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Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto Episode 5
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'Don't go,' he said.
And my mind went: Hey, wait a minute. I have HEARD those words before. You know, once upon a time, not so long ago, in a Kdrama?
But aah, by the end of the episode he consoles her.
And my mind went: Hey, wait a minute. I have HEARD those words before. You know, once upon a time, not so long ago, in a Kdrama?
But aah, by the end of the episode he consoles her.
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Where are we in this drama besides the side stories that kept on moving forward past the supposed main one?
No, don't get me wrong. These stories are fine and witty. But I would have appreciated it if there had been any development for Jung Hwan since Episode 9. His silence is frustrating and while we watch him suffer like that when she had been giving him signs, I realize it might mean one thing: not the one. But I'm not sure and we're at Episode 14 already.
After a few episodes from Taekki's match in China, his loss after a 10-hour match, the flasher incident, and the souvenir from Japan, the latter part now leans towards him more than JH. But see in between a few interactions between Duk Seon and Taekki vav Duk Seon and JH, none of the boys had the courage to confess. So now, I'm not so sure how to invest my feelings on a character this late in a story. I hope the next episodes help me out a bit.
No, don't get me wrong. These stories are fine and witty. But I would have appreciated it if there had been any development for Jung Hwan since Episode 9. His silence is frustrating and while we watch him suffer like that when she had been giving him signs, I realize it might mean one thing: not the one. But I'm not sure and we're at Episode 14 already.
After a few episodes from Taekki's match in China, his loss after a 10-hour match, the flasher incident, and the souvenir from Japan, the latter part now leans towards him more than JH. But see in between a few interactions between Duk Seon and Taekki vav Duk Seon and JH, none of the boys had the courage to confess. So now, I'm not so sure how to invest my feelings on a character this late in a story. I hope the next episodes help me out a bit.
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The gang fights over the last slice of pizza and the one who tells the most pitiful thing about one's self gets to eat it.
Sun Woo trumps them all with what they considered as most pitiful: he has a huge crush on someone for two years now and he couldn't 'fess up.
How you'll know it's misleading: a guy is most likely not to reveal that to a group of friends in front of the girl he likes. He would have just talked to the guys in the group instead. But he's so comfortable telling his friends and actually accepting Duk Seon's suggestion that you can't help but notice that he's not in the least bit embarrassed to do so.
Sun Woo trumps them all with what they considered as most pitiful: he has a huge crush on someone for two years now and he couldn't 'fess up.
How you'll know it's misleading: a guy is most likely not to reveal that to a group of friends in front of the girl he likes. He would have just talked to the guys in the group instead. But he's so comfortable telling his friends and actually accepting Duk Seon's suggestion that you can't help but notice that he's not in the least bit embarrassed to do so.
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Despite the mixed feedback, I think Episode 12 was just right in transition for Do Kyung.
After all the hesitation from the previous episodes so far, I think forming the resolve like he did at the end was right on track. He is debunking his dad's mantra that "everything is transient so you must not waste your time on them".
What I couldn't handle was the stupidity that Hae Young did on the radio program. The story could do without it. We already get that she was bullied then and still getting bullied now. But this, she pinned herself further down.
Do Kyung has to redeem himself after this mess. The effort has to come from him now because he has to show that it is "not a waste of time".
After all the hesitation from the previous episodes so far, I think forming the resolve like he did at the end was right on track. He is debunking his dad's mantra that "everything is transient so you must not waste your time on them".
What I couldn't handle was the stupidity that Hae Young did on the radio program. The story could do without it. We already get that she was bullied then and still getting bullied now. But this, she pinned herself further down.
Do Kyung has to redeem himself after this mess. The effort has to come from him now because he has to show that it is "not a waste of time".
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This is the best episode I've seen so far. After the waiting game and almost losing my temper with Shan Shan for thinking too much, she finally understands how celebrating Valentine's can't compare to the loss Feng Teng has to remember on this date.
At first, I made the mistake of taking these scenes as a simple passing of events when in fact it led to one wonderful revelation to another. :)
Another reason for this being a great episode is the major development of the second leads. I am rooting so hard for Zheng QI. Even though the man is a bit of a player, he's the best bestie a man could ever have.
