Love Affairs in the Afternoon ep 16

I liked it, nice ending. A bit moralistic though, maybe? I wish it was more On the Way to the Airport and less Valid Love. I am curious, the regular adults in SK way of thinking is more toward OTWA or LAITA? Are cheaters dire offenders that deserve punishment from heaven or simple humans that make mistakes like everyone else? Comments below.

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    Everybody got their happy ending. That’s nice, the worst thing they could have done would be to punish JE and JW even more, however they made it so clear that they had to pay the penance for their affair that the story seems to be saying it was a crime. JE really needed time to deal with her own issues but this was very briefly explored in the narrative, for 15 eps show acted as if it was totally normal for her to detest herself even when she was only shoplifting a lipstick. Strange Bird Husband and Bossy Wife apparently turned into regular nice people instantly after getting a divorce, they met their new spouses and had children faster than lightning! I don’t like to say everything in a drama has some hidden meaning or a message but it’s quite impossible not to understand the writer is saying JW and JE could not, or would not, or should not, be allowed to be happy before their previous spouses were. SooAh got her happy ending by finding a new life and being near her kids, I understand she would not go back to her husband because she didn’t love him anymore but it wasn’t explained why DH could not come back to her. I don’t want to say maybe the writer thinks she comitted too many sins because it’s ridiculous. I prefer to believe her husband became a better person and in time they fell in love in again.

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      I think everything during the time jump could’ve made better story lines. As in less unneeded drama and forceful separation caused by spouses and more time on the wifes looking for their happiness on their own. An arc of independence and (re) discovery of themselves for both women, one about love for all spouses who were cheated on and self-reflection on their marriage, bio teacher learns to stand up for himself (he and Ji Eun are similar in that aspect). The artist had his “conclusion” with his wife. So simple that it just screamed plot convenience to me.

      For the finale, I think he didn’t have a reason not to come back. That’s the one point I can’t understand because Soo Ah has a good relationship with her kids. Unless, this happiness exists because she’s allowed to live on her own but not with the man she loves. A kind of punishment for me. I don’t know if she and her ex husband will get back together but I won’t support it because her daughters and the artist were the only ones she felt happy with. Ji Eun and bio teacher look hopeful but the show doesn’t unveil their happy times. Like I supposed, bird husband had a happy. His mother doesn’t remember the whole affair and divorce and that looked like an other way to make Ji Eun guilty and his new wife to have a smoother path.

      The last episode left a bitter taste because it could’ve shown us the characters’ journey to their 3-years-later life.

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      I loved the drama, but I wonder why SA and the artist didn’t end together, too. I didn’t want and happy ending for both the women at all costs, I rather expected she would return home with her husband sacrificing herself for her children. It would be sad and unjust, but logic in some way. This separation is meaningless to me. He sent her a painting to her new home, so he knew she had left her husband…
      I wonder if her words: “A woman like me doesn’t deserve to stay with you” weren’t noble idiocy but real SA’s thoughts (and writer’s).
      I think Bird Husband’s happiness was necessary to JE’s one, to erase her feeling guilty. I like that Clara told her to live the way she wanted and that she hadn’t murdered anyone. At least one of them thought so!

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        Yes, I didn’t understand what she or the writer meant by that phrase either and it’s possibly very moralistic. I understand JE needed to be rid of her guilty feelings but I would prefer if she had done that independently, she only searched for JW after discovering JW’s wife and her ex husband were remarried.

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          Sorry for writing so late. Thinking about Soo-Ah and the painter and her words… it must be only a self-punishment, I can’t see another explanation, even if to me it really is unfair. This consideration lowered a little the enjoyment I had from the drama. If people can be happy, it is a pity wasting their life choosing living unhappy.

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