tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88549584314123624782024-03-05T02:09:28.075-08:00K-What?!?It's kdrama. And it's awesome.K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-21713816673544537722015-07-28T04:58:00.004-07:002015-07-28T05:03:25.829-07:00Oh My. . . Ghostess<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I just made these for fun. Because whoa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I think I had forgotten just how good a kisser Jo Jung Suk is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> You know, it wasn't until I started watching kdramas that I realized how excited I could get over a haircut—at least one that wasn't my own. Especially when it happens to a fictional character. But I have to say that this whole new-start, new-'do thing in dramas is almost always a good thing. (P.S. I wanted a photo from the first scene of <i>Fated to Love You</i> because it's hilarious. I didn't really mean for it to seem so sensual. *shrugs* Oh, well.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I mean, let's take the example of Gun's new style. After all, it's pretty much the best thing to come out of this week's episodes of <i>Fated to Love You</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He started out looking like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Admittedly, this is a style that looks fantastic on many people. For instance, my 60-year old aunt. And I will say that it was starting to grow on me. A bit. (Then again, that may be because it reminds me of my amazing aunt.) But then it morphed into. . . whatever this straightened version is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Again, a look that works for many people. Jang Hyuk is not one of them, despite his general attractiveness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But then, <i>then</i> the world was blessed with The Best Haircut of All Time (okay, okay, hyperbole, I know). And the angels danced. And the world swooned. And, more importantly, this drama <i>might just</i> pull itself out of the hole it dug itself into by throwing in an amnesia plotline (more on that later).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Thank you Jang Hyuk. And bless you, Jang Hyuk's stylist. Bless you forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Nope. Nope, nope, nope. I guess I wrote too soon. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-53346212040434595392014-07-27T20:30:00.001-07:002014-07-27T20:30:36.368-07:00Drama Review: Tsuma wa, Kunoichi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> First a little explanation: this drama is a two-part series, consisting of 13 episodes. The first part is called <i>Tsuma wa, Kunoichi</i>, and the second is <i>Tsuma wa, Kunoichi Saishusho</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This drama is set during the Edo period (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1824-5)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, decades before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry" target="_blank">Commodore Matthew Perry</a> helped open Japan to the Western world with the Convention of Kanagawa. This historical event has some significance in the story of <i>Tsuma wa, Kunoichi</i> because the male lead is involved in a plot to build a ship that can sail farther than Japanese ships had sailed before, which was a huge deal for a country determined to remain isolated from the West. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'm sure you'll find this hard to believe, but I'm not very well-versed in Japanese history (yes, Wikipedia is my main source of knowledge of these things, I'm not ashamed). However, I do find this era to be a fascinating setting, and I love that this drama ties in so well with what was happening at the time (although I'm sure it is told from quite a progressive and modern point of view). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> At the beginning of our story, Futaboshi Hikoma is a humble scholar living in a remote area, a man who studies the stars and seas. He is a gentle soul, permitted by his powerful clan to live his life devoted to learning astronomy, instead of the politics or warfare that a man of his position would usually be expected to study. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> His life changes drastically when he is sent a young bride, Orie. They live in quiet contentment for a month before Orie suddenly leaves him, without any explanation. Futaboshi assumes she has gone to the city of Edo and follows her, followed by his adopted son, Ganjiro (more on him later).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Orie is, in fact, a second-generation <i>shinobi</i>—a trained assassin, spy, and expert fighter—sent by a rival clan to discover the intentions of Futaboshi's clan. She has been retrieved from her assignment to Futaboshi, but her life has also been changed irrevocably by him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Futaboshi takes up residence in a humble backstreet school, teaching the children and befriending the people of his new neighborhood. However, his clan leader, Matsuura Seizan, involves him in his plans to build a ship and set up trade with Western nations, thus improving their clan's political position and influence, as well as bringing in new wealth and learning. Seizan needs Futaboshi's knowledge to complete this task, but is also mindful of the danger that surrounds this plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Despite their short time together, Orie and Futaboshi have come to deeply love one another. His greatest desire is to bring her back home and live in peace together, hers is to keep him alive and find a way to remove herself from the life of a <i>shinobi</i> without being killed or hunted down for the rest of her life—a goal which is virtually impossible. Their star-crossed lovers theme is further emphasized through references to Orihime and Hikoboshi, aka Vega and Altair, and whose tragic tale is the basis of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata" target="_blank">Tanabata festival</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I really enjoyed watching this drama—it's full of action, adventure, political maneuvering, and, of course, an impossible love. The overall pace is more sedate than many other dramas, which does cause a bit of drag here and there, but I feel that it suits this drama and style of storytelling very well. There are plenty of well-choreographed action sequences throughout the whole drama, even if they are almost always in the dark, and they help keep the tempo of things up. Additionally, in the first half of the drama, Futaboshi is involved in solving several mysteries through his understanding of science, but these side stories become less important as the story continues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> One frustrating thing, however, is the number of times Futaboshi and Orie nearly meet, but don't actually meet. Yeah, I know it helps build the tension, and I know Orie is protecting her husband by staying away from him, but I get to the point where I just want them to find each other already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> There are plenty of frightening villains in this show—and most of them are either assassins, spies, samurais, or a combination thereof. They each bring a different level of danger into the lives of the main characters, and their dogged determination to kill one or both our main characters adds plenty of suspense to the story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> One of the things I really love about this drama is the attention to side characters. There isn't necessarily a lot of time spent on each one, but what time we get is quality time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Take, for instance, the story of Tarokichi. Tarokichi is the foster-son of the family who puts Futaboshi up in Edo. He becomes one of Futaboshi's students, and becomes almost like a son to Futaboshi. He was abandoned a year earlier, and has been searching for his mother ever since, a plight Futaboshi sympathizes with. Together, they leave notices for those they are searching for and pray at the shrine to be able to find their loved ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another great character is Futaboshi's adopted son, Ganjiro, who is actually older than Futaboshi. (Within a clan, it was common for men to be adopted to (more than by) a prominent figure among the clansmen, which sometimes led to adopted sons being older than their fathers (I believe).) Ganjiro is a simple man, a jovial fool, who is quite close to Seizan. However, Ganjiro may be more than he seems, which allows him to be more than a throwaway character used only for comedic relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Orie also has many important side characters in her orbit—her mother Masae, Ocho, another <i>shinobi</i> she has always thought of as a sister, and Otsuru, who has been a second mother to her, but has her own motivations. Each of these people have significant parts to play in the overall story of Orie and Futaboshi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Seizan himself is a surprising character. He's middle-aged, yet still a great fighter. He's cunning, brave, and wise. He's determined to send out his ship no matter what it takes, he is a man of strong principles, but is also willing to bend for what he sees as the greater good of his nation, his clan, and his family. He's not a perfect man, but he's definitely an admirable one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another character I love is Shizuko, Seizan's daughter. She appears only in the second part of the story, <i>Tsuma wa, Kunoichi Saishusho</i>, but she is a fascinating person in her own right. Without giving away too much, she is a noblewoman who dominates at swordplay and has been thwarted over and over in her attempts to be married. After meeting Futaboshi and seeing his lack of ability with the sword, she scorns him, but can't stay away from him. And while she never moves solidly into second-lead territory (mostly due to Futaboshi's obliviousness), she creates plenty of romantic tension in the story overall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This brings up something else I love about this drama—the love story between the fierce warrior and the gentle scholar. While Futaboshi is an incompetent fighter, focusing more on scholarly pursuits and dreaming of faraway places, he is never emasculated by Orie's strength and proficiency as a fighter. He is still brave and capable in other ways, and even tries hard to learn fighting skills in order to protect the children in his care, though he doesn't improve too much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And Orie is allowed to be BA, but still has very traditionally feminine qualities as well. She is conflicted by her sense of duty, her love for Futaboshi, and her desire to make a better life for herself (which may or may not include Futaboshi). She is a complex mixture of strength, weakness, honor, sweetness, stubbornness, vulnerability, and intelligence, which makes her character more realistic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In all, this drama is a fun one to watch. You may have to exercise patience with it sometimes, but really, there's plenty of action, political intrigue, mystery and interesting plotlines to keep things going. And the core of the story—the love story of Futaboshi and Orie—is beautifully told and sweetly executed. (Just don't expect sparks flying all over the place. It's not that kind of drama.) I wholeheartedly recommend this drama, especially if you enjoy sageuks or other historical adaptations as much as I do.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-52411932525123973492014-07-24T15:47:00.000-07:002014-07-24T15:47:08.750-07:00An Explosion of Cute in Trot Lovers (But, Sadly, That's not All. . .)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>(Major spoilers for episode 10 of <i>Trot Lovers</i>.)</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I saw it coming. Honestly I did. There was just too much cute happening. But I still had hope that maybe, just this once, all that happiness and cute wasn't just the calm before the storm, the sweetness of sugar before the bitter pill, the joy of freefall before the reality of gravity sets in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Okay, really I didn't have much hope. I spent the entire episode just waiting for (and dreading) the dramatic ending that I knew was coming. And Trot Lovers didn't disappoint in the drama there. I'm okay with it. Really. (I keep telling myself.) I'm just dreading next week, when we'll probably find out that Jang Joon Hyun has amnesia and evil Park Soo In tells him she's his girlfriend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (Speaking of the devil, I find Soo In's characterization a bit troublesome. She's kind of all over the place. I feel like she's having a major mental break, but we see so little of it, and there are so many moments of <i>aaalllmost</i> normalcy from her, that it feels very. . . disjointed? Sudden? Unearned? Confusing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm not really sure that I can say it's just one of those things, really. I mean, I know she's been struggling a lot with deciding how much she'll suppress her morals for her career/love (definitely more for love/obsession), but still, I wish it were a bit more developed.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Anyway, I just want to show all the cute moments. Mainly so I'll have a place to come back and find happiness in the midst of the drama that is to come. Ooof, my poor little over-invested heartstrings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'll start off with the "cute" moment that I actually find a little disturbing. The kiss at the end of episode 9/beginning of episode 10. I really really want to like this kiss. But whenever I think about it from Choi Chun Hee's perspective (and I can't really see it any other way), it makes me uncomfortable. I mean, imagine you're sitting alone, in the middle of nowhere, with your eyes closed and singing along to the music from your headphones, and suddenly some random person starts kissing you. Not cool. Not cool at all. It's just too aggressive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (Also, while I'm on the subject, their first kiss was also forced and overly aggressive. But at least with that kiss, I felt like Joon Hyun instantly regretted it. Hence the tears, and my ability to forgive him for it.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Anyway, when they kiss again, with Chun Hee being fully aware of what is going on, it's a very sweet and dreamy kiss. This I like. I'll just pretend that this is where their relationship really started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And now for a rundown of all the rest of the cute moments. Tbh, I'd probably normally be gagging at so much adorableness, but they're just so cute about it all, I can't help but grin like a fool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> First, Joon Hyun tells her how much he cares about her getting involved in a public scandal and that he's not willing to risk her career. Gah! So sweet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then they text and he gets upset/jealous when she tells him that's not her first kiss. And he completely forgets that he kissed her angrily a few episodes ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I love that they both think that hiding under their blankets is going to block the sound of their phone conversation. Kekeke!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Clandestine hand-holding on the elevator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Secret love note handoffs.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Splashing in the stream together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Arguing over who gets to be P</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">arty B in their contract, because obviously that's the person who loves more. And the contract in general is adorable, as it contains clauses about petting each other on the head each day, daily compliments, and secret nickname initials for Chun Hee to protect her in case their contract leaks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joon Hyun changing his name in Chun Hee's phone from Bad Man to Pretty Man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chun Hee worrying that Jooh Hyun is trying to move their relationship too fast. But then he just shows her an adorable video he made for the song he wrote her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Secret glances and coded gestures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Back hugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Under-the-table hand holding, at a party, and nobody notices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Even when they argue, it's cute, especially because he's trying to protect her, and she just wants to perform with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> An intimate piano lesson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Coffee date on the stairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joon Hyun's charming relationship with Byul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joon Hyun designing a necklace for Chun Hee so he can propose onstage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Fulfilling their daily petting quota.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> More secret waves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chun Hee's utter joy at being able to buy back Joon Hyun's precious guitar. She even dances with it and kisses it, she's so happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joon Hyun, planning his proposal and leaving a present just to make her smile, and how happy all this makes him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But then there's the final, horrible moment, when Joon Hyun sacrifices himself for Chun Hee. This act of true love, after all the sweetness of new love in this episode, is what really slays me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner sobbing.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-46295721978920283052014-07-17T02:56:00.001-07:002014-07-17T02:56:27.128-07:00Deja Vu, or Why Do They Keep Trying to Throw Lee Jun Ki off a Cliff?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I know that we see the same things over and over again in kdramas—I mean, I have already dedicated posts to tropes and cliches. But this is one trend that I find especially worrying. There are many, many instances of dramatic cliff-edge cliffhangers in Dramaland, and especially in <i>sageuks</i>, but something is definitely amiss with my beloved Lee Jun Ki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the last two years, Jun Ki has had three intense encounters with huge cliffs in all three of his dramas in that time. Don't believe me? I have proof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Firstly, in <i>Arang and the Magistrate</i>, he has this moment, where an assassination attempt is preceded by a cracking branch, landing him on a ledge on the steep cliff face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Later on, it's Arang who ends up falling off the precipice, but Jun Ki has several close calls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then, in <i>Two Weeks</i>, Lee Jun Ki is cornered at the edge of another bluff overlooking a river, gets shot, and falls the 100 feet to the river below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And now in Joseon Gunman he has again been hunted to the edge of a cliff and held at gunpoint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Luckily, he has escaped unscathed until now, but it begs the question, what is going on here? Is it just coincidence? Or is there some grand conspiracy to harm my beautiful, beautiful Jun Ki? Are all the writers/producers of his dramas out to get him? Has he angered the drama gods somehow? Why does everyone want to see him fall off of a very, very tall precipice? I'm a bit worried for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After all, the world would be a very sad place indeed without such a talented, beautiful, engaging, and exciting actor like Jun Ki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It has been so long since I've written up a drama review. (Okay, so I've been pretty bad about writing anything lately.) And really, that's why I started this blog in the first place, to review dramas and share with others my love and hate for certain dramas (mostly love, though). I also want this blog to be a resource for people searching for a new drama to watch, and so I'll return to the beginning and start some more reviews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I first want to tackle the drama <i>The Master's Sun</i>. Now, I need to say that I have a really hard time with the Hong Sisters' dramas. I don't tend to love them as much as other people, even though I start out finding each one amusing and fun. I've noticed that I'm much better at finishing them if I watch them as they air. I've never finished <i>You're Beautiful</i> or <i>Couple of Fantasy</i>, and I had trouble pushing on about 3/4 of the way through <i>My Girl</i>, <i>The Greatest Love</i>, and <i>My Girlfriend is a Gumiho</i>, though I did finally finish those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And then there was <i>Big</i>. What a huge disappointment for me. I was so excited to see Gong Yoo playing a teenager body-swapped into an adult body (and such a fine body, too). I was excited to see Lee Min Jung in another drama, since I loved her in <i>Boys [preposition] Flowers</i>. And the whole setup seemed just so great, that I figured it would be a wonderful addition to the Hong Sisters collection of dramas. But things don't always work out I want them to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then there was news about <i>The Master's Sun</i>. Despite my hesitation and reluctance to be caught up again in the hype of a Hong Sisters drama, I found myself eagerly looking forward to it's premiere. Why, after being burned so badly the summer before, was I so willing to take another plunge into the deep end of uncertain drama fare?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But I jumped in anyways, and I'm so glad I did. I love this drama. It's one of the best dramas that aired in 2013. It's smart, imaginative, dark, funny, creepy, and all-around fun. I would unabashedly recommend it to anyone. <b>So, if you haven't watched it yet, do so.</b> (Also, without really giving anything away, I think it has the most satisfying ending of any Hong Sisters drama. At least the ones I've watched.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> There are so many things to love about this drama, and I want to address them all. However, despite how much I love <i>The Master's Sun</i>, it has its faults, and I feel that I need to discuss them first. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (<b>Major spoilers ahead!</b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The biggest problem with this drama is the whole Cha Hee Joo/stolen necklace storyline. It is given so much time and is built up so much as a central plotline to the story, only to fall flat as an underdeveloped and weak storyline. The only real good it does is to bring our two main characters together and keep them together when they reach a point that they would move apart. The mystery isn't very mysterious, the acting by adult Hee Joo is not good, and everything just sort of fizzles out. It takes way too long to get to the point and detracts from far more interesting things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another problem is that there are more interesting mysteries inherent in the story that are never explored. What really happened to make Tae Gong Shil able to see ghosts? Why does she have that gift? And why does Joo Joong Won have the ability to make the ghosts go away (apart from the obvious excuse for extra skinship)? And then, when we meet another person who shares her ability and knows what happened to her in the two years she was in a coma, we're never given an exploration of that theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Along the same lines, Lee Chun Hee, the man who knows those things, makes such a late appearance and has so little to do with the story. Such a waste of his talent! And such a waste of an interesting storyline! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Also, Gong Shil's character development in discovering those pieces of her past was skipped over with a terrible use of a time lapse, and we were robbed of the opportunity to see her come to terms with her curse/gift. It would have been so, so rewarding to see her come to the realization that she had opted to keep it in the first place, and that she wanted to keep it now, despite the difficulties her gift brought into her life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Now for the good stuff. And really, there is so much of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Firstly, and most importantly, there's skinship. Lots and lots of skinship. And it's from the very beginning of the story. It's built into the whole premise of the show, since Gong Shil has a reprieve from seeing ghosts when she touches Joong Won. And she's desperate enough to take every opportunity she can to have some peace and quiet from all the ghosts asking for her help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Next, there are the main characters, and I'll take them one at a time. Gong Hyo Jin has such a beautiful way of making each of her characters so relatable and real. Her rendition of Gong Shil shows us a desperate, kind, sometimes-selfish, good-natured and fully-realized character who is aching for a bit of normalcy in her haunted life. We feel for her, and we love her, and we want her to succeed in cracking Joong Won's crusty outer shell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Joong Won himself is such a caricature of a drama hero: the grumpy, arrogant, emotionally scarred, handsome chaebol, with no real connection to people other than his aunt and long-suffering secretary. And yet, So Ji Sub is so delightful at finding the little quirks and characteristics that make him into a more realistic person. In the end, Joong Won is almost as relatable as Gong Shil, and you can't help but like him, despite his stubborn crankiness hiding the hurt little boy inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then we have Kang Woo, the devoted security guard who falls hard for Gong Shil and who has his own mysterious motivations for getting close to Joong Won. He's sweet and kind and knows what he wants (and doesn't want, for that matter). He's a typical second lead, but he's so well played by Seo In Guk that he doesn't seem flat and uninteresting like so many others in Dramaland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The last side of the love square is filled by Tae Yi Ryung, the shallow, insecure, narcissistic, and smitten actress who's always felt inferior to Gong Shil. She falls for Kang Woo and is bratty in her efforts to woo him. She sounds just awful, but Kim Yoo Ri does a fantastic job of making her likable and funny. She has a core of sweetness deep down inside that really only comes out around Kang Woo. And she's absolutely clueless as to how to win his love. She's all-around great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another thing I love about this drama is the eerie aspect lent by the ghosts. While the lesser ghost stories can seem a bit formulaic and simple, I feel that they add a level of danger and suspense to the overall story. They up the stakes in the story and provide nice little mysteries to be solved throughout the drama. They also have twists that make them fun to figure out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Of course, some are better than others, and some are more memorable, but they each feel like a piece of the whole picture of Gong Shil's life. And they're great catalysts of character development, especially for Joong Won, who desperately needs growth to get past his hangups. Also, the cameos are fun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I like that there are also various kinds of ghosts: ghosts who want help so they can move on, semi-malevolent ghosts, vengeful ghosts, lonely ghosts, helpful ghosts, and some ghosts who aren't necessarily ghosts at all. Basically, lots of different ghosts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Besides that, each ghost story has its own tone. Some are tragic, some are funny, some are scary, some are heartbreaking, and some are dangerous. But they are all moving in their own way. They each teach Gong Shil and Joong Won something, as well as leaving a lesson for the people involved with each ghost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Take for instance the story of the soldier and his dog. This is one of the most heartbreaking stories told in <i>The Master's Sun</i>. A man and his dog, the man suffering because of the terrible way his dog was taken from him. And, besides the healing offered the soldier, the main players also have important growth, most notably Joong Won's realization that even though he can't see the ghosts, their presence affects his life anyway, and he can use that reach out to others and influence them for the better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> You can't have a Hong Sisters drama without symbolism, and I really enjoy the symbolism employed here, especially of the sun. So much so, that I bought a replica of Gong Shil's sun necklace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I love that she is the Big Sun (in high school that's what she was called, and Yi Ryung was called Little Sun, a play on their family names, Tae), whose light has been dimmed by the ghosts that follow her. And yet, they are still </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">drawn to her brightness of spirit. It's that same brightness that draws Joong Won in, although he doesn't see it in the same way the ghosts do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joong Won, in his turn, is Gong Shil's beacon of hope. At first it's because she can get rid of the ghosts by touching him, but it develops into her being strong enough to face them because she knows he's there, available to puff them away if she touches him. He represents the light in her life as she struggles to face the things that terrify her and just the thought of him becomes a powerful well of strength for her. Really, they are like twin suns orbiting one another, keeping each other strong and grounded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> There are a multitude of little things that make this drama so delightful as well. Here's a partial list:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joong Won staring through his telescope at his rival's shopping mall, along with the petty rivalry itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Gong Shil's excuses for touching Joong Won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Gong Shil's gleeful attitude towards such skinship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Joong Won's aunt and her husband. Especially when she's being haunted by the scholarly vase-ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And how about that skinship?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tough Kang Woo being terrified of ghosts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Secretary Kim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Gong Shil getting possessed when drunk. By a ballerina, a baby, a dog, and other exciting ghosts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Any time Yi Ryung tries to be cool in front of Kang Woo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Pretty much all Yi Ryung/Kang Woo interactions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Gong Shil's reactions to things, especially when they're the opposite of what Joong Won expects. Like when they sleep holding hands and she doesn't freak out about it like he secretly hopes she will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Joong Won's "go away" gesture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Narcissism Ghost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And its influence on Yi Ryung's style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The moment Joong Won rushes to save Gong Shil from seeing the ghosts from a massive car accident.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Wondergirls dream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Gong Shil offering her arm so Joong Won can chase away his demons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This date with Kang Woo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Joong Won fending off ghosts so Gong Shil can sleep, even though he can't see them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Garbage Can Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Episode 11 is probably my favorite all around. I just love the ghost story here (even though I figured out the central mystery of it pretty early on), and the interactions between Joong Won and his Great (or should I say Giant) Rivals are awesome. Besides, this gives us the delightful cameos by Lee Jong Hyuk and Lee Jae Yong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Also, Joong Won's subsequent jealousy of Lee Jong Hyuk. Hee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And then how Secretary Kim uses Joong Won's jealousy to teach him about love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The fact that Lee Jong Hyuk also has a telescope that he uses to spy on Joong Won. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Joong Won in glasses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Joong Won in glasses trying to read children's books. So adorable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Plus, there's the whole <i>Pretty Woman</i> makeover trope being turned on its head when Joong Won tells Gong Shil that they need to buy her new clothes, and they end up getting a black dress for a funeral. Ha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Even angry kisses are hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Coffee Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And the (mostly wasted) cameo of Lee Chun Hee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> One of the greatest things that happens in <i>The Master's Sun</i> is that Gong Shil comes to understand her gift. I mentioned before how tragic it is that we never get to see the process, but I think it's great that they at least let her understand that it was something she decided to keep in order to help those who need her. And I'm glad that she is finally shown that Joong Won doesn't want her to give that up in order to be happy with him. He understands that it is an integral part of who she is, and it's a part of her that he loves, right along with everything else he has come to love about her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Oh, and there's also lots of skinship in this drama. I may have mentioned that already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Only in Dramaland could you find the following, and completely unironic, conversation. (<b>Spoiler alert:</b> this happens in episode 11 of <i>Prime Minister and I</i>.