Full House Episodes 2 & 3 Thoughts
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iariaThis episode's video kept missing entire sentences and on an occasion or two bits of conversation. It is really, really annoying. Sigh. Anyway still very much enjoying this show. I am so sad that it only has sixteen episodes because I already know that that is not enough.
Episode 2
• My two favourite bits of the episode were – the revelation that Ji Eun has written a script about a female Casanova which is just awesome and Young Jae giving her manuscript to his manager to read which was wonderful in a different way.
• I like how Ji Eun deals with Young Jae – she doesn’t accept any of his crap and she does what she wants (going to the party, refusing to leave with him). I also like that having decided not to turn her friends into the police she accepts working for Young Jae (in her own house) without complaint (well much) and works hard, in order to pay off her debt to him and at the same time she continues to look for her ‘friends’ and succeeds! I was wondering how they were going to keep her in the house and the way they did it worked for me really well.
At first I was expecting it would be sympathy after seeing her crying over the picture of her parents, then guilt/responsibility over the whole house deal but it didn’t really happen either way. When he offered her the packet of money I knew it wasn’t going to go well and while I liked that she threw it in his face I did feel a bit sorry for him because he’d tried to do something nice and had it thrown in his face and he was so confused and upset about it.
• I loved the scene outside the bus stop from beginning to end and I like how he managed to succeed in helping her by making it be about her debt to him. Of course then once he had her in his power he couldn’t help but let it go to his head but he’s still growing.
• I loved her acting, this time sick, and once again fooling him. That just really amuses me.
• Is it a translation mistake or did she really tell Young Jae that she wrote ‘internet novels’? Because that does not at all seem like what she does and when I hear internet novel I immediately think of fanfiction which I definitely don’t think is how she meant it.
• I am curious about what is it about the girls being kind of pigs as far as food goes? Not that they eat a lot but that they stuff their faces? Is this an Asian thing? Jan Di and Usagi are both like that as well.
• My main question with this episode lies in Young Jae’s response to Hye Woo confronting him about his feelings. I just don’t understand it. It was the perfect opportunity to tell her his feelings or if he didn’t want to he could have just walked away. But instead he chose to announce his feelings for Ji Eun and kiss her in front of everyone. He knew there were paparazzi there. Why did he do it? Even if they hadn’t jumped to the fiancé conclusion it definitely wouldn’t have helped him in his relationship with Hye Woo!
Episode 3
Wow, this show is moving fast.
• It starts with press jumping on Young Jae ‘announcing’ his engagement at the party (which I still don’t know how they got that from a kiss) goes through him asking her, their marriage and honeymoon and ends with their return from their honeymoon. I would have thought they would have at least dragged the engagement part out for an episode!
• In the blurb for the show it stated that Young Jae marries Ji Eun in order to make Hye Woo jealous but seeing how everything played out that is just not my interpretation of events at all. I still don’t understand the kiss but him asking Ji Eun to marry him appeared to be more about damage control than anything. I am going to ignore his offer to pay Ji Eun a salary because that doesn’t make as much sense to me and doesn’t seem like the best idea anyhow (how would he explain it to the press?). Instead I am going to imagine that he said that he will provide her with everything she needs while they’re married and when they get divorced he will pay alimony and give her the house. Sounds like a good deal to me! But then we get Ji Eun continuing to act as his maid after the engagement decision and that definitely felt weird.
• I got some BOF flashbacks when Young Jae’s estranged doctor father was introduced. But I loved the Ji Eun/ scene at the wedding. I thought they were pretty wonderful. They were so adorably awkward and sweet together.
• “Don’t talk about her like that.” When Young Jae looked so mad and then said that I thought for sure that it was over Min Hyuk telling him that he ‘should have looked around a bit more before settling’ not the line about knowing Hye Woo’s temperament. I do think that it could still be taken in the former way even though Young Jae didn’t protest Min Hyuk’s assumption that it was Hye Woo he was talking about.
• I can’t believe the gall of her friends. OMG. I loved her disbelief and then slowly building rage before she just lost it on them. I like that she doesn’t just forgive them because what they did was horrendous. In the first episode it did seem to me as if they cared for Ji Eun but at this point they are so selfish and self-absorbed that it’s like that moment at the airport never happened. They sold her house for a lot of money, cleared out her bank account and ran up a credit card in her name and somehow in such a short time they have blown through all that money. And now they have the gall to come back all friendly and wanting/expecting for her to provide for them? What the fuck is going on in their head? And then she does go to them and they betray her again! That’s certainly what them taking her to her wedding was. I honestly just can’t see her ever being friends with them again. I really hope that doesn’t happen. This episode really drove home how alone Ji Eun is. I mean it was ridiculous that she had no one she could impose upon after she learnt that she lost the house but that at her wedding there were only two people she knew – and them being the friends that betrayed her into this situation – is just horrible. It’s just hard to believe that she doesn’t have at least a cousin and even harder that someone as nice as JI Eun would have no other friends or close acquaintances.
• Ji Eun’s wedding gown was... interesting. Long and western traditional in the back with a big lace train and looking very white... and then in the front it’s an entirely different dress. It has a very short skirt which looks kind of like a business suit skirt but with these weird dangly sparkly bits hanging in front of it. At points it looks off white but I think that may well just be the lighting. It’s just kind of bizarre. But, hey, at least their taste matches! I do feel very let down that we didn’t get them dancing at their wedding.
