Healer Episode 12 Thoughts
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iariaEpisode 12
+ My favourite scene was Jung-hoo's meeting with Myung-hee. I loved her playing it cool and not revealing that he was the man she saw that night. I loved her emotionally petting his head while clearly thinking of Ji-an, her trying to share good memories with him about his father and her reassuring Jung-hoo that his father didn't kill her first husband.
+ I really loved Jung-hoo's revelation that Young-shin was Ji-an and him putting all the pieces together. That played out so much better than here then it would have if he'd done it the first time he broke in.
+ I really liked the ways that this episode focused on Young-shin and 'Bong-soo' and her confused feelings for him. I think it's important that she does start to see him as more than a friend before the truth is revealed and that little moment in the cafe was great. I also really loved them joking around together. The dinner scene was fun and her tricking him into touching his eye with an onion coated finger then laughing at him was both evil and hilarious.
+ I felt bad for both Jung-hoo and Moon-ho during their confrontation but Jung-hoo was absolutely in the right. Moon-ho's reasons for lying weren't that great and keeping such a huge secret wasn't the way to start a new relationship with Jung-hoo nor gain his trust. That said while Jung-hoo had every reason to be angry at Moon-ho, and at all the adults who messed up their childhood, he does lose some of that righteousness when considering that he is also keeping massive secrets from Young-shin. Not just that he's the Healer (and considering all the very personal conversations he's had with Young-shin about 'him' that may even be worse) but also now the truth about her past. He's just as complicit in this circle of lies everyone is living in. The only non-liar here is Young-shin.
+ So the truth about what Moon-shik did to Ji-an is less terrible than I was expecting - him abandoning her purposefully from the start or trying to have her killed - but still terrible. His choice to not only stop looking when Ji-ah disappeared but to tell everyone she was dead was almost as bad. I am curious about what he was thinking in that moment when he stopped and hesitated. Why did he choose to let her go? Is it all about having Myung-hee all to himself or was there more going on? I keep coming back to his part in Jung-hoo being abandoned. I thought at first that Moon-shik simply ordered her to stop investigating her husband's death but in this episode it appears that she really was ordered to get out of Jung-hoo's life. That makes no sense to me. Why would Moon-shik do that? I wonder if he was trying to protect both kids from the influence of the Elder by separating them from their previous life, abandoned and thus out of the Elder's sight/influence? I'm probably reaching here.
+ My favourite scene was Jung-hoo's meeting with Myung-hee. I loved her playing it cool and not revealing that he was the man she saw that night. I loved her emotionally petting his head while clearly thinking of Ji-an, her trying to share good memories with him about his father and her reassuring Jung-hoo that his father didn't kill her first husband.
+ I really loved Jung-hoo's revelation that Young-shin was Ji-an and him putting all the pieces together. That played out so much better than here then it would have if he'd done it the first time he broke in.
+ I really liked the ways that this episode focused on Young-shin and 'Bong-soo' and her confused feelings for him. I think it's important that she does start to see him as more than a friend before the truth is revealed and that little moment in the cafe was great. I also really loved them joking around together. The dinner scene was fun and her tricking him into touching his eye with an onion coated finger then laughing at him was both evil and hilarious.
+ I felt bad for both Jung-hoo and Moon-ho during their confrontation but Jung-hoo was absolutely in the right. Moon-ho's reasons for lying weren't that great and keeping such a huge secret wasn't the way to start a new relationship with Jung-hoo nor gain his trust. That said while Jung-hoo had every reason to be angry at Moon-ho, and at all the adults who messed up their childhood, he does lose some of that righteousness when considering that he is also keeping massive secrets from Young-shin. Not just that he's the Healer (and considering all the very personal conversations he's had with Young-shin about 'him' that may even be worse) but also now the truth about her past. He's just as complicit in this circle of lies everyone is living in. The only non-liar here is Young-shin.
+ So the truth about what Moon-shik did to Ji-an is less terrible than I was expecting - him abandoning her purposefully from the start or trying to have her killed - but still terrible. His choice to not only stop looking when Ji-ah disappeared but to tell everyone she was dead was almost as bad. I am curious about what he was thinking in that moment when he stopped and hesitated. Why did he choose to let her go? Is it all about having Myung-hee all to himself or was there more going on? I keep coming back to his part in Jung-hoo being abandoned. I thought at first that Moon-shik simply ordered her to stop investigating her husband's death but in this episode it appears that she really was ordered to get out of Jung-hoo's life. That makes no sense to me. Why would Moon-shik do that? I wonder if he was trying to protect both kids from the influence of the Elder by separating them from their previous life, abandoned and thus out of the Elder's sight/influence? I'm probably reaching here.
