I Hear Your Voice Episode 8 Thoughts
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I wasn't going to watch another episode but I had to see how the last episode's cliffhanger played out. Wow, this was an emotional episode.
• They killed Choon-shim. :( It was so sad. We got a couple flashbacks and honestly it just made it even sadder. She was such a great mom! She was so proud in Hye-sung and believed so much in her. That last flashback to just before she died and her learning that Hye-sung testified against Joon-gook and had him put away was just ugh. "If I knew she had that much courage in her I would have praised her more." and then she cries because she thinks she was too hard on Hye-sung and it makes me so sad.
• Hye-sung's break down when she realised that her last phone call with her mom was her mom's goodbye was heartbreaking. I cried.
• I loved Do-yeon's scene with Joon-gook. That was a great little bubble popping moment. You didn't see that coming did you, you psycho! Too bad it didn't have more of an affect on the trial itself. I just wish that it had all played a little differently. I was hoping to see Do-yeon and Hye-sung coming together to try and take him down. Hye-sung having to let go of her pride and beg and apologise, for her to make a deal with the devil to stack the trial is a interesting direction for her character to go but I'm still sad I didn't get the team-up I wanted.
• On the legal side Kwan-woo representing Joon-gook makes no goddamn sense. He's being accused of murdering Kwan-woo's coworker and girlfriend's mother - there is no jurisdiction anywhere where that is not a conflict of interest! It was so unbelievable to me. That said, storyline-wise and drama-wise it not only makes complete sense but Kwan-woo's entire arc has been leading him to this point and the story has been setting it up for ages. Kwan-woo who on his first case insisted that all their clients should be seen as innocent, who is so idealistic, who defends to his uttermost ability every time - of course it had to be him to defend Joon-gook. The grandpa case was the build up to this even. Everything has been leading to this. And of course he wouldn't throw the case, of course he would be open minded enough to try and see the best in anyone.
• Joon-gook requested Kwan-woo?? Oh you goddamn asshole! I wonder what his plan was before he overheard that Hye-sung was dating Kwan-woo? Did he change it at the last minute?
• It bothers me that the coroner is apparently just as bad at his job as the cops are. There is no way that Joon-gook bashing Choon-shim in the head, multiple times!, with a wrench should look anything like her accidentally hitting it on a stove. The fact that he 'rescues' her with her body completely intact makes it all the harder to believe. It should be pretty damn obvious that she was murdered. Like, god damn, show. They've done such a good job in so many other aspects for them to fall down so hard here sucks. There were a lot of ways they could have made her murder look like a believable accident but they didn't even try and it annoys me so much.
• "I'm sorry but Soo-ha's promise comes first." - Hye-sung. Oh, ouch.
• Lots of little sad moments with Soo-ah/Hye-sung - him holding her at the hospital and then later at the funeral home as she broke down; him refusing to leave and letting her take her anger out on him and after her first volley the fact that she stopped; him punching Kwan-woo to get him to stop talking and hurting Hye-sung; Soo-ah fixing all the little things around the apartment that he could before leaving.
Then there was the big things. First, him telling Kwan-woo that Hye-sung does like him so give her time and wait for her. Second, at the end when he tells Hye-sung three things before leaving her (forever) and he chooses to tell her of how proud her mother was of her, how much Kwan-woo cares for her and that she shouldn't be so hard on him, and last that she likes Kwan-woo too so she shouldn't stay hiding for too long. My heart was really hurting for him at the end there.
• Soo-ha turning back to confess his feelings for Hye-sung with a kiss was perfect. It made me both happy and sad. It was him saying both 'hi I like you' and 'goodbye, I like you' and I love that. I also liked that after 8 episodes of him thinking of her and after trying to be so noble and letting her go he did this for himself. It's goodbye for him and he actually lets himself have the goodbye that he wants in his heart.
• Do-yeon's father knowing that she lied about the fireworks incident was an interesting little twist and I wonder how it's going to shake his faith in his whole 'end justify the means' to convict the guilty when he learns that he 'convicted' innocent Hye-sung?
• So Joon-gook's cellmate is probably Do-yeon's biological father, right? Or it could be Hye-sung since we know nothing about his thus far but I'm leaning towards Do-yeon.