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The players:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Prime Minister <b>Kwon Yul</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> His wife, <b>Da Jung</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Her <b>Dad</b>, who suffers from Alzheimer's (Or something <i>called</i> Alzheimer's, anyway. Just remember that this is Dramaland we're talking about, and diseases are mere plot devices with only some small semblance to reality.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kwon Yul's young children <b>Na Ra</b> and <b>Man Se</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In this scene, Dad is concerned about the state of his daughter's marriage to Kwon Yul and is trying to help them reconcile. Somehow this leads to him questioning whether the marriage is even real. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Dad</b>: Are you cheating on my daughter? If not, then why has she been staying with me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Da Jung</b>: Of course we're okay! Haven't you been missing me Prime Minister?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Kwon Yul</b>: Aaaah, ahem, yes, of course I have! I couldn't call you because I'd miss you more if I talked to you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>The Kids</b>: Of course they're okay. They even kissed once!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Dad</b>, uncomfortably: A kiss?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Da Jung</b>: These kids, saying things they shouldn't. But wait, Dad, did you hear that? We've kissed, so we have That Kind of a relationship. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Dad</b>, outraged: Well, no matter what kind of relationship, you should be more careful in front of the kids.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Kwon Yul</b>: Of course. We will be more careful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Dad</b>: Well, then, you should go in to bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Man Se</b>: I miss having Ahjumma sleep in my bed with me. (Since she sleeps there when she's fighting with Kwon Yul.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Dad</b>, even more outraged: What?! You have separate rooms?! Even when you have lover's spats, you shouldn't sleep apart. Now, go to bed. Together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I love how Da Jung points out that they've kissed once, so clearly they have a healthy and thriving marital relationship. I'm sorry, but one kiss in the 4 or so months you've been together doesn't really constitute proof that you're happily married. (And for the record, they've actually kissed twice (unromantically) by this point and neither of those kisses is the one Man Se and Na Ra think they saw.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It's also hilarious to me that Dad accepts this as reasonable proof of the legitimacy of their marriage. "One kiss? Okay, I can see that you're happy and in love because of one kiss. Congratulations on your joyous life together. Now, let's all go to bed. But first, I need to make sure you're sleeping in the same room." I swear his intentions are completely innocent, and they're shown to be in the drama, but I'm sure my retelling of them makes them sound a bit. . . creepy. They're totally not, but it is funny. I mean, Dad was married before, and even had a child, so I'm sure he understands that there's more to a good marriage than one little kiss. And plenty of bad marriages have lots and lots of kissing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But this is all one of the aspects of Dramaland that I adore the most, and one that keeps me transfixed by drama after drama: that innocent ideation of relationships and love that is so prevalent in Asian dramas and so lacking in Western fare. Yes, it's simplistic and unrealistic, but it's also so earnest and such a positive point of view. As a cynical, sarcastic, and romantic-in-the-deepest-most-secret-part-of-my-heart American, I find such guilelessness and innocence to be refreshing, endearing and lovely. It's not something we see often in Western media anymore, which I find to be very sad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another aspect of this drama that I find refreshing is the attitude towards the whole arranged marriage thing. Especially the attitude of Kwon Yul's greatest political opponent, Park Jun Ki. Although most story angles of the contract relationship in this drama are typical of romances with contract marriages, Park Jun Ki points out something that gives it all a sense of unexpected reality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He discusses his plans to overthrow Kwon Yul and talks about finding proof of the contract marriage. But in the process, he points out that it's not the fact of it being a marriage of convenience or political gain that is the problem. Plenty of marriages are based on mutual benefit instead of love or romance (he would know, as his marriage is a purely political union), and that's not a problem. The real issue is if the marriage is a fraudulent marriage designed to appease public opinion and allowed Kwon Yul to gain and keep his public office. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I find it interesting that it's the villain of the piece who seems to be the only one who remains unconcerned about the marriage being contractual. Everyone else, from Da Jung, to Kwon Yul, to his staff who are in the know are alway worry about what could happen if word got out. Yes, they stress out about the fraud side of things a bit here and there, but mostly it's concern over people finding out they didn't marry for love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In some ways, I think it would be nice if Dramaland could remember this more. But then again, it would take most of the tension out of contract marriage plots, and Dramaland sure loves contract relationships in dramas—especially in its romantic comedies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Of course, so do I.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So keep them coming, Dramaland! And keep up the beautiful, crazy, innocent, silly, and refreshing attitudes that keep us coming back to you again and again. We love you, and we wouldn't have you any other way.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-88619554901756259572013-11-18T07:22:00.001-08:002013-11-18T07:22:18.553-08:00Did I Really Just See That?! <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Trigger warning:</b> discussion of sexual abuse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> If you've read my blog before, you may be wondering why I'm writing about such a serious subject, especially since I haven't written anything in such a long time. I mean, my blog is all about analyzing tv shows in a lighthearted and probably much-too-invested manner. I try not to spend too much time on serious issues, and I really try to avoid controversy. But this is something that I want to write about, because it's something I feel is important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As I was watching episode 20 of <i>King's Family</i>, I was shocked to realize that it contained a scene depicting a sexual assault. And not only that, it characterized it as something that was acceptable and even funny. Now, I'm not an expert on soap operas, despite writing this blog, and I'm sure there are other dramas, soaps, and movies (and probably even books) that have similar scenes or themes. As far as I can recall, I haven't seen anything like this before in other shows or movies, but I have a general awareness that it's been done before, and it will probably be done again. However, today, watching this particular scene, I was disgusted to watch this subject and how it was handled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> First, some background: This is a family weekend drama that deals with the travails of the titular Wang family, especially the romantic lives of the three oldest daughters. It's geared towards appealing to a wide range of people of all different ages, and is billed as dealing with all sorts of issues that families face in today's world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The issue I'm addressing in this post involves the second daughter, Ho Bak, and her husband of 10 years, Se Dal. Ho Bak is a hardworking, sacrificing wife and mother who struggles to take care of her own household while trying to maintain a strong relationship with her parents and siblings. Her main weakness is greed, but that's mostly nullified as a character fault by the fact that her greed is borne out of love, in that she is desperately saving her money to invest in both a house and a better future for her sons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She struggles with her mother's blatant favoritism of her older sister Soo Bak and the disdain her mother shows toward all the other daughters in the family, most especially Ho Bak. Even her older sister treats her with contempt, despite Ho Bak's many</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sacrifices</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to make Soo Bak's life easier and her </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">efforts </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to take care of her sister's children, even if it means spending less time with her own. (It's true that Soo Bak pays her for her help, but it's not enough to cover the abuse she puts her through.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> On the other hand, Se Dal is a lazy, good-for-nothing husband (as presented in the series), who spends all his time goofing off in internet cafes, wasting his time and Ho Bak's hard-earned money. He's irresponsible, unemployed, and not very kind to his wife. He even conspires with his mother to try and steal the money Ho Bak has saved for a new apartment in order to give it to his mother to waste on her failing business. (I understand that this situation is due to familial piety, and that as the daughter-in-law Ho Bak is expected to contribute to the family. But the mother-in-law does nothing on her own to save her business, and the show even depicts her as being selfish and demanding—not exactly a villain, but certainly not a sympathetic character.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Then, after Se Dal is finally bullied into a job by his wife, he begins an affair with a woman who is the opposite of Ho Bak: elegant, needy, entitled, selfish, and rich. He tells Ho Bak that he wants a divorce and spends most of his time avoiding her. Ho Bak is determined to make things work between them, and is desperately trying to win him back and fight for their marriage. It's made abundantly clear that Ho Bak is the saint and Se Dal is the devil in this storyline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Now we move ahead to episode 20. Se Dal goes out drinking and comes home drunk. Ho Bak helps him undress and get into bed, then undresses herself and turns off the light. It's made clear that her intention is to have sex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The next morning, Ho Bak sings to herself while preparing breakfast for her family. Se Dal runs out in his underwear (funny underwear, too, because it bears the image on the 50,000 won bill, reflecting both his mistress' wealth and Ho Bak's love of money. . . and everything covered by that "money") and asks her what happened the night before. "Did we. . . do that?" Ho Bak points out that they're husband and wife, after all, and Se Dal yells at her for violating him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> This is a similar scene to one that is often repeated in kdramas: a man wakes up next to a woman after a drunken night together and crosses his arms over his chest protectively. Or a woman says something that the man takes as an innuendo and he makes the same defensive gesture. Typically, the man is fully clothed, and often the initiator of anything that might have happened between them (though usually nothing <i>has</i> happened). It's really hilarious, because nothing untoward has actually happened, but the guy freaks out, and I laugh pretty much every time I see this in a drama. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> This scene, too is meant to follow that pattern. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's hysterical.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> A man in amusing underwear screeching that his wife has violated him after a night of passion? Comedic gold. Especially because Se Dal is so deserving of some kind of a comeuppance, and his wife has done that by seducing him. Hilarious, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Only it isn't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Wait, what? Why isn't it funny? It's clearly meant to be funny. It was written to be funny. If this particular drama had a laugh track, I'm sure it would have played during this scene in a sure sign that the situation is funny (or at least meant to be). The music is definitely telling us that this scene is funny. So, why isn't it funny?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (<b>Let me be clear here. If you watched this episode and thought this was funny, I don't blame you. We were supposed to find it funny. We were supposed to laugh at the emasculation of Se Dal and at Ho Bak's desperation. The whole situation was presented as another humorous and misguided attempt by Ho Bak to save her crumbling marriage.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Like the time she put a laxative in Se Dal's drink, which was also supposed to be funny, but is not the topic of this post.</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If we look beyond the surface of what's going on here, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">these two scenes are actually about rape. And it's handled in a most offensive way—as a comical take on how to keep your man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So let's look more closely at the real situation here: Se Dal was so drunk he was passed out. Unconscious. Unable to give consent. However, he <i>had</i> previously made his position clear on the topic of "conjugal relations" with his wife: he moved out, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">asked for a divorce, and for a long time had </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">resisted all her attempts at any kind of skinship, declaring in no uncertain terms that it was something he didn't want. Which is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, in fact, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the exact <i>opposite</i> of consenting. So</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Ho Bak took advantage of his drunken stupor (not being at all impaired herself, by the way) and forced sex on Se Dal. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(And</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">, judging by the gleam in her eye when the idea popped into her head</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">, she's hoping to get pregnant from it. Which is also terrible.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Some people may object to my classifying of this situation as sexual assault. It is commonly believed that a man can't be raped by a woman. Besides, this is a married couple, and sexual relations are an important part of any marriage. Many people may think that Ho Bak has the right to have sex with her husband as part of her marriage vows. And that any man—especially a married man—is grateful any time he gets to have sex. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But these things aren't exactly true. A full-grown man <i>can</i> be raped by a woman. Men have just as much right to decline sex as women do. Even within the bonds of marriage. And just because men are generally more willing than women to have sex, it doesn't mean that they have actually consented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> To illustrate my point, imagine that the genders had been reversed in this scenario. I'm going to let you paint the picture for yourself, just swap the two characters and imagine the same scene I described above. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If things had been switched around, with the same music, the same tone, the same sequence of events, people would have been outraged. Clearly, there is nothing funny about a woman being violated by her husband while she is dead drunk. There's no way any drama would play that situation for laughs. It would be pulled off the air faster than you could say lawsuit. As it should be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So why is it okay for this same situation to happen to a man? Why is it okay for Ho Bak to do something like this when it wouldn't be okay for Se Dal to do the same? Why is it funny instead of horrifying? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If you ask me, it isn't. It isn't funny at all. It isn't a joke. This is a serious issue. Se Dal may be a complete tool, but he still doesn't deserve to be sexually assaulted because he treats his wife like crap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> This scene should have been treated as any other dramatic depiction of rape. Actually, it really shouldn't have happened at all. But if it had to happen, it should be shown as a tragedy, not some farce. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Se Dal is a victim, and it's terribly offensive and irresponsible for those involved in creating this drama to paint him as anything else.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So I'm done with this drama. I'm done with any other drama that could joke about sexual assault like this (and I am sure there <i>are</i> others, since we all know Dramaland recycles plot points incessantly). I believe it was never the intention of the writers and director to joke about rape. But—inadvertent as it may have been—they did make it into a joke, and it's not okay. It's not okay to dismiss or belittle the women and men who have suffered such traumatic ordeals by making fun of these situations. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I know that this is a drama about fictional characters in a fictional world, which may make any statements it's making seem trivial. But these issues aren't so trivial, because they are also a reflection of the the world and the attitudes of our society in general, and they are attitudes that need a major adjustment. Especially in regards to sexual crimes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If we continue to accept these things as a matter of course, or comedic fodder, or something to be swept under the rug of apathy and ignored, we are contributing to the problem. It's not okay to turn a blind eye to these issues. It's not okay to make them into jokes. Instead, we should face them head on so that we can help those who are victims in the real world to find healing and peace and strength to move onward. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Even if it's some silly drama that inspires us to make some kind of a difference, let's all move forward and make life a little bit better for everyone. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-14390670621577819712013-07-16T05:49:00.001-07:002013-07-16T05:49:39.709-07:00Only in Dramaland. . . or Dramaland Cliche Game Ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>You're Beautiful</i> (So many cliches in one shot.)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"> Dramaland. A world where no cliche is too overused, no kiss too thematic, and no character too cookie-cutter. It's a place where no idea can ever be overdone, even if it </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">is</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"> a horrible idea/cliche, because if "they" use it enough, "they" will either gain popularity by association with those who have used it well, or they convince themselves that SOMEDAY, someday they'll find a way to make it awesome. This is the Land of Dramas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Land of Dramas is a special place, where we can lose ourselves for a time in the characters and stories we come to love. We can even predict many of the things that are likely to come up in any given series with a surprising level of accuracy. And it's not just the Asian branch of Dramaland—some <span style="font-size: x-small;">(many?)</span> of the cliches I've listed here can be found in movies, stories, and tv from all over the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And while we may roll our eyes and groan whenever these hackneyed chestnuts crop up, sometimes they are done so well or with such a new and fresh take that we are forced to pay attention. Sometimes we even tip our imaginary hats to the creators of those flashes of genius. Sadly, those flashes are all too rare. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mischievous Kiss</i> (Again, multiple cliches.)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> However, that doesn't mean that we must always live in dread of every cliche we may encounter in the magical realm of Dramaland. Instead, we can make each one a little nugget of fun if we change our perspective and attitudes and make spotting them or predicting them into a game. I Spy, anyone? What about Guess that Theme? Name the Character Type.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I think I'm going to go with Cliche Bingo, and I've amassed a list of the little things we're likely to find in dramas. I have a page dedicated to the <a href="http://k-wha.blogspot.com/p/drama-tropes.html" target="_blank">bigger drama tropes</a> that are usually major plot elements, but here we're going to focus mainly on the little things. Also, I crowdsourced this post a bit, so you may see some of these chestnuts more than once.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Touching the face of a sleeping man, especially his eyelashes or eyebrows.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Getting caught in the rain </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">always</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> means that person will have a severe cold within the hour.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cleaning up broken dishes will always result in the person (almost always the woman) getting cut—and someone else making a huge deal over the tiny scratch.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Themed kisses.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lie to Me</i> (Coke kiss.)</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tomboys are almost always slobs (at least in romantic comedies), and the men they fall in love with are clinically obsessed with cleanliness. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And there is no in between—someone is either a total and disgusting slob, or they are crazy clean. Nobody is ever just a little messy or has a bit of clutter lying around.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If a character decides they need some time alone, or their phone dies/gets lost, their family and friends will start a massive manhunt in case they might do something drastic.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every couple who has not yet admitted their feelings for one another will have random strangers tell them how cute they are as a couple, or tell the woman how lucky she is to have such a great husband/boyfriend.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sudden U-turns.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Long angsty stares with the main players in a particular conflict will be drawn out for a ridiculous amount of time and for maximum dramatic effect. (In my case, they usually get to the point where I can't stop laughing.)<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I Summon You, Gold</i> (I swear this freezeframe had the longest setup I've seen to date.)</span></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nd the longer the drama, the longer the panning of those stares, prepping for the final freezeframe. (After watching King of Dramas, I'm pretty sure it's a time-filler, but it's still silly.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No one has ever heard of the silence button on a cell phone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Flicking someone's forehead is the worst punishment imaginable.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Denial.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Idol cameos.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A Gentleman's Dignity</i></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pregnancy scares.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Disapproving parental buyoff attempts (where the parent of one of the lovers tries to pay the other lover to disappear).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guys frequently call the woman they're not-so-secretly in love with/find deeply attractive that she's ugly. (Luckily, in most cases the woman just shrugs it off, but it would be nice if she'd stand up for herself once in a while. Just sayin'.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spit takes.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>My Lovely Sam Soon</i> (Always better with food.)</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Terminal illness.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Being stressed always leads to nosebleeds.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">People are frequently injured in the facial region, which always causes a bloody nose.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bloody noses are always pointed out by a scream of "Blood!" by an onlooker and near fainting by the victim when they see the blood.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brooding shower scenes. (No complaints here.)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Big</i></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gratuitously topless men. Especially if there are army abs involved. (Again, not a complaint. Who would complain about chocolate <span style="font-size: xx-small;">abs</span>?!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Allergic reactions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Food themes. If you don't feel hungry watching a drama, something's probably wrong.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dating Agency: Cyrano</i></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flashbacks, especially to high school or university days.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Glasses=nerdy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Glasses=age difference (usually used to make a character look younger in aforementioned flashbacks).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Glasses=ugly/plain. (Somehow, Dramaland is convinced that plopping a pair of oversized hipster glasses on a gorgeous woman makes her unattractive. FALSE.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ditto for perms.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lie to Me</i></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People hiding (badly) in plain sight OR making themselves more conspicuous by holding something in front of their face, like a tree branch.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Product placement. Though to be fair, it's understandable in a medium that often doesn't have commercial breaks (from my understanding, anyway). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cell phone product placement.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>You're the Best, Lee Soon Shin</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 things that go together:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missed boats/ferries.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Having to wear crazy ahjumma clothes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Awkward sleeping arrangements—almost always the couple in denial ends up "having" to share a room.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Basically any excuse to get the lovers to sleep together before they're actually a couple.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Meaningful Object of Love. Usually a plush doll.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Women with disgusting eating habits. And the men always mock them for it in the rudest way possible.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chaebols. Chaebols everywhere (and they're almost always men).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Candy characters. Also everywhere.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Man-boys.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Accidental kisses. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Secret Garden</i> (A hilarious twist on this cliche.)</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stopping the car in the middle of the busy street when the passenger says something that shocks you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Slow-motion missed connections.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every trip to the hospital requires an IV, even if it's for sutures or a broken bone. (This may really be a thing outside the U.S., but I doubt it.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People answer other peoples' phones and delete their texts.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Hje91 says:</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Honestly, I think this is a big one: a girl actually ending up with a jerk. I mean, come on. While the rich jerk has some qualities that are attractive, if a girl knows she has a brain and worth, she will find someone that treats her right. . . . . and has lots of money. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Boys [Preposition] Flowers</i> (Interesting tidbit: I borrowed that name for this show from Hje91. Thanks, Hje91!)</td></tr>
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<li><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The fact that every relationship is a Cinderella/Beauty and the Beast story. Love it but an imaginary world.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also, that everyone dies from nosebleeds because nosebleeds mean leukemia.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Dewaanifordrama says:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I often cut myself when cleaning up glass. . . so that one at least happens to me in real life. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
<li><span style="color: #674ea7;">Sections where noble idiocy is the only plot device that moves anything forward—it can be done right, but most of the time it's not.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #674ea7;">Having to suspend my disbelief because the character is supposed to be a boy but it is really obvious it's a girl—prosthetic makeup anyone?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sungkyunkwan Scandal</td></tr>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;">Those scenes where there is the forever slow camera sweep where characters just miss one another. . . then again this can also be done well.</span></li>
</span></ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
<span style="color: #674ea7;">I guess some of these are major. Most of the time the things that bother me are poor editing, bad writing, weak endings, bad camerawork, and poor music choices. Then again, those are things I watch for more than tropes, which can actually be used really well sometimes.</span><br /><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /><b>Tahira says:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"> I have to say I am so used to some of these that it doesn't even bother me, but here are some:</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Taking the phone battery out to turn it off.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Breaking heels so girls can walk easier.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">CPR kiss.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rooftop Prince</i> (This is NOT correct CPR.)</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Everyone has awesome high tech phones.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fevers lead to the hospital.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Getting wet in the rain leads to illness.</span></span></li>
</ul>
<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Siri (<i>not</i> the iPhone voice) says:</span></b><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Falling in love over karaoke.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Seeing the person you are going to fall in love with in the worst possible circumstances.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">The Cinderella makeover.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coffee Prince</i></td></tr>
