Que Sera Sera: Episode 13
April 29th, 2007 // by javabeans
I loved this episode! It marked a turning point in the story, and I felt the balance in the character relationships shift dramatically. What comes after this is competely up in the air, but ho boy, is it going to be a doozy. I can just feel it.
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i just hope they end up together in the end…
ohhhh this doesn’t look good… aiya…
I am completely tensed up.
I hope the roads won’t be so rocky for them at the end.
I am so curious.
oh man! what a killer episode. but ur right it throws everything up in the air. i didnt expect what happened in the last scene.. anything can happen now.. anything. it seems so unlikely at this point they will ever get back together. i see a moving forward from this, they have apparently done it awedge in between. scary. aaahhh hidding in the qss ward till next week.
thanks for another great summary javabeans. can’t wait to see how this all ends.
Hi there, let me identify myself first. I am the one who introduced your blog to Korean DCinside.com site. While I was googling QSS, I found your blog quite interesting. Please keep up your awesome postings! I’m also amazed by your music selection along the episode recaps. And you LOVE Gotan Project! I am also a fan of Gotan Project. Oh, at the dinner, they mentioned about ‘Ryokan’ from Japanese novel. It is thought that it must be Nobel award winner, Kawabata Yasunarii’s ‘Snow Country’. It is one beautiful but tragic story. Too sad that there are only 4 episodes left although I really look forward to them!!!
Thanks Javabeans, the summary is AWESOME. I do agree with you that TJ’character is changing a lot,grow up in a good way. I’m glad to see him like this and hope it will lead him until the end of QSS.
ES, uhm.., speechless, want to see more to judge her, still love her and feel the pain that she got through.
Sheesh, the last scene seems very eerie….
I really love your detailed accounts… helps us non-Korean speakers to understand the drama more)
I haven’t watched the whole episode yet, but I’m on track with your summary, javabeans… (Thanks SO much, btw
Now that Taejoo has turned the table around on Eunsoo, I wonder how she can pick up herself from here.
I mean, with Eunsoo kept pushing the idea that Joonhyuk is a better “option” for her, I’ve always thought it was only to challenge Taejoo.
So, now that Taejoo is challenging her back, there’s no more fun in clinging to Joonhyuk’s shoulders and playing happy in front of Taejoo.
Hyerin’s growing very mild in these last few episodes, but I love (in a cynical sense) the way Hyerin’s playing nice and becoming middleman between Joonhyuk and her parents, and Taejoo too. It gives her back the power, instead of being lost like in the past episodes. She’s truly a highness…..
I think the most pitiful person will be Joonhyuk, who, I’m sure deep down inside, expects that Eunsoo will soon or later, leave him for Taejoo. Poor Joonhyuk….
This episode is leaving me speechless. The QSS writers have done it again…
I didn’t expect this turnaround of Taejoo.
Can’t wait for the next episode
@marzy, it does seem they’ve driven the two apart — but i’m still holding out for a happy ending! seriously, you do NOT want to read the post i will have to whip up if i’m not given a happy ending. given how smoothly these qss writers/producers are able to turn situations around completely, i don’t think it’s impossible… although personally i have no idea how they can do that.
@HotelScarlet, welcome and thank you!! i read some english-speaking fans wishing we could show the korean fans how much the drama was loved overseas, so thank you for sharing the link! and another fan of gotan project and kawabata (or jpn literature in general) is automatically cool in my book.
@oceannie, i have the same sense, that sinking feeling that joon hyuk expects eun soo to leave him. he doesn’t seem to believe he truly merits happiness, or at least, that he will get it in this lifetime. all i know is, the last scene has me bracing myself for a turn for the dark(er)…
Wow, another speechless summary…..
But I do have to say, Tae Joo finishes his transformation but yet, ES is beginning her own transformation. She is becoming someone I’m getting the chills about.
Awesome summary Javabeans, thanks a lot!
nooo.. i hope they end up together though..
oh & eric is sooooo hot.
awesome summaries too!
lol, i await that post sarah. kidding! im rooting for them, but still im having im having doubts about the new ES.. the TJ now is different too. i need to see how far that TJ will go. i hope he can get back our old ES. hehehe i hope the writers do a good job here. its not like the other dramas so im keeping my fingers crossed for a good ending.
