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-TigerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-23953055544568700132012-11-19T09:59:00.002-06:002012-11-19T09:59:12.031-06:00K-Drama Review: Nice Guy, Episodes 19-20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s1600/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s320/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" width="222" /></a><br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-1-2.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-3-4.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-5-6.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-7-8.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-9-10.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
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It's the final eps. I'm not ready for this. The last time I so anticipated a finale, <em>Big</em> happened to me (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">it was awfullll</span>).<br />
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Let's outline what I want to happen in these episodes ahead of time, just so I can look back and compare afterward.<br />
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1. Maru/Eunki. Both alive, both with memories intact. I want love and 2-car garage and a white picket fence for them.<br />
2. Jaehee Forgiven. Honestly, she's such a miserable creature, I don't want anyone to get revenge on her. What's the point in destroying something so weak?<br />
3. Something decent done with that company. We've kicked up such a fuss over the Taesan Corporation, I hope it's left in good hands.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-orT_tDLTI58/UKWsVBeOmII/AAAAAAAAMI0/BE1-nef5XGg/s1600/nice+guy+kdrama+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-orT_tDLTI58/UKWsVBeOmII/AAAAAAAAMI0/BE1-nef5XGg/s320/nice+guy+kdrama+poster.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Can You Manage All That, <em>Nice Guy</em>?</span></strong></div><br />
The show opens with shots of Eunki walking down a sidewalk, then shots of Maru walking down a sidewalk. She seems to be following him. In voiceover, Eunki says that she knows she and Maru can't be together and that everyone in the world will try to pull them apart, but this final time--once and for all--she will tell him her feelings and see if they can make a go of things. Good girl. Go for it. <br />
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As Eunki watches, Maru clutches his head, his cerebral hematoma flaring up, or whatever it is cerebral hematomas do to cause pain. <br />
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As he stands up, Eunki continues to follow him and wonder if she did the right thing in separating from him.<br />
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A flashback shows Attorney Park playing a recording for Maru of the day Eunki's father died--he had a heart attack, and the recording shows that Attorney Ahn talked Jaehee into just letting him die and not calling for help. Attorney Park says he didn't reveal their plot to Eunki sooner because he was afraid she'd take revenge on Attorney Ahn and Jaehee, and he knows that revenge poisons a person and everyone around them. Essentially, he loved Eunki too much to let her become a bitter rage monster. <br />
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Attorney Park goes to Attorney Ahn and says he's ready to reveal everything, including how his own father caused Eunki's Mom's fatal car accident. Attorney Park says that loving someone doesn't mean that you own them, and he had been acting like Eunki was his rightful property when he chose to continually hide that truth from her to keep her next to him. But now he says to Attorney Ahn, "Sending Eunki away and giving her up is also an act of love. Kang Maru taught me that." Ohh, where are my Kleenex?<br />
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Maru sits alone and stares at the recording device, listening to Jaehee crying over another dead man as he has a long flashback to episode one, where he took the blame for an accidental murder she committed.<br />
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At Taesan, Jaehee's assistant reads her a report that says, due to their bad publicity, the company wants Jaehee and Maru to step down. Maru asks Jaehee out on what he terms a "date" and that night she meets him in the park, the scene we saw at the end of last week's episode. Maru takes Jaehee's hand. Urk. I think I know what he's doing, being nice to her before delivering info that will make her sob, but I feel uneasy when he does this.<br />
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Maru begins to cry real, heartbroken tears. He says,"I had this thought. When you killed that man, if I had made you turn yourself in...if I had made you pay for your crime, what would have happened?" I see where he's going, now, and I like it. <br />
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"I would never have left you," Maru says. "I would have waited for you to get out of prison, however long, and I would have asked you to marry me. Would you have been happy? I'd probably have been busy, but we would still have traveled abroad with Choco and Jaegil once a year. I might even withdraw money from my savings someday to buy you a designer bag you liked." Slowly, slowly, Maru paints a picture of the simple yet beautiful life they could have had. It's not to make her guilty, or himself guilty, just to see how far they've fallen from what might have been. <br />
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"I ask myself, would you have been happy, then? Would you at least be happier than you are now?" Maru is finally seeing that he hurt Jaehee by protecting her from the consequences of her actions. By taking the fall, he steered her toward further selfishness. "Since I did that for you, you lost the ability to tell right from wrong, to decide what you should not and must not do." They are both weeping buckets at this moment.<br />
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"I'm the one who made you this way. I thought it was love, then, but it was ignorance. And arrogance. I made you turn into this monster. I was wrong, Han Jaehee. I did this."<br />
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Jaehee collapses at that. Maru says, "I can come back to you. I can't promise to love you, but I can promise to stay with you forever." Dear me. He's now offering her a future because he feels that he ruined her past? "As long as you're not asking for my love, it will be okay.Will you come to me?" Jaehee is a mess of tears, crying too hard to answer. Maru hugs her.<br />
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And Eunki is watching, because she's been following Maru most of the day. Girl, if you had something to say to him, you should have <em>said</em> it. <br />
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Also, for the record, I'm proud of Maru for seeing his mistake, but I still think he's taking too much responsibility for Jaehee. No one person can destroy another person's ability to make moral judgements. You can skew their perspective perhaps, but each person's soul is her own.<br />
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At Maru's home, Jaeshik tells Maru that he's been hired to assassinate him. Maru says, "Hyeong, (형/ big brother) if you're going to stab me, do it without talking."<br />
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Maru, Eunki, and Jaehee all get calls saying that Attorney Park has been in a wreck and is now in a coma. No dice, show. You can't have <em>two</em> characters fall into comas and still make me care. I have a one-coma limit of caring.<br />
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No wait, Eunki just had amnesia, not a coma. But they're both highly improbable, wildly dramatic and plot-convenient medical conditions, so same difference.<br />
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In the hospital, Eunki cries and yells at Attorney Park's lifeless body to wake up. Maru arrives to drag her out of the room. Eunki says she knows who might have done this to him, and Maru tries to calm her down, saying that if someone hurt Attorney Park like that, they might target Eunki next. Eunki says Jaehee and Attorney Ahn murdered her father, and everything will come to light when Attorney Park wakes up. Erm. Shouldn't you be a little more worried about coma-man's life than about what he can do for your murder investigation if he wakes up?<br />
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She says, "Go your own way, Maru. Protect Jaehee, who you can't get over. Because I'm going to bring her down." Ice cold.<br />
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Later at the hospital, Eunki protects Attorney Park, throwing Attorney Ahn out of the room and grilling Jaehee when she walks in, asking Jaehee if there are any weapons in her purse or coat, in case she might finish off Attorney Park. Maru arrives to put an end to the madness.<br />
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Maru gets Eunki alone and tells her it's not always a good idea just to attack and stir up added trouble simply because she can--there are people who likely want to kill her. Maru takes her arm and says she's his hostage and has to go everywhere with him.<br />
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At the office, Attorney Ahn tells Jaehee that he will take the blame for all her actions, but Jaehee is fed up with playing the poor, pitiful victim and always having strong, conniving men cover for her own misdeeds.<br />
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Maru follows Eunki all around the hospital and watches as she attends to Attorney Park. When she falls asleep, he puts his coat over her.<br />
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The next day, Jaehee gives Maru a big folder full of evidence of Eunki's Dad's misdeeds in the past, some of which amount to stealing money from his company to set it aside for Eunki. Jaehee adds that she'll never turn herself in to the police but that if Maru wants her to do so, he has to promise to love her with all his heart. A curious thing to bargain for. <br />
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Maru returns to the hospital and kindly says to Eunki, "Run away with me. Anywhere you want, we'll go there. Let's run away, Seo Eunki."<br />
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That was an okay episode, I suppose. Not much happened, except Jaehee and Maru finally wising up a bit about their own choices. <br />
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Episode 20 begins with Eunki pulling her hand away from Maru and saying no, she doesn't want to go with him. She says that right now her corporation, her friend Attorney Park, and solving the mystery of her father's death are much more important to her than he is. I'm actually glad to hear her say it. I want them to end up together, but at the moment she <em>does</em> have more important things to deal with.<br />
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Before she can run away, Maru wraps her in a hug and says, "Okay. Go ahead."<br />
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Eunki goes to confront a corporate minion for his role in Attorney Park's car accident. When the slithery minion denies any role in the accident, Eunki invites him to sit down, then kicks his chair away, causing him to land flat on the floor where she grabs his shirt and demands, "Why would such an insignificant creature as you try to kill Attorney Park?"<br />
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When minion refuses to speak, Eunki says, "Fine. Keep denying it, and I resort to inhumane methods." I would kind of like to see her inhumane methods, but the scene changes.<br />
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Maru sits with Jaehee and tells her that he mailed the incriminating audio files to the police station, so she has no way of escaping her role in Eunki's Dad's death. Jaehee says that in return, she'll reveal all the shady company secrets of Eunki's Dad, meaning that Eunki will be impoverished. Maru tells Jaehee that to save Eunki from the fallout, he asked her to run away with him, but she refused. <br />
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Maru says he was relieved that Eunki turned him down because it shows her strength, and that she doesn't need him anymore. He tells Jaehee to go ahead and expose all the secrets because Eunki will be able to deal with it just fine.<br />
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Once again, Maru encourages Jaehee to turn herself in, but she says she never will. Jaehee asks if she and Maru should just kill themselves but Maru says, "If you're going to die, do it alone. As for me, I'm going to live." Yay, our boy has again mustered the will to live, with or without Eunki! Just then, his headaches start again, and he leaves.<br />
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At the hospital, Attorney Park stirs. <br />
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At Maru's house, Jaegil finds Maru collapsed on the floor and takes him to the hospital. I would be more broken-hearted if Maru hadn't brought this on himself by shunning medical treatment. Choco and Jaegil cry their eyes out at the hospital. Inside, the doctor tells Maru that his chances of surviving tomorrow's brain surgery are 50%, and he asks if there is anyone Maru wants to see before he dies. <br />
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Jaeshik goes to Jaehee to tell her that he was going to kill Maru against her wishes because Attorney Ahn promised him money. But while at Maru's house, Choco kept making home-cooked meals for Jaeshilk. He yells at Jaehee that since she never treated him like a proper brother, he was so moved by Choco's tender care that he couldn't go through with it. Jaeshik also tells Jaehee that Maru is dying, anyway.<br />
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Jaehee shares the news with Eunki, who goes to Maru's hospital. Jaegil told Eunki that it was her head-on collision with Maru that gave him the hematoma. Yes, angry girl, you scrambled your loved one's brain as well as your own when you revenge-crashed. Now maybe you, too, can stop feeling like a victim.<br />
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She also knows that Maru delayed his life-saving surgery because he was trying to help her regain her position in the corporation. The guilt. It burns. Eunki can't bring herself to turn Maru's hospital room door. She walks home, remembering each ugly thing she said to him when her memories returned. Eunki cries on the street, and Jaehee cries at home, both of them sick with worry over the man whose heart they've each broken at different times. <br />
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Attorney Ahn calls Jaehee to tell her that he's going to tell the judge that everything is his fault, not Jaehee's. He's clearly gone over some psychological ledge because he says he wants to kill Eunki to get her out of the way. Why is he confessing all of this openly to Jaehee, who could stop him?<br />
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Maru is worried when Jaegil tells him that Eunki was going to visit him. Since Eunki didn't come inside, Maru thinks something could have happened to her. He leaves his hospital room and goes running down the street, looking for her. He beams a smile when he spots her, about to cross the street to come back and see him. <br />
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They walk slowly toward each other, then just as they're about to embrace, Maru sees Attorney Ahn behind Eunki's shoulder. Maru grabs Eunki and steps between her and Attorney Ahn as the villain rushes forward and... the scene is ambiguous, but it's implied that Attorney Ahn stabs Maru, then walks away, leaving our main couple frozen in the middle of the intersection as Eunki cries.<br />
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Jaehee calls the police to turn herself in.<br />
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Maru and Eunki sit on a nearby bench as Maru says he is tired and should be heading back to the hospital. Wait. Doesn't he have a stab wound in his side? Maru says in a labored voice, "If you have anything to tell me, will you wait until tomorrow? I also have a lot to tell you. We'll say it all tomorrow." If you don't die before then, you dummy.<br />
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Eunki is getting into a cab (it's clear by now that she just thought Maru hugged her, not that he saved her from a stabbing), and she asks Maru, "In the tunnel, why didn't you move away from my car before we crashed?" He replies, "Why didn't I move away? I don't remember." Maru is still clutching his side, hiding his wound, as he encourages Eunki to get in the taxi. Eunki swoops in for one last kiss, still oblivious to his injury.<br />
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At the police station, Jaehee confesses to a list of crimes that would make a sailor blush, then adds: "There is one more thing I need to confess--it happened seven years ago." I never expected her to finally confess to the murder she let Maru take the rap for! Good job, Jaehee. You've grown a spine and you're accepting the consequences like a grown woman should. <br />
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The detective looks uncomfortable and asks if she really wants to continue confessing without her lawyer present. Ha! One of her lawyers just woke up from a coma, while the other recently knifed his way to an almost-homicide. Jaehee says no, just keep writing it all down.<br />
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And elsewhere, Eunki and Maru are still making out, because he still hasn't told her about the knife! But the look on his face says that if kissing her is the last thing he does before he expires horribly, he'll die happy. As she leaves, for real this time, Eunki says, "I'm grateful to Jaehee for one thing--it's because of her that I got to meet you."<br />
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As she drives away, Maru staggers into the street and snow begins to fall. He pulls his hand away from his side and it looks like THIS:<br />
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Maru keeps trying to walk and the camera zooms in on his shaking steps as he thinks, "Eunki asked me why I didn't avoid her car in the tunnel. I told her I didn't remember, but I remember exactly why I did that."<br />
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"At that time, I was very tired of myself and the world around me." <br />
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He falls to the ground and struggles, but fails, to right himself. "I thought my present life was not very good, but that in my next life I would surely meet Eunki again, and we would be like normal people. We would date and be in love the way we should have been. I prayed to God for that outcome."<br />
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Tears fill his eyes and the lights go down on his motionless form laying on the street.<br />
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When the show comes back, we're watching a little girl on what is apparently an audition video. Her name is Park Seulgi, and she says her father's name is Park Jaegil. Whoa! So we're, like, six years in the future now and Jaegil has a little girl? The screen tells us it's <em>seven</em> years later as the child continues, "My mother's name is Kang Choco." Then we zoom out to see that Choco, who always wanted to be in show business, is coaching her little daughter's audition tape.<br />
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Choco goes to wake Jaegil up for work, and he gestures that he won't get up until he gets his good-morning kiss. Ahhh! So sweet. They are living in the house Maru bought in episode 11, the place where everyone started over in a fresh life. Then to show us what everybody else is up to, Jaegil goes to a chicken restaurant to buy chicken from...Jaeshik! Who is now gainfully employed! Who'd have thought? <br />
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And to extend the reunion, Secretary Hyun walks in to return a love letter Jaeshik gave her. Heh. Jaeshik argues that he wasn't thinking clearly when he sent it. But it looks like Secretary Hyun liked the confession--she just objects to the fact that he misspelled so many words in the letter. :-)<br />
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Cut to Jaehee, sitting in a car outside of a prison, when out emerges....Attorney Ahn?<br />
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He sees Jaehee, but her eyes are closed and he walks in the other direction. When Jaehee wakes up, she sees Attorney Ahn walking away and begins to go after him when Attorney <em>Park</em> appears and tells her to let him go. Park says that Ahn has made a conscious decision to let Jaehee go. Jaehee says she's been out of prison for a few months herself, but that she still hasn't gone to see her son, Eunsuk.<br />
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Attorney Park reveals that Eunsuk has a close relationship with Eunki, which Jaehee is happy about. Apparently, Eunsuk has a crush on a girl and Eunki is offering him advice about that. Jaehee tells Attorney Park to thank Eunki for that.<br />
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Finally, we see Eunki herself. She's carrying a little girl on her back and is rushing with the child through Maru's old neighborhood. Eunki runs into a little medical clinic and tells the nurse that the girl has a bellyache. The nurse says the doctor is out, and Eunki leaves to run to the corner store for medicine. <br />
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She walks back into the doctor's office, smiling slightly as a familiar voice diagnoses the child with pancreatitis. The little girl tells Maru (!yes it's Maru!) that she heard he studied medicine in America. Maru replies that yes, he studied medicine in America after he had a major surgery. Maru went to America to finish med school? That's cool.<br />
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The little girl asks why he's working in such a backwater place, and Maru replies that he likes the neighborhood; plus, there are a lot of pretty girls around here. It sounds like he's talking about Eunki, but when Maru turns around and sees Eunki in the room, he looks---what? Mildly confused? Disturbed? Certainly not the look of a man seeing his girlfriend or wife walk in the door, so they can't be together.<br />
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The little girl goes on to say that she heard that when he had his surgery, he lost all his memories, and he says yes, that is true.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><u>No, show, you cannot give Maru amnesia, too!!!</u></strong></span><br />
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But I guess you can and you did, so let's move on. <br />
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The little girl begins to talk about Eunki and hilariously says that Eunki's sandwich shop sells horrible food--her cookies and sandwiches are so bad, nobody knows how she stays in business. Little girl says, "But you eat every meal at her store, doctor! It is because you think the food is good?"<br />
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Dawww. Even with no memories, Maru finds himself seeking out Eunki, finding excuses to be around her. <br />
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We cut to Maru drinking coffee and reading a newspaper outside of Eunki's shop. Eunki is secretly taking pictures of him.<br />
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Maru sees her doing this and waves her outside to talk with him. He takes her camera and scrolls through the photos--they're all of him. When Eunki can't meet his eyes, Maru asks, "Are you interested in me?" Eunki says yes, and he replies, "Since when have you been interested in me?" -"It's been awhile." -"How long exactly?" Eunki won't say.<br />
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Maru walks away and we hear his voiceover from earlier, where he said that if he and Eunki met in another life, he'd want them to date like normal couples do. The stream of thought continues, "I would ask other people about her, I would hang out around her place. I'd want to impress her family." And despite seeming like he was freaked out by Eunki's photos, Maru goes to her shop and is almost panicked when there's a note on the door saying she's out. He sits on a bench, waiting for her as she rolls in on her bicycle. "I would memorize all her favorite songs. I'd sit in her favorite spot and wait for her all day."<br />
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Eunki stops and turns to look at Maru, then comes to sit on the bench with him. "I wanted to do all of that with Eunki," the inner monologue continues.<br />
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Maru hesitantly slides a small red box toward Eunki, who picks it up. Inside are couple rings! Eee! Maru's mental monologue concludes, "I prayed to God for all of that, long ago. And I'm praying again now."<br />
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He mentally says, "Thank you. I am happy now," presumably to God. He smiles and the camera pans out, showing Maru, Eunki, the sunset, the neighborhood they love, and the ring box. Everything's over and everything's just beginning. Our boy and our girl are going to be happy, and all shall be well.<br />
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What a nice way for <em>Nice Guy</em> to end. :-)<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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We're done. This lovely show is over, so let's examine how it decided to close itself.<br />
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My, my, my, I never thought I'd see this level of personal acceptance of guilt from Maru. Sure, he's always been a martyr for those he loves, but he never acknowledged until now that he was Jaehee's enabler. He helped her become the callous yet seductive brute she was. But still, Jaehee is ultimately her own person and Maru's part in her moral downfall is really minor, after all's said and done. So Jaehee had to grow.<br />
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Speaking of Jaehee, props to this story for a very real and very human anti-villain who had a great final episode. Jaehee finally grows up and realizes that her own lousy choices are in fact her OWN lousy choices, not the product of the big, bad world conspiring to keep her down. I started to respect her at the very end there, and I wanted to slow clap when she talked about missing her son after serving her time in prison.<br />
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These episodes were not about Eunki, but I was glad to see her stop waffling and choose Maru<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>for certain, as well as owning up to the fact that most of her problems are self-generated, not coming from Jaehee or Maru. Everybody was getting the personal revelations in these eps.<br />
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Having Maru get amnesia too was so ridiculous, but story-wise it worked. It's more like a plot movement from legend or folktales where the princess forgets the prince, then the prince forgets the princess and the roles are neatly reversed and balanced. <br />
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I'm not ready for this show to go, but at least it had a lovely, restrained ending after all that sadness. Thanks, <em>Nice Guy</em>, for the great plotting and near-perfect timing. This is Tiger Holland, signing out and looking for another show with acting and writing as good as this one.<br />
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Well, I had to check out this show because I heard it contains Park Yoochun, who I loved in <a href="/2012/03/k-drama-review-rooftop-prince-episodes.html">Rooftop Prince</a>, Yoon Eun-Hye, who I loved in <a href="/2012/05/k-drama-review-princess-hoursgoong.html">Princess Hours</a>, and Yoo Seung-ho, who was the only good thing about <a href="/2012/02/k-drama-review-operation-proposal.html">Operation Proposal</a>. Watching this show was a forgone conclusion--but what about actually liking it? What does <em>I Miss You</em> have to offer?<br />
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This recap will be rather long, since I'm still figuring out this new show's characters and plotlines.<br />
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The show starts in the past, with young teen versions of the protagonists.<br />
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This is our heroine, Sooyeon. She comes home from school, calls for her mom, then gets grabbed by an <em>ahjusshi</em> with a scar on his face.<br />
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Outside in the alleyway, Sooyeon's Mom listens to her daughter getting beaten, and she does not rush in. What. No matter how hurt I was, if my child was being attacked, the interloper would be DEALT WITH by any means available to me. But Mom's trembling and the man's words make me wonder if this dude is actually Dad? Maybe Mom has been a battered woman for years, and is too weak to fight back? <br />
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Some time later, Dad sits, apparently exhausted from kicking Sooyeon for too long. Then a plainclothes policeman (Detective Kim) walks in and beats Dad in a fight, then handcuffs him and says he's under arrest for murder. Detective Kim uncovers Sooyeon, still wrapped in the blanket and barely conscious.<br />
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Mom comes back and glares at Detective Kim for drawing a crowd as he arrested Dad. "How am I supposed to live here, now?" she says. Detective Kim is carrying a wounded Sooyeon on his back, but when he says, "Ma'am, your daughter is hurt," Mom replies, "That much won't kill her."<br />
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A boy, Jungwoo, is at football practice when he hears that his father has arrived from Korea, whereupon he runs to go get cleaned up. <br />
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Jungwoo's ear-to-ear grin falls as he realizes Dad is not here--it's just an assitant of some sort, here to tell Jungwoo that Dad is too busy to come. Jungwoo hops a flight to Korea, just to see Dad, much to his stepmother's dismay. While driving by with Stepmom, Jungwoo sees Sooyeon with her head down, looking victimized. Coincidental sighting number 1.<br />
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Stepmom's car pulls up in front of a prison and as Jungwoo waits, he gets another look at the sad, pretty girl just standing on the sidewalk. <br />
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Sooyeon's own mother emerges from the prison, saying, "It's over" as a body is carted out in an ambulance. Dad was executed in prison, it appears.<br />
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Jungwoo's father is wheeled out of the prison, and is upset that Jungwoo is here, instead of in America tending to his studies. Stepmom tries to cover for Jungwoo and says that he should be informed of everything that's going on at home. I'm quite curious, now. Why was Jungwoo's Dad in prison?<br />
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Oy. Now here's some drama with even more characters that are tangentially related to Jungwoo (his step-grandmother?), and I'm not even going into it. Let's just say Jungwoo's Dad is not a nice man, and there are money and power struggles in the family, and potential murderous plottings.<br />
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Sooyeon's Mom dumps her husband's ashes in the river and screams that she's too scared to meet him in the afterlife, so she's going to stay on earth as long as she can. Mom takes Sooyeon out for soju, but the people in the restaurant point and stare, whispering about seeing the child of the famous murderer. Mom gets sloppy drunk and yells at the people as Sooyeon quietly cries. Even this awful man's death hasn't brought her peace.<br />
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That night, Jungwoo can't sleep, so he goes for a walk and sees the girl he noticed before, Sooyeon, sitting alone on a park swing set at night. He joins her and tries to convince her he's not dangerous.<br />
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It starts to rain and Jungwoo seeks shelter under a park slide, while Sooyeon runs home and chirps happily to her sleepy mom about the cool new weird kid who is talking to her and who doesn't know her life story.<br />
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Yay! She's got a slight crush already, which works out nicely because he does, too. Sooyeon brings Jungwoo a yellow umbrella to walk home with, not caring that she herself is already soaked.<br />
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Jungwoo does accept her umbrella though, and promises to meet her the next day to return it.<br />
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The next day, Sooyeon is decidedly unlike herself as she skips off to meet her new "friend" (Mom is suspicious and tells Sooyeon she doesn't <em>have</em> any friends). A window breaks as Sooyeon walks past a house, and she peers inside to see a boy, slightly younger than herself, peering out with a frightened face. Sooyeon doesn't know how to help him, and she walks on.<br />
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After having to attend a family member's funeral, Jungwoo belatedly finds the yellow umbrella, loaned from Sooyeon, then we cut to Sooyeon walking home alone and dejected at night.<br />
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Sooyeon passes the broken window again on her way home and tries to talk to the boy, Hyungjoon, who is laying down inside, feverish and in obvious pain. His Caretaker shoos Sooyeon away from the window.<br />
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When Jungwoo arrives at his new school, he looks for Sooyeon, to return her umbrella, but finds her being mocked and belittled by the other kids. They won't even call her by name; they refer to as "number 27" or "the murderer's daughter". Jungwoo's expression is dead-on with how I feel about her treatment.<br />
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And then he does the nearly unforgivable--he backs away from her as if in fear. But after a PE game of basketball, when Jungwoo is getting beaten up by a gang of boys who disliked his rough playing style, Sooyeon shows up to defend him. Her quiet scariness almost frightens the boys off when Jungwoo rushes after them and again gets beaten down. <br />
