IRIS Episode 15 Review
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iariaEpisode 15
• Seung Hee is awesome. Taking out her guards and escaping was excellent as was when she figured out how to track the terrorists (again). I love when we get to see her as the competent agent she is. She was definitely on the ball this episode.
• I loved Jung In continuing her role as the best assistant to Seung Hee – she is the Sun Hwa to Seung Hee’s Hyun Joon but with less killing and kicking people’s asses. I love it.
• When Sang Hyun confronted Baek San I was going ‘play dumb!’ That just really didn’t seem like a good idea. I mean he’s known since Hyun Joon’s ‘arrest’ for treason that Baek San has a habit of making agents disappear – Hyun Kyu told him so. Plus if he’s willing to use a nuclear bomb on his own people of course he’d have no problem killing one agent! `
• I liked the Sa Woo/Hyun Joon confrontation and how it played. I felt really bad for Hyun Joon when it was revealed that he has been living in a sort of denial about Sa Woo this whole time and has been desperately trying to find ways to excuse Sa Woo’s actions to himself and thus forgive him. I love that TPTB had him cry when Sa Woo basically rejected him and the possibility of redemption. Sa Woo’s reactions on the other hand – he was clearly moved by memories but it didn’t stop him from trying his best to kill Hyun Joon. I noticed though that they still work perfectly as partners when they took on the terrorists.
• When Sa Woo was remembering their happier past the parts we see him remember both had to do with Seung Hee – when he learned that Hyun Joon had gone on vacation with her and then when he was leaving them to spend the day together in Hungary. Hyun Joon’s memories in contrast were of them running from the gang after the club fight and then him teasing Sa Woo during his punishment afterwards, both memories which we entirely about the two of them. It appears that Sa Woo’s motivation and relationship with Hyun Joon, his anger and jealousy towards him and thus his desire to kill him, are in fact all tied up in his feelings for Seung Hee.
• “The mission is about to take place. Find her before that happens.” – Baek San. Seriously, if he’s not her father I am going to be so disappointed at this point. I mean what other explanation is there? But then Sang Hyun asks Sa Woo what his relationship with Baek San is and he replies that ‘he’s better off not knowing because then he’d be in danger’... What does that mean? Possibly I am reading too much into it but I’m confused. Perhaps Sa Woo is just talking about IRIS but it doesn’t feel like it. Plus as Sang Hyun stated, he was already arrested for treason and I wouldn’t discount the possibility that his life is over so would it really matter telling him? I suppose he could think Sang Hyun isn’t going to be killed. Or is this about his feelings for Seung Hee?
• I liked the show bringing up the Sa Woo/Sang Hyun relationship – which actually I had completely forgotten about.
• The Head of National Security having a mole inside NSS made me roll my eyes and wonder if everyone has a hidden contact somewhere but at the same time I do kind of love that he had Manager Hwang as an informant. Oh, spy games.
• Seung Hee is awesome. Taking out her guards and escaping was excellent as was when she figured out how to track the terrorists (again). I love when we get to see her as the competent agent she is. She was definitely on the ball this episode.
• I loved Jung In continuing her role as the best assistant to Seung Hee – she is the Sun Hwa to Seung Hee’s Hyun Joon but with less killing and kicking people’s asses. I love it.
• When Sang Hyun confronted Baek San I was going ‘play dumb!’ That just really didn’t seem like a good idea. I mean he’s known since Hyun Joon’s ‘arrest’ for treason that Baek San has a habit of making agents disappear – Hyun Kyu told him so. Plus if he’s willing to use a nuclear bomb on his own people of course he’d have no problem killing one agent! `
• I liked the Sa Woo/Hyun Joon confrontation and how it played. I felt really bad for Hyun Joon when it was revealed that he has been living in a sort of denial about Sa Woo this whole time and has been desperately trying to find ways to excuse Sa Woo’s actions to himself and thus forgive him. I love that TPTB had him cry when Sa Woo basically rejected him and the possibility of redemption. Sa Woo’s reactions on the other hand – he was clearly moved by memories but it didn’t stop him from trying his best to kill Hyun Joon. I noticed though that they still work perfectly as partners when they took on the terrorists.
• When Sa Woo was remembering their happier past the parts we see him remember both had to do with Seung Hee – when he learned that Hyun Joon had gone on vacation with her and then when he was leaving them to spend the day together in Hungary. Hyun Joon’s memories in contrast were of them running from the gang after the club fight and then him teasing Sa Woo during his punishment afterwards, both memories which we entirely about the two of them. It appears that Sa Woo’s motivation and relationship with Hyun Joon, his anger and jealousy towards him and thus his desire to kill him, are in fact all tied up in his feelings for Seung Hee.
• “The mission is about to take place. Find her before that happens.” – Baek San. Seriously, if he’s not her father I am going to be so disappointed at this point. I mean what other explanation is there? But then Sang Hyun asks Sa Woo what his relationship with Baek San is and he replies that ‘he’s better off not knowing because then he’d be in danger’... What does that mean? Possibly I am reading too much into it but I’m confused. Perhaps Sa Woo is just talking about IRIS but it doesn’t feel like it. Plus as Sang Hyun stated, he was already arrested for treason and I wouldn’t discount the possibility that his life is over so would it really matter telling him? I suppose he could think Sang Hyun isn’t going to be killed. Or is this about his feelings for Seung Hee?
• I liked the show bringing up the Sa Woo/Sang Hyun relationship – which actually I had completely forgotten about.
• The Head of National Security having a mole inside NSS made me roll my eyes and wonder if everyone has a hidden contact somewhere but at the same time I do kind of love that he had Manager Hwang as an informant. Oh, spy games.
