IRIS Episodes 13 & 14 Thoughts
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iariaIRIS Episode 13
• I loved the scene where Vic walked into the club as Mi Jung sang “Please be my guardian, please support me, please don’t let me go, do not abandon me, do not leave me” The lyrics were perfect. I loved the eye contact happening between them. This scene just completely worked for me. It definitely hit a kink of mine (powerful dangerous/less powerful pairings). And once Mi Jung began really singing (instead of basically saying the words) with musical accompaniment she sounded really good.
• Once again I found myself strongly feeling like there is a lot more to the Baek San/Seung Hee relationship then we’ve seen. He is just too concerned about her and too interested in her life. He has to be her biological father. I mean talk about the drama – she’s the daughter of the man who killed Hyun Joon’s parents and tried to kill him! – how can a Korean drama not take advantage of that potential?
• You know it doesn’t speak well of IRIS that Sa Woo was able to find and discover the identity of Jeong Hun in one day while they’ve been hunting him for thirty years.
• Sa Woo this episode... yikes. We already kind of knew that he’d gone to the dark side, I mean he tried to kill his best friend, but what he did in this episode was just *shakes head*. The fight at the mansion was pretty brutal and he killed a lot of people, then he shot a bunch of defenceless men in the back and then he watched as Baek San shot a paralysed and helpless Jeong Hun. And he did it all with this blank, neutral expression on his face. It was kind of creepy.
• “One who lets others bleed will have to pay with his own blood. In this world no one will always win.” – Jeong Hun. Is this him trying to warn Hyun Joon that vengeance/revenge isn’t the path to take? Poor Hyun Joon, life just sucks for him, what with having to see another person he cares about die in front of him (though it certainly sucks more for Jeong Hun). Well, at least the video of Baek San and Sa Woo killing Jeung Hun will definitely be enough to ruin both of them.
• Ack. Damn it. I went to you tube to look up the song Mi Jung sings in this episode – Empty – and the top comment was that the song was sung by ‘the hacker girl who TOP kills’. D: I hate being spoiled. Especially when I am really starting to love a pairing like I suddenly am with Mi Jung/Vic. Damn it – the whole point of the kink is that the dangerous and powerful person doesn’t (can’t) hurt/kill the less powerful person because of their feelings.
IRIS Episode 14
• “If it’d been me I’d definitely have done it too.” – Hyun Joon. Oh, Hyun Joon. I don’t know that I buy that. It definitely feels like Hyun Joon is fooling himself here. I think more than anything he wants to believe that he would have done the same thing.
• I wish I could watch the Mi Jung/Vic scenes without the knowledge that he kills her. I found myself wondering during them if he was using her instead of putting his abruptness and coldness down to him being a closed-off assassin who doesn’t understand these feelings he’s having. I prefer the second one. Their scenes were pretty awkward but I liked them in the kitchen scene.
• For a minute there I thought the car had kidnapped Hyun Joon lol. Wrong show.
• Because of how complicated the plan was to get Hyun Joon to meet the President I found myself a little confused. I mean – Jeong Hun left him a message, from which he found a hidden card and key, which lead to a safe deposit box which contained a car remote and location, which lead to a car that directed him to an airfield and a waiting helicopter with Advisor Jung waiting to take him to meet the president, which the president didn’t even know about – wait, what? I mean that seems unnecessarily complicated! When the hell did Jeong Hun and Advisor Jung set that up?
• I love how Sang Hyun has slowly come to suspect Baek San and Sa Woo (though in some cases it was the wrong assumption leading to the right conclusion) and that pretty much immediately he turned to Seung Hee for help in figuring out what the hell was going on (and who they could trust). I also love that they pretty much immediately brought in Jung In (oh, I really hope she doesn’t die) and she seems to know exactly what’s going on, as well as Mi Jung though it’s less clear if she knows what is happening. The way that Seung Hee and the others were working out where the terrorist’s new hideout is located was cool.
• I found it very weird that Seung Hee had very little reaction to the idea that Sa Woo was a bad guy – that he was a mole and implicitly that he had something to do with Hyun Joon’s situation. She certainly doesn’t love him but they are friends and we’ve seen evidence that she trusts him, and thus far none that she has suspected him. So I really would expect her to be shocked at the least, to deny it or feel betrayed. I wanted something from her.