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As Jungwoo is about to leave school, he flinches away from Sooyeon when she tries to talk to him again. She simply says, "It's not me who is a murderer. I don't want to hurt anyone." He pulls a coward's move and backs away again, telling her to leave him alone. She leaves, and our boy stands in the rain, reliving everything she said to him. <br />
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After sitting in the rain, then swinging for awhile at their playground, Jungwoo marches off to see Sooyeon at her house. But what he arrives to find is an<em> ahjumma</em> fight where the woman whose son was murdered is fighting Sooyeon's mom, who declares that the wronged mother should go away and leave her in peace, since the killer has now been executed. <br />
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But the scene doesn't stop there. Sooyeon's Mom shoves her daughter down and says, "Go ahead and kill her, if that's what it takes to make you feel better!" Sooyeon is screaming and crying and a crowd of 10 women try to talk sense into Mom. Mom shakes Sooyeon and says they should both just die, and at that moment of Sooyeon's most extreme shame, she looks up from the pavement where she's crawling away and sees the boy she likes, Jungwoo, who has viewed the whole thing.<br />
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Jungwoo runs after her and finds her hiding under the slide at their playground. He calls her by every nickname he called her before, and even the ugly term the kids said: "Killer's Daughter, Yi Sooyeon. Let's be friends." He is effectively saying, "I have seen you at your lowest, and you've seen me at my worst. Let's move on from here."<br />
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A beautiful way to end an episode.<br />
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The next ep starts with Jungwoo's offer of friendship still hanging in the air.<br />
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Sooyeon stands up like she's about to answer him, and Jungwoo dashes to a clothesline to retrieve...a clothespin? He uses it as a hairclip and pulls Sooyeon's hair away from her face. He tells her to wear her hair back from now on and to stop hiding behind it, and that he'll never ignore her again. He also apologizes for his earlier behavior.<br />
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Oh my. So sweet. This sunshiny boy finally gets Sooyeon to crack a smile. He tells her he doesn't need other friends at school--just one good friend to loan him an umbrella when he needs one. I think Jungwoo is all the better of a young hero because we've seen him be decidedly unheroic. We know he's capable of being callous and cowardly, so it's all the more meaningful when we see him being kind and loving. <br />
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Next day, Jungwoo gets into another fight with some classmates who are putting paint and glue on Sooyeon's desk. Sooyeon steps forward to stop one bully so Jungwoo won't get in trouble.<br />
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Which, even though she's not trying to be mean, is still the best revenge ever because the mean kids are terrified of contact with Sooyeon's supposed murder-cooties, and hugging them is the scariest thing she could do. Class starts and Sooyeon just puts newspaper over the paint and glue and goes right along.<br />
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After class, Jungwoo upsetedly asks Sooyeon why she isn't talking to him today. Didn't they decide to be friends? She tells him they should be secret friends and he should still ignore her at school, because things could go badly for him. Sooyeon says she must protect him because he's the first person who's ever offered to be her friend and this might not ever happen for her again.<br />
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But when some kids start throwing trash at Sooyeon in class (<em>where</em> are the teachers? if my students were being this abusive to other children, I'd call the principal, the guidance counselor, their parents, and maybe the cops), Jungwoo openly calls out to her and asks her to step out with him to buy a snack. Kids throw trash on them from the windows, but Jungwoo remains peppy and unbothered.<br />
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As they walk home rather happily, they see a room on fire, and it's the kid Hyungjoon's room, except he's locked inside. Jungwoo breaks the lock on the door with a brick, and as soon as the door opens, Hyungjoon falls out and runs away, limping on a bleeding bandaged leg. Sooyeon catches him and they take him to get medical treatment, but the kid's leg is torn up so bad that the local clinic can hardly deal with it. Jungwoo has to beg his Dad to send help.<br />
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When the boy wakes up, Sooyeon tries to comfort him and attempts to introduce herself saying, "You don't know <em>unnie</em>'s name yet, do you?" Meaning herself, but she's referring to herself with the term for a female's older sister! It's a natural assumption to think he's female, since Hyungjoon has long hair and a high child's voice. He grunts out, "I'm <em>not</em> a girl." Before any more can be said, Hyungjoon's Caretaker arrives and kidnaps him, which she thinks is in his best interest since some people want to kill the kid. Well, he's going to die anyway if Caretaker doesn't get him to a doctor.<br />
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Next, we get a weird episode where Sooyeon's Mom decides to move to Detective Kim's house, so Sooyeon will have a home. Detective Kim feels guilty because he helped convict Sooyeon's Dad of a murder he didn't commit, and the man was executed for it. Detective Kim also has a teen daughter, Eunjoo, who doesn't like the new living arrangement. <br />
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Jungwoo is shocked to go to Sooyeon's house and find it cleared out, but Sooyeon is still waiting for him at their playground, so he hasn't lost her. She's wearing the little orange clothespin hairclip he gave her, and she mentions that it's the first present she has ever received. Yeesh. Sooyeon walks him over to see her new house, and Jungwoo jokes that she might not want to be his friend anymore now that she's got a girl her own age in the house.<br />
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Sooyeon's "stepsister" Eunjoo comes home and starts insulting Sooyeon, but stops when she sees Jungwoo, who she has a huge crush on. I think this plot point will crop back up.<br />
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Off in Hyungjoon's plot, it turns out that his Caretaker is not out for his best interests after all and is instead plotting to use him. For monies? Or for power?<br />
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Jungwoo and Sooyeon ride the bus home together and as Sooyeon sleeps, Jungwoo leans in front of her face to ask her a question. The bus hits a bump, and Sooyeon falls forward into a sort of high-impact kiss.<br />
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After that highly improbable first-kiss scenario, Jungwoo is astonished and freaked out that Sooyeon will be upset at him, but she slept through the whole thing and doesn't remember. As they get off the bus and walk home, Jungwoo looks miserable, and Sooyeon tries to make him feel better, thinking he is carsick. But in reality, Jungwoo is suddenly noticing how enchanting Sooyeon is, how pretty and sweet and special. When he reaches up to fix a wonky lightbulb in a streetlamp, he and Sooyeon are thrown into close proximity again.<br />
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After dinner, Detective Kim takes Jungwoo outside to teach him how to fight, which is painfully adorable. He gives him tips like "90% of fighting is intimidation!" As the girls watch this fighting practice, Eunjoo actually starts being nice to Sooyeon, and Sooyeon's Mom sits down with her and tells her she looks pretty.<br />
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Then we skip to a strange moment where Sooyeon writes "보고싶다" (<em>bogoshipda</em>, "I Miss You," the show's title) in chalk on a wall and grown-up Jungwoo (played by Park Yoochun) watches.<br />
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So we've skipped on into the future versions of our leads, and grown up Jungwoo is thinking of childhood Sooyeon, it seems.<br />
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Episode end.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Sunshine Boy/Raincloud Girl</em>. How wonderful is it when Jungwoo enlivens Sooyeon's ugly world?<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Confusing Editing</em>. Sometimes the show is cut strangely, so you don't know where a scene is located, or how much time has passed since the last scene.<br />
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<u>Watch<strong> <em>I Miss You</em> </strong>on <a href="http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4170/1/I_Miss_You/"><strong>Dramafever</strong></a><strong>.</strong></u><br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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This is a tear-jerker and no lie. I didn't really want to start on another dark-dark serious meoldrama while I'm still finishing up "Nice Guy," but I was tempted by the promise of three actors I really like. <br />
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As it turns out, I think I'll be watching it partly because of the horribleness of the circumstances. I have always lived in a very peaceful, loving world, and I think sometimes I need to be reminded that there are many people in the world who live with hurt and brokenness every day. Goodness knows there's no entertainment value in watching such things, but sometimes I think shows can help us by depicting the kind of world we <em>don't</em> want, which better enables us to understand and strive for the opposite. <br />
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This show is not my usual fare, but I see something here that I want to understand and recognize, so I'll stick with it, at least for a while. And hey, we do have a little sweetness to lighten the heartbreak, too! I just hope the adult actors are as compelling in these roles as the teen actors have been.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-53805398698304580552012-11-11T10:09:00.001-06:002012-11-11T10:09:36.212-06:00Psalms on Sunday: Psalm 19Ahh. This psalm is one I truly love. It's an encouraging meditation on the nature of God. I can't always connect with the war-torn battle psalms, but there's a very clear place in my heart marked out for the praise psalms.<br />
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Verse 1 says that the heavens, meaning the sky, proclaim God's glory; the very sky itself is his artwork. It's so strange that even as a Christian, I think of the sky as this beautiful thing that is just <em>there</em>, without remembering that all the varieties of dawns, sunsets, and clouds are part of God's own artistic work. Nature is the ultimate example of form meeting function!<br />
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Verses 2-4 talk about how the glory of God is like a language that is spoken by the day, the night, and the entire world. Verses 5-6 personify the sun, talking about the sun's omnipresence and how nothing is hidden from its heat.<br />
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Verses 7-9 talk about God's laws. I think this is partly talking about the Jewish law system set up in Leviticus, partly about the Ten Commandments, and partly about the rest of the Bible, where God's laws and standards are made clear. We are told that God's laws are perfect, and that following them purifies us and makes us wise, and well as bringing joy to our hearts!<br />
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Verses 10-11 get more personal, talking about how the speaker in particular views God's laws as something wonderful, even comparing the laws to awesome things like gold and honey. God's laws prevent the speaker from going awry. Verses 12-14 ask God to protect the speaker from more insidious mistakes like hidden sins or presumptuous sins. The chapter ends on one of my favorite verses ever, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, my strength, and my redeemer." It's a verse I catch myself repeating pretty often in daily life. :-)<br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-2" id="en-KJV-14171"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. <br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-3" id="en-KJV-14172"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-4" id="en-KJV-14173"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-5" id="en-KJV-14174"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-6" id="en-KJV-14175"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-7" id="en-KJV-14176"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>The law of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is sure, making wise the simple.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-8" id="en-KJV-14177"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>The statutes of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is pure, enlightening the eyes.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-9" id="en-KJV-14178"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>The fear of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> are true and righteous altogether.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-10" id="en-KJV-14179"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-11" id="en-KJV-14180"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-12" id="en-KJV-14181"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-13" id="en-KJV-14182"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-19-14" id="en-KJV-14183"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, my strength, and my redeemer.</span><br />
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I am so jazzed and so scared for these episodes. Ack, do I dare to look?<br />
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We start by re-viewing Eunki's announcement to the Taesan board members about how she lost her memories, but she still wants to fight for her job.<br />
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Eunki meets with Secretary Hyun and tells her that actually, she wants to give all the company leadership to Maru--Eunki's tired of this charade. And if her left father left money for her in Swiss bank accounts or anything, she wants to give that money to Maru. I wonder what her game is, but I halfway think that Eunki's genuine about not wanting to run the company anymore. She was good at business, but it was never her dream, just her way to not drown in her stormy family life.<br />
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But no, Eunki calls Secretary Hyun out for not telling her that Maru was the other person in the car accident a year ago. She asks if Secretary Hyun, Attorney Park, and Maru are all conspiring against her.<br />
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Eunki tells Secretary Hyun not to tell anyone else about her recovered memories. Secretary Hyun cries with joy that Eunki is better. The next day, Eunki talks to Choco, then goes downstairs to greet Maru, who is cooking breakfast.<br />
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Eunki gives Maru a hug, and as she leans against his back, she tells him about a "dream" she had where she met many people who said they were on her side, but Maru himself had said nothing. Eunki says all she ever wanted was for him to say sweet words to her, even if they were lies. Without turning around, Maru asks if he and Eunki should move somewhere far away, where nobody knows them. Wow, this is sudden.<br />
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Jaehee goes to see Maru's old house, which she bought, and the cleaning <em>ahjumma</em> is really freaked out by Jaehee's being there so early in the morning. Jaehee says her house is cold, but this place is warm and the <em>ahjumma</em> takes her literally, thinking the heater in her mansion is broken. Jaehee asks, if she waits for Maru at his house, will he come back? When the answer is negative, Jaehee announces that she'll <em>make</em> him come back home.<br />
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Jaehee walks out the front gate to find Attorney Ahn waiting for her. She's skeeved out and angry that he's got her under surveillance 24/7 and always watches where she goes. Jaehee says, "You seem to have forgotten your place. Return to your senses--I am your boss." Attorney Ahn warns her that Eunki's acting strange lately, then he wraps his scarf around Jaehee, ostensibly to keep her warm, but she and he both know it's a sort of threatening gesture.<br />
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At home, Maru brings home a pair of couple rings he bought for himself and Eunki, then he sees some crumpled-up paper on Eunki's floor. It's her old diary notes, which say "Maru is the nicest guy in the world." He thinks to himself that Eunki has got her memories back, and he's glad of it, though it only means more heartbreak for him.<br />
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Unfortunately, we all still have to play the corporate game, and Eunki and Maru's fake wedding invitations have already gone out. Eunki's pretending to be happy, and Maru knows it's all an act, though it was an act anyway, since they weren't <em>really</em> getting married, though they did get officially engaged after their fake engagement... Dramas, oy.<br />
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Eunki makes Jaehee come with her for wedding dress shopping, which is cruel but funny, since Jaehee is fuming about the wedding, but can't say so. Jaehee doesn't know it was all Eunki's idea and she asks Maru if he loves her so much that he has to needle her through Eunki. The situation gets worse when Eunki walks in to see Jaehee holding Maru's hand.<br />
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Then Eunki invites Choco and Jaegil to eat a meal with her, Maru, and Jaehee for two reasons; first, to kill Jaehee inside at the sight of the family she can no longer have, secondly to hurt Maru by having to see everyone interact. Choco, Jaegil, and Jaehee lie that this is their first time meeting. <br />
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After the awkward dinner, Maru is still left wondering who new-Eunki is and what she wants and values, but he decides that he loves her and won't grow weary of waiting for her to decide what she needs. <br />
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Jaehee calls Maru in for a business meeting, but skips to the most serious topic ever--apologizing for taking away his bright future when she let him go to jail. She says she'll compensate him for ruining him, and she looks sincere. Maru says forget it, he's going to get rid of Jaehee as his final act to protect Eunki. He makes good on that intention by calling Jaehee out in a meeting for supporting a business plan he suggested, when she had opposed the same plan back when it was Eunki's original idea. He highlights her hypocrisy in front of everyone.<br />
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Jaehee finds him again and yells, "Is Eunki all you ever think about?"<br />
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Jaehee counters that she didn't say goodbye to Maru because she didn't still love him. She just wanted to get away from her horrible life. Jaehee says it's okay for him to marry Eunki, so long as she can still see him and he doesn't move any further away from her. Eww. And Eunki overhears all of this, naturally, for maximum knife-twisting. <br />
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Eunki says some mean things to Attorney Park, revealing that her memories are back, then she unwisely talks with Attorney Ahn who tells her about Maru's past time in prison for murder. Then Eunki brings up her own father's death and how strange it is that Jaehee and Attorney Ahn were the first ones to find him. Attorney Ahn denies any foul play.<br />
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And wow, we skip forward a couple weeks (months?) to Eunki's wedding day. I'm betting she's going to leave Maru at the altar, not that public humiliation could hurt him worse than knowing she's plotting against him.<br />
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But Maru has gone missing, leaving his tux behind. We also get footage of a local news station receiving pictures of Jaehee and Maru, and a note warning them that the president of Taesan has a relationship with her stepdaughter's fiance. Next thing you know, their former relationship is in articles all over the internet. Reporters invade the wedding hall, shouting questions at Jaehee.<br />
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I'm betting Maru set this up. He wouldn't mind taking himself down and destroying his chance with Eunki if it meant protecting Eunki by getting Jaehee out of the way. Yeah. Maru totally did it--we see him brooding in his car far away, and not answering phone calls as the city lights up with the fresh gossip. <br />
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Jaehee barely notices when Attorney Ahn drives her away and says she needs to stay at his house, because there are reporters camped out at her mansion. I see what you did there, Attorney Ahn. Night falls. Eunki remains in the wedding hall, looking sad. I can't tell if the sadness is an act for those around her, or if she's truly let down that Maru bailed and this secret was revealed to the public.<br />
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But Maru does come back! He goes to see Eunki, who refused to leave the wedding hall until he came. He says "We need to talk".<br />
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We hear Secretary Hyun tell Attorney Park that it was <em>Eunki</em> who leaked this news story to the press and intentionally ruined her own wedding. Ah. That's mildly surprising. Maru talks to Eunki saying, "I know everything. I know your memories are back and you know what kind of man I am."<br />
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Episode end. Not the most climactic ending because we don't get her reply, but still a big clearing of the air. I hope.<br />
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Episode 18 starts with Eunki and Maru sitting in his car. Eunki asks since when did he know her memories were back, and why didn't he say anything? He answers, "I wanted to be played as much as you planned." Maru wanted to take whatever punishment she doled out, because he knew he deserved it. Then Maru explodes that he can't believe Eunki was willing to hurt her own self in all of this. She should have taken down Jaehee and Maru and left herself unharmed, not drawn into a scandal.<br />
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Eunki says that since her father died while she was busy paying attention to Maru, she'll do anything to destroy his life. Listen, girl, you <em>chose</em> to go nuts over Maru--nobody was holding a gun to your head, keeping you away from your awful father in his last days. Take some responsibility for your actions.<br />
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Attorney Park comes to pick Eunki up and drop her off at a motel.<br />
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At Maru's house, he is calm as Secretary Hyun packs up Eunki's things. He eats a meal Choco prepared for him, showing no tears or outward signs of heartbreak.<br />
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Maru goes to see Jaehee and says that he's the one who leaked the information to the press. He tells her not to have a press conference and deny the rumors or he'll circulate even more condemning evidence. Maru says he was only taking care of Eunki out of obligation, and that his love for Jaehee was the real thing--he repeats Jaehee's past words verbatim. Argh, what's his game? Personal degradation or something deeper? Maybe just keeping Jaehee out of Eunki's way?<br />
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Also, Maru's here to affront Attorney Ahn by showing how little Jaehee cares for him when Maru's around. Careful, Maru, it won't take much to push this guy to kill you. Or maybe you <em>want</em> that. <br />
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At the motel, Eunki locks herself into the bathroom and sits in her wedding dress in a full tub. Attorney Park finally gets in there, and I'm just glad she hasn't hurt herself.<br />
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Eunki haltingly says, "I...couldn't hate Maru. I should be furious, but no matter how hard I try, I can't hate him." She cries, "He doesn't love me. He's only using me to get her back." Which isn't true, but now Maru is saying it's true, so it just got all "K-Drama Inception" up in here. Eunki says that she hoped telling their story to the world would end her love for Maru, but it didn't work. <br />
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She weeps that she did the right thing, but she still misses him so badly, and I feel a little sick at my stomach. All this needless pain, just to prove a point that she doesn't need to prove. <br />
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At Jaehee's house, Maru tells Jaehee that she can have him, so long as she gives up the company and leaves Eunki be forever.<br />
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The next day, Eunki moves back home into the mansion with Jaehee! Ha. Love it. Now that there's nothing left to hide, there's no reason for two bitter rivals not to share house-space, is there? <br />
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At the office, Jaehee has a face-off with Attorney Ahn. She tries to snub him, and he grabs her by her jacket and says that's she's a murderer and a nobody, so she shouldn't act all high and mighty. Who does she think helped her get to where she is, now? "You are mine. I gave up everything to have you. Let's get married." Then he forces a kiss on her, literally holding her head still.<br />
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Maru goes back to work, and Attorney Park asks him to ask about Eunki. Maru says he won't ask about her because if Eunki is over him, that news will hurt him, and if Eunki is missing him, that news is unfortunate news also.<br />
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Eunki calls Maru, but she doesn't speak. They have an entire silent conversation in their heads, just listening to the other person breathe on the other end of the line.<br />
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After she hangs up, he says out loud, "보고싶다, 서은기." (Bogoshipda, Seo Eunki./ "I miss you.") Then he thinks to himself, "Call me again tomorrow. I'll be waiting for your call." Finally, some sweet moments, just when it looked like we'd lose them forever. <br />
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On the upside, every last bit of hidden nastiness is known by all parties. If Maru and Eunki can jump this hurdle and be together, there is literally nothing else left to drive a wedge between them. They have stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back, and they lived on.<br />
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At work, drunk Jaehee decides to stop drinking alone and hauls some alcohol up to Maru's office. It's weird that they almost seem like they could be buddies, now that's everything's over. <br />
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Later, uber-drunk Jaehee comes home to the mansion where Eunki is, but Maru is the one helping Jaehee home. Jaehee invites Maru to stay so they can drink some more, with Eunki this time, since they all have so much to catch up on. Maru puts the kibosh on this idea, and as he and the housemaid walk Jaehee to her room, Eunki does the sad panda face.<br />
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Maru stops by Eunki's room after the maid tucks Jaehee in for the night. Maru asks Eunki a series of questions: Did she move back home? Is she doing well? Is she eating well? Has she been sleeping enough? It's like he's pouring his heart into these questions. He asks, "Is there anything you want to say to me?" When she doesn't reply, he leaves. Eunki stands in front of her door, almost opening it to go stop him, as Maru stands on the other side of the door, hoping she'll decide to stop him.<br />
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Instead, Maru calls her cellphone. He asks, "Is this house the only place you can go? Why do you look unwell? I'll leave now. Goodnight." Eunki says in her head, "I'm glad I saw you today." <br />
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Next day, Jaegil says he's forcing Maru to have that important brain operation. Maru doesn't agree.<br />
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Eunki meets with Attorney Park and says she wants to re-investigate her father's death, which looks like there could have been foul play involved. Attorney Park knows it's true, but if he tells Eunki, Attorney Ahn will tell Eunki that Attorney Park's Dad was responsible for Eunki's Mom's death.<br />
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Attorney Park tells Eunki most of what he knows about the old events, and she's angry he kept this from her. She angrily asks if there's anything else he needs to tell her. <br />
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Jaehee meets Maru in a park and we don't see the scene, but I presume she confesses that she contributed to Eunki's Dad's death. As Jaehee sobs, Maru holds her, and of course Eunki walks up in the only park in Seoul and sees them. Because we must have coincidences and lots of them.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Eunki's Sugar Cubes</em>. In episode 17, it's a nice callback to the past when Eunki starts plunking sugar cubes into her coffee when she gets her memories back. We've seen her do this before when she was troubled.<br />
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Some of the fire is gone from the show, but that's mostly due to the places the plot needed to go. So, it's okay.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Oh, these episodes weren't totally heartbreaking, but they were <em>frustrating</em>. Because Eunki's choices are keeping us from all the good moments, these eps were constantly scurrying away from satisfying scenes. Yet, the writing is still dead-on because the frustration is showing us something important about the characters' choices.<br />
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I like how revenge feels so empty for Eunki. Revenge is not the tasty morsel of rare meat that it is advertised to be--sometimes getting revenge means keeping yourself from the only good things you have in life. Even Maru learns that the fruits of revenge aren't grand. He thoroughly relished the chance to ruin Jaehee in the past, but now he's like a brother, shepherding her home when she's had a few too many. There is nothing left to be angry about.<br />
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So, <em>Nice Guy</em>. The anger is gone, so let's bring the love. You've got two episodes to give me my epic happy ending. Go, go, go!<br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-1-2.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-3-4.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-5-6.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-7-8.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-9-10.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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Under pressure from Maru, Jaehee holds a board meeting to propose that Eunki become the co-director of the Taesan Corporation as well as its spokesperson and public "face".<br />
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After the meeting, Jaehee asks Maru if he's feeling good, now that he's got everything he wanted. Maru replies that he's certainly feeling very happy, but he is <em>far</em> from done. Jaehee is floored that he would use her brother Jaeshik against her, but Maru interrupts to remind her that there is absolutely nothing he won't do to get Eunki back to her rightful place.<br />
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Jaehee says this manipulation isn't like Maru; only she herself is capable of such atrocious behavior. Maru says he's not so different from Jaehee--did she think that only she could stoop so low in order to get what she wants? Anyone can be a villain, Maru says. The reason most people aren't villains is that they have dignity and self-restraint. Good point. Being a bad guy doesn't take a certain strength of character--what it takes is a complete lack of decency or love for oneself or for others. <br />
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It brings up another key question--can Maru beat Jaehee without being Jaehee? Can you defeat badness without internalizing the same? <br />
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Jahee has one last question for him--if she gives up everything to Eunki, will Maru come back to her? She outright asks him to wager his own affections. Hoo boy. I am so worried about this question because Maru has zero self-worth. He's not going to refuse on the grounds of being too good for Jaehee, and he's not even out for revenge anymore, so he's not going to refuse because he's mad. In fact, being with Jaehee might be the ultimate way to punish himself and get Eunki restored to her position in the process.<br />
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But he says no. Whew. Cue the massive sighs of relief.<br />
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Eunki knows something is up, but Maru won't tell her that he threatened Jaehee in order to get the directorship for Eunki. Maru tells Eunki she must get her memories back soon, and that it's only a matter of willpower for her. O rly?<br />
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In other news, Jaehee has bought Maru's ratty old house and often visits it, alone. That's less creepy than I thought it would be, and more sad. Instead of spending time with her son or spending time becoming a stronger businesswoman (or a decent human being!), Jaehee basks in the guilt and sentimentality of the past. <br />
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Maru shepherds Eunki around to the places where she might have memories of him, to nudge her into recalling everything. Eunki remembers nothing, no matter how strong the memories associated with a certain place should have been. <br />
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Then Eunki sees another happy couple walking and asks Maru why he doesn't kiss her--why he always seems distant, like he's about to leave. She asks if they've kissed before, and Maru smoothly lies and says they haven't. <br />
