bloomingtide

a few takeaways from today's episode I watched in the livestream:

Livestream link for episode 13:

http://www.tvniu.com/tv/kbs2.html

Oh agree, but as said he is an introvert so we people actually don't talk if we haven't something to say/deem it not important enough. Talking just to fill silence is dumb/needless to us introverts, thus we... don't. So it needs prodding most of the time and it seems that this was something his ex failed to do or wasn't willing to do/expected him to divulge all of his inner self/feelings on his own. Which is not how SH operates, tbh. He is still an actions over words guy, acts of service are his love language. What i meant with he is open toward her is him being way less guarded around her, smiling a lot and being receptive/responsive, while being a good listener not just to be polite, but because he is actually interested in her/what she has to say. As for talking about himself/his feelings, he may always need a bit of prodding, but i think as comfortable he has grown/will continue to grow with her and with it his trust in her, it will become (a bit) easier for him. Plus he is aware that this is an area he needs to work on, so with Bora, when they date, i think he will make a serious effort then to let her know where they stand/how he feels etc. bc he knows he does not need to keep appearance up with her. Doesn't mean he is then or needs to change into an extrovert for this tho haha. That would defeat the purpose of him being Bora's rock, her anchor that she can turn to to calm her hectic world, tbh. As different they are temperament-wise, they complement each other very well, btw.

Well love is a huge word sure, so when i say he fell in love i honestly just throw all together. From initial attraction to full on crushing to liking to basically "i want to spend my life with that person" heh. Of course there are differences. SH is at the beginning stage of it now, and very very attracted to her without even meaning to. To the point of crushing on her hard the whole episode 8 (and you see first subtle signs for it in eps 7 that he starts to see her differently and how it positively affects his mood) Soohyuk is the living embodiment of catching feelings, aka they sneak up on him and he is not noticing them until it is too late. He made fun of her seduction tactics but forgot to breathe during it and was super-receptive to whatever she said and replied to everything lol. He continued to make fun of it later in bed, to play it off as silly and him being unaffected by it, but actually is having a small "oh no" moment at the end. And of course the whole slow motion, full on staring, planning my wedding and kids with this woman moment he had when she appeared in front of him in that dress😂

So i think, right now, he is well aware of his strong attraction to her, hence his initiative/strong want to kiss her at the end... but not yet how deep it actually runs. That is for them to hash out in the following episodes ;)

Oh I can highly recommend bora Deborah if you want a quality romcom with a more and messier approach to relationships. Very funny too. Dr. Cha is a gem too and keeps getting double digits ratings in SK. Lemme know if you need some more recs tho heh

Irl, Yoon Hyun Min already has an actress gf since 2016 tho. (She is the FL of the current airing drama "the real has come")

He does so more jokingly after/in the scene asking her to be friends with him and her hesitating. So he went basically 'come on noona' *pouting face* to prod her for an answer, and both laugh then. Tis cute as said 🥰

Hope we are going to hear it more often tho

Also known as Soohyuk not breathing challenge, 1 minute. [SUCCESS] 😂

they have very specific, strict rules for the profile pictures. This is why most pf the actors look like a mugshot or as if it was taken in a $5 photobox in their pics, lmao

What makes it even more funny is that Soohyuk actually believed that due to being so mesmerized by her view/beauty (this guy is so whipped🤭) he saw her moving in slow motion again. That was until the car honked to break that illusion and he basically went "wait, so it was not just me/so she faked it this time? " 😂😂 😂

Yeah i kinda feel the need to skip this week's episodes so i can speedrun through those annoying parts, despite kang han su's cheeky/charming self. Bc I hate noble idiocy with the fire of thousand suns.

Oh for sure he still isn't your most outgoing/talkative guy with Bora nor does he need to be/change so drastically. He gives me huge introvert vibes, in fact. But he IS open/responsive to her, probably/most likely more than he was with his ex. This openness does not mean he has to bear all his most secret feelings or blurt them out at once. However his attitude has shifted from not talking at all about his feelings "since they are understood implicitly" to being honest with Bora when she prompts him about it. He also smiles a lot more and seems overall happier and at ease around her, is less guarded than before. It is especially obvious in the last two episodes where we could literally watch his progression of falling in love and how it affected his mood and how he acts. (which btw was very organic/fluent because it was so subtle at first until that freight train of oh no realization hit him, hard haha)

I think it is normal that he hasn't told her every bit about his breakup/past relationship etc, as he had the luxury to hash it all out on his own, instead to shapeshift into a hot mess that Bora was and be witnessed every minute of it by him 😂 Imo the best part is that he is drawn to her, mess and all, not for a "I can fix her" icky reason, but because he felt a genuine sense of camaraderie and can be himself around her/let loose. And as said this is a very realistic way to start a romance. Seeing someone being messy when you're in a state of suppressing and numbing similar feelings can be weirdly cathartic and freeing in its own way. I think she is bringing a sense of 'fun' back into his life. I mean he said something akin to ever since meeting her it has been so chaotic that his own sorrow passed on before he fully noticed it, after all. So i have no doubt, he will get there with talking about these things in time, while opening up to Bora more and more.