At first, I made the mistake of taking these scenes as a simple passing of events when in fact it led to one wonderful revelation to another. :)
Another reason for this being a great episode is the major development of the second leads. I am rooting so hard for Zheng QI. Even though the man is a bit of a player, he's the best bestie a man could ever have.
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Special Affairs Team TEN Season 2 Episode 8
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When watching an episode of TEN, the creepy feeling is always there; it never really goes away but intensifies or subsides depending on the moment.
This episode perhaps was one of the creepiest I've seen so far because it had elements of lewdness and repulsion, revenge of the unlikeliest person who'd commit it, the inability to trust one's senses--eyes, nose and ears--and that one hauntingly sad song that opened and closed the episode. The saddest part was, the murderer discovering that she unknowingly killed the person who wanted to protect her.
But at the end of the day, the case is solved with another confession and gets tied up, yet again, to Prof. Yeo Ji Hoon's personal experience. At the ending scene, Ye Ri reports to Ji Hoon that the case is now closed after the testimony. Ji Hoon replies, asking whether the motive of the murderer was revenge but Ye Ri responds, 'She wanted to take away the guilt he had for not protecting the her. To be free now.' And she fell silent and remained standing there looking at him until he raised his eyes to her. For a brief moment they held a curious eye contact, and while Detective Baek Doksa broke the trance, the truth was held off for another time.
This episode perhaps was one of the creepiest I've seen so far because it had elements of lewdness and repulsion, revenge of the unlikeliest person who'd commit it, the inability to trust one's senses--eyes, nose and ears--and that one hauntingly sad song that opened and closed the episode. The saddest part was, the murderer discovering that she unknowingly killed the person who wanted to protect her.
But at the end of the day, the case is solved with another confession and gets tied up, yet again, to Prof. Yeo Ji Hoon's personal experience. At the ending scene, Ye Ri reports to Ji Hoon that the case is now closed after the testimony. Ji Hoon replies, asking whether the motive of the murderer was revenge but Ye Ri responds, 'She wanted to take away the guilt he had for not protecting the her. To be free now.' And she fell silent and remained standing there looking at him until he raised his eyes to her. For a brief moment they held a curious eye contact, and while Detective Baek Doksa broke the trance, the truth was held off for another time.
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Special Affairs Team TEN Episode 3
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A potted makahiya plant sits near the window sill of a murdered police investigator's house. The plant, a 'gift' from an unknown serial killer/drug dealer, has the words 'Noli Me Tangere' engraved on its pot. Touch me not. But ironically, the death of the detective sparks a deeper investigation of the root of the murder, including previous cases of suicide where victims commonly had traces of a specific drug in their bodies before their death.
Det. Baek Dok Sa immerses himself on field, emotionally attached as he is to the case. As it progresses, friction starts to strain the relationship between the veteran and the office-bound SAT captain. But Dok Sa has his leads; he already knows who he needs to pin down and will not be hindered.
By the end of the episode, the case is closed, the veteran and the captain exchanging honorifics to each other, Nam Ye Ri ripping the plastic off a cactus plant and getting pricked (he told you so, sweetie), and the captain sitting alone in the deserted bar, silently crying over a picture he holds in his hand.
Who is it?!
Det. Baek Dok Sa immerses himself on field, emotionally attached as he is to the case. As it progresses, friction starts to strain the relationship between the veteran and the office-bound SAT captain. But Dok Sa has his leads; he already knows who he needs to pin down and will not be hindered.
By the end of the episode, the case is closed, the veteran and the captain exchanging honorifics to each other, Nam Ye Ri ripping the plastic off a cactus plant and getting pricked (he told you so, sweetie), and the captain sitting alone in the deserted bar, silently crying over a picture he holds in his hand.
Who is it?!
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It Started with a Kiss Episode 29
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What is with this episode that had me tearing up? It was probably the best confession scene I've seen from an incredibly rude, arrogant, self-centered a$$hole to a martyr.
Jiang Zhi Shu: 'No, you can't like anybody else. The one you like is me.'
me: *whaaat....selfish AND arrogant* -_-#
Xiang Qin: 'What is this confidence? Yes, fine. I like you. But what can I do? You don't like me at all.'