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Jaehee's scheming proceeds apace--somehow, Jaeehee has looked up Eunki's ex-boyfriend Junghoon, and he goes to see Eunki. This is a great move by the show's writers, because they're using an already established character to gum up the works instead of pulling somebody new out of nowhere. <br />
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There's a tense pause as he walks into Eunki's office and she's speechless at the sight of him. We know she doesn't remember him, but how well can she fake the interaction? A flashback shows that Jaehee has already told him about Eunki's lost memories and offered him a really good business deal if he can separate Eunki and Maru. <br />
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Maru gets in trouble when he goes to confront a businessman for helping Jaehee frame Eunki for embezzling funds from the Taesan Corporation. The guy gets beaten up, on orders from Attorney Ahn, and Maru is framed for the assault.<br />
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Maru goes to talk to Jaehee and demand that she clear Eunki of all embezzlement charges. Jaehee doesn't want to, and she hedges. Jaehee also lies to Attorney Ahn to protect Maru. Well, we always knew she'd throw Maru under a bus to save herself, but Attorney Ahn's place in Jaehee heart is even less--that of a well-trained minion, only that minion is thinking for himself now.<br />
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Maru is arrested and Eunki marches into Jaehee's office to make a deal. If Jaehee wants Taesan, she can have the whole business, just stop trying to frame Maru.<br />
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Jaehee nearly has a come-apart at this news. Why is Eunki giving up the corporation for some worthless guy, she demands? Jaehee herself always chose money/power over love, so she can't conceive of why Eunki would act otherwise. Eunki says that she and Jaehee just see the world differently, because Eunki would gladly trade something she barely cares about (business) for someone she loves (Maru).<br />
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Eunki meets with ex-boyfriend Junghoon and he lies about their past, saying he used to tell her he loved her all the time. This info prompts a memory flashback for Eunki of herself, telling Maru that he was the first man to ever say "I love you" to her. Excellent move from the writers, again, because it makes narrative sense and because it reminds the audience of a <em>great</em> scene in the show's past.<br />
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Junghoon clasps Eunki's hands and she regains her old fire to say, "Get your hands off me, you lying scumbag." Yay!<br />
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And some weird conversation is going down with Attorney Park and Maru. Maru says he doesn't want to leave Eunki's side after she regains her memories. Attorney Park reminds him that he signed a contract to this effect.<br />
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Jaehee arranges for Maru's name being cleared. Attorney Ahn blows a gasket and starts throwing things when he hears of it. Eunki meets Maru the second he is freed, and says "You are such a liar and con artist." Maru's face falls, thinking she's remembered everything about him. But no, she only remembers that they've kissed before, which he had lied about. She then gets embarrassed and walks off.<br />
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Maru stops Eunki and tells her, "Eunki, remember this. This is important. Remember this as your first kiss." There's something desperate about the way he says it, but it's clear why--she's getting back memories of her first kiss with him, and he's upset that his feelings for her weren't real then. He wants her to remember the real thing.<br />
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They walk home, hand in hand, and Eunki says, "You asked me to try to remember what kind of man you were--I remember now. You were the kind of man that I loved." Quite true. In the past, she learned the truth and didn't care that he was a bad dude, she just plain loved him. Maru swallows and blinks back tears. Eunki poses an important question to Maru once more, "Us having a future and a family together, will that be possible?"<br />
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In answer, Maru kisses her again. Eunki smiles and says they should get married.<br />
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Though really, I'm not at all surprised that Eunki proposed. This is who she truly is--heart on her sleeve, nothing hidden, charging forward. "If we get married, then I'll become a part of your real family." Maru is about to shed tears once again when she says she wants to help him build a warm and reliable family. Gosh, it is hard watching a grown man struggle not to cry. <br />
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He replies, "Then. Let's get married."<br />
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But oh man, this is too much straight up happiness for our show. Somebody we like is going to die soon to make up for the joyful moments, right? I just hope it's not Choco.<br />
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Eunki shows Maru a dress shop where she has clearly been admiring white dresses for awhile. Ah, and then they walk along the street, talking about wedding plans. Eunki wants to book a wedding hall, Maru says they need to plan a honeymoon, then they cutely discuss future kids. Maru wants a boy and a girl, while Eunki is holding out for 9 kids, a whole baseball team's worth.<br />
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In Jaehee-land, Jaehee has wandered to a seedy old bar that she and Maru used to frequent. She drinks alone, and when a pushy ahjusshi asks her to come to his table, she yells at him, then Attorney Ahn appears out of nowhere and punches the guy.<br />
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Maru tells Eunki that they'll have to get married after she gets her memories back--a good move on his part. Eunki says she won't have a change of heart after getting her memories back, and I think she's right. Maru replies that in the future, there may be a better man waiting for her. Aw, does he mean Attorney Park? But if Eunki does still want to marry him after her memories return, Maru swears he'll never let her go.<br />
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Jaegil finds out about Maru's cerebral hematoma and wonders why Maru has refused an operation. Maru says it's because the surgery is risky--he could end up dead or paralyzed. Also, Maru is enjoying life with Eunki so much, he doesn't want to take the chance of losing this incredible happiness just yet. <br />
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The next morning, Eunki, Choco and Jaegil prepare some kind of eel stew (starting with live, squiggly eels!) and as they joke around, Maru hears them from bed and smiles, thinking to himself, "I hear my friend my sister, and my love all laughing. I'm afraid this dream will disappear when I open my eyes."<br />
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Jaeshik goes to tell his sister Jaehee that Attorney Ahn wants Maru dead. Jaehee's not happy about this. She's even less happy about the news spreading that Eunki is soon to marry her fiance, Maru--so that even if Jaehee can declare Eunki mentally incompetent, Maru will still take over her role in the company.<br />
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Jaehee meets with Maru and begs him to call off the wedding. Maru shakes her off and says, "I'm the one who needs Eunki. Without Eunki, I couldn't bear to go on one more day." <br />
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Eunki finally puts together the memories of her accident and recalls that it was Maru she crashed into a year ago. She also remembers the words he said about loving Jaehee, not her.<br />
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In a board meeting, Eunki announces that she has amnesia and is suffering from brain damage, destroying all the work that Maru and Attorney Park have done on her behalf for months. But Eunki isn't Eunki without impulsivity and brutal honesty. She says she'll step down from her position if the directors want her to.<br />
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Maru goes to see her in her office afterward and tells her she did a good job. He tells her that he just got his paycheck, so he'll get her anything she wants. Eunki requests flowers, a purse,<em> samgyeopsal</em> (삼겹살, pork belly-bacon), and a kiss. Maru dutifully collects all the things Eunki wants while Eunki goes to visit her father's urn, to apologize for getting involved with Maru.<br />
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When Eunki finally does show up to meet him, Maru happily shows her the little presents he got for her, then offers her the last present--her requested kiss. It seems like all is well, but Eunki opens her eyes during the kiss, looking cold and manipulative, just like Maru used to. <br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. The <em>Eunki/Maru Kiss</em> in episode 15. To finally get Maru's real feelings and see him expressing actual true love for Eunki? It's priceless.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Does this show have to end? Because it's seriously glorious in a way that few shows have ever matched for me. We've got layered villains, layered good guys, vulnerability everywhere and lots and lots of character growth. Plus, in these episodes we get kisses and marriage proposals! Win.<br />
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<em>Nice Guy</em> is just designed to rip viewers' hearts to shreds, but it feels like it's actually doing some good, too--we get to see people making a variety of choices, and we see how ugly it is when Jaehee consistently chooses selfish ambition, and how beautiful it is when Eunki and Maru choose sweetness and self-sacrifice.<br />
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Oh, but how that last episode hurt. Eeep, I'm worried about where Eunki is going, now. Will we have yet another character going on a revenge spree? Keep your fingers crossed. <br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-1-2.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-3-4.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-5-6.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-7-8.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-9-10.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">Click "play" below to listen to me read the review! :-) </span></strong><br />
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As our show opens, Eunki smiles while cooking.<br />
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The scene cuts to Maru, fresh out of the shower. He smiles and writes "haengbok" 행복, or <em>happiness</em> in the fog on the mirror. Ah sugar, I get the feeling you won't be riding that happiness high for too long. Sure enough, Eunki has a flashback to a time when her doctor told her to seek out her bad memories and confront them, so she can finally recover from that brain trauma.<br />
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Eunki remembers herself swerving in that tunnel a year ago...which mean she's getting her memories back. Eunki even flinches away from Maru when he comes into the kitchen of the house they share with Choco and Jaegil. So the question isn't "will we be getting angst this episode?" but "how much angst will there be?"<br />
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Eunki admits that she's worried Maru will one day get tired of her, but he works hard to convince her otherwise: "No, I know how I feel. I won't get tired of you. I won't run away." These sweet words are cut off by a ring at the doorbell--it's some more lawyers, saying that Maru is being sued by the Taesan Corporation for false business practices. <br />
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Is it bad that my first reaction is "yay!"? Because while I love Maru, I think he is owed some karmic payback for all those people he scammed and cheated during his year apart from Eunki. It was his choice to become a thief and a crook, so it's only right that now he's being called out for the crookedness. Maru doesn't just need to play white knight for Eunki--he needs to actually become a hero, which is hard to do until you reform your morals.<br />
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Maru agrees to go with the prosecutors, but not before he eats breakfast. He explains to them that Eunki worked hard since dawn to prepare the first meal she ever made for him, and he's not about to miss it. OMG, why so cute? Then he grins at the prosecutors outside because he knows they don't have a warrant for his arrest, and can't make him go anywhere. He goes to visit Jaehee, who says she'll bury him with framed evidence of his corporate betrayal unless he leaves now.<br />
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She closes her offer by saying, "If you were sent to prison again, what would happen to Eunki and Choco?"<br />
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Threatening his kid sister and his precious Eunki? You have to be lower than a snake's belly to even come up with that. <br />
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Elsewhere, Attorney Park calls Attorney Ahn out for fabricating evidence against Maru. Attorney Ahn says Attorney Park should welcome the chance to get Maru out of the picture, so he can have Eunki all to himself. Attorney Park finally admits that he does love Eunki, and in that way, he and Attorney Ahn are rather similar--they're only fighting on different sides because they fell in love with different women in the same sorta-family. <br />
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It's a nice moment of recognition between the two men, and I also think it's pleasant how Park calls Ahn <em>seonbae-nim</em> (선배님), a polite, deferential form of address to someone who is your senior in school or at work.<br />
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Maru goes down to the prosecutor's office on his own and demands that they investigate him! He explains that he was an industrial spy and a scam artist in the past, so he does have a criminal record, but now he wants to go straight. He says he lived so horribly because he hoped his bad actions would help him die faster. Maru concludes, "But I want to live now, because I have a reason to live." And the camera cuts to Eunki.<br />
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Eunki travels to her old house, to try to pick up some more memories. And then she runs across little Eunsuk and his nanny! Eunsuk is her half-brother, the 6-year-old son of Jaehee. Eunki used to be a beast to the poor child, but he always adored her. When this tiny tot says "Bogoshipeosoyo, noona!" (보고 싶어소요, 누나!, "I missed you, big sister"), it could melt hearts from 50 yards away.<br />
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Eunki stays around the house to hang out with Eunsuk. Jaehee comes home to find them happily playing a video game together. Then Eunki <em>stays for dinner</em>.<br />
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At home, Maru is losing it because he couldn't find Eunki anywhere. Finally Jaegil says he knows where she's gone--to her old house.<br />
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Eunki really shouldn't have stayed for dinner, because Jaehee notices that Eunki eats shellfish, which she's allergic to. Maru shows up to retrieve Eunki, and while Jaehee's out of the room Eunki explains her wanderings to Maru by saying that she's got to go looking for her lost memories instead of sitting around passively, letting Maru do all the work. He's touched by her go-get-'em attitude...<br />
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As they leave, Eunki talks to Maru about how ridiculous she used to be--throwing fits and shouting when she was served food she didn't like, as the housemaid said. Maru's like, "Yeah, I told you that you were mean as heck before the accident." Eunki just hadn't believed it until now. I like this revelation; I want Eunki to keep her strength and tenacity while also moving on from the downright bratty behaviors of the past.<br />
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Eunki confesses that she's afraid of getting her memories back and being disappointed in the person she discovers herself to be. Maru says, "If that's the case, just stay as you are now." <br />
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Eunki just laughs it off. She's going to get her memories back, regardless of what he says. She especially wants to remember all her good times with Maru, which has Maru looking stricken, since all their good times pre-accident were mostly lies, in contrast to their present.<br />
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While Maru's off being a boss at Taesan, both literally and figuratively, Eunki gets into more trouble by letting Jaehee into their house. When Jaehee says she knows Choco and Jaegil, Eunki's curiosity goes into cat-killing mode and she asks, slightly hurt, "You know Choco and Jaegil?"<br />
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But Jaehee is less focused on finding the holes in Eunki's memory and more focused on getting Eunki away from Maru. Really? Jaehee's still feeling possessive of him? She asks Eunki, "Were there no other men in the world? Why did you have to choose Maru?" Eunki wonders why Jaehee is so against her being with Maru, and suddenly Eunki's getting a dozen flashbacks in a row, all memories of hearing that Maru had once loved Jaehee and was only using Eunki to get back at her.<br />
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Eunki collapses to the floor while holding her head, probably in considerable physical pain in additional to the emotional pain. Jaehee kneels over her, honestly worried about her safety, which is just when Maru walks in. Maru shoves Jaehee away from Eunki (woot!) and tells her to get lost (double-woot!). And then Maru bridal-carries the unconscious Eunki out of the room, and takes her to the hospital.<br />
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And as Maru dotes on Eunki in the hospital, Jaehee sits alone at the Taesan corporation, drinking glass after glass of wine. Attorney Ahn arrives to tell her that Eunki is suffering from brain damage and lost memories.<br />
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At the hospital, Maru wakes up to find Eunki gone. When he discovers her outside, sleeping on a park bench, she rebuffs him, pushing him away when he tries to bring her back inside. She asks, "Who ARE you?" Huh. Either she's gotten her memories back and she's asking about his intentions, or her memories were so painful, she double-suppressed them and now doesn't remember him at all.<br />
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Episode 14 shows us that it's the lattermost option--Eunki wanders around outside in a haze, while Maru follows a few paces behind, since she keeps shoving him away.<br />
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Maru leads her home to the room she shares with Choco, but Eunki goes berserk when she sees a photo of herself with Maru. She throws the picture frame to the floor and yells that the picture is a lie, and everything in the room is a lie. Eunki may be losing more memories, but she senses that something's not kosher. She screams until she faints.<br />
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Jaehee shows up at their house the next morning, and Choco stands watch outside like a cutesy bulldog, taking Jaehee to task for every bad thing she ever did to Maru. Right on. Jaehee says yes, she got everything she ever wanted...then as Maru steps outside, she adds, "But I'm not as happy as I thought I would be." Omo. No she didn't. Choco goes inside, telling Maru, "This is not the same Jaehee we knew, this is just a strange <em>ahjumma</em>. Don't talk to her for too long." ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ<br />
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Maru is so angry, he pushes Jaehee against a wall and tells her to get away. Jaehee answers that she is Eunki's mother and therefore has a right to see her. In what universe does kicking out Eunki's mom, marrying her Dad, then contributing to Dad's death make you her mother?<br />
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Jaehee beings to sweet-talk him, saying that he once loved her, and she had to lose that love to realize how precious it was. Baloney. She says she's determined to get that love back, but instead of further torturing Maru, she leaves. <br />
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Inside, Eunki is in super-amnesia mode, remembering nothing and throwing down every glass of milk that Maru brings to her. Maru quietly says, "Okay, let's see how far this can go. The cabinet is full of cups, there's plenty of milk in the fridge, and I have a day off of work." In other words, he's going to try to get her to take nourishment all day long, and break every piece of china in the house if that's what it takes.<br />
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She cuts her hand on the broken glass of the fourth shattered cup, and as he disinfects her cuts, Maru says that he's glad she's showing anger because her situation is rough enough for her to pitch a hundred fits. He says that if she's repressing memories of him because they're so painful, she should stop hurting herself, and instead take her anger out on him. Then he says that he can't leave her until he sees her standing on her own feet--she has to make a complete recovery before he'll be able to disappear from her life.<br />
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Ah, so he <em>is</em> planning to disappear. He leaves and comes back with the fifth milk, to find Eunki sobbing her heart out. Maru lets her cry it out, and he goes and vomits because his cerebral hematoma is acting up again. <br />
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Next morning, Eunki walks down to breakfast, smiling, and I'm left wondering which Eunki it is. Medium-amnesia Eunki or Mega-amnesia Eunki? They are two very distinct women. Eunki tells Maru that she dreamed about him--but in the dream he was a dishonest bad guy, and he hurt her. Maru instantly stops spreading jam on Eunki's breakfast toast.<br />
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Maru asks, "What will you do if you get all your memories back, and I turn out to be that bad person?" Eunki says she'll never forgive him, to which Maru laughs and says he's relieved that she wouldn't forgive him.<br />
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Eunki returns to work at the Taesan corporation and Jaehee "assigns" her a meeting with an important business contact she used to know very well, but whom she doesn't remember now. Maru wants to help her, but she's determined to handle the meeting herself. But Jaehee told Eunki she was meeting the wrong person! Just to confuse her. Oh, girl.<br />
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Eunki ruins the meeting, which thrills Jaehee because she'll have a better excuse to kick Eunki out. I hate this because I want so desperately for Eunki to be independent, but every time she tries, she fails spectacularly. Maru tells her she can't give up Taesan, though--he won't let her. <br />
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Maru drops Eunki off in front of the chairman's house, then drives away. Is he tossing her into a lake to see if she can swim? Eunki waits outside the chairman's house all day until nightfall. She comes right out and tells him she's suffering from amnesia and she lied to him by pretending to know him. Her honesty works because the Chairman wants to work with only Eunki on future business deals. <br />
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The episode ends with Jaehee appointing Eunki as co-director of the entire company, I guess in the hopes that greater responsibility will lead to greater future failures.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Eunki Being Domestic</em>. It's just for a moment, but it's nice to see Eunki happily preparing a meal for her and Maru. Makes you wonder what could have been if Eunki had gotten cutthroat business training as well as a decent home life.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. <em>Couple Moments</em>. In episode 13, Maru can barely be around Eunki without touching her shoulder or reaching for her hand, or a dozen other small, non-intrusive gestures of affection. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gMUYgT3D7Gc/UIyZdEADJQI/AAAAAAAAKMw/RYEiLUz6xyQ/s1600/nice+guy+kdrama+2012+still+%EC%84%B8%EC%83%81+%EC%96%B4%EB%94%94%EC%97%90%EB%8F%84+%EC%97%86%EB%8A%94+%EC%B0%A8%EC%B9%B8%EB%82%A8%EC%9E%90+episode+13+holding+hands.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gMUYgT3D7Gc/UIyZdEADJQI/AAAAAAAAKMw/RYEiLUz6xyQ/s320/nice+guy+kdrama+2012+still+%EC%84%B8%EC%83%81+%EC%96%B4%EB%94%94%EC%97%90%EB%8F%84+%EC%97%86%EB%8A%94+%EC%B0%A8%EC%B9%B8%EB%82%A8%EC%9E%90+episode+13+holding+hands.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Best. Thing. Ever.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong><br />
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None. I'm cool with everything.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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It's great to see Eunki working so hard to be independent. Even in her hurt state, she's cooking meals, going out on outings, and taking responsibility for her own medical condition. In short, even though she's been reduced to a child on some levels, our Eunki is still, miraculously, a grown woman who will not stand by and be babied. <br />
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Unfortunately, her stabs at independence have disastrous consequences in the form of Jaehee figuring out her amnesia secret.<br />
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The double-amnesia was kind of fascinating, like a way to force the moment to its crisis, to make a bad situation infinitely worse so it could get better. We're all still hanging on, and the show is going strong. Bring on the next eps!<br />
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Verse 3 is one that I heard a lot and learned as a child--"<span class="text Ps-18-3" id="en-KJV-14122">I will call upon the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies." It's a very comforting thought, to be able to talk to God in times of trouble. </span><br />
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Verses 4-6 talk about being in serious distress and ready to die, but calling out to God for help. Verses 7-15 are about God's power and majesty, and verses 17-20 are about God rescuing the speaker, with verses 21-24 explaining <em>why</em> the Lord rescued the speaker--because of his uprightness. The rest of the psalm shows more images of God's strength, especially as they relate to war or conflict. Of the remaining verses, my favorite is 46, "The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted," which is another one that I remember from praise songs I heard as a kid.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-2" id="en-KJV-14121"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>I will love thee, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, my strength. <br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-2" id="en-KJV-14121"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-3" id="en-KJV-14122"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>I will call upon the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-4" id="en-KJV-14123"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-5" id="en-KJV-14124"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-6" id="en-KJV-14125"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>In my distress I called upon the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-7" id="en-KJV-14126"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-8" id="en-KJV-14127"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-9" id="en-KJV-14128"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-10" id="en-KJV-14129"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-11" id="en-KJV-14130"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-12" id="en-KJV-14131"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-13" id="en-KJV-14132"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-14" id="en-KJV-14133"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-15" id="en-KJV-14134"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-16" id="en-KJV-14135"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-17" id="en-KJV-14136"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-18" id="en-KJV-14137"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> was my stay.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-19" id="en-KJV-14138"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-20" id="en-KJV-14139"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-21" id="en-KJV-14140"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>For I have kept the ways of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, and have not wickedly departed from my God.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-22" id="en-KJV-14141"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-23" id="en-KJV-14142"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-24" id="en-KJV-14143"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>Therefore hath the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-25" id="en-KJV-14144"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-26" id="en-KJV-14145"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-27" id="en-KJV-14146"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-28" id="en-KJV-14147"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>For thou wilt light my candle: the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> my God will enlighten my darkness.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-29" id="en-KJV-14148"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-30" id="en-KJV-14149"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-31" id="en-KJV-14150"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>For who is God save the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>? or who is a rock save our God?</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-32" id="en-KJV-14151"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-33" id="en-KJV-14152"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-34" id="en-KJV-14153"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-35" id="en-KJV-14154"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-36" id="en-KJV-14155"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-37" id="en-KJV-14156"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-38" id="en-KJV-14157"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-39" id="en-KJV-14158"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-40" id="en-KJV-14159"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-41" id="en-KJV-14160"><sup class="versenum">41 </sup>They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, but he answered them not.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-42" id="en-KJV-14161"><sup class="versenum">42 </sup>Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-43" id="en-KJV-14162"><sup class="versenum">43 </sup>Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-44" id="en-KJV-14163"><sup class="versenum">44 </sup>As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-45" id="en-KJV-14164"><sup class="versenum">45 </sup>The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-46" id="en-KJV-14165"><sup class="versenum">46 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-47" id="en-KJV-14166"><sup class="versenum">47 </sup>It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-48" id="en-KJV-14167"><sup class="versenum">48 </sup>He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-49" id="en-KJV-14168"><sup class="versenum">49 </sup>Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-18-50" id="en-KJV-14169"><sup class="versenum">50 </sup>Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.</span><br />
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Psalm 17 seems very concerned with rightness before God. The speaker wants to be heard by God because he is an honest person who will not lie. <br />
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Verses 3-5 ask God to test the speaker's heart to see if it is pure, and the verses also reference the fact that God communicates regularly with the speaker and keeps an eye on him. This person has decided that he will not do wrong, and he notes that God's word is what has kept him from being destroyed.<br />
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Verses 6-8 talk about why the speaker needs God to listen to him. He asks God to care for him as the apple of his eye and to hide him beneath his wings, and I really like this image of God as having wings, as we think of angels having.<br />
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Verses 9-12 talk about the speaker's violent enemies, people who are proud, greedy, and deceptive, like lions waiting for prey. In the final verses, the speaker asks God to deliver him from the danger these people present, and to give him peace and security in God's own presence.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-2" id="en-KJV-14106"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>Hear the right, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. <br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-2" id="en-KJV-14106"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-3" id="en-KJV-14107"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-4" id="en-KJV-14108"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-5" id="en-KJV-14109"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-6" id="en-KJV-14110"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-7" id="en-KJV-14111"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-8" id="en-KJV-14112"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-9" id="en-KJV-14113"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-10" id="en-KJV-14114"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-11" id="en-KJV-14115"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-12" id="en-KJV-14116"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-13" id="en-KJV-14117"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Arise, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-14" id="en-KJV-14118"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>From men which are thy hand, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-17-15" id="en-KJV-14119"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.</span><br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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We open with a few minutes of recap, watching Maru drive after Eunki, who has been kidnapped by bad guy Jaeshik, but Maru manages to cut their car off. The bad guy gets away because Eunki pulls Maru off of him, still not knowing he was a bad guy. Maru is shaking with fury, barely able to ask Eunki if she's some type of brain-dead idiot, running off with anyone who tells her to get in a car with them.<br />