Oh i expect there will be an aftermath coming with Yuri and her seeing herself as victim after the whole radio stunt is too apparent as well. I was actually dreading them running into each other when SH was shopping with Bora, but in the end Yuri did not see him haha. I wish we had a little bit more insight into their past relationship bc he was portrayed as "jerk" in a very limited scope and i press x to doubt, lol. Certainly too stubborn and too prideful in a way, but never intentionally malicious or mean. So when Bora is learning that the guy she was ranting on about the radio is indeed her new bf will be *interesting* as will the next time meeting Yuri then, for sure. But first they have to take on the hurdles of sorting their feelings out and commit to each other instead to flee, of course😂

Lol. This is exactly what happens if you take weekend makjang kdramas too seriously and try to rationalize every event that happens under the same metrics like "normal" kdrama. A deep plot, this ain't not, and you have a veeeery bad time with it should you analyze it too much and/or expect master storytelling in what is basically korean soap opera. Either way, there are several things you got plain out wrong, despite the off the wall-ness of the plot.

ML/Taekyung never ever WANTED to marry SFL or to marry at all. That is the whole point of the drama, the starting point for ML/the plot. I don't understand how you watched 12 eps and missed that. Either way, he reluctantly agreed to the ARRANGED marriage to help his mother, and when he found out about goldi golddiggers thousand lies and wanted to call it off, he was already trapped in it all and could not get out of it anymore, without the help of FL. Which she did, out of her own reasons, of course. TK however never liked GG to begin with, not since she crushed his feelings under her heels as a teen. And even 100000000x less after she confessed to manipulating and using him for status/power. This is why he was that desperate to get out of the arranged marriage and away from that toxic waste of a woman that he basically claimed fatherhood for an almost stranger's baby.

FL/Yeondoo not ONCE said she wants to get back together with her trash ex. Sure briefly after the breakup where she was still grieving/processing his cheating etc, she asked him if things would be different if they had a child together. But that was ONE scene in the beginning of the drama. In all her other confrontations with her ex, she made it clear that it doesn't matter if he is the father or not and that he is hot garbage. He no longer matters to her, instead her plan is to raise the kid on her own, right after she is clear about keeping it. But since her family disapproves about her being a single mom (huge social stigma in SK), she reluctantly agrees to a contract relationship with ML, so her kid can have a "father." That is the whole point of the drama, the starting point for FL/the plot. I don''t understand how you have watched 12 episodes and missed that. And on top of that came to the conclusion that FL "has no self-respect" because she is still pining for her ex (????) to the point of "dying without him." WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? I AM CONFUSION.

I mean it is fine if this drama isn't for you, free choice and all, but what you wrote there about the leads sounds like a fully different drama watched by you. Instead of, you know, what actually happened in there, lol.

😏😏😏😏

Catching up, and as it turns out Yoo is a typical SML after all. Aka the kind of guy who developed a lifelong obsession over FL because she smiled at him once when they were kids. Not creepy at all, nope💀

Haha, believe me, i get that. It is unfortunately the more "annoying" part with characters self-sabotaging for the sake of the plot where we at right now. So i understand wanting to speedrun that😆

HI, btw. It has been a long time, but it is so nice to see you back on MDL :D

You must be new to sageuk, then? ;)

Joke aside tho, it is a classic narrative device/arc in historical shows that first the baddies get a nigh complete upper hand and feel victorious, only to lose badly and completely through turn of tide/events at almost the end/when all seems lost. We are at the first point now, so you gotta be patient for the second to occur, i am afraid ;)

Oooh yes, he got them feels creeping up on him, slowly but surely. Heh. As said before, this is also why he lashed out at her last time and drew such drastic lines between them. Kinda self-protection, because he cannot allow himself to care any deeper than he already does for her (but as you said deep down he (already) does and this dissonance is scuuuuring him.)

Pretty telling too that he reacted this way after running into goldi golddigger btw. I guess it is not only his toxic family who did a number on him, but Sejin too with crushing his feelings under her foot after his confession as a teen, and he seems to have never really recovered from that emotionally to let someone else in. Ouch.

Oh same here, luckily, the format of 50 episodes does allow for a gradual/slow and more realistic character growth than your average 12-16 eps kdrama where it often feels like flipping a switch. Taekyung panicking and being the opposite of the LET ME IN meme, lol, is thus all part of the progress. Gotta have patience with him and also Yeondoo, to find common ground with each other, is all. I quite enjoy this trial and error between them atm, and it is kinda the main draw of the show for me bc everything else is rather... annoying haha. (ML Sis/FL bro's budding love story is amusing too tho)

oh yeah i saw the stills. I guess it is about TK panicking and "wanting to break free" as he is used to do when things get tough, aka his commitment issues. Which tbh, are no surprise given how fucked up his family is and treated him. Growing up/Living in this kind of environment is poison for emotional well-being. So him "running away" is a self-protection/coping mechanism he developed over the years, i guess. And old habits die hard, after all. Let's see how it goes though. I am sure they will come out of it stronger, in the end.

he is such a cutie as king in Joseon Attorney. Very handsome too <3