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Oh My Venus: Episode 14

True love can’t be stopped by something as trivial as time, as our adorable couple set out to prove, to themselves and each other. In fact, time can do some amazing things, even for people who previously seemed as if they would never change. It just goes to show that the power of love can truly move mountains.

EPISODE 14 RECAP

We go back to February 2015, with Young-ho still in the hospital after his debilitating accident. His dreams are full of Joo-eun’s face and voice, but when he wakes, he’s always in the same hospital bed.

In the present, he thinks to himself that during this time, his heart hurts worse than his body. But more than that, he would hate seeing Joo-eun cry because of him. He’d gone to her door then left again several times a day.

While recuperating, he’d knit a pink scarf to give to Joo-eun when he saw her again, a skill he’d learned while in the hospital as a child. In fact, he’d knit a scarf for his mother while she was away for work, but she’d never come home for him to give it to her. Now we see adult Young-ho knitting next to the memory of himself as a child, with the same hope in his heart — to give this scarf to the woman he loves most, the next time he sees her.

Stepmom recovers enough to be recharged from the hospital, and she comes by Young-ho’s room just to ask Manager Min how he’s doing. She asks Min to relay her gratitude and goodbyes to Young-ho, Dad, and Grandma.

Young-ho takes a break from his knitting to read the book on dating that Joo-eun gave him when she moved out of the villa. Now he takes the time to read it, with a sweet little half-smile on his face. He reads a line that says that after breaking up, time just becomes a matter of endurance, and sighs to himself.

It’s Young-ho’s turn now to see a phantom of Joo-eun sitting in front of him, and he reflexively covers his injured leg with the blanket. Joo-eun’s memory hugs him as he shakes, telling him that it will be okay and he’ll be better soon. Young-ho seems comforted, but once she disappears, his leg begins to act up and he whimpers in pain.

Young-ho starts to cry in earnest, and we see that the words Joo-eun said, “It’s okay, you’ll get better soon, everything will be better soon,” were only in her book. Now his pain seems more about missing her than anything physical.

A few months later, Young-ho is allowed to go home in a wheelchair. He stops when he sees a bandage stuck to the outside of the door, the same way Joo-eun stuck her bandages he gave her to the post in her house.

We see that she left it there the night she told him she’d wait for him, and Manager Min made sure that nobody removed it, all this time. Young-ho takes it down and puts it on his hand, getting all choked up but looking hopeful.

Dad meets with Young-ho’s doctors, who credit his good health with his quick healing. But his muscles have atrophied since he’s been bedridden, so they warn that he may never walk normally again. Dad only says that his recovery from osteosarcoma was a miracle, so he has hope for another.

Young-ho thinks about the nature of humanity as he’s wheeled out of the hospital, musing that all people are sick in one way or another. Everyone lives while enduring it, so there’s no use in crying about it.

Manager Min takes him to the airport, where he remembers his grandmother dropping him off when she’d sent him to the States. He hears Joo-eun’s voice telling him to come back to her handsome and sexy, as he’s wheeled to his plane.

Back in the States, Young-ho endures months of high tech, excruciating physical therapy to regain his ability to walk. Though both of his legs were badly damaged, he does make good progress. After this much time, he has nearly one hundred unread text messages from Joo-eun, but he resists reading them, though not without difficulty. He knows that if he does, he’ll want to see her right away, but he’s not ready yet.

Joon-sung and Ji-woong travel to visit Young-ho, and show off Joon-sung’ s shiny new wrestling title. Aww, Joon-sung looks like an insecure child, hoping for Young-ho’s approval. Ji-woong just climbs in bed to cuddle with Young-ho, as he does, and Young-ho congratulates Joon-sung with all the pride of a father.

Soon Young-ho is standing on his own, and when he walks off the plane to meet manager Min back in Korea, the look on Min’s face is priceless. He’s happy to have Young-ho back, and the feeling is obviously mutual.

By now there are almost two hundred messages from Joo-eun on Young-ho’s phone, and he wastes no time reading them all. I love that they’re mostly death threats, and warnings that she’s going to hunt him down if he doesn’t contact her soon. She’s even sent him dozens of videos to prove she’s still working out, and healthier than ever.

Now it’s Christmas Eve, nearly a year since the accident, and Young-ho nervously waits for Joo-eun to walk by on her route to work. Assuming he’s yet another mirage, she walks right into him, and looks up at him hopefully. He wraps the scarf he knitted for her around her neck, and when she touches his face to confirm that he’s really here, he crushes her in a long-overdue hug.

As happy as they are to see each other, life goes on, and Joo-eun still has to go to work to finish up a few things. Young-ho says he’ll wait for her, right here. Joo-eun runs off, but comes back to grab Young-ho by the wrist and drag him to work with her. She’s not about to take her eyes off him now, and he just grins happily.

They’re so engrossed in each other that Joo-eun doesn’t even notice the elevator door opening, and she pulls him into her office. Soo-jin sees them going in, and also smiles.

Flustered with Young-ho there watching her, Joo-eun drops a file on the floor, and when she bends down to pick them up Young-ho reaches out to touch her nameplate. She smiles just to see his shoes in her office, and they both look like they want to cry a little.

They go back to Joo-eun’s place, and Joo-eun pulls Young-ho a bit too fast and causes him to stumble. He tells her softly that they have all the time in the world now, but Joo-eun nervously says that she’s just in a hurry to send that file to her client.

As she works, Young-ho leans on You Bastard and watches Joo-eun, which seems to make her a bit nervous. She keeps looking up to see him staring holes into her, and he dryly asks her to stop staring, ha. He tells her to hurry so he can kiss her, which is so cute.

He thinks as he watches her work, if she knows how people said what a real miracle it is that he’s able to come back to her. But to him, the true miracle is that she can see him like this, whole and healthy.

Joo-eun keeps stealing glances at Young-ho as she works, and finally she starts to cry. He sits nex tto her and puts his arm around her, thinking how sorry he is, and how guilty he feels for making her wait. The thought of her crying for him is what kept him going all this time.

Joo-eun cries that she’s so thankful, and when the doorbell rings, she naturally assumes it’s Manager Min as usual. Ha, Young-ho agrees that he’s always interrupting them when things get interesting, but Joo-eun says that he should go see his family. She sends him home, but tells him to come back tomorrow. Young-ho promises to do better than that, and see her every day.