Tae Joo: “It’s not that I hate the idea of you marrying. More than anyone, I want you to meet a good person and live happily. A bastard like me may be as worthless as a piece of gum stuck to the ground — but I hope you’ll meet someone who truly loves you. I know Shin Joon Hyuk is a good guy. But you’re acting too hastily. Date longer, make sure your feelings are completely settled, and marry when you’ve confirmed you truly love him.”
I love the way you translate this conversation. Really feel that TJ cares so much for ES now.
I think it’s really heart breaking how Eun Soo still loves Tae Joo so much and is willing to follow him to the ends of the earth…meaning she’s willing to marry Joon Hyuk to throw her relationship in his face and at the same time, to be near him. If she was really wanting to get over Tae Joo, she would try as hard as she could to put some real distance between her and Tae Joo, not marry into the same family that he is. And even though I want to hate Tae Joo for being the bastard that he is, I think he’s always been honest from the beginning with Eun Soo. For example, he told her on their first pseudo date that if she liked him, he wouldn’t be nice to her or be with her for very long…he would just hurt her and leave her. Thus, everything in their relationship has in some way happened exactly the way Tae Joo said it would. But human emotions are tricky, and they rarely behave in ways that we truly want them to…because if they did, Tae Joo wouldn’t feel so much for Eun Soo, a girl he’d rather not get involved with but ends up loving more than anything else on this earth. *sighs* Along with all the romantics out there, I truly hope Tae Joo and Eun Soo end up together even though all they’ve really done through out 13 episodes is hurt one another. I REALLY want Tae Joo to redeem himself and Eun Soo to gain back some of her happy spirit. People shouldn’t be so cynical about life that they would settle for Javabean’s 80% theory in life. That would be too scary…even though some of us may be doing it without knowing it.
as always, a great read!
from yesterday’s summary, you did speculate right, that sunday’s episode will be more riveting than saturday’s. heehee.
like most people here, i, too, am very curious as to how the writers will write that happy ending (hopefully, there is one!). wonder if they’re gonna “steal time” like they did in the previous episode.
btw, elliott smith music is awesome.
Absooolutely loved your song selection in this episode! Especially the random song of the day, even though I don’t understand it, it’s very soothing.
As for this week’s episode, it is interesting to see how the qqs writers have turned the weight from Tae Joo and placed it onto Eun Soo. I like how whenever Tae Joo and Eun Soo are alone together talking, Eun Soo always ends up walking away first, leaving the guilt and pain for Tae Joo. But now it’s completely reversed in the last scene where Tae Joo walks out on Eun Soo…dun dun dun….
It sucks how they never have previews for the next episodes on sundays…booo!
Anywhooo, loved this weeks summaries as always. Keep up with the AWESOME work!!
oh no…. why does it seem like they’re being very “enemy-like”..
Firstly, i wanna thanks Javabeans for the wonderful and detailed summary for every episode, which helped me a lot in understanding the characters’ feelings/ actions and plot of the drama.
Just some of my thoughts after watching till ep 13…
i have started to hate Hyerin since ep.8 after she got too overbearing and did whatever possible things to get her ways….till now i still cant bring myself to like her ‘new’ character in ep.13 as in being so ‘nice’ to everyone especially EunSoo and playing the peacemaker for everyone…..it seems so ‘fake’ to me (sorry if i sound too biased …hee….)
As for TaeJoo and EunSoo, i’m quite sad that things have to come to such state for them….they cant be together due to the many factors they cant have control of…. although they really love each other so much. and i can understand that TaeJoo feel really helpless that he cant help EunSoo much at all if they are together .
that why he rather sacrificed himself for EunSoo’s good. TaeJoo has become the the real nice guy who really think and plans for his loved one.
