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iariaEpisode 1
+ I like Ha-won. She's sweet, determined, lonely but optimistic and is willing to stand-up for herself and others.
+ I do love when the love interest is immediately heart-eyes over the heroine being unwilling to take anyone's shit. I doubt Hyun-min is endgame, based on experience it's sure to be the Ji-woon (who shares with Ha-won a strong sense of justice, a willingness to get involved in injustice, a dead mother and a difficult childhood), but I loved Hyun-min's initial introduction to her more.
+ Hyun-min's plan for the wedding went a lot further than I was expecting even with the white dress. I found the whole thing really embarrassing but I did love Ha-won forcing him to apologise.
+ Hye-ji seems really sweet and I'd like to think she and Ha-won could be friends but I'm suspicious. Ji-woon calling her on asking him to the wedding knowing he'd say no but feel guilty about it was a good point. Plus while she's clearly in love with Hyun-min (and has been perhaps since they were children) he clearly does not feel the same and wants her to leave him alone. He's very harsh with her and her continuing her interest in light of that feels a little stalkery and like it could, despite her niceness during meeting Ha-won, lead to some serious drama.
Episode 2
+ I love that Ha-won's reaction to Ji-woon caging her against a wall and threatening her is to shove him against the wall and threaten him back.
+ I also loved their confrontation at the hotel where after calmly listening to Ji-woon insult her as a gold-digger (and girls in general) she reacted by smacking him in the back of the head and calling him on guys like him who treat girls like crap and think they're hot stuff but are just jerks.
+ Ha-won being completely unmoved by Hyun-min suavely saving her from the reporters and then getting the articles taken down and his frustration over it amused me.
+ Seo-woo trying to protect Ha-won from her step-sister's meanness was sweet.
+ I enjoyed the Ha-won/Grandpa Kang scene. I like that they amuse each other and that via Sun Tzu they were on fairly even footing at least in that scene.
+ I had thought Ha-won was close to her dad based on how anxious/excited she was about him returning home though the fact that he wasn't contacting her back (and left without saying goodbye) did give me pause. The flashback this ep shows that they certainly were close at one point. Did something happen five years ago that stopped him from paying his dead's wife grave fees, like say learning Ha-won might not be his biological daughter? Could the show be going in the direction of some sort of parenting drama with her potential bio-father?
It is of course very likely that Grandpa Kang bribed her dad as part of his push to get her to move into Haneul House. But if that's the reason behind his behaviour it's still not a great one just because of how excessively cruel he was. So much yikes. Maybe it's a combination of both anger over learning she's not his biological daughter + a big buyout from Grandpa Kang, or maybe he was lying about her not being his daughter and this is him being 'noble' to try and get her a better life and/or because Grandpa Kang threatened him but regardless of the reason he was so harsh to her I'd have a hard time forgiving that.
+ I like Ha-won. She's sweet, determined, lonely but optimistic and is willing to stand-up for herself and others.
+ I do love when the love interest is immediately heart-eyes over the heroine being unwilling to take anyone's shit. I doubt Hyun-min is endgame, based on experience it's sure to be the Ji-woon (who shares with Ha-won a strong sense of justice, a willingness to get involved in injustice, a dead mother and a difficult childhood), but I loved Hyun-min's initial introduction to her more.
+ Hyun-min's plan for the wedding went a lot further than I was expecting even with the white dress. I found the whole thing really embarrassing but I did love Ha-won forcing him to apologise.
+ Hye-ji seems really sweet and I'd like to think she and Ha-won could be friends but I'm suspicious. Ji-woon calling her on asking him to the wedding knowing he'd say no but feel guilty about it was a good point. Plus while she's clearly in love with Hyun-min (and has been perhaps since they were children) he clearly does not feel the same and wants her to leave him alone. He's very harsh with her and her continuing her interest in light of that feels a little stalkery and like it could, despite her niceness during meeting Ha-won, lead to some serious drama.
Episode 2
+ I love that Ha-won's reaction to Ji-woon caging her against a wall and threatening her is to shove him against the wall and threaten him back.
+ I also loved their confrontation at the hotel where after calmly listening to Ji-woon insult her as a gold-digger (and girls in general) she reacted by smacking him in the back of the head and calling him on guys like him who treat girls like crap and think they're hot stuff but are just jerks.
+ Ha-won being completely unmoved by Hyun-min suavely saving her from the reporters and then getting the articles taken down and his frustration over it amused me.
+ Seo-woo trying to protect Ha-won from her step-sister's meanness was sweet.
+ I enjoyed the Ha-won/Grandpa Kang scene. I like that they amuse each other and that via Sun Tzu they were on fairly even footing at least in that scene.
+ I had thought Ha-won was close to her dad based on how anxious/excited she was about him returning home though the fact that he wasn't contacting her back (and left without saying goodbye) did give me pause. The flashback this ep shows that they certainly were close at one point. Did something happen five years ago that stopped him from paying his dead's wife grave fees, like say learning Ha-won might not be his biological daughter? Could the show be going in the direction of some sort of parenting drama with her potential bio-father?
It is of course very likely that Grandpa Kang bribed her dad as part of his push to get her to move into Haneul House. But if that's the reason behind his behaviour it's still not a great one just because of how excessively cruel he was. So much yikes. Maybe it's a combination of both anger over learning she's not his biological daughter + a big buyout from Grandpa Kang, or maybe he was lying about her not being his daughter and this is him being 'noble' to try and get her a better life and/or because Grandpa Kang threatened him but regardless of the reason he was so harsh to her I'd have a hard time forgiving that.