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</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I know this is a long list, but hopefully it will help you find more answers for you Drama Bingo cards. Stay tuned for my personal bingo cards. I'll post them soon, and maybe we can all play together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What other cliches have you noticed in your drama watching? Answer in the comments.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-1497735753315696692013-06-26T07:23:00.001-07:002013-06-26T19:02:20.981-07:00My Theories on the Mysterious Master in Dating Agency: Cyrano<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> There is some serious mystery going on with resident mob boss/super chef Master (aka Cha Seung Pyo), and he is truly a fascinating character. From the beginning his motivations have been hazy, and his background is definitely shady. There's a big secret regarding his true identity, and I think I know what it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>If you don't want spoilers up to episode 10, don't read on.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Let's start with what we know so far. Master is good with knives. He's mentioned it on multiple occasions, and not just in the "I'm a chef, so I know what I'm doing" kind of way. We finally saw the darker side of that skill in episode 9 where he took on the gangsters and threatened the boss who was foolishly trying to interfere in Master's business.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We've also known for a long time that Master is the true loan shark behind the bumbling Enforcers. Yet that seems to be a vital secret to him, and the three of them are constantly working to hide their relationship (although, if the Enforcers were less inept, they'd stop calling him Boss all the time).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Master also has a suspicious interest in Gong Min Young, which the Enforcers constantly point out by remarking on how he's lowered his standards. I'm pretty sure that his interest started out as a way to get back at Seo Byung Hoon (more on that later), but has morphed into a genuine attraction to Min Young, mixed with some vengefulness now that she's rejected him. That vindictive spirit seems to be directed at Byung Hoon for now, so I'm not too worried about Min Young's safety just yet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Now, there are just so many things we don't know about Master, but these things seem to be important. Why does he lead a double life? Why is he keeping such close tabs on Byung Hoon and the <i>Cyrano</i> crew (because it's clearly not just about the money)? Why does he seem to know things that he shouldn't?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Here's my answer: Master is really Go Do Il, Byung Hoon's childhood best friend and the man who was engaged to Byung Hoon's first love, Yoon Yi Sul. I'm pretty sure he faked his death and has been following Byung Hoon all this time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Why do I think this? Well, for starters, Master seems to know much more than he should about Byung Hoon and his past. The two men clearly aren't close friends, and Byung Hoon is so closed-lipped about his past, making it improbable that he would ever have confided in Master about his early scars. It's possible that Master could have spied on Byung Hoon and found some things out (like Min Young was able to with the slideshow), but his knowledge seems more personal than that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Also, there was that sinister comment Master made when Min Young asked how to end a love triangle without hurting someone. "One of them has to die." He said that after explaining to the enforcers that Yi Sul was Byung Hoon's first love, and the girlfriend of Byung Hoon's best friend growing up. Again, not really something Master should know, and especially not something he should seem so bitter about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But, if Master were really Do Il—years after faking his own death—it all makes sense. At least in my brain. In the flashbacks, Do Il seemed to idolize Byung Hoon, and seemed to understand his friend's feelings for Yi Sul.. If he already had ties to gangsters when he "died," it would be a strong motive for him to change himself completely, and while he was a good friend, I don't think he was crazy enough to fake his death <i>just</i> to take himself out of the love triangle. That was probably an added benefit or an unplanned consequence of his decision, but it's one he's clearly come to regret.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I remember Master saying something earlier about changing appearances, or plastic surgery, or something along those lines. Although I can't remember the exact quote, it was just another clue that seemed to click. Clearly, he'd have to change his appearance if he was going to spy on his best friend, especially if he was seeking some kind of convoluted justice/revenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> If my theory holds true, Master seems quite angry towards Byung Hoon over his crush on Yi Sul and Master's own inability to be with her. He set himself up in the next building so he could conveniently watch the comings and goings of the clients of <i>Cyrano</i> and see if his erstwhile buddy ever made a move on Yi Sul. He also secretly became Byung Hoon's creditor, giving him plenty of excuses to scare him (while watching in</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nocently from below), and reasons to send his Enforcers inside the theatre to keep tabs on the happenings there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And although Master has severed his ties to Yi Sul and (probably) buried his feelings for her, he couldn't resist the opportunity to thwart Byung Hoon further by interfering with Min Young. I think he initially ingratiated himself with her to get in Byung Hoon's way after noticing their chemistry.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He liked her enough, but wasn't romantically interested.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (It was pretty obvious that he knew Byung Hoon was outside when he opened the window to ask Min Young to go out with him, for example.) However, as his involvement grew, so did his attraction. Even though his first inclination was to use her, I think he's genuinely falling for Min Young. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So, asking Byung Hoon to help him win her over is not only his attempt to follow his heart, but it's also a great chance for him to crush Byung Hoon in a very personal way, using Byung Hoon himself to do it. It's clever and convoluted, and really really evil. But it's also a really compelling twist in this story that just keeps getting better.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The 3 Amigas get to the hospital and find out that it's appendicitis. Kohei is already in surgery and Miki insists on staying with her family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima and Sakura go to the bar and Shima explains that once she found out Kohei was Miki's husband, all her attraction to him disappeared. She regrets not having any good male friends in her life (since she always ends up sleeping with them) and points out that Sakura is lucky to have a friend like Rintaro. Sakura denies that they're friends, but she grows thoughtful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When she gets home, she notices the uneaten pizzas and decides to take them over to Rintaro's to thank him. He comes outside to keep her from pushing in and tells her he doesn't want any—he even refuses the beer she brought. He ducks back inside and takes a deep breath to steel himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura starts eating her pizza and decides to call Hiroto. He suddenly shows up in her apartment and kisses her. He carries her to the bed and they kiss for a long time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the morning, they cuddle before Sakura has to go to work. She tells him that this is the first time she's wanted to stay home instead of working. He promises to be waiting when she gets home. When she finally leaves, Hiroto sees her out and Rintaro runs into them being lovey-dovey. He tries his best to ignore it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei gets a visit from the guys. They ask if he's reconciled with Miki yet, and make him promise to work hard at it. They decide they need to do their serotonin exercises—that is, until Kohei doubles over in pain and the nurse comes in to glare at them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto practices at the park and his friends talk about going to America to really compete, especially one who was told to bring Hiroto along after the last meet. Hiroto refuses and says that he needs to work and save money. They shout "Why, are you getting married?" as he leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki and MIL visit Kohei at the hospital and find out that he's also been diagnosed with diabetes. MIL starts railing on Miki for neglecting her husband and causing his diabetes, and Kohei interrupts to point out what a good wife and homemaker Miki has been all these years. "If you're going to treat her like that, maybe you should just leave." MIL leaves in a huff, vowing to do just that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki tries to stop her, but Kohei tells her to let her go. He tells her that he still hasn't apologized properly for his behavior. He does and tells her that he talked to a doctor and found out that he has ED, but it's a symptom of his diabetes. Miki rushes off to stop MIL, but runs back for a little kiss. As soon as she's gone (and the nurse is back), he starts talking to his crotch (apparently, his diabetes treatments are working already). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki gets home and tries to reconcile with MIL. She admits that she feels self-conscious around her and has a hard time being near her, but hopes that they can find a neutral ground where they can coexist peacefully. MIL is moved to tears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki takes food to Sakura's place and they happily chat about Kohei. Miki giggles that he told her she's the best cook, but then tries to pretend that she's unmoved by his compliments. Shima shows up and things are still awkward between her and Miki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura presents her plate of takoyaki (octopus dumplings). Miki and Shima each take one, and are amazed at how great they are. Until their mouths start burning from the extra, extra mustard Sakura added. She laughs hysterically and tells them that these are Russian roulette dumplings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She grabs another plate that only has one spicy one, and she ends up getting it on her first try. It's enough to ease the tension between Miki and Shima, and they're all back to laughing and drinking together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto and Kohei run into each other at a jewelry store. Hiroto asks what made Kohei and Miki decide to get married and Kohei says it was because they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro drinks at the bar and asks Barkeep when he was aware that he (Rintaro) was in love with Sakura. He points out that everyone's been telling him, but he just couldn't see it himself. Barkeep tells him that Sakura's probably like that, too—she hasn't become aware of him in that way yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> On his way home, Rintaro runs into Chiyoko and invites her to his place for coffee. She apologizes for her behavior to Kasumi and he admits that there's nothing going on there. He starts making coffee, and when he looks up, Chiyoko is standing in her underwear. He rushes to cover her up, but she turns and shows him her scar, begging him to look at it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She explains that this scar has kept her from loving all this time. There was one person, but he couldn't deal with everything and turned away from her. Despite the opportunity to have plastic surgery to remove the scar, she kept it to remember that person and her feelings for him. She says that if she'd known how much she would love Rintaro, she would have had the surgery. She hugs him and asks him to make her a woman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro pushes her away and she asks if her scar makes her too ugly for him. He tells her that he's more worried about the wound in her heart that she hasn't let heal because she's too worried about her scar. He explains that if she finds a man who truly loves her, that scar won't mean anything to him. (I didn't think it was possible, but I love Rintaro even more after hearing that.) She cries that she gets the (completely wrong) idea and vows to never fall in love again, then runs out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura visits Hiroto at the BMX park. While she's trying to ride his bike he suddenly yells "If I win this next tournament, will you marry me? I'll get a real job and just do BMX as my hobby." Sakura says that she's happy, but that she's almost 40, and tries to get him to understand what that means. He tells her that he just wants children who are like her, and that if they raise them with their love, they'll be amazing. He begs her to agree, and, with a tear running down her face, she accepts. She tells him that she doesn't want him giving up his dreams for her, though. He laughs in relief that she accepted him and hugs her tightly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko tears up all her pictures of Rintaro (while the Slideshow of Creepiness plays in the background), then calls Hiroto. He's in bed next to a sleeping Sakura and doesn't bother to get up to answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto walks Sakura to work the next morning (after wishing her happy birthday (I totally forgot that they were celebrating early last episode)). She blatantly shows off her ring to her coworkers, making sure to flash it at them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto runs into Rintaro as he leaves, and, despite Rintaro's attempt to ignore him, he asks what happened with Chiyoko the day before. Rintaro explains and says that unlike <i>someone</i> with impure motives, he told her that he doesn't like her. Chiyoko comes at that moment and listens from under the stairs. Hiroto tells him that he wants to protect Sakura, and that he doesn't feel that his motives are impure. He reveals that they'll be getting married. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro looks like he's been punched in the gut, and Hiroto warns him to give up on Sakura and leaves. Chiyoko seems to decide something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The younger staff members ask about Sakura's plans for her birthday and she reveals that Hiroto's going to make it special. She explains that she was worried about turning 40, but now she's happy to grow older. She's realized that she's far more confident in herself now and that age has given her wisdom. Rintaro, acts hurt/grumpy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki and Shima prepare things at the bar, and Barkeep says he feels an affinity for Shima, since they're both people who will be searching for love their entire lives. Shima reveals that she's decided to do an <i>omiai</i> (though it sounds a bit more like a <i>go-kon,</i> with lots of guys), and asks if she can do it at the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura gets ready to leave work (singing "Happy Birthday" to herself a la Marilyn Monroe's "Happy Birthday Mr. President"). However, there's some "last minute work" to get done and everyone else has some lame excuse to leave and not do it (as part of their "strategy").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro meets with the company president to ask for a transfer and tells him that it's time for Sakura to take over managing the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Everyone meets up at the bar to surprise Sakura, and Shima tries to work out the details of her <i>omiai</i>. Rintaro asks why she and Barkeep don't just hook up, and she tells him that Barkeep is gay, then ribs him for knowing him all these years and never noticing. (Honestly, Barkeep's reaction about Rintaro being oblivious is the first indication he's shown that he's gay. I'm pretty sure he mentioned being attracted to Sakura before, and stuff, but whatever.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The final guests arrive (Hiroto and Kohei) and everyone's ready for the party to start. Kohei asks for a moment first and publicly apologizes to Miki. He tells her that she's always been the one for him, and that she always will be, apologizes for never proposing before, and asks her to marry him again. She laughs and calls him a fool, since they're already married. Then she asks how much he spent on the ri</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ng before happily accepting it. Everyone cheers, but then Rintaro seems to realize what he's missing out on and glances jealously at Hiroto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the bar, everyone is wondering what's taking Sakura so long. Finally, she shows up, but is in a daze. It takes a while for everyone to notice, but they finally stop singing. She asks Hiroto if it's true that he pretended to like her even though he didn't just because Chiyoko asked him to. Hiroto freezes, unable to answer, and Sakura runs off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro tells Hiroto that he asked him to keep that from her and tries to punch him, but Hiroto ducks. Hiroto says it's none of Rintaro's business, that it's between him and Sakura, but Rintaro insists that it is his business and runs out after her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Well, I do have to wonder if Crazy Chiyoko revealed her exact relationship with Hiroto as well, and I'm not just talking about them being step-siblings. I really hope that comes out soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Speaking of Chiyoko, I really wish they'd let her live up to her true creepiness. She keeps doing slightly menacing things, but they're all fruitless in the end. Just go full-on crazy already. This drama could use some actual crazy right about now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I am glad that Miki's relationships are on the mend. Kohei is really putting in effort to make things right, Miki is being awesome in her attempts to get along with MIL, and Shima is also doing her part to fix things (although I do think a better explanation of her relationship with Kohei and an apology are in order).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> However, it kind of seems like there's not much to fill up the last 2 episodes, other than Sakura and Rintaro finally getting together. I guess we'll just have to see where things go from here. Every time she and Hiroto are affectionate, I can't help feeling how much better it would be with Rintaro in Hiroto's place.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-37632386909669722712013-06-20T04:12:00.001-07:002013-06-24T01:45:10.168-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 8 Recap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro and his ex, Kayano Kasumi, talk in the back room of the salon. She explains that she's getting a divorce and can't go home to her parents. At that moment, one of the curtains pops off the doorway and all the employees tumble in, with Sakura at the bottom of the pile. She tries to pretend they weren't eavesdropping and gets all up in his face to fake apologize. Rintaro pointedly tells his ex that she can stay at his place and gives her a key and directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura explains the situation to Miki at the bar that night, and Barkeep explains that Rintaro dated Kasumi for more than 10 years. He thought they'd get married, but then one day they split up and she got married soon after. Miki says it's probably better </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to know everything about someone before marriage, then bemoans the fact that she never had a big wedding herself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Shima walks in and Miki makes an excuse and runs out. Sakura apologizes to Shima and tells her Miki isn't ready yet and then follows Miki out. (Sakura also pays Barkeep, saying "Keep the change," completely ignoring his objections that it's actually not enough. Ha.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro comes home and has a serious talk with Kasumi. She explains that she felt trapped in her marriage and told her husband she wanted a divorce. He assumed she had cheated and Rintaro correctly guesses that he hit her. She reassures him that she's okay now, but that's why she had to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> After Rintaro bitterly points out that she left him too, she answers that she wanted to always be in love with him, but she didn't want to marry him. She comes up behind him and gives him a backhug. He turns and she reaches up to kiss him. He kisses back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The ever-subtle Sakura leans out over her balcony trying to spy on them. Miki pulls her to safety and Sakura performs the old glass-on-the-wall trick. But they've gone quiet, and the women giggle thinking about what Rintaro and Kasumi could be up to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The next morning Sakura finds a delicious breakfast prepared by Miki. Miki says that housework is the only thing she's good for, and Sakura points out how much it helps her family. Miki cries that her skills just helped her husband cheat with her friend, but Sakura interjects that they don't really know anything yet. She quickly and easily makes her laugh by saying Itadaki-mambo (complete with a song and dance), instead of the usual <i>Itadakimasu</i> at the beginning of a meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura practices sexy ways to welcome someone (Hiroto) to the salon. When he shows up, she exaggeratedly shows him around, walking sexily and flipping her hair. The junior employees gather near Rintaro and exclaim over what a cute couple they are, despite the age difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura's a bit nervous to cut the hair of the guy she likes and fumbles a bit getting Hiroto ready. Rintaro is also extra clumsy, dropping his scissors. Hiroto stares at Sakura in the mirror and she teases him for it. They flirt for a bit until two employees beg them to act more professional. Rintaro is so lost in thought that he completely ignores one of the stylists requests for a color check until Sakura intervenes and gets his attention. Hiroto glares after him when he walks by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Shima meets Kohei to apologize. They play a game of Round Robin Apologies and then bemoan the fact that they still haven't learned to act like responsible adults, as a train of couples pass in front, starting with little kids through adolescence, adulthood, and old age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura dances around the back and notices Rintaro sighing to himself. She teases him about staying up all night with Kasumi, but he assures her that that's not his problem. He gets word that Chiyoko is waiting for him and Sakura warns him against two-timing. He thinks about Hiroto's warning, and agrees to go to lunch with Chiyoko. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That night, Sakura tries unsuccessfully to get Miki down to the bar, where Shima is waiting to have a talk. Later, Miki and Kohei both have a hard time sleeping. Kohei even cuddles Miki's pillow in his loneliness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Miki meets her kids on their way home from school. Her daughter asks if they're getting a divorce and she explains that they're not—they've had a big fight that's going to take a while to work out. She decides to have them stay the night with her at Sakura's place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto and Chiyoko go shopping for suits together for his big interview with their dad's company. He asks how things are going with Rintaro and she tells him about Kasumi being back in the picture, but vows that she won't let that woman interfere after all her hard work. Hiroto even pays for himself (*gasp*) and warns Chiyoko not to do anything rash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro teaches a styling class and he and Sakura get in a fight over how irritable he's been lately. In the middle of their bickering, Kasumi shows up with food for everyone. The guys all fawn over her and her food, while the women gossip and complain. Rintaro keeps shooting daggers at Sakura as she pretends not to care.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Kasumi talks on the phone on the stairs outside and Chiyoko comes behind her and reaches out towards her back. (Sooo creepy!) At the last moment, Sakura grabs her and drags her away for a little talk. Chiyoko says with a c</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">reepy smile</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that she wasn't going to </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">particularly</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> shove Kasumi, she just wanted to talk. Yeah, that whole "particularly" part is what worries me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiyoko tells Sakura that Kasumi is the person who hurt Rintaro until he was ragged. She just wants to warn her away from him. Sakura tells her that if she really loves Rintaro, she needs to just tell him openly. He'd respond so much better that way. Chiyoko snaps back that Sakura has obviously never been hurt, or she wouldn't say such things. (Sakura's expression says otherwise, though, if you ask me.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As Chiyoko leaves in a huff, Shima comes in and discusses with Sakura how to explain things to Miki. She admits that she wants to reconcile the unhappy couple, even if it means the end of her friendship with Miki. She asks Sakura why she hasn't said anything about seeing her with Kohei, and Sakura wisely says that she's not getting involved there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Shima gives Sakura a present for her big hotel date, and Sakura unwraps the sexy lingerie there at the bar. Hilariously, in the background, a man cranes his neck and stares as she holds it up, and his girlfriend/wife grabs his face and turns it away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura models her dress for Miki and Miki comments on how rejuvenated she's been since meeting Hiroto. Hiroto waits outside the hotel and they marvel at how nice the other looks (passing a Philly Love sculpture on their way).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Inside on the stairs, Sakura realizes it's where they met and Hiroto kneels and calls her Cinderella. She wipes the drool off her chin and they head up to the room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It's also the room they first stayed in, and Hiroto put in a lot of effort to make it special for her first birthday they're celebrating together, even strewing the bed with roses. They flirt and take pictures, each one sneaking kisses at the last moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Kasumi chatters with Rintaro about having a date on his next day off, and he responds by drinking more. (He sure drinks a lot when Kasumi is around.) She tries the backhug seduction method again, but he's unresponsive. She leaves. He almost follows her, but his heart's not in it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Kohei brings flowers to Sakura's place and begs Miki for forgiveness over the 'com, but she doesn't answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Despite his earlier rule that they not get drunk, Hiroto's well on his way. Sakura tries desperately to get him interested in something other than the wine and cheese, pulling her bathrobe off her shoulders, posing "sexily" on the bed, even dropping her cheese in her bra, but he doesn't even look at her and keeps asking for a refill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He turns maudlin and confesses to injuring a girl once. He explains that his parents divorced when he was young. Shortly thereafter, his mother died and he went to live with his father, who had remarried a woman with a daughter a year younger than him. One day when their parents were gone he tried to make donuts, but the pan spilled and the oil burned down her back. He was too scared to do anything and waited until their parents got home. Sakura points out that this was an accident, and he agrees, but says that he was jealous that the girl was so beloved by their parents, and especially his dad, and hoped something would happen to her. So, he feels that he's just as guilty as if he'd done it intentionally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That poor girl will always have that scar, and has even told him that she's never been able to let anyone else see it. Now they're doomed to a warped relationship for all eternity. Sakura pulls his head onto her shoulder and cradles it, wiping away his tears. I think someone needs lessons on How to MakeYour Girlfriend's Birthday Not all About You. (Although I'm also sure Sakura is more mature than I am and is just grateful he opened up to her.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto wakes up in the morning and gets upset that he kinda messed things up. He tears at his bathrobe and says "Then let's do it now!" (Wow, such a romantic.) Sakura informs him that she has to go to work and reminds him that they can make those memories any time. She thanks him for making her birthday special and for confiding in her and he wrestles her a bit, trying to get her to have sex. (Yeah, still not romantic, buddy. Your game needs some serious work.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> At work, Sakura gets teased by her client about how happy she's been lately. Rintaro is pensive. Shima is distracted at her work, too. Kohei seems to have indigestion, and Miki sadly watches kids play. Chiyoko tries on a new dress and stares at her scar in the mirror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto heads to his interview, but gets a text on the way. It's from Naked Girl, telling him "I'm going to heaven with the child inside me." He dashes to her house and finds her lounging on her bed. She laughs that he believed her and asks why he's so dressed up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He kneels and thanks her for everything she's done, but tells her it can't go forward. He asks her to break up, and she screams at him that he's foolish to be with that old woman. It will never work out. He replies that that may be true, but when he's with her, he feels like he can be a good person and he's never felt this way about anyone before. She yells at him to get out and cries when he's gone. (Please be the last we see of your craziness, Naked Girl.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Kasumi chatters about old times with Barkeep as Rintaro sits, disengaged from the conversation. She says that they should all hang out and make new memories. Chiyoko comes and says that she was hoping to see Rintaro, since she felt sorry for herself at a friend's engagement party. Rintaro introduces her to Kasumi, and Chiyoko points out that she's a married woman. She remembers meeting a long time ago, and how happy Kasumi was to get married. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Kasumi politely apologizes for not remembering Chiyoko and Chiyoko asks if she's still happy. Kasumi answers that she is, but she's getting divorced. Chiyoko asks if that's why she came sniffing around Rintaro again and then asks him if Kasumi is so wonderful that he hasn't let her go. She yells that she doesn't want to see him like this and runs out. Kasumi urges him to go after her and says she'll be fine. He leaves but can't find Chiyoko.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro goes to the batting cages, where his game is really off, and Sakura corrects his stance from the next cage. It's a cute reversal of their earlier meeting there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> They sit and talk about their relationships. Rintaro digs around about Sakura's birthday date at the hotel and ribs her about her non-physical relationship. She asks about his relationship with Kasumi, and he admits that he doesn't love her like he thought he did. "Though I said I wouldn't forget her, it seems the only thing I couldn't forget was the grudge I thought I had abandoned." (Wise words.) He calls himself pathetic, and gets annoyed when she doesn't reassure him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He asks her if she's going to get married, but she says she doesn't think that's what she wants this late in life. But she does want a child. Rintaro asks if she's told Hiroto, but she reminds him that Hiroto has his whole future ahead of him, and it's not something she can just bring up out of the blue. Plus, although he has dreams and plans for his future, her desires are all about having a child, and Hiroto would say he just wants to be together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro says it's not good to use your partner's feelings. He used to think having tension was a good thing in a relationship, but now he just wants to be with someone he could be married to for the rest of his life. (Whoa, who is this guy, and what happened to the Rintaro who just wanted kids without marriage?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura says that tension can turn into love and he wonders if it could be a trigger. They ponder that for a moment, before their minds turn to their accidental kiss. They pointedly avoid looking at each other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> They go back to the cages and Sakura asks about his intentions with Chiyoko. He tells her he doesn't know yet, after some bickering about interfering in each others' romances. They go back to being friendly and laughing together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The next day, Kasumi asks about Chiyoko being in love with Rintaro and tells him that she loves him too. But she's decided to give up gracefully so he can be happy with Sakura. He nods and then realizes what name she said. "Eh?!?" She points out that he's happier around Sakura than he is with her and that Sakura is so beautiful and that she's been jealous of her this whole time. Even when they were living together, he was distant, and she realizes it's because he wanted to be with Sakura even then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura talks with Miki about her kids and asks when she's going to confront Shima and Kohei. Miki remembers a time in high school when their senior Shima stood up for her with a boy, and thinks that Shima probably wouldn't do something to ruin their friendship. She decides that it's time to talk to the two of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The doorbell rings, and Sakura runs to let the "delivery guy" in. It's Shima, though, there according to plan. However, Sakura's joy is dampened when she sees Rintaro peeking over Shima's shoulder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> MIL complains about the kitchen and Miki taking off. Kohei weakly tries to stop her and takes some pills. Finally, their daughter can't take it and screams at MIL about her treatment of Miki and blames all the family's problems on MIL. (Finally, SOMEONE stands up to MIL.) Kohei tries to step in, but falls to the ground clutching his stomach. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Miki gets a call to head to the hospital, and she and Sakura rush out, dragging Shima along. Sakura pauses long enough to tell Rintaro to take their pizzas inside. He does so, and is upset when he sees the pictures of Sakura and Hiroto that are everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>Comments:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sorry it's taken so long to get this one out, everybody. It's been a crazy few weeks, and blogging just fell behind. Plus, the longer I waited to watch more than 5 minutes of this episode, the less desire I felt to get back into it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But I'm glad I did. This episode is really moving things along in a good way. Last episode I was annoyed that they were bringing in the first love so late in the game. I'm just glad that she was only around for one episode, and she actually played a part in the overall story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Firstly, and most importantly, she brought out even more of Chiyoko's psychotic side. (I'm a little sad they didn't actually let Chiyoko kill her, but whatevs, she still had more work to do.