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Post by Soju on Aug 5, 2003 18:37:20 GMT -5
Young-joon is starting to get kinda scary. There's all the heavy drinking, and, really, stalking Jae-young and her baby. As a result, he's now lost his fiancee. I'm sure we all cheered that, but I won't be satisfied 'til I see her get on the plane. And how much longer can he keep his job like this?
He says it was just a coincidence he was there to take her to the hospital, but how many times was he just hanging out there, without Jae-young or her Grandma's friend coming out?
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Post by galacticchick on Aug 6, 2003 8:26:10 GMT -5
If your worried about Young-joon, I am worried and getting a wee bit annoyed with Ja-young.
How much longer must she keep this up? Yes, yes I know the whole thing about his grandma and her approval and all that, but this guy truly sincerely loves her AND her child.
She is resigning herself to a life of lovelessnes (to a certain degree anyway) all because she insists in holding on to archaic traditions and mindsets. Heck, even her grandma was all for her marrying YJ, even if her grandma did disapprove.
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Post by JadeEyes on Aug 6, 2003 9:42:12 GMT -5
Young-joon is acting like something of a stalker, in that he keeps showing up when he's been told on no uncertain terms to stay away and get out of her life. I guess the difference is, we know he's not dangerous. The classic stalker is someone who could pose a threat.
In another sense, however, it's almost as though he's "evening the score" to some extent. Ja-young made his life suddenly and horrendously hellish by disappearing w/o warning, putting him through the wringer and breaking up w/ him in a very cruel and almost heartless manner. Now here he is, showing up w/o warning, against her explicit wishes and making things a little uncomfortable for her. I especially felt this in the scene where she tried to reach him on his cell phone after she found out he paid her hospital bill; he saw from his caller ID it was her and let it go to voicemail, driving off w/o answering. How many times did he call her after she stole away to Chuncheon, only to be unanswered and ignored by him? He doesn't owe her taking her calls at this point.
He probably will stay away from now on....at least for now. I have to wonder too if he didn't orchestrate things subconsciously for Hyun-ji to find out and break up w/ him. I'm very surprised she would abandon her quest over this. For months she chased after a man who demanded she go home and leave him alone, telling her he planned to marry someone else. Still she hung on relentlessly. It seemed no degradation was too much to deter her from her mission. Now, because she knows he went to the hospital a couple of times to see his ex who just gave birth to someone else's baby she decides it's too much to tolerate and she's dumping him? She's probably one of these extremely spoiled people who only wants what she can't have and loses interest the minute she gets it.
Good riddance, I say!
Jade Eyes
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Post by ArdenJoy on Aug 6, 2003 11:38:25 GMT -5
Yes, as much as I feel bad for Young-joon and hope desperately that in the end he'll be together with Ja-young, I have to say some of his actions have been a bit disturbing... It seems like every time even the slightest thing goes wrong, he heads straight to the bars for a long evening of drinking. Granted, I've noticed that Sang-min exhibits the same quality...I wonder if that's just accepted practice in Korea... Then there's the whole, not taking no for an answer, issue. Which of course makes for a much more romantic plot line, but were he doing that in real life, it'd actually be kind of frightening.  |
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Post by galacticchick on Aug 6, 2003 13:16:12 GMT -5
Then there's the whole, not taking no for an answer, issue. By those standards we've got to accuse Ja-young of being a semi-stalker at the beginning of the drama. Remember the number of times Sangmin told her it was over and she would tell him that she couldn't let him do that? That she wouldn't take no for an answer? And then that one time she waited outisde in the dead of WINTER waiting for him outside his apartment building.  Me thinks that in these dramas all of the main characters have that "potential stalker quality" (or is it defect?) about them that takes just the right amount of pain and suffering to be let out. |
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Post by ArdenJoy on Aug 6, 2003 13:20:38 GMT -5
Me thinks that in these dramas all of the main characters have that "potential stalker quality" (or is it defect?) about them that takes just the right amount of pain and suffering to be let out. Lol - good point. Plus, like I said, it just makes for a much better story line. If Young-joon just disappeared the first time Ja-young said no...well...there wouldn't be much of a story, now would there? ;D |
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Post by JadeEyes on Aug 6, 2003 15:47:21 GMT -5
By those standards we've got to accuse Ja-young of being a semi-stalker at the beginning of the drama. Remember the number of times Sangmin told her it was over and she would tell him that she couldn't let him do that? That she wouldn't take no for an answer? And then that one time she waited outisde in the dead of WINTER waiting for him outside his apartment building. Me thinks that in these dramas all of the main characters have that "potential stalker quality" (or is it defect?) about them that takes just the right amount of pain and suffering to be let out. And let's not forget how many times Ja-young returned to Grandma Sohn's home to beg her again and again for consent to marry, no matter how many times Grandma told her it was useless to keep asking and not come back anymore. Even when they wouldn't let her into the house, she stood outside ringing the bell over and over, not giving up. LOL! I guess that kind of makes her a stalker too. Maybe it's something in Korean culture, or maybe it's what ArdenJoy said...they think it makes for good drama, so they employ it amply. Jade Eyes |
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