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+ I was so let down by how little of a role Ji Ah had in the final battle. Her overcoming the Imugi to try and kill herself was good but when that failed she spent the rest of the scene alternately crying or staring in horror. When Yeon was asking Rang to kill him and Rang was saying he couldn't I was honestly expecting Ji Ah to grab the sword and do it. Or to take Rang's hand and for them to do it together. But no, just observing and crying. She didn't even grab the gun and try to shoot a weakened Imugi! Ugh. Disappointing on all the levels (especially on a character one for Ji Ah but even for the Ji Ah/Rang truce to protect Yeon which ended up going no where.) It left me feeling very frustrated considering how active a person Ji Ah was shown to be in the pilot and it was so dissatisfying to have her end here crying and helpless.
+ Yeon setting up Rang to kill him reminded me hard of Ah Eum using Yeon to kill herself. So harsh. I loved the scene though. Rang's anguish, his repeated 'I don't want to', Yeon pleading "please save me" and Rang coming through for him in the end stabbing them. It was great.
[Also it feels weirdly like a punishment - Rang spent so long pretending (especially to himself) that he hated Yeon and wanted him to die and now he finally got his 'wish' at the worst time.]
+ I LOVED the unspoken love in Yeon giving Rang his egg when asked and now I desperately need Rang to understand the meaning behind that gesture. The look on Yeon's face as Rang ate it was so lovely. At the same time I also found the gesture really bittersweet because Yeon just finished explaining that to know someone's food preferences you have to know them really well - something Rang just failed at despite his love for Yeon.
+ I liked Yeon having one last trick up his sleeve with poisoning himself in order to weaken the Imugi if it did end up in his body. That was very clever.
+ Jo Bo Ah is so great as Imugi. It is so creepy every time it comes out.
+ Rang stopping just before touching Ji Ah's hand and instead using the toy robot's hand to seal their truce was so childish but hilarious. He's ridiculous.
+ I liked Rang's reaction when Ji Ah said she wouldn't tell Yeon because he cherishes Rang and it would make him sad. I loved that Ji Ah admitted she would have done the same thing and how mature she was in dealing with Rang (who does not make it easy.)
+ The entire scene of Rang and Shin Joo talking to Yoo Ri through the intercom was excellent. I loved Rang spending his time complaining about how hard his life is without her there. And him telling her not to forgive Shin Joo. Shin Joo meanwhile is all emotionally open and telling her to protect herself and confessing that he was going to propose (him holding the ring up to show her - aww.) I loved Rang getting serious and promising to save her. On Yoo Ri's side it was so wonderful for her to see that she was right - they are coming for her, that they love her, that she is not alone anymore.
+ Rang being pissed at what Shin Joo said to Yoo Ri and throwing the stuffed bear at him - ha. I loved him refusing to forgive Shin Joo. I love seeing Rang as protective of Yoo Ri as she is of him.
+ Yeon and Ji Ah's normal date was cute but my favourite part was Yeon trying to help Ji Ah with the basketball game, the same way she helped him win the claw machine, and instead of getting a cute moment of bonding we got Ji Ah angrily refusing because this was a battle between her and the game and Yeon hugging her from behind with this so delightedly fond smile.
+ I liked how clever the Imugi was in his plans. Taking the form of Bok Gil and stealing the Mirror of the Moon to deal with Taluipa was smart and clearly a long standing plan. I also liked that in the end the Imugi did work in concert rather then fighting each other as I had expected.
+ I enjoyed the short fight between Yeon and the two Imugi and really liked the way they used Yeon's unwillingness to hurt Ji Ah against him.
+ I wish more time had been spent developing Sae Rom and Jae Hwan and their relationship with Ji Ah in the beginning because I've ended up liking all three a lot. Sae Rom slapping the Imugi out of Ji Ah was great.
+ There's a full episode left and I'm not really worried about this story ending in tragedy. My guess: they manage to free Taluipa from the stone (possibly Eui Ong and his love, or Yeon's fox bead that hasn't come up again) and then she uses her power (breaking the rules) to get Yeon reincarnated as a human. Perhaps retroactively? So we cut to six months later or something and Ji Ah runs into someone who looks exactly like Yeon but doesn't remember her. She investigates. They fall in love. He remembers. In some sort of order. Shin Joo and Yoo Ri get married. It's all happiness.
+ I was very annoyed by all of Ji Ah's crying this episode. So much crying. Four times! Seriously there are ways to show emotions for women other then having them cry about it. The final two times with Yeon's death, absolutely. But having her breakdown earlier - no.
+ The Yoo Ri/Rang confrontation outside Samdocheon was pretty lacklustre. There was a lot happening inside and yet based on what we saw there was no reason for it to take so long for him to get inside. There was a lot of potential in the scene that was wasted.
+ I don't really understand the (human) Imugi. He has that horrifying backstory and implies that what he wants is a heart/someone to love him. He's obsessed with Ji Ah even after she makes it clear she could never love him. He says he can't heal the plagues he causes but we saw him heal that bird (what was the point of that?) His first friend was Bok Gil and then he gave his wife plague because 'he looked too happy'. Is it that there's an emptiness inside that he thinks he needs love/devotion from someone to feel and so searches for that while at the same time resenting everyone else for having it and wanting to destroy them for it?
+ Was Yeon telling Shin Joo the truth about why he saved him or not? It is the sort of pettiness from the gods that I'd expect but also Yeon lies and hides his emotional truth like breathing.
+ Yeon asking Rang to go with him as backup to deal with anything unexpected was great. The thing that really bothered me with his plan and how he was keeping it secret was all the ways it could go terribly wrong and I was annoyed that Yeon apparently couldn't see that but then apparently he did and now it's all better.