He barely gets out the door, and he has to lean on it for a moment and cry. He collects himself and walks away, and Joo-eun peeks out the door to watch him go. She calls Hyun-woo, who assumes she’s crying because she misses Young-ho again, and asks what she’s supposed to do now that Young-ho is back.

This makes Hyun-woo cry too, happy for her friend. Then she tells Joo-eun to stop acting pitiful, ha. Joo-eun makes a suggestion we don’t hear, and Hyun-woo agrees that it’s a great idea.

PD Go brings little Min-joon home after a daddy-son trip to the amusement park, and Hyun-woo tells him he doesn’t have to pay child support anymore. She just wants him to be a good dad.

Woo-shik sets up a fancy dinner for Soo-jin at her place, but when she arrives home, she suffers a scary dizzy spell. She pretends nothing’s wrong but goes to her room to take some pills. At dinner Woo-shik pulls out a ring, which Soo-jin accepts happily.

Young-ho goes to see Dad and Grandma, and Dad actually smiles and says it’s good to see him home. Young-ho bows with his forehead to the ground, and Grandma cries and hugs him. I can’t get over how much Dad is smiling!

Grandma complains about the food at dinner, and the maid says that they can’t cook as well as Stepmom always did. This makes Dad stop smiling, though he doesn’t say anything.

After dinner Dad asks Young-ho how his neurosis has been, and Young-ho sighs that Dad knew about his stress-induced pain. Dad confirms that Grandma doesn’t know, and young-ho says that he hasn’t had a flare-up since the accident. Young-ho agrees to spend the night, and he stops in Grandma’s room to tuck her in as she sleeps.

Joo-eun wakes on Christmas morning and dresses in a pretty outfit, and laughs when Young-ho starts sending her text messages one word at a time (he says he has to pay her back for the nearly two hundred texts she sent him, hee). Even that makes her cry, aww.

Ji-woong is busy decorating the Christmas tree when joo-eun arrives at the villa, and he greets her with his usual boisterous “Ma’am!” and an attack-hug. Evidently they’ve kept in touch, but haven’t seen each other in person in a year.

Joon-sung has gone to visit his mom, who’s still wearing her red coat. He gives her a new blue one, and she smiles brightly, which totally is not making me cry right now. Joon-sung invites her to a movie, though it may be late, and she knows that means his friend must have come home.

And then a high-pitched “MOM!” from nearby makes them both look over to see Yi-jin, her face covered in dirt. She sidles up to Mom and says that she was forced to help the less fortunate all day, thanks to her son. Well I guess if they’re dating, at least he’s making a better person out of her.

When Young-ho arrives at the villa, the whole place is dark and quiet. He looks a bit sad, but sudeny everyone — and I do mean everyone – pops out to wish him a happy birthday. OMG I can’t handle Manager Min’s jacket. What color is that, even? He gives Joo-eun the evil eye, and tells Young-ho that she forced him to wear it.

They put on a little show for Young-ho, with Min-joon singing the bear song with the bears being Young-ho and Joo-eun, and even Manager Min sings his own rendition of “My Way.” HAHA, he really can’t sing at all, and he cracks them all up. The boys even get up to do a song and dance with Hyun-woo, while Min covers little Min-joon’s eyes. I love how Young-ho has eyes only for Joo-eun, even in the middle of all the madness.

Joo-eun watches from above as Ji-woong plays the violin, and the party calms down. She calls her mother, who is busy with her new grandson, to wish her Merry Christmas. Joo-eun thinks to herself that a year ago her mother was lonely but pretending to be okay, but now she’s happy due to the arrival of a new family member.

Joon-sung meets his mother and Yi-jin for a late movie, and Soo-jin and Woo-shik also snuggle while seeing a show together. Joo-eun thinks that the miracle of Christmas must be very ordinary and common — just being with the person you want by your side.

Young-ho joins Joo-eun, and says that he may not be able to send her home tonight. Joo-eun just smiles — who said she was planning on leaving? A short time later they lay in bed, facing each other, just enjoying that they can look at each other now.

Young-ho shows Joo-eun the bandage he has on his hand, the same one she left on his hospital room door. He says it was the reason he was able to get through this past year, and he thinks how sorry he is to have kept her waiting.

Joo-eun asked what Young-ho wished for when he blew out his birthday candles, thinking he probably wished for health. But he says his wish wasn’t for himself, but for her not to get sick. She snuggles into his arms, and he says that he hopes they can spend a warm, relaxed night together.

He kisses her forehead, and she kisses him in turn. Joo-eun gives Young-ho a sly little smile, and when he repeats, “…a warm night…” she moves in to kiss him again, with a very determined expression on her face.

COMMENTS

Finally, Young-ho and Joo-eun get to have their night together, that they’ve waited for for so long. It’s been a long, difficult road getting there, but they’ve earned it. In a way, I’m glad they never got to have this experience before the accident, because it would have been that much harder to go a year not seeing each other, if they’d already shared absolutely everything. Not to mention, if they’d already spent the night together, it would have left nothing special and new for them to celebrate their return to each other. And I love how it’s about more than just the physical — it’s their affirmation that they’re really, truly committed to each other now.

I’m glad we got to see Young-ho’s journey over the course of the year tha the and Joo-eun were separated, and that we witnessed how very much he missed her during that time. I still can’t say I completely understand why he felt that complete radio silence was necessary, but given what we know about his personality, it wasn’t unexpected. I do agree with many of you, that it would have been better to see Joo-eun beside him, helping him get healthy again, just as he did with her. It seems to give their relationship a lopsidedness, that he was allowed to see her at ther most vulnerable, but he never gave her the chance to help him in the same way. But I think that his attitudes towards health and illness got in the way, and his lifelong habit of being alone while recovering from traumatic surgeries. I’m hoping that in the final episodes, Joo-eun gives him hell about that, and makes sure he never does it again.

So where do we go from here? This episode could have easily served as a finale (why do I keep saying that at Episode 14 on so many recaps lately?), with everything tied up in a nice neat bow. I have no idea how they’re going to fill two more episodes, though I have a few requests. I’d like to see Young-ho and Joo-eun get married and have about a million dimpled kids, and I’d like to see Henry get into the Marines like he wants so badly. I suppose Joon-sung can marry Yi-jin, if she tones down the shrill voice a bit — her boisterousness does counter his grounded seriousness pretty well. I want to see Stepmom come back to Dad, and for him to appreciate her and insist that Grandma does the same… and not just because she’s a good cook, but because they value and miss her. I want Manager Min to find a nice lady and settle down, and stop interrupting Young-ho and Joo-eun every time things get steamy between them. And I want someone to tell Young-joon that he’s a valued member of the family, and that he can be whatever he wants to be — not because nobody cares what he does, but because they want him to be happy.