And then bam! IT happens. He's wet, she's wet. They share a wet kiss in the rain. They embrace while they get drenched some more. And my face is all wet with tears. TT____TT Whaaaat!?
Was it the execution? Was it the perfect cue of the music? Was it because finally after all her stupidity and martyrdom, and after all his rude attitude and coldness, he finally admits it and realizes he never wanted to let her go?
Jiang Zhi Shu: 'No, you can't like anybody else. The one you like is me.'
me: *whaaat....selfish AND arrogant* -_-#
Xiang Qin: 'What is this confidence? Yes, fine. I like you. But what can I do? You don't like me at all.'
And then bam! IT happens. He's wet, she's wet. They share a wet kiss in the rain. They embrace while they get drenched some more. And my face is all wet with tears. TT____TT Whaaaat!?
Was it the execution? Was it the perfect cue of the music? Was it because finally after all her stupidity and martyrdom, and after all his rude attitude and coldness, he finally admits it and realizes he never wanted to let her go?
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 104
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A few episodes back, the court handled a case where two fathers were arguing over a boy of about five years or so. The men argued and recounted how they fed, clothed, provided him a shelter, one offered his blood when the boy was sick.
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The shock of the discovery of his identity left Myongnong in the wake of different conflicting emotions. But out of the overwhelming and justly bitter emotions, he overcame and thought objectively throughout. He finally understood that despite of all his success to prove himself to the king, that even though he was praised and the king felt proud of him, the king somehow kept a distance. Now, he knew that his subtle jealousy of how the king would fuss about Jinmu-gung was justified.
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Ah but at the end of it all, the King is pleased to have raised such a fine son and boasted the Prince to the portrait of the late king. More than that, he tells the portrait that Myongnong being his son ends there. And like the case that the court handled several episodes back, the king claimed him as his own: 'I have two sons. But only one will wear the crown.'
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The shock of the discovery of his identity left Myongnong in the wake of different conflicting emotions. But out of the overwhelming and justly bitter emotions, he overcame and thought objectively throughout. He finally understood that despite of all his success to prove himself to the king, that even though he was praised and the king felt proud of him, the king somehow kept a distance. Now, he knew that his subtle jealousy of how the king would fuss about Jinmu-gung was justified.
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Ah but at the end of it all, the King is pleased to have raised such a fine son and boasted the Prince to the portrait of the late king. More than that, he tells the portrait that Myongnong being his son ends there. And like the case that the court handled several episodes back, the king claimed him as his own: 'I have two sons. But only one will wear the crown.'
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 96
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I have never seen such an incredible display of emotion between two men. One is the father of the other, and the other, thinking he was the son of the murdered emperor, lived his whole life dejected and alone.
The son, spouting words of hate and bitterness, that he sounded so hurt, that I--tried as I might to tell myself not to--broke down at the terrible words that no parent should ever wish to hear. From outrage to physical violence to despair and remorse, I even thought the King became the more pitiful of the two.
What now, Pyeha?
The son, spouting words of hate and bitterness, that he sounded so hurt, that I--tried as I might to tell myself not to--broke down at the terrible words that no parent should ever wish to hear. From outrage to physical violence to despair and remorse, I even thought the King became the more pitiful of the two.
What now, Pyeha?
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 94
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Solnan has always been cool and collected; even though the enormous anger within her was screaming through her pores, her countenance belied the feeling.
At court, Taeja Cheonha presents the men believed to be the perpetrators of the massacre in Widows' Village. To make sure that they clearly identify the right suspects, the court calls upon the witness purportedly the lone survivor of the massacre: the [fake] gongju cheonha.
After a few minutes of inspecting them, she suddenly becomes hysterical--remembering the masked men's eyes while they whacked away at her parents. Yes, these were the men who murdered her parents! Oh, but then it didn't stop there.
In her usual calm stance, Solnan drops the bomb: they are Jinmu-gung's retainers.
At court, Taeja Cheonha presents the men believed to be the perpetrators of the massacre in Widows' Village. To make sure that they clearly identify the right suspects, the court calls upon the witness purportedly the lone survivor of the massacre: the [fake] gongju cheonha.
After a few minutes of inspecting them, she suddenly becomes hysterical--remembering the masked men's eyes while they whacked away at her parents. Yes, these were the men who murdered her parents! Oh, but then it didn't stop there.
