So. Um. Yeah. Still not feeling Dr. Ye that much.

I mean, we got maybe a glimmer of a personality? But really, still nothin’ on that front.

Some predictions:
I think she may decide to date Min-ho, but for all the wrong reasons. I expressed this fear a while back, and now it’s really happening. But I also maintain that I think they may be a better fit long-term. (But still not 100% shipping it.) I also still think that she and Dr. Ye need may need to try dating as well. My initial thoughts in the early weeks were that she’d date him, but end up with Min-ho. Now I think it may be the other way around.

I don’t know how to feel about that.

My issue with Dr. Ye is and always will be his lack of empathy for others. (And his lack of personality, but I think I’m basically a broken record at this point on this. Plus, with three weeks left to go there’s really no time for him to get one. Yet somehow they gave Ha Seok-jin enough personality for three shows in one episode. Can’t you spread the love writer-nim? I’ll stop ranting now.) I think that with someone as hyper empathetic as Bo-young, someone who lacks this basic trait can’t be a good fit. I’m not saying he’s a bad person for this – but it does mean that he lacks the ability to read situational emotions and misses cues that something may be off.

I’ve maintained that someone who is selectively nice based on snap judgments isn’t actually a nice person. I stand by that. I’ve been waiting for the show to give me something to negate that – mostly just show that he’s really socially impaired when it comes to interpersonal relationships or something. However, the show hasn’t done that. It’s shown him to actually be decent in public. Yes he was burned at his previous job, but as far as I can tell, he was still like this at that time. So why is he such an ass? His backstory doesn’t explain it the way Min-ho’s did.

If anything, the backstory should’ve made him immediately empathize with the patient and react accordingly. Instead he was just a dick. I don’t know if this was for some inane story purpose or whether it’s that he’s just like that (this is why we need a personality writers!) but it didn’t endear him to me. He still just felt flat and cold for no discernable reason. I don’t get why it took Bo-young yelling at him to be a decent person.

But at the same time, I don’t write him off because he’s obviously capable of kindness. He respected Bo-young’s request to let her get over him. He knew he hurt her when he rejected her, and he was kind to her in a way that shows he’s got some sympathy. I just don’t like that he’s only kind when it comes to Bo-young. The only other person he seems to respect is the Chief, and even that took some teeth pulling.

So, yeah. I’ma just lie here under my palm tree with my drink and just let the storm rage out at sea.

(I guess I had more thoughts than I predicted.)