic unhinged words that makes your skin crawl, particularly when you are a woman yourself bc such men who accept no no ever and practically announce proudly to haunt you every day until he has worn you down to whatever he wants from you are to find aplenty irl, alas. I really wonder how many showers the actor has to take after delivering such creepy lines to feel clean. RESTRAINING ORDER, WHEN? Tk, bless his soul accurately yells at this lowlife how he could even dare this and kinda is aware now that scum of the dirt is to blame for her nightly misadventure of disappearance. Fucker cuts back with how she would have no reason to leave if momzilla were not so psychotic and point here, I give him that. But it is the pot calling the kettle black here, so much. It is one remark too many however, too soon and TK is visibly shaken and at the point of tearing up so he backs off into the safety of his car. Fuckboi leaves too and I admit I really wanted TK to become the white car of death here but this is the wrong drama for this, alas. He remembers that YD sent him on an errant and he searches his car, finding the letter hidden in the mid compartment. What breaks me there is him putting it back because he just can’t and has to be able to drive and it is such a small thing but it destroys me.
OH LOOK AT THIS COLLECTION OF ASSHOLES, ALL AT ONE TABLE. (granny and Soojung excluded here) TK tells them all to go fuck… hah I wish. That has to wait for a bit still. Gives them the news of YD’s disappearance and may they choke on their breakfast. He zooms past the second bitch now present in the house after howler monkey and with TK gone from the scene I have lost all interest and care with these ingrates. NEXT.
Patrick still has a soft spot for YD, so he speaks well of her in front of granny who oddly is the only one caring and look how far we have come with this former old bat. And yeah, I am not ready for this scene but all props to AJH here, he rips my heart out and stops onto it as he descents into a complete despondent breakdown full with heart-tearing sobs, the ones that cut deep and rob you of all air. He is such a good crier too and does all the heavy lifting lately emotional-wise as his character is put so very unfairly through the wringer with narrow a happy moment at all. I am not sure what is worse, that she did not even take the ring with herself as memento or that she did not even write him a letter explaining why she left. It really feels she has no regard or consideration for him at all AND IT RANKLES. So much. Well I hope at least the team group hugged AJH after that scene was shot, because no one does for TK.
The worlds slowest combination of facts, as he finally knows they are a family and such, but bless Jangho’s slow deduction skills and kind heart. I wonder what the writer is getting at here bc this shit goes on basically since the beginning with nothing ever coming out of it.
YEAH SKIPPING THESE FUCKTARDS. NOPE.
I love the scene between bongnim and Jangho here, she is really self-reflecting and rueful about how badly she has treated YD at the beginning of the drama, and at least ONE mother in this damn drama is. I really like her character growth these past eps. Hope she comes thru in a very strawberry way later on too just so she can TAKE A BIG DUMP ON THE GONG’S TABLE AND TELL THEM ALL TO FUCK OFF. As she should. We can adopt Soojung and granny into house oh tho. They are cool they can stay, lol. Jangho wants to leave but uncle is nah don’t. Whatever.
We move on to venomous ratsbane? OH GOD NO. Not another pity party of this bitch. I have like -.30000000 empathy for her and this is really me being gracious. Howler Monkey calls tk who actually HAS a reason to drink himself blind and feel like shit. He stops midway the other glass and grabs his phone stumbling over the heart oh heart way her name is in his phone, sadly smiling over the memory while my heart breaks anew bc AJH’s eyes are so expressive and utterly sad here. Serial dials her number but of course YD’s phone is unresponsive. However it gives him second wind to get up but momzilla appears before he can leave and I really have to translate her bullshit? Great. He does not even WANT to talk to this asshole and it is the most understandable thing I have encountered in this show for two episodes now. She feeds him some bullshit of how she feels sorry (WHAT?) for YD to raise the child on her own bc she knows how that is and my eyes glaze over because I cannot give a single fuck for her hypocritical explanations. Fuck her. She is, as always trying to emotionally manipulate him into giving up, but that word does not exists in his lexica so he ends up to tell her to get lost as he should and baby the sooner you are out of there the better. And he knows it now too because it is exactly here where he decides to cut ties with her, no matter how hurtful it may be to him, YD and Jinjja are more important and he wants to focus on finding them. MOMZILLA IS STUNNED. Finally she shuts up, at least. She should write a how to guide with how to alienate your son forever, she would excel in that tho.
