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Post by jenny on Sept 20, 2003 0:31:52 GMT -5
After reading some of these threads, it has reminded me that there seem to be some dead end plot lines. Maybe some of you can help me out: what was the point of: - That guy in Mi Ryung's dad's office, Yoon Sik. I read a question about him in another thread and it got me wondering. At one point I thought MR would have to settle for this guy, after Tae Young and Sun Joo married, but that obviously isn't the case. So why is this guy here? To throw us off track? TY and MR's marrage was a suprise,tho, so it worked. Or maybe he is famous, and it's an honor to have him on the show? I know he is in Wife, or he was in the couple of episodes that I saw. - Sun Joo's assistant/valet Moon Ki.(You know, that guy who brought SJ's car around for her, and told her when it needed repairs) He just disappeared without a word! I thought for sure (again, I'm so sure) that SJ would fall for him and follow in her father's and sister's footsteps and marry her employee. Is this guy famous, or maybe a pop star? (like my Yoon Sik theory) Why would they give an extra a credit in the opening sequence? This guy's presence confused me. - Mi Ryung's missing ring. I've read alot about her cooking the rice before she lost it, but why wasn't there a kooky TY-chokes-on-the-ring scene? What was the point? - Grandma Sohn's CT scan of her knee. Was this supposed to make her contemplate death, and then look back on her life and make her see what she's done to Ja Young? Last time I checked, a knee injury wasn't life-threatening (although at that point I'm sure we were all rooting for it ) - And finally, Ki Hoon's part time job at the Chinese restaurant. Yes, I know this is where he was to meet Na Young, but if his father has enough money to buy KH an apartment AND offer to pay NY's tuition, why was his son working his way through college? Yellow Handkerchief is such a wonderful drama, and all of these loose ends are suprisingly sloppy. Hopefully, there will be some closure eventually. But for now, if anyone could enlighten me on these subjects, I'd appreciate it!
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Post by aYsHuN on Sept 20, 2003 10:32:32 GMT -5
[glow=beige,2,300]Yes I too also wonder why Young-Sik is in the show. I think that he might be in the show because he will pair off with someone else later on in the shows? Or maybe there just hacing fun[/glow]
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Post by JadeEyes on Sept 20, 2003 11:57:21 GMT -5
This may come as a real surprise, but before YH, I was a rabid Sopranos fan. I realize this probably seems wildly incongrouous --- 2 shows so completely different. One probably wouldn't think someone who could be addicted to a show that's horribly violent, has oodles of graphic nudity, sex and profanity could also have an insatiable passion for a daily drama that is very restricted by the culture in which its produced in what it can depict in terms of those same ingredients....and the themes the 2 shows deal with our so much at opposite ends of the spectrum. But that's me for you: a mystery wrapped in an enigma! ;D
Anyway, when the show was in current run (its in rerun now until next March at the earliest) I frequented a discussion forum for it and one of the big complaints by disgruntled fans was how many endless dropped plots there were, and loose ends that were never gotten back to and tied off or tidied. I was a bigger defender than most, but even I will admit The Sopranos sure did leave a lot of loose ends and dropped plots that went no where and were never picked up again.
Even so, The Sopranos has nothing on dropped plots and go-no where leads when it comes to Yellow Handkerchief. They do this more than any other show I've ever seen. They do it so often, I can't say if it's deliberate to make some point, or it's a real weakness of the writer, or if they start out trying out different ideas that end up not working as well as they hoped and they decide simply to ditch them. Who knows?
For instance, the other day, Grandma Wey had to go out somewhere and reminded Mi-ryung she had to pick up Ji-min at a certain time. MR assured her she would not forget, and Grandma left for her errand. Immediately, both my husband and I said "uh-oh!", figuring she'd forget or fall asleep, etc. and Ji-min would be left waiting alone at the shool and fall into the hands of Woon-kyu, dropping by to make his usual trouble.
Instead, nothing happened. We must assume she remembered to pick up Ji-min as instructed, end of story. So why mention it at all? I watched the next morning to see if maybe a scene was left out...there were a couple of new scenes, but nothing about MR being late to pick up Ji-min.
So yesterday when grandma took Ji-min out to buy sneakers and warned Mi-ryung vigorously to remember to turn off the boiling pots of laundry and she assured her she would remember, I thought to myself:
Hmmm. Normally, here's where I would think it will turn out she forgets and the water boils out and the laundry burns. But I thought she would forget to pick up Ji-min at preschool yesterday after Grandma implored her to remember and she did remember. So I won't get sucked into that trap again! I know better! YH teases the viewer to wander blindly into obvious assumptions about what's coming next, only to find one's self in a room w/ no windows or exits. I won't do that again! I won't be their fool!
And what happened? This time, MR fell asleep playing bird calls for her baby in the womb and the water did boil out and the laundry did burn. And grandma did get home to discover the clothes scorched and was upset and scolded MR for a minute or 2, end of story. So even when there is follow-through, there's often no point. So much of YH seems to me a slice of life depiction of Korean society. That in itself is interesting, as it's so different from my own life and it's fun to see how people on the other side of the globe live every day. But it sure is a very, very different approach to writing a dramatic series.
Btw...now I know what Grandma Sohn can get Ja-young's family...how about a washer and drier so the poor old woman doesn't have to launder the family clothes on boiling pots on the stove?? What a chore!
Jade (on laundry day here in Chicago)
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Post by Jean on Sept 21, 2003 6:45:15 GMT -5
Jenny
Yoon Sik was in love with Miyrung. He was too shy to tell her. I thought in the end the two of them would get together also, but the big surprise was Tae Young marrying Miyrung. I am romantic so I would have liked it if Tae Young had married Sun-joo. I guess the writers had a reason for it to be the way it is now. Since Miyrung is pregnant, I doubt Tae-young and Sun-joo will ever get together. From the story, it seemed Tae-young married Miyrung because he was going to give Ji-min his last name. This, of course, is the same as Ja-young but I guess different if a guy's name is down as Ji-min's father. Tae-young did all this without telling Ja-young, who had already decided to raise Ji-min without a father.
Back to Yoon Sil: Miyrung's father has to have employees, so this is his main character in the show. You see the other two girls working there also. They are just extras. I know this because my daughter has a degree in musical theatre. She lives in New York City. Hasn't been discovered yet! She has been in shows, and commercials as extras (these are people who have very small parts, usually have few lines, sometimes do not have any speaking parts)..
Jean
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Post by Soju on Sept 21, 2003 8:59:54 GMT -5
A lot of threads die out or go nowhere in real life, too . . .
Another appliance Korean households should have is an electric floor buffer. It'd be so much faster than crawling around with a cloth.
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Post by aYsHuN on Sept 21, 2003 10:33:27 GMT -5
ahahah! an electric floor buffer! think some of the people are too poor to buy one or they just clean the floor with the cloth because it's a korean tradition or something? Me and my mother are both 100% korean yet even though i've mentioned to my mom about buying a floor buffer, she cleans our marble floor with a cloth or a swiffer! aHaH. well nice thinking there Soju
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Post by jenny on Sept 21, 2003 12:32:02 GMT -5
I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining. YH is the best K drama I've seen. And since it is written by only one person, I guess I should cut her some slack. I'll gladly watch these dead end plots as long as she keeps the main story going as exciting as it is! In previous dramas I've seen, these plots would have played out exactly as we predicted. This show has thrown me for a loop!
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