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I wish someone would tell him, when you rescue the girl, you hug her. You comfort her. You do not tell her that she's an idiot <em>unless</em> you follow that up with the aforementioned hugging and comforting. It takes the sting out.<br />
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Eunki starts blaming herself again, thinking that Maru's upset at her because he hates to see her face, not because he's worried. Aww. Maru grabs her arms and pulls her toward his car, but Eunki resists, saying that she finally gets it that he doesn't like her, and she won't bother him again. She says she acted like a fool by clinging to him, and she won't stoop so low again. Atta girl! She's so brave, and even with her lost memories and brain injury, she manages to salvage some pride. <br />
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At her secret house, Eunki listens to music. When she hears the late-60's English song, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie, she flashes back to hearing the song while riding in the car with Maru. <br />
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Maru sleeps in his car all night, probably because he can't bear to go into the house when his sister Choco's no longer around, and when he is about to go inside, Jaeshik stops him. Maru is ready to flay him alive, but Jaeshik tells Maru that Jaehee is the one who ordered Eunki's kidnapping. Maru spares Jaeshik in exchange for the location of Eunki's secret house.<br />
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At the Taesan Corporation, Attorney Ahn is trying to send people to assassinate Eunki, since that kidnapping didn't pan out. Attorney Park comes in to call him out for it, but officially, Attorney Park still can't admit that he knows where Eunki is. Doesn't stop him from telling the opposition to back off, though.<br />
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Maru picks up Eunki's Secretary on the way to the secret house. Maru asks her how he can help, and asks what Secretary's ultimate plans for Eunki are--to take over Taesan Corporation and defeat Jaehee? Essentially, yes. Maru charges into the garden of Eunki's secret house (Eunki's Secret Garden?) and tells her to come with him. Eunki will have none of his bossiness--who is he to order her around when he showed her nothing but contempt and pity before? <em>Bravo</em>, girl!<br />
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Eunki pushes Maru away a few times <em>hard</em>, and he follows her into her house, where she locks him out of her room.<br />
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Eunki says she won't leave her house with some stranger, which is exactly what Maru berated her for doing earlier. Heh. Maru looks down at a children's book Eunki had been reading--"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"--and realizes he has to come clean, at least a little, in order to save her. <br />
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He begins to tell her how they met. It was on a plane, when she fainted and he had to give her emergency medical treatment. The second time they met was after her dirt bike accident, when he got injured saving the special doll she received from her mother. "I had never met such a rude, crazy person in my life. She was arrogant, difficult and mean," he says. Eunki's curiosity gets the better of her and she agrees to go with Maru.<br />
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Maru tells her more about their past, all of it true. He tells her that she used to pick fights with him and insult him to show that she liked him. Eunki is miffed to hear this and she thinks he is lying, but this is all exactly as it happened. To shut him up, Eunki turns on the car radio, which is playing "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," of all things. <br />
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Maru takes Eunki home, and as she waits outside, his best friend Jaegil comes home and practically starts dancing a mambo of joy when he sees Eunki sitting outside. He says it's delightful to have her around again and that he, Jaegil, didn't realize how important Eunki was until she was gone. Maru may not talk about his feelings, but Jaegil sure will.<br />
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Jaegil asks Maru if the reason he stayed in this house was so that Eunki could find him again. He asks, "Do you like Eunki? You weren't just using her to get to Jaehee after all, were you?" Jaegil says, "Well at least she came back to you. No matter how long you waited for Jaehee, she never came back to you like Eunki did."<br />
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Attorney Park learns that Eunki is with Maru, and he calls Maru up for a meeting. Attorney Park says he knows all about Maru--his shady past, and how he used Eunki to get revenge on Jaehee. The question is, why is Maru back in Eunki's life now? Maru turns it right back around on Attorney Park--"Do <em>you</em> like Eunki?" Good question, because that's the heart of the matter. Attorney Park isn't simply objecting to Maru's presence as Eunki's close friend and associate; he's objecting as a man who's interested in Eunki.<br />
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At Maru's place, Choco is back home and is distressed when she learns of Eunki's amnesia. Choco reintroduces herself, hugs Eunki, and says she'll do her best to help <em>unnie</em> regain her memories. Jaegil and Choco are both shipping Eunki/Maru pretty hard. Wouldn't be surprising to see some overt matchmaking moves in the future.<br />
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Jaehee visits Maru's place, only to find everyone gone and most of their stuff moved out. <br />
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We see Maru driving down the freeway with a car full of sleeping loved ones--Jaegil and Choco in the back, and Eunki in the passenger seat, and it may possibly be the sweetest understated moment in the show to date. <br />
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Next morning, Jaehee is being set up as the official Chairman of Taesan. But as she's giving her thank you speech, someone surprising shows up in the audience...<br />
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Eunki says, "I'm sorry. Have I arrived too late,<em> eomoni</em>(mother)?" Jaehee comes down from the stage and hugs Eunki while crying. Jaehee's freaking out that Eunki's being so gentle and polite, which is awesome. Eunki explains to the large audience that she was in a car wreck and had to receive medical treatment in a remote, quiet place, but now she's ready to come back to her company.<br />
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She adds that as a result of her accident, she has been diagnosed with face blindness and cannot always recognize people she once new, so she will need everyone's understanding and help for awhile. Ah, I wondered how they were going to play off her amnesia so no one noticed--nicely handled. Then Eunki calls out for Kang Maru, who has been sitting in the audience <em>this whole time</em> without anyone noticing.<br />
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Eunki introduces him as her fiance, and the man who is going to help her run the company.<br />
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We interrupt this review to spazz happily. {*EEEEEEEEEE* Maru and Eunki as fake fiancees? This is the best K-drama trope ever. Love, love, love this idea. Joy!*****}<br />
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This was a sensible move on the part of the writers because we don't see or know all of Maru and Eunki (and Secretary and Attorney Park)'s plan, so the audience is just as in suspense as Jaehee is, wondering what's about to go down. Also, fake relationships are always pure gold in televised shows--we are going to have so much fun with this, yes we are, precious.<br />
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Episode 12 flashes back in time to open with Maru on a bluetooth headset, coaching Eunki before they announce her return. They are both getting ready in front of mirrors, and Maru feeds Eunki the lines he has prepared.<br />
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It's a great scene, clicking back and forth between the characters. Maru fastens his tie and says a line of the speech. Eunki has her Secretary touch up her makeup as she repeats the line, and we get the impression of a tightly-knitted plot coming together. High fives for whoever is directing this show. <br />
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We rewatch the confronting-Jaehee scene, mostly from Maru's point of view. It's notable that he looks proud of Eunki, and that his eyes are steadily fixed on Eunki's entrance, not on Jaehee's reaction. He may still want revenge, but he sure ain't focused on it. Eunki's speech goes over well and she is reinstated as director of the corporation, and when they're alone, Maru hugs her and tells her she did a good job.<br />
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Interestingly, Eunki asks Maru if she really has to fight Jaehee. Eunki has forgotten all Jaehee has done to her. Maru has to explain to Eunki that Jaehee started this fight by taking a corporation that wasn't rightfully hers.<br />
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Eunki asks Maru if she, as unwell as she still is, can handle this fight? He replies that he will do the fighting for her; she can stand behind him and let him do the work. Maru has a flashback to the recent past, where Attorney Park told him to vanish from Eunki's life as soon as her recovery was complete, partly because once she remembered everything her did to her, Eunki wouldn't want him around anyway. Maru asks for half of the Taesan corporation in return for winning it back for Eunki. Attorney Park agrees.<br />
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When they all meet in an elevator, Jaehee invites Eunki and Maru to a family dinner. Despite what she's been told about Jaehee, Eunki looks touched, while Maru stifles some quiet rage. This sounds like a bad idea to me--how can Jaehee possibly not discover that Eunki is not her old self?<br />
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Jaehee strikes the first blow at home, telling Eunki that because she was off running around with some guy (Maru), she wasn't around to see her father when he died. That's rich, coming from the woman who watched him die while withholding his medication and refusing to call 911. <br />
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When they have a moment alone, Maru tells Jaehee that Eunki is all he thinks of now, that she's the woman he's obsessing over. It's not quite true, but I hope he's saying this more to throw Jaehee off her game than to make her jealous. He says "I came back because of Eunki, to protect her from a person who wants her to disappear. I'm even going to try all this lovely food before she does--because who knows what might be in it?" Jaehee ends up screaming at Maru that she won't give up her house or her position to Eunki. She won't! It all belongs to her!<br />
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All this happens while Eunki is sitting in an empty office, mourning the father she doesn't remember.<br />
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Maru tries his best to comfort Eunki, and suggests they go home to eat, so she can relax after this nasty day. They go, and leave Jaehee alone, staring down a beautiful expensive dinner that no one wants to share with her. At home, where Jaegil and Choco also live, Eunki apologizes to her father in her diary for not being there when he died, while Maru spends an exhausting night poring over financial statements. He has a splitting headache and has to take medication, lest we forget about his cerebral hematoma.<br />
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The next day, Attorney Ahn has figured out that Eunki's been brain damaged, so he asks to meet with her, so he can suss out the weak spots. Vulture. Kretin. Opportunist. He preys on her fears by saying that the board of directors is concerned about her capabilities, so she'll have to prove to him that she can read and write flawlessly. It looks like her trembling hand will surely fail to write any words that make sense...then she writes "You are a bad person" to Atttorney Ahn, gives him a mild smirk, then makes an excuse to leave. <br />
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Eunki gets another memory flash, this time to a moment where she was mad at Attorney Ahn--so hopefully, this means that strong emotions will bring back the memories? <br />
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In his first board meeting, Maru eats Jaehee alive by exposing information about her underhanded business dealings. Squee.<br />
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Eunki goes to see her doctor who is, in a nice twist, Maru's old med school teacher. Doctor says that her brain issues regarding speaking, reading, and writing have improved tremendously, though she's not back to normal yet. <br />
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Maru comes home from a long day at the office, and he sits in his car, replaying Attorney Park's words about how Eunki would never want to see him again if she learned the truth.<br />
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He comes inside and overhears his little sister Choco giving Eunki romantic advice--that she and Maru should go on a romantic trip together! Maru smiles sweetly to himself when Eunki admits she's too embarrassed to ask him out. Maru lies awake at night, smiling and thinking of Eunki's words. He finally has to go wake up Jaegil to get him to recommend a good romantic getaway for the two of them. <br />
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What's even more cuter is when Maru asks Jaegil a long list of questions about what women like and how to woo one. It seems ridiculous because Maru's been presented as this ladies' man, but the reality is he's never tried to win over a girl; they always just showed up through no effort on his part. Jaegil says Maru should try to remember the techniques he used while dating Jaehee. Maru smiles and says he doesn't remember those days.<br />
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The next shot we see is of Eunki asleep in the passenger seat of Maru's car. When she wakes up, she doesn't know where she is for a second, but Maru is sitting outside, waiting for her so they can each take a beach trip together. How he moved her into the car while not waking her up, we'll never know.<br />
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As Eunki and Maru walk along the beach together, Maru has a mental monologue to his father. "Dad, a woman walked into my life. I said the most hurtful things I could think of and pushed her away, but she came back to me again. She and I are very similar. We both have scars and our lives have been filled with tears, but I'm the one responsible for her scars and tears. I should never have met her." <br />
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They drive home after a full, happy day. They hold hands in the car and Maru looks proud to be with Eunki. They they enter a tunnel. Oh. No. Eunki's memory of the night of the wreck begins to flicker in her head.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Wall of Separation</em>. It's another case of the metaphorical becoming literal when Maru can't get through to Eunki or get her to come through the wall between them. They are always shifting positions in the world, but there's always a barrier between.<br />
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2. <em>The Move</em>. Maru leaving that old house full of bad memories feels like some sort of spiritual catharsis. Also, it's great that he moves with Jaegil, Choco, and Eunki, making it seem like Maru has a real, complete family.<br />
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3. <em>Hugs</em>. Uncalculated, agenda-free hugs are the order of the day.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Totally rad episodes, dudes! We've got fake fiancees, memories coming back, Jaehee feeling the heat, and all is right with the world. And even though Eunki has lost all her memories, she's getting some of her spine back. More power to you, babe! You stand up to those bullies.<br />
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I'm very invested in Eunki getting the Taesan Corporation back permanently, not because I care about the business or even because I think Eunki cares about it, but because Eunki needs to win something, and this is as good a goal as any. The girl was born to run a corporation, and she has more of a heart than dear old Dad, so she will be a CEO with principles.<br />
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And it's so. Good. To finally have Maru truly falling for Eunki. He's slightly nuts for this girl, and it's going to be the beast and worst thing that ever happened to him.<br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-1-2.html">Faith--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-3-4.html">Faith--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-5-6.html">Faith--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
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<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-9-10.html">Faith--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-11-12.html">Faith--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-13-14.html">Faith--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-15-16.html">Faith--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-17-18.html">Faith--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
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The envoy from Yuan is going to demand that King Gongmin give Eunsoo to Yuan. Choi Young is going to pre-empt their scheme by just vanishing with his beloved doctor. Somebody new wants to kidnap her every week, and he's finally caught on to that fact.<br />
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War might be imminent. In order to appease Yuan, the King is supposed to execute Eunsoo--I don't even follow the envoy's logic on this one at all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d9CCKqZrKW0/UH8NvV3GhyI/AAAAAAAAJU0/36dYd1yU68Q/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+king+gongmin+goryeo+stateroom.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d9CCKqZrKW0/UH8NvV3GhyI/AAAAAAAAJU0/36dYd1yU68Q/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+king+gongmin+goryeo+stateroom.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anyhoo, This Guy Wants to Kill Eunsoo.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young had sent Eunsoo away with a friend of his, but he soon leaves the palace to join her because it's still a couple of weeks until the heaven's gate opens, which is the portal that will allow her to return to the future. During these weeks, she'll need protection, since an enemy nation is determined to kill her. But even if this part of the plot goes nowhere ultimately, I'm glad to have picturesque shots of our main couple running away through the forest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8XiCzMxAOCc/UH8p6iMW5cI/AAAAAAAAJWE/_trUKmG8dms/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+forest.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8XiCzMxAOCc/UH8p6iMW5cI/AAAAAAAAJWE/_trUKmG8dms/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+forest.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">This Is The "Resting" Phase of Running Away.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh, right, and Eunsoo's still poisoned. She has to get an antidote from D, or her arm will probably fall off before she goes back to the future, but she downplays the advance of the poison.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gicheol is quite unhappy that Eunsoo is gone, because he wanted her to show him the heaven's gate. Also, Gicheol's ice powers (which we have seen all of three times) are malfunctioning more than usual.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young and Eunsoo go to an inn to have dinner, and they are, of course, attacked. Choi Young is smashing chairs over heads, and Eunsoo is helping a bit, too! From one of the defeated foes, they picked up what is essentially a Wanted poster, where Gicheol has offered a reward for Eunsoo's return.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbEWXInjo2k/UH8tc5GtOEI/AAAAAAAAJW8/wc9_xImhGek/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+scroll.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbEWXInjo2k/UH8tc5GtOEI/AAAAAAAAJW8/wc9_xImhGek/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+scroll.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">It Even Includes Primitive Mugshots of Them.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the palace, we hear that the Queen is expecting a baby, now. Wonderful! The King and Queen are darling people and I'd enjoy their scenes more if this drama weren't so belabored and protracted. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For our runaways, there is more fighting and more running away. Eunsoo begs Choi Young to let her teach him something in exchange for all his horse-riding and dagger-fighting lessons, and it ends up that the only thing she can teach him is a little cheer of encouragement she uses to psych herself up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-au0nkYB7rTU/UH8wT4ABTFI/AAAAAAAAJYs/As8yDIkyPm0/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+eun+soo+cheer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-au0nkYB7rTU/UH8wT4ABTFI/AAAAAAAAJYs/As8yDIkyPm0/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+eun+soo+cheer.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">If She Gets Any Cuter, The Screen Will Explode.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She proceeds to teach Choi Young "pinky promise" and "high five," and I die of the sheer level of adorability. How can a show that's so serious and draggy have such sweetness in it? Toward the end of the episode, Eunsoo stumbles across a plastic container hidden under a random rock in the woods. Inside this container, there are a few more pages of her future diary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sltBBQzUoRg/UH89fYORJGI/AAAAAAAAJZ8/5Qj-_Pkbefw/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+eun+soo+diary.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sltBBQzUoRg/UH89fYORJGI/AAAAAAAAJZ8/5Qj-_Pkbefw/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+19+eun+soo+diary.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">This Again?</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The note says they should turn around and go back to the palace, to save the King and Queen. They argue, then go back, with some fights along the way. At the palace, the Queen is missing and King Gongmin is falling apart. I wish I could immerse myself in this story again, if only to appreciate the struggle of this young king deciding how to protect his much-loved queen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0oOKBRcnYns/UIBvzri-ouI/AAAAAAAAJcc/B40EQek9uSQ/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+20+king+gongmin.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0oOKBRcnYns/UIBvzri-ouI/AAAAAAAAJcc/B40EQek9uSQ/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+20+king+gongmin.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">It Would Be A Very Powerful Storyline Elsewhere.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young gets back to the palace in time to rally the King's utterly destroyed spirits. Eunsoo tries to bargain with D, who is suspected of kidnapping the queen. King Gongmin has a meeting with the Yuan envoy where he refuses to execute Eunsoo, like they want. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Elsewhere, Choi Young saved the kidnapped and drugged Queen just before a minion is about to poison her to death.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4fc_JGxh90M/UIB0DsDhB_I/AAAAAAAAJds/XkO2lo8LAvo/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+20+princess+noguk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4fc_JGxh90M/UIB0DsDhB_I/AAAAAAAAJds/XkO2lo8LAvo/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+20+princess+noguk.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></strong> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Because of the drugs, the Queen loses the baby, but it's still good to have her preserved alive. Now everyone is back in the palace and the immediate threats are over. Choi Young and Eunsoo talk over how to get her to the heaven's gate--instead of running again, they will stay in place until the exact day it opens. Eunsoo needs to stay extra safe, so she gets permission from the King to train as a Woldalchi warrior; armor, sword, and all! Heh. 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1. <em>Cute Couple Moments</em>!<br />
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2. <em>Eunsoo's Armor</em>.<br />
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1. <em>Past-Eunsoo controls the plot movement</em>.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: Hmm. Did I watch these episodes, or just rewatch some old ones? Despite things like the Queen's pregnancy and kidnapping, I didn't feel like a single new thing happened. It's nice to see Eunsoo, Choi Young, the King and Queen, but I feel less like I'm watching a sequential show and more like I'm re-flipping back and forward through the same pages in a book.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-56425890189802740592012-10-16T23:24:00.001-05:002012-11-19T10:07:50.310-06:00K-Drama Review: Nice Guy, Episodes 9-10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s1600/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s320/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" width="222" /></a><br />
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<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
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<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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At the beach, Maru asks since when did Eunki know about him and Jaehee? Eunki says it doesn't matter, she just loves him anyway. Maru tells Eunki that he wants Jaehee, not her, and that he's only potentially interested in Eunki if she has money. I think he's lying? To save her from himself? <br />
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Maru is played so ambivalently, it's hard to know when he's saying what he means. But Eunki recalls all the times he took care of her, and she declares that he must be lying. She cries and wraps him in a hug, saying they should run away together. Maru pulls her off and says that he played his role perfectly to fool her. Maru, how many times do you have to trample all joy in this show? This is getting repetitive.<br />
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At the mansion, Jaehee presents Eunki's Dad with the evidence of his shady business deals from years before. <br />
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Okay, <em>Nice Guy</em>. You have lost me.<br />
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I could support vicious characters, emotionally raw characters and psychologically unstable characters. But when my favorite character pulls something this dumb and self-destructive, I'm gone. Checked-out. I'll be recapping on autopilot until and unless something amazing happens to make me care again. The threads maintaining my suspension of disbelief, they are fragile.<br />
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Timeskip to 11 months in the future. Waaaait. Timeskip? Color me slightly interested again. Oh show, how you tease us all.<br />
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Eunki disappeared from the hospital and has been missing for 11 months. The Taesan Corporation employees are frantic to find her, but it seems like a lost cause.<br />
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In a nice flip of fate, Jaehee is less respected and more disdained now that she's in charge of the company. Another rich executive woman tells Jaehee that she's the watchdog for an empty house--she will never be classy, will never be the equal of other powerful people. <br />
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Cut to a gambling game on a random street where a guy loses all his money. Maru shows up out of nowhere, proves the game is a scam, then returns the guy's money. Maru takes the guy out to dinner and reveals that he knows the guy has a sick wife, a hefty existing debt, and a gambling problem. How can the guy deliver himself from this predicament? By trading technological information from his company to Maru. Then Maru will see to it that he never worries about money again.<br />
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But just as the deal is about to go down, Maru suddenly starts choking on his drink.<br />
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Why is he sick? Poisoned drink? Liver damage after that car wreck, what? At home, Maru still lives with his sister Choco and his best friend Jaegil, and we see that Maru has gotten more evil. A teenage boy comes to the house to accuse Maru of scamming his father, which resulted in his father attempting suicide when they lost their money. Maru tells the kid that his father was stupid for being so trusting, and Choco cries and basically says she hates who her big brother has become. I'm with you, Choco.<br />
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Jaegil tells Maru he hasn't been the same person since the car accident. Jaegil can barely talk through his tears as he tells Maru that he acts like wants to die. Why, when Maru survived losing Jaehee, is he not pressing on after the accident? Maybe it's the fact that losing Eunki is much worse than losing Jaehee was? Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking. <br />
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At the mansion, Jaehee turns away her violent brother Jaeshik at the door. Inside, she decides to convert Eunki's abandoned bedroom into a playroom for her own son.<br />
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Elsewhere, Maru finds a Missing Person flyer for Eunki, and he remembers her confession of love to him. <br />
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Awhile later, outside Maru's house waits...Eunki! But she's not wearing an Eunki-like expression.<br />
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She walks up the street wearing a dreamy expression. Then she joins some children in making chalk drawings on a wall. Oh, no. What I think is happening had better not be happening. Eunki happily draws a chalk face, then writes a name beside it. The children ask what she wrote, so she replies "Kang Maru" just as Maru is walking past to hear! But she spelled it wrong--Kang Ruma. Then she tries Ru Kangma as the children laugh because she's an adult who can't write.<br />
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Maru kneels beside her and writes his name correctly in chalk. Tears fill his eyes as she asks, "You know me, don't you? You are Maru," like she's only 90% convinced. She shows him some pictures on her camera of the two of them together, then admits she lost her memory.<br />
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No, no, no, no, no. Show, you cannot be throwing AMNESIA at me at this hour. But okay, so now that we're here and we've got the amnesia plot, let's see where you take it.<br />
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Eunki tentatively asks, "We were very much in love, weren't we?" Before he can answer, Eunki's secretary runs up, glad to have found Eunki after losing her for a moment. So has Secretary been caring for Eunki for almost a year? Maru still says not a word as Eunki looks around his house and Secretary explains that Eunki has lost not just her memories, but most of her adult knowledge and fine motor skills. That, at least, is a realistic treatment of amnesia--it usually accompanies severe brain damage. <br />
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Secretary says that she hid Eunki because if Jaehee found out about her, she'd keep Eunki from inheriting the company and maybe even threaten her life. It's beyond painful to watch our brilliant genius Eunki reduced to the level of about a 15-year-old kid with a first-grade education. Secretary says she'll need to get her memories back by hanging out with Maru before she can take back what's hers.<br />
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Maru asks why they came to find him and why he's the one who seems tied to Eunki getting back her memories. Secretary says it's because he's the only person Eunki trusted and loved. He replies, "Those were <em>her</em> feelings, only." Then he grabs Eunki's arm and tells her she's found the wrong man. He coldly says he doesn't want to get involved in corporation power struggles.<br />
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BUT his attitude turns right around when Jaehee's brother Jaeshik walks through his gate. Maru pulls Eunki close, hugging her so that Jaeshik can't see her face and run to tell Jaehee that the missing heir is back. Maru does all this without thinking, so his instincts are still to take care of Eunki. <br />
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Jaeshik soon leaves, and Eunki asks Maru if he is embarrassed of her because she's a moron with no skills and no memories. Maru reiterates to her that they were never in love; they just knew each other once. Eunki holds his sleeve and says that isn't true for her--her heart recognizes him, not her brain, and she did love him once, whatever he says. He leaves anyway.<br />
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At Eunki's secret house, Attorney Park visits her and encourages her in her studies. His care for her is evident, and it's noteworthy that he's good to Eunki whether she's acting like a sunshiny child or a shrewish adult. <br />
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Maru is called in to the hospital, and we find that his nausea is tied to some brain trauma of his own. He's got a cerebral hematoma. This is a bad thing.<br />