And this callous asshole of YD even left the bracelets behind I just can’t with her sorry. Very telling that we have to flashback to an earlier episode to get a happy moment tho. And yep, I am crying again just like AJH whose eyes are naturally glowing red by now I suppose with the amount of tears he has pushed through them in the matter of a few shoots at best. He is speaking to Jinjja, promises to find them, needs to find them. And my eyes are leaking while we get a montage of all the things her fam and TK try to find YD which tbh gives our man reason and purpose to get out of bed, for now. He is, as he promised her, even searching for an apartment for the three of them and hell yeah I could not be happier to see him looking at places and then, leaving Howler monkey’s sorry ass in the dust where it damn well belongs. He is not even turning around or saying goodbye HAHAHAHAHAHHA bless. He even has a nursery set up in the new apartment and it is the most saddest but cutest thing alike because it is so pretty and yet so depressing bc it stays empty for so long and I am crying again. In fact I have not yet stopped.
okay since this episode is clearly split into a before and after timejump i will post my summary in two parts today bc it is less stressful for me writing it under time pressure and you waiting for it to read, lol. So here have my takeaways of eps 34, PART 1, the bbe, aka the before baby era:
Just a preview of what to expect today with my summary, sort of, lmao
Okay, listen up. I have a MAJOR major issue with how YD is handling this and in effect treating TK. This is due with my burning complete and absolute hatred for the noble idiocy trope WE WILL SEE APLENTY HERE I have in general. Because it is always always taking away the choice of the person you claim to love. And this for their own good, supposedly when this drawing away without giving any kind of heads up or choice to the beloved person actually IS what is causing the suffering in the first place. It is a clusterfuck of disrespect/disregard, non-communication and self-flagellation. Complete and utter nonsense to induce hurt… I mean angst for the sake of angst. Ill-logical and stupid. ALWAYS. We see this even here.
I get, very much so, that the situation has become too much for YD but in order to PROTECT TK, aka to not make him choose between her and his crappy fam she is taking herself out of the equation without even giving him a chance or choice in the matter. (Which would be crystal clear in the first place, as we see him making exact choice as soon she is gone) Worse even, she is leaving him in a false sense of security and in the belief that everything is okay, that she is staying at his side no matter what. imo this is the worst part of it all. For me it is a betrayal of trust but bless TK’s kind soul that he is not seeing it as such, even months later after she vanished into the night without any warning.
umm unlike yesterday i am actually writing a summary i just started quite late bc i needed time to stomach it all. So give me some time still and i can give you an overview, a very ranty one, about eps 34.
AS SHE SHOULD. FUCK THEM ALL. (we can adopt granny tho. Lol, who would have thought that she is turning out to…
Tbh, BN has to be, outside of the fitting age, for the whole further story to, well, happen. Because if she isn't the story is otherwise at an impasse even more than before since the writer reeeeeally wrote himself in such a narrow corner here with Howler Monkey. He is unable to solve it in any other way than making the gongs choke on humble pie, especially momzilla,
So Haneul definitely is going to get doted on by granny just you wait :D But anyone else outside of Soojung has to keep four armlength distance tof this kid at any time. Would very much prefer if TK/YD would just cut ties/move far away to some small town where he could have his own practice and YD could teach at a school. But since this is a family drama where we all HAVE to hold hands and dance in circles in harmony no matter how much abuse and many atrocities the fam has done in the past, this sadly won't happen.
I still need to catch up...but can someone tell me if TK left his family? I'm really hoping he did.
Yep, he completely cut off all ties (except for working in the clinic still so his fair weather friend HW sees him at work but they don't seem to have any further contact beyond that) and moved into an apartment of his own with regard to it having enough space for a family. Which outside of Haneul being born (NOT LIKE THIS argh) is one of the very few highpoints of this episode.
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Watch her run away again, or trying to because she feels guilty. Yeondoo really is such an one-track pony and i have lost all empathy for her during this episode. Motherhood really has rot her last braincells lmao.