EunSoo i feel is definitely marrying JoonHyuk to spite TaeJoo and to make him to stop doing things for her family. But of cos she do like JoonHyuk (not love though) to be able to accept JoonHyuk again…..But i don’t approve of EunSoo’s actions as she is going to hurt(soon) JoonHyuk again with her rash decision to marry(and i can forsee another breakup for them again in coming episodes). But quite curious to see what she will do in the last few episodes…
JoonHyuk… a nice and lonely guy. feel sad for him that although how much he love to have EunSoo by his side, he knows in his heart that EunSoo will never forget TaeJoo…and yet he said he is happy….. sad sad sad…
my heart is getting heavier and sadder with ep. 12 & 13 and coming episodes….
Hope the writer don’t torture us with more heart-breaking scenes than we can endure/hope for….
One thing i can say is that the acting of the 4 leads have impressed me!!!
Oh NO! can’t imagine if these 2 couples will end up same as What happened in Bali at all. I personally expect to see them turn out to their should-be couples at the end.
Thanks JV for ur uploads…i don’t have to watch the series. All the same am i the only one that thinks that the Joon chap is eerie and silently on a mission using Euan Soo as bait. Don’t get me wrong the guy is cute and all but i just don’t get the fascination he has for ES…which has spiralled overnight . At least we all know Tea joo and Hye Rin’s stance.
Well probably i’m on my own on this one as a result of my over analization. But honestly, am i getting bored or what??? The right couples should hook up fast and get it over with and cut short my weekly mental agony.
PS: How many more episodes are left?
Harriet,
I also considered that Joon could be using Eun Soo as bait. We could call it crazy world of K-drama as the reasons for getting smitten so quickly and so firmly to Eun Soo. Sure, he is a lonely guy. But, if QSS writers do it right, they could have next episodes reveal that Joon is indeed calculating and really want to get to Hye Rin afterall – or so he discovers for himself. Or, like the two lead characters, he is in a rush to get over his feelings to Hye Rin.
My wife thought ep 13 was boring. She’s just like that b/c she doesn’t like the pacing of this drama and don’t get the emotional agony here. I understand where she’s coming from but I found this drama so very unique, dialog interesting, understated and music cool. I am addicted. I hope the remaining 4 episodes finish off with a flurry.
With the rate we’re going here, I really REALLY wanna know how they’ll end this “Que Sera Sera…”. Will it be, whatever will be, will be? So both confused couples will stay with their 80% couples themselves and we’ll be leave at that? Oh geez~ but Sarah, as always, without your blog, I’d be completely lost and perhaps would be ‘forced’ to give this drama up a long long time ago. *grins*
Thank you so much for writing this summary! When I saw the picture, I thought they were already married that’s why I watched 1-6 and read the summary for episode 7-13… lol. I want the president’s daughter to end up with the director dude. And that poor girl with the manager or something…. So there won’t be any conflict anymore… lol. I’m that kind of person.. Like in Witch Yoo Hee, I want her to end up with Johnny! lol.
Thanks a lot again!
Hi Sarah,
What is a happy ending to you? I guess all of us are thinking about the ending now..and wish that it will be happy…some sort of happy at least for me.
Happily ever after seems so distant…but is not out of line to wish for a hopeful and realistic ending, leaving us viewers feeling that their love is not regretable, their love is meant to be.
I feel that episode 12 showed us Tae Joo’s concern for Eun Soo and for him to realize what Eun Soo is planning to do with her life as well. At the same time we see how both Hyerin and Joon Hyuk try to hold on, oopps, no..more accurately “chain” their respectful half (or 40%) to themselves.
In episode 13, Tae Joo grows impatient with Eun Soo and during the scene when Eun Soo was trying out the wedding dress, I think that’s when Tae Joo realized…hey..Is Eun Soo doing this to spite me/make me jealous? Is she in this as a game to see how he would react to her relationship with Joon Hyuk? I think Eun Soo knows Tae Joo’s reaction very well..she saw his reaction in QSS Version 1.0 when he reacted harshly and jealously. Now in Version 2.0, Tae Joo’s more matured and is trying to move on with his decision. But Eun Soo won’t let him have it so easily without pain. She wants to try this method again. hmm..Is Eun Soo so calculative? I am not sure who she is anymore.
Plus, she misses Tae Joo and want to see him so much, so she thought she could marry Joon Hyuk..more chance to see Tae Joo? Now, if this is true, is Eun Soo totally out of her mind?