I’m willing to overlook a lot, because goodness knows this show has its fair share of plot holes and incomplete storylines, if we can just get a few of these things straightened out. We have two whole episodes in which to make some of this happen, so let’s get it done!

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Was wondering too what the two remaining episodes would be! This episode is so satisfying notwithstanding some heartbreaking parts that I felt it is the calm before the storm. Hopefully I'm wrong!

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Agree! I guess it's too late for this, but I'm still confused as to why Dad isn't living with Stepmom and son. Didn't Grandma plan to cut him off too? What exactly happened there?

I'd be so much more frustrated about the plot holes if not for the lead couple's charm!

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Didn't step mom say she would be leaving without him, so that he could stay close to Young Ho and look after Grandma? Such a lovely lady.

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What a moron. Dad can work at the company, have relationship with Young Ho and live with his wife and second child.

It creeps me out how the wife was used like some sort of slave and the second son is treated like a bastard.

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Well, if I were the grandma (and had her absurd morals), I'd treat the second son like a bastard too just to spite his uncle. That guy's goading of the son towards a "destiny" is incredibly annoying and counter-productive.

Still, that grandma is a piece of work.

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??? since when is a rom-com supposed to make you cry?!

Nonetheless, i hope the last 2 ep are without tissues.

Thank you for the recap.

Happy New Year to all the Oh My Venus and So Ji sub fans ✨✨

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Thank you! Happy new year to you as well!!!

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I actually do wish they had shared that long desired erotic night together before he left. Chances are this time around he'd have likely kept in touch rather than disappear for a year with no word from him. He can't just shut himself from her every time he's hurt, health is sexy but it's sexier to support each other through the less healthy phases. Considering he needs some kind of psychological treatment, this episode doesn't feel like a conclusion.

On another note, how adorable is Chief Min?! He seems so lonely though, I so badly want to ship him with Hyun-woo...

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On the first point: Agreed!

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I think the grandmother might make noise about him marrying a chaebol daughter, so that might be episode 15.

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First of all, thank you LolliPip for recapping this episode! :) Really appreciate all your hard work! :D

That said, I have to say I am not too hot for them using that recurring trope in dramaland that is the one year separation rule. I've honestly never understood why Korean dramas love making their leads not talk to each other for a year (or more. But nothing less than a year, God help them) and then meet up again for a sweeping declaration of love that erases the emptiness of the past year.

What is so wrong with a long-distance relationship? Can you really not get yourself together when you read your "lover's" text messages or hear his/her voice? LOL I've always found that funny when that just justifies cutting off all contacts without warning. Will you immediately quit what you do and buy a one-way ticket back, never to return from your studies/apprenticeship/army time/etc?

But my general dislike for unnecessary separations aside, I have to say that I especially dislike this drama's justification for a separation.

I understand that when you are sick, it hurts just as much to see the people you love to be in pain. But a relationship is more than just about the happy memories between two healthy people. Sure, happy times make way for happy memories and sad ones either make or break you. With that being said, of course there's always the chance that one bad event could transpire and be so severe as to just destroy a relationship completely but in the event that you manage to endure hardship together, you come out more mature and more stable. You change together. Together, here, being the keyword.

If one's solution of keeping a relationship happy is to run away every time something bad is to happen, big or small, trust me, that relationship is not going to work. It signifies a lack of trust on oneself and on one's partner, or just between them, in general. I hope that they address this in the upcoming episodes because this is just not sitting well with me.

Considering all that, I still love So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah - maybe not so much for their characters n this drama than their acting but it's still enough to want me to know what's going to happen next.

Here's to a good ending!

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Agree on all counts!

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Agree on all counts as well. If I didn't find this couple adorable, I'd have been gone about 3 episodes ago. The pace here makes Warm & Cozy look like a breakneck action film.

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Awww.. finally the recaps before NY holiday is here.
Now i'm wondering too what is there for us on the last 2eps. I hope its goody good feelings.

Happy new year to you all DB team and lovely beanies.
Cheers to 2016 with lots of great drama to watch (or read).

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Episode 14 seemed too much like a finale. What can they bring in the next two episodes?

Please don't tell me there can be more angst! Oh and will Joo Eun's dead father turn out to be the driver of Young Ho's mom's car? I have been thinking that for quite a while but I have not been reading recaps and comments on DB so I dunno what you guys think. In one of the early episodes, where Joo Eun is telling why she wanted to be a lawyer, there is a scene where they show many lawyers coming to her dad's funeral, and giving money.

But isn't it too late, with just 2 episodes to go, to touch on such a sensitive topic! Anyway, if my conjectures come out to be true, then we ll finally get a stereotypical chaebol drama, which Oh My Venus has, till now, thankfully not been.

How cute and awkward is Chief Min in that glittery jacket and singing songs! So happy that he got a better role than that in Heirs (though he makes me miss Kim Woo Bin so so much, he was one of the only good things in that show).

I guess I ll watch whatever they dole out in the last two episodes nevertheless. I mean who cares about story when one gets to look at So Ji Sub! :D <3

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It might not be, because Joo Eun was a teenager already when the incident happened, while Young Ho looked quite young when he overheard the news.

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Well, actually I am quite nervous that everything seems VERY NICE AND SWEET at this point.. is it the sign of the big storm coming?

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Surprises in the drama so far: Henry. I thought he'd just be a throwaway character. I mean, he seemed to just be playing himself. But his crying/emotional scenes have been so good.
Villains who aren't really: Woo Shik and Soo Jin. Who would have thought after watching the first couple of episodes that I'd be able to forgive them for being so unlikable?
Young Ho's step mom. After watching how poorly she was treated by her mother in law AND husband I was sure she was going to be a schemer. But she didn't go that route. And (surprise!) neither did her son. (Young Ho's half brother.)
If any of my surprises turn out to be plot twists and untrue--I'll be disappointed.

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@ Wag_a_Muffin

That's a nice list of surprises! And Happy New Year btw from my side of the world. :)

Add to that, the fact that we get the 'ending first' episdoe followed by the story that leads to the ending episode. It feels kind of turnaround. It's not bad for alleviating frustration, but narratively, I wonder if it makes for an ending with no more oomph.

