OMONA THEY DID(N&#39;T)!

I screamed and nearly threw something at the screen when Jin Kang decided to pursue a relationship with Moo Young. Your best friend just died, you warned her against dating him, and now...you're dating him? Even worse, you think you alone can fix him? Ugh. Maybe I should view this more romantically (I haven't seen the Japanese version) but this seems bad, bad, bad.

That being said, Seo In-Guk and Jung So-Min are killing these roles. A+++ acting all-round.

It took the first 10 mins of episode 12 for me to believe what happened at the end of episode 11. After the shock wore off, I was looking for something else to throw again lol

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I mean, I think what makes everything even more unrealistic but also kind of worse but also kind of better, is that yeah it's ridiculous that she thinks she can fix him but also... she kind of is? Like, he's still not a good guy by any means, he still gets off on antagonizing people to a certain extent, but he's also clearly trying in a way he never was before.

And idk, I can't decide whether that's to the benefit or the detriment of the story? Like, clearly it's going for this whole, love can be both a redeeming but also a destructive force thing. What with Jin Kook stabbing Moo Young and all.

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I don't know where the story is going either. I feel like an outlier because the amount of disbelief directed at Jin Kook is how I feel about Jin Kang. I'm amazed that the relationship hasn't turned me off from watching bc I'm legit engaged in what happens next.

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I don't mind it too much bc I kind of... I know that it is shot very realistically but for me basically none of the main trio behave like normal humans so I'm able to just throw my hands up and kind of go along with whatever warped logic these guys are following.

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Yes!!! I can't with some comments now, because he is in love now it somehow make him a good person and erase everything that happened before. Yes, he love her and want to please her, but it's not changing, it's just a start and for now he is hiding certain aspect of his personality from her and frankly lying to her.

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Exactly. He hasn't changed or even decided to change. He said teach me. Was she not listening at all?

The number of people yelling at JKook for being unreasonable and losing it...it's like they forgot everything that happened with Seungh Ah and how MY admitted to contributing to her death (and possibly Mi-yeon's). Nobody's blameless in this but the amount romanticizing over MY is not a good look.

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Clearly JKook has some psychotic breakdown but him calling MY evil is one of the truest things in this show, no one can pretend MY is savable after what he's done to Yuri. Sociopaths are borne not made, so he can have traumatic past, but all choices he made as an adult are on him.
I'm done with shows pushing narratives that true love of that one special woman will change bad men and that abs are more important than morals.

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I still don't get why Moo Young can't be charged with ANYTHING in regards to what he did to Yuri. Like, how are his statements to Jin Kook not usable in court? Then again, I know fuck all about law so idk. But like, he should be in prison.

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They want to charge him with accessory after... and forwarded the cast to prosecutor but dead boyfriend evil sister started her meddling.

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I think that Jin Kang is objectively making a bad decision getting involved with Moo Young, but like Jin Kook is absolutely being unreasonable because in no way was stabbing Moo Young going to de-escalate this situation. He's already heard Moo Young talk about how he wouldn't have cared if he had died in the car crash as long as he had "won" against the snobby rich dude. So effectively baiting him into another contest is the absolute worst way to handle this.

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I agree. Stabbing one's way out of this is definitely not the way to go lol I still can't believe he did it.

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It's not even just the stabbing it's the stabbing and leaving alive, like if he was trying to kill him I'd get it because I could see how that would in a way, solve the Moo Young problem. But leaving him alive? This will just obviously make things worse for him.

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I totally forgot that the stabbing was a thing until right before it happened.

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oh so that happened in the jdrama too?

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Yes but the difference in the jdrama was that it was him replicating his own stabbing where the Japanese version of Yu Ri attempts to stab jdrama version Jin Kang while the pass each other crossing the street but he realizes what is going to happen and steps in front of his sister and gets stabbed himself I believe (it hasn't even been long since I watched it but my memories are fuzzy none the less). This scene got replaced with Yu Ri trying to Jin Kang over.

It's weird that I forgot about him replicating it cause I remember being shook by the whole thing lol. Like him attacking Japanese Moo Young was already shocking but him repeating what was done to himself made it really twisted.

Sorry for all the edits. I just wanted things to look nice/spacing things under spoiler cuts is a pain (they don't look the way you expect them to).

Edited Date: 2018-11-13 04:21 am (UTC)

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ty.livejournal.com

Thank you for posting this! I did not want to read anything here until I caught up because - spoilers -

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No problem :) I honestly just wrote it to get my thoughts out on this minor detail.

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This episode was a trip to a crazytown:
- no one giving shit that policeman admit to attempted murder
- JinKang thinking that stabbing incident don't change anything in her relationships with MY and JK, she just need to lie to JK and that is it.
- doctor thinking that it is better for a kid to risk a deadly traffic accident than living with trauma
- and the fact that no one really looked for a child missing from hospital, wtf!

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I was so confused about what the doctor was doing in those flashbacks. Like I legit didn’t understand what he was saying to Moo Young in the present that it was Moo Young’s last chance nor did I get why he was preventing Jin Gook from finding Moo Young back then.

After reading your summary of those scene I’m even more lost. It just isn’t believable that someone would behave like that to begin let alone go on to be this person that has been portrayed as someone who’s very compassionate in the present day.

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accioanime.livejournal.com

this drama has been going from 50 to 100 these past eps but can't stop watching. The chemistry between the leads are intense, kinda reminded me of Chinese drama Mars level of desperation. So many things don't make sense (I believe a lot of people here already pointed out the WTF comments) but Jung So Min and Seo In Guk are killing it that Im just gonna go along with it regardless.

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i think i need a little more time to get over the fact that there are no consequences (law-wise and relationship-wise) for Jin Kook after stabbing someone and even confessing to doing so...

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