• Young Jae buying her the bike and then teaching her to ride was sweet (as was him buying her room furniture) and I really liked that their first moment of shared pleasure/happiness was over this. They were smiling at each other!
Episode 2
• My two favourite bits of the episode were – the revelation that Ji Eun has written a script about a female Casanova which is just awesome and Young Jae giving her manuscript to his manager to read which was wonderful in a different way.
• I like how Ji Eun deals with Young Jae – she doesn’t accept any of his crap and she does what she wants (going to the party, refusing to leave with him). I also like that having decided not to turn her friends into the police she accepts working for Young Jae (in her own house) without complaint (well much) and works hard, in order to pay off her debt to him and at the same time she continues to look for her ‘friends’ and succeeds! I was wondering how they were going to keep her in the house and the way they did it worked for me really well.
At first I was expecting it would be sympathy after seeing her crying over the picture of her parents, then guilt/responsibility over the whole house deal but it didn’t really happen either way. When he offered her the packet of money I knew it wasn’t going to go well and while I liked that she threw it in his face I did feel a bit sorry for him because he’d tried to do something nice and had it thrown in his face and he was so confused and upset about it.
• I loved the scene outside the bus stop from beginning to end and I like how he managed to succeed in helping her by making it be about her debt to him. Of course then once he had her in his power he couldn’t help but let it go to his head but he’s still growing.
• I loved her acting, this time sick, and once again fooling him. That just really amuses me.
• Is it a translation mistake or did she really tell Young Jae that she wrote ‘internet novels’? Because that does not at all seem like what she does and when I hear internet novel I immediately think of fanfiction which I definitely don’t think is how she meant it.
• I am curious about what is it about the girls being kind of pigs as far as food goes? Not that they eat a lot but that they stuff their faces? Is this an Asian thing? Jan Di and Usagi are both like that as well.
• My main question with this episode lies in Young Jae’s response to Hye Woo confronting him about his feelings. I just don’t understand it. It was the perfect opportunity to tell her his feelings or if he didn’t want to he could have just walked away. But instead he chose to announce his feelings for Ji Eun and kiss her in front of everyone. He knew there were paparazzi there. Why did he do it? Even if they hadn’t jumped to the fiancé conclusion it definitely wouldn’t have helped him in his relationship with Hye Woo!
Episode 3
Wow, this show is moving fast.
• It starts with press jumping on Young Jae ‘announcing’ his engagement at the party (which I still don’t know how they got that from a kiss) goes through him asking her, their marriage and honeymoon and ends with their return from their honeymoon. I would have thought they would have at least dragged the engagement part out for an episode!
• In the blurb for the show it stated that Young Jae marries Ji Eun in order to make Hye Woo jealous but seeing how everything played out that is just not my interpretation of events at all. I still don’t understand the kiss but him asking Ji Eun to marry him appeared to be more about damage control than anything. I am going to ignore his offer to pay Ji Eun a salary because that doesn’t make as much sense to me and doesn’t seem like the best idea anyhow (how would he explain it to the press?). Instead I am going to imagine that he said that he will provide her with everything she needs while they’re married and when they get divorced he will pay alimony and give her the house. Sounds like a good deal to me! But then we get Ji Eun continuing to act as his maid after the engagement decision and that definitely felt weird.
• I got some BOF flashbacks when Young Jae’s estranged doctor father was introduced. But I loved the Ji Eun/ scene at the wedding. I thought they were pretty wonderful. They were so adorably awkward and sweet together.
• “Don’t talk about her like that.” When Young Jae looked so mad and then said that I thought for sure that it was over Min Hyuk telling him that he ‘should have looked around a bit more before settling’ not the line about knowing Hye Woo’s temperament. I do think that it could still be taken in the former way even though Young Jae didn’t protest Min Hyuk’s assumption that it was Hye Woo he was talking about.
• I can’t believe the gall of her friends. OMG. I loved her disbelief and then slowly building rage before she just lost it on them. I like that she doesn’t just forgive them because what they did was horrendous. In the first episode it did seem to me as if they cared for Ji Eun but at this point they are so selfish and self-absorbed that it’s like that moment at the airport never happened. They sold her house for a lot of money, cleared out her bank account and ran up a credit card in her name and somehow in such a short time they have blown through all that money. And now they have the gall to come back all friendly and wanting/expecting for her to provide for them? What the fuck is going on in their head? And then she does go to them and they betray her again! That’s certainly what them taking her to her wedding was. I honestly just can’t see her ever being friends with them again. I really hope that doesn’t happen. This episode really drove home how alone Ji Eun is. I mean it was ridiculous that she had no one she could impose upon after she learnt that she lost the house but that at her wedding there were only two people she knew – and them being the friends that betrayed her into this situation – is just horrible. It’s just hard to believe that she doesn’t have at least a cousin and even harder that someone as nice as JI Eun would have no other friends or close acquaintances.
• Ji Eun’s wedding gown was... interesting. Long and western traditional in the back with a big lace train and looking very white... and then in the front it’s an entirely different dress. It has a very short skirt which looks kind of like a business suit skirt but with these weird dangly sparkly bits hanging in front of it. At points it looks off white but I think that may well just be the lighting. It’s just kind of bizarre. But, hey, at least their taste matches! I do feel very let down that we didn’t get them dancing at their wedding.
• Young Jae buying her the bike and then teaching her to ride was sweet (as was him buying her room furniture) and I really liked that their first moment of shared pleasure/happiness was over this. They were smiling at each other!