I refuse to accept that this happy 'ending' of Ep 13 and 14 is going to be a false ending, and that there's something more tragic in store. It's a rom with a little com and a health message ... I hope the show sticks to that tone!

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Agreed Wagamuffin!

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For some reason i agree, this episode like a final episode..
But when i saw back prev ep, this episode maybe for our answer, what young ho did when joo eun missed him so badly.
Appreciate the writer for focus on joo eun story in prev ep and young ho story in this episode, they just made me understood they bond each other with different way..
Especially when young ho said about miracle while he watching her doing her job in her home and when he say sorry to made her wait too long, while she said thank you for coming soo fast.. the writer just give me some undescrible lovely moments..

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I hope they address three issues:
1) Who was the stalker? And was he infatuated from the past or latched on recently? (I thought maybe he was the dweeb that treated Woosik cruelly because he really wanted JooEun).

2) Just because Sung Joon is in his mom's life, doesn't change that she is AGAIN a victim of domestic/spouse abuse. I want to see it addressed.

3) How does Yong Ho feel about Yong Joon?

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Is she married to a new husband? I think her first husband died when she killed him? I couldn't really catch that part, but not sure who she is with now.

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My understanding (although subs can sometimes throw me) is she was married to an abuser and killed him in self defense. She gave birth to Sung Joon while in prison.

But he new man/spouse is also an abuser as we've seen and heard JooEun and her friend discussing and also, we saw her spouse being verbally abusive after one of Sung Joon's visits.

But I'd also like to know why we were told she was JooEun's friend's mother-in-law. Was that some weird honorific? Did the writers change their mind from having her be the mom-in-law to just the nanny and Sung Joon's mom?

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Dear Beez, in my experience, people feels atracted to the same kind of person. Again and again.

So when I was younger and started to whine because a lady had mistreated or abused me, I had to remember myself that all women are not the same, but I was looking for a certain tipology (or pathology to be more precise ;) ) time after time.

Back to the show, of course it doesn't mean Sung Joon's mother should let her abusive husband have his way with her, but after she gets rid of him (in a non bloody way, thank you very much) and if she wants to have a couple again she should be more discerning.

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Yeah, I'm hoping all of these points are addressed too...but they seem to be throwaway plot devices at this point. Fingers crossed? Also not sure why Young-ho can't actually TELL Joo-eun he's sorry and keeps thinking it instead. They communicated so well in the early stages of their relationship, and now all of that seems to be gone (though two more episodes = some hope!).

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Yeeeeeessss! And I'd like to add:
What did WS tell YH at the hospital?

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OMG, I really need to know this. While waiting for episode 15, i was re-watching the drama and totally forgot about WS telling YH something... it was not revealed.

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I was cooking breakfast just now and had one in f thise "and another thang" moments

This story had more than enough to work with. In my opinion, it was a better story to have Yong Ho deal with his psychological similar to phantom pain and have Joo Eun help him. We could have seen him having to deal with getting over her looking at his scarred knee and what he perceives as weakness. We could have seen him reject JooEun, but only during those painful days, until she finally getting overruled the "tap, tap" to show him how family deals with hurt.

That's how you grow a strong relationship between characters.

Instead, it looks like we get a 100% healed hero and the phantom pain is gone. Maybe they'll still go there, but I doubt it. This episode dropped the 4 and 5 stars I've been giving the show down to 3.

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They took the easy way and stuck to the usual twists and turns, rather than tackling real issues which would have required thoughtful writing.

That's how it feels to me when you have real problems (whether the phantom pain, the actual injury after the plotwise-unnecessary accident, or the fact that Young-ho is a one-man-island when it comes to his personal issues & thus not ready for a relationship between equals) but solve them *magically* *miraculously* with a one year separation whereafter everyone is reunited is if that year never really happened at all.

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With you on the "plot-wise unnecc accident" if it only serves as her/his episodes on their seperate coping takes, with a magical, miraculous reunion one yr later.

We'd hope he had developed from that after that phantom pain incident during the introduction dinner and how JE had helped him confronting that ... but I can also see that it's totally in keeping with his character to deal with his life challenges alone on his "one man island".

We can only hope this sharing with JE will be built up in the next remaining 2 episodes.

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I'm going to guess the next two episodes will be mostly grandma objecting to Joo-eun (ep. 15) and possibly a couple of weddings (Soo-jin/Woo-shik, Joo-eun's brother???, maybe even the lead couple)... It feels to me they ran out of plot after ep 12 bc the accident plus the her version/his version exploration of the year after is... just draggy. So all they can do now is invent another conflict and then tie very neat bows on everything.

If only the writer had build the world around the leads more carefully – like laying better foundations for the leads or giving side-characters stories rather than making them devices used-only-as-needed...

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I really don't get why the show insists that Young Ho heals better without Joo-Eun, too.

It's psychological trauma, and it's better to have the people you love near you when it happens.

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I'm on board with LollyPip and those who think that this episode could have served as a finale. However, there are some loose threads that could be tied up in the next two episodes.

In addition to those already mentioned, I wonder if Soo Jin's dizziness/health is going to be a storyline.

Looking forward to a decent finale.

Happy New Year to all!

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Usual k dramas have separation at 15 and reunion at 16 I'm glad it altered but what are they doing for next two..

First please can they give an understandable explanation for joon sung's story seriously I have never been so confused : get mother - son story right

Next can someone please make the two yong half brothers meet ... that half brother needs some attention(dad and two brothers all in one place that might be a silent and boring though but needed)

I don't want to see grandma through crap about main leads relation because I can't imagine the chebol girl waiting for an year (she might already be married and got pregnant too lol just speaking)

I'm really curious how these two episodes will be ...

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hope chief min don't come ringing the doorbell in ep 15..

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Gah, these two are so adorable together. If the chemistry could be bottled...

My love for the the two leads and their little family is greater than my gripes with plot holes etc. and I could just watch them forever. BUT, please don't just erase Stepmom and Yong Joon out of existence. No way to treat family--especially when they've done nothing wrong.

Just give me that in the next two episodes. And more dimples and crazy hot chemistry. I'm set.

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I was hopeful for a moment that Joo Eun might be angry with him for leaving. How disappointing that she immediately forgave him and all was well. For once, I'd like to see a drama heroine kick the guy to the curb for leaving. (The most fulfilling separation storyline, IMO, was Kim Sam Soon, where she WAS mad at him and he at least had a legitimately dorky reason for not contacting her.)