YD gives birth to Haneul, a girl all alone which is a misery of her own making. No pity here, sorry. Well almost alone bc she has become besties with Hee, unfortunately. I am really tempted to skip bc I am SALTY AS THE SEA, because while she thinks of Taekyung, she does not even notify him. And writer YOU HAD ONE JOB. In not making the delivery doc a hallucination but again we can’t have nice things. I do like the cut to TK who jerks awake in his office as tho he had felt the birth of his child. Neat little transition here. It also shows how dreary his life is without YD in it, ike he has gone back to the stare at wall hobby days but not due to his own choosing because well HE WAS NEVER GIVEN ONE, YEONDOO. It is so sad that he has no one now and is as alone as YD is, WHEN THIS ALL IS SO NEEDLESS PAIN FOR BOTH OF THEM.
I miss my mom and him so much FUCKING CALL THEM, stop this shitty self-flagellation for fucks sake. I am sorry I have like zero understanding for her here. My sympathy goes to TK alone and her fam. Sure it is hard being alone out there on her own but she does not NEED to be. At least stay in contact via phone, give a sign of life an update JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I have problems with the audio going forward so I am not sure if I can continue writing this but I will try. Another illogical thing is how this stalking shitstain is still turning up, most likely every day without anyone in her family telling him off more resolutely? Like TK does and Uncle and finally BN snaps too and I love her for that. But she will need a restraining order too, since this fucker refuses to not come back tomorrow. OMG where is the WTOD when you need one? Uncle gets a phone call and I am a little salty that he does not tell the other two about it despite even seeing TK being devastated after Bongnim basically destroyed all hope and perseverance in him with her too harsh words. Aka “if YD wanted a father for her child she would have let you know by now and you better give up and move on, find another nice woman as she is not coming back and wonderful thousand cuts of harshness like that. I know it is her brand of tough love because she really cares for Taekyung but still. It has been months and no one has hugged this man, since uuuuugh.i am cryyyyying. BN is as frustrated and on the verge of giving up on YD, but unfortunately vented this frustration toward tk bc she could no longer watch how he is keeping hope foolishly alive for she hates herself for doing the same. I AM SAAAAAD.
DS visits YD and I am salty af he does not tell anyone about it, ever. Hee sees DS and snuck away but she knows now these two are connected, moving on. To another scene of TK crying and being tortured and a broken man. What months of disappearance of YD have not managed BN did in five minutes. Got to be an achievement somewhere. He is about to give up. On YD, on basically everything that kept him afloat all these months and we see him taking off the ring after months of refusal doing so. But hey TK, you should do either way because MOMZILLA bought these rings so you should fling them out of the window and buy new ones instead when the time comes. But I get it, this is goodbye for him, now Hard as it is BN’s words shook him to move on and ugh I HATE EVERYTHING. I am reminded of his sentence of the one who loves more suffers. And it is definitely him. Always him. I am so sorry my man, you deserve better than this uuuuuuuuugh.
AND HURRAY ANOTHER TIMESKIP BC THE WRITERS ARE UNORIGINAL HACKS AT THIS POINT. And because we had not enough of those lmao, so ANOTHER 7 months later, my guess is, because they can’t afford to let BJH run around with a newly born baby bc hell you cannot just shoot dramas with a little earthworm like that, so yeah. So many restrictions so little time you can actually use for shooting I imagine. Very very disappointed into too many characters by now tho, bc here is where noble idiocy turns into noble INSANITY with Yeondoo, if it has not already. Taekyung is completely back to his episode 1 antisocial self and honestly I cannot blame him one bit with how shitty EVERYONE of the people in his lfe treated him. Yes even yeondoo, especially yeondoo, who does not even find it important enough to give him any kind of sign of life ever. Like if I were TK I would also be screw everyone I don’t need anybody. The nurses at the clinic gossip about exactly that how they miss the old TK who would greet them and be more social and stuff like that. TK is renting out the room he had as nursery I think which is to show how he has now moved on but uuuuugh. HW the wishy washy idiot tries to get him out for drinks I think, but he denies bc fuck HW that is why. We get a scene of sourgrapes not so sour anymore happy marriage and because this is gong I skip the hell out of this shit bc fuck them all.
YD is searchin for a new stay, so she is going back to seoul. Haneul is very cute but I am hard pressed to care atm. Hee is probably Yeondoo upgraded but again I am hard pressed to care. Wake me up when the leads meet, okay? Bc this shit is way too drawn out with little substance in between and sorry not sorry I care for little else but the leads meeting right now which will be exactly one min before the ending and by chance because Yeondoo certainly does not care enough about TK to have happen otherwise. Moving on
Not this fucker again, I refuse. So does uncle, for that matter. Still salty he never told anyone about YD and Haneul. This asshole needs a restraining order. Love the new hairstyle of uncle. Very stylish.