In her usual calm stance, Solnan drops the bomb: they are Jinmu-gung's retainers.
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 75
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dalha nopigom dodasya
eoguiya meorigom bichwiosira
eoguiya eogangdyori aeu darongdiri
jyeojae nyeoreosingoyo
eoguiya jeundereul deudyeoyolsyera
eoguiya eogangdyori
eoneuida nokosira
eoguiya nae ganyonde jyeomgeureulsyera
eoguiya eogangdyori aeu darongdiri
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If the trip to see Makgeum ever paid off, it was the knowledge that she was the fruit of a great but tragic love between a traitor's daughter and the Emperor who neglected that love.
But then that knowledge seems useless now, not when she thought that she and her love are actually related. And sadly, Solhi used this to Solnan's disadvantage so she can keep a hold of her fake position.
I can't understand why Solnan would fold to that. Whether or not she tells the king, if they really were related, they couldn't keep their relationship anyway. I'm already anticipating how they'd react when they find out their 'true' relationship.
eoguiya meorigom bichwiosira
eoguiya eogangdyori aeu darongdiri
jyeojae nyeoreosingoyo
eoguiya jeundereul deudyeoyolsyera
eoguiya eogangdyori
eoneuida nokosira
eoguiya nae ganyonde jyeomgeureulsyera
eoguiya eogangdyori aeu darongdiri
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If the trip to see Makgeum ever paid off, it was the knowledge that she was the fruit of a great but tragic love between a traitor's daughter and the Emperor who neglected that love.
But then that knowledge seems useless now, not when she thought that she and her love are actually related. And sadly, Solhi used this to Solnan's disadvantage so she can keep a hold of her fake position.
I can't understand why Solnan would fold to that. Whether or not she tells the king, if they really were related, they couldn't keep their relationship anyway. I'm already anticipating how they'd react when they find out their 'true' relationship.
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 70
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Lesson about the senses
Never ever blurt out your secrets to a person if you can't see who she is or hear her voice first. Chances are, she is the wrong daughter.
When you talk about your precious secret, never assume that they will fall on deaf ears. If the big man at your side appears that way, why would he turn to where the noise of the game came from?
Never ever blurt out your secrets to a person if you can't see who she is or hear her voice first. Chances are, she is the wrong daughter.
When you talk about your precious secret, never assume that they will fall on deaf ears. If the big man at your side appears that way, why would he turn to where the noise of the game came from?
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 69
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That awkward moment when Taeja Cheonha spaces out on a council meeting and a minister mistakenly thinks he has offended him.
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That moment when Solnan turns down Manggu's invitation to a get-to-know-you-better party and he blurts out, 'It's not over 'til it's over.' Uh-huh.
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That moment when you actually relate to Kangbok where you either freeze to death or get sick at the two love birds' sweetness! XD
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That moment when Kuchon has a mini-me following him around and he's bursting with cuteness. Aigoomoni, those dimples!
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And that moment when the King wants to separate his son from his fake daughter because they're developing feelings for each other.
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That moment when Solnan turns down Manggu's invitation to a get-to-know-you-better party and he blurts out, 'It's not over 'til it's over.' Uh-huh.
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That moment when you actually relate to Kangbok where you either freeze to death or get sick at the two love birds' sweetness! XD
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That moment when Kuchon has a mini-me following him around and he's bursting with cuteness. Aigoomoni, those dimples!
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And that moment when the King wants to separate his son from his fake daughter because they're developing feelings for each other.
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The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang Episode 65
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Myongnong is not your typical dashing prince who saves damsels in distress. Even in his confession, he says, he has always been timid; he was not the type who would confidently say his feelings outright...that he was in awe of her, an admiration that he awkwardly accepted and made him genuinely happy.
So to finally hear him say 'Saranghanda,' to a person whom he was trying to save from sleeping in the cold, to see him kiss her in a gentle way, is to feel like an inner warmth spreading throughout your body and filling it with a tingling sensation to the roots of your hair.
So to finally hear him say 'Saranghanda,' to a person whom he was trying to save from sleeping in the cold, to see him kiss her in a gentle way, is to feel like an inner warmth spreading throughout your body and filling it with a tingling sensation to the roots of your hair.
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