I'm afraid that the last two episodes are going to focus on Soo Jin's health. Which, frankly, I don't care about. I don't know why this drama keeps insisting that these two are people we should root for.

The only storyline I was resolved is the poor stepmom. The woman has not been treated fairly by anyone in her life.

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lol @ "Legitimately dorky reason".
So many Kdramas have used the "I was away and wanted to contact you, but I wouldn't, if not I'd have RAN back to you right away" line and it blows !

Kim Sam Soon: "I DID contact you... ah, what? Wrong address? crap! I'm sorry!" LOL

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Why? why Young Ho, why the hints of melancholy in your face and body language? Hope nothing serious? You are just tired and jet lag.

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That pensiveness upon his return, was a little worrisome to me too.

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Exactly. Why ? What I love about this drama is how the writer goes back and loops and/or ties up loose ends. " Tap Tap" was used three times...the last time had such power... I liked the knitting...if you missed it in earlier flashbacks it was a pleasant surprise. I even loved the Broccoli, unseasoned meat, and pepper Birthday cake - because he doesn't eat carbs... so I didn't see 13 & 14 as possible finale epi's. Cause, IMHO there is more... the look on Young Ho's face, apprehension, something not shared yet, even as you said @Rafe Amani, a melancholy. The scene where he is leaning on the door of Joo Eun apartment as he is leaving..the look on his face, the glance back to her inside...for me is screaming..there is more with a dose of " I didn't see that coming "

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Couldn't agree with you more.

That is what I love about this drama too, Delta, all that you described above and more.

Even when so many thumb-down it for the plot holes, I just dig the gems! he, he.

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The juxtaposition of the two images - adult Young-Ho and his younger self knitting - I really liked the directing of that scene.

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So Ji Sub just won Top Excellence on KBS Drama Awards!!

I don't understand much Korean but I think he did mention that we can expect "comfortable and Racy night" :P

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Yes!! So Ji Sub was like on screen every minute.. the camera man cant resist his profile.. that v-line.. well no one objects..
and when he made his speech OMG! I cant wait for Monday!!

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So Ji Sub & Shin Min Ah (Oh My Venus) Best couple award..how could they not ? LOL

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KBS Awardsssssss? Please tell me SASSY won something too??

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thank you for the recap !
I've been waaaaiting for you to, 'cause I was actually hoping to read that I wasn't the only one disappointed with the last 2 episodes... and maybe I am but... here me out:

1) Episode 13 and 14 feel like a "Her view of the 1yr" and "His View of the 1yr", all very elaborately dragged out with great acting, yes, but dragged out nonetheless. which brings me back to "WHY DID WE HAVE THAT ACCIDENT IN THE 1ST PLACE???", which has been the most glaring plot hole ever !!

2) Stoic Secretary interrupting while they're making out? Cool. I get it. it makes sense, was even funny (we got TWWWOOOOO hungry kisses! lol). Now, Episode 14 and you mean to tell me that after not seeing your significant other for A WHOOOLE YEAR, our Main Couple couldn't have sneaked in a kiss or 2??? Come on!
For that, I have to say that shows like "It's Okay, It's Love" have spoiled me. in that show, kissing was almost a natural thing, a non-event for the couple (but a maaaajor super cute one for viewers like me). it always happened randomly, like a real couple and I looooved it. of course, I haven't watched another KDrama that had so much realistic skinship since, but... I had hoped the writers would put heartthrob So Ji Sub & beautiful Shin Min-A to good use and exploit their stunning chemistry ! but no. so stingy !

3) as everyone seemed to agree in the comments above: this should have been the last episode. Tying loose EVERY loose end feel too weird...

4) except if it's to give poor Step Mom a better ending. seriously, this poor woman DESERVES to catch a break. she's been soooo mistreated and for what? what did she ever do?

anyways, looking forward to next week still. Now that I'm done gripping (Thank God for blogs!!), I can't lie: I love this show anyways ! <3

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THANKS Lollypip as always, for diligently delivering these great recaps. Happy New Year! :}

^ Hope chief min doesn't come ringing the doorbell for their warm night together ... and that he gets hitched up with JE's bestie.
Poor dude (the sweetheart he's been for YH, and such a beautiful surrogate dad who does anything for him including dress up and sing!) has no life beyond YH and the family. I'd much rather see this happening, than more moments of CF Queen.

I have no ambitions for all the plots (and questions) that were introduced and went nowhere logical but will be content with the OTP growing together. YH learning to share his private pain so JE can also support him through any further health issues, as he did during her most vulnerable moments. That, will be sexy.

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I see a bit of a struggle getting Grandmama to cotton to Young Ho's marrying Joo Eun. We've already seen how well she accepted Step-mom!

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It will be convenient if icy Grandma with all her love for Young Ho in her manipulative heart ... can quietly go to sleep and stay that way the morning after.

That way, perhaps step mom can also have a resolution. What is the current state of this couple anyway? Dad seemingly still stays in with grandma eating dinners with her as YH's official dad, while stepmom and Young Joon moves out?!?

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I agree that I would rather have seen joo eun and young ho work together for his recovery. I even have a favorite moment where he should have flipped and let her in and let her be a part of his struggle. It was just after taptap when she declared her love for him from behind the hospital door and he lost it but could barely move.

That said I still was moved by last two episodes despite weaknesses and i do think young hos actions were in character based on how he grew up and how he learned to survive his terrible childhood challenges on his own.

Because of chemistry of two leads i really love this show despite agreeing with many of criticisms cited here regarding secondary story lines of supporting characters. My hope for ending would be a wedding. Also an ending scene including uncle Henry in marine uniform, playing with his new baby niece next christmas. I would like for grandmother to become more enlightened about how much pain she has caused. And i would like stepmother and stepbrother to be brought into this little circle of family that young ho and joo eun are building.

One final thought. Both leads are just wonderful actors.

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Both of them won an award during the KBS drama awards! Yey!

They definitely deserve it, especially the best couple award. They have great chemistry, especially in this episode. You can really feel the love. :-)

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Yes. So happy for them!!!!!
And I read somewhere that in his acceptance speech SJS congratulates her partner for winning the award and teases her saying: "Next week will be our last broadcast. The warm and comfortable night that we couldn't yet have...let's film it"!
Love it!!!!

