My Sweet Seoul: Episode 7
Hmm. I didn’t really love the first half of Episode 7, although that wasn’t because it was bad. I think we’re just in that phase where plot setups start to bear results, and some of those can lead to uncomfortable moments. The developments are necessary, of course, and we get some nice acting amidst a more somber tone. And this scene (with Eun-soo and Young-soo in the rain) was a definite highlight.
Also, last week only aired one episode, so tomorrow we’ll be back with Episodes 8 and 9.
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thks for the recap! and i thk the walk is soo romantic lah.
Thanks for giving some time and attention to this series.
I don’t care for her either…
But the series has some nice quiet moments…
i hope she is going to end -up with Tae-ho, although it seems unbelievable, i want to believe in it. if not maybe jane will (it’ll be gross!)
Chan-seok is a jerk, leaving her now, after all she’s going through, defending him against her entire entourage…
we’ll c how it goes…
thanks for the recap : )
I wondered if it was only me that didn’t like Choi Kang Hee as Eun-soo. When a character like that is done well, it’s endearing and cute but I’m left cold after watching Choi Kang Hee.
Great recap.
When did Chan Seok say he was leaving Yoo Hee? I don’t remember him saying that…Didn’t he just tell her that he’d handle everything, and that she didn’t need to try so hard anymore?
I think Eun Soo not telling Jane to break up her engagement is because of the whole cheating thing with her mom – because of the hurt she’s feeling over that, she’s exaggerating the importance of marriage. She wants to believe that someone can make it through married life. She’s just pinning those hopes on the wrong person. And besides, she doesn’t REALLY know how bad it is with Jane and the Jerk, does she?
I dunno. I actually love Eun Soo, and I love Choi Kang Hee’s portrayal of her. I can relate to her really well, and I can understand all her actions. And I thought that this particular episode really captured those days when nothing seems to go right and when you yourself can’t do anything right. Those “off” days. Maybe Eun Soo’s PMS-ing?
Hm, did I misunderstand the car conversation? I went back and rewatched it, and I’m not sure how else to interpret it: Chan-seok says, “How much further do I have to fall? You’ve done a lot. You’ve done plenty. So don’t anymore. I said, don’t do anything anymore. Yoo-hee, I’ll go now.”
Dahee, maybe the Eun-soo/CKH issue is just a matter of personal reaction. I agree that everything just went wrong for her today, and she was off her game. But that’s not really my problem with her — it’s her weird mix of smugness and preciousness.
I know she’s reeling from her mother’s (probable) affair, but I don’t understand how she then tells Jane to get married — isn’t entering into an unhappy marriage a surefire way for Jane to repeat her mother’s misery? Wouldn’t she be gung-ho about preventing her best friend from that mistake? I can see how it would be different if Jane were married and contemplating divorce, but she’s not even married yet (at this point).
To me, what’s curious about Eun-soo’s response is that regardless of how she sees Jane’s relationship, she’s not responding to Jane’s underlying plea for support. I thought it was pretty clear that Jane WANTED to be talked out of the marriage, and that’s why she listened to Tae-oh so enthusiastically. Not because he spoke some magic words, but because he was confirming her own thoughts. In contrast, Eun-soo steamrolled right over Yoo-hee too, so maybe Eun-soo’s just not very sensitive to her friends’ wishes.
But like I said, maybe the difference is mostly a personal issue. Some people might hate Eun-soo/Choi Kang Hee while others really respond to her. Potayto, potahto?
Thanks for the recap! =)
Ahaha I was actually looking for the eighth episode! =P
I was actually really surprised at how the heated argument was in the episode, and even at Yoo-Hee for what she said to her friends, given her usual “calm” and mature personality. I felt sorry for Tae-Oh, because Eun Soo was obviously not treating him as her equal, or even being fair to him at all.
Even though this episode was not exactly easy to watch, I was a bit glad that the series does have a realistic side to it, and not sugary sweet all the way!
Hmm, I rewatched the car scene too, and at the very end, I thought he said “I’ll do it now”, not “I’ll go now”. So it’s “내가 할께”, not “내가 갈께”. Rewatching it, I can see how you could have heard the latter. But I’m still pretty sure that he said the former. Ahh, I need to get my hands on the script and check!
I think that Jane’s fiancee is a lot like Eun Soo’s dad in many ways – selfish, demanding, stubborn. I think Eun Soo saw that in Jane’s fiancee, and subconsciously thinks that, somehow, if Jane and her fiancee can work out, then Eun Soo’s mom and dad can work out, too. She doesn’t want to believe just yet that it’s a mistake. And I’m sure she feels torn between her two parents – logically, she should be on her mom’s side, but it’s not like she can just sit down and take what can be seen as her mom’s betrayal of her dad. Her dad is her parent too, and I’m sure she loves him, no matter how much of a jerk he may be.
Also, Jane is a pretty self-centred person, and hasn’t gone through a lot of suffering in her privileged life. It’d be easy to think that she was just trying to plead for someone to talk her into taking the easy way out, because things turned out to be harder than she expected. I can picture Eun Soo thinking, “She thought he’d be Prince Charming, but now that she realizes that he isn’t perfect, she wants to back out, just like that. As though engagements should be taken lightly, as though marriage is a game.”