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Maru actually hopes to die of natural causes really soon, so he isn't worried about his prognosis, though the doctor is. At home, Maru finds that Choco has moved out and has donated all their ill-gotten money to the high school boy whose dad Maru cheated. Maru is desolate without her, and he thinks about calling Eunki's phone. He's having troubled dreams about the cruel things he said to Eunki before their crash.<br />
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Bad guy Jaeshik finds Eunki's secret house and she lets him into her garden because he says Maru sent him. He tells Eunki to come with him, and we see that this is a kidnapping (and probably murder) attempt orchestrated by Attorney Ahn who wants to keep Jaehee in power. Since Eunki hasn't developed the ability to be suspicious yet, she goes with Jaeshik and downs a very shady-looking drink he offers.<br />
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Eunki's Secretary finds Maru to let him know Eunki's been kidnapped. Fortunately, the Secretary put GPS in Eunki's phone, so Maru grabs the phone and peels away. He's able catch up to them a bit because Jaeshik left the unconscious Eunki in the car while he stopped at a gas station. Maru keeps his panic just barely in check as he looks into every car in the parking lot, trying to find her.<br />
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Jaeshik pulls out of the lot, and Maru sees it just in time to jump in his car and follow. Chase scene! Maru cuts in front of Jaeshik, forcing him to stop the car. The jolt wakes Eunki up and she looks up as Maru leaves his car and walks toward theirs, our ambivalent anti-hero going into White Knight mode at last.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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<em>Eunki Writing Maru's Name</em>. It was a simple, powerful scene, even if you have to accept the amnesia subplot in order to get it. It emphasizes that all she has left of Maru is the blurred memory of his name.<br />
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<em>Eunki's Crash</em>. I maintain that it should have been written as an accident, not a choice. An accident is dramatic and traumatic, but reckless endangerment is inexcusable and makes a smart sympathetic character look demented. Why would you do that?<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Some really dumb things happened in these eps, things that are often deal-breakers for me. 1. Eunki's intentional car crash. 2. Eunki's convenient amnesia. Yet we keep going, and the writing may have a chance to smooth over its own flaws.<br />
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The main hope left in this story is that Maru still has good-guy instincts. He covers these instincts over with cons and tricks, plus alternate bouts of insults and silence, but he <em>has</em> them. When he does wrong things, his sleep is troubled and he feels that his physical ailments are deserved. No matter what Maru may say out loud, his heart feels guilt and remorse. I have no doubt that he could go full-out villain with no chance of redemption, but that very possibility is what drives me to hope that he won't.<br />
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Eunki sees a graduation photo of Maru and Jaehee, so now she knows they had some sort of relationship in the past. She has a long series of flashbacks to every time one of them alluded to this fact, and it kind of turns her stomach. Eunki doesn't let on to Maru that she knows. <br />
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Eunki meets with Attorney Park and he breaks everything down for her: Maru saved her life on the plane, Jaehee gave Maru about a million dollars to keep him quiet about their past, but he returned the money, and the way he approached Eunki was very intentional and purposeful. Eunki reacts to this news by slowly plinking twenty-four sugar cubes into her coffee and tamping her emotions down. Eunki ends the conversation with Attorney Park by saying that none of this matters to her. Whuh-buh? <br />
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At the mansion, Dad tells Jaehee to bring Eunki back into the family, and to take care of that pesky Maru she's dating--by hiring thugs to beat him up, if necessary.<br />
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But as it turns out, they won't need the strong-arm tactics because Eunki's already planning her own epic breakup. <br />
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Eunki breaks it off and basically tells Maru that she was always out of his income bracket, right from the start. It's the only way Eunki can salvage her pride, and I can't imagine that any of these words hurt Maru, since he only has semi-friendly feelings for Eunki. <br />
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He asks why she's suddenly acting this way, and she says she fell for him, just for the fun of it, always planning to end things soon. Lies, lies, lies. She monologues for forever about how insignificant he is, but when she walks away, she looks like the living dead. Her faith in humanity is further shaken.<br />
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After Eunki leaves, Jaehee sends the hired thugs after all! They beat Maru's head with a piece of wood, then after he's bloody and barely conscious, they put Jaehee on the phone to tell Maru to stay away from Eunki and he'll be well compensated. If not...<br />
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At the mansion, Dad finds the footage of Jaehee kissing Attorney Ahn, and Attorney Park explains that he didn't want Dad to find out, because it might affect his fragile health. Attorney Park is such an upstanding dude, I know he's genuine about this. He also adds that Eunki didn't want her Dad to have this pain.<br />
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Eunki and Jaehee have another tiny little showdown in a separate corner of the house. Eunki quietly asks her, "What did you do...to Kang Maru?" Eunki overheard that they sent thugs to beat him up. Jaehee replied that if Eunki hadn't fallen for such trash, Jaehee wouldn't have had to take care of this problem.<br />
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Then Jaehee's violent older brother calls her again.<br />
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Jaehee feels guilty for having Maru beaten up. <br />
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Eunki has been under a sort of house arrest, but now she climbs out of her second-story window using a rope ladder made of curtains. At night. In the rain. Barefoot. She drives her car to Maru's house, to check on his injuries. She bangs on the door and waits and waits in the driving rain. And when he finally comes out, she sees his absolutely wrecked face.<br />
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Eunki's own face crumples. No matter how badly he hurt her, she still loves Maru, and can't bear to see him in pain. <br />
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Eunki begins to cry and explain to him some things he needs to know. She's 29 years old, and he was her first kiss, the first person she said "I love you" to, and the first person she heard "I love you" from. He became the reason for her enjoying life and waking up happily each day. She's crying, and I'm not so far from it, myself. <br />
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Maru reaches up his hurt hand and wipes away her tears, which is a futile act, since it's raining and her entire face is wet. Eunki continues that all she wants is see him every day, and to share their dreams. She wants to have kids and grow old together. Will that be possible? He carefully wraps her in a hug.<br />
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But the scene is messed up a little because Jaehee just arrived behind Eunki's back and Maru is watching her. Although...Maru looks less revenge-y and more protective, like he's letting Jaehee know to leave Eunki alone. Jaehee leaves.<br />
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Episode 8 shows Maru inside his house, cleaning and bandaging Eunki's hurt feet.<br />
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While Maru is out getting food, Eunki sees a picture of a beach, then writes him a note about it. He comes back to find her sleeping, and the note says that she wants to take him to see the beach--it'll be their first little trip taken together on purpose. After reading the message, he leans down to kiss her cheek. <br />
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Maru really has found a woman who can love him, warts and all; he's got a treasure on his hands, and he might have a prayer of understanding that. <br />
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Outside the mansion, Attorney Ahn tells Jaehee that Dad knows about their slip-up, and that she and her son have been written out of Dad's will--everything will go to Eunki, now. So what does a master manipulator do when she's about to lose all the social capital she has? Calls Maru, and leaves a screamy message saying her brother is trying to kill her.<br />
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Maru goes off to rescue Jaehee, as always. Jaehee has beaten her own self up, bloody lip included for maximum sympathy. Maru goes scrambling for first aid, then he gets a call from Jaehee's brother, who is in a police station in Busan. HA! Busan is on the total opposite end of Korea from Seoul, so there's no way Bad Bro hit Jaehee twenty minutes ago.<br />
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Now Maru knows Jaehee's trick, but he goes right ahead tending her wounds. Eunki drives home and sees Maru's car there. She comes inside and overhears Maru tell Jaehee that he probably never really wanted revenge--he just desperately wanted to see Jaehee. Jaehee says she'll do anything to be with Maru, and Eunki begins a catatonic walk out of the house. At last Maru says he's done with Jaehee forever. I doubt it.<br />
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Maru goes home to find Eunki gone. She has left behind a present he bought her and has taken away her note about going on a vacation. As he looks at the conspicuously empty room, he seems to realize that Eunki made his life warm, too. And now she's gone.<br />
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Jaehee goes and gets some evidence from a bank vault--some documents she received six years ago from that guy she killed in the hotel room. He was trying to bring down the corrupt Taesan Corporation, and since she was a reporter who had been bought by that company, she tried to convince the guy to settle. He got angry and tried to assault her, which is when she hit his head with a bottle. His death was accidental, and Jaehee was no more than a wounded, frightened girl when it happened. It was her choices afterward that made her so monstrous.<br />
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Eunki goes alone to the beach where she said she'd take Maru. She sends Maru a cellphone picture of the beach, and he leaps into action when he realizes it's an invitation to join her. They sit on the beach together and Maru admits he once wanted to come here with someone he loved. After being prodded, he says the person he loved was Han Jaehee.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Eunki learning most of the truth</em>. I can only hope that it will eventually help her to be aware of all of Maru's tricks.<br />
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2. <em>Maru's revelation about Jaehee</em>. He couldn't move forward as a person until he acknowledged that Jaehee used him, and wants to continue using him. She is not good and she never will be. There is nothing left of her to love, and barely anything to hate.<br />
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The characters' choices drive me nuts, but the show's writing itself is still stellar.<br />
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Whoa. Nearly the worst-possible scenario has happened for every character, and we just keep trucking. Jaehee is kicked out of the mansion and written out of the will, but she's got blackmail ready to help her regain the upper hand. Eunki got emotionally betrayed by Maru in a roundabout way, yet she's still standing. Maru's reason for living (love/revenge) evaporated, yet he's found somebody that might still make things worthwhile. <br />
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But we're not out of the woods yet. I'm fairly sure that worse and worser things await our cast in the future. Will at least two people get a happy ending? Can we scrape together that much?<br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Maru is driving along, thinking of all that Jaehee said to him when she begged him to accept money from her and to skip the revenge.<br />
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He also flashes back to a cautionary tale Attorney Ahn shared with him, encouraging Maru to leave Jaehee alone, or else it would destroy both of them. Maru has to decide whether he's willing to wreck his own life in order to pay back Jaehee, and at the moment, he's totally down with that. <br />
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This car ride is showing him on his way to, presumably, a flight to Japan, because we saw him meet Eunki at the resort in Japan at the end of the last episode. He gets there, goes to Eunki's guest house, and just sits outside because Eunki has a note on the door saying no one is to disturb her while she crunches numbers.<br />
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The weird thing is, with him sitting on her porch, Eunki doesn't see Maru when she leaves her guest house to fall into an exhausted sleep on the perfectly manicured lawn. Maru watches her for a minute, then steps inside to see what kind of calculations have her so frazzled. He looks over her notes, then calls his friend Jaegil to help him understand the financial statements he's looking at.<br />
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And now Maru crunches numbers until dawn comes, which is a nice parallel to Eunki doing the same the night before, and he has some good ideas, thanks to some insider stock market information he has. He walks into the bright morning light, and when he finds Eunki still sleeping on the lawn, he picks her up and tosses her into a shallow lake. <br />
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Eunki sputters, but Maru smiles and tells her that they're going to tackle her crisis and save the resort together. Even though Maru is faking this to get back at Jaehee, I still love seeing him work together with Eunki. Can we can some more brainy scenes of them looking at financial statements and talking business?<br />
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And as she marches off to her legal fight, he gives her a good-luck forehead kiss.<br />
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He tells her to return victorious, or else don't even think of coming back to him. How. Awesome. Maru's basically pulling that line the Spartan women used to tell their warriors, to return with your shield or on it (triumphant or dead). It warms Eunki's heart, as it ought to, but we know it's just part of Maru's act. Sigh.<br />
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When Jaehee won't listen to Eunki, Eunki tears up the contract for selling the resort. It's so bratty and juvenile, but Jaehee is being juvenile, too, just not in a way that others can note. Now Jaehee starts screaming in front of a whole room of people, then slaps Eunki's face.<br />
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When Jaehee tells Eunki that it's her own father who wanted to get rid of the resort--one last reminder of the dead wife who he betrayed--Eunki is on the verge of emotional collapse. But then Maru calls her and asks to be put on the line with the CEO of the foreign company that wants to buy the resort. Maru has found dirt on the other company--they were responsible for a lot of chemical dumping in the past, and Maru threatens to tell Japanese citizens about how the company intends to pollute and ruin the resort. Game over! Transaction stopped.<br />
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At the home front, Dad is mad that the resort deal was thwarted by Eunki, but he's glad that Attorney Park is still on her side. Dad makes an unusual request that Attorney Park should stay on Eunki's side even if Dad himself should turn his back on her. <br />
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Eunki prepares for a date with Maru, and is so softened and sweet she seems like a different girl.<br />
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Maru, unfortunately, is nowhere to be found because Jaehee begged to meet with him. At the meeting, Jaehee tries to get Maru under her spell again by saying that they should go on a boat ride together, because they always said they would. Yeah, honey, he made that promise before you willfully left him to rot in jail for half a decade. When none of her pleas work, Jaehee jumps in the ocean so Maru will have to rescue her.<br />
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We even get CPR after he fishes her out. Ugh. Was Jaehee betting her life on the possibility that Maru would weaken and protect her once again? Her wounded gazelle gambits are getting extreme. Maru sits by Jaehee in a hospital, and she wakes up to say that she now knows he still has feelings for her.<br />
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Then she puts on a trembly-chin face and says, "I'll come back and be with you again." He smirks and asks if there's no behavior that's beneath her. He says he'll never be swayed by her, now. Maru storms out, and eventually remembers the date with Eunki that he's, like, 12 hours late for. It breaks my heart to see her in her pretty dress, fallen asleep, still waiting for him at the bridge where they said they'd meet. Eunki, you've got to like him a little less, or you will be hurt baaaadly.<br />
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Maru wakes Eunki up, and she admits to waiting so long just for him, and when he notes that she's wearing makeup, Eunki also adds that she wore an uncomfortable dress for him, too. <br />
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Maru surprises Eunki with a real kiss (and it's only episode 5! They move so fast...), but while it's a beautiful romantic moment on the outside, as a viewer you know that Maru is probably either kissing Eunki to wipe Jaehee from his mind, or to make Eunki love him more, in turn enabling him to get a better revenge on Jaehee. I want Eunki to get a romantic scene that's all about <em>her.</em> Since she doesn't even get scraps of Dad's affection, I don't want her love life to be secondhand as well.<br />
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Maru and Eunki go out and watch this cool Japanese parade, but Maru suddenly vanishes. Eunki runs around helplessly, lost without him, and he watches from the other side of the crowded street. When she sees him, Eunki runs to hug Maru, but the smile on his face is a little frightening, like he has finally calculated exactly how much she likes him and is going to use this knowledge to his advantage.<br />
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On the drive home, Eunki chatters happily to her gobsmacked assistant about how in love she is. It's so hard to see her blossom into a happier, less neurotic person only to know that her trust will be betrayed and all this will collapse.<br />
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At home, Dad says he's kicking Eunki out of the mansion and cutting her off financially. Eunki refuses to say she's sorry and she leaves the house without any of her bags, since they all belong to Dad anyway. Her stubborn attitude is driving Attorney Park, who secretly adores her, batty. He follows her outside and tries to give her a credit card, as a friend, not as an employee, but she turns it down.<br />
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Eunki takes the bus straight to Maru's house. Choco tells Eunki that Maru is at work in his bar. At the bar, Jaehee has rented out the whole establishment so she can talk to Maru in private. Does her husband not check her credit card statements? Maybe he'd find this sort of purchase a tad fishy. <br />
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She's trying to warn him off of Eunki, but Maru calls Eunki on speakerphone so can say sweet words to her while Jaehee listens. And oh, Eunki breaks my heart when she tells him 사랑해요 (saranghaeyo) "I love you". It's too soon, kiddo, too soon! And then Maru smirks in Jaehee's face as he says "I love you, too, Eunki." Grr. That's it, Maru--you're on the naughty list. I don't know how you're going to redeem yourself from this. <br />
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Jaehee wonders how far Maru's going to go with this--faking affection for an innocent girl. Jaehee kisses Maru, then says they should kiss again when Eunki walks in, so she'll understand the situation. What?<br />
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Maru calls her bluff, kisses her again ,and takes a picture of it on his cellphone, for blackmail purposes. This feels so dirty and wrong. At the same time, Eunki gets another photo of Jaehee kissing Atorney Ahn, this time sent by Attorney Park. Man. Jaehee really gets around.<br />
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Maru tells Jaehee that she can't win because she has everything to lose and he has nothing to lose. She counters that he'll have to become unimaginably corrupt to bring her down, but she finally does leave.<br />
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Eunki meets with Attorney Park, not pleased that he might be joking with her over a fabricated photo of Jaehee.<br />
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Attorney Park only sent that photo to get Eunki's attention, so she would meet him. He wants her back at the Taesan Corporation, and her Dad said he would reinstate her if she stopped the union workers' strike within two days. Pssh. Piece of cake! <br />
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Eunki meets with the heads of the union workers and challenges them to a drinking contest: if she wins, they have to listen to her, and vice versa.<br />
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After about four bottles, Eunki looks a little green. She stumbles out of the drinking tent, then she takes a cab to Maru's house and forlornly waits for him to come home. Maru actually seems touched by her plight, and looks guilty when she talks to him about how much she misses him. <br />
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As he looks at the wasted Eunki, Maru tells himself out loud that when he breaks her heart, it's just going to be one bad episode in her very long life. She'll get over it. Like how you got over Jaehee, huh? Eunki passes out, and Maru looks at her wonderingly as he mops a cloth over her sleeping forehead. Is he thinking how much she's like his sister, Choco?<br />
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The next morning, Eunki wakes up all cheerful and asks Maru if he admitted that he liked her last night? She asks him to repeat it if he said that. It looks like Maru is going to say a phony "I love you," again, but instead he's dead serious when he tells her, " Seo Eunki, you've got bad luck. You've fallen into my trap. Don't you want to run away from me? Go now." She doesn't want to leave him, though, and thinks he's joking.<br />
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Eunki handles the union workers negotiations on her own, by agreeing to everything they want, but then her day is due for a downturn because someone gives her a graduation photo of Jaehee and Maru. Now her face falls, as she learns her brief romance was all a lie. Hey, at least a sliver of truth has made it's way over to Eunki.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Brainy scenes</em>. When was the last time I saw a K-drama where a smart guy was paired with a smart girl? Usually one of them is the designated ditz, but these two are brainiacs. Not that we're likely to get a happy ending from this show, but I like the idea that if Eunki inherited the Taesan Corporation, she and Maru could run it, no problem.<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong><br />
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It's a saddish show, but I have no complaints about the writing, directing, or acting.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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So good, yet so painful. The ugliness of what Jaehee did, using others regardless of how it could hurt them, is amplified when you see Maru sinking to almost the same level. We see a clear portrayal of what we <em>don't</em> want to see others do. We know justice will come to the bad characters eventually, so it's going to be unspeakably awful if Maru fully becomes one of those evildoers who also needs to get their comeuppance.<br />
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Poor Eunki.<br />
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In verses 2-3, the speaker begins addressing his own soul, sort of talking with himself about how he trusts God. He also supports God's saints, the other people who pursue excellence and serve the Lord. The speaker doesn't just like these people, he is <em>delighted</em> by them, which is more than a lot of us can say about the way we view our brothers and sisters in Christ. <br />
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Verse 4 briefly mentions the ungodly, who make offerings of blood to false gods, which disgusts the speaker. But the speaker moves right back to talking about his relationship with God in verses 5-6, which rejoice in the lot in life which God has assigned to him. He is happy with where is and with what has been given to him.<br />
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Verses 7-8 talk about being unshakable in your faith--the speaker keeps God in his thoughts constantly, so his actions can't stray too far from the right path.<br />
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Verses 9-11 are more praise and thankfulness, saying that God will not abandon the speaker, so he can rest. Verse 10 is actually considered a Messianic prophesy, about Jesus, because "neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption" is taken to mean that God would not allow Jesus to remain dead after the crucifixion.<br />
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The takeaway value of this psalm? Be content with the inheritance God has given you, and take joy in walking with God.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-2" id="en-KJV-14095"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-2" id="en-KJV-14095"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>O my soul, thou hast said unto the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-3" id="en-KJV-14096"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-4" id="en-KJV-14097"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-5" id="en-KJV-14098"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-6" id="en-KJV-14099"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-7" id="en-KJV-14100"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>I will bless the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-8" id="en-KJV-14101"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>I have set the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-9" id="en-KJV-14102"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-10" id="en-KJV-14103"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-16-11" id="en-KJV-14104"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.</span><br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-9-10.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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<strong>Contains Spoilers for Episodes 3-4</strong><br />
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This episode opens with a scene that is definitely <em>not</em> a continuation of that dirt bike wreck from the last episode. Where is the story? Where am I? I don't care--I'm just glad to be here. Eunki rolls up to her company to find that the workers' union she had supported is now calling for her dismissal. She tries the brave move, reasoning with them.<br />
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Then we hear Maru's voiceover saying that Eunki is a total work addict who has no friends or hobbies. Holy cow, he's been studying her from a distance, doing reconnaissance like a criminal sizing up a mark. Her only leisure activity is--and here's the tie-in to the last episode--off-road dirt biking. I love the show's writing style, now; showing us something that looks disconnected and silly, then back-tracking to show how it fits perfectly.<br />
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It's simple--if Maru wants to get to Eunki, he has to dirt bike. Now the main question in my mind is whether he sabotaged her breaks on the off-chance he could rescue her? <br />
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But no, he seems genuinely surprised that she wrecked. And as Maru pulls Eunki from the edge of a cliff, you get the feeling that while this is not exactly the meet-cute he wanted to orchestrate, nothing less than a 2nd life or death encounter would work for these characters. <br />
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After being rescued, Eunki actually tries to scramble back down the cliff to get to her motorcycle, but it's not the bike she wants--it's a doll she packed to come with her on the trip. Probably a beloved toy given to her by her deceased mother, if I were to guess. Maru begins to lower himself down the dirt cliff, and he retrieves Eunki's doll at the exact moment his safety rope breaks. We rejoin the scene as Eunki sits in a hospital and a doctor tells her that the patient has fractured his ribs, but will recover from the fall.<br />
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Maru just keeps getting hurt because of the women in his life! Emotional wounds from Jaehee and to a lesser extent, from his sister Choco, and now his wounds on behalf of Eunki are literal and physical. Also, Eunki now owes Maru three times over, twice for saving her life, and once for getting injured while retrieving her doll.<br />
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But the first thing Eunki does when Maru wakes up in the hospital is accuse him of trying to extort money from her by saving her life! Maru puts her in her place, asking if her parents taught her such awful manners and encouraged her to act angry and affronted whenever she felt guilty or grateful. That is probably not too far from the truth, considering what we know of her dad. Maru sends Eunki away and says he doesn't want to speak to her anymore, but Eunki has pangs of conscience as she leaves.<br />
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Off in the lawyer subplot (this show has a lawyer subplot!), Jaehee's lawyer, Attorney Ahn tries to figure out Jaehee's relationship with Maru, while keeping said information from Eunki's lawyer, Attorney Park. <br />
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And at the Seo household, Dad, Jaehee and Eunki are eating lunch, and Attorneys Ahn and Park are both present. What kind of family is this, that the lawyer-to-family-member ratio is almost 1:1?<br />
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A call comes in, saying that Eunki is an organ donor match for her Dad. What does he need, a kidney? Some liver tissue? If I were Eunki, I'd require that Dad sign a contract willing me the entire company before I forked over any vital organs. Dad's an awful person who hasn't really earned any love or respect from his daughter, so it's natural they should handle this like a business transaction. But Dad actually <em>doesn't</em> want to prolong his life through a transplant, which seems kind of brave of him. He may be a bully, but he's not a coward. <br />
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Jaehee begins a long fake speech about how Eunki is the Taesan corporation's hope for the future, so she must put her own health first. And Jaehee reveals that she is cleared to be a donor, too, which warms the old guy's heart. She says it doesn't matter what happens to her, since she doesn't have any intention of surviving her husband in this cold world. <br />
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Eunki cannot stop thinking about Maru, even going so far as to doodle 강마루 over and over in a notebook. She goes back to the hospital to see him, then follows him home when she learns he's been discharged. When she finds Maru, she starts dissing his cheap neighborhood, but she does it in this joking way, like she's trying to make friends. <br />
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Maru counters her light insults with, "Are you dissing me to show your interest in me?" Why, yes, perceptive person. Yes, she is. He tells her that her debt to him is nonexistent, so there's no reason for the two of them to ever see each other again. I get the feeling that Eunki has never met anyone who played hard to get, so he's playing the game right...if he's playing at all. I can't tell how much of this was schemed.<br />
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Maru has to go tend to an emergency involving his sister, Choco, but Eunki isn't done talking with him, so she jumps in the passenger seat and buckles in. He drives like a madman, but that doesn't phase Eunki because she's a maniac driver herself. These two are so well-matched, it's scary. Eunki again tries to give him a thank-you present of an expensive watch, but he says no. Again.<br />
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The Maru asks, "What if what I want isn't that watch, but <em>you</em>, who can afford hundreds of those watches?" He halfway means it, but in his mind it's about revenge, not romance. "There is a mountain I want to climb, but I need a ladder to reach it. You'd be the perfect ladder." Wow, he's really up front about this--he needs her for her connections, not as a person. No different than Jaehee's view of Eunki's Dad. He teasingly says that now his ideal woman is the type with a nasty personality and a constant death glare.<br />
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When Maru gets to where Choco is staying, he stops a man from beating a woman, then is in turn hit by the woman with a broom for defending her against her monster of a husband. It's an intensely uncomfortable scene. At least he manages to save Choco and get her back. At least now I know Maru hadn't planned anything past the initial attempt to meet Eunki through dirtbiking. When you want to impress a woman, you don't let her witness all the family's dirty laundry before the first date.<br />