I wasn't going to watch another episode but I had to see how the last episode's cliffhanger played out. Wow, this was an emotional episode.
• They killed Choon-shim. :( It was so sad. We got a couple flashbacks and honestly it just made it even sadder. She was such a great mom! She was so proud in Hye-sung and believed so much in her. That last flashback to just before she died and her learning that Hye-sung testified against Joon-gook and had him put away was just ugh. "If I knew she had that much courage in her I would have praised her more." and then she cries because she thinks she was too hard on Hye-sung and it makes me so sad.
• Hye-sung's break down when she realised that her last phone call with her mom was her mom's goodbye was heartbreaking. I cried.
• I loved Do-yeon's scene with Joon-gook. That was a great little bubble popping moment. You didn't see that coming did you, you psycho! Too bad it didn't have more of an affect on the trial itself. I just wish that it had all played a little differently. I was hoping to see Do-yeon and Hye-sung coming together to try and take him down. Hye-sung having to let go of her pride and beg and apologise, for her to make a deal with the devil to stack the trial is a interesting direction for her character to go but I'm still sad I didn't get the team-up I wanted.
• On the legal side Kwan-woo representing Joon-gook makes no goddamn sense. He's being accused of murdering Kwan-woo's coworker and girlfriend's mother - there is no jurisdiction anywhere where that is not a conflict of interest! It was so unbelievable to me. That said, storyline-wise and drama-wise it not only makes complete sense but Kwan-woo's entire arc has been leading him to this point and the story has been setting it up for ages. Kwan-woo who on his first case insisted that all their clients should be seen as innocent, who is so idealistic, who defends to his uttermost ability every time - of course it had to be him to defend Joon-gook. The grandpa case was the build up to this even. Everything has been leading to this. And of course he wouldn't throw the case, of course he would be open minded enough to try and see the best in anyone.
• Joon-gook requested Kwan-woo?? Oh you goddamn asshole! I wonder what his plan was before he overheard that Hye-sung was dating Kwan-woo? Did he change it at the last minute?
• It bothers me that the coroner is apparently just as bad at his job as the cops are. There is no way that Joon-gook bashing Choon-shim in the head, multiple times!, with a wrench should look anything like her accidentally hitting it on a stove. The fact that he 'rescues' her with her body completely intact makes it all the harder to believe. It should be pretty damn obvious that she was murdered. Like, god damn, show. They've done such a good job in so many other aspects for them to fall down so hard here sucks. There were a lot of ways they could have made her murder look like a believable accident but they didn't even try and it annoys me so much.
• "I'm sorry but Soo-ha's promise comes first." - Hye-sung. Oh, ouch.
• Lots of little sad moments with Soo-ah/Hye-sung - him holding her at the hospital and then later at the funeral home as she broke down; him refusing to leave and letting her take her anger out on him and after her first volley the fact that she stopped; him punching Kwan-woo to get him to stop talking and hurting Hye-sung; Soo-ah fixing all the little things around the apartment that he could before leaving.
Then there was the big things. First, him telling Kwan-woo that Hye-sung does like him so give her time and wait for her. Second, at the end when he tells Hye-sung three things before leaving her (forever) and he chooses to tell her of how proud her mother was of her, how much Kwan-woo cares for her and that she shouldn't be so hard on him, and last that she likes Kwan-woo too so she shouldn't stay hiding for too long. My heart was really hurting for him at the end there.
• Soo-ha turning back to confess his feelings for Hye-sung with a kiss was perfect. It made me both happy and sad. It was him saying both 'hi I like you' and 'goodbye, I like you' and I love that. I also liked that after 8 episodes of him thinking of her and after trying to be so noble and letting her go he did this for himself. It's goodbye for him and he actually lets himself have the goodbye that he wants in his heart.
• Do-yeon's father knowing that she lied about the fireworks incident was an interesting little twist and I wonder how it's going to shake his faith in his whole 'end justify the means' to convict the guilty when he learns that he 'convicted' innocent Hye-sung?
• So Joon-gook's cellmate is probably Do-yeon's biological father, right? Or it could be Hye-sung since we know nothing about his thus far but I'm leaning towards Do-yeon.