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Secondly, she pointed out to Rintaro some facts he really needs to face. I mean, he's come to terms with loving Sakura, but I think he needed to know that his love actually makes him happy. He's been wallowing far too long in denial and gentlemanly restraint, but he seriously needs to step up his game. Now, if only Kasumi could have convinced him that Sakura's happiness is tied up in him, as well. That would be real progress. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> And, lastly, Kasumi confirmed my suspicions from <i>all</i> the way back in the first episode that Rintaro has been carrying a torch for Sakura for a very long time. I find it very gratifying to get that confirmation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'm also glad that this episode finally dealt with the big burn scar mystery. That probably should have been coming out little by little over the course of the series, but at least now Sakura is aware of the toxic relationship Hiroto has, even if she's oblivious that the sister is Chiyoko. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I do hope that the next few episodes throw some tension between Sakura and Hiroto. Even though I don't particularly like him, I'm feeling less violently opposed to his relationship with Sakura. And I don't see any real reason, from Sakura's perspective, to give up the relationship she has with Hiroto for the infinitely more amazing Rintaro. I mean, they're just using the accidental kiss as her only incentive to even think about him that way. Which just makes me hate that scene even more. Because it's such a clumsy and silly plot device that doesn't really mean anything.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-27207839838229077422013-05-30T10:27:00.001-07:002013-05-30T10:44:46.193-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 7 Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura barges in to Rintaro's apartment looking for adult videos, but she only finds videos of a baseball anime. She complains that she and Hiroto haven't done anything yet, and we finally get to see the rest of Hiroto's confession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He tells her that despite waking up together in the hotel, they never had sex. He just told her they did so she would see him again. (Well, that confession explains something I've been wondering about, and really relieves some concerns I had about Hiroto. I mean, what kind of person seduces an extremely drunk woman when he's sober? That's breaking the first and most important rule. So, he's really messed up, but at least he has <i>some</i> morals. I guess?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro tries to incite Sakura to be angry about Hiroto lying to her, but she tells him that she was only angry for a little bit because of her pregnancy scare. Now she's just really happy that he would lie to get closer to her. She chatters about taking time off to go on a trip and "make memories" and Rintaro grumpily replies that they're so busy this month, so she can't have any time off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She changes the subject and sits really close to Rintaro. He scooches away and she leans in close. "How do you 'do it'?" A startled and very uncomfortable Rintaro keeps drinking his beer, mortified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the salon, Sakura and Rintaro have this cute exchange arguing about her time off behind the customers' backs. But whenever a customer is near, they act all cheerful and friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki announces to her family that she has a job (but she lies that it's with a realtor). MIL grumbles that the family (and probably the house) will become a huge mess, and then digs at Miki by saying that all the money from her new job will probably go towards buying expensive clothes. Her daughter storms off, and Miki worries that something's wrong with her. (PLEASE don't say <i>she</i>'s in love with the Host Boy.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura researches <i>onsens</i> (hot spring resorts) at the bar and asks Barkeep if Rintaro and Chiyoko are dating, but he hasn't heard anything. Hiroto arrives and checks out Sakura's top picks. He tells her that he's going to pay for it and resists her offers to go dutch or find a cheaper place. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(If he were a decent guy in the first place, that would have set my heart fluttering. As it is I just <i>almost</i> like him.) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He then asks for a key to her apartment, and she breathlessly agrees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Poor Barkeep watches from the background, quietly puts down a beer and then clutches his heart when he overhears hear twitterpated answer to the key question. (His crush on Sakura has always been waaay at the back of the story, but this part is hilarious.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura rushes to the bathroom and then yells out in her happiness. It's so loud it startles everyone at the bar, even knocking Barkeep off his ladder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro calls Chiyoko out to explain about the fake date. She accepts his explanation and asks if she's not good enough for him. He answers "It's not that. Right now, nobody's—" but then remembers Hiroto telling him that if he wants to protect Sakura, he'll take care of Chiyoko. On his way home, Rintaro sees Hiroto working extra hard at his job to earn extra money. His coworker remarks on his foolish grin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki shows up for work at Host Boy's house (which is really nice, btw, for someone working 2 jobs) and notices the mess everywhere. He briefly explains his stocks and then tells her to wake him up if they go up. As he heads for his bedroom, he pulls off his shirt, startling Miki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura and Rintaro work at neighboring stations and grab for the same mirror. Their hands touch and they stare at each other for a moment. Sakura sticks out her tongue and Rintaro gets up to get another mirror. Later, they almost bump into each other in the back room and act really awkward. The other employees all come in and notice the strange tension.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Host Boy wakes up to a clean apartment and a home-cooked meal. He pays Miki for her work and thanks her for all her help. As soon as she's gone, he shoves the food away in anger. (Huh? I'm really confused here.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The junior employees won't let Sakura go home until she's worked things out with Rintaro. She asks him what his deal is, and then (correctly) guesses that he's jealous, though he denies it. He asks her if she's serious about that guy and tells her that if she's not, she'll regret this trip. She tells him she won't regret it and decides they're good. But she pauses to think before leaving the salon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Three Amigas head to a spa to celebrate Miki's new job. Miki says she's always been a bit jealous of Shima and Sakura and their independence and personal success. Shima admits that she just wants to find someone who understands her and will go through life with her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they leave, Shima runs into her ex, who is there with his wife and adorable daughter. Shima looks like she's been punched in the gut as the realization hits her that she was the infertile one the entire time, and that he now has the happy family she had hoped <i>they</i> would be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima heads to the bar to drink alone and is annoyed when a previous conquest approaches her and suggests they go somewhere else. For once, she's not in the mood for his nonsense and throws a drink in his face. Barkeep runs interference with the guy and his friends and motions for Shima to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura corners a coworker and puts on a weird flirty act to ask a favor. Next we see, he's awkwardly leaving, but tries unsuccessfully to warn Rintaro from going in the back. Rintaro finds Sakura watching an adult film and tells her to take it home. She refuses, so he gives her headphones so he can get work done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura's not a silent watcher, though, and is still very distracting. They bicker a bit about things and when Rintaro tries to run away to avoid answering a question, she tries to chase after him, headphones still attached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He leans forward to save the laptop at the same moment the headphones come unplugged, and Sakura's lips land on his. They stand like that for a moment and then do a little accidental shuffle dance as Rintaro gathers his things to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima meets up with Kohei at a bar to talk about running into her ex. He tells her that he's finally made a doctor's appointment. They drink and joke around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki runs out to buy some last-minute things for her son. On her way home she sees Shima and Kohei leave the bar, joking and laughing together. What she doesn't hear is their mutual decision to finally delete each others' numbers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura goes home and pauses outside Rintaro's apartment. She's surprised when her own door flies open and Hiroto pops out, happily stating that he's already put the key to good use.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei comes home and finds out that Miki ran to the store and hasn't come home yet. The kids are a bit worried, so he leaves to go meet her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura is packing for her big trip the next day and is interrupted by Hiroto. She tries to explain the benefits of bringing your own towel to an <i>onsen</i> and he laughs at her. She chases him to the couch and demands to know why he was laughing. He tells her that she reminded him of an old man for a minute and she starts tickling him. They're interrupted by a phone call from Kohei looking for Miki.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima meets up with Kohei to help him search and realizes that Miki probably saw them together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko sits at the bar, pleased that she's getting a chance to date Rintaro. As soon as he sits down, Sakura runs in, trailing Hiroto (who is cold towards Rintaro and pretends not to see Chiyoko). They're also out searching for Miki. Shima and Kohei show up as well and Sakura deduces that Miki went missing because of them. Barkeep and Rintaro finally make the connection that Kohei is Miki's husband. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura loses it and starts yelling at Shima. Rintaro jumps in and stops her before she says something that could ruin their friendship. Shima and Kohei leave and Rintaro explains that Sakura doesn't know the whole situation between them, so she should cool it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they brainstorm together about finding Miki, Hiroto and Chiyoko look on, seething with jealousy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki and Host Boy go to his place to talk. She decides that Kohei and Shima are having an affair, and it's her fault for sending him to Shima's gym, giving them the opportunity. Host Boy tries to kiss her, but she pushes him away. He tells her that he was just trying to cheer her up, and he couldn't help himself because she was just so pretty. (Blegh!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He changes the subject and tells her about a "sure thing" investment. She decides she'll need money for a divorce and agrees to get money for him to invest for her. (Ah, now I understand him.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura is too distracted to pack. Hiroto offers to postpone the trip and Sakura decides to go search for Miki some more. The doorbell rings and Sakura opens to find Rintaro and a drenched Miki. She shepherds her inside and Hiroto leaves to let them talk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Outside, he thanks Rintaro for looking after Chiyoko. Rintaro answers that they're not dating, just hanging out occasionally as friends. He asks if Hiroto loves Sakura and Hiroto asks what he'd do about it if he does. He asks Rintaro to take care of Chiyoko and leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura calls Kohei to tell him that Miki will stay with her and promises to come over in the morning to help with the kids. She asks Miki where she went and Miki comes clean about lying about her new job. She admits that Host Boy tried to scam her. In that moment she realized how stupid she was and just wanted to run away. But then she thought of her kids and couldn't bear to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She cries and says she feels worthless. It's no wonder her husband would cheat on such a woman. She's worried how a divorce will affect the kids. Sakura just hugs her and listens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura goes to work and thanks Rintaro for his help. She tries to talk about the other day (I'm assuming the accidental kiss thing), but Chiyoko comes in. As Rintaro sees to Chiyoko, the door opens and another woman walks in and greets Rintaro. Sakura stares at this elegant woman and Chiyoko glares at her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Clearly, this is Rintaro's ex. Even though we haven't been shown her face, it's pretty obvious that she matches Rintaro's requirements for his ideal woman. And the reactions of both Sakura and Chiyoko show that they're both aware of that, as well as the full implications of her showing up at Rintaro's work. Dun dun DUN!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I was very confused at the sudden storyline involving Host Boy. It didn't really seem to gel with everything that's happened before, and I was a bit confused why he was showing such interest in Miki. But, although it seemed to come out of left field, I'm glad this story thread seems to have been mostly resolved. I can even see why it was included as a way for Miki to come to some difficult realizations about her life and to face her future more head-on. So, yes, it was shoehorned in, but at least it was an effective plot device. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This is just another example to me of how this drama is trying too hard. I think it's trying to be a version of <i>Sex and the City</i> (a show I don't care for at all, btw), but instead of being a part of the big leagues, it's that one junior high student that always tries to tag along with the seniors or college kids.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Seriously, an accidental kiss, show? You should be above that.)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It thinks it's on their same level, but it doesn't realize how juvenile it really is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Case in point: the heavy-handed use/talk of adult videos to prove that this show is not for kids. I mean, obviously Sakura is insecure about sex and has questions. But her quest for porn just seems weird. Along with that (and my biggest pet peeve in this show), is the sighing sound effect they use EVERY TIME something. . . sexy<span style="font-size: x-small;">(?)</span> happens, instead of just letting the acting and the mood show us what we're meant to feel. And so many times, that sigh is used to try to make us believe that whatever is happening <i>is</i> sexy, despite everything else going on that tells us it's really not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This is a real shame, because <i>Last Cinderella</i> really has some great things going for it. The main cast is very strong and has good chemistry overall. The writing in general is pretty good, and the story is interesting in itself. This show could do so much if it would just rely on the actors and story to make things truly special, but the director uses too many gimmicks. Maybe he's covering up for himself in some ways? Maybe he feels like he's not on a par with the actors and so he's overcompensating?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I don't really know, but I just wish he'd realize that he could just let the show be itself. Then it wouldn't have to chase after the big kids, because the people worth winning over would see how truly cool it is just because it understands and accepts itself for what it is. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Okay, I kinda ran away with the whole junior high kid analogy, but I stand by it.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (P.S. I might have been one of those kids. Don't judge.)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span> Give yourself a little more love, show. You deserve it.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-69258616240906433362013-05-22T01:39:00.000-07:002013-05-22T01:39:06.971-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 6 Recap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura is awakened by her doorbell ringing repeatedly. She opens to Rintaro, who wants to come in, but can't because the chain is on. (I love that she put it on <i>after</i> seeing him through the peephole. Haha!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He tells her that he's been offered an <i>omiai</i> (blind date for marriage), and asks if she wants to see the pictures of the girl. He taunts her by cracking the folder open and shutting it fast, then holding it just out of Sakura's reach as she strains through the tiny gap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Inside, Sakura tells him to take the <i>omiai</i>, since the girl seems pretty enough. He says that she's not his type, and Sakura says that she may be unexpectedly attractive, but there's a high probability that she'll find HIM repulsive. Hahaha! She crawls over him to find some nail clippers, sticking her butt in his face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro goes to the kitchen to make coffee, and Sakura asks something she's wondered for a long time. "Are you gay?" Rintaro drops the kettle in his indignation and insists that he's a true ladies man. She says that although she knows he's a pervert, there must be something else to it, like some physical problem/deformity he's been hiding all these years. He continues to insist that he's just not interested in dating right now, and he doesn't want to get married, and informs her when she asks that his sex life is none of her business. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> BUT, in order to get out of the <i>omiai</i>, he <i>did</i> tell his mother that he has a girlfriend. So, could Sakura please just do him this one huge favor and pretend to be his girlfriend for a day to meet his mom?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura objects, and then remembers Hiroto's complaints about her friendship with Rintaro and refuses to help him. She runs to her room and slides the door closed—except she only slides half of it, so it doesn't really do her any good. *snicker snicker* Rintaro opens it again to beg her, since he's always helped her out when she needed it. Sakura finally gives in. They continue to bicker adorably as Sakura insists on joining Rintaro at his place for coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko sits in her room watching the Slideshow of Creepiness, and Hiroto knocks and asks what's wrong. She turns off the SoC and lets him in, telling him that she was rejected. She wonders if she was born under a star that keeps her from connecting to anyone. (Or, it could be your unhealthy relationship with your brother and your crazy stalking. Just sayin'.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto joins her on her bed (lets all squirm with the squickiness for a moment) and asks what she likes about Rintaro. "Everything." She tells him that when she was in middle school she was ostracized by all the girls and teased by all the boys. Rintaro befriended her and told her that she was cute when she smiled. "It's better than the love 'em and leave 'em act that somebody pulls." She laughs when he takes that seriously and they start a tickle fight. (More grossed out shivering here.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki heads out to interview for a part-time job, much to MIL's annoyance. MIL doesn't accept it quietly, either, insulting and rebuking her. Miki grumbles outside that it's because of MIL that she feels the need to get out of the house anyway. Her interview doesn't go very well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro brings Sakura some decent clothes for their dinner with his mom. When he pulls out the shoes, she gets very excited and says they look like Cinderella shoes. Ever since she was a kid, she wanted Cinderella shoes. She even made "glass slippers" as a child. Well, they were really plastic bottles she cut up and wore, but they cut her feet up. Rintaro can't stop smiling at her excitement, but acts gruff when he tells her she needs to watch a DVD on table manners. He tells her if she watches it, she can keep the outfit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> While she practices walking in the heels, she mutters to herself in old-man speech. It's a hilarious contrast, and she still manages to be her adorable self at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki complains to Kohei that none of her interviews worked out. He berates her for being naive and thinking they'd hire her just like that without any experience. Then he wonders why she storms off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima and Sakura decide to do something to cheer Miki up for their girls' night. Shima comes up with the idea to visit a host club full of really young guys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei drinks in the bar and is joined by Rintaro and that one employee he always hangs out with. (I should come up with a name for him, but he really has so little to do with the story, I can't be bothered yet.) Rintaro grumbles about girls' nights and the junior talks about how they're more than just getting together. They could include classes, spa visits, and even going out to host clubs. Barkeep says it sounds like a female-oriented soap opera. Kohei grumbles that his wife is living a soap opera. (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hee! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's a meta moment I just love.) They all sigh together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the host club, Shima buys a round of champagne for all the hosts, and they stand around and cheer her. Sakura complains that it's a waste for them to order champagne and only get one glass each, since they have to share it with the boys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> One of the guys takes Shima outside and asks if they can hook up later. She remembers Kohei lecturing her and it makes her upset enough that she agrees. Inside, another host joins Miki and tries to get her to relax by giving her a personality test. He tells her that the results indicate that she's uncertain about the future and gives up easily if things don't go her way. She starts crying and leaves. Sakura chases after her, and Shima follows behind, calling the guy a fool. (Yeah, I'm pretty sure the #1 rule of hosting is to not make your customers feel bad about themselves.) He finds Miki's resumé on the seat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto joins Rintaro at the bar and Rintaro confronts him about his last name. Hiroto admits that Saeki is his mother's family name, and when his parents divorced, he lived with her and took that name. Although he's legally Ogami, he still uses Saeki. Rintaro asks him why he hasn't bothered to tell Sakura that he's related to Chiyoko (in the subs I saw, he says sister-in-law, but I'm pretty sure that also means step-sister), and Hiroto lies and says he didn't think it mattered, or that Sakura and Chiyoko knew each other very well. Rintaro is not pleased with his answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura shows up at the bar and acts all cutesy with Hiroto. She finally greets Rintaro, who barely nods in response. He watches with anger and jealousy as Hiroto fawns over Sakura and kisses her ear. He asks to come over, even if he can't stay the night. It's enough to make Rintaro leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto takes a shower at Sakura's while she nervously brushes her teeth. Then she takes a bath and starts practicing her kiss face (it needs LOTS of work). She's so distracted that she doesn't notice that she's slipping under the water. "Whew, that was dangerous!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In bed, she starts complaining that it hurts, which confuses Hiroto because he says he hasn't done anything yet. Finally she yells that her tooth hurts. Hahaha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto goes home the next day and shocks everyone by staying for dinner. Chiyoko tells their dad about the BMX tournament and dad lectures him about becoming serious about his future and joining the company. Everyone is shocked when Hiroto just asks for a little more time to think about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro waits nervously with his mom for Sakura to meet them. When she shows up he stares like the wind has been knocked out of him. Sakura introduces herself and Mom remarks on her name being reminiscent of Toyama Kin (if you remember, that's why Rintaro always calls her Kin) and says that her parents had good sense to give her such a name. Sakura is much more gracious about that with Mom than she is with Rintaro. Ha. Rintaro laughs and tells Sakura that's where he got her nickname. Sakura mumbles darkly that blood will tell. Mom also mentions that Sakura has good fashion sense. At least Rintaro is good at reading <i>her</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> They show up at a really nice traditional restaurant. Sakura is so amazed, she hangs back to stare at everything. When Rintaro tries to drag her along her shoe comes off. Mom notices that she has a run in her stocking and gives her an extra pair. (Rintaro also stops Sakura from cursing when she notices, mortified by her lack of good manners.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Dinner is a comedy of errors for poor Sakura. While they eat, Sakura dribbles beer all over and explains that she went to the dentist and had anesthesia. Then, when concentrating on eating hard food, she ends up spilling soy sauce all over her white sweater. ("Soy sauce! She's covered my Paris gown with soy sauce!" For any <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTlcW-hA0g" target="_blank">Thoroughly Modern Millie</a></i> fans out there.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then, Sakura holds up a course by picking every scrap of meat from the fish while Rintaro and Mom look on. The next course comes with a covered bowl, which Sakura can't open and she drops. It rolls outside and Rintaro scolds her. Mom chuckles and covers it up by eating more. Mom also asks Sakura if she plans to give up working when they're married, which Rintaro tries to cover, but Mom insists it's important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mom decides that their next activity be karaoke. Sakura tries to stand but has to clutch Rintaro's arm because her legs are asleep. Mom can't contain her laughter any more and falls to the ground, rolling. She tells Sakura that she really likes her, since she reminds her of herself when she was younger. She encourages her to take her own time to learn manners and decide about marriage. She just hopes to see her grandchild's face soon and wants the two of them to build up the company. When she leaves, Sakura admonishes Rintaro to hurry and find a wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko asks Hiroto if he's serious about joining the family business. He tells her that it's difficult for him to have to leave a date just to go to work. She asks if he's that serious about Sakura and if it's because she reminds him of his late mother. He stares off into the distance and asks Chiyoko to keep the secret about asking him to get close to Sakura. Chiyoko slams her dishes down and screams "Why does everyone like her so much? What is so good about that woman?!" She breaks her glass as she runs off </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Hiroto stays behind to clean it up)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and outside </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">she runs straight into Mom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mom asks if she's okay and Chiyoko spots Rintaro supporting Sakura since her legs are still asleep. They jump apart and stare at her guiltily. Rintaro looks around and sees Hiroto watching them jealously from inside. After Chiyoko runs off and the other two women head to the karaoke bar, Hiroto and Rintaro glare at one another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the karaoke bar, Sakura worries that Chiyoko would misunderstand and Rintaro promises to explain things to her. When it's Sakura's turn to sing, she asks for a minute to explain something. She tells Mom that she's not actually Rintaro's girlfriend. She says that they're both at a point in their lives where they aren't ready to get married, despite the fact that they're well past the typical marrying age. As they both live alone they understand how lonely it is, and how difficult and concerning it is for their families, but they need to make that decision when they're ready. She asks for Mom's forgiveness and bows to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro hides his face in shame and Mom sits quietly for a long time. Finally, she tells Sakura that she likes her more and more, and admits that she always knew she wasn't Rintaro's girlfriend. She explains that ever since he was a child, she's been so focused on work and he felt lonely. That's why he's always been attracted to modest, demure, elegant women who are the opposite of her and Sakura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mom and Sakura team up against him and say that if he wants to get away from <i>omiais</i>, he should just find himself a wife soon. He leans in and calls Sakura a traitor, a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, a Brutus, and a Char Aznable (a traitor from an anime series).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki keeps striking out in her interviews. After one, she's followed by the host that made her cry. He asks if they can have some tea together. She explains that she wants a job to help pay off their mortgage, but nobody will hire an old, inexperienced housewife like her. He comforts her by saying that it's because she's so pretty, the employers don't want their other female employees to feel jealous or unappreciated. He offers her a job helping him as a small-time stock broker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She protests that she doesn't know anything about stocks and can barely use a computer. He grabs her hand and says that he feels protective over such hands that are trying their best. If she helps him out, she can earn money while learning about those things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto heads to Sakura's place and runs into Rintaro on the stairs outside. Rintaro asks why Hiroto hid that day with Chiyoko and wants to know what he's hiding from Sakura. Hiroto answers that everything would be fixed if he'd just date Chiyoko, since she's jealous of Rintaro's closeness to Sakura. Even he has felt some jealousy over it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> "Chiyoko was really hurt by what you did to her. Who knows what she might do?" Rintaro grabs his collar and demands that Hiroto keep this from Sakura, and orders him to break up with her normally so she won't be hurt more. Hiroto asks why he should take orders from him and asks what his relationship really is with Sakura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro is speechless for a moment before finally answering that she's a coworker. Hiroto scoffs at that and says that if he really wants to protect Sakura, then he should take care of Chiyoko. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura packs away her glass slippers. Hiroto comes over and during their Othello game she stares at the shoe box. She tells Hiroto that she lied and explains the situation with Rintaro and his mom. He stares at her speechlessly for a minute and then admits that he has something to tell her as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> "I've lied to you. I've been lying this whole time."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This episode was so much better than the last few. First, and most importantly, there was plenty of Sakura-Rintaro screen time. Always the highlight of this show. Secondly, there was more comedy than there has been for a while. Granted, most of the comedy in this drama happens between Rintaro and Sakura, so having more time together would naturally lead to that, but it makes me happy. Finally, there were many little nods to the Cinderella fairy tale that we haven't really had since Hiroto picked up Sakura's shoe in the first episode. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I think that's what I'd like to focus on this time. In doing so, I'm going to compare and contrast that first episode with this one, since there are some interesting parallels. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In that first episode, Sakura went to the ball/<i>gokon</i>. She didn't have any appropriate clothes, so her fairy godmother/old lady customer stepped in and helped her out. Unfortunately, that fairy godmother was a bit inept, or had limited magical resources, or whatever. So, Sakura's gown, while attention-getting, was not really helpful in her quest to find a man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then there was the ball itself, where Sakura was abandoned by her stepsisters/best friends and got drunk on her own. She started a fight, got chased away by the palace guards, and abandoned her painful and chafing shoe. A prince picked it up and swept her off her feet. Or something. Unfortunately, that prince has some deep, dark issues he needs to resolve and has been lying to Sakura this whole time, as well as keeping his family a secret. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In contrast, this time around Sakura was hand picked by the dashing neighbor to attend a small affair. The same dashing neighbor also served as her fairy godmother by buying her clothes (which, by the way, were chic and elegant, but also simple, and not something unsuited to Sakura's character and tastes). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Also, during the small affair, Sakura lost her shoe on the stairs. But, being the strong, independent woman she is, she retrieved it for herself and continued on. She may have made many blunders, but the dashing neighbor's mother (who he didn't hide) was still won over by her. And they continued to enjoy themselves through the night, even after Sakura admitted that she isn't dating her dashing neighbor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The dashing neighbor even watches out for Sakura by trying to get the prince to be honest with her. He shows genuine concern, even when he oversteps his bounds, and he's motivated by her well-being, not his own agenda. Is it any wonder that I hope Sakura will run away with the dashing neighbor instead of the prince?</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-11437099969833613072013-05-19T23:43:00.000-07:002013-05-19T23:43:02.766-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 5 Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Episode 5: Feelings Start Running. . . ! The Shocking Destination of Love!! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura heads home and gets a call from her mother telling her that her younger brother Satoshi is coming to stay with her. She passes a couple debating whether it's too public a place for a good old makeout session—he says no, she says yes—and tries to sneak past. The man starts chasing after her, which scares her a little until she realizes that it's Satoshi. And his girlfriend Rie. The show makes a point of the fact that she has big breasts. *Eyeroll*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Satoshi explains that he and Rie, after dating for 2 months, have decided to elope. In the middle of their conversation, the doorbell rings. Despite Sakura's best efforts to hide Hiroto, Satoshi manages to get him in the building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto apologizes for standing Sakura up and Satoshi proceeds to give both Hiroto and Sakura the third degree. Sakura is saved by the ringing telephone, and the only person I suspect can shut Satoshi up—their mother. Sakura tells her mom that Satoshi will stay for a little bit and she'll send him back. Satoshi warns Hiroto that if he's not serious about Sakura, he should just end things now. They start an Othello tournament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki sneaks home late and finds out that the chain on the door has been locked. She knows MIL is responsible, but Kohei says she wouldn't do such a thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After the Othello match, everyone goes to bed. I'd say it's awfully nice of Sakura to give up her bed to the brother who came to mooch off her without warning. But it's probably so Rie would be more comfortable. Sakura and Hiroto sit next to each other awkwardly on their sleeping mat in the living room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto tells Sakura that he envies her relationship with her brother, since he doesn't have siblings he can rely on or who can rely on him. (Which isn't saying that he doesn't have any siblings, btw.) Sakura takes his hand and he tells her that makes him feel a bit frisky. He tries to initiate things, but then Rie loudly tells Satoshi to stop nibbling on her ear from the other room. Sakura and Hiroto laugh uncomfortably, then he says hearing those things just makes him friskier. Sakura pounds on the door and warns her brother that if he wants to do those things, he can just go to a hotel. "Whose bed do you think that is, anyway?!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the morning, Hiroto snickers as he watches Sakura snore. She wakes up and tries to cuddle awkwardly, but he just laughs and tells her he has to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the salon, Chiyoko apologizes to Rintaro for the kiss and gives him a ticket to a baseball game. A really really good ticket. The junior staff speculate that it's because she's in love with him. (Except the guy who's in love with Chiyoko, but he's just in denial.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Satoshi takes Hiroto along with him to find a job, but has no luck. He asks Hiroto if he's just after Sakura's money. 'Cuz it wouldn't be cool if Satoshi had to split his allowance. Or something like that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei stalks Shima at the gym and follows her to the hotel where she's going to meet a guy. He meets her outside the elevator and tells her she can't do this with someone she doesn't love. They argue on their way out, where Sakura happens to be passing by with a coworker. They hide and watch Shima tell Kohei that it's none of his business, and he yells at her that she's very important. And not just to Miki, but to him to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima: Are you trying to say you love me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei: I do love you. If it weren't for Miki, I'm not sure what I'd do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima: Good. Can I tell Miki that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei: . . . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima: I don't need lip service from you about Miki. I guess you can treat me to a round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura heads to the bar in a daze. When she doesn't start a fight or even acknowledge Rintaro, he figures something is wrong. She asks if there's a reason to be friends with the husband of another friend, using the examples of Girl A and Girl B, although everyone knows immediately who she means. Barkeep and Rintaro say that they're having an affair and Rintaro advises Sakura to speak to Shima and find out what's going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The next day during yoga, Sakura acts weird while Miki talks about Kohei's obvious mother complex, which she saw confirmation of the night before. When Miki leaves to get some water, Sakura confronts Shima, but Shima swears there's nothing going on between her and Kohei.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto waits as Chiyoko shops, and he stares at pictures he took with Sakura. Chiyoko asks if he's getting too chummy with Sakura and pouts that he doesn't compliment her dress more. (In her defense, it IS a great dress. And it looks fantastic on her. No, I'm not at <i>all</i> jealous. *cough cough*)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura heads to a shrine to get a charm for Hiroto's tourney. While she waits, she gets a call from Hiroto asking about Satoshi's job hunt. She acts all aegyo and hangs up, then turns and sees the horrified football team behind her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei continues his stalking, and Shima takes him to a cafe. She gives him a list of local doctors specializing in ED and tells him to go see one. She tells him that she always wanted kids, and her husband did too, but it wasn't easy. They suspected that they had infertility issues, but they were both too afraid to do anything about it. Then things became awkward and they ended up divorcing. She regrets that doing nothing changed her whole life, and she admits that she doesn't want the same thing to happen to him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She asks for this to be their last meeting and tells him that they were caught by Sakura and that they were lucky it wasn't Miki. He says it's okay, since they don't have anything to feel guilty about. Shima pointedly asks "Can you say that honestly?" When Miki cleans out his pockets that night, she doesn't find a receipt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro enjoys his seat at the game, and is unpleasantly surprised when Chiyoko joins him. She never says it's a date, but I'm pretty sure he's caught on to her intentions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura and Hiroto eat at the bar. Rie joins them. Then Rintaro and Chiyoko come in and Sakura says they look like a father and child. Rintaro tells her she has no room to talk. Haha. Satoshi comes in and complains about not being able to find a job. He asks Sakura for some money so he can get a proper suit and look respectable. As he yammers on, Rie suddenly stands up and slaps him, silencing the room. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She yells at him for relying too much on Sakura and for not taking responsibility for his own life. She storms out and Sakura asks Satoshi to follow her, but he stubbornly stays put. She grabs her jacket and chases after Rie, smacking Satoshi on the back of his head on the way out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Satoshi confesses to Hiroto that he feels lost in the mass of people in the city. Coming to Tokyo made him realize that he's just been running from himself all this time and he doesn't really fit in. Hiroto asks him to keep him company for a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rie apologizes to Sakura for her outburst and for throwing off Satoshi's life, but Sakura tells her that for the first time he's been making decisions for himself. She asks her to try to stick it out a while longer if she really loves Satoshi. Rie makes tea. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's hilarious that she knows where everything is kept in Sakura's house better than Sakura herself does. Especially now that it's clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiyoko asks Rintaro when their next date will be, and he's surprised to find out that she considers the day's events as a date. He explains that he just sees her as a little sister and that their age gap is too great. She runs out after accusing him of being in love with Sakura, a sentiment Barkeep echoes when he asks about Chiyoko's reaction. Rintaro flat-out denies any feelings for Sakura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Satoshi asks Rie to go back to Fukuoka with him while he tries to make something of himself. She agrees, they become amorous again, and Sakura yells from outside that they need to get a room (of their own, preferably at a hotel).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> At the BMX meet, everyone comments on how exhausted Sakura looks. She explains that she couldn't sleep because she was so worried about Hiroto's performance. She goes to find a bathroom, but instead comes across Naked Girl's friends beating up Hiroto for dumping Naked Girl. She interferes and is able to hold them off until some event staff come up and scare the thugs away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto gives her a back hug and sighs that he's glad nothing happened to her. He gently scolds her for rashly jumping in and says he doesn't know what he would have done if she'd gotten injured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Despite his injuries, Hiroto performs well and wins first place in the competition. Sakura is so excited she passes out. Her friends all surround her and Hiroto rushes over and scoops her up in his arms and carries her away. He stops, leans his head close to her for a moment, then turns and says she's okay—she's just sleeping. Suddenly we can hear her snores. She mumbles in her sleep that he did a great job and Hiroto grins and holds her closer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro visits the bar and Barkeep shows him a newspaper article about Hiroto's win, complete with a photo of him carrying Sakura. Rintaro laughs that only Sakura would attend her boyfriend's big meet but sleep through it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He then pauses when he reads more of the article. While Hiroto uses the family name Saeki professionally, his real family name is Ogami—the same as Chiyoko's. Not only do they have the same family name, but they're both the children of the president of Ogami Corp. Barkeep points out that they acted like they didn't know each other after Rintaro's "date," and remarks how strange that was and if Sakura knows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Well, if you're like me (and Deeno) and thought that the ending of the last episode was uber-creepy, just think how much creepier it is with this revelation. Maybe those who understand Japanese better than I do already knew that Chiyoko and Hiroto really are siblings. I mentioned that it seemed that way earlier, but was willing to pass that off as them being step-siblings. (Which is still a possibility. A possibility that is only slightly less gag-inducing, mind you, because it's pretty clear they were raised together.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I also mentioned that I wanted Chiyoko to be actually crazy, and I got my wish there. Her crazy is showing up more and more. I wouldn't be at all surprised if her insanity was caused by Hiroto in some way, and I'm pretty sure he also gave her that scar. The scar and the crazy probably happened at the same time. Honestly, the more I see of Hiroto, the more I dislike him. He slightly redeemed himself with his genuine concern for Sakura in this episode, but it was only a small tick upwards for him. I was pleasantly surprised that he has an actual job, too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Other than the creepy incest thing happening here, a thing that really bothers me in this show is how light it is on the comedy aspect. It's pretty full of stock characters and cliche plot points, but the premise really had some promise. A woman who has a hormone imbalance that causes her to start growing facial hair and also has a sudden reawakening at the same time? This show was ripe for some awesome comedic moments revolving around those developments. (And it could have done it in a way that wouldn't have been insensitive to people suffering hormone imbalances.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Instead, it has followed the well-worn path beaten by hundreds of shows before it. It's a noona romance where the younger man paves the way for the more mature (and so much hotter) love interest to finally make his intentions known. Plus we have the ever-present divorcée and the ignored housewife suddenly questioning her marriage that seem to be staples of these types of dramas. (Especially <i>Renai Neet</i>.) Unfortunately, <i>Last Cinderella</i> has no real sizzle to make these stories feel fresh and interesting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In checking out the production team, I learned that the PD is the same who did <i>Kekkon Shinai</i> (which I absolutely love), but he also produced <i>Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu</i> and <i>Sunao ni Narenakuti</i>, both of which I also found quite disappointing. I liked them okay, I just felt that there could have been so much more to the stories. There were just too many missing elements for me to really love them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm not saying that I dislike this drama. I enjoy watching it, I do. But lately I don't get very excited over each new episode like I did at the beginning. The chemistry between the actors is still quite good, especially between Shinohara Riyoko (Sakura) and Fujiki Naohito (Rintaro). I also like the chemistry in the friendship between Sakura, Miki and Shima. I don't really feel much between Sakura and Hiroto, though, and that's very disappointing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hopefully, things will pick up in the next few episodes and I can go back to loving this drama again. I've watched bits of unsubbed episode 6, and it looks like there are plenty of funny and cute moments, especially with Sakura and Rintaro. There really hasn't been enough interaction between those two in these last two episodes. Please be as awesome as I think you will be, episode 6. I'm counting on you.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-54188112169610442622013-05-15T18:29:00.002-07:002013-05-15T18:29:44.550-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 4 Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Episode 4: "Forbidden Kiss"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura leaves the drug store with a pregnancy test. As she stares at it, Rintaro approaches, so she quickly stashes it in her coat pocket. He thinks she's hiding condoms. They bicker all the way back to their building, and when Sakura starts searching for her key, Rintaro sees the pregnancy test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At his place they discuss her possible future. He asks if she'll keep the baby, and she gets reeaal close to him to ask if she should. He then lectures her about not using contraception and asks if she'll marry Hiroto. Rintaro pushes her to go ahead and take the pregnancy test, because she doesn't want to see the results alone, but she promises that she'll do it later and runs away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura and Hiroto meet at the bar, and he asks about the trip to the<i> onsen</i> (hot spring) that Rintaro won for the salon team. He worries that Rintaro may have feelings for Sakura and that he might act on them, but she reassures him that Rintaro doesn't see her as a woman. Plus, he's just a friend. Barkeep overhears and laughs at that, then slinks away again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura asks Hiroto if he likes kids and is relieved when he says he does. She can't bring herself to tell him about possibly being pregnant, though, and he mistakes her fumbling attempt as an invitation to sleep over. (Classic case of putting the baby buggy before the horse.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura comes down with a fever the day of the work trip. Rintaro notices and takes her to the hospital. When they get back, he insists that she call Hiroto so he can come and baby her. She tells him she's fine, but he informs her that people need to feel like they're needed in their relationships. He leaves and she stares at the unused pregnancy test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei hangs out at the gym looking for Shima. When he sees her, he interrupts her flirting and forces her to talk to him. He tells her that adultery is wrong (unless it's with you? Yeah, I'm not convinced), and then gets excited when she tells him to meet her at the hotel, clearly thinking she has romance in mind. (There's a running gag of women hitting him in the face with stability balls throughout this scene. I wonder if that's intended to be symbolic? Hahaha!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> At the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">onsen</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, Rintaro has a hard time enjoying himself while everyone else parties—he's haunted by the spectre of Sakura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura falls out of bed to get to her phone, then stumbles outside to buy more supplies. She finds a bag full of everything she needs and realizes that Rintaro left it. He even thought to buy her a box of condoms. Hahaha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the hotel, Shima massages Kohei's foot while they discuss their ideas on marriage and divorce. He tries to justify the latter, while she admits that she's done with the former. But she thinks marriage and a family are a miracle. She talks sadly about couples becoming parents. I wonder if she has fertility issues and if that was the root of the problems in her marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When Kohei gets home, Miki asks why he's been staying out so late. They have an argument in which she tries to explain that she needs him to come home earlier to relieve her of dealing with MIL, but they don't communicate well. MIL warns Miki to not complain to Kohei, or he'll never want to come home. Miki asks him about wearing his socks inside-out, and he tries several lies to explain it. Miki is suspicious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura feels better the next day, and gratefully accepts the gift Rintaro brings her from the <i>onsen</i>. He asks about the pregnancy test and she drags him inside to be with her. He asks why she's hesitating and she admits that she's worried it won't go well. (I think she means that she's worried she may not be pregnant.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She finally takes the test, then can't make up her mind about whether she wants Rintaro to look at it first or not. She finally works up to it, but is disappointed when she sees that it's negative. She pretends that's what she wanted, though it's clear she was hoping she was pregnant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki and Shima stop by the salon for girl talk and the three women discuss contraception, menopause, and other girly things, which is mortifying for the staff (especially the young guy, haha). Shima admits that she doesn't have to worry about getting pregnant, and her friends assume it's because of menopause, but I'm not so sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro hangs out at the bar with Kohei and Barkeep. They talk about developing old-man smell and "male menopause" and Kohei's still-undiagnosed ED. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki and Shima ask to meet Hiroto and talk Sakura into calling him. Of course, he's in bed with Naked Girl. He tells her that he's ended things with Naked Girl, as said girl drapes herself over his shoulders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After he ends the call, he gets dressed and Naked Girl asks if they're really over. She asks if he's serious about Sakura (she calls her "that old woman"), and reminds him that he can't get serious with anyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei has a meeting to sell a housewife insurance, and while he's there, her young son colors on his shirt with a red crayon. When he gets home, Miki finds the red mark that looks like lipstick and a receipt (for the hotel, maybe?).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki expresses her concerns to Sakura at the salon the next day and says that if Kohei is having an affair, she'll go in for the kill. Rintaro asks who she means—Kohei or the other woman. He explains that most women blame the other woman for affairs, and Miki says it's probably because they tend to think that the woman would initiate things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro and Sakura dig at each other about wanting to get married so old, and finally Miki admits that she got married when they were 20 because she thought she needed to take advantage of the opportunity. But she's never had the thought or feeling that she was happy to be married. "That's why if he's cheating on me I can never forgive him." This talk shuts the other two up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura meets Hiroto at the bike park and tells him about not going to the <i>onsen</i>. She tells him about Rintaro taking her to the hospital, and he gets mad and tells her that he doesn't like her talking about another man. Especially not one she's so intimate with. He gets up angrily and goes back to practicing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki gets a call that her daughter needs to come home from school early because she started her first period. Later, she discusses it with Kohei. When he leaves to take a bath, she searches his pockets and finds another receipt. (Also, there are seriously balls all over the place.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko waits for Rintaro like a stalker. She follows him to a baseball diamond and is upset to see Sakura there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro asks Sakura why she's in his favorite spot. She asks about his dream of becoming a baseball star, and he reveals that in high school he missed his chance to go pro when a teammate was caught smoking and the whole team was punished by not being allowed to play in the championships.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He asks what her dream was and she reveals that she wanted to be a mom. But, she saw a doctor and found out that she missed her period due to a hormone imbalance. Rintaro reassures her that she can still have kids and then wonders about an ex who also had a pregnancy scare. He was hoping she was pregnant, but she didn't want a baby, so maybe that's why they didn't get married in the end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they talk, the kids hit a fly ball that heads straight to Sakura. Rintaro jumps in the way just in time and gets beaned by the ball. He falls to the ground unconscious, and Sakura tries to wake him. Finally, he tells her to stop shouting and she realizes that he was tricking her. They bicker some more and play with the kids while Chiyoko watches jealously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The three friends meet up at the only bar in town, which is where Rintaro is also eating. Shima explains to him that they're there to meet Hiroto. She starts flirting with Rintaro, but Sakura jumps in and separates them. Miki expresses her concerns that Kohei is cheating and asks Shima if she's noticed anything. Shima reassures her that he'd never cheat on Miki. (Sure, and what the two of you are doing is totally above board. Riiight.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto heads to the bar with a bouquet, but at the door he gets a call from Chiyoko demanding that he come to her right now. "Or I don't know what might happen." He drops the flowers and runs to meet her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima and Miki try to convince Rintaro to join them while Sakura tries calling Hiroto. She only gets voicemail, though. She heads back to the table and angrily pushes Rintaro out of her way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto shows up at Chiyoko's house and confronts her about drinking. He tells her that she knows she can't drink, and they fight over the bottle of red wine. It flies across the room, smashes against the wall, and leaves a stain. Chiyoko chuckles and says that it reminds her of "that," by which I assume she means blood. She takes off her sweater and Hiroto stares at a large scar on her back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She spins and yells at him that it's his fault she can't fall in love. She starts pushing him and screaming that it's all his fault, and he couldn't even get that woman to fall for him. He grabs her from behind and hugs her close, apologizing. He leans down and starts kissing down her scar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura vows to wait for Hiroto, since she was the one who stood him up last time. So she should be patient for whatever may have come up. Rintaro leaves and notices the bouquet on the steps outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Well, that was a surprising kiss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Ah, the good old pregnancy scare. I saw that one coming 3 episodes ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'm just going to come out and say it. It's probably a good idea to find out you're pregnant before telling your new and very young boyfriend that you are. But I guess that would leave fewer crazy and predictable twists for the plot of every romantic drama ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I had a lot more to say about this episode, and none of it was really positive, but I just got so annoyed, I gave up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Yeah, my head hurts, too.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-27144243030665933112013-05-03T13:36:00.002-07:002013-05-03T13:36:32.776-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 3 Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Episode 3: The Old-man Woman's Huge Struggle?! The Couple's Night </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Alone. . .!</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura shows up at the salon and finds all the employees huddled around looking at a magazine. It showcases the new manager of the Ginza salon (Rintaro's former position), and talks about how much he's built up the salon to be the top in sales. They grumble that it was Rintaro who made that salon what it is now, but decide to hide the magazine from him so he can't see the article. Sakura shoves it on top of a cabinet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> During their morning meeting, Rintaro announces an upcoming contest between salons, and that he'll be representing theirs. Sakura watches nervously as the magazine starts to slip. She runs across the room just in time to catch it, but Rintaro's not very happy to have her interrupt his announcement. So, he tells everyone that she finally got herself a boyfriend. While everyone congratulates her, Rintaro calls her a half-wit and warns everyone not to follow her example. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After the meeting breaks up, Sakura confronts him, and he tells her to just do her job properly. "And don't come to the competition. You'll bring me bad luck." In the middle of their conversation, Hiroto texts and asks her to meet up after work. She giggles to herself and Rintaro tells her that she gives him the creeps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki's MIL complains about her other daughter-in-law, and how awful it was to live with her, since she didn't like MIL telling her how to run her household and criticizing her endlessly. That's why she's decided to stay with Miki's family for a while in protest. Poor Miki can't get a word in edgewise to object.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The three friends attend a baking class together, and while Miki complains about MIL and her other in-laws, Sakura makes a heart-shaped bread. Because she's so in luuuurve, hahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro eats at the bar with his favorite junior, and the conversation turns to endorphins and their relation to chocolate and sex (especially with women). Kohei sits at a nearby table and eavesdrops, eventually switching tables so he can hear better. Somehow this leads to a desire to do endorphine-enhancing exercises (to help with cognition), and Kohei gets caught chanting along. The guys invite him to join them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura delights in her heart-shaped bread so much that she starts making out with it, vowing that it's too cute to be eaten. Shima teases her and asks if they've had sex again. (Sakura and Hiroto. Just to clarify.) Sakura says that kissing is enough for her, and decides that they'll have a platonic relationship, full of kissing. Besides, she can't show a guy like him her body. It only happened before because she was drunk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima says that she can't have children that way—at her age she'll barely be able to have children at all—and Sakura says that that's too much baggage for a 24-year old. Miki and Shima are shocked to hear his age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto practices at the bike park, and Chiyoko meets him. They talk about an upcoming competition and then he tells her that Sakura will fall for him soon. He asks how far he should take things, since she's so old she'll probably start asking about marriage. If that happens, he'll have to tell Sakura the truth. Chiyoko warns him not to, and he asks when she's going to start making her own moves on Rintaro. If he's into Sakura, he won't wait long either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko snaps at Hiroto and tells him that he of all people knows why she can't just make a move like that. Oooh, is there something psychologically off with her? Iiiinteresting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In bed, Chiyoko can't sleep and turns on her Slideshow of Creepiness, feat. Rintaro. She pretends to hug his picture projected on her wall. I'm shivering here. Sooo creepy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura inspects her (nonexistent) body fat and decides to do an exercise DVD, complaining like an old man the entire time. In the end, she ends up turning it off in favor of enjoying a beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro tries to strategize for the competition and decides he'll do a wavy perm. When Sakura expresses her doubts, he tells her that his rival (the guy in the magazine) will be there, too. He asks Sakura why she's only eating vegetables, and she insists she's not hungry. Just then her stomach starts growling really loudly, but she blames it on the massage chair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto shows of his BMX skills in a random park and explains to Sakura that he's a pro biker. He gets off his bike and starts fanning himself with his shirt, exposing his abs. Sakura shyly looks away, but can't help but steal glances at him. She says she wants to see more, and although she's talking about his biking, it also seems like she's talking about his body. Hahaha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He tries to kiss her, but she jumps back and runs away. He calls her back and asks if they can go wherever he wants on their next date. She agrees and he tells her that he wants to go to her place. He wants to eat a home-cooked meal and just spend time in her home. She's surprised, but happy. That is, until she really thinks about all the work she'll have to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro is awakened by thumping and yelling next door. He goes outside and sees all of Sakura's things on the landing. She tells him to come in and makes him help her rearrange. He chides her for being so messy, and then gets annoyed when he finds out that she's not moving, just cleaning for a "home date". In the middle of moving a dresser, he drops it and goes back to bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima teaches her class, but is distracted to see Kohei standing outside watching her. After class, a man whispers to her that's it's been a while and asks to meet up later. She looks at Kohei before agreeing. As the man leaves, Kohei sizes him up and then complains that he's clearly married. Shima tells him it's none of his business and asks why he came. He tells her it's because Miki wants him to lose weight and made him. He begs to get a drink with her so they can talk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> They go to a restaurant and she asks what he wants. He tries to get her to go somewhere else, but she says that won't happen. He finally tells her that he's convinced he has erectile dysfunction, but he doesn't want to see a doctor about it. Since she's already seen that side of him, could he talk things out with her. She agrees and then tells him to go home to his wife. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura practices her recipe. Hiroto leaves Naked Girl earlier than usual. At work, Rintaro brags about being able to find the perfect model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura is in bed protesting that it's too soon. As the camera pans out, we see that she's practicing her excuses on a mannequin. Hahaha! She switches gears and moves in for a kiss. But then she's interrupted by her phone and remembers she needs to buy groceries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the store she grabs a bottle of wine at the same moment someone else does. It's Rintaro, and he's not giving it up. They bicker and try Rock Paper Scissors <strike>Lizard Spock</strike>, but then notice Barkeep. He's actually there to get supplies to teach Sakura how to cook the recipe she's planning, and he invites Rintaro along. I'm. . . not exactly sure how to interpret the look on Rintaro's face, but it makes my heart flutter:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At Sakura's really really clean place, Rintaro snoops in her (incredibly cluttered) closet. He watches her try to cut some fish with a mandolin, then starts another fight about not being able to cook. She tells him to leave, but when he grabs the bottle of wine, things get physical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the morning, Sakura wakes up on the floor and finds a note from Barkeep. She flops onto the pillow next to her and then realizes that it's actually Rintaro. More bickering, then he realizes he has to run for the competition. He tells her to come, but she reminds him that she has a date. She gets up to prepare, and decides that she'll surprise Hiroto at the bike park near the train station where he practices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When Rintaro gets to the salon, he finds out that his model is sick and has cancelled. His assistants offer to find someone at the train station, but he promises that he'll find someone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura heads to the bike park, but stops when she notices Naked Girl, who isn't paying attention (but is clothed for once) and almost burns a child's face with her cigarette. She starts another confrontation, but Naked Girl just leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When Sakura gets to the park, she sees Naked Girl run up to Hiroto and kiss him. Devastated, she hides behind a ramp and cries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> On her way home she notices Rintaro trying unsuccessfully to recruit a new model. She decides to help him, but nobody will do it. Rintaro decides to give up, but Sakura gives him the same lecture he gave her when she wanted to give up on dating Hiroto. (He told her that she'd never know the outcome if she didn't even try.) She has an idea to try Naked Girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hiroto's angry that she stood him up, but grudgingly agrees to help her. He shows up at the venue with Naked Girl, who doesn't want to have anything to do with Sakura. Sakura pleads with her to help Rintaro, but she says that Sakura has to bow and apologize first. Sakura drops to her knees, to the astonishment of Hiroto, Rintaro, and Chiyoko, who's spying on them. She abases herself completely and apologizes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As Rintaro leaves with Naked Girl, Hiroto crouches down and asks Sakura what's going on. She promises to tell him later, then jumps up and says that they need to leave, since she promised Rintaro she wouldn't stay and bring him bad luck. As Hiroto trails after her, Chiyoko mouths a question, but he just shrugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei meets Shima in the hotel. As soon as she closes the door, he grabs her and tries to kiss her. She fights him off and tells him that they won't be doing anything physical. She agreed to help him for the sake of her friend, but she's just there to listen. Nothing more. Despite his attempts at more, she firmly puts him in his place and starts an assessment. As his friend doctor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki folds laundry at home while wondering where her husband is. She overhears MIL comparing her and her sister-in-law—sister-in-law is a devil while Miki's an angel. But then MIL says "she's such a pushover. I can do anything, since she's so naive." She also mentions their shotgun wedding. Miki almost throws the laundry on the floor, but then realizes she'll just have to pick it up later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rintaro walks home with Chiyoko, admiring his 1st prize. He wants to invest it in more equipment for the salon. He chatters about things, and then starts talking on and on about how silly Sakura was to drop everything and help him, and how worried she was about the Ginza manager, who is actually Rintaro's greatest student, not his rival. Chiyoko asks him if there's someone he likes, and he sadly answers yes. "But she's at a place where she's beyond my reach." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura and Hiroto talk about Naked Girl a bit, and he wonders why she would prostrate herself for Rintaro's sake. Does she like him? She responds that she "1000 percent" doesn't like him, and Hiroto admits that he was a bit jealous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura admits that she was jealous, too, after seeing him kiss Naked Girl in the park. She tries to brush it off by saying that she was immature to run away, and it's her problem, etc. Hiroto is stunned, and a bit angry. As she continues to babble, he realizes he can still salvage the situation and tells her that he is in a relationship with Naked Girl, but it's not really a thing, since they mostly just keep each other company. He promises to talk with her and break things off. Will she wait until then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She looks like she's about to cry, but then looks up at him and says yes. He asks why she wouldn't let him kiss her, and she tells him it's because their age difference. She's uncomfortable kissing him in public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He asks if she likes him. She says yes. "Well then get over that, because I like you. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks." He leans in to kiss her, and she puckers up, but then he pulls away and says that he'll wait until things are cleared up with Naked Girl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She acts disappointed, so he teases her and asks if they should just go for it. She replies that they can just wait, but when he moves away, she jumps at him and kisses his cheek. But she hurts herself in the process. Haha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As Rintaro crosses the street, Chiyoko calls out to him and then runs up and kisses him. His eyes widen in surprise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura wonders why she was so over-eager, and decides she needs practice. She leans in to kiss the mirror, and then falls into it at the last second, hurting her lips again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Well, this one is pretty long. But lots of things happened, and there were so many great moments, I couldn't help myself. Sakura is so hilarious with her attempts to practice skinship. I love that she's such a spazz! I also love that her confrontation this episode was with someone who actually has something to do with the story. I think it sets things up nicely for the inevitable confrontations she'll have with Naked Girl down the road. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm a little bothered that she's so trusting of Hiroto. It's not like he's given her any real reasons to trust him, but I guess that conflict can't be over already, since it's such a major part of the plot. I'll have to chalk up her naivete to the fact that she does really want to be in a relationship, and she does really like him, so she's more willing to overlook/forgive such things. Especially when he puts up the facade of honesty to throw her off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All of this just makes me love Rintaro more and more. And that moment of honesty with Chiyoko? Awesome. Because now we know that he's aware of his feelings, but he waited too long. I think it shows his maturity, as well as the depth of his love for Sakura that he's so supportive of her in her relationship with Hiroto, because he thinks she can find happiness. Hopefully he'll soon find a reason to get back in the game, because he's just so adorable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm especially annoyed with Kohei right now. I mean, apart from the fact that he's cheating on Miki. It really bothers me that he's trying to trick/force Shima into a relationship. I admire her for standing her ground, but I think she's foolish to be trying to help him. Honestly, if he really wanted help, he'd go to a doctor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Speaking of seeing a doctor, Chiyoko seems a bit unhinged. Honestly, I hope she's truly psycho and not just mildly so. It's not that I want her to be criminally crazy, nor do I want this drama to go darker—I just think it would be an interesting angle for her character and can add more to the story. If done right. We seriously don't get enough crazy people in romcoms, imo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Episode 2: The Great Reversal of Love and Life! The Younger Man is a Prince?!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura is really bad at the walk of shame—she's jumpy and nervous and keeps trying to hide her face, which only draws more attention. It's pretty hilarious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She passes a moving truck on her way up to her apartment, then gets hit by a door as someone is opening it. That someone is Rintaro, who's incredulous to realize that they'll be next-door neighbors. He gets especially touchy when he realizes she's in the same hideous outfit she wore to the go-kon, and that she stayed out all night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki prepares breakfast for her family while enduring the insults of her Mother-in-law. MIL decides she's going to take the kids with her when she leaves for a few days, a plan which they only accept because she promises to buy them anything they want. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei is excited to do whatever he wants for the weekend, and as he heads to work, he checks his phone to see if Shima has called. He flashes back to the night before, when she put her number in his phone. While he's distracted, he walks right into a pillar, that just so happens to be waist-high. HAHAHA, serves him right!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Somehow, Rintaro manages to force Sakura into doing most of the box-carrying, while he enjoys a beer. She talks like an old person (literally using phrases an old person would say), then starts sighing about how exhausted she is and how it's lunchtime already. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> They go to Rintaro's favorite bar for lunch, and Rintaro manages to twist things so that Sakura is suddenly the one treating. You know, because he's helping her out so much by giving her advice. She tells him about Hiroto, and he decides that it's some kind of fraud. In the middle of the conversation, Hiroto calls, and Rintaro makes Sakura answer. Then he grumbles about her aegyo attitude with Hiroto. (Quick question: does kawaii work the same way here? As in that flirty, cutesy manner? Or is there another Japanese word that's closer to aegyo?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura goes outside and tells Hiroto that she just doesn't think it will work because of the age gap. Before he can say anything, she hangs up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The next morning, Sakura and Rintaro leave for work at the same time. He's annoyed that she wants to walk together, citing his worry that she'll ruin his image, and repeatedly tries to shoo her away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> When they get to the salon, Hiroto is waiting. Rintaro hovers for a bit before Sakura makes him go inside. She explains that they can't date, and that he should find some girl closer to his age. She wonders what he likes so much about her that he wants to date her, and he answers that older women are more interesting than younger women. She tells him to go find some other older woman then.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That night, Hiroto mumbles about how frustrating Sakura is while he's with that naked girl. (Seriously, she's always naked.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura tells Miki about her night with Hiroto during a yoga class taught by Shima (who is hilariously strict with them for goofing off). They discuss Hiroto's age and realize that they could have kids close to his age. In fact, Shima would have a 24-year old if she'd given birth at 20. This just makes Shima angry, and she pushes Sakura even harder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> A junior stylist assumes Rintaro is the type of person who doesn't want kids, but Rintaro corrects him and says that he does want kids, because he doesn't want to be lonely when he's old. He doesn't want to get married though. The younger stylist brings up Sakura, and Rintaro says that kids are out of the picture for her, since she doesn't even have a man. Besides, she's practically an old man herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Shima assures Sakura that now that she's had sex again, her hormones will kick back in. Miki and Sakura ask about Shima's new man, and then chide her for having an affair at her age. Just then, Kohei calls and Shima leaves. Miki wonders if she should just have an affair, since it's probably what her husband is doing. (She says this not as though she really thinks he is, but more like a it's reason behind his disinterest in her.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are repeated moments at the salon where Sakura comes up in Rintaro's interactions with others. It happens again when Rintaro is styling Chiyoko, and she finds out that Rintaro is now Sakura's neighbor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto sends Sakura endless text messages. And while she doesn't reply to any of them, she's clearly happy to get them. At work, Rintaro listens while a customer teases her that she must have a secret boyfriend, due to her new level of cheerfulness. He watches as she checks her phone all day to read Hiroto's texts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Later, he tells her she looks like a schoolgirl, checking her phone all day. He grumbles some more about Hiroto, and then calls her an effeminate old man schoolgirl. Hahaha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That night, Shima and Kohei meet up in their hotel room while Miki searches through her drawers for a silk teddy. However, Kohei ends up apologizing to Shima for being physically unable to seal the deal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He gets home to find Miki modeling the teddy (Kohei drops his briefcase in shock), and he tries to just get in bed. She keeps pushing, and he asks if it's okay to be with only one person for 20 years. (The answer is YES, dummy.) He jumps under the covers and poor Miki ends up grabbing some blankets to go sleep on the couch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto complains to Chiyoko about how stubborn Sakura is. He asks for more money and instead of taking the few bills Chiyoko hands him, he grabs the wad she left in her wallet. Haha. She tells him that she needs him to step up his game and talks about how Rintaro's last girlfriend really hurt him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiyoko's mom comes home and wonders why Hiroto isn't staying for dinner. There's a palpable iciness between them, but it's nothing compared to the hostility with Chiyoko's dad. (I get the feeling Chiyoko and Hiroto are siblings, but they have different family names, so maybe they're actually step siblings. I'm sure this is one of the story lines the drama is saving for later, since the relationship has never been made clear.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As Rintaro and Sakura leave work together, she notices Hiroto. The men size each other up as Rintaro leaves, and Hiroto asks Sakura to eat with him (again playing with his lip). She initially refuses, saying that she's meeting friends, but then she relents and offers to go for a drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Shima tries to comfort Miki as she cries over her husband's latest rejection. Eventually, Miki asks about Shima's new man, and she admits that they haven't slept together yet. She's decided to look at it as a long seduction, and Miki decides that that will be her attitude as well. The doorbell rings, and Miki goes to answer it, thinking it's Sakura. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But it's not. It's Kohei, who has brought flowers for his wife. Shima comes over to see what's taking so long, and her eyes bug out when she sees Kohei. His reaction is the same. Miki introduces them, and jokingly asks Kohei if he bought her flowers because he's having an affair. *Crickets chirping* He finally recovers and laughs that that would be impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> While Miki gets dinner ready, Shima and Kohei try to decide what to do, especially warning each other to keep the secret. Miki runs in and asks if Kohei shouldn't be seeing Shima. Because she's a fitness instructor, of course! Hahaha. Shima and Kohei decide that it's not really cheating, since they haven't actually had sex yet. (Sorry, but it's still cheating.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Their attempts to be secretive while acting normal cause them to act hilariously more suspicious as they talk. At one point, they even duck under the table (what? why?) to swear that their brief affair is over, all while Miki is in the kitchen. She comes in and surprises them, causing them to hit their heads on the table, and they pretend they're just looking for Shima's ring. Before leaving, Shima gives Kohei a whispered warning to never betray Miki and tells him to erase her number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura and Hiroto drink at a trendy bar. Some of his friends show up and ask if she's his <i>onee-san</i> (big sister). This ruins the mood, and when Sakura and Hiroto leave, he apologizes profusely for his friends. She tells him that she's 39, and she's just grateful they didn't call her mom. She apologizes and leaves. He halfheartedly tries to get her to stay, but then just rolls his eyes at how difficult she is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Rintaro sits at the bar and his bartender friend asks if he's going to get a girlfriend. He drinks, lost in thought. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura cancels with Miki and then heads to the batting cages, where she misses every ball. However, Rintaro, in the next cage, hits every ball. He hears her muttering and turns to bicker. Then he warns her about the ball that's coming just in time for her to duck out of the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He asks if she ran away from the kid, but she answers that she ran away from herself. She's decided that trying to bridge a 15 year age gap is too much, but she needs to get back into dating. Preferably someone closer to her age. Rintaro tells her how to correct her stance and she's suddenly able to hit the ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As they walk home, she gets a text from Hiroto. Rintaro assumes that he's asking for money, but Sakura says that he still wants to date her, despite their age difference. Rintaro says that she shouldn't let a guy with such unique taste go to waste and reassures her that she's a beauty. "You're a beauty and mature. You've just gotten used to being hurt and giving up, haven't you?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In the morning, she calls Miki to tell her that she's decided to give Hiroto a shot. Miki's kids come home, trailing MIL behind them. Kohei explains that MIL will be staying with them for the next little while, offering no further explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiroto and Sakura go bowling (where she trashes him), play tennis (where he trashes her) and play basketball (where they seem to mostly just play around). Then they have ice cream. Sakura is bumped by a kid and gets her ice cream all over her face. Hiroto wipes it off, except the ice cream on her nose, and then laughs at her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> On the bus, Sakura tries to give up her seat to a woman with a kid and a stroller, but a young punk takes it instead. Sakura confronts him, and it escalates into a huge scene. Everyone, including the woman with the child and Hiroto, acts embarrassed for her and the woman quickly gets off the bus when Sakura finally forces the punk to move. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sakura and Hiroto walk in a park and she apologizes for creating a scene. He tells her she was impressive, but she complains about the punk calling her an old hag and a geezer. They stop under a cherry tree. Hiroto pauses to pull a blossom out of her hair and then surprises her with a kiss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I really like Sakura's personality. Although she feels that she's awkward in social situations, I like that she's willing to stand up to the small injustices in the world. I think this is mostly due to her age—she's mature enough to not care if other people dislike her, but she cares about people in general, and other women specifically. Like the girl being pressured to have sex in the last episode. She's not afraid of confrontation, but she's not obnoxious about things, either, even if she is a little childish in the heat of the moment (she tends to stick her tongue out at the men she's telling off). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I honestly think that this aspect of her personality provides an interesting dichotomy for Hiroto. I think he's attracted by it, but also embarrassed by it, because he's still at an age where most people worry too much about what people think about them to notice a sketchy situation and act upon it. I like that he's not really spending time with Sakura because he likes her, but that he's doing it out of a sense of responsibility to Chiyoko. In most dramas with a similar setup, the guy undertaking the bet seems to enjoy the chase, but Hiroto holds back, and only engages as much as he needs to. I think that will change soon, possibly with a situation involving his family(?). I mean, he has to come to genuinely like Sakura for the tension to really build, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I also find the situation with Rintaro interesting. I don't get the impression that he's so much in denial about his feelings for Sakura, but that he's still not emotionally ready to connect with her in that way. That's why I think he's okay with encouraging Sakura to date Hiroto, despite his pangs of jealousy. And maybe he figures that things won't get serious between them, so when they break up, he'll finally be ready to step in and step up. Ooor, maybe I'm just reading too much into things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'm glad that Shima called things off with Kohei (although I don't think that's the end of their relationship, yet). I think she's realized how personal cheating actually is. I mean, it's one thing when you don't know the injured party, and you can pretend that you aren't actually hurting anyone. But when you're confronted with the fact that the injured party is one of your best friends? It's hard to ignore the fact that cheating is not so simple, nor is it innocent. And it's still cheating, even if you haven't had sex. Besides the physical relationship, there's also emotional cheating, which is still wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now. I'm excited to see where things go from here. And I think there's a lot of great stuff coming our way in this drama.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-68789376420460152402013-04-24T01:41:00.005-07:002013-04-24T01:41:53.953-07:00Last Cinderella Episode 1 Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It takes three (three!) alarms to wake up our protagonist, Toyama Sakura. She reluctantly gets up, stumbling through her cluttered apartment, and starts her morning routine. Which comes to a screeching halt when she feels something on her chin. She pulls out a magnifying glass, holds it up to her face, and notices <b>IT</b>. A whisker. After a small freakout, she decides to tweeze it. But it hurts. A lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We're shown over and over again how casual Sakura dresses—loose jeans, practical casual tennis shoes, an oversized trench. She's also pretty casual and unfeminine in her actions. She stops by a shrine on her way to work to pray for her whisker, then wolfs down some breakfast noodles at a standing restaurant. She also visits a convenience store for a vitamin drink(?). When she finishes, she looks over at the man drinking the same thing in the same stance, and is horrified by his full beard. She clutches her bandaged chin and leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the salon where she works as the assistant manager, Sakura is in high demand, not only from the customers, but also her colleagues, who ask for her expertise in everything. She's competent and well-liked, and is willing to do even the lowest tasks in order to set an example for her juniors. When she lectures her juniors about not being cheerful in helping every customer, they remark on her "old sermonizing father personality" coming out again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The juniors all gossip about who the new manager will be, speculating that Sakura has been passed over yet again for the promotion. Throughout their conversation, we see and hear ominous footsteps as someone approaches the salon. In walks hottie Tachibana Rintaro, and he marvels that the place hasn't changed a bit. The junior employees gossip about how he and Sakura are the same age and started at the salon together, but he worked his way up the promotion chain while she stagnated in the same salon for all these years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When Sakura runs into him, she's again shocked at the sight of a beard (his), and he asks about her band-aid. He explains that he's the new manager and ribs her about never getting promoted. He pointedly calls her Kin, which makes her bristle. They obviously know each other well, and just as clearly don't get along. She also chides him for reeking of alcohol, and he brags that he stayed out all night at his farewell party from his last salon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura goes to HQ to complain and is coldly told "We can't stop you if you decide to quit." She replies that the salon is like a child that she has nurtured and she won't give it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She returns to the salon and overhears the junior employees speculating on why she was passed up again. Maybe because she's too focused on the customers and not on sales. Maybe she just doesn't have the talent for management. She goes home and has a good cry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura goes to a spa with her best friends Miki (who is married) and Shima (who is divorced and a player). She complains endlessly about Rintaro. They talk about men, and Sakura reveals that she hasn't had a boyfriend in 10 years. They tease her about her band-aid and ask if it was acne or a whisker like some old man. The discussion turns to hormone imbalances, and they decide that Sakura is an old-man woman. Shima decides that Sakura hasn't had enough skinship, so she needs to make things happen to keep from evolving into an old man. Miki decides that she needs to get things going with her husband, since it's been almost a year. She doesn't want to start growing whiskers. Sakura yells that men just don't understand anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the same time, Rintaro sits in a bar complaining that women don't understand anything. He hates all these women who act like men and don't care about being feminine and shy. Empowerment has ruined women. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The women leave the spa and Sakura and Shima decide they want some beer. Miki wants to go home and prepare a special night for her husband. It comes up that Shima has never met Miki's husband, and she promises not to steal him from her. (Spoiler alert: this is foreshadowing.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura and Shima head to a bar (the same one Rintaro is at, natch), and Rintaro makes a point of saying that he remembers Shima, even after all these years, because he never forgets a beautiful woman. He starts bickering with Sakura about drinking in the day. It's okay for him, though, because he's a man. But women need to be modest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He tells her that she will always be a failure in work and love because she won't flatter men, and then gets a cake in the face. (Haha! I like this drama.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When he leaves, Shima points out that he's one hot man. She asks about the nickname Kin, and Sakura spits out her beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki dances in the kitchen while she makes her husband's favorite foods. The doorbell rings, and it's interfering Mother-in-law, here to, well, interfere. She calls out for her son Kohei and criticizes Miki for letting her kids play video games. Kohei invites his mother to visit frequently. Poor, poor Miki. That secret sip of beer isn't going to make the horror disappear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura falls asleep at the bar and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has a nightmare about becoming and old man and growing a long beard. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shima seduces a young man in the restroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Miki tries to present her complaints about Mother-in-law to Kohei and begs him not to ask her to move in. He ignores her while playing a game on his phone and then rebuffs her attempts at romance by saying "My mom's downstairs."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> On the way home, Sakura vows to find a man before she turns 40 next year. The blossoms on a cherry tree near her suddenly open, but snap shut again when she comments on them. Keke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At work, Rintaro watches incredulously as Sakura talks with a customer about love. One of the juniors informs him that she's very popular with customers wanting advice on love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A girl named Chiyoko that knows both Rintaro and Sakura shows up for her appointment with Rintaro. She watches him bicker with Sakura, and hilariously can't keep her head still while a junior blow dries her hair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The reason? Sakura asks if Rintaro is in love with her, since he's fighting the same way he used to in elementary school when he liked a girl. The junior keeps turning Chiyoko's head back, but she can't sit still. She jumps up and invites Sakura to a giant <i>go-kon</i> as a lure for Chiyoko (I guess lure is another meaning of "Sakura"). Sakura accepts over Rintaro's objections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko calls a friend (the other leg of our love triangle, Hiroto), who is in bed with some girl. (He's obviously really into her, too, since he throws her off him in order to answer the phone.) Chiyoko wants to meet with him so she can ask for a favor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura gets ready for the <i>go-kon</i>, and you'd really think a beautician would know how to apply makeup. You know, for something other than Crazy 80's Prom Night or Kabuki Theatre. She tries on several outfits, but the only one that works is a black suit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As she leaves, it starts pouring. She tries to hail a taxi, but then notices one of her regulars—an old lady—drop a soccer ball for her grandson. It rolls down the long hill, and Sakura chases after it, ditching her umbrella and shoes. When she catches up to the soccer ball, a car zooms past and splashes her, drenching her the rest of the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura runs to the salon to try to dry off, but decides to just skip the <i>go-kon</i>. Rintaro mocks her for finding excuses not to go, then mocks her some more when she says she'll go, because she looks like she's a college student going for a job interview. He tells her she should wear a short skirt and pulls her skirt up. She calls him a pervert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <strike>Un</strike>Luckily, the old lady comes in just then with an offering for Sakura. She has a suit she made years and years ago for her daughter, and Sakura can wear it. She pulls it out and it's this hideous, bright blue sequined pantsuit. You know, the kind old ladies wear. Rintaro stares in shock and Sakura politely thanks the old lady for helping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sakura tricked Miki and Shima into coming to the <i>go-kon</i> by telling them it was a business party. Shima books a hotel room before meeting up, and they both stare in shock when they see Sakura in her electric blue suit. They even mention that she smells like mothballs. Haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Shima heads straight for the buffet of men, and Miki heads straight for the buffet of food, even asking if she can take some food home with her. Hahaha! Chiyoko shows up and wonders at Sakura's outfit. Sakura says that she's trying to follow Rintaro's advice to be more like Chiyoko. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiyoko calls Hiroto while he's at the park doing tricks on his bike. He finally shows up and raises an eyebrow when Chiyoko points out his target. He wanders over to where Sakura is inspecting her sore feet, and stands near enough to hear her without seeming to pay her any attention. He also has this habit of playing with his lower lip. I wonder if it's because he's on the hunt or lying or if it's a seduction tool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kohei shows up to the hotel to pick Miki up. Shima tries hooking up with a guy, but isn't satisfied and decides to cancel her reservation. At the desk, she notices Kohei, who is trying to find the PTA party his wife is supposed to be at. She offers to take him to the party, but really lures him up to her room. She aggressively makes a move on him, and overcomes his objections, asking if he's ever thought of having an affair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A drunk Sakura harasses a hapless waiter. She complains about Rintaro, especially about his nickname for her, Kin. Apparently he started calling her that after the famous fictional samurai character, Toyama no Kin-san, who has a tattoo of a sakura, or cherry blossom, on his shoulder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She notices a guy trying to drag his girlfriend up to a room despite her objections, and Sakura tries to intervene, but before she can get past insulting the guy, she's dragged off by hotel staff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She stumbles down the staircase, tripping and throwing her shoe. As she continues down, a voice calls to her and says "Aren't you forgetting something? My Cinderella?" Good thing she's so drunk, because I really don't think that line would work otherwise. Hiroto slips her shoe on for her, staring into her eyes the whole time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The next morning, Sakura wakes up in a nice bed. She panics when she realizes she's with Hiroto, and then again when she realizes she's naked. She gets <i>thiiisclose</i> to Hiroto, and then jumps out of bed when he suddenly wakes up. She quickly gathers up her granny panties and bra, and he asks if she remembers last night. She spots her shoe, and it triggers a memory, and she calls him the Prince (because he called her Cinderella). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He recounts the events of the night before. Sakura mutters to herself about sleeping with him, but it's okay if they did, but she doesn't remember, so she feels like a jerk. He remembers to introduce himself, and then when he tries to join her on the floor, she scoots away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He tells her he likes her and wants to date, and leans in closer. Sakura leans back away from him, a horrified look on her face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She leans so far back that she can see the cherry tree outside the window, which suddenly bursts into blossoms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I find it interesting in these jdorama noona romances (yes, I realize that I'm mixing countries and languages, but I don't know a word for them in Japanese, so this will have to do) that the age gap is always so, so huge. And it almost always seems to be 15 years. It's just strange to me, like they have to make the gap so big that it justifies being an obstacle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The thing is, even a smaller age gap would be a huge obstacle for many people. I mean, I'm much younger than Sakura, but I'd still find it very difficult to date a 24-year old. Couldn't Hiroto be, like, 27 and still be considered too young? To me, those extra 3 years aren't enough to overcome all objections (it's still 12 years), but it would feel much less squicky. (And I know that age is just a number, etc., but it's still a big deal for lots of people.) Are we meant to feel <i>this</i> squicky? (Apart from the whole bet/favor thing, which is creepy in and of itself.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The thing that pulls me into this drama, though, is really the dynamic between Sakura and Rintaro. They bicker and fight, but you get the sense that Rintaro is really into Sakura. And if you ask me, he has been for a very long time. I honestly think she's mostly oblivious, picking up on it just enough to tease him, but not to take his feelings seriously. And I can see how having Hiroto around will only aggravate the situation, until Rintaro finally comes out and does something about his feelings. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-50312001661186741562013-04-23T20:21:00.001-07:002013-04-24T22:02:34.504-07:00I'm Back (Again), and I'm Ready for Some Fun<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Wow. I've been so inactive here, it's a wonder my blog still exists. (Haha.) If you want excuses, the major one involved dropping my laptop, which led to the necessity of major surgery (on its poor <strike>neck</strike> hinge!). (I really didn't want to write on my phone, since I have more limited styling and formatting options on it, and I'm very specific about how things look. Plus, swiping that much is just too daunting a prospect.) I also had a couple busy weeks at work and then took some time catching up on watching dramas, which combined with my natural laziness to make it a whole month since I've blogged. A. Whole. Entire. Month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Anyway, I'm really anxious to get back to blogging, and I have a great inducement to start up again. That would be Lee Dong Wook. In a sageuk. I don't know if I've mentioned this before (I'm pretty sure I've only hinted at it), but I am seriously in love with him. To the point that I <i>aaalmost</i> understand the crazy ahjumma in <i>Wild Romance</i>. Almost. I mean, I wouldn't do anything to harm anyone or anything, but I would maybe be guilty of a little light stalking. (Again, not the criminal kind.) Maybe it's a good thing I don't live in Korea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So, because of this, I plan to recap <i>Mandate of Heaven</i>, aka <i>Heaven's Will: the Fugitive of Joseon</i>. It looks like it will be epic. (It had better be the good kind of epic, too, or I might get a little crazy.) I mean, have you seen the stills for it? Especially those of Wookie's character with his daughter?!? Soooo adorable! It starts tomorrow, and I can't wait!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Also, I've started watching a few new dramas that I'm really enjoying. I've decided to recap the jdorama <i>Last Cinderella</i>, as well, but those recaps should be pretty short. (I know, I know, I've said that before, but this time I mean it. Just the most important bits.) It's an interesting drama, and it reminds me quite a bit of <i>Renai Neet</i>, minus one love interest. Plus, it stars Shinohara Ryoko (<i>Anego</i>) and Fujiki Naohito (<i>Hotaru no Hikari</i>, <i>PRICELESS</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Lastly, I just have to brag a bit. I just finished preparing the meat for some delicious beef bulgogi, and it's marinating in my fridge. If it turns out well, I'll post the link to the blog where I found it. It smells so delicious already. I'm so excited, since beef bulgogi is probably my favorite Korean food. And kimbap. Which I'll be making tomorrow as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Update (4/24) The beef bulgogi was a success! My friends—who had never tried Korean food before—loved it. <a href="http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/bulgogi" target="_blank">Here's the link</a> to the blog I found it on (although it's really not hard to find). I also tried Maangchi's bean sprouts recipe and her gamja jorim potatoes. Everything turned out to be delicious, and the recipes are easy to follow. Plus, there are video tutorials for most of her recipes. I'm definitely going to try more of her recipes in the future. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-13703774001231044142013-03-14T08:06:00.000-07:002013-03-14T08:06:11.957-07:00Kekkon Shinai Episode 11 Final<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Wow, I can't believe it's taken me so long to get around to recapping this last episode. I apologize to anyone who's been waiting for the ending. Sometimes I just have a hard time letting beloved fictional characters go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei looks around expectantly at the bus depot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko collapses in pain, and Chiharu bursts in, frantic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei turns again and smiles, but it's only Mizuki.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they ride in the back of an ambulance, Haruko rebukes Chiharu for not chasing after Junpei, but Chiharu clutches her hand and tells her it's okay. Haruko apologizes for ruining things for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the hospital, Haruko apologizes again for getting in the way. Chiharu admits that she didn't have the guts to try to stop Junpei anyway, so it doesn't matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tanigawa heads to the shop, but is disappointed to see a sign apologizing for being closed for the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko's doctor talks to her about her fibroids again. She hesitates to talk in front of Chiharu, but Haruko assures her that she can hear. The doctor recommends a complete hysterectomy again, but tells Haruko it's up to her. Haruko insists to Chiharu that she can go home herself, and Chiharu offers to come after work and make her dinner, even if it's awkward. They laugh and Chiharu leaves Haruko alone to consider her options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu arranges to meet Mai at the shop to pick up some flowers for Haruko. She settles on some Diamond Lilies. Chiharu wonders what their meaning is, but Mai answers that Junpei isn't around to tell them. Chiharu looks sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu arrives at the apartment to fulfill her promise, and presents the flowers to Haruko. She asks about her decision, and Haruko says that she always thought of her gardens as being places for children to run around. She never thought she'd have children, but when she was suddenly faced with a complete hysterectomy, she suddenly felt lost. "I wonder if there is a part of me that wanted to give birth. That I wouldn't feel like a complete woman until I had done that. Isn't that laughable? I need to find my own path forward."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She sadly contemplates her flowers, and Chiharu comes over to reassure her that her feelings are natural. After all, surgery or not, she's still Haruko. She says that no matter where she was, she would have flown from anywhere to be with Haruko at a time like this. Haruko teases her that she's not Superman, and they laugh together. Then Haruko solemnly thanks Chiharu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She jumps up and retrieves Junpei's sketchbook. She presents it to Chiharu and then hides away in her room, peeking from the doorway at first as Chiharu sits and opens the cover. She smiles a bittersweet smile and then she, too, thinks about her path for the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the morning, Chiharu tells Haruko that she's been contemplating her future. She's decided to apologize to Takahara, since she's decided that she can't marry him. She's also come to the decision that she needs to get her qualifications in order for work so that she won't need to feel like she's depending on someone else. She's going to stand on her own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko replies that she's also made some decisions about her future. She's going to have the surgery, and then she's going to focus on her gardens. She really wants to get back to creating beautiful gardens and fulfilling that dream. Chiharu promises to be with her on the day of her surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu meets up with Takahara at a cafe and slides the ring box across the table to him. He has a very confused look on his face as he asks why. She answers that there's someone else she loves, and she apologizes. She thanks him for helping her, explaining that it was because of him that she felt she could move forward in her life. He admits that he had a feeling she didn't love him, since she always said "Thank you" instead of "I love you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu apologizes to her family and explains her decisions and plans. They're surprised, but her parents are happy to see her newfound strength. She starts studying for her certification.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko prepares for her surgery, and while she's packing, she spots the design plan for Tanigawa's family garden. At the hospital, Chiharu scolds her for scheduling her surgery on the same day of Chiharu's exams. She retorts that thinking of Chiharu doing her best will help her to do her best at recovering. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After her exam, Chiharu rushes back to the hospital. She and Haruko reassure one another that they did their best. Haruko sweetly explains that she's happy she was able to meet Chiharu, and she's happy to have her in her life. Chiharu answers that the pleasure is hers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mother walks in and is introduced to Chiharu. They commiserate with each other about Haruko trying so hard to be strong. Mother complains that she only found out about the surgery after it was over. Mother admits that Haruko has changed a little—she's become more honest. Mother attributes her changes to Chiharu's influence, which just riles Haruko. Hahaha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tanigawa returns to the shop, and sadly walks away again when he sees it's</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">still</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> closed. Haruko works on the garden plan and thinks back to his offer to live together, and their other discussion about growing old with someone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu gets a letter at work from Mizuki. She writes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"How are things? Honestly, I've been wondering what to do. I guess I should tell you this, so I decided to write. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"On the day I left for Paris. . ."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We see as she meets Junpei. She's excited about finally leaving and getting to be together forever. Junpei has a stunned look on his face as she wanders toward their gate. Junpei turns and apologizes to her. He tells her that if he goes to Paris with her, he'll only end up hurting her more. He hasn't been moving forward under his own power still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She realizes that he doesn't love her and admits that she lied about the agent wanting to see his work. She felt that she didn't have the pull she wanted over his heart, so she arranged for them to leave as soon as possible. She returns his painting and promises to do her best so that she can catch up to his talent, so he needs to do his best, too. She leaves him standing in the terminal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ". . .It's regrettable, but I've given up on senpai. Now I wish sincerely for his happiness."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu reads the last part and desperately pulls out her phone. She tries to call Junpei, but his number has been disconnected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei is at his family home, packing up his art supplies. His brother asks him what his plans are, and he explains that he's headed to Hokkaido to work with a friend up there. He apologizes for not meeting his filial duties once again, but his brother points out that not giving up on himself is more important right now. Junpei tells his brother that he has to return to Yokohama one last time before he goes. "There's something important I've forgotten there." (Squee!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu gets a call from a public phone and then heads to the garden. She smiles and sighs in relief when she sees Junpei from behind. She calls out to him and he apologizes for calling her so suddenly. She admits that she wanted to see him, which surprises him. She tells him that she received a letter from Mizuki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He explains that he decided to start moving forward on his own. He tells her of his plan to move to Hokkaido, then says that he wanted to tell her his feelings before he goes. Even though he knows she's getting married, he feels he has to tell her once. She replies that she's not going to marry Takahara, and that she's been facing her own feelings. He grins and says that he felt he'd forgotten something important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He pulls out his painting and proffers it to her, explaining that he promised to show her. She realizes it's the Novara roses she gave him, and he replies that she wanted to see them. She smiles and tearfully thanks him. They stare at one another for a moment, then move closer. Junpei takes her by the shoulders and then hugs her. They pull back for a moment and smile at one another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then they kiss. Sweetly. (Finally! Crazy kids!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tanigawa rushes up to the store when he sees Mai outside sweeping. She explains that she's just taking care of the store until Haruko can come back and they can reopen, but she'll be out of the hospital today. Tanigawa sighs in relief and runs off grinning, leaving Mai confused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At night, Haruko studies the garden plan. Chiharu brings her coffee and asks if she's going to show it to Tanigawa. She sits and muses if she should say what she's thinking. "What will you do when you meet him?" Haruko sighs and says that her path was always straight. Chiharu says that she didn't even know her path when they met. "But the truth is, everyone has their own path, don't they?" Haruko agrees and says "We may lose our way for a bit, but that's because we've lost sight of our path." Chiharu: "Once we start walking upon it properly, that's when we really see it for the first time."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tanigawa works in his garden, pulling up all the weeds and dead plants. Haruko approaches and says that it looks like a lot of work for one person. But with two people, it might be possible. She admits that she's not confident, and Tanigawa offers to take things easy. Together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiharu and Junpei lean against each other in their garden, reading. She comments about how cold it is in Hokkaido, and he promises to do her best, so that he'll have at least one painting she can boast about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tanigawa lectures his class. "Marriage. It isn't merely an institution. But many people are troubled or made fun of by this institution. But, even if you have a relationship that can't be called marriage, as long as love is raised within it, a family can be built from it. As long as people understand each other clearly, I wonder if it needs to be caught up in an institution?" Mai looks back through her drawings/notes and smiles. Tanigawa concludes his semester on marriage and explains that next semester he'll be teaching about divorce. Mai's new boyfriend approaches and asks to see her latest drawing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu finishes her last day of work and Takahara presents a huge bouquet. He smiles and says that he'll be cheering for her. Boy Crazy and Playa give her presents, and Boy Crazy pulls her aside to whisper her news. She nervously explains that Playa broke up with his girlfriend, so. . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Playa jumps in, wraps his arm around Boy Crazy, and announces loudly that they're dating. As everyone cheers, Boy Crazy chides him for being so loud. Chiharu congratulates them.<br /> Chiharu's alarm goes off, and she wakes up in a bed in Haruko's old room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko works in Tanigawa's garden, which is lush and green now. Tanigawa brings out her coffee and asks about some new plans she's drawing up. He places a paper on the table in front of her and says that he picked it up just as a trial run. It's a marriage registration, but even though Haruko smiles at it, he says they probably won't need it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Just then, the doorbell rings. Mai and her boyfriend wander the garden as Haruko and Chiharu chat. Chiharu explains that she's still working hard to find a job, and Junpei stands off to the side admiring the plants. Chiharu offers Haruko her rent for the month, but Haruko tries unsuccessfully to make her keep it until she gets a job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> They ask Junpei about his new job, and he explains that he'll be flying out in the morning to his new job, where he'll teach children to paint and he hopes to enter a contest along the way. Mai gets excited and then mentions how great it would be if he and Chiharu were to get married. They both react with shock. Haruko quickly changes the subject and asks Chiharu to give a toast. "To the paths we each are traveling on."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they walk home that night, Chiharu contemplates the whole idea of marriage. She decides that she was so desperate to get married before that she blindly stumbled ahead, making many mistakes. But now that she's found love, it's okay to let things develop and grow in their own time. Maybe marriage isn't even for them, right? Junpei agrees. She says that they can find happiness together, on the paths they're headed down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As they reach the divergent point in their walk to their homes, Chiharu asks to say their goodbyes there. They embrace tightly. Chiharu starts to walk off, but then remembers something she wanted to ask him, about the meaning of diamond lilies. He pauses, then smiles as he answers that they mean "Looking forward to the day we next meet." She repeats it back to him with feeling and they head home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As Chiharu passes the garden, she sees a woman sitting on her bench. She moves to get a better look, and Haruko turns and giggles that she thought Chiharu would come there. She offers beer and vegetable chips and they drink together. Haruko reminisces about the first time they met there, then pulls out the marriage registration to show her. They examine it, then Haruko says she doesn't need it, and Chiharu offers to make a paper airplane. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She launches it, and it circles the fountain and hits the police officer in the head. He recognizes them and they start backing away. They grab their things and run for it. He chases after them, yelling that he has something to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the morning, Haruko comes out of the guest room and complains about not sleeping in her own bed. The women joke around about whose apartment it is, and Chiharu admits that Haruko is welcome to stay any time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The End.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I have to say, this is a more satisfying ending than most romantic comedy jdoramas have. I know that they're all gunning for a special (or two) or a movie (or two), but it's still frustrating when they leave things open-ended.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But Kekkon Shinai found a good balance of having a decent ending and still leaving the door open for more. (For some reason, I have a feeling or a hope that it will get a special, but I haven't heard anything. It's just my own feeling.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I find it interesting how our protagonists had such drastic changes in their attitude towards relationships through the course of this series. Haruko wanted to live alone, yet ended up living with Tanigawa. Chiharu was so desperate to be married, but in the end she decided that she was okay just being with Junpei, with or without the marriage certificate. And Junpei went from not feeling worthy of a decent relationship to committing wholeheartedly to Chiharu. And despite these complete reversals in perspective, the show made everything feel natural. You can see how each person changed bit by bit along the way, so that their final positions fit with each of their personalities, but still offered growth in their character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Also, I'm sure you couldn't tell (wink, wink), but I'm so happy we got a kissing scene here. That's another thing with jdoramas—they don't often have kisses, and most of the ones they </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">do</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> show are boring and short. Or at the very beginning, but that's it. But this one was lovely and sweet. Sure, I would have loved seeing a bit more passion (maybe later on), but the kiss was very fitting of Junpei and Chiharu. And they both looked like they enjoyed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I also loved how Chiharu and Haruko were able to make up in this episode. It hurt to see them fight and not reconcile for so long. I just love their relationship of mutual support and growth. It was especially telling that Haruko was more concerned about Chiharu's relationship with Junpei than her own suffering. For someone who doesn't express her feelings, such preoccupation really shows how much she cares about Chiharu. And it's awesome that Chiharu could be there for her, even willing to sacrifice her love for her friend. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I think it's great that the side characters got in on the love, as well. It's so satisfying to see Mai happy with her boyfriend, and Boy Crazy and Playa finally figuring out how perfect they are for each other. I'm a little sad for Takahara, but he's a great catch, so I'm sure he'll find someone. (Oh, and I almost forgot Mizuki, since I never really liked her. She'll probably find some European guy to love. I'm sure of it.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the end, I have to say I love this show, even the parts that hurt. Overall, it has such a light feeling, yet it touches on some really big issues for much of the industrial world. The relationships throughout are very satisfying—and that's not just the romantic relationships. The friendships, the romances, the family relationships, even the coworker relationships are positive and uplifting. Sure, there are hiccups and bumps along the way, but that's how all relationships are. What really matters is how we learn and grow from those things into better people. And we all need the perspective our loved ones bring us on our journey down our life paths.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-5308590868371384642013-03-11T01:23:00.001-07:002013-03-20T16:00:23.624-07:00Incarnation of Money: An Update on My Opinion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Those of you who read my previous entry on <i>Incarnation of Money</i> (link <a href="http://k-wha.blogspot.com/2013/02/incarnation-of-money-is-really-just.html" target="_blank">here</a>) may be wondering if my opinion has changed at all. I had a slew of issues with this drama, but there was still something there that made me want to like it. I really really wanted to feel a desire to keep watching. I gave it another week to win me over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> While the next 2 episodes didn't alleviate most of my complaints, there was enough to keep me going. And after watching 12 episodes, I can say that I do like this drama. I don't <i>really really</i> like it, but it's definitely growing on me.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Somewhere in episode 7 the humor really started to click with me—not that I find all the jokes funny, and I still laugh at things that aren't meant to be funny, but there is more hilarity in each episode. (Who could forget Jae In's drug-induced vision of cops and robbers dancing together?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I still have some of the same beefs with this show, and they are a bit distracting. I still find so many of the characters to be boring. All the men, with the exception of Cha Don/Kang Suk and his henchman Yang Goo Shik, seem so much alike. They're all styled the same, they're all greedy, ruthless villains, and none of them really stands out. Even Se Kwang fits in with this crowd, and his only distinguishing trait is the hypocrisy of his entire existence. (This hypocrisy is a <i>leeetle</i> bit more interesting than it was, but still tragically underdeveloped.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Bi Ryung is still screechy and annoying. Her devotion to Se Kwang is completely mystifying to me at this point. I honestly don't know why they even have a "relationship," since they have almost no contact with one another, it seems. I don't even buy that she loves him any more (a reflection both on her acting and the writing, I think).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The only reason I can tolerate her presence in this drama anymore is for the sake of seeing her bumbling interactions with Jae In and Madame Bok. I seriously love seeing those women take her down a peg (or eight), and her subsequent efforts to worm her way back into their good graces. Any interaction with Madame Bok is especially splendid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Now on to the good stuff. Now that Jae In isn't fat, she's starting to be more likable. The stereotypes her character was saddled with as a fat girl* have mostly been abandoned, and although she seems to have had some personality tucks along with her chin tucks, at least her character has become more realistic. I do love that she isn't completely changed, especially when it comes to her love for fatty foods, but I especially love that she's actually shown some personality growth in the process of changing her body. Also, I love how obsessed she is with her new face, staring at herself in the mirror constantly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> One thing that I find interesting with Jae In's metamorphosis is how much Cha Don/Kang Suk despises her for it. He constantly ribs her for using surgery to change her looks. I feel that although he wasn't attracted to her when she was fat, at least he felt some respect for her. But seeing her so desperate to change herself to please others, he seems to have lost that respect for her. At least temporarily. However, despite his disdain of Jae In's surgeries, he's crazy attracted to Ji Hoo—a very beautiful woman who's had so much work her face doesn't move (although that's not really part of the story, just casting). Ironic, that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Speaking of Cha Don/Kang Suk (from here on out, I'll just call him Kang Suk), his character has become more and more interesting. I loved seeing him manipulate and con the gamblers while infiltrating their gambling ring, then turn around and pretend that he was doing it all for justice, and not for the kickbacks. I loved him worshiping his stacks of money in his secret vault, then playing in his fancy imported sports car and posh apartment, only to have everything wrenched from his hands in a fireball set by his own henchman Goo Shik. I loved seeing him manipulate Jae In, as well as their childish bickering, especially when she flipped things around and manipulated him right back out of her bed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But most of all, I love this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Whoever convinced Kang Ji Hwan to don drag in order to "infiltrate the sanatorium" is a sheer genius. Especially since it's not just any drag, it's hanbok drag, since he pretends to think he's the Empress of Joseon. (Does that mean she lived 500 years?) Plus, we get so many little moments of him acting demure, imperious, and indignant, as well as embroidering as said Empress. Pwahahahahaha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (The one thing that bothered me about the whole undercover bit (and it really bothered me) was Goo Shik acting like a person with mental disabilities. I decided to view his acting as being reflective of the <i>character</i>'s view of people with disabilities, and not the writer's/director's/actors'. I think it's the only way I can be okay with it, to be honest.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another great thing about this sequence is the guest appearance of Kim Byung Ok as the nefarious chief of the sanatorium. I loved him in <i>When it's at Night</i>, and he was probably the best character in <i>Fashion King</i>. There's just something awesome about his brand of oiliness when he plays horrible people. Maybe it's just me. Also, how awesomely appropriate is it that he whistles a song from <i>Oliver!</i> while surveying his captives. I guess that makes him Fagin, but a Fagin with a PhD and who eats bugs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This also brings me to the music score in <i>Incarnation of Money</i>. The instrumental theme throughout the drama reminds me of the score for one of my favorite BBC productions—<i>Sherlock</i>. Unfortunately, it's not one of the songs on the officially released OST for <i>Incarnation of Money</i>, so I can't find a good link for comparison. However, the <i>Sherlock</i> theme can be heard <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RptHNep-Kdg&list=PLBFE453D996B0CB59" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> In the past few episodes, this show has been doing a good job of building its sense of urgency and tension. Will Kang Suk find his mother in time? Will he break her out of the sanatorium before she dies of pneumonia? Will he be able to withstand the torture and reconditioning Dr. Fagin puts him through? Will they be able to reclaim their money before the year is up and it is claimed by the State? Will Madame Bok be able to convince Jae In to take over the family business before her dementia progresses too far? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And yet, with all these things hanging in the balance, they don't typically try to draw things out too terribly long. I mean, it only took a couple episodes for Jae In to be revealed to Kang Suk post-surgery. Also, Kang Suk found out that his mother is his mother so much faster than I expected. I mean, I know it's been a driving factor in the plot so far, but he hasn't really had much time with her. And instead of the family photo being misplaced and stolen and intercepted time after time after time, it really only happened once before Kang Suk saw it and made the connection. This gives me hope that there's enough story and twistiness in the plot to sustain quick (for a kdrama) resolutions to these devices. (Please, Show, keep that up. PLEASE.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The final thing I want to address here is Kang Suk's developing character. He was always greedy for money, clever and bold. But as a child, he was also very loving toward his family and Se Kwang, and he was really likable. As an adult, he started off being incredibly immature and pretty obnoxious. I've enjoyed seeing him transition through wanting to promote justice as a prosecutor to using his position to become the Extortion Master, hoarding all his money like his father did before him, to suffering through losing all his assets. His selfishness and egocentric attitude were amusing to watch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But all that was before losing everything and entering the sanatorium. I appreciated his moment of honesty with Jae In, when he drunkenly told her he loves her as a sister, and even thinks of her fondly in that way. (I also loved that Jae In decided to show some pride and stop chasing him around. I feel that this is a huge step for her. Even though she's determined to make him love her, it feels more like she's going to work to be a woman worthy of his love, and not just like she's going to play the inevitable mind games with him. And, let's face it, if she manages to make <i>him</i> chase <i>her</i>, it will be very satisfying.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then there were the moments in the sanatorium when Kang Suk realized how corrupt Dr. Fagin was being in extorting these poor people. And then he realized that he had been no different (except for the whole torture bit, natch) in his own corruption and quest for money. Furthermore, when he realized who his mother was, he seemed to have a major paradigm shift in his worldview. I truly hope that this is the beginning of some major character growth for Kang Suk. I think it would be fascinating to see him using his questionable morals in the pursuit of justice and revenge rather than the pursuit of filthy lucre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">*It's possible that I take these attitudes toward fat people a little too much to heart, but as a fat girl myself, I find them very offensive.