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Maru drives Eunki and Choco back to Seoul, and as he pulls up to the sleeping Eunki's house, he sees Jaehee romancing Attorney Ahn:<br />
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Maru says nothing, just stares at Jaehee before waking up Eunki. When Eunki sees Jaehee watching them, she loudly says to Maru, "I'm curious about you. Let's keep seeing each other." Jaehee is obviously terrified of that idea, afraid that if her ex-friend and her stepdaughter start meeting, they'll begin to compare notes and then she'll lose her chance of inheriting the Taesan Corporation.<br />
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The next day, Jaehee and Eunki have spent some time at the spa and Jaehee tries to warn Eunki off of Maru because, "He doesn't look like a nice guy." Heh. Eunki doesn't need a nice guy--she'd eat him for breakfast. She and Maru flaunt their new fake(?) attachment in front of Jaehee a short while later, when Maru meets Eunki for lunch.<br />
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Eunki's Dad rolls up in a wheelchair pushed by Attorney Ahn, and the "awkward bristly" meter gets cranked up to eleven. Eunki reluctantly introduces Maru as the guy she's dating and Eunki's Dad pulls a move that surprises everyone by inviting Maru to a family lunch! <br />
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Dad is even further surprising when he acts like a proud papa, semi-excited that a young man has come calling to see his baby princess. I think Dad is sincere. Despite his rough treatment of Eunki, I think there's a part of him that wants to her married-off and happy, not engaged in the cutthroat rat race of the corporate world. Maru is surprised to hear that he's the first guy Eunki ever introduced to her Dad.<br />
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Dad asks some kindly getting-to-know you questions and Maru answers honestly that both his parents are dead, but even in life, they weren't important people. Dad is more unsettled to know that Maru was expelled from med school and now works as a bartender. Dad manages to turn this disappointment back around to Eunki's poor judgement, but Eunki turns the question right back at Dad: How much does he know about the past of Jaehee, the young woman he left his wife for?<br />
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But like all hypocrites, Dad doesn't want to hear the truth about his own actions, so he throws a glass of water in Eunki's face and fumes away from the table. Eunki runs out of the room, too, leaving Maru to quietly vow his revenge on Jaehee. He tells her that if someone as corrupt as Jaehee remains in her high position, it ruins the balance of the world. He tells her to wait for the day that he'll bring her down, because it will happen.<br />
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Dad removes Eunki from her executive position, and is set to make Jaehee rise in the company by giving her more power. He also wants to sell a resort that has special value to Eunki, so things are really taking a turn for the worse for her.<br />
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At Maru's house, Choco begs him to find a girl that he sincerely loves. She tells him that he must forget Jaehee-unnie, so he can be with another girl. That statement truly hurts him, but he perks up a little when he gets a call from Eunki. Eunki says she misses him, and despite her ulterior motives for pretending to date him, I think she's serious.<br />
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Eunki tells Maru that she's in Japan, fighting for a resort where she use to go with her mom. This resort contains all her best memories of her mom. Maru is faking most of his attachment to Eunki, but his sympathy seems genuine.<br />
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Eunki doesn't hang up her phone when Jaehee walks up, so Maru gets to hear Jaehee gloat and lord over Eunki, talking about how she has nearly triumphed and won't stop now, because Eunki is not her equal. Eunki responds by going to work, looking for the money to save her resort.<br />
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I like her never-give-up spirit. Maru surprises her by visiting her in Japan (where did he get the money for travel?), and throwing her into a small lake to wake her up when she falls asleep after an all-nighter of problem solving. A weird thing to do.<br />
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The episode ends here, with Maru telling Eunki that they're going to tackle this problem together.<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Maru</em>. He may have an evil side, but he spent so much time trying to help others, that counts in his favor. And he seems so vulnerable at times. <br />
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<em>2. Eunki. </em>We see some of her cracks and fragile places, and her softer side. She's a schemer and a brain, but the right person could make her human.<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong><br />
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<strong><u>Themes:</u></strong> <br />
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<em>Irreversibility of Time. </em>In this show, you cannot go back into the past and regain what you have lost. Time is not kind. Jaehee cannot make up for what she did to Maru, and Maru cannot get back the Jaehee he once knew. <br />
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<em>Internal Becomes External. </em>Maru's internal pain is now getting outward manifestations. He's going through life as a wounded man.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Ooh, I can't wait to see what happens next. If either Maru or Eunki goes full-out evil, I'm dropping this show, but for now I want to see if they can get their revenge, then learn something from it--namely that it isn't as satisfying as they thought, or that it is satisfying, but not worth the price paid.<br />
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Because no matter how much gray area we allow, ultimately, we don't want Maru to stoop to Jaehee's level, and we don't want Eunki to become Lady Macbeth. Our heroes can be super-dark and super-flawed, but we don't want them to become the very thing they have come to hate.<br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-1-2.html">Faith--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-3-4.html">Faith--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-5-6.html">Faith--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
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<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-11-12.html">Faith--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-13-14.html">Faith--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-17-18.html">Faith--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
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<strong>Contains Spoilers for Episodes 17-18</strong><br />
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Eunsoo wakes up, dreaming of words written by her future self, all about saving Choi Young's life.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She goes and asks D if he's planning to kill Choi Young. *headdesk* You can't just ask the newest villain in town what he's plotting! She tells D she'll do anything he wants in order to save Choi Young, but something tells me this will not end well. D says he has to get Choi Young out of the way to get Eunsoo to be one of his people, so that in turn he can get Gicheol on his side. Complicated reasoning, but I follow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">D says he'll stop the attack on Choi Young if Eunsoo marries him, meaning D. He seems to be expecting refusals and theatrics, but Eunsoo says, " That's all I have to do? Marry you? Then let's do it." D gives orders to call off the attack, and Choi Young is saved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the higher realms of the story, the King and Queen are still in exile, but doing pretty well, all things considered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fDEe9h39wcs/UHgi-8o0WeI/AAAAAAAAIEg/eI5dG271Zhs/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+king+gong+min+princess+no+guk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fDEe9h39wcs/UHgi-8o0WeI/AAAAAAAAIEg/eI5dG271Zhs/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+king+gong+min+princess+no+guk.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Loooooving the Costumes. So Much.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wish the plot sections with the King were more interesting, because I love the characters of the King and Queen, and I really like the actors playing the parts, but their scenes never seem to have the same significance as Eunsoo and Choi Young's. But we see the King and Choi Young have more "friend" moments, and the King reverses Choi Young's status as a criminal. Huh. I had forgotten about that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The royals get a letter saying Eunsoo is going to marry D. The Queen is horrified at the news, and is even more worried about how Choi Young will take it. Lady Choi, his aunt, tries to keep the secret from him, but Choi Young sees in his aunt's face that something is wrong. She finally admits that Eunsoo has consented to marry D, though no one knows why. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZePGO-WML1Q/UHgxaPld4AI/AAAAAAAAIGk/Qu4OY842H4Y/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZePGO-WML1Q/UHgxaPld4AI/AAAAAAAAIGk/Qu4OY842H4Y/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Still Doesn't Believe It.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Eunsoo even has to dress up all queenly, just hours after her engagement to a member of the royal family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kzPS09Tk468/UHgyNovf25I/AAAAAAAAIGs/KKtEBcnzjVg/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+eun+soo+queen+hanbok.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kzPS09Tk468/UHgyNovf25I/AAAAAAAAIGs/KKtEBcnzjVg/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+eun+soo+queen+hanbok.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">She Looks Good In Anything, But I Prefer the Old Look.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She goes to meet with D, who is treating her really politely and asking if she wants to sit on the throne, since she might well become the future queen and all. He says, "From now on, I'll treat you like a queen who came from the heavens, and you can treat me like your husband and king." How can this simple combination of very sweet words sound so patently awful?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">D wants to make-believe this grand fantasy about them meeting for the first time and preparing to be glorious rulers together, but Eunsoo shoots that idea down. She says, "I can forgive you for poisoning me because I'm better now, but I can never forgive you for trying to kill him."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2E7X7E2xdg8/UHg0IdniMyI/AAAAAAAAIG0/ibVBkp1ChxY/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+deok+heung.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2E7X7E2xdg8/UHg0IdniMyI/AAAAAAAAIG0/ibVBkp1ChxY/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+deok+heung.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">That's What You Get For Attempting to Off the Hero!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Choi Young fights his way into the palace and almost kills D, but Eunsoo stops him. When they're alone, Eunsoo tells Choi Young that she needs to stay with D so he'll give her more pages of her future diary, which may contain even <em>more</em> information on how to keep Choi Young alive. Hello there, repetitive plot point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young thinks she's being foolish because D is too dangerous to deal with, but he seems willing to let her try her plan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4IJNBN9e2rY/UHg3aVNCghI/AAAAAAAAIH8/7TtqCtQvm4A/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+hugs+eun+soo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4IJNBN9e2rY/UHg3aVNCghI/AAAAAAAAIH8/7TtqCtQvm4A/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+hugs+eun+soo.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hugs. Yes!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, that diary isn't going to do anybody any good, because D destroys the final pages.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the stateroom, King Gongmin's attendants arrive and talk to D, announcing that Choi Young is now going to stay in the palace to keep the peace, by order of the <em>real</em> king. D is allowed to stay in the palace as a temporary regent, though, so we're back to careful moves and playing chess.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJoUtH4RHfw/UHhMs62ClFI/AAAAAAAAIKM/KsbNkXeyRjQ/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+smile.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJoUtH4RHfw/UHhMs62ClFI/AAAAAAAAIKM/KsbNkXeyRjQ/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+smile.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Though Choi Young Would Rather Be Playing Smash-Your-Face.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But the villainy side escalates the conflict again when D decides to move forward his wedding date to Eunsoo. To tomorrow. On the wedding morning, Eunsoo can see no way out of the marriage as D begins to walk with her toward the temple. Then Choi Young shows up again, defying authority and challenging the bad guys. He says "this is the only way," before kissing Eunsoo for the first time, and in front of everybody, to boot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOU2mk8qdiU/UHhSOmXIBdI/AAAAAAAAILU/8TGm_xfqhFQ/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+kiss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOU2mk8qdiU/UHhSOmXIBdI/AAAAAAAAILU/8TGm_xfqhFQ/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+kiss.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">FINALLY.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What does he mean, it's the only way? He has to kiss her to call off the wedding? Like licking a candy bar, so no one else will eat it? Ha! And yet, that's exactly what's going on because the next thing Choi Young says to D is that now the wedding must be cancelled. Even Gicheol tells D to call off the wedding for today, since they need to figure how to deal with the rumors that will spread. Choi Young is marched off to prison for his indiscretion, but he breaks out of prison on the daily, so I'm not worried.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And now there's a lot of people mobilizing to attack other people. For thirty minutes. I think the King's in danger, but I'm not really paying attention. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Checking back in. The true King returns, so yay!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Cn2D9drtwuM/UHiaIvZ7fEI/AAAAAAAAIMc/-s9tFG5ccvc/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+wo+dal+chi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Cn2D9drtwuM/UHiaIvZ7fEI/AAAAAAAAIMc/-s9tFG5ccvc/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+wo+dal+chi.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">And There Was Much Sending And Receiving of Messages.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young and Eunsoo reunite, but she tells him not to waste too much time with her when he's got the newly-returned King Gongmin to welcome back to the palace, Ah, I love how she understands that in most incidences, his duty needs to come first. Soon, she has to comfort him because many of his Wodalchi soldiers died while escorting the King back home. Choi Young feels responsible for everybody and everything, and when anything goes wrong, he always thinks it's his fault.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-26AmFhN1b_s/UHieabw9U9I/AAAAAAAAINk/7ObAEp-cO14/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+flash+cards+hangeul.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-26AmFhN1b_s/UHieabw9U9I/AAAAAAAAINk/7ObAEp-cO14/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+flash+cards+hangeul.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Comforting Him Via Inspirational Hangeul Notes, Which He Can't Read.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And now it looks like the King is going to have to declare war on Yuan (part of China) because they've been supporing D's play for the throne. Things are going well overall for the good guys because D is in prison and Gicheol is sentenced to house arrest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The only hitch? Eunsoo's been poisoned by D again. *facepalm* When Choi Young discovers the festering poison-wound on Eunsoo's arm, he lights up with righteous fury. Not just at D, but at Eunsoo for not telling him. He does not. Like. Secrets. Choi Young stalks away, probably to run his sword through somebody, but Eunsoo's not ready to let him go.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-INXQUVP5W7E/UHiiB5sj_TI/AAAAAAAAIOs/HLLVXeI0p6g/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+backhug.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-INXQUVP5W7E/UHiiB5sj_TI/AAAAAAAAIOs/HLLVXeI0p6g/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+17+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+backhug.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don't Let Go, Eunsoo. He's Liable to Do Something Crazy...Er.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This hug is particularly significant because she has something she wants to ask him, without looking at his face. She cries and asks, "Do you not want me to go back? Can I stay in this world?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ToaAIdYijno/UHii7ckXVAI/AAAAAAAAIO0/GD3qlQvAo_I/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+18+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+back+hug+crying.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ToaAIdYijno/UHii7ckXVAI/AAAAAAAAIO0/GD3qlQvAo_I/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+18+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+back+hug+crying.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He says she's suffered a lot in this timeframe already. Would she really want to stay in this world? It's obvious what he wants to say to her, but he can't in good conscience ask her to stay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our episode ends with a letter from Yuan, demanding to have Eunsoo. Errybody wants the doctor from heaven, don'cha know?</div><br />
<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></strong><br />
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1. <em>Lady Choi</em>. Choi Young's aunt is so killer when she's trying to explain to Eunsoo just how crazy a situation she's thrown herself into with the sort-of fake engagement to a treacherous member of the royal family.<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong> <br />
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1. <em>Whatever happened to the CGI</em>? In eps 1 and 2, we had abundant (and abundantly cool) animated sequences, plus plenty of CGI action-lighting powers on display. Now, we've had no animation for 13 episodes, and we're only getting a little lightning power usage once every four eps or so. Are we living in a supernatural world or aren't we? The special effects budget must not be what it once was.<br />
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<u><em>Watch </em></u><a href="http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4123/2/Faith/?ap=1"><em>Faith</em></a><u><em> on DramaFever.</em></u><br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: At last our romance is sealed, but the royal plots begin to drag once more. Is that going to be <em>Faith</em>'s pattern--four "up" episodes followed by four "down" episodes? These eps rock in the relationship department, but lack a lot in interesting plot development.<br />
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But all is not lost. When Eunsoo was crying, asking Choi Young if he could really forget her, my eyes definitely got misty. There's a heart under all the chess moves in this drama, and I like <em>Faith</em> better when we see it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-61024580690193419322012-10-11T19:49:00.002-05:002012-11-19T10:06:35.508-06:00K-Drama Review: Nice Guy, Episodes 1-2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s1600/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MECRwz4vUd4/UHLjGo2my6I/AAAAAAAAHsU/mu36X_NrIIQ/s320/nice+guy+kdrama+poster+2012.jpg" width="222" /></a><br />
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<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-1-2.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-3-4.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-5-6.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-7-8.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-9-10.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-11-12.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-13-14.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-15-16.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-17-18.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
<a href="/2012/11/k-drama-review-nice-guy-episodes-19-20.html">Nice Guy--Episodes 19-20</a><br />
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<strong>Contains Spoilers for Episodes 1-2</strong><br />
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<em><a href="http://www.blogger.com/2012/08/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You</a></em> left a gap in my viewing schedule, so I thought I'd go back and catch some of this half-finished revenge drama, where a guy supposedly gets back at the ex-girlfriend who sent him to prison by dating her grown stepdaughter. With a premise like that, I'm not expecting a lot of fun or joy, and I don't even expect to stick with the drama past the initial 2 eps.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>ETA: Boy was I wrong...</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u></u> </div><br />
Interestingly, the full Korean title of the drama is 세상 어디에도 없는 차칸남자 (Sesang Eodiedo Eobneun Chakannamja), which my limited Korean skills translated as "In this world, where there are no nice men." A better translation is "Nice Guys Don't Exist." Cool, huh?<br />
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The show begins with protagonist Maru running through the halls of the hospital where he's earning his medical degree. He is distracted by watching a close female friend of his, Jaehee, working on television as a news reporter.<br />
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Maru and a crowd of other med students are soon following a famous doctor on his rounds, like a flock of white-coated ducklings. Finally, head doctor gives Maru his own case--find out what's causing an 11-year-old boy to have seizures. He's got two hours to figure it out. Maru hangs out with the kid, then diagnoses the child with a cerebral aneurysm and notifies his superiors.<br />
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The kid's angiogram(?) comes back with no evidence of a cerebral aneurysm, but later on, Maru's diagnosis is proven right. He's a smartie, and he will be a genius doctor someday.<br />
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Maru goes home to a ratty low-rent dwellingplace to find his younger sister sprawled on the floor, wrecked by a severe fever.<br />
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Just as Maru is about to take her to the hospital, he gets a phone call from Jaehee, his noona (누나 older female friend). She whispers, "Help me, Maru. I think he might be dead. I think he's dead. Can you save him?" Maru is confused and weirdly flattered that Jaehee called him during her crisis. Foolishly, he decides to leave his sick sister to check on Jaehee's emergency.<br />
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He takes a cab to where Jaehee says she is. I cringe when Maru arrives, because the curtains shrouding the parking lot in utmost secrecy prove that Jaehee is probably at a <span lang="ko" xml:lang="ko">러브호텔, one of those rent-by-the-hour establishments. </span><br />
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Once inside the hotel room, this is what Maru sees:<br />
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I have to hand it to Maru's actor, Song Joongki--he reacts to the scene like a real person would. Not screaming and crying, but confused and hesitant, asking, "Am I really seeing what I think I'm seeing? How did it happen? What do I do about it?" After seeing enough K-dramas, I'm used to instant hysterics when something horrible happens, and while that's where Jaehee's emotional register is (and rightly so), it's not the same intense reaction from Maru.<br />
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When Maru confirms that this guy is stone-cold graveyard dead, Jaehee begins to ask, "Why did he die? I didn't kill him." Sure you didn't. The man exploded his own head, completely without any help from you or that bloody bottle you're clutching in your hand.<br />
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Maru wisely tells Jaehee that since she must have been acting in self-defense (or was she? hmm...), it's an accidental homicide and she won't have to do jail time. Jaehee shrieks that her career as a reporter will be over if this gets out. She has lived in dire poverty all her life, and says she'd be better off dead than accused of justifiable murder. <br />
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This statement makes Maru angry--Jaehee has kept him going for 13 years, so can't he be her reason for living, too? The look on her face says that's a clear "no," but his words do calm her down. Jaehee begins to talk about her life, and how it seems that God doesn't love her, since he sets her up for failure and dashes all her hopes. As Jaehee uses her cellphone to call the police and turn herself in, Maru yanks the phone away and then we get this:<br />
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After that heartfelt kiss, Maru goes around the room, wiping fingerprints off every surface. Oh, noooo. He says, "I was the one who killed him. Get out of here and never look back. Only look forward." He's actively preserving her future by sacrificing his. Noooo. He tells Jaehee that he can live without becoming a doctor, but she won't be able to live without being a reporter--without her dream, she'll go insane. He's right, but this makes her sound so pathetic and fragile, unable to cope with reality.<br />
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Then the scene flips to an entirely different character, Eunki, a spoiled but well-educated Daddy's girl who has been given an upper management job in Dad's company. She's systematically taking an older man to task for disrespecting her, and I think I like Eunki already.<br />
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She then proceeds to drive like a maniac, getting angrier and angrier as she talks to this executive and tells him he's been conducting shady business deals for years and she won't put up with it any longer. She tells him to pay back the money and leave the company, but then Eunki stops at what I think is her house and sees her dad coming out to meet--Jaehee! Jaehee cries and hands Dad a package, saying she has risked everything to protect him.<br />
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Ah, so did she kill that guy because he had dirt on Eunki's Dad, and Eunki's Dad is like Jaehee's sugardaddy or something? All we know is, Eunki's Dad says nothing, but holds Jaehee as she cries and Eunki looks on in concern from her car.<br />
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Back at the hotel, Maru looks out the window as police cars arrive, then he calls his little sister and leaves her a sweet message, saying he can't come home but he has arranged for a friend to watch out for her and take her to the hospital. The screen goes black and we hear a judge say Maru is sentenced to five years in prison.<br />
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"6 years later..."<br />
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We see Maru in a lush hotel room in Japan. <em>What happened</em>, I want to know? What happened between when he got out of prison and now? <br />
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Well, he's gotten meaner, that's for sure. He spent the night with some nameless girl, who we find out is a gold-digger who hoped he was wealthier than he is. It's an aching moment when you realize how crass and tawdry his relationships have become, compared to the pure-hearted boy from years prior.<br />
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Eunki is heading up a cosmetics company, and she goes to see a Japanese client whose face was scarred by metal pieces found in a makeup product. The lady agrees to eat with Eunki, and Eunki finds out that the lady's lawsuit is a plant by a rival company! Eunki is going to turn the whole affair over to the police.<br />
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As Eunki walks out of her meeting, Maru is nearby, making out with Random Gold Digger. <br />
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Eunki clutches her heart, begins to faint, then recovers as Jaehee<em>,</em> of all people, comes to check on her. Jaehee seems genuinely concerned about Eunki like an attentive unnie (언니, big sister) would be, but Jaehee is not Eunki's big sister--she's her <em>stepmother</em>. Eunki is flawlessly polite and sweet to Jaehee, but after seeing Eunki with the director, the customer, and lawyer Joonha, we know she's only flawlessly polite before she verbally cuts somebody six ways to Sunday.<br />
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When Eunki finds out that all the employees have left the hotel already, she yanks Jaehee's hand away with a "Don't pretend to care. The audience has left already." Then Eunki gets mean as we see that Jaehee has had a child--the little boy is 4 years old and he runs up to hug Eunki, but she rudely tells him that she does not acknowledge him as a baby brother. So unfeeling--but I still feel like I understand mean Eunki better than clingy Jaehee.<br />
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Then we find out why Eunki hates Jaehee extra-bad: Jaehee became Dad's mistress and kicked Eunki's mom out. I may want to slap Eunki for making the tiny boy cry, but more than that, I want to shake some sense into Jaehee. Nothing justifies stealing another woman's man, <em>ever</em>.<br />
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Back in Maru-land, it turns out that his fling with Gold Digger was done as a charitable deed to help his friend, who fell for her and lost all his money to her.<br />
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Maru tricked the girl into returning the money, so it's like a reverse-con. And now we know that Maru hasn't just gotten more worldly--he's gotten manipulative. <br />
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On the plane home to Seoul, Maru is in the same place as Eunki again. She steps out of the plane's bathroom and faints. He catches her, then checks her pulse. Then he <em>walks away</em>. Maru puts his earphones on as the plane attendants desperately request that any doctors on board the flight come and help. Eventually he grumps off to aid her, guilted into action by his BFF.<br />
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As Maru is tending to Eunki, Jaehee walks back into the compartment. Maru looks at her for a long moment, then announces to the flight attendants, "I am not a doctor. I was attending medical school once, but I dropped out in the middle of the semester."<br />
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</div>He asks, "Is this girl related to you?" Jaehee answers, "She's my step-daughter, from my husband's previous marriage." Then Jaehee turns to calm her 4-year-old son Eunsuk, and Maru looks like he is going to vomit because all he did for Jaehee was for nothing. She married a rich old guy and had a kid and forgot all about him for 6 years.<br />
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Back to the medical ordeal, Maru says Eunki's lungs are full of fluid, so CPR won't help her. Instead, he'll have to stab her lung with a syringe to draw the fluid out. Eek.<br />
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As Maru and his friend Jaegil drive home from the airport, Jaegil provides exposition: "You saw Jaehee again, didn't you? See, I told you she became that rich man's wife--you just refused to believe me. Six years ago when you went to prison, she visited you every day, then every month, then every other month, then stopped coming--that was why." <br />
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Now, we get a flashback of when Maru was little, the first time he saw Jaehee. Her face was bloody, and she was running from a dangerous-looking teenage boy. Maru told the guy he hadn't seen Jaehee, then he tends to Jaehee's scrapes.<br />
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Okay, now I begin to feel sorry for Jaehee. She obviously grew up in a place where she was not merely poor; she was physically abused, probably on a regular basis. Her later desperation is still not remotely excusable, but it is understandable.<br />
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In the present, Maru takes his little sister nicknamed "Choco," for "Chocoholic," to the doctor. We don't know what's wrong with her, but we do know that her health tanked after Maru left her to go check on Jaehee six years ago. Now Choco blames Maru for ruining her health and her life. <br />
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At Maru's house, Jaehee waits for him while Jaegil fills her in on what she has missed: Maru's father died of a heart attack, and now Maru is deeply in debt, trying to pay for Choco's medical bills when no one wants to employ him because he's an ex-con.<br />
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Jaehee leaves before Maru gets home, but she leaves him a huge chunk of cash. Jaegil leaves Maru the message that Jaehee wants him and Choco to move to a better neighborhood and to never think of her again. As if any amount of money would make up for six lost years, total unemployability, and a broken heart.<br />
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At home, Jaehee has tea with Eunki, who wonders why Jaehee went to give money to the doctor that saved Eunki on the plane. Apparently, Eunki has had a spy tailing Jaehee ever since Eunki's mom was kicked out of the mansion, and subsequently died a week later. Eunki wants revenge. I kind of want Maru AND Eunki to get their payback, but I wonder if Jaehee is strong enough to take the punishment she's earned. <br />