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Looool! It would be lovely if they did that! I still want to see improvement in YH relationship with his family and Joon Sung's mother leaving that abuser. As for growth in YH and JE's relationship, maybe something will happen in in YH's family that will require him to lean on her a bit…. I was also hoping that she would be his hero somehow like he was for her in the beginning….. maybe the author felt that her being his inspiration to heal himself was exactly that, her being a hero to him…

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I'd like too see all you want to see next week too!
More cute please!
I know this show is just full of fluff, but it still has it's own flavour and story. Just to bad that there are a lot of things missing. Like Yijin and Min's development or more story line...idk
Anyways thank you show and reca!

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First time I've ever clicked on one star, "I want my hour back". So he comes back after a year and everything is hunky dory? No, no, no. Some hard questions need yo be asked. Some justifiable answers need to be given.

I do hope that the next two episodes deal with that dysfunctional family. We need our Venus to knock some sense into them.

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I agree -- I think I got spoiled by It's Ok, It's Love ... where the hero grew by accepting help and the heroine grew by learning that there were only certain things she could do to help. I also love the scene in that drama where our hero openly worried that his illness would make him less sexy to the woman he loved. This drama is starting to have a real cotton candy feel to it. It's disappointing.

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Arghhhhh. Frustrating yet cute episode. Totally unrealistic. Why wouldn't she give him a piece of her mind when he got back? She is so honest with everyone else. But she is so happy to have him back she is just hanging on to him like a puppy.

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Yes. You are right. It did show inspiration coming to young ho from joo eun. It showed it coming from the book she left him and the words she wrote in it. And I think the other other part of that same scene. Where he imagines she is there with him and is so embarrassed by his leg that he tries to cover it up with a blanket and then he breaks down weeping shows how much this injury has hurt him and he has become almost like the child again. For me that small character moment made me believe in the truth of young ho's choice. Like it was the only one he could make. And i will be honest. it just about broke my heart.

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Agreed. I think that perfectly encapsulates why he needed to do it that way.

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Yes, yes I am glad to see it spelled out so nicely.

That means at least three of us, (maybe more out there) who observed and came to the same conclusion about the scene you described, Min joon, "that perfectly encapsulates why he needed to do it that way" as Lola puts it.

His first miracle rehab, he did it alone in the US, and his second rehab was probably at the same institution in the US. As his father said they needed a second miracle for him to walk again. JH chose to do it alone again and entrusted himself in the hands of professional therapists for a rigorous, one-track-mind training to revive his atrophied muscles.

Some describe this as a make-no-sense act, would it make more sense to let JE to drop her career as a lawyer follow him to the States for an unknown period of time to help him with rehab where complete recovery to walk was said to be iffy? With father, grandma and K-society in the picture, how to overcome that. (One-track mind decision is good, looks selfish on the outside but soft and considerate on the inside).

I find JH's choice not unrealistic. It is unselfish and understandable given the stage of their relationship.

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Ooo - Thanks for the food for thought (and thanks to Lola and Min Joon, too). At first, I was seeing the plot as the writer's missed opportunity to let KJE help YH with healing, but now I see it from the angle that you are describing - that while I've been expecting makjang plot points at every turn, this drama is a bit more realistic, more slice of life.

For example:
1. KJE has a weight change, but is basically the same person (only healthier), and her view of weight loss is completely opposite of the fantasy that Soo Jin expected.

2. That what KJE said during the second Christmas is perhaps the theme of the story - that the miracle is not something spectacular, but is really the ordinary fact of people being with their loved ones. The miracles are less about jobs and money and living a fantasy, but more about the ordinary support of loved ones and the work it truly takes to heal.

3. That even though he's a chaebol, his life is more personal than the cliche of being obsessed with business, and that even though she's dating the rich guy, real life matters trump that fantasy.

4. That in the dramatic death of KJE's dad is not about makjjang revenge and angst, but about the basic fact that KJE and her mother miss him, especially on holidays.

5. Even the stalker incident (which had me angry for being dropped), is a bit more realistic because in a drama I expect McCreepy to put a tracking device in her poinsettia and stalk her at her new house. In reality, most stalkers don't have that kind of perseverance.

6. Even Joo-Soon's abused mom - in real life, stopping a pattern of abuse that a woman has tolerated through two marriages would realistically take awhile, so it makes sense that a year has passed where she is growing in her relationship with her son.

And while I hope they resolve some of the dropped details (like what WS said to YH at the hospital, the brothers connecting, father and son having their moments), I think I like that the characters feel real. Their finger hearts and text messages, and attempts not to cry (Henry), or crying at work (KJE), just feel believable. I hope I am not reaching. It just feels like the story as a whole is more subtle than I realized at first.

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Better episode than Ep 13 anyway, and should be watched in conjunction.

Though what purpose this second accident/recovery process-miracle => Merry Christmas 2015 rehashed celebration serves is still ?!???

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I wondered that too, but now I think it shows to highlight the little changes in a year - the ordinary miracles that KJE mentions - That the same people are still there to support YH, and that KJE's mom now has a grandchild to ease her loneliness. I would have missed those tiny changes if the scenes didn't mirror each other the way they did.

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Ditto.

As others dig the plot holes, we who love OMV find more gems to mine out ! he, he.

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I can't stop wondering... AIRBAGS! These folks drive state of the art autos, so where were the airbags? Why does every drama have to put the leads in hospitals for emotional cheap thrills? The story mostly felt real until the multiple near-death accidents. So unimaginative on the part of the writers.

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Errr beyond the multi-car accident and the fact it seemingly went unmentioned in the media because of course car pileups happen casually and quietly every hour ... to me, his secret chamber was kinda unreal too. And whatever (Michael Jackson oxygen chamber?) he lies in.

Even scheming uncle's reaction was odd - ie his impulsive vendetta to gun YH down, and his quiet resignation after.

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Thanks for the recap, LollyPip!

This was a heartbreaking ep just watching YH doing rehab to get back on his feet. Knowing his history of being hospitalized as a kid and what he went through, I'm not surprised that he would choose to deal with this pain on his own. And perhaps if JE was right by his side, there would've been added pressure, thinking that he needs to speed things up even if his body is not ready yet or feeling down in the dumps for disappointing JE once again for lack of recovery... Maybe that's why he felt he had to deal with this alone with his trainer and other medical staff, especially since he had to travel abroad for treatment. I'm glad JW and JS visited him though. Love the JW cuddle attack. LOL

Seeing JE and YH finally together again was heartwarming. They've finally made it!! And the birthday party was so sweet with everyone joining in and Chief Min in sparkly suit and all. Haha... I definitely want all the wants that you listed at the end. I'm not sure what else will happen in the remaining two eps. SJ's medicine and her dizzy spells may be a concern. And that Uncle might not go down without one last fight. Guess we'll see what's gonna happen with that VVIP medical center plan.

