Ok question. So here is this very nice person who is a .... housecleaner. A very super nice person. BUT lazy person.…
I think a better analogy would be to typical Greek tragedies in Lit where everyone is an idiot and doing stupid things that result in unintended consequences like a typhoon. So there no one is fully good or bad including the main characters and essentially it is a train wreck and plays are about human mistakes. It makes sense because this type of literature were the original soap operas/telenovelas where everything was over the top.
WHICH EPISODE DID FL AUNT AND ML UNCLE MEET AND RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER? i skimmed through old episodes and found…
I don't think JaeIn is naive in that typical FL drama way. She is naive because she is entitled, has been treated like a princess all her life and had everything go her way.
As long as things suited her, she was totally oblivious -- it is very telling that she has hardly any allies and she is losing one after another. This isn't something that is happening out of selfishness but rather resentment towards JaeIn or Ms Choi or both. So resentment is why JaeIn is going to be alone for a period of time.
If she was so nice and kind, she would have real friends. She does not have any true ties to anyone and that one has to ask why she is so isolated compared to other FLs who have some support. 🤷
So GiChan was being mistreated by Ms Choi for years and he was expected to roll with it. She was mostly just passive watching it happen. Now, when the same happens to her, she is shocked. Similarly, she saw YuGyeong being treated as second class while she was put on top because she was from rich family. It didn't really bother her but the moment MIL treated her the same way as YuGyeong, she was shocked.
Doctor pointed out that Ms Choi faked cancer diagnosis but when GiChan does the same thing to her, she is shocked that such a thing can happen in the system. Why is she consistently shocked? Because she can't believe it can happen to her.
Even her words to GiChan about getting divorced was that it is fine if she divorces him but it is not okay if he divorces her. Why? Is she planning to be a true crime episode??? Ms Choi also had a similar mindset. She wanted JaeIn to divorce GiChan but had a problem with him having an affair. Why? Because she can leave but he cannot. That is entitlement.
i agree. I didnt think of that angle that she sacrificed her baby son, indeed she might have!!!! I think he was…
Aunt is a sharp cookie unlike JaeIn who is still in entitlement mode. It was actually nice to see the smile fall off her face when her name wasn't announced as chairman. She just assumed that she was going to get the vote from everyone including the doctor. 🙄
First she has no clue who he is and yet she assumes that when it comes to money and investment, he is just automatically going to side with her? Please, that alone makes her a terrible candidate for chairman because she does not know that shareholders are primarily interested in making money and seeing their investment grow. People don't invest just because you are a friend. You have to prove that you got the talent or at least convince them with your charm.
So both JaeIn and Ms Choi got lessons in the real world which was frankly needed.
Aunt and GiChan will square off at some point and I think it will be way more entertaining than JaeIn. Aunt will also have homeless uncle her former flame who also apparently is some sort of investor. So once they lay their enmity aside, they may be a power couple who are going to shake the ebbs and flows.
Meanwhile, JaeIn will continue to get bad advice from Ms Choi who thinks the world will bend to their will. 🙄
Going to go against the grain here because why not! I disagree that Aunt is a villain or her vote against JaeIn is a bad thing.
Frankly, just as SeungWoo is not suited to lead the company, neither is JaeIn. However, what goes against JaeIn is that her actions show that she is going to cut out SeungWoo even though she claims he is her brother.
Aunt's words were cryptic when she asked if JaeIn was aware that male child inherits the company. Now, it is quite possible that SeungWoo was adopted by chairman precisely because of that as he didn't have a son. This means that Aunt might have given up any parental rights to raising SeungWoo in order for him to inherit and also respect her brother and father's wishes.
While JaeIn thinks of this as her father's company, she is not thinking about what is best for the company. She herself admits she is motivated by vengeance.
Aunt on the other hand also has a link to the company and has to make a decision on what is best for the business and she is thinking with a cool head. JaeIn is not the right choice because she is erratic, unproven and does not have the track record.
Aunt is not going to vote for a candidate who can torpedo her father's company just like Ms Choi did in a few days with her actions.
GiChan has put in the work for so many years and has proved that he has the calibre to lead. With a lack of other choices, GiChan is the only choice here. So from a business perspective, Aunt is right in protecting the legacy her father and brother built over so many years.