Of course, Eun Soo’s very, very wrong, but I can understand her actions, at least. I may not LIKE them all the time, but I can understand them. I think it really is a case of “potayto/potahto”.
(Note: I always thought “potahto” sounded so weird! Do people really say that?)
juuuuuuuust a thought… but didnt the umbrella move remind you of “the classic”??
I also heard ““내가 할께” – Chan Seok telling Yoo Hee not to make any more sacrifices for him. I didn’t think he was breaking up with her. (The scripts are taking a long time these days.)
I still like Choi Kang Hee as Eun Soo. Maybe it’s exactly her flaws that make her character feel so realistic.
But I love Moon Jung Hee as Yoon Hee. She was a bit bland in Air City, but I really liked her in Alone In Love.
I wonder if the scheduling shift is going to disrupt the flow of the episodes…
Thank you for continuing to recap this series!
Hmm, that’s a tricky line! I swear I hear 내가 갈께, and it DID make sense in the context. But so does 내가 할께, and I’ll defer to the majority. Sigh. Maybe it was wishful thinking?
Thanks for the recap.
As for the Jane situation, I think that Eun Soo just doesn’t take Jane seriously. I think she sees this as Jane’s opportunity to have what she’s been wanting so she should take it. In a way, Jane may have brought this notion of her on herself. I mean she seems to be very flimsy to me and though I like her, and feel very sorry for her, I can also understand how her “best friends” could view her as inconsistent.
Also do you believe that she would have taken Yoo-hee’s advice not to marry? I agree that she wanted to be talked out of it but not wholeheartedly. If so, she would have asked the entire Peanut Gallery, not just Charlie. I seem to believe that she’s right that Eun Soo and Yoo-hee like each other more than they like her but I don’t think its purposeful. When I see them, I see Yoo-hee who is a real woman, Eun Soo who wishes she was and Jane who truly is in a dream world and seems to enjoy it.
Jane’s friends don’t respect that. They don’t truly respect her. They don’t really love her for her, they love her because they are committed to being her friend.
To me this is why Eun Soo is angry about Yoo-hee’s relationship. She feels she deserves better, that she is a better, stronger and more capable woman than to go back to a man that nearly destroyed her. She doesn’t feel the same for Jane. Jane wanted a husband. Jane got a husband. Though she wanted Tarzan(the ideal), ultimately she wanted a man. Eun Soo regards this as “mission accomplished.” I know I make her out to be a bit heartless or indifferent but that’s not my intention of course its more complicated but I do believe that the basis.
The more I watch the show, the more I see the issues that lay between close friendships in life. Your dynamic with one is so different from the other but the problem comes when you allow your friendships to evolve to the point of these three women’s connection. I’m not sure if you can say that they are all equals in their relationship at all.
Sorry I’m so long winded. Have a great Independence weekend!
This is one great drama and i so ditto the word “quiet” used in your retelling of drama dear Javabeans – that’s so spot on! It’s exactly what I love most in this drama – the quiet and subtle actions, gentle smiles and silent joys that flood the eyes. No need all the OTT actions to make us laugh, but silent actions that make us go all bubbly inside – LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT
LOVE all scenes with THE VOICE! And I do like Choi Kang Hee as Eun Soo. I didn’t find her unatural at all – it’s like the unaturalness part of who Eun Soo is. Her sometimes “forced” smiles is Eun Soo and the lighting smiles that sparkles from her is also Eun Soo. Her faults in her actions is Eun Soo. Her feminine kindness + unsureness + blurness + cowardness is also Eun Soo.
I so can understand her, she was lonely and hurt. Met a guy that showered her TLC when she needed comfort, needed to feel female, needed to feel she was attractive and worthy of being someone’s woman/partner…and so while drunk, she threw caution to the wind and had an intimate relationship with him. Turns out guy is alot younger than her, but she still liked being with him and so the relationship began. Then while this was happening THE VOICE came into the picture. I would BETCHA if THE VOICE had met Eun Soo before all this happened, Eun Soo would not have gone into a relationship with TAE SOO – and would most probably easily live happily ever after with THE VOICE (as they seem so suited to one another, she the flightful one and he the steady one, and the quiet chemistry between them and he being a CEO and “correct age”) – so folks WE would not have ANY story – End of drama LOL
So much more I want to say in Eun Soo’s defence (I’m not saying that what she has done or is doing is right, but I can understand it ) ….ohhhh my little ones want to use this desktop to play her games and is booting me out!!! Even my laptop is being conquered by another LOL Gotta run, E
i sort of agree with your (javabeans) opinion of Eun-soo. i like her a lot less after this episode, though. it is nice to see a flawed character in a drama, but if she doesn’t make up for it soon she’s not gonna have any fans at the end. hopefully, she’ll end it with Tae-Oh and start anew with Young-soo, who will reform her into the perfect drama character.