Man alive! Reading your summaries is better than watching the actual episodes! Thanks so much!
going back to ginnie’s comment.. im starting to think ES is trying to play a game too. it seems ES is not in her right mind. would she really do that, marry JH to get a rise out of TJ? to be near to TJ no matter what? ES is one intriguing character, im not sure i get her anymore. i used to think she is different.. i used to think she is someone who will not act like this. but i aslo feel she has so sort of feelings for JH, maybe not deep maybe not love but i think as a safety blanket too at some point.
ginnie, interesting question. for me, a happy ending doesn’t necessitate a happily ever after. far from it, actually. some of my favorite endings have been the more open-ended ones, like samsoon, what’s up fox, dal ja… they all leave you with the hope of future happiness, but they don’t lock you into the mentality that love –> marriage –> children –> family –> conventional ideals of happiness.
I have nothing against definitive happy endings — choon hyang’s one of my favorites and that’s pretty decided, but that fit the tone of that drama. for QSS, i’d love to have an angst-free resolution that gives us the hope of future happiness… heck, at this point i’d be ecstatic if they just didn’t kill anyone off. that would suck.
and to both ginnie & marzy, it did cross my mind that eun soo is being manipulative herself — especially when you see that semi-guilty look cross her face when tae joo accuses her of enjoying his misery. but i don’t think she’s someone who had it in her to PLAN to use joon hyuk to stay near tae joo, to witness TJ’s self-made hell from up close and personal. i think the circumstances just worked out that way…
From the comments above, I don’t really think that ES’s the manipulative type. I think the main reason for her to go back to JH isn’t about wanting to spite TJ but more like she’s comforting herself by being with JH because he can provide her a shelter from all the hurt and pain that TJ’s caused her to feel.
It surprises me to know that she’s chosen to walk the path to self-destruction. She knows very well that being with JH might cause her to hurt even more, but she’s still doing it anyway. =/
I sure hope QSS will end well. *keeps fingers crossed*! 3 more episodes to go!
Sarah, yes…angst-free ending will work for me. Some light at the end of the tunnel will be good. I like how you put it…hope for future happiness. We do need to be able to have faith that no matter how bad things could go, that there is still something or someone we can lean on when everything seem bleak and hopeless. For goodness sakes, I need that from Que Sera, Sera! Some fans of Que Sera, Sera have semi-complained that QSS offered us to few happy moments thus far. You know, the moments that we could look back and cherish as “happy-sweet-moments” are too few relative to the darker moments. For example, we saw some happy scenes in the beginning of QSS when ES and TJ briefly went out but this was quickly halted by TJ to be in the contract relationship with HR. Then, in episode 10, we saw glimpse of happiness and even some marriage preparations for a little bit…before the entire episode ended with a break-up. Episodes 11 and 12 were all bitter/sad/cynical scenes between ES and TJ……I wonder if these were deliberately done by the writers/producers? I personally was not bothered by the amount of “happy scenes” or didn’t compare happy vs. sad scenes but have to agree that we do have very few happier scenes in QSS….Now, if the ending is also non-happy, I think I will be more bothered!
now that you mentioned it, there ARE too few happy moments. I started to watch this show, thinking that it was a romantic comedy because I’m a sucker for those but now, romantic comedy no more. I miss those light-hearted moments in the beginning.
hehe..actually..I initially thought that these drama writers always plan for lots of sweet moments so that they can pull your heartstrings later on..more happiness to build momentum on the sadness later on…but it seems thought that QSS has made me sad just with these few in between happy scenes. Maybe the technique that this writer used is add more sadness, angst in the scenes now so that we can feel the drastic difference when they eventually reach the end of their journey and could be happy finally. What’s the point of these sad scenes if there is no difference later on..there must be some major plot twist that brings us up again.