• I loved the scene where Vic walked into the club as Mi Jung sang “Please be my guardian, please support me, please don’t let me go, do not abandon me, do not leave me” The lyrics were perfect. I loved the eye contact happening between them. This scene just completely worked for me. It definitely hit a kink of mine (powerful dangerous/less powerful pairings). And once Mi Jung began really singing (instead of basically saying the words) with musical accompaniment she sounded really good.
• Once again I found myself strongly feeling like there is a lot more to the Baek San/Seung Hee relationship then we’ve seen. He is just too concerned about her and too interested in her life. He has to be her biological father. I mean talk about the drama – she’s the daughter of the man who killed Hyun Joon’s parents and tried to kill him! – how can a Korean drama not take advantage of that potential?
• You know it doesn’t speak well of IRIS that Sa Woo was able to find and discover the identity of Jeong Hun in one day while they’ve been hunting him for thirty years.
• Sa Woo this episode... yikes. We already kind of knew that he’d gone to the dark side, I mean he tried to kill his best friend, but what he did in this episode was just *shakes head*. The fight at the mansion was pretty brutal and he killed a lot of people, then he shot a bunch of defenceless men in the back and then he watched as Baek San shot a paralysed and helpless Jeong Hun. And he did it all with this blank, neutral expression on his face. It was kind of creepy.
• “One who lets others bleed will have to pay with his own blood. In this world no one will always win.” – Jeong Hun. Is this him trying to warn Hyun Joon that vengeance/revenge isn’t the path to take? Poor Hyun Joon, life just sucks for him, what with having to see another person he cares about die in front of him (though it certainly sucks more for Jeong Hun). Well, at least the video of Baek San and Sa Woo killing Jeung Hun will definitely be enough to ruin both of them.
• Ack. Damn it. I went to you tube to look up the song Mi Jung sings in this episode – Empty – and the top comment was that the song was sung by ‘the hacker girl who TOP kills’. D: I hate being spoiled. Especially when I am really starting to love a pairing like I suddenly am with Mi Jung/Vic. Damn it – the whole point of the kink is that the dangerous and powerful person doesn’t (can’t) hurt/kill the less powerful person because of their feelings.
IRIS Episode 14
• “If it’d been me I’d definitely have done it too.” – Hyun Joon. Oh, Hyun Joon. I don’t know that I buy that. It definitely feels like Hyun Joon is fooling himself here. I think more than anything he wants to believe that he would have done the same thing.
• I wish I could watch the Mi Jung/Vic scenes without the knowledge that he kills her. I found myself wondering during them if he was using her instead of putting his abruptness and coldness down to him being a closed-off assassin who doesn’t understand these feelings he’s having. I prefer the second one. Their scenes were pretty awkward but I liked them in the kitchen scene.
• For a minute there I thought the car had kidnapped Hyun Joon lol. Wrong show.
• Because of how complicated the plan was to get Hyun Joon to meet the President I found myself a little confused. I mean – Jeong Hun left him a message, from which he found a hidden card and key, which lead to a safe deposit box which contained a car remote and location, which lead to a car that directed him to an airfield and a waiting helicopter with Advisor Jung waiting to take him to meet the president, which the president didn’t even know about – wait, what? I mean that seems unnecessarily complicated! When the hell did Jeong Hun and Advisor Jung set that up?
• I love how Sang Hyun has slowly come to suspect Baek San and Sa Woo (though in some cases it was the wrong assumption leading to the right conclusion) and that pretty much immediately he turned to Seung Hee for help in figuring out what the hell was going on (and who they could trust). I also love that they pretty much immediately brought in Jung In (oh, I really hope she doesn’t die) and she seems to know exactly what’s going on, as well as Mi Jung though it’s less clear if she knows what is happening. The way that Seung Hee and the others were working out where the terrorist’s new hideout is located was cool.
• I found it very weird that Seung Hee had very little reaction to the idea that Sa Woo was a bad guy – that he was a mole and implicitly that he had something to do with Hyun Joon’s situation. She certainly doesn’t love him but they are friends and we’ve seen evidence that she trusts him, and thus far none that she has suspected him. So I really would expect her to be shocked at the least, to deny it or feel betrayed. I wanted something from her.