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But Jaehee cross-threatens Eunki, saying that Eunki was caught for drug possession seven years ago, and wouldn't it be terrible if the shareholders and company managers discovered that one, hmm? Eunki flashes back to the past, where she did not have drugs, but she took the heat for the crime because her former boyfriend begged her. Eh, I think that's the same plot point repeated too many times. <br />
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Eunki decides to accuse Maru of extorting money from Jaehee, just so she can figure out exactly why Jaehee gave him that money. Poor little Choco is left to cry in the rain as police drag her <em>oppa</em> off to the station for questioning. Eunki is forcing Jaehee to accuse Maru, or else to reveal her real connection to him. And then Jaehee ACCUSES HIM. She sits across from Maru and, to save her own precious self, says he blackmailed her for that money.<br />
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Maru stares her down, thinking, "I was going to let you go, and leave you alone." But now...what?<br />
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We finally see Eunki with her father, and he's so upset over a business decision she made, he throws a glass ashtray against the wall and a shard cuts Eunki's cheek. Dad doesn't even blink, just keeps berating her and saying how she's dumb and he won't leave his corporation to someone incompetent. He says, "If you can't handle the pressure, run away. Just like your mother did."Is he throwing her dead mother, who <em>he</em> betrayed, in Eunki's face?<br />
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Maru goes home because the police don't have any reason to convict him (he had returned the money earlier). Choco has been taken to the hospital in his absence because she stayed out in the rain, crying over her oppa leaving. I don't feel sorry for her because she knew what she was doing and risked her health, knowing that walking in the rain would not help Maru. Choco has a victim complex--she uses her illness as a means of controlling her brother, then takes no responsibility for her own health or safety. <br />
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Then we have a weird, random action scene where Eunki is out racing on a dirt bike, then her brakes go out and she falls over a cliff, only to be saved by another dirt-bike rider--Maru. Huh? What? Why would either of these super-busy people be racing dirt bikes? Why would the writers choose to end episode 2 here, at a place that seems more like a dream sequence than anything?<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><br />
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1. <em>Maru</em>. What are we supposed to do with this guy? How much will it take to push him from "unprincipled" to "psychopath"? How much can, or should, we justify when it comes to his getting revenge for the past?<br />
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2. <em>Eunki</em>. She's my homegirl, because although she's cold and hard as a steel screwdriver, she's smart, wily, and has yet to betray anyone. The wrong she has done is negligible compared with Jaehee, plus she's living with a verbally and emotionally (and physically) abusive father.<br />
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The end of episode 2 makes no sense, logically or chronologically.<br />
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<strong><u>Themes:</u></strong> <br />
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<em>Poverty</em>. Maru is from a low rent slum, and Jaehee is so desperate to escape from poverty, she is suicidal when she thinks she won't make it out. Lack of money floats in the air above the characters' heads, even after they get money.<br />
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<em>God's Mercy/Lack of Mercy</em>. Jaehee wonders why God allowed her to live and to hope, only to drag her down again after the murder. Later, Jaegil says this same thing about Maru--why is God so unfair to Maru? Everything seems stacked against him.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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Despite myself, I am so interested in this story. Sweet Maru and the foolish choices he made to help his beloved noona are very compelling. And then to see Jaehee-noona as a serial betrayer whose soft heart only makes her cruelty seem all the more vile? Well, that's worth examining a bit.<br />
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And I just flat-out love Eunki. She's hardcore flawed, but she's a genius and a hard worker, and I like her fire and determination. Jaehee seems like a weakling who has to lean on others and trick her way into power, but Eunki's got a spine. I'd share espresso with her any day.<br />
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So long as our leads have a few redeeming qualities, I'm going to stick by <em>Nice Guy</em> and see where it leads.<br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_27.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_10.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_17.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 9-10/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_23.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_7.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
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<strong>Contains Spoilers for Episodes 15-16</strong><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here we are. Watching the final two episodes of <em>To The Beautiful You</em>, and I'm almost woefully incurious about what happens or how it happens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> So after walking in on this scene, Eungyul now knows Jaehee's a girl:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mpKuJtvoPD8/UG9kBMVYl6I/AAAAAAAAHgA/-0oOPcPpbYo/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+changing+clothes+eun+gyul.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mpKuJtvoPD8/UG9kBMVYl6I/AAAAAAAAHgA/-0oOPcPpbYo/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+changing+clothes+eun+gyul.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">An Embarrassing, But Necessary Event.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She apologizes to him for not telling him sooner, and he dejectedly asks her if she's been toying with him all this time. As her best friend, he confessed the depths of his heart to her and she didn't even bother to explain her basic identity. He storms off and it occurs to me that I don't recall Jaehee ever even telling Eungyul flat-out that she could not return his romantic feelings. That needed to be said, gently.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C7DabdoKprk/UG9tt4kVUQI/AAAAAAAAHhI/SwxxqdzBejc/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+eun+gyul+blue+stitch+pillow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C7DabdoKprk/UG9tt4kVUQI/AAAAAAAAHhI/SwxxqdzBejc/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+eun+gyul+blue+stitch+pillow.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eungyul Will Now Sulk About it On His Lilo & Stitch Pillow.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile, Taejoon is happily exchanging text messages with his recovering father, as well as having great high-jumping practices. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee sits with the dorm's dog and thinks about how she should just come clean to all her friends and then leave school. (Yes, you should, Jaehee! You and Taejoon can date long-distance--you don't need to duck, hide, and live a lie for three more years at an all-boys school! Yeesh.) Taejoon comes up to her and she tearfully confesses, "I have something to tell you. I am...a girl." Taejoon, who has known this for 12 episodes, wraps her in a hug. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4wfqBGrMtI/UHB2h0pMPcI/AAAAAAAAHiQ/WF7E5yqKxmY/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hug.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4wfqBGrMtI/UHB2h0pMPcI/AAAAAAAAHiQ/WF7E5yqKxmY/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hug.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's Okay, Silly Girl. It's Okay.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> He says, "Thank you for coming to be by my side." When Jaehee is shocked that he isn't more shocked, he says that he has known for a long time that she's a girl, but he kept the secret bottled up in his heart. He closes with, "Jaehee, I like you." But in Korean, 좋아한다 (johanda) sounds a little sweeter than a flat I-like-you in English. Yay for honest confessions, at last.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At school Eungyul is still really hurt, and Taejoon asks him why he has stopped being buddy-buddy with Jaehee. Jaehee even apologizes again, but nothing's getting through to Eungyul. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's a rumor circulating at Genie High that a girl is secretly attending school. Dorm 2 captain Seungri is told that his dorm is likely where the stowaway is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GPrPPVdquZg/UHCLa9-GexI/AAAAAAAAHjQ/SVzTV8DCkzk/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+dorm+captain+seungri.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="304" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GPrPPVdquZg/UHCLa9-GexI/AAAAAAAAHjQ/SVzTV8DCkzk/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+dorm+captain+seungri.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">You're Housing An Interloper, Seungri!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But Taejoon and Jaehee are oblivious to the rumors as they go out on a long date, then back to have a s'more-roasting session by a campfire. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RuEPGQ6jfbc/UHCNOIbPDuI/AAAAAAAAHjY/lCXAhop0Jvc/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+holding+hands.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RuEPGQ6jfbc/UHCNOIbPDuI/AAAAAAAAHjY/lCXAhop0Jvc/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+15+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+holding+hands.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hand-Holding Ensues.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eungyul asks Jaehee to spend a day with him, just to see once and for all if she has no feelings for him. They have a great time but, as expected, when push comes to shove she tells Eungyul that she doesn't return his affection, and she runs off to see Taejoon, who texted that he missed her. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Episode 16 opens with more happy couple moments. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hJHfp6qllkw/UHCTlTPcUcI/AAAAAAAAHkY/zXwrMrnB2dI/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+drinking+milk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hJHfp6qllkw/UHCTlTPcUcI/AAAAAAAAHkY/zXwrMrnB2dI/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+drinking+milk.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Such as Jaehee <em>Feeding Taejoon His Breakfast.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oookay. And we may have another couple in the works because Hanna is now primping to prepare for a meeting with dorm captain Seungri, a guy she had previously rejected. It's clear that she's into him now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9fxzQLuOKPw/UHCnz0qYVLI/AAAAAAAAHlY/Oa9p8bFiseU/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+hanna.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9fxzQLuOKPw/UHCnz0qYVLI/AAAAAAAAHlY/Oa9p8bFiseU/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+hanna.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">But She Sure Doesn't Want Him to Know That!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Eungyul asks Jaehee to come shopping with him, and he wears this horribly sad smile because he's trying to salvage their friendship. But Taejoon is just a touch jealous and offers to join their shopping trip. Eungyul is a little sad when Taejoon and Jaehee stand close together, and then Taejoon is a little sad and walks away when he sees that Jaehee and Eungyul have inadvertently worn matching "couple" shirts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-krwyzffCsqg/UHDHcqybl7I/AAAAAAAAHmY/MNpFcZCOIRA/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul+couple+shirts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-krwyzffCsqg/UHDHcqybl7I/AAAAAAAAHmY/MNpFcZCOIRA/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul+couple+shirts.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Best. Expressions. Ever.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Taejoon is soon preparing for a major competition, and his former rival Hyunjae encourages him, telling him that he can win.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hPm4JeIF-Pw/UHHN20QXTrI/AAAAAAAAHnY/xAPGbr-oeL4/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hyun+jae+locker+room.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hPm4JeIF-Pw/UHHN20QXTrI/AAAAAAAAHnY/xAPGbr-oeL4/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hyun+jae+locker+room.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yay For Rivals-Turned-Friends!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Taejoon says that he doesn't intend to go to the Olympics alone--he expects Hyunjae to qualify and come with him. Then he gives Hyunjae a pair of new athletic shoes he bought for him! So delightful. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As Taejoon packs to go away for the big competition, Jaehee helps him get his stuff together, then surprises him with a kiss. It's a pleasantly shocking moment, because of the two or three kisses they've had so far, none of them were Jaehee's idea. It's kind of mind-boggling to see her taking a little initiative.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxp2mQ38_q8/UHHQNWOwAKI/AAAAAAAAHno/g2MGZiy4BiA/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+kiss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="169" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxp2mQ38_q8/UHHQNWOwAKI/AAAAAAAAHno/g2MGZiy4BiA/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+kiss.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Taejoon is Rather Surprised, As Well.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He even drops his travel bag. It's cute. Then he has to leave, and it's all awkward, and for another shining moment, this show has charm. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At school, Jaehee is feeling fainty because her chest bandages are restricting her breathing as well as her bloodflow. She faints, then the guys unloosen her necktie and discover her bandage...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o5iwpi5B_cg/UHHSsYG1SiI/AAAAAAAAHn4/YegzCh1k05U/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+seungri+other+guys.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o5iwpi5B_cg/UHHSsYG1SiI/AAAAAAAAHn4/YegzCh1k05U/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+seungri+other+guys.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cue the Disbelief and Consternation!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee wakes up in the infirmary, and the school Doctor encourages her--she's had a good run, and it's time to move on. Seungri stews over what to do about Jaehee, but as he asks the other two dorm captains to keep this a secret, he says that he personally will take responsibility for this disaster. Oh, how kind. He's being a good 선배(<em>seonbae</em>, upperclassman)!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee begins to tearfully pack her bags, to leave school quietly, as it's her only option at this point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cn1BYwYQnns/UHHpkevqQLI/AAAAAAAAHo4/0fTn0MZjpBc/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+crying+packing.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cn1BYwYQnns/UHHpkevqQLI/AAAAAAAAHo4/0fTn0MZjpBc/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+16+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+crying+packing.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Is That Eungyul's Pillow She's Got, There?</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Eungyul hears that Jaehee is transferring. He asks if, no matter that she likes Taejoon, she couldn't just stay near him a little while longer? 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He is ridiculously happy to see her. They go on another long date and renew their affection for each other, not that it ever went anywhere in the first place. Then she gives him a serious goodbye hug and he wonders what's up with that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee heads back to Genie High to say one last farewell to the guys in her dorm. Seungri hugs her goodbye and all the boys wish her well. 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Jaehee watches the competition live on someone's Galaxy Phone as a bus takes her to the airport. Taejoon laces up his shoes with the lucky laces Jaehee gave him. His slo-mo run toward the high jump bar is perfect, and he breaks his own record. Taejoon then runs up to the cameras and yells, "Jaehee, if you're watching this, wait for me!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Timeskip to one year later, in California.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eungyul sends Jaehee a video letter through email. He's doing well with his competitions. Two of their teachers are set to get married soon. Seungri and Hanna are dating (yay!), but Seungri is very much his girlfriend's servant. 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Taejoon comes to see her! They don't say anything more than <em>hello</em> and <em>I've missed you</em>, but it's still a lovely reunion. Hugs, smiles, more hugs, more smiles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Series end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h30L23prl2c/UC57olDNdkI/AAAAAAAAFIs/evRv7n4fluI/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+minho+sulli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h30L23prl2c/UC57olDNdkI/AAAAAAAAFIs/evRv7n4fluI/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+minho+sulli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved</u></strong>:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></strong> </div>1. <em>Eungyul's Discovery of Jaehee's Secret.</em><br />
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2. <em>Taejoon's Love for Jaehee</em>. These are two fairly shallow characters set in a show with next to zero innovation or originality, and yet the sweet, innocent puppy love?<br />
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3. <em>Old Rivalries Mended</em>. When Taejoon gives the formerly mean Hyunjae those shoes he bought for him, it's pure sweetness.<br />
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4. <em>Taejoon/Jaehee Reunion</em>. 'Tis precious, no?<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints</u></strong>: <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.What Happened to Jongmin? Did we just write him out of the show, or was Kwanghee simply too busy filming for <em>We Got Married</em>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2. What happened to Eungyul/Hanna, and why did we drop that belligerent pairing in favor of Seungri/Hanna (though I actually like that combination, too)?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Why did we only see the other two dorm captains in, like, three episodes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. Why did the school Doctor up and leave for Paris?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Did anybody ever catch that predator that hurt Jaehee in episode 4?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">6. Did Jaehee continue her own running career, or indeed have any private pursuits of her own, ever?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">7. What happened to Hyunjae, and to Hyunjae's little sister?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">8. Did Jaehee's non-existent and criminally neglectful parents ever figure out what she was doing in Korea for that one semester?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">9. What happened with Jaehee's Oppa Daniel, and her other Korean photographer oppa, who was played by Kim Woobin, but whose character's name I forget?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">10. What happened to the sasaeng fans from episode 1?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">11. Did Hanna manage to recover and become a gymnast again?</span><br />
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<strong><u>Episode/Series Evaluations</u></strong>: <br />
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This was a show, and things happened in it. The boys were cute, the girls were cute, and the camerawork was totally pretty. I smiled and giggled a few times and was frustrated a few times before completely checking out of the show.<br />
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It's not a bad show--it just fails to feel like it counts for anything. <br />
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Why should the audience care if Taejoon regains his ability to high jump? We didn't know him before Jaehee met him, so we had no reason to be invested in his recovery. Why should the audience worry whether Jaehee's secret is discovered? She'll merely be kicked out of this school and sent to another school. <br />
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I thought it was an adorable little drama, and I bet that high school students would eat it up, but ultimately <em>To The Beautiful You</em> holds no big draw for me. I can't see myself ever rewatching an episode or having a serious, long conversation about the show with a friend, though it wasn't a bad way to pass the summer.<br />
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This is Tiger Holland, signing off and looking for a drama with deeper impact and higher stakes.<br />
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The speaker is framing these question in terms of the landscape of Israel at the time, asking who can abide in God's tabernacle (this was in King David's time, before his son King Solomon built the first temple), and who can live on the holy hill where the tabernacle stays. In modern terms, the question could just be about who can belong to God and walk in fellowship with him.<br />
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Verses 2-3 describe the kind of person who can get close to God: someone who performs righteousness. He is not self-deceived, he doesn't cut others down with his words, and doesn't seek to harm or blame others. Sounds pretty simple, until I consider how often I feel bitterness in my heart or try to make someone feel less-than-worthy with the words I direct toward them. Maybe abiding with God takes more work than I think.<br />
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Verses 4-5 give further details about this godly person. She does not approve of vile people (note that there is a big difference between not speaking evil about another person and approving of everything they do--hate the sin, not the sinner, as they say). She honors those who honor and respect God (other believers), she does not go back on her promises, even when it is difficult to stick by them. She doesn't loan money at high interest rates (this is comparable to cheating others in any way, not just money-lending).<br />
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The person, man or woman, who does these things is secure in the Lord and will never be moved.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-15-2" id="en-KJV-14090"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? <br />
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<span class="text Ps-15-2" id="en-KJV-14090"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-15-3" id="en-KJV-14091"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-15-4" id="en-KJV-14092"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-15-5" id="en-KJV-14093"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.</span><br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-3-4.html">Faith--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-5-6.html">Faith--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-7-8.html">Faith--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-9-10.html">Faith--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-11-12.html">Faith--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-13-14.html">Faith--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-15-16.html">Faith--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-17-18.html">Faith--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
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Doctor Jangbin arrives to take care of Eunsoo, but tells Choi Young that he doesn't even know what poison Deok-heung used on Eunsoo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmmK3Vk-aVk/UG0RnaiMYhI/AAAAAAAAHVo/QQhL-ZHDxic/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+eun+soo+sick.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmmK3Vk-aVk/UG0RnaiMYhI/AAAAAAAAHVo/QQhL-ZHDxic/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+eun+soo+sick.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our Girl Is In a Bad Way.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Choi Young runs out to meet Deok-heung (known from here on out as D), and I'm fully expecting a murder in the next few eps, because if Choi Young is the type of nutso who would cut a person's jugular just to see if it can be repaired (see episode 1), he's going to go fully bananas when someone willfully harms the woman he cares for. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He runs and runs, thinking of Eunsoo, who he might not be able to save, and of Tiny King, the boy he has already lost for good. 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And then he reaches D, who is all cool logic and trying to <em>negotiate</em> with Choi Young over the antidote.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FTvyPznKuv8/UG0UQjOJgcI/AAAAAAAAHV4/ffzempV8xG8/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+angry.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FTvyPznKuv8/UG0UQjOJgcI/AAAAAAAAHV4/ffzempV8xG8/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+angry.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">You Can't Negotiate With This.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With pure crazy shining in his eyes, Choi Young overturns D's fancy table, then beats the man until his face is bloody before delivering this beautiful thought: "I have killed many people. Before now, I already tried to make their deaths painless. But you, I plan to tear to pieces." As D explains that his ploys are all done because he has no choice--he must become a king or die--Choi Young begins to slice the back of D's neck!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's only the reminder that if D dies, Eunsoo dies as well that makes Choi Young stop. D demands that Choi Young steal the King's seal for him, or he won't get Eunsoo's antidote. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rW47yYG4aMY/UG4VoPthgsI/AAAAAAAAHW4/IkFcAgZEN0s/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+deok+heung+bloody.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rW47yYG4aMY/UG4VoPthgsI/AAAAAAAAHW4/IkFcAgZEN0s/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+deok+heung+bloody.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Okay, <em>Now</em> I See Him As a Villain.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young goes to the King and asks him for his seal, reminding him when he balks that Eunsoo is dying and she was dragged into this world on the King's orders. King asks if he's being asked to give up his seal to his conniving uncle just to save one woman's life? (Well, King, can't you be responsible for somebody's life this one time? We all gotta grow up.) The King says, giving away the seal means giving away the throne. Choi Young replies, who gave him the seal? The King looks stricken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RwxbF6h_d_Y/UG4v6weTQuI/AAAAAAAAHX4/GakMtAbegO8/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+king+gongmin.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RwxbF6h_d_Y/UG4v6weTQuI/AAAAAAAAHX4/GakMtAbegO8/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+king+gongmin.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's Awful That You're Hurting, But You Might've Had That Coming.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Then Choi Young tells King Gongmin to give him the seal, or he'll take it from him. Sweet night, that's a terrible thing to say to your liege lord/BFF, but when it's a choice between distressing him and letting the woman you love die....ugh, this hurts to watch. Choi Young's warriors are ordered to attack him, and even though he is unarmed, he easily defeats and disarms his own warriors. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What follows is a lengthy epic battle where the 50 warriors who love Choi Young do their best to stop him with swords and arrows, and fail miserably. He manages not to seriously injure any of them. Then it's revealed that Choi Young stole the seal ALREADY, and was just distracting everyone's attention from that fact. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HVoHwr4_v3c/UG5Nl7PoiaI/AAAAAAAAHY4/dwREtPE4vG8/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HVoHwr4_v3c/UG5Nl7PoiaI/AAAAAAAAHY4/dwREtPE4vG8/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Marry Me, Choi Young.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He gets the antidote, then sits helplessly by Eunsoo's unconscious body after Doctor Jangbin administers it. Even if she gets better in the short term, D says that she'll need several more doses to get truly better. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At home in the palace, King Gongmin gradually comes to the realization that he neither understands Choi Young, nor his own people. He doesn't care about them as he should, and doesn't know what they want or need. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young sits by Eunsoo's bedside, holding her hand and trying to talk her back to the land of the living. Mister psycho warrior speaks gently about how he taught her to ride a horse and use a dagger, and in the future he'll teach her how to fish. Or if she doesn't like fishing, he'll teach her something else. At the same time, Eunsoo is having a prophetic dream about the future, about finding Choi Young apparently dead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vG7WKSOWrJc/UG5TcPffE9I/AAAAAAAAHZ4/S9qLDmw9i18/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+sick.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vG7WKSOWrJc/UG5TcPffE9I/AAAAAAAAHZ4/S9qLDmw9i18/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eunsoo+sick.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">No! Neither of You Are Allowed to Die.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Eunsoo wakes up, Choi Young apologizes. He says D only poisoned her because Choi Young sent D to her with the diary in the first place. She points out that he got her the antidote, so all's even. Eunsoo directs Choi Young to help her sit up, so she can lean back on him. As they sit close together, she tells him that the heaven's gate will open in about a month and...if she doesn't go home then, she'll be stuck in Goryeo for another 67 years. He responds by holding her tighter. I refuse to cry. I will not cry, you hear me, drama?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In order to get Eunsoo's next dose of antidote, D says Choi Young must stay with him for several hours, talking. It sounds simple until you realize that D has invited villain Gicheol over and is implying that Choi Young is now in D's own camp, supporting him as king. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vDZbNioKGUM/UG5f_XggBgI/AAAAAAAAHa4/YjnPsnGMfYk/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+deok+heung.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vDZbNioKGUM/UG5f_XggBgI/AAAAAAAAHa4/YjnPsnGMfYk/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+15+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+deok+heung.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Clever and Cleverer.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Lots more schemery goes down in a few scant minutes, and it ends with Choi Young having to choose between running to his King to save his life or getting the antidote from D to save Eunsoo's life. It's like Batman with Rachel and Harvey Dent all over again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Choi Young gives orders to one of his men to get the Wodalchi warriors and escape from the palace with the King and Queen, since Gicheol is about to attack. It sounds like he's going to take care of his girl, but then he says that instead he'll follow along to the palace to help the King, and D must now give the antidote to another of Choi Young's men to take to Eunsoo. See, Choi Young has figured out that D can't kill Eunsoo--both Choi Young and Gicheol want her alive and both of them will kill D if Eunsoo dies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d8VlHfl7AcE/UG79g9E0JqI/AAAAAAAAHb4/SJA0gl3lz60/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+16+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+deok+heung.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d8VlHfl7AcE/UG79g9E0JqI/AAAAAAAAHb4/SJA0gl3lz60/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+16+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+deok+heung.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Choi Young's Got Your Number!</span></strong></div><br />
Battle ensues. The Wodalchi and Choi Young slaughter a few dozen enemy soldiers, some of whom used to be on the King's side. The King escapes the palace, and so does the Queen, albeit in separate directions. D goes to the palace and manages to plant doubt in the minds of King Gongmin's scholars as to why their king ran away in a crisis situation.<br />
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Eunsoo gets her next dose of antidote and wakes up. I kind of love the sickness cycle, how she has to keep bouncing back and forth between near-health and near-death, due to the nature of the poison. She starts tending to the wounds of the Wodalchi, though Choi Young wants her to rest. She also wants to get one last look at that diary, as she thinks it contains a note from her future self to her current self.<br />
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Gicheol makes D the interim ruler until the fled Gongmin returns, and they're both working to stop his return.<br />
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Choi Young meets with the King, and the two BFFs make up. Yay! The King is transported to a safe place, where he rejoins his beloved Queen.<br />