I would have given it a higher rating if it wasn't for the lacklustre ending. If the writer didn't want to kill off Seyoung, she should have ended up alone and rebuilding her life somewhere on her own. Why make her so weak that she needed to be with JiSeok? There was no need for couple swap and everyone being happy at the table in the end. That was just weird.
Has the writer forgotten about the death of Goo parents?? Are we not going to get any resolution for that??? SeYoung clearly asked MeyongJi how she made her money and MyeongJi deflected with a vague real estate explanation. Is that all we are going to get?
Rather than redemption, am expecting a tragic ending for SeYoung. Despite JiSeok telling her to let go and form her own identity that is outside of her mom, it is decades late. The girl has been a puppet all her life and desperately wants to trust MyeongJi. If she has to accept the true face of MyeongJi, then she also has to accept that she has been an accomplice and is perhaps the cause of all this mess. As it is, the guilt of losing YuJin at sea gave her nightmares and anxities for years. Now, to realize the weight of death of YuJin would be too heavy a burden to bear. MyeongJi is not going to admit that it was all greed and it was for Hyesung group. Instead, she will turn it around and put the blame on SeYoung. MyeongJi will realize too late the pain of losing a child and wondering what happened. Jail or bankruptcy will only fuel her anger as her entitlement is very high. So losing SeYoung will be the only thing that hurts. The question is how that happens. Will SeYoung lose her memories to protect herself? Have some fatal disease? Have an accident? Fall into a coma? Or die tragically?
Point 3:Myeongji was in cahoots with the Accounts Director to embezzle from Hyesung. They were shown meeting to…
YeoJin and Secretary Jang seem quite meticulous when it came to business. So my theory is that they were stealing from some of the proceeds of the corporate raids which would not have shown up on the main books. This way, there would have been no accounting and no one would know if a little was missing here and there.
Here is my bold theory -- JiSeok will not get paired with SeYoung in the end. Instead, she will end up alone and friendless and having to figure out life without her mother to explain things. Why? 1. I watched the writer's previous drama -- there were reconciliations and redemptions that did not happen. Instead, some characters remained estranged which was surprising. So this writer does not necessarily do full on happy happy for everyone 2. EunCheong is the heart of the drama. For him to have a happy ending, he needs all his uncles, aunts plus grandparents. So both families have to be reconciled and there has to be peace. In order for that to happen, YeoJin has to be innocent of the crime of killing the Goo parents. 3. That leaves MyeongJi to be the real hand behind that accident. She never worked in the company and yet she has managed to create slush funds? So how was she doing it?
Question, unrelated to this drama:If you found out the ending to a drama that you are about halfway or so through…
Watch the last episode to see if it feels off and then decide if it is worth the time to finish the series. That is usually what I do if I have read about the ending.
JiSeok-SangHo's scenes were so well done. What I liked is how SangHo turns in tears and does not shy away from letting JiSeok see that he is in pain from YeoJin being sick. There is an openness between the two men because they have really developed father-son relationship. JiSeok understandably feels betrayed and it is like he is losing his parent yet again. However, MyeongJi stirring the pot will make JiSeok realize quickly how important SangHo is to him. In the end, JiSeok needs parental love and not a romantic arc -- so his happy ending will be reconciliation with SangHo
It was kind of long and so rather than comment, posted my thought on ep 68 in discussion. Check it out on why I thought it was a lovely episode ultimately about siblings
JinGoo is the worst ML. The guy backstabs Hana, continues to put Hana where she is being blamed for breaking his engagement and he has the gall to profess his love and say he wants to marry her. Dude, why would she be interested in you? You deserve to burn in misery. He is also being played by a terrible actor and his only expression seems to be of constipation. 🤦♀️
As long as things suited her, she was totally oblivious -- it is very telling that she has hardly any allies and she is losing one after another. This isn't something that is happening out of selfishness but rather resentment towards JaeIn or Ms Choi or both. So resentment is why JaeIn is going to be alone for a period of time.