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I was downloading this series to keep fa-EVa but now, I'll finish watching because I love SJS but the episodes I've saved so far are getting deleted. They're not worthy of the precious gigs space since I'll never rewatch this.

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I REALLY hope that the show takes the last two episodes to address what happened during the year-long separation. Like many of you, I understand why Young Ho completely cut himself off from Joo Eun because it was in his character. He grew up being ashamed of his weaknesses (and especially with his family turning him away because of it), and he resorted to what he has know for all of his life. His actions make me think of the saying that you cannot fully love another person until you love yourself. If I continue along that train of thought, however, I become disappointed because it means that Young Ho is not quite ready for Joo Eun's love. There's a sudden disparity in their relationship that seemed so perfect before. Joo Eun was able to be healed by Young Ho, but Joo Eun can't do the same for him? Yes, she became his inspiration to be healed, but I wanted her to be always there for him, just as he was there for her. That unbalance just doesn't sit well with me.

As malintentioned as this seems, I kind of want Young Ho to go through some kind of hardship within the last 2 episodes, but let Joo Eun help him get through it. That will help ease my mind about not only his character growth, but also his and Joo Eun's relationship. I get that he wanted to try to heal by himself, but I also want the satisfaction in him knowing that he can't just push Joo Eun away whenever he goes through a crisis. It's not fair to her.

Here are a couple of other things I want to happen in the last two episodes:

- Soo Jin's character development. I have almost forgiven Woo Shik fully, but I am still unsettled by her character. The show cannot end with her accepting Woo Shik and being all happy without addressing (and resolving, perhaps) all her other personal issues. If they do, it would be counter-productive to the messages about self-worth and beauty that the show worked so hard to convey. I have hope though because they did show Soo Jin struggling with a headache.
- Dad and Young Ho reconciling. There's progress, but they're beating around the bush too much!
- Addressing and resolving the issue regarding Joon Sung's mother and her abusive husband
- Young Ho and Joo Eun having a happy ending that is satisfying. Flaws and imprefections are fine, but I just want some equality and reasonable character growth!

I am so invested in this drama it's ridiculous haha. Sigh. All of the plotholes and inconsistencies are driving me mad. But I just LOVE So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah. And I have really grown to love Chief Min, Ji Woong, and Joon Sung.

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It's funny how the world was going so crazy over the whole "John Kim" affair (which still makes no sense to me) and yet the - now - CEO of the company gets into a terrible car crash and takes a year off to recuperate and we're supposed to assume NO ONE found out...LMAO.

Had there been any other two leads, I would have left this show AGES ago.

2 more episodes and I sense more nonsense coming our way.

Also, this has probably got to be the saddest kdrama family I've seen....I mean Young Ho had juvenile bone cancer, his mom died in a car crash, his dad's got cancer, his step-mom almost died in a car crash too, his step-uncle is a attempted murderer and his step brother is suicidal......mind boggle.

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I would say the fengshui of the house or ancestral graves is bad.

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Thanks LollyPip! And Happy New Year from over here!!

I have read most comments here and agree to the lists of what we'd like for the next two episodes. For a change, we have a show that did not drag out conflict endlessly in order to kill time, so that it could just round up some main stuff in the last episode, without giving more resolution for side issues and side characters.

If this drama can fill in the holes and give us more resolutions I'd like to congratulate the writer.

I can be most invested in Step Mum and Young Joon who appear so sporadically, almost as teasers. Perhaps that was meant to be a hint that we should expect them to come back in the last 2 episodes to augment Young Ho's 'family'. If friends can end up as family, step-family are even more family.

There's YH's dad's cancer still to be properly dealt with and if Young Ho wants to fulfill his grandma's wish, the Directorship to take up, plus the big hoo-hah over his choice of wife against granny's wishes.

I don't think the show was able to get us to care all that much for Soo Jin or that 2 episodes will be enough for that, but she seems to be having headaches and dizzy spells so we might be getting another health message in this end part of the show.

And of course I'd like to see if Sung Joon can get his mum out from her abusive home and get to live with her, preferably without the self-styled girlfriend whose pursuit of him makes me cringe. Yi Jin would have come off as a more sympathetic character if she'd been shown to be more sensitive and less spoilt in her attitude towards getting a boyfriend.

So on to the last 2 episodes and my our New Year be bright with better shows!

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This show! Is so so good. How can it do what it does, so well? Watching Young Ho go through that tortuous, arduous rehab in order to get back his life was exhausting and cringe inducing. And gripping. If noble idiocy ever had a 'right' way, this was it. Legitimate, built from the characters established personality/actions. It makes sense that Young Ho would fuel his rehabilitation with thoughts of getting back to a life that was just starting to come together in all the right ways. It makes sense that he would do it by himself, even if it made Joo Eun (Young Ho, Joon Sung, Ji Woong, probably Chief Min) cry more than they would have otherwise. Would they have had that miracle if he didn't do what he did? I'll accept that the answer to that is no.

So Ji Sub is such a beautiful actor you can really read his emotions in his face/body without him having to say a word. That scene with the Joo Eun hallucination in the hospital when he goes to cover his leg was - oomph. Hard to watch.

I will be sad to see this drama end. Young Ho basically being the perfect man, So Ji Sub may never look so good to me again.

Kang Joo Eun. What an amazing leading lady. I love her so much. Shin Min Ah is so lovable in this role. Joo Eun is amazing. Sassy, smart, forgiving and all around wonderful. Not to mention saucy! The last scene of this episode was very hot! THe expression on So Ji Sub's face ... I can't wait for next week.

What a beautiful show this has turned out to be. How many drama's misstep in the last third of their run? This show is going to be a classic (well for me- does that count?).

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Totally with you...
The drama may not have the tight deep story line we are expecting at the beginning of the drama... it is simple and sometimes left us wondering about the plot; but that what makes the show different from the usual romcom drama... every time the Tuesday episode ends, i often assume what will happen on next Monday episode, but geez, it's totally not as heavy as i thought, but still i find it smooth and warming...

Both SJS and SMA really perform well, they really deliver the character real... and totally with you, Lola, about SJS' acting on the scene when he imagined SMA sit near him and hugged him on the hospital bed and deeply cried after SMA gone; as if you can feel his pain, he wanted to run to her but he can't... TT TT

Can't wait for the last two episodes... =)

Happy New Year All!!!