TK meets up with Asshole bro for lunch, but ofc it is a setup for a blind date and TK does not bother the name of that broad as much as I did and leaves. TK gets to know that it is a setup from momzilla who has changed zero like this whole rotten family lmao she fits in better than ever before. So Taekyung never shy about confrontation steps into the horror house for what must be the first time in nearly a year only to tell Howler Monkey to go fuck herself which I admit is one of the very few satisfying scenes of this eps. You are no longer my mother.
We cut to YD continuing not giving a shit about TK when asks by her former TA, uttering the name as if she has never heard it. Haneul is still cute but I begin to hate its mother, sorry not sorry. TA tells her that TK searched for her everywhere and she is like “ah, I see.” WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN? Did birth rot away her last braincells? Moving on before I scream at the screen.
And ofc this callous woman ends up in the apartment TK is renting out so they meet by pure kdrama induced chance after she rifled through the nursery that is forgotten about ever since. She finds some very familiar items and is scolded by TK by it and thus they both meet face to face and a world of feelings crashes over TK as you see in his eyes while YD, idk is ready to bolt probably because RUNNING AWAY IS WHAT SHE DOES BEST, after all. YES I am salty as the sea about everything. Don’t ask. Especially the writing decisions in the last two eps at least where all the few good things that happen are totally ruined by all the tropey and badly written BULLSHIT around it. YD did all of it to herself with a hefty help of Howler monkey and the psychotic horror clown duo, but still I have zero empathy for her at this point. She has to earn it back, especially because “thanks” to her noble insanity the marriage was never registered so she actively endangered her child to give fuckboi a way in with NOT making TK the legal father. Well done you fuckin idiot. And don’t get me started on the preview which on the surface is cute as hell bc it has Haneul/Taekyung moments I have been waiting for forever and granny is turning up but it is all mired in so much frustrating bs I just uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. And ofc YD gets ready to run again, bc this is what she does best. At this point I just want to take TK out of this universe and transplant him into another kdrama where people actually CARE about him, or at least treat him better/like a human. Uggggggh. See you next week friends I am going to punch my pillow for an hour or so, lmao.
Part 1 is here, read it first:
https://kisskh.at/743119-the-real-thing-appears#comment-13869463
Yeondoo, the noble idiot she is, already has prepared to leave right before that ill-fated beach date that will forever hunt me because all the few good moments are mired in so much tropey bullshit I am unable to enjoy them. Yes, even the kiss. The writer surely has a way to ruin even beautiful things lately. Well, we get a repeat of that and an additional small peck on the check which would be cute if my heart wasn’t already breaking for TK right now. Especially since he is talking how he is intending to search for a baby safe home (I think) for them all right after the kiss. They leave and she gives him a bullshit excuse so he has to leave the car. Which she is using to dump the ring and cry like the noble idiot she is. OH GUUUUUUUURL, really?
Okay, listen up. I have a MAJOR major issue with how YD is handling this and in effect treating TK. This is due with my burning complete and absolute hatred for the noble idiocy trope WE WILL SEE APLENTY HERE I have in general. Because it is always always taking away the choice of the person you claim to love. And this for their own good, supposedly when this drawing away without giving any kind of heads up or choice to the beloved person actually IS what is causing the suffering in the first place. It is a clusterfuck of disrespect/disregard, non-communication and self-flagellation. Complete and utter nonsense to induce hurt… I mean angst for the sake of angst. Ill-logical and stupid. ALWAYS. We see this even here. I get, very much so, that the situation has become too much for YD but in order to PROTECT TK, aka to not make him choose between her and his crappy fam she is taking herself out without even giving him a chance or choice in the matter. (Which would be crystal clear in the first place, as we see him making exact choice as soon she is gone) Worse even, she is leaving him in a false sense of security and in the belief that everything is okay, that she is staying at his side no matter what. imo this is the worst part of it all. For me it is a betrayal of trust but bless TK’s kind soul that he is not seeing it as such, even months later after she vanished into the night without any warning.