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Doctor Jangbin finds out what poisoned Eunsoo, and gives some of this same poison to Choi Young to keep with him. What'll he do with it, I wonder? Eunsoo and Choi Young sit down to talk strategy, and she has to hint around that she's very cold before he'll sit by her and put his arm around her.<br />
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The two of them go to see Gicheol and he agrees to help them get the final diary page back from D. So it's Villains and Heroes, united against Other Villains! So grand. They all walk to the palace to confront D together and to get the diary pages. Gicheol fumes and threatens guards with his sword while Choi Young punches out some guards to get to D, who sits on Gongmin's throne. <br />
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Then Choi Young slams the false king down on a table and pours the same poison D gave to Eunsoo down D's throat. HOLY MOLY.<br />
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In reaction to being poisoned himself, D says if he can be alone with Eunsoo, they'll both get the antidote, but only if Choi Young stays behind. Eunsoo gets her cure without a hitch, but alliances may be shifting once more--D and Gicheol note that they'll never have Eunsoo's loyalty while Choi Young is around her.<br />
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Eunsoo finally does get that diary note from her future self. It looks like she's telling herself to stay with Choi Young, but her future self is just vague enough that she can't be sure. She also pieces together the fact that she's supposed to save him from some sort of trap. And it currently looks like he's walking into said trap...<br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved:</u></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></strong><br />
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1. <em>Gicheol Being Angry/Frustrated Confused</em>. It happens so often, and it's funny every single time.<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong> <br />
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1. None. This week was better than last!<br />
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<u><em>Watch </em></u><a href="http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4123/2/Faith/?ap=1"><em>Faith</em></a><u><em> on DramaFever.</em></u><br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: The politics are interesting again! All it took was the entrance of a third party, plus kicking the King out of the palace to jumpstart all kinds of plotty awesomeness. When you add in a desperate Choi Young kicking butt left and right, then a delirious Eunsoo getting messages from her future self, you've got a newly riveting drama. Eee!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-37844174036290582552012-10-01T14:33:00.000-05:002012-10-11T21:30:54.839-05:00K-Drama Review: To The Beautiful You, Episodes 13-14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Taejoon at last tells Jaehee that he doesn't want her to go to America--she needs to stay with him.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eungyul shows up to swap cellphones with Jaehee before she can answer Taejoon. If I never have to see Jaehee looking sad and confused again, it'll be too soon. Taejoon and Jaehee go home to their dorm room after a weekend of volunteering and Taejoon tells Jaehee that after she gets cleaned up, they need to have a for-real sit-down discussion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">School Doctor and Taejoon finally have an open talk about how Jaehee's a girl. Did it have to take 13 episodes for something so basic to happen? Taejoon declares his romantic intentions to the Doc, but Doc isn't sure how Jaehee will react to a confession.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eQyhH8s7lLI/UGiAV3aLGaI/AAAAAAAAHKI/ShyOes1DGmk/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eQyhH8s7lLI/UGiAV3aLGaI/AAAAAAAAHKI/ShyOes1DGmk/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Perchance, She Will Be Sad and Confused.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now Taejoon <em>doesn't</em> want to confess because he thinks it'll scare Jaehee away. *facepalm* Life continues. Just having Jaehee around makes Taejoon so happy that his high jumping improves more and more. His rival Hyunjae, however, is getting nervous. He's hitting the bar every time he jumps, and he's going to lose all his endorsement deals if he doesn't improve. Even though Hyunjae's a secondary character, it feels like we're finally in high-stakes territory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXeYDJxhaX0/UGiQBWL-8dI/AAAAAAAAHLE/EJX-kBOqHoU/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+hyun+jae.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXeYDJxhaX0/UGiQBWL-8dI/AAAAAAAAHLE/EJX-kBOqHoU/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+hyun+jae.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Now, The Sports Story is Cooler Than The Love Story.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And it looks like Hyunjae has decided to sabotage Taejoon instead of just improving his own game! We see Hyunjae standing on a balcony, then a giant flower pot falls and nearly smashes into Taejoon's head. Blatant Dream High reference. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That night, Hyunjae sabotages Taejoon's bicycle, but as he crawls home to his dorm, Eungyul is waiting for him with a belated birthday present and a happy birthday song. Hyunjae's heart is warmed, and the sweet moment makes him feel all the more guilty. Jaehee suspects something is amiss with Taejoon's bike, and when she borrows it for a test drive, she crashes. Her fall is broken by Eungyul, who injures his ankle in the collision.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ToyFKKUQxqw/UGizeTjDZ7I/AAAAAAAAHM8/Pmam0XBL-90/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul+wreck.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ToyFKKUQxqw/UGizeTjDZ7I/AAAAAAAAHM8/Pmam0XBL-90/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul+wreck.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ruh-Roh...</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is super-extra-really bad because Eungyul just made the national soccer team. He hides his pain at having to miss the upcoming match, and says to himself that it's all worthwhile, so long as Jaehee is not hurt. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee grows a backbone again and confronts Hyunjae about the bicycle sabotage and the trouble he has caused. Eungyul overhears and berates Hyunjae, too. When did Hyunjae become such a pathetic person, Eungyul asks? Didn't he know that someone could be injured by his prank? Hyunjae can't do anything but miserably say he's sorry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile at the hospital, dorm captain Seungri is working up the courage to chat up Hanna.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-im1CllGhRE8/UGi2dWZit4I/AAAAAAAAHN4/XuFl9FnR-W0/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+seungri.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-im1CllGhRE8/UGi2dWZit4I/AAAAAAAAHN4/XuFl9FnR-W0/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+seungri.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>I Was Expecting Hanna/Eungyul, But This Is Cute, Too.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hanna tells him that she wants to be left alone, in that snooty-brat voice of hers which I somehow find endearing. Seungri continues to fumble for words as he attempts to be charming. She reluctantly agrees to let Seungri amuse her while they're both staying in the hospital. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At Genie High, a tiny tot wanders on campus (which has the worst security ever), and tries to find "Taejoon Oppa".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ElDntvEhZX4/UGj59qprhRI/AAAAAAAAHO0/z86ZUIkoC74/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+little+girl.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ElDntvEhZX4/UGj59qprhRI/AAAAAAAAHO0/z86ZUIkoC74/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+13+little+girl.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adorable! And Kind of Mean.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tiny tot gets into Jaehee and Taejoon's room after Eungyul decides to cart her inside in a gym bag! Oy vey, the child endangerment. And she's not even Taejoon's 동생--she's actually Hyunjae's baby sister.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I thought, Hyunjae's family is very poor, and he is expected to win a gold medal and get lots of endorsement deals in order to support them. His little sister adores him and misses him, and her appearance pushes Hyunjae to apologize to Eungyul. Yay, friendship mended!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's some new drama with Taejoon's dad, who faints and goes to the hospital. Taejoon doesn't want to go see Dad because he blames Dad for Mom's death two years ago, and for not getting Mom the proper medical attention. Jaehee convinces him to go, though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_V_OmTjLLco/UGkNk86CvYI/AAAAAAAAHQs/NWrF9RIjAz4/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_V_OmTjLLco/UGkNk86CvYI/AAAAAAAAHQs/NWrF9RIjAz4/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anyone Else Not Really Care, Either Way?</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hospitalized Dad is very apologetic for all he's done to hurt his son, but Taejoon says to his dad's face that he'll never be able to forgive him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Off in the romantic plot, Jaehee is only just now thinking that Taejoon <em>might</em> like her. And if Taejoon likes her, this must mean that he's gay! *forehead smack*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j8ayEbQs6AI/UGngS_bRFuI/AAAAAAAAHRo/Qn-kxzOK9Ns/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j8ayEbQs6AI/UGngS_bRFuI/AAAAAAAAHRo/Qn-kxzOK9Ns/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Always So Very Far From The Truth.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee spends some time with Eungyul, who is missing the chance to play in his first national soccer game because he got hurt helping her. Then she spends most of the next day on what amounts to a date with Taejoon. I can't tell if everybody's ultra-sweet or if everybody is leading everybody else on. Who likes who? Does it matter anymore?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As these two walk home, Taejoon asks if Jaehee ever regrets coming to a school so far away from home. She says no--it's so nice to be near a person who was once so far away, meaning him. Their conversation heartwarms Taejoon so much, he wraps his jacket around Jaehee and moves in for a kiss.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vIZwGjaODvo/UGnnUovc6BI/AAAAAAAAHTo/VsnoYELTXM8/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+kiss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vIZwGjaODvo/UGnnUovc6BI/AAAAAAAAHTo/VsnoYELTXM8/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+kiss.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yay, I Guess.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And kisses should mean that the characters have revealed their feelings, or are at least going to discuss their feelings? Hahaha! No, Jaehee pushes Taejoon away and they both blame his impulsive behavior on the fact that he ate chocolate which might have contained alcohol. We have now stooped to blaming our actions on <em>alcoholic chocolate</em>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back to the family plot. To help Taejoon, Jaehee arranges for him to have dinner with his dad, and Dad explains some things about Mom's death that make Taejoon hate him less. Jaehee comforts Taejoon afterward, as usual.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aRAlrsnFi1U/UGnrHYfyknI/AAAAAAAAHUo/rDqzLY7mSgg/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hug.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aRAlrsnFi1U/UGnrHYfyknI/AAAAAAAAHUo/rDqzLY7mSgg/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+14+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+hug.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rather Sweet, After All.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Life goes back to normal for everybody. Taejoon finally tells Jaehee that he likes her, but she doesn't answer him. Due to series of unlocked doors which really should have been locked, Eungyul walks in on Jaehee changing and now knows she's a girl. What will all these poor, confused babies do now that the secret is out? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h30L23prl2c/UC57olDNdkI/AAAAAAAAFIs/evRv7n4fluI/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+minho+sulli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h30L23prl2c/UC57olDNdkI/AAAAAAAAFIs/evRv7n4fluI/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+minho+sulli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<strong><u>Things I Loved</u></strong>:<br />
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2. <em>Hyunjae's Struggles</em>. He's a good-but-not-perfect athlete placed next to the Olympic-caliber Taejoon. Who wouldn't resent Taejoon a little? But then Hyunjae has to go and get villainous, sabotaging Taejoon and hurting Eungyul in the process. It complicates his character.<br />
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3. <em>Hyunjae's Sister</em>. The very definition of cuteness!<br />
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1.<em> Nothing Matters Anymore</em>. Is there such a thing as consequences for anyone's actions? Nope, nada, nyet.<br />
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Verses 2-3 show God looking down on earth and observing what everyone does, hoping to see faithful people who do what's right. Unfortunately, earth is full of people who have degraded their own selves. The speaker repeats that "there is none that doeth good, no, not one".<br />
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Verses 4-6 talk about the evil people as if they were rabid consumers, devouring the poor without a second thought about God, who is watching them. But eventually the wicked people experience fear because their behavior makes them the enemies of God, who is refuge for the righteous and the poor. The speaker concludes by hoping for the deliverance of Israel, which may refer to the Babylonian captivity or to numerous other times that Israel was oppressed.<br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-2" id="en-KJV-14083"><sup class="versenum">1</sup></span>The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. <br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-2" id="en-KJV-14083"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-3" id="en-KJV-14084"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-4" id="en-KJV-14085"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-5" id="en-KJV-14086"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-6" id="en-KJV-14087"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is his refuge.</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-14-7" id="en-KJV-14088"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.</span><br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-1-2.html">Faith--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-3-4.html">Faith--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-5-6.html">Faith--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-7-8.html">Faith--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-9-10.html">Faith--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-11-12.html">Faith--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-13-14.html">Faith--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-15-16.html">Faith--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-faith-episodes-17-18.html">Faith--Episodes 17-18</a><br />
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Deok-heung, a new guy who I think is a villain, offers Eunsoo her magical purple diary from the future(past?), but says she has to come with him to visit Gicheol. Deok-heung is the King's illegitimate uncle, so he's in a position of power but we don't yet know what he'll do with it. She doesn't jump at the bait though, and just walks away from him. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eunsoo hangs out with the Wodalchi warriors under a pavilion, then their captain Choi Young comes back from killing a baker's dozen of bad guys. He's miffed that his warriors are hanging around, being charmed by Eunsoo and just shooting the breeze. The boys clear out and Eunsoo demands to check Choi Young's wounds, so she can tend to him. 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He's letting her know that he hasn't forgotten his promise to take her home to her own time. Eunsoo is fine, though. She goes outside, breathes the fresh air, and starts to really enjoy her life in Goryeo for the first time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the palace, the King is so relieved that Choi Young returned unscathed, since he's really the King's best bud in addition to being his best warrior. But even after slaughtering more enemies, we still have to worry about the villain Gicheol scheming to get Eunsoo back as a fulltime doctor/fortuneteller.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aA2La4yIkqc/UGUvx2VUMtI/AAAAAAAAG_s/P57Df6mF9g0/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+13+king+gongmin.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aA2La4yIkqc/UGUvx2VUMtI/AAAAAAAAG_s/P57Df6mF9g0/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+13+king+gongmin.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stay Strong, Your Majesty!</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gicheol is plotting to get Deok-heung to win Eunsoo's "heart" for him. Not yet sure how he plans to do that when Gicheol himself failed at it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As Choi Young is in town on business, one of his warriors informs him that Eunsoo is in town, too--buying herbs in the market with her warrior-maiden guards in tow. He stomps off to see what crazy shenanigans the doctor is getting herself into this time. Choi Young is stunned to find that she's gathering ingredients to make lotions and make-up for herself and also--get this--so she can <em>sell</em> cosmetics to others. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJg5GJySamU/UGW0Gu_2GpI/AAAAAAAAHAo/_By1V1a01b0/s1600/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+13+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+walking+market.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJg5GJySamU/UGW0Gu_2GpI/AAAAAAAAHAo/_By1V1a01b0/s320/faith+2012+kdrama+episode+13+lee+min+ho+%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+choi+young+eun+soo+walking+market.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Girl Has a New Money-Making Scheme Every Week.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the market, they run into Deok-heung, the King's uncle, who kind of roundaboutly insults Choi Young by saying, "Oh. So you're the man who protects Eunsoo?" Reinforcing that Choi Young is not Eunsoo's social equal and that his relationship to her is only that of a paid caretaker. All in one sentence! Ouch. Choi Young bristles and asks who this man is, and Eunsoo lets him know Deok-heung's an uncle to the King, which means we've got to be polite to him. Deok-heung offers to escort Eunsoo around while she shops; she wisely declines.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the palace, Choi Young is quite upset that Eunsoo didn't mention meeting this guy before, as it means that a relative of the King's is in league with Gicheol. But I don't know if he's evil, exactly. 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He sets up an ingenious kidnapping of Deok-heung, then talks strategy with the man. Choi Young wants Deok-heung to bring Eunsoo's notebook to her, so we have this entire complicated kidnapping, just to have one conversation. Choi Young concludes the convo by warning Deok-heung to watch himself around Eunsoo because Eunsoo is a dangerous swordswoman with a quick temper. Ha!<br />
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Choi Young then goes on to teach Eunsoo how to use a knife. She's horrible at it, but the knife-fighting lessons make them both laugh. He asks her if she wants to go back home and is just enduring her life in Goryeo? She doesn't answer.<br />
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And drama increases again when Choi Young is accused of accepting weapons from an arms dealer and taking a bribe to betray the King, who of course doesn't believe the trumped-up charge.<br />
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Young is just tired to the point of exhaustion from all this drama, so he tells the King, "I didn't receive a bribe. If you think I did, throw me in jail or dismiss me from my position." Then he marches out, and I don't blame our boy for his ire. <br />
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Meanwhile, Deok-heung brings the diary to Eunsoo, and she is in the process of deciphering it--it's not latitude and longitude, it's dates and times when the heaven's gate opens. Deok-heung goes back to Gicheol and says that to really win Eunsoo's heart like Gicheol wants, he'll have to make her queen. *gulp* So Deok-heung is angling for the throne, which is Gongmin's, and for Eunsoo. who is essentially Choi Young's. Gicheol is going to try to give him both.<br />
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Choi Young finds Eunsoo and tells her to pack a small bag because they're about to travel. The new court officials think Eunsoo can tell them valuable things about the future, so he thinks they might just decide to torture her for info.<br />
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At court, Choi Young confesses to the bribery crime he didn't commit and is sentenced to longterm house arrest. But anyhow, Choi Young busts out of prison that night so he can meet Eunsoo and take her to the heaven's gate. When she sees him, Eunsoo runs toward Choi Young and embraces him, like she finally sees how easy it would be to lose him and how much he means to her. <br />
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They continue travelling, but soon find that the roads are all blocked by Gicheol's men. He decides to hide her with some of his trusted friends for a few days. And gyah, Eunsoo is so cute while she's madly trying to figure out the codes and math formulas that future-her wrote in the diary. Choi Young tries to sound genuine as her encourages her to decode the formulas so she can go home sooner.<br />
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They stay at the secret house. Night falls and Choi Young sits outside the door while Eunsoo studies. She asks him if he wants to play Truth or Dare--they'll ask each other questions, like at a team-building exercise or a slumber party, and the other person must answer truthfully. Through the door, she asks, "If I go through the heaven's gate, will you miss me? There will be no one around to sew you up if you get wounded while I'm gone." He answers that he will miss her.<br />
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She goes on to say that she won't be okay with leaving, either. She will miss everyone if she returns home. Eunsoo will miss the King, the Queen, Dr. Janbin, the Wodalchi warriors...and Choi Young. She then wonders if he wants to ask her anything? He declines, whispering to himself that he knows too much about her already.<br />
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At the palace, Deok-heung tells Choi Young's aunt that he, Deok-heung, managed to give Eunsoo a weird sort of poison that will soon start working on her. Only he has the antidote, so shouldn't Auntie tell him where Choi Young and Eunsoo are hiding before the good doctor dies? At the secret house, we see Choi Young walk into the room to find Eunsoo sick and unresponsive. Nooo...<br />
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1. <em>Deok-heung as Ambiguous Villain</em>. Yeah, he's working for Gicheol, but you can tell he's got layers. As the son of a king and a concubine, the King's uncle has never had an easy life and has survived by staying hidden from public view. Now he's scheming a bit, but I totally understand that because in his position, I would scheme, too. At this point, he has to become king or somebody will kill him just because he's inconvenient.<br />
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2. <em>King/Queen Progress</em>! They're falling in loooove again! And I couldn't be happier about it. The King even admits that he gave his heart to the Queen a long time ago.<br />
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3. <em>Knife-Fighting Lessons</em>. The fact that our two leads can laugh and cut up even at this moment says so much.<br />
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<strong><u>Complaints:</u></strong> <br />
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1. None. I'm happy.<br />
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<u><em>Watch </em></u><a href="http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4123/2/Faith/?ap=1"><em>Faith</em></a><u><em> on DramaFever.</em></u><br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: After two boring episodes, we're back in strong territory. Thank goodness for all the great development with the King and Queen, plus little comedic moments and the heavy emphasis on Choi Young/Eunsoo! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140835320864680932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629595233350894949.post-38933024204058263682012-09-23T16:26:00.000-05:002012-10-11T21:30:39.607-05:00K-Drama Review: To The Beautiful You, Episodes 11-12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 1-2</a><br />
<a href="/2012/08/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_27.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 3-4</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 5-6</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_10.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 7-8</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_17.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 9-10</a><br />
<a href="/2012/09/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_23.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 11-12</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 13-14</a><br />
<a href="/2012/10/k-drama-review-to-beautiful-you_7.html">To The Beautiful You--Episodes 15-16</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gyah. So Blogger ate my review and my pictures for episode 11 while I was working on it in draft... But, I don't even think a full recap of episode 11 is necessary; all you need to know is that Hanna gets injured, Taejoon cares for her, Jaehee mopes around, and--surprise, surprise, Eungyul confesses his love to Jaehee. But he still thinks Jaehee is a boy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pczh8dQgb04/UF8_AkbYx2I/AAAAAAAAG3s/vL0XIbE50VQ/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+11+eun+gyul+love+confession.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pczh8dQgb04/UF8_AkbYx2I/AAAAAAAAG3s/vL0XIbE50VQ/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+11+eun+gyul+love+confession.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">You Might Want To Enlighten Him on That Score, Jaehee.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Before Jaehee can speak, Taejoon shows up and tells Jaehee that they should just go on into their room. Jaehee gently shuts the door in Eungyul's face, and I'm rather angry at her. She should have told Eungyul about her identity sooner, but no matter about that, now--he's her friend, and she does not need to leave him hanging like that. She should pull him off to the side and explain about her gender, and also explain whether she does or does not return his feelings. Simple. Direct. But nooo...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ctEdAsQZxAk/UF9B4n8IYkI/AAAAAAAAG4A/B6SpgQLfHr4/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ctEdAsQZxAk/UF9B4n8IYkI/AAAAAAAAG4A/B6SpgQLfHr4/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stop Angsting, Girl. This is Self-Created Drama.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Taejoon tells Jaehee that his relationship with Hanna "isn't what she thinks it is," which is frustratingly vague. Don't know why I'm upset at Jaehee when Taejoon is just as maddening when it comes to <em>not</em> stating his intentions. Hanna and Eungyul are the only up-front and honest people in the cast! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That night, Jaehee and Taejoon have a super cute and romantic phone conversation where she's upstairs and he's downstairs, and she's calling him to apologize for being a burden, while he insists that she is no burden at all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IF5cLL8YjTo/UF9EA2O5nWI/AAAAAAAAG44/sXANmjgFRCM/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+phone.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IF5cLL8YjTo/UF9EA2O5nWI/AAAAAAAAG44/sXANmjgFRCM/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon+phone.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">And Just Like That, My Cynical Heart is Warmed Again.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He tells her thank you for enabling him to jump again. So she knows now that she has accomplished what she came to Genie High to do. The next day, Taejoon's high jumping practice goes so well, his coach is sure he will qualify for the Olympics again. Unfortunately, his jumping rival Hyunjae is suffering from nerves and is sure to fall to pieces in the next competition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At school, Jaehee starts avoiding Eungyul. Oy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee goes to visit Hanna in the hospital, and Hanna huffily promises not reveal Jaehee's secret.Then Jaehee encourages Hanna to work toward a full recovery and never give up her sport, because gymnastics is good for Hanna.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UANAflFP7Rs/UF9Gh_PLYfI/AAAAAAAAG50/ile67JXwMvQ/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+hanna.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UANAflFP7Rs/UF9Gh_PLYfI/AAAAAAAAG50/ile67JXwMvQ/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+hanna.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jaehee is a Multi-Purpose Encourager.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And at the dorms, Taejoon gives Jaehee a new present to make up for the birthday present lotion that Hanna spilled a few episodes back. Jaehee flips out with joy over the present.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mbDMMgZBbT8/UF9I9YBEZII/AAAAAAAAG58/GbUTE_jYBXA/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mbDMMgZBbT8/UF9I9YBEZII/AAAAAAAAG58/GbUTE_jYBXA/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">He is Seriously Delighted That She's So Seriously Delighted.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jaehee goes to the School Doctor to ask what she should do about Eungyul's confession, and he tells her what we all knew--that people are going to start finding out about her anyway, and that her time at Genie High is limited. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eungyul is now losing no time in wooing Jaehee, doing things like bringing her strawberry milk, which he knows she loves. Taejoon is ticked off at having another guy move in on Jaehee, but he can't declare his position because everybody's been lying about everything for so long. Tensions build as all the main cast decide to go do a weekend volunteer project. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d11T9PZ0ds4/UF9d_KhYYHI/AAAAAAAAG64/SJNFgCfqeXk/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d11T9PZ0ds4/UF9d_KhYYHI/AAAAAAAAG64/SJNFgCfqeXk/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+sulli++%EC%84%A4%EB%A6%AC+jae+hee+eun+gyul.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Things Are Still Stiflingly Awkward Between Eungyul and Jaehee.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The volunteer scenes are pretty cool, actually, because they showcase the cast helping restore some old, traditional Korean houses, and it shows the two guys trying to keep Jaehee from doing any work at all. Adorbs! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During a break, Jaehee sorta lets it slip that she's planning to leave school. Taejoon already knew this because he saw plans for a plane trip to Los Angeles on her computer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later, Eungyul finally gets down to serious business and asks Taejoon about his feelings for Jaehee.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iC0bxp-O5PY/UF9om716E0I/AAAAAAAAG78/ssHdxy7mTVQ/s1600/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iC0bxp-O5PY/UF9om716E0I/AAAAAAAAG78/ssHdxy7mTVQ/s320/to+the+beautiful+you+%EC%95%84%EB%A6%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4+%EA%B7%B8%EB%8C%80%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C+kdrama+still+episode+12+choi+min+ho+%EC%B5%9C%EB%AF%BC%ED%98%B8+kang+tae+joon.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Rather Painful Question, I'm Afraid.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Typically, Taejoon tells him nothing. That night, Taejoon and Jaehee have a little talk about how she thinks she might be moving away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Soon, Taejoon finally has an alone moment with Jaehee, and he says there's something her needs to tell her. Eungyul comes around to return a lost phone, and Jaehee is about to go out to see Eungyul when Taejoon stops her from leaving and says, "Don't think about Eungyul when you're with me." Aw. It's a little Neanderthal-ish, but it's a firm statement of interest, at last. He follows it up with, "I don't want you to go to America. 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<strong><u>Complaints</u></strong>:<br />
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1.<em> How Long it Takes For Everything to Happen. </em>Just feels like we're stuck in nothing-happens-ville, spinning our wheels while nobody really grows or changes.<br />
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<strong><u>Episode Evaluations</u></strong>: Other than Eungyul declaring his intentions, Hanna showing some strength, and the Taejoon/Jaehee cuteness I could have done without these episodes altogether. How long does it take for the world's most obvious secret to actually be obvious? How long does it take for the hero to say a simple "I like you?" <br />
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If the story suddenly switched to following only Seungri/Hanna, plus Hyunjae, Jongmin, and the rest of the high school dorm cut-ups, I wouldn't be disappointed. <br />
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