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Yes, for me too. This show is going to be a classic, as classic as Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey old classic movies. Thanks Delta for drawing the parallel.

SJS and SMA is our modern day Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey in OMV.

I am good with warm and fluffy!!!

Also, I am totally with you loesea: "The drama may not have the tight deep story line we are expecting at the beginning of the drama… it is simple and sometimes left us wondering about the plot; but that what makes the show different from the usual romcom drama… every time the Tuesday episode ends, i often assume what will happen on next Monday episode, but geez, it’s totally not as heavy as i thought, but still i find it smooth and warming…

Both SJS and SMA really perform well, they really deliver the character real…"

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Thanks for the recap! And Happy New Year all! It's a wonderful thing to see Young Ho and Joo Eun back together. 2 more ep i think it will be more of a relationship healing

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as i am watching the show... the one thing that YH keep bringing up.. is for JE to be healthy... i wonder...

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I could have done with the last 2 episodes. They were pretty worthless, didn't advance the plot much, and weren't very entertaining to watch.
We did escape amnesia but got stuck with noble idiocy. I guess 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

Too much doesn't make sense...
what's the deal with the ex? Did the writer let him off the hook? Ok, but it needs to be EXPLAINED better...
did dad just leave step-mom?
what about the poor younger brother....
ok...I'll stop now...

I love watching the characters but there isn't much of a story....

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So . . . this drama is cute and all, but I have no idea what the story is about. It was advertised as one thing and I'm not sure where it's going.

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I just think its so strange that although Young-Ho claims to have a soft spot for the weak and "in-danger" people but he doesnt seem to care so much for his half brother who tried to commit suicide and his step-mom who has been obviously suffering under his snotty grandma. Maybe that is what is left for the next two episodes but it always bothered me that he can take in other people but not even spare a thought for his own half brother. If he grew up with such a lonely childhood due to his father inability to show emotion and his over bearing grandmother, surely he would know that his half brother is probably just as lonely and he would try to make sure that doesnt have to suffer the same fate? Young-Ho has a polite enough repertoire with the step mom but has shown zero interest in his brother.

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Will Joo Eun's stalker re-appear in this last 2 episode? I don't think the problem settle yet between them.

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Even though I hv some rage inside of me to let out because of the plot holes in the writing, I'll refrain as So Ji Sub and Shin Min-A are soooooooo damn cute!!! I mean I hvnt seen a couple like this in any kdrama... Bt I do hv some doubts over as why in the world Young Ho dint let Joo Eun help him back to health.... It would hv strengthen their relationship while hving me crying and smiling and pinching my cheek all at once....

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SJS's speech at KBS award, LOL.

GOD, please let SJS and SMA dating and married In real life. *shy

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Watching the show without subtitles is so hard, so thank you LollyPip for these great recaps.
I loved the rom-com aspect of this show, so I was not happy when it suddenly took a dramatic turn at the end of episode 12. Then in the next episode they magically skip an entire year only to have Young-ho reappear happy and healthy, which made it seem they put in the car accident just to mess with viewers. This episode helped a lot in that it at least showed some of Young-ho's struggle over the course of the year. He should have had Joo-eun by his side, but that would have been the opposite of everything else he's done in the show.
As everyone else has said, despite all the "obstacles" watching these two is so much fun. Only two episodes left! It's not fair...guess I will just have to go watch "My Girlfriend is a Nine-tailed Fox" and "I'm Sorry, I Love You".

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Soo Jin's dizzy spell.... she didn't pregnant right? Hehehehe...
And I'm glad that SJS face were a little more filled out in KBS Drama Awards though I kinda awaited what would he wore last night and disappointed that I didn't see So GanZi....

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on the shallow front now... did anyone research that dress of SMA - the last one in this episode. It's lovely on her. Even her coat. There's more thought in the 'work' dress than the dressing for the red carpets.

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They did on the Soompi OMV thread - dig up every single dress and its source (which ranged fr Valentino to D & G) - down to her work shoes which were Steve Madden's.

SMA being highly popular CF-model, so probably very familiar with the fashion houses and heavily sponsored.

The dress I didn't like was her black one which she wore to 'sexy' up one night - the night he was hunted by paparazzi and showed up at her door. That one was kinda frumpy imo, not sexy.

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thanks for the recap°°°°°°Happy new year err'one•

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These past 2-3 eps have exemplified the WORST in K-drama writing - rehashing tired, not very well fleshed out tropes and basically being FILLER (previous ep - mostly of JE crying and this ep mostly of YH crying).

And the problem w/ all that crying is that it just felted artificial and forced - supposedly the viewer supposed to feel the same feelings, but not much but rolling eyes from my end (contrast that w/ the real emotion felt in AM88 when Bora and Dad meet and both try not to cry - and that was just over Bora MOVING OUT temporarily).

Basically the writer had abandoned all the interesting aspects and basically DUMBED down the writing to the level of "Secret Garden" "Rooftop Prince" and that Hong sisters drama which shall not be named (all examples of unimaginative, lazy writing) - where ridiculous situations are used and loose ends are either abandoned or lazily tied up.

The saving grace is that the writer avoided the typical tropes re JE and YH's relationship until this past couple of eps.

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Now that all silly Gahong, crying and being apart is over - maybe for the last 2 eps, we'll actually get back to what OMV a decent watch - JE and "the boys" and her bestie.

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Second that! Though all the "silly Ganong" is still not over - there's still Grandma and all her expectations like his chosen 'bride' aka business partner.

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This episode wrapped itself up too nicely, that any issues that pop out in the next two episodes will seem too forced. The only thing i can think of is grandma's objection towards our OTP's relationship. The other possibility will be the show tying up all the loose ends mentioned by Lollypip one at a time. Either way, i just hope it ends well.

Still not too happy about them seperating for a whole year and not have Joo eun by Young ho's side while he recover. But owell. I love their relationship too much to let that affect me more than it has to.

On a small side note, I don't quite understand why they have to play out the xmas party twice as well. They just had a very similar scene in just a couple of episodes ago. Perhaps it could've been better if this second xmas party scene can be slightly toned down?

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it was "filler" which wasn't very interesting or fun (showing a bunch of people who are supposedly "having fun" doesn't actually make it fun to watch, just as showing someone crying doesn't necessarily move one to emotion/tears).

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