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-19501980004248191192013-03-04T19:31:00.000-08:002013-03-14T03:43:25.669-07:00The Horse Healer Guide to Facial Expression(s)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> There's just something about this drama. I like it, but I'm not entirely sure why. It's not the acting, which is okay but not great. It's not the writing. (Again, decent, but nothing special.) And it's definitely not the directing, which is usually quite heavy-handed. (Actually, I blame most of <i>Horse Healer</i>'s faults on the directing.) Although I'm unfamiliar with many of the actors, those I have seen before are not showcasing their talents in this particular drama.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But despite all its faults, there is something that I find very engaging about <i>Horse Healer</i>. And maybe I should blame that on the director as well. I'm not entirely sure what that ineffable something is, but for now I'm hooked. I can't say that I <i>love</i> this drama. Nor do I feel like it's drama crack. But I enjoy watching it, and I find myself looking forward to the next opportunity to watch more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It's especially strange for me to feel this drawn to a drama for this long (24+ episodes and counting). Even marathoning it, I'm still fully engaged. By this point, my love for <i>The Great Queen Seondeok</i> was seriously beginning to wane, and I peaked at episode 26. <i>Gaksital</i> is probably the longest drama I watched all the way through, but the last several episodes I watched more out of sheer determination than actual addiction. I found that I had to force myself to watch them, even though I enjoyed them all. It just stopped pulling at me so much for some reason. (However, in looking back on <i>Gaksital</i>, I still feel that it holds up as an amazing drama, and I do love it. I'm just not sure that I can watch much of it again. Especially not the torture scenes.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>Horse Healer</i> has its requisite gory surgery scenes (it <i>is</i> a medical drama, after all), but they aren't as frequent as, say <i>Dr. Jin</i>. It also has your typical ineffectual villains, birth secrets, torture, and crazy storylines. The main character Baek Kwang Hyun is also able easily to overcome every obstacle and is practically perfect in every way. He <i>should</i> be more boring than he is, but instead I find myself really liking him. (There is also a particular story arc where his trouble isn't resolved in just one episode, and it feels like for once he can't just wave his magic acupuncture needle and resolve everything. It's truly the most satisfying plotline so far.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> And maybe what I love about this drama is the fact that even though it's trying hard, it's not really overreaching itself. Plus, it has many of the elements that I find endearing in kdramas, such as its sweetness, earnestness, innocence and the slow-burn romance that we often see in sageuks. Don't get me wrong. I love the passionate, bickering, fiery romances of most other dramas, but sometimes it's nice to just take things slow, too. And that's most fitting in this kind of story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> With all that, I've decided one of my favorite things about this drama is the freeze frame at the end of every episode. Most of the time, it's like the director just says "Okay, Cho Seung Woo (Kwang Hyun), give me your freeze-frame face." <b>Seung Woo:</b> "Are you sure? Maybe we could try something a little more subtle this time." <b>Director:</b> "I don't DO subtle! Now do The Face!" Seriously, it's the same expression almost every time. There are exceptions, but for the most part, it's his shocked face. (Teenage Kwang Hyun's version is always open-mouthed. Heehee.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So, because I find it so amusing, I've decided to compile the freeze frames from each episode in one place. And I'm generous enough to share. You can thank me with cookies later.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 1: Even baby Kwang Hyun knows to make The Face.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 3: Crying face.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 4: "My horse just did <i>what</i>?!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't look an ailing gift horse in the hoof.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 6: "My poor little pony."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 7: "Poopy hands! Poopy Hands! Nursie has poopy hands!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 8: Don't worry about memorizing it. You'll see this face a lot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 9: "Who's that guy? And why is he so chummy with my crush?"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 10: "I can do it too!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 11: "I swear I didn't do it!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 12: "I can do it! I can do it nine times!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 13: "You didn't know I'm a genius?"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 14: "Nothing can stop me! Not even broken bones."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 15: "That's a sharp sword. And it's pointed at my neck."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 16: "He is not dead yet. He can dance and he can sing."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 17: "Wait, <i>who's</i> that again?"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 18: Pink slipped.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 19: "Just listen to me for once!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Episode 20: "Wait. Let me get this straight. You're telling me that the guy who repeatedly tried to kill me and is generally out to ruin my life doesn't like me?"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-17841982602398906852013-02-18T16:16:00.003-08:002013-02-22T18:18:40.382-08:00Incarnation of Money is Really Just an Incarnation of Stereotypes and Insipidity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Seriously, what is WITH this show? The promotional material explained that it was going to be a drama about a man in a mental institution who is broken out by the daughter of a loan shark who needs him to help her take over her mother's operations. It's written and directed by the same people who brought us the awesome and unpredictable <i>History of the Salaryman</i>. It stars Kang Ji Hwan, who makes everything he's in sparkle and shine, even if it's not very good. It also stars Hwang Jung Eum, who easily won me over in <i>Full House Take 2</i> despite my great reluctance to like anything about that show. There's also murder, intrigue, betrayal, and murder. This drama should be amazing, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Yet somehow, it isn't anything close to amazing. Firstly, 6 episodes in, <i>Incarnation of Money</i> has majorly suffered from what I'll call <i>TMTETS</i>-itis. What is that, you ask? It's the phenomenon where an interesting setup raises all our expectations, and then we have incredible performances by child actors who raise the stakes even more. And yet, the adult actors don't come anywhere close to carrying on the upward impetus created by their talented juniors. Which in this case is even more depressing, because Kang Ji Hwan is usually so awesome. Yet, incredibly, and defying all past experience, he's just not very good in <i>Incarnation of Money</i>. (Also, his haircut is atrocious. A crime against humanity. And a hate-crime against his handsome face.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I felt that Park Ji Bin created such a fascinating character in Kang Suk/Cha Don to begin with—a charismatic young man who is betrayed by everyone around him except his mother, who is torn from her brutally by the man he admired most. A young man who loses his memory, yet still holds on to his love for his mother, despite not remembering her. A young man whose personality was drastically changed by the same accident that stole his past, and yet was still a dynamic and interesting person that I liked. Even when he told Jae In that she was fat and stupid and he could never like someone like her. He really carried this drama in the first three episodes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All Kang Ji Hwan had to do was take this over and continue with his characteristic ability to be silly and smart and charismatic. I mean, this role was practically written for him. And the first time we saw him again as an adult, I was convinced that that would be exactly how things would pan out. I loved the ridiculousness of him admiring himself in the shower and wondering where he'd gotten his good looks. Plus, there was the added bonus of it being a shower scene.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So what happened? Where did he go so wrong? I don't know, but I can tell you that the new, matured version of Kang Suk/Cha Don is caddish instead of charmingly arrogant. He's selfish and single-minded in his pursuit of his dream, but he just comes across as obnoxious, instead of likable. Mostly, though—and worst of all—he's basically just boring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And it's not just him. Almost all the characters suffer from being uninteresting. (The most notable exception is Jae In's mom Bok Hwa Sool. Who isn't as mysterious as they'd like to make her seem, but she's definitely acting her heart out. Also, Kang Suk's mom <i>may</i> be interesting, but she's spent most of her time crying or driven to insanity. (Another side note—if Mom's in a padded room, how did she ever get some glass to cut people with?!?)) Ji Se Kwang is interesting on paper—the murdering, thieving, betrayer of Kang Suk's entire family who sees himself as a moral and righteous prosecutor trying to make the world better. But, aside from the scenes where he murdered Kang Suk's dad, played double agent in getting Kang Suk's mom convicted for the crime, and tried to orchestrate Kang Suk's own death, he's also proven himself to be boring. And not very effectual in accomplishing his nefarious deeds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> His former lover and co-conspirator Eun Bi Ryung is screechy-boring. She does nothing but cry and whine and pout. She says she wants revenge, but it's pretty clear she doesn't have the brains to actually get anything accomplished. Meh. I can't even work up enough interest to hate her, or even be annoyed by her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All the rest of the secondary characters seem to be so one-sided—the plotting yet ineffectual baddies, the corrupt lawyers and politicians, the bumbling "good guys." None of them have done much to stand out. None of them seem to have depth to their personalities. None of them manage to be more than stock cliches—they're all more set dressing than actual characters. And so many of them have such similar features/characteristics, that they all blend together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Jeon Ji Hoo may yet prove to be interesting, but she's had so little screen time, it's hard to tell for sure. She's a tough girl who rides a bullet bike for starters. And I'm definitely intrigued by her cold, unflinching ability to analyze brutal murders, especially now that we've seen that she's not as unaffected as she pretends. But it's too early to tell if she has more to her than that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Jae In, the love-starved binge-eater, was mildly interesting as an adolescent. It was understandable that she'd take an interest in Kang Suk, but it was creepy that her interest was a romantic one, considering the fact that everybody basically thought him so severely brain-damaged as to be practically a walking vegetable. Emotional scarring can be a great basis for developing an interesting character. Borderline predatory behavior is just frightening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As an adult, Jae In showed some promise when she showed spunk and refused Kang Suk/Cha Don's early attempts to charm her into helping him out. But that quickly devolved into a slavish devotion to him, which culminated in her humiliation and determination to undergo a complete plastic makeover in order to get revenge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And the worst part about her character is that she's such a horrible stereotype of a fat person. She's stupid,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">frivolous, desperately lonely, and she</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> eats massive amounts of food all the time. She's never had a boyfriend. She's a bad, yet desperate kisser. She's portrayed as repulsive and unworthy of love or respect <i>because</i> she's overweight. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wish I could say that Hwang Jung Eum plays her with sensitivity and verve. She doesn't.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She's written by someone who buys in to all those stereotypes, and it's made even more cringe-worthy by the fact that the same attitude seems to be shared by the entire cast, as well as the director. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> This brings me to the writing and directing. After being so enchanted by the zippy, hilarious, and quirky <i>History of the Salaryman</i>, I felt that it was a given that <i>Incarnation of Money</i> would have a similar vibe. <i>History of a Salaryman</i> drew me in quickly. The plot is good, and the pacing suits the story for the most part. (The last third starts to drag, but that's the rule rather than the exception with kdramas, unfortunately.) The characters were interesting and unusual 3-dimensional people. The writing subverted expectations and cliches at every turn, and the plot was nicely twisty and took unexpected turns. I've heard good things about <i>Giant</i>, the other major project these two have helmed together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But those delightful things are sadly missing from <i>Incarnation of Money</i>. I keep waiting for things to be funny. There are very, <i>very</i> brief moments of humor, but they are so sparse. I was understanding in the first few episodes, since it's hard to find even dark humor in the destruction of a teenager's life at the hands of the adults closest to him (although, I don't doubt that this team could manage to make things darkly amusing if they tried). But things aren't really promising in the funny department still. (I do occasionally laugh for all the wrong reasons, though.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Aside from the lack of humorous moments in this drama, the plot has yet to take off. When Kang Suk was running for his life, things seemed to be moving along, but that has also stalled. The story seems to be spinning its wheels, thinking it's just stuck in the mud. But I'm afraid that this drama is high-centered, and is blissfully unaware. And I worry that it's content to stay that way, using up all its gas without bothering to get out and assess the situation, before correcting its problems and really taking off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another problem is that the mystery element is quite lackluster. They've built up certain things so much, with the obvious intention of having a Big Reveal later down the road, but then things aren't as complex or mysterious as they want us to think they are. For example, I'd pretty much figured out who the Gentleman of Jingogae is by the end of the episode in which he was first discussed. I just don't feel that there are unexpected plot twists on our horizon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> And we haven't even gotten anywhere close to the main conceit of this show, and I worry that the story will take off on a different path and bypass it. Which is so sad, because that conceit was one of the biggest selling points for me. The thought of Kang Ji Hwan's character being busted out of a mental institution is full of potential for hilarity and drama. Having to help his savior become a top-notch loan shark, despite being a straight-arrow prosecutor himself, is just more fuel for awesome. Please, Show, let's get back to that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Let's also get some funny up in here. Kang Ji Hwan and Hwang Jung Eum, you both have so much talent and potential. The same goes for you, Writer-nim and PD-nim. I know that this drama is slated for 24 episodes, so it has more room to gradually unfold. I also know that it's a weekend drama, which is a different beast from the weekday dramas. I also know that the actors who are rounding out the cast are capable of creating phenomenal characters who are interesting and well-developed. I know that this show can be awesome. Despite all my complaints, I'm going to admit that I want you to succeed. I want you to live up to your potential. I just want to love you. I'm cheering for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm willing to give you another week. Fighting!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854958431412362478.post-54325434644892925432013-02-13T05:17:00.000-08:002013-02-13T05:17:29.860-08:00Kekkon Shinai Episode 10 Recap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The penultimate episode. Finally, a little honesty up in here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Episode 10: A Woman's Life, the Final Choice</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei and Mizuki go back to his place and kiss. Junpei isn't really into it, and Mizuki pulls back. When he asks her why, she says that she doesn't need to rush things—once they get to Paris, they'll have forever to be together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> However, Chiharu and Takahara <i>do</i> sleep together. Although Chiharu is consenting, it's clear she's not happy. Especially when she has to close her eyes just to get through the first kiss. (And not in a sweet/romantic way.) In the morning, she's sitting up and staring out the window, and it's pretty clear she stayed up all night. As a tear falls, Takahara wakes up and asks her what's wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> She wonders the same thing, telling herself that she <i>should</i> feel relieved. Takahara wraps his arms around her and tells her that he'll always be there for her and that he wants to marry her. Isn't that why they're dating? She agrees and he pulls her closer as she forces a smile, but it doesn't last.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko wakes up to her empty house and realizes she'll have to make her own breakfast. She's also unhappy. When she leaves for work, she forlornly stares at the extra helmet on the back of her bike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei gets up and leaves to buy breakfast. Mizuki wanders around and notices his painting. She slides it out and admires its beauty, and the card from Chiharu falls out. She reads it and her expression changes to one of determination. When he gets back, she eyes the painting for a while and then asks him if he wants her to send it off to Paris along with her own paintings she's sending. He reluctantly agrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Takahara drops Chiharu off at her family home. Before he leaves, Mom comes out and he introduces himself. Much to Chiharu's surprise and dismay, he also tells Mom that they're dating and have a good relationship. He apologizes for not making his formal greetings, but promises to come back later in order to do so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu's family congratulate her at the breakfast table, and Chinatsu is the most vocal about her excitement, despite Chiharu's protests that she hasn't really decided to marry Takahara yet. Chiharu asks if she can move back home for a while, and Dad decides it's because she wants to leave as a bride from their home. Chinatsu starts making plans to help with the wedding, and suggests that "he" should make Chiharu's bouquet, too. Chiharu protests again that it's not a set thing, but Mom notices her sadness at the thought of Junpei. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> When she gets to work, Playa and Boy Crazy awkwardly try to express their sadness that she's leaving. Boy Crazy tries to say reassuring things, but just keeps making it worse. Takahara comes in as Chiharu head outside to sweep, and asks her if she's free the next night. They set up a date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the shop, Mai hangs up a flier advertising for a part-time worker and asks about Junpei's going-away party the next night. (Uh-oh. I sense conflict.) She chatters about how fun it will be, especially with Chiharu. Haruko replies that Chiharu can't come, and makes an excuse that she's so busy with work that she moved out for a while. She runs upstairs to get something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mai admires the Cymbidium orchids Junpei is setting out and asks what they mean in flower language. He answers that they mean "With an Honest Heart." (Good, I can only hope that this foreshadows more honesty in this episode.) Mai tells him that her friend has been urging her to be more honest lately, so Junpei decides to make her a bouquet of orchids as a farewell and good luck gift. As Haruko runs back downstairs, she almost passes out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mai stops by the travel agency to invite Chiharu to the party. Chiharu glances at an apprehensive Takahara and says that she's busy. Chiharu repeats what Haruko said about her being busy, but urges her to come anyway, since they don't know when they might see one another again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu says that Junpei leaving for Paris is a good thing, and has to explain to Mai that he's moving forward with his life. He'll be striving to do his best, so Chiharu feels that she needs to do the same. After Mai expresses her wish to see Chiharu at the party, Takahara interrupts and encourages her to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko visits the doctor and finds out that she has uterine fibroids that are quite large and will require surgery. They may have to remove the entire uterus, even. She goes home and tries to call Mother, but only gets her voicemail. She reflects on the need to have a guardian present for her surgery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Mai waits for her crush and then works up the courage to tell him she loves him. She even gives him her orchids. Awww.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As Junpei packs, he gets a call to meet with Gallery Owner. Gallery Owner expresses his surprise that Junpei is the person going with Mizuki to Paris and asks if he thinks he'll make it big by going there. He admits that he heard from "that woman who made a scene to get the painting back." She came to apologize and told him</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Because a person's potential is infinite, to brand them as having no talent is strange. When a person who doesn't understand what a painting is trying to say just laughs it off, that's just harassing them. Even if they aren't shining now, then tomorrow more than today, and 10 years from now more than tomorrow, with effort and passion, there's a possibility they can open up their talent."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Gallery Owner apologizes and says that he's already a great painter, since he has such a fan. Junpei barely holds in his emotions—wonder, sorrow for losing/never going after Chiharu, and pleasure at the compliment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko prepares food for the party. Hilariously, it's take-out. She offers an excuse of being too busy, but we all know it's because Chiharu was the cook of the family. Mai laments Chiharu's absence, and both Haruko and Junpei brighten up when they hear that she invited her and she was planning on coming. They look at each other awkwardly and try to pretend not to be excited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiharu approaches the building, but stops outside and stares at her key. Mai asks to visit him in Paris and wonders if Mizuki could really be Junpei's girlfriend. She admits that she always thought he was more suited for Chiharu. She asks Haruko to back her up, and Haruko agrees. Junpei argues that it's not true, and changes the subject by asking Haruko to come to Paris some day with Chiharu. Haruko turns and stares at the door regretfully and Chiharu runs away from confronting her friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Later, Junpei heads to the kitchen to clean up, but stops short when he notices the sponge. He remembers back to drawing the lifeline on Chiharu's hand. Haruko insists on doing the cleanup, but crashes into a shelf on her way to the kitchen. She pretends that she's just a bit tipsy. She hides out on the terrace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Junpei joins her, bringing her a coffee and a blanket. He remarks that Chiharu won't be coming after all, and Haruko admits that they had a fight and she left. When he asks why they fought, she says that Chiharu can't find her own path if she's always dependent on Haruko. She admits that she feels a bit ashamed, and that even though Chiharu often annoyed her, once she was gone, she started to miss her. Junpei says that because she came to know someone, she also came to know loneliness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiharu heads to the garden, and gets there just as the fountain starts spraying. Haruko comments that Chiharu brazenly entered her solitary life that she loved. She always worried about others, and plunged into things without worrying about getting hurt (except her feelings for Junpei, that is). But, for all that, Chiharu is honest, and she saved Haruko. Junpei agrees and says that she saved him too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mai and Junpei walk home, and Mai laments the fact that Chiharu never showed up. She recounts their earlier conversation and says that Junpei is taking one step forward. He's also inspired her to take one step forward and confess, like he told her, with an honest heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiharu waits in the garden, and Junpei considers Mai's last words "With an honest heart." Suddenly, he takes off running. We cut back and forth between Chiharu waiting in the garden and Junpei running to see her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But when he gets there the bench is empty, and Chiharu is headed home. He collapses to his knees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The next day Takahara takes Chiharu to the waterfront. He asks if she remembers when he said that he wasn't doing this halfway. He holds out a ring and asks her to marry him. I love her answer: "But I'm 35." Haha! He asks what's wrong with that, and she answers that she probably can't meet his conditions. He answers that his only condition is having feelings for the other person. She protests that she may not be able to have kids, and he responds that medicine has improved so much. Besides, if they can't have kids, they'll just be a family of 2. What about her unemployment? He offers to support her as she finds what she wants to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "You're important to me. That's why I want to marry you. It may be sudden, but I feel this is the timing for getting married." He hands her the ring and offers to wait for her answer. Seriously, the man said all the right things, and he's so sincere, and if Chiharu had feelings for him, I'd totally be swooning right now. Now, if Junpei said those things, it would be a different story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Junpei pulls out his phone and pulls up Chiharu's number, but he chickens out. Instead, he pulls out a sketchpad and happily sets to work. His phone rings, and he jumps for it anxiously, but his face falls when he sees it's just Mizuki. Apparently, there's a change in their departure date. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Tanigawa takes Haruko to a nice restaurant. He talks about feeling lonely, and how that loneliness has increased since his mother's death. He admits that it may seem foolish at his age, but it's precisely because of his age that he's realized that he wants to spend the rest of his life with someone. Haruko cluelessly encourages him, but stops short when he asks if she would spend the rest of her life with him. He asks if he's not good enough. Haruko pauses, then thanks him and admits that she doesn't have the confidence for that. She apologizes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Chiharu searches through the kitchen and her mom asks what she's doing. She admits that she suddenly wanted coffee for some reason. (Aww! She's missing Haruko but won't admit it!) She runs off to her room and stares at The Ring. When she hears a knock, she hurries and hides it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mom comes in with some instant coffee she found. Chiharu's room is practically a nursery now, filled with baby things. But there are also some bridal magazines courtesy of Chinatsu for Chiharu to study. Mom asks about Takahara, then asks Chiharu if she loves him. She says that she hasn't reached that point yet, so Mom shouldn't make any plans for now. Mom admits that she feels some regret towards Chiharu. She's always pushed her to get married, but she might have just pushed her into a corner instead. Chiharu says that's not true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mom tells Chiharu that marriage isn't a goal—instead, "it's a point you pass through, and it goes on every day from there. That's why I feel it's important to want to be with the person you can accumulate the always-unchanging days with." Mom asks if Chiharu has consulted with Haruko, since she's her closest friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the shop Junpei is finishing his last day, and the women ask about his travel plans. He explains that his plans changed and he'll be leaving that night at 9 on the bus to the airport. Haruko is troubled and worried. Junpei writes up the card for the orchids and pauses to think about their meaning, but sighs and continues on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu finishes with some customers, and Takahara asks her if she's free at 9. He wants to hear her answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei says his last goodbyes, and Haruko asks if he's been able to meet with Chiharu. He tells her he hasn't, "But it's okay." He pauses, then pulls out his sketchbook and asks Haruko to give it to Chiharu. "It's best if you reconcile, right?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Chiharu sits in the garden contemplating The Ring again. Haruko calls, and she reluctantly answers. Haruko tells her that Junpei is leaving tonight, and Chiharu says it's okay, because there's nothing between them any more. So please just let it go. "I'm sorry, however angry you may be. The one thing you shouldn't do is betray your own feelings. It seems that to Junpei, there is no one more important than you." She has the drawing he did of Chiharu with a big smile, and at the bottom he thanks her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko urges her to make her choice for her own future, too. She needs to choose the person she will share her life with. "It's your future, so don't regret it." Chiharu starts crying and Haruko yells that she needs to be honest with herself. "Honesty is your truest characteristic, so you need to apply it to yourself. If you don't move now, I will never forgive you." Finally, Chiharu laughs through her tears and stands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Haruko wishes her luck, then collapses, clutching her stomach in pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Junpei waits at the bus station, then heads to his terminal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And Chiharu runs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> What a cliffhanger! I have to say that this show is pretty good at them—they usually feel natural, yet keep the suspense going. Not all dramas are able to work that balance so well. Yeah, <i>Faith</i>, you are a particularly bad example. But it's just another of the many things I think <i>Kekkon Shinai</i> does right. I also love that there's drama and tension here, but it's not unbelievable or over-the-top. Sure the plot twists are nothing new, but they're still executed well, so things don't feel uneven or unbalanced.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Another thing I noticed in this episode is the frequency of people handing things to others. Mai did it with the flowers, Takahara with the ring, Mom with the coffee, and Junpei with the drawing. Each time they hand something over, it's symbolic of opening their hearts and being honest. It's just too bad that Junpei and Chiharu didn't give anything to each other. (They actually never even interacted in this episode. So weird.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This drama is also so good at exploring the many options available to us in our lives, especially in the field of romance and dating. I know I've mentioned it before, but Takahara is such a great catch. He's not some sleazeball, or jerk, or secretly married man. He's really quite perfect as far as we've seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But the choice here isn't between the nice guy and the bad boy, or the funny guy, or the immature-yet-adorable guy. The choice presented is between two great guys who have lots to offer. Both are kind and sweet and talented and patient. The choice Chiharu is given is to find out which guy she is happy to be with. Which man is the one who pulls at her heart. And which guy, despite his flaws, does she want to make a future with. The answer is clear to everyone. And, finally, I think it's clear to Chiharu. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm so happy that Haruko is such a meddler. Really, she only meddles in Chiharu's affairs, and it's always in the best way, with the best intentions. If it weren't for her help, Chiharu would still be stuck in Denialsville, and Junpei wouldn't have had the encouragement he needed to even think of approaching her. Now, if she could just open up to Tanigawa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So now the question is this: is Chiharu running to catch Junpei or to save Haruko?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>K-What?!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/03457391308156301703noreply@blogger.com0