+ I was so let down by how little of a role Ji Ah had in the final battle. Her overcoming the Imugi to try and kill herself was good but when that failed she spent the rest of the scene alternately crying or staring in horror. When Yeon was asking Rang to kill him and Rang was saying he couldn't I was honestly expecting Ji Ah to grab the sword and do it. Or to take Rang's hand and for them to do it together. But no, just observing and crying. She didn't even grab the gun and try to shoot a weakened Imugi! Ugh. Disappointing on all the levels (especially on a character one for Ji Ah but even for the Ji Ah/Rang truce to protect Yeon which ended up going no where.) It left me feeling very frustrated considering how active a person Ji Ah was shown to be in the pilot and it was so dissatisfying to have her end here crying and helpless.
+ Yeon setting up Rang to kill him reminded me hard of Ah Eum using Yeon to kill herself. So harsh. I loved the scene though. Rang's anguish, his repeated 'I don't want to', Yeon pleading "please save me" and Rang coming through for him in the end stabbing them. It was great.
[Also it feels weirdly like a punishment - Rang spent so long pretending (especially to himself) that he hated Yeon and wanted him to die and now he finally got his 'wish' at the worst time.]
+ I LOVED the unspoken love in Yeon giving Rang his egg when asked and now I desperately need Rang to understand the meaning behind that gesture. The look on Yeon's face as Rang ate it was so lovely. At the same time I also found the gesture really bittersweet because Yeon just finished explaining that to know someone's food preferences you have to know them really well - something Rang just failed at despite his love for Yeon.
+ I liked Yeon having one last trick up his sleeve with poisoning himself in order to weaken the Imugi if it did end up in his body. That was very clever.
+ Jo Bo Ah is so great as Imugi. It is so creepy every time it comes out.
+ Rang stopping just before touching Ji Ah's hand and instead using the toy robot's hand to seal their truce was so childish but hilarious. He's ridiculous.
+ I liked Rang's reaction when Ji Ah said she wouldn't tell Yeon because he cherishes Rang and it would make him sad. I loved that Ji Ah admitted she would have done the same thing and how mature she was in dealing with Rang (who does not make it easy.)
+ The entire scene of Rang and Shin Joo talking to Yoo Ri through the intercom was excellent. I loved Rang spending his time complaining about how hard his life is without her there. And him telling her not to forgive Shin Joo. Shin Joo meanwhile is all emotionally open and telling her to protect herself and confessing that he was going to propose (him holding the ring up to show her - aww.) I loved Rang getting serious and promising to save her. On Yoo Ri's side it was so wonderful for her to see that she was right - they are coming for her, that they love her, that she is not alone anymore.
+ Rang being pissed at what Shin Joo said to Yoo Ri and throwing the stuffed bear at him - ha. I loved him refusing to forgive Shin Joo. I love seeing Rang as protective of Yoo Ri as she is of him.
+ Yeon and Ji Ah's normal date was cute but my favourite part was Yeon trying to help Ji Ah with the basketball game, the same way she helped him win the claw machine, and instead of getting a cute moment of bonding we got Ji Ah angrily refusing because this was a battle between her and the game and Yeon hugging her from behind with this so delightedly fond smile.
+ I liked how clever the Imugi was in his plans. Taking the form of Bok Gil and stealing the Mirror of the Moon to deal with Taluipa was smart and clearly a long standing plan. I also liked that in the end the Imugi did work in concert rather then fighting each other as I had expected.
+ I enjoyed the short fight between Yeon and the two Imugi and really liked the way they used Yeon's unwillingness to hurt Ji Ah against him.
+ I wish more time had been spent developing Sae Rom and Jae Hwan and their relationship with Ji Ah in the beginning because I've ended up liking all three a lot. Sae Rom slapping the Imugi out of Ji Ah was great.
+ There's a full episode left and I'm not really worried about this story ending in tragedy. My guess: they manage to free Taluipa from the stone (possibly Eui Ong and his love, or Yeon's fox bead that hasn't come up again) and then she uses her power (breaking the rules) to get Yeon reincarnated as a human. Perhaps retroactively? So we cut to six months later or something and Ji Ah runs into someone who looks exactly like Yeon but doesn't remember her. She investigates. They fall in love. He remembers. In some sort of order. Shin Joo and Yoo Ri get married. It's all happiness.
+ I was very annoyed by all of Ji Ah's crying this episode. So much crying. Four times! Seriously there are ways to show emotions for women other then having them cry about it. The final two times with Yeon's death, absolutely. But having her breakdown earlier - no.
+ The Yoo Ri/Rang confrontation outside Samdocheon was pretty lacklustre. There was a lot happening inside and yet based on what we saw there was no reason for it to take so long for him to get inside. There was a lot of potential in the scene that was wasted.
+ I don't really understand the (human) Imugi. He has that horrifying backstory and implies that what he wants is a heart/someone to love him. He's obsessed with Ji Ah even after she makes it clear she could never love him. He says he can't heal the plagues he causes but we saw him heal that bird (what was the point of that?) His first friend was Bok Gil and then he gave his wife plague because 'he looked too happy'. Is it that there's an emptiness inside that he thinks he needs love/devotion from someone to feel and so searches for that while at the same time resenting everyone else for having it and wanting to destroy them for it?
+ Was Yeon telling Shin Joo the truth about why he saved him or not? It is the sort of pettiness from the gods that I'd expect but also Yeon lies and hides his emotional truth like breathing.
+ Yeon asking Rang to go with him as backup to deal with anything unexpected was great. The thing that really bothered me with his plan and how he was keeping it secret was all the ways it could go terribly wrong and I was annoyed that Yeon apparently couldn't see that but then apparently he did and now it's all better.