In front of her house, he tells he NEVER ever has regretted meeting her and as she is about to leave the car he.adds a very clear, sincere “I love you” And I am completely losing it at this point as I sob hysterically like howler monkey in the whole last episode. I WILL NOT SURVIVE (RE)WATCHING THIS DAMN EPISODE. “why are you looking so shocked? Didn’t you know my feelings (for you?)” I am sorry but I hope her choking on the guilt just a little bit here. He is teasing her to say it back, but she only promises him “next time/soon” and we all know it won’t happen HAHAHAHAHAHAH I HATE EVERYTHING. “goodnight Yeondoo. Goodnight Jinjja,” this man says while watching her go inside and you better cherish this moment because this is the last time we see TK carefree and happy. For a very loooong time.”
Hee’s scam gets finally exposed so that is over and done with, same like uncle is with her, as he should. No time for this helfer or her sob story, screw her. Sadly not the last we have seen of her by far. Moving on.
Taekyung cannot sleep without wifey but oh my god here are the tears again, he has to get used to it because so many nights without her will follow now. Still it is cute how he is cuddling with her pillow (which smells like her I am sure) instead. Doesn’t take long to get a is YD with you, TK? Huh I brought her home call from BN so we all know she has stolen herself like a thief in the night and are rendered helpless as we watch her fam and TK scramble the pieces together. Again, my heart aches especially for TK here as we see realization of her having left him hit him like a sledgehammer. AJH does the subtle change from disbelief, denial to despair so so well with a few expressions that ugh hurt like a bitch as he reads the letter. “Don’t search for me, I beg you.” Her fam also breaks my heart especially when small and kind SK cries for her aunt. Like it is the contrast between their loud laments and his quiet desperation that absolutely kills me. Then, as if ripped out of shock he rallys her fam for a last ditch effort to find her. Someone pls hug SK tho.
Hee and Yeondoo meet and get to be besties over the next way too long months. Of course they are too late and narrowly miss her. I HATE EVERYTHING. Honestly if they were smart about it they would have checked where these busses are leaving toward and then check those places for her whereabouts but alas we can’t have smart, well written things atm. It is the next day and DW namedrops the creepy bastard so TK, who seems to have spent the night there, is alerted. Doorbell rings and of course it is stalking shitstain himself. I wish for once TK would not have held DW back because booooi does he hate this fuckers guts, almost as much as I do, I suspect. Disappointing that TK instead to murder him shows him the letter to make him shut up and then of course asks what this asshole told her And to recap it were totally psychotic unhinged words that makes your skin crawl, particularly when you are a woman yourself bc such men who accept no no ever and practically announce proudly to haunt you every day until he has worn you down to whatever he wants from you are to find aplenty irl, alas. I really wonder how many showers the actor has to take after delivering such creepy lines to feel clean. RESTRAINING ORDER, WHEN? Tk, bless his soul accurately yells at this lowlife how he could even dare this and kinda is aware now that scum of the dirt is to blame for her nightly misadventure of disappearance. Fucker cuts back with how she would have no reason to leave if momzilla were not so psychotic and point here, I give him that. But it is the pot calling the kettle black here, so much. It is one remark too many however, too soon and TK is visibly shaken and at the point of tearing up so he backs off into the safety of his car. Fuckboi leaves too and I admit I really wanted TK to become the white car of death here but this is the wrong drama for this, alas. He remembers that YD sent him on an errant and he searches his car, finding the letter hidden in the mid compartment. What breaks me there is him putting it back because he just can’t and has to be able to drive and it is such a small thing but it destroys me.
OH LOOK AT THIS COLLECTION OF ASSHOLES, ALL AT ONE TABLE. (granny and Soojung excluded here) TK tells them all to go fuck… hah I wish. That has to wait for a bit still. Gives them the news of YD’s disappearance and may they choke on their breakfast. He zooms past the second bitch now present in the house after howler monkey and with TK gone from the scene I have lost all interest and care with these ingrates. NEXT.
Patrick still has a soft spot for YD, so he speaks well of her in front of granny who oddly is the only one caring and look how far we have come with this former old bat. And yeah, I am not ready for this scene but all props to AJH here, he rips my heart out and stops onto it as he descents into a complete despondent breakdown full with heart-tearing sobs, the ones that cut deep and rob you of all air. He is such a good crier too and does all the heavy lifting lately emotional-wise as his character is put so very unfairly through the wringer with narrow a happy moment at all. I am not sure what is worse, that she did not even take the ring with herself as memento or that she did not even write him a letter explaining why she left. It really feels she has no regard or consideration for him at all AND IT RANKLES. So much. Well I hope at least the team group hugged AJH after that scene was shot, because no one does for TK.