If she was so nice and kind, she would have real friends. She does not have any true ties to anyone and that one has to ask why she is so isolated compared to other FLs who have some support. 🤷
So GiChan was being mistreated by Ms Choi for years and he was expected to roll with it. She was mostly just passive watching it happen. Now, when the same happens to her, she is shocked. Similarly, she saw YuGyeong being treated as second class while she was put on top because she was from rich family. It didn't really bother her but the moment MIL treated her the same way as YuGyeong, she was shocked.
Doctor pointed out that Ms Choi faked cancer diagnosis but when GiChan does the same thing to her, she is shocked that such a thing can happen in the system. Why is she consistently shocked? Because she can't believe it can happen to her.
Even her words to GiChan about getting divorced was that it is fine if she divorces him but it is not okay if he divorces her. Why? Is she planning to be a true crime episode??? Ms Choi also had a similar mindset. She wanted JaeIn to divorce GiChan but had a problem with him having an affair. Why? Because she can leave but he cannot. That is entitlement.
First she has no clue who he is and yet she assumes that when it comes to money and investment, he is just automatically going to side with her? Please, that alone makes her a terrible candidate for chairman because she does not know that shareholders are primarily interested in making money and seeing their investment grow. People don't invest just because you are a friend. You have to prove that you got the talent or at least convince them with your charm.
So both JaeIn and Ms Choi got lessons in the real world which was frankly needed.
Aunt and GiChan will square off at some point and I think it will be way more entertaining than JaeIn. Aunt will also have homeless uncle her former flame who also apparently is some sort of investor. So once they lay their enmity aside, they may be a power couple who are going to shake the ebbs and flows.
Meanwhile, JaeIn will continue to get bad advice from Ms Choi who thinks the world will bend to their will. 🙄
Frankly, just as SeungWoo is not suited to lead the company, neither is JaeIn. However, what goes against JaeIn is that her actions show that she is going to cut out SeungWoo even though she claims he is her brother.
Aunt's words were cryptic when she asked if JaeIn was aware that male child inherits the company. Now, it is quite possible that SeungWoo was adopted by chairman precisely because of that as he didn't have a son. This means that Aunt might have given up any parental rights to raising SeungWoo in order for him to inherit and also respect her brother and father's wishes.
While JaeIn thinks of this as her father's company, she is not thinking about what is best for the company. She herself admits she is motivated by vengeance.
Aunt on the other hand also has a link to the company and has to make a decision on what is best for the business and she is thinking with a cool head. JaeIn is not the right choice because she is erratic, unproven and does not have the track record.
Aunt is not going to vote for a candidate who can torpedo her father's company just like Ms Choi did in a few days with her actions.
GiChan has put in the work for so many years and has proved that he has the calibre to lead. With a lack of other choices, GiChan is the only choice here. So from a business perspective, Aunt is right in protecting the legacy her father and brother built over so many years.
SeYoung clearly asked MeyongJi how she made her money and MyeongJi deflected with a vague real estate explanation. Is that all we are going to get?
If she has to accept the true face of MyeongJi, then she also has to accept that she has been an accomplice and is perhaps the cause of all this mess. As it is, the guilt of losing YuJin at sea gave her nightmares and anxities for years. Now, to realize the weight of death of YuJin would be too heavy a burden to bear.
MyeongJi is not going to admit that it was all greed and it was for Hyesung group. Instead, she will turn it around and put the blame on SeYoung.
MyeongJi will realize too late the pain of losing a child and wondering what happened. Jail or bankruptcy will only fuel her anger as her entitlement is very high. So losing SeYoung will be the only thing that hurts.
The question is how that happens. Will SeYoung lose her memories to protect herself? Have some fatal disease? Have an accident? Fall into a coma? Or die tragically?
1. I watched the writer's previous drama -- there were reconciliations and redemptions that did not happen. Instead, some characters remained estranged which was surprising. So this writer does not necessarily do full on happy happy for everyone
2. EunCheong is the heart of the drama. For him to have a happy ending, he needs all his uncles, aunts plus grandparents. So both families have to be reconciled and there has to be peace. In order for that to happen, YeoJin has to be innocent of the crime of killing the Goo parents.
3. That leaves MyeongJi to be the real hand behind that accident. She never worked in the company and yet she has managed to create slush funds? So how was she doing it?