they don't say it bluntly so i will: mhok's lying was rooted in ableism. and that was what day couldn't forgive,…
but that's just an assumption and imo in canon they have mhok literally admit and say he thought day couldn't live without his help (ie a blind person needing the help of him as a seeing person specifically) so it was bc of his blindness and the even ifs are irrelevant bc they didn't happen
and to add: the mistake of not telling him is bc he knew how day would take his decision bc he knew he was doing it for reasons that would anger him. a person confident in his choice or making a choice for the right reasons wouldn't be ashamed to say the truth
I actually liked the last episode (especially P'Aof's cameo haha). And this was by no means a short episode but…
you can kinda tell night looked at his phone after getting out of the car before asking day to go in, you see him putting his phone away. but i think bc of the shock value they kind of ended up writing themselves some slight holes in the plot
imo they should have just had him be blind, getting back his sight was completely unnecessary both plot and character-wise especially after one failed cornea transplant already. he did not need his sight for a happy ending. felt like the writer had some ableist connotations while trying to tie everything nicely in a bow - which is ironic seeing as this is one of the rare shows to do a quality job with disability rep. a rare critique for the show
Great series, great story and acting! 💞Loved how they managed to tackle difficult topics in a positive and…
this was my critique for the episode too! i don't live with a disability, but the trope of disabled characters needing to be "fixed" in their happy ending is so tiring to me atp
Absolutely love the series but can someone help me understand what was Mhok's mistake that they were all taking…
they don't say it bluntly so i will: mhok's lying was rooted in ableism. and that was what day couldn't forgive, because what if they're back together and he resorts to these ableist prejudices once again. yes, it was out of good intentions, but it was still negative. as he says, he fell into the thinking that day NEEDED him in order to have a full, happy life and that he essentially couldn't be without mhok - which is rooted in ableism, bc these would not have been his reasons if day could see. it wasn't "i don't want to leave you bc i love you" it was actually "i don't want to leave you bc you're blind".
imo, the ending cheapens this whole thing a bit, but that was the mistake
a truly perfect show except i am saddened that once again another story with disability at its center has to conclude by "magically fixing" the disability. i worried this would happen and thought they had pleasantly surprised me and had decided against this trope, only to be proven right in the end. i just feel like it's so harmful to send this message that true happiness is only achieved when you're back to living without a disability. seeing comments like "omg day can FINALLY see again" is actually disheartening. they did try to diffuse this by having him have a happy, fulfilled life as a person with a disability in the three years he was living blind, but it feels cheapened by the ending. luckily, they had shown us happy blind characters, so the damage isn't distressing, i did appreciate many qualities the show brought and how it handled this subject - but this element of the ending is disheartening. you can be blind AND get your fairytale ending!
Thank you! The amount of people in these comments lacking media literacy and basic empathy is concerning. Plus,…
a lot of misogyny and a lot of ableism for sure: she needs to be villainized but he needs to be babied. i'd like those people to ask themselves why? at the end of the day, moeun wasn't responding to nothing...
yes you have all of these resources but how is that meant to amount to literally screaming out, fighting, yelling,…
tbh i find it to be a serious issue of his bc we're talking about a man who went away to seclude himself for years. he has a deep failure of communication bc he has never HAD to communicate these things to anyone who didn't already know them. he built up walls around himself, with two friends and his students and made a somewhat solid life out of it but that lack of communication (not just an obstacle but a genuine LACK on his side) contributed to a lot of his issues with moeun. and i think if we give her some grace we find that she continuously gave him time and chances to fix that and he didn't.
i also hate this standard third act break-up and time skip but here i do think she needed to grow and mature to a secure space of firmly deciding what was enough for her in a relationship instead of constantly comparing it to an abled one (not necessarily her fault just the fault of societal norms and what we're used to imo) and he needed to push himself out of his shell and actually force himself to the states, to do lectures to HEARING students, to put himself out there as worthy of being heard and communicating. so i understood its purpose here although i felt like they could have still achieved all those plot points without the cliches.
Great post. Thanks a lot). Real world is not black&white. And no one is a saint. We all come with good and bad…
i get where you're coming from, but i just think it's "normal" to make mistakes and want to do better - that's all our life is anyways, regardless of whether or not you believe in divine reward/punishment at the end of the road. the point is to extend grace and compassion as we have all been in places to need it ourselves.
I did! I wrote about it little below. It's ridiculous. Isn't it?
it may sound ridiculous but the meaning behind it is what's important. it's ridiculous to you and me, i presume we are both of fine hearing and abled in that aspect. of course it's ridiculous to us! we hear someone sigh and we're able to ask if they're frustrated, we hear them yelp in pain, we hear them laugh etc. we get to be active in their lives. he unfortunately has moments where he cannot be active in her life. she has to purposefully say: i am in pain. i am hungry. i hurt myself. i found something funny. it's difficult to enter any new relationship let alone one with a different obstacle. it's not about her stomach growling and him not knowing she's hungry. it's about them being inherently torn apart by their circumstances and having to actively work against them. i can choose just now to not write in english. because i'm tired and i don't feel like translating my thoughts and i can never say them just right. but you will not understand me if i choose to not speak in english. now, i don't care about you as a random person online, but if i were in a romantic relationship with you, it would be different and this feeling would be frustrating and it would be an active divide. that was the point.
Yeah, but you know, in the real life if someone tells you, I will love you until I hate you, which one day may…
i honestly don't understand why you decided to watch until ep16 and come into this comment section when you have such inherent issues with the show lmao, go watch one that teaches you real love idk
and to add: the mistake of not telling him is bc he knew how day would take his decision bc he knew he was doing it for reasons that would anger him. a person confident in his choice or making a choice for the right reasons wouldn't be ashamed to say the truth
imo they should have just had him be blind, getting back his sight was completely unnecessary both plot and character-wise especially after one failed cornea transplant already. he did not need his sight for a happy ending. felt like the writer had some ableist connotations while trying to tie everything nicely in a bow - which is ironic seeing as this is one of the rare shows to do a quality job with disability rep. a rare critique for the show
imo, the ending cheapens this whole thing a bit, but that was the mistake
i also hate this standard third act break-up and time skip but here i do think she needed to grow and mature to a secure space of firmly deciding what was enough for her in a relationship instead of constantly comparing it to an abled one (not necessarily her fault just the fault of societal norms and what we're used to imo) and he needed to push himself out of his shell and actually force himself to the states, to do lectures to HEARING students, to put himself out there as worthy of being heard and communicating. so i understood its purpose here although i felt like they could have still achieved all those plot points without the cliches.