The worlds slowest combination of facts, as he finally knows they are a family and such, but bless Jangho’s slow deduction skills and kind heart. I wonder what the writer is getting at here bc this shit goes on basically since the beginning with nothing ever coming out of it.
YEAH SKIPPING THESE FUCKTARDS. NOPE.
I love the scene between bongnim and Jangho here, she is really self-reflecting and rueful about how badly she has treated YD at the beginning of the drama, and at least ONE mother in this damn drama is. I really like her character growth these past eps. Hope she comes thru in a very strawberry way later on too just so she can TAKE A BIG DUMP ON THE GONG’S TABLE AND TELL THEM ALL TO FUCK OFF. As she should. We can adopt Soojung and granny into house oh tho. They are cool they can stay, lol. Jangho wants to leave but uncle is nah don’t. Whatever.
We move on to venomous ratsbane? OH GOD NO. Not another pity party of this bitch. I have like -.30000000 empathy for her and this is really me being gracious. Howler Monkey calls tk who actually HAS a reason to drink himself blind and feel like shit. He stops midway the other glass and grabs his phone stumbling over the heart oh heart way her name is in his phone, sadly smiling over the memory while my heart breaks anew bc AJH’s eyes are so expressive and utterly sad here. Serial dials her number but of course YD’s phone is unresponsive. However it gives him second wind to get up but momzilla appears before he can leave and I really have to translate her bullshit? Great. He does not even WANT to talk to this asshole and it is the most understandable thing I have encountered in this show for two episodes now. She feeds him some bullshit of how she feels sorry (WHAT?) for YD to raise the child on her own bc she knows how that is and my eyes glaze over because I cannot give a single fuck for her hypocritical explanations. Fuck her. She is, as always trying to emotionally manipulate him into giving up, but that word does not exists in his lexica so he ends up to tell her to get lost as he should and baby the sooner you are out of there the better. And he knows it now too because it is exactly here where he decides to cut ties with her, no matter how hurtful it may be to him, YD and Jinjja are more important and he wants to focus on finding them. MOMZILLA IS STUNNED. Finally she shuts up, at least. She should write a how to guide with how to alienate your son forever, she would excel in that tho.
And this callous asshole of YD even left the bracelets behind I just can’t with her sorry. Very telling that we have to flashback to an earlier episode to get a happy moment tho. And yep, I am crying again just like AJH whose eyes are naturally glowing red by now I suppose with the amount of tears he has pushed through them in the matter of a few shoots at best. He is speaking to Jinjja, promises to find them, needs to find them. And my eyes are leaking while we get a montage of all the things her fam and TK try to find YD which tbh gives our man reason and purpose to get out of bed, for now. He is, as he promised her, even searching for an apartment for the three of them and hell yeah I could not be happier to see him looking at places and then, leaving Howler monkey’s sorry ass in the dust where it damn well belongs. He is not even turning around or saying goodbye HAHAHAHAHAHHA bless. He even has a nursery set up in the new apartment and it is the most saddest but cutest thing alike because it is so pretty and yet so depressing bc it stays empty for so long and I am crying again. In fact I have not yet stopped.
I get, very much so, that the situation has become too much for YD but in order to PROTECT TK, aka to not make him choose between her and his crappy fam she is taking herself out of the equation without even giving him a chance or choice in the matter. (Which would be crystal clear in the first place, as we see him making exact choice as soon she is gone) Worse even, she is leaving him in a false sense of security and in the belief that everything is okay, that she is staying at his side no matter what. imo this is the worst part of it all. For me it is a betrayal of trust but bless TK’s kind soul that he is not seeing it as such, even months later after she vanished into the night without any warning.
So Haneul definitely is going to get doted on by granny just you wait :D But anyone else outside of Soojung has to keep four armlength distance tof this kid at any time. Would very much prefer if TK/YD would just cut ties/move far away to some small town where he could have his own practice and YD could teach at a school. But since this is a family drama where we all HAVE to hold hands and dance in circles in harmony no matter how much abuse and many atrocities the fam has done in the past, this sadly won't happen.