That’s so interesting, I never thought of QSS in terms of how few happy moments it’s had, although when you think about it, it’s hard to refute. Usually I stay away from sad or serious dramas because I don’t need to feel any sadder about the state of the world, thank you very much! But I don’t see QSS in those terms — or rather, I’m enjoying it thoroughly even if it’s not a cheerful-funny drama. Maybe because it’s so thought-provoking and understated, it doesn’t even register that it’s “sad.” And the very few happy moments there are seem that much more powerful — my favorite episode so far is 4. And 5. Okay, those are two episodes, but I can’t separate the circular-wandering scene (I read the Korean fans call ES-TJ the ???? ??, or ‘Round-and-Round Couple,’ which I found really sweet) and the brief happy date they went on.
=) I am surprised Sarah….to know that your favorite episode is from 4 and 5 and you specifically chose those two episodes because they contained happy scenes for the couple. I can’t pick out my favorite episode…but I think it might be those happier moments in 4/5 or 10 too. Isn’t it odd? Our favorites are those scenes that occur the least in QSS..Could it be that they are so powerful because less is more?
WOW! you’ve made QSS really nicely intriguing. i too never thought it would be one of my fave dramas, coz episode 1 made me uninterested to watch succeeding episodes. But got hooked on it on the second episode till now. no dull moments surprisingly even if there were few happy, giddy moments.
Just would like also to comment on how the story now feels. it feels ordinary but strikingly real i think. because this is how we fall in love, weakly strong and confusingly stable. this story delves on the parts where what will happen if we do the what ifs in our love, what will happen if we remove are defenses and go to the extremes. what if we push through eyes wide open knowing full well of people we can hurt, opportunities we can miss, things we can lose but express love as we have never expressed before (episode 9-10). then break off and pursue to put things back into place, as in take back the hurts, bring back the opportunities and bring back things lost but lose the one love that brought you life, the one that made you forget all the years you have lived before.
most dramas are too good to be true. this one is to true to be good.
wow! im still waiting for ep 7 wid subs.. but after reading all of these summaries uve written.. it feels like ive seen everything till ep 13~ hehe thanx
Happy moments or not , guys, QSS rocks. Though its a tad bit boring now. Matter of fact ,nah, I don’t think ES is the manipulative type. Although , i guess, hooking up with JH was kind of passing a message to TJ but unfortunately she’s way in over her head in this one and obviously just a pawn in the beautiful game of QSS.
But then again, who’s to say ES is not the main player and only uses and innocence and naivety as a weapon. Well, we’ll just have to wait and find out.
you do such a good job writing the summaries for QSS. thank you so much!! i got hooked to this when we had a stop over-sat night to sun afternoon, in korea, i couldn’t sleep and didn’t have the money to buy CUUUUUTE things from the stores outside the hotel so i was stuck flipping thru the channels. and even though i couldn’t understand a word they were saying… but i wanted to watch more. haha. but thank you so much. do you know any websites that has subtitles or dubbed versions of QSS?
sorry. i just looked at the top of the page and found out that you have a whole page for the sites where we can watch! sorry
Previews are out for epi 14 and 15 at the imbc page… it seems that ES is pregnant in epi 15.. she is puking up crap.. this might be a turn point..
the link
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/queserasera/preview/index.html
i’m catching up this,after neglected it for a while..
I regret it,but well,at least I’ve made good decision to continue it..
I read above about comparison between QSS n What Happened in Bali~which is one my all time favorite~ and,for me,QSS haven’t come to the point wrecking my heart as strong as WHIB. Still, i really enjoy this rollercoaster of emotion here, and probably it sounds weird,somehow i completely understand Eun Soo’s decision to choose Joon Hyuk.
i’m the type that would look for safety feeling in a man,instead love which makes me head over heels.
Tae Joo probably is the real love,but the pain in the relationship is something you don’t want to face in ur lifetime..
Contrary with you,Javabeans, i like spoilers. I’ve read your summaries way before I started watching QSS, and still I want to see it to the end.
Thank you for detailing all scenes, it gives me new prespective while watching it by myself..
and read these comments, really add the excitement and enjoyment for me..to hear ( or read ) others’ people points of view..
I’m glad I found you!
gosh… i’ve just started watching this series because of your recaps.. damn… the last scene on this episode gave the chills too …. i am sooo addicted to this series…
anybody still remembers which music was playing when TJ was at office thinking about ES and JH when they were trying the wedding outfits??? Please….