![]() ![]() I know I need to get past it, but I can’t find a way to yet.Īs an aside, I just started watching It’s Okay, That’s Love on a bit of a whim and, lo and behold, another kdrama fusing lots of conflicting show genres with mental health at its heart… Hmm, I appreciate on the one hand kdrama trying to convey the need for tolerance and acceptance and the importance of asking for help, but, wow, they really do crush the reality out of these illnesses in a way I find both perplexing and infuriating. However, I still gah that he’s thinking of her as his first love. I really enjoyed Yo Na’s ridiculously gleeful run through the fan-crowded street! I wonder how aware those crowds were that Ji Sung would be legging it past them in lipgloss?!! Hilarious! □Īnd I agree Ri On’s little speech about first love was sincerely given and actually pretty poetic and accurate. Now, we should all learn not to judge our kdrama characters too harshly too early because they could actually have PTSD… □ Maybe her shrill shriek is repressed fear leaking out. Not only that, but she appears to not remember anything much before that, like Do Hyun, and is therefore equally traumatised. ![]() But, like, actually, poor little Ri Jin!! It feels like quite a side swipe, that she has in fact remembered she’s adopted but has never openly said so. ![]() OOOHHHH, it’s all fitting together now a lot better – their shared childhood (or part of it) and why their fears of basements overlap. What a bittersweet milestone this has turned out to be. At the same time, it also feels costly, for the pain that he’s had to endure, to get here. I have to say, I do kinda love how everything fits together, in context.ĭo Hyun’s finally arrived at the truth that he’s been trying to unlock all this time, so this feels hard-earned. Suddenly, all the fragmented soundbites from the various fever dreams that Do Hyun and Ri Jin have had over the course of our story – “Don’t go, play with me” and “I’m sorry” – finally make sense.Įven “10pm” suddenly has a context, because that’s the time that Do Hyun would promise to visit Ri Jin, and that explains Se Ge’s fixation with that hour. But Dad had not approved, and that’s why he’d walk into the basement, ready to punish. Ri Jin had been locked in that basement (probably for being an illegitimate child), and Do Hyun had secretly visited her, to keep her company. I can imagine that this just adds to Do Hyun’s stress, and so, it’s no wonder that it isn’t long before Yo Na makes an appearance.Īnd 2, all the fragments of memory about the memory come rushing in at the same time, when Do Hyun’s hit on the head, and we finally have a full picture of what had been going on. On top of this, he’s trying to find out about the child in his memories, and Mom isn’t being veyr helpful. Now, with him overhearing Ri Jin talk wistfully of her days at the hospital, where life had been so much simpler, he’s faced with the obligation to let Ri Jin go – at a cost to himself. With his exit from the company, and the now much more overt estrangement from Chairman Gran, it feels like Do Hyun’s more isolated than ever (yay for Secretary Ahn refusing to leave him though!). bittersweet.Īt the same time, my heart goes out to Do Hyun. I feel bad for Do Hyun, of course, but in this moment, I feel that Ri On’s acting out of concern for and protectiveness of Ri Jin, and not out of spite to Do Hyun, and it feels. He really does care about Ri Jin, and is committed to helping her, to the best of his ability.Īnd that moment, when he pulls the blanket over her eyes, in an echo of when he’d done something similar back in school, when he’d seen the boy she’d liked, with another girl, is a nice poignant callback. ![]() I know I said not that long ago, that I found I wasn’t liking Ri On very much, but this episode, I find that shifting, all over again. Perhaps it’s because she doesn’t seem to have them all that often, but this episode, we see that they do haunt her, at least from time to time, and it’s been Ri On who’s been helping her, by putting a positive spin on the meaning of her dreams, all this time. Play with me.” That’s the exact same thing that Do Hyun’s said before, in his dreams, isn’t it? I don’t know why it never really registered for me, until now, that Ri Jin suffers from nightmares the way Do Hyun suffers from nightmares.Įven her delirious refrain is the same, “Don’t go. This episode, we spend more time exploring Ri Jin’s backstory, starting with her nightmares. I found this episode quite muted, for the most part, but on the plus side, we do get some important reveals, that help to flesh out our story – and we do get an appearance by Yo Na, whom I always enjoy. ![]()
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