Watching Big Noona crumple in the street as she finally has her big breakdown I think Im supposed to feel badly for her. I dont. Theres this quote about watching a strong woman break. In spite of all of the crap shes going through– and its a lot– I don’t feel badly for her. I feel badly for Small Noona. She has her own crap that shes going through and even though theyve never been the kind of sisters to lean on and comfort each other shes trying to be there for Big Noona only to get crapped on time after time. As Big Noona is still pushing Small Noona away as she sobs in the street I found myself thinking, “Youre a better one than I am. Im not at all sure I would have chased after her to continue trying to be there after she came specifically to attack.”
I may have laughed a little when Big Noona came to deliberately attack Small Noona only to get her own butt handed to her when Small Noona threw some jabs instead of just sitting there and taking her hateful comments like mom did last week. Maybe this is karma. Big Noona has been so awful for so long that the universe is just serving it back.

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    I was so disappointed when EJ went to EH house and started blaming her. I was hoping she came for comfort but nope, it was to beat her punching bag as usual. For EH to take it, fought back and then felt guilty about it was maddening and sad..EJ now just has more excuse to go around with self-righteous indignation at being ‘mistreated’ by her parents. She’s even twisting her father’s love For her into something horrible he did to trap their mom.

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    I have this massive rant about Big Noona sitting to be posted and I was so ready to post it and then…episode 10 happened. She didn’t redeem herself to me exactly, but I think I started to understand her more.

    I still think she’s The Worst and that she’s spiteful and petty and needs to get her ass handed to her in a big way, but something about her telling Chan-hyuk about Eun-hui, knowing that for once it was not out of spite just…it was nice. It doesn’t excuse her but…it was about as close as someone like her will ever come to saying thank you or I’m sorry.

    I may still post that rant though. Because that woman tries me like few characters have lately.

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      What did she tell Chanhyuk? Im rewatching now. I was tired when I watched last night so I think I must have missed it.
      Upon rewatch Big Noona does not improve. Small Noona nust gave her a box of chocolates that is apparently how the two sisters apologized in the past and shes just so indifferent to the gesture. Wr learn in the next scene shes thinking lf her lost child but with this character it just feels like too little much too late.

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        Basically at the end when they were having drinks and she tells him that Eun-hui liked him back in the day. I think she picked up on the attraction between them and was helping out in her own way. It was the first time she did something for her sister (or possibly any of her family) that wasn’t done out of spite or with malicious intent. I think she did feel bad in her own way over her treatment of Eun-hui.

        Granted, that doesn’t really redeem her in my eyes, but it does seem like she could be on the path to being a better person. But she still mostly sucks and has the worst victim complex I’ve ever seen.

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          How funny. I just made it to the scene where he meets up with Eunhui afyer she tells him. And 1. I 100% fell asleep before this scene happened and 2. I thought to myself oh THIS is the scene! This is definitely a youd know it if you’d seen it sort of scene.

          I agree. Telling Chanhyuk does not redeem Big Noona by a loooooong shot. But it did feel like she was doing something big sisterly for her little sister out of….love? This is def the sort of scene that I can see playing out between normal sibs.

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            Haha, yeah. That’s why I didn’t spell it out initially because I wasn’t sure if you’d seen it and I wanted another read on it. For me, I think it was her own messed up way of acknowledging her sister’s sincerity, and for once she didn’t make it about herself. I think she spent so much time being resentful and hating that she really just doesn’t know how to be a nice person anymore. Mostly she needs a LOT of therapy, though.

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