#