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Post by Lucyunlogged on Mar 22, 2005 17:56:15 GMT -5
She is silly. Clearly Eun-soo had to DO something to get that money he gave her. So why not look at what he did - i.e. read the book! I thought about that, but it strikes me as entirely in character. She doesn't really care what he does as long as it brings money and prestige. She likes the fact that he is a writer if it means he earns money and maybe becomes famous. If he were a writer and got no recognition, she wouldn't take any pride in it. So as long as he has loot to hand over, that's all she cares about. What a shallow woman! Hey, where's poppa, by the way? He's still off in his hometown? I wonder if the actor had to take a few days off for some reason. Maybe he needed some peace and quiet after listening to Jung-ae screaming on the set all the time. :-) Or maybe he's gone to get that thing removed from his eye. (Oh, I feel bad about saying that. I love that guy. But why the big mole on his eye?)
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Post by panther on Mar 22, 2005 22:07:08 GMT -5
Hi panther - I seem to recall that the show was entitled "My Adorable You" or something like that. I don't want to say that anything else HAS to be better but Isure have some hopes for it! Are you in the Philly or Chicago area? Liz im in philly
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Post by Soju on Mar 22, 2005 23:04:54 GMT -5
Why watch the show if you dont't really care for it? I think (at least for me) that it's because they keep the plot busy, always throwing stuff at us. But it's really just churning. I read here and on the Yahoo! board how some folks don't watch for a week or several, and when they look in again, feel nothing has advanced.
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Post by hachiue on Mar 22, 2005 23:38:10 GMT -5
Yah, you guys, come down to the comedy club to see panther & thebo, standup for the well-heeled. Hachuie and Lucy have abandoned me... Bo Oh I'm so sorry. We formed our own comedy club. It's elite. But then it got boring because our humor was even over our own heads. I didn't realize until five minutes ago that I'd been cracking jokes to myself for the past six hours with no listeners. The state of humor today - sigh. I also get the feeling that the plot never advances, but it does. It's just not immediately obvious because the characters on the show don't change how they act based on the plot. I mean, eunsoo's married, the book's finished, eunsoo and younglan and co. are friends, esm and dd have gone from hating the kids to loving them to wanting to sue them. Speaking of that stupid father - I can't believe his gall saying to heesoo "sweetheart, we're suing your brother, okay?" What's she supposed to say to that?
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Post by TheBo on Mar 23, 2005 10:36:15 GMT -5
....Speaking of that stupid father - I can't believe his gall saying to heesoo "sweetheart, we're suing your brother, okay?" What's she supposed to say to that? Umm, how about, "Okay, respected father, but first, your thief--I mean, wife--is going to jail." Bo PS - Stop talking to yourself. I'm not funny laughing.
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Post by sandy on Mar 24, 2005 1:00:40 GMT -5
I think ESM is reaping what she's sown. The only reason she's back at home is because of Hee-soo who truly felt sorry for Jin-kook's family. Dumb dad had a heart attack? after hearing that his lovely wife cheated him out of money from the family business. Poor Jin-soo almost died from knowing that Mom was gone and Dad was sick.
Hee-soo brought them all together, but she was treated very coldly by ESM who then expected her to treat her as the "mother" of the family. Dumb dad still is in "dreamland" thinking that his wife is the young, innocent girl that he married after his first wife died. ESM took Dumb dad for his money, then she was taken by Mr. Park, but she was able to return home because of Hee-soo.
Dumb dad is dense and not very bright relying on his wife to tell him what's happening.
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Post by mikey on Mar 24, 2005 10:33:58 GMT -5
Hee-soo brought them all together, but she was treated very coldly by ESM who then expected her to treat her as the "mother" of the family. As others have suggested, I have to wonder (in spite of this show's general superficiality) if there might be a subplot here that we Americans are missing. Traditional Korean society all but mandates respect for one’s elders . . . but does that include a mother-in-law who lied to the family, disappeared with most of the family’s fortune, and (for that matter) is hardly much older than the daughter-in-law who valiantly held the family together after the MIL took off with all the loot? It’s a potentially promising subplot, one that could raise some interestingly controversial issues about traditional vs. modern Korean culture. But, if that’s what the writers intended, it seems as if they’re doing absolutely nothing with it!
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Post by toranaga on Mar 24, 2005 11:17:58 GMT -5
THERE are two other potential subplots that could also have been explored.one is the extremely close relationship between jee-hae and her dad is atypical for an asian family,though of course asian men love their daughters but their relationships aren't what you see in the dramas they are usually dictatorial in nature and not really close emotionally.I read an article about this sometime ago and it pretty much confirmed what I had already suspected. ALSO the fact that hee-soo is having girls and jin-kook stated he wanted girls is really atypical from what I know about societys based on confucian principles,and twin girls no less,I'M sure that i read somewhere that twins were considered a sign of bad luck.I don't know if you guys knew about but korea and china have a law prohibiting abortion based on the sex of the child because so many female babies were aborted.
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Post by TheBo on Mar 24, 2005 15:14:17 GMT -5
...I don't know if you guys knew about but korea and china have a law prohibiting abortion based on the sex of the child because so many female babies were aborted. I seem to remember the characters discussing this in OMR, and I was rather shocked to hear it. I mean, that they needed such a law. I knew China had it, but this is because there is a limit on how many children one may have at all, and people didn't want a girl to be that child. (Rather tough on the future generations side, though--no girls, no more babies.) However, in China, the law is frequently flouted. Bo
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Post by hachiue on Mar 24, 2005 16:42:11 GMT -5
I heard that in China they were having population problems so they relaxed the mandate of couples having only one child and are now allowing them to have more in many cases.
It's funny to think of countries having laws that say you can only have one child and no more, especially when many other countries are having problems specifically because couples are only having one child instead of more.
How do I miss these things? I didn't know Heesoo was having girls. I just remembered twins. I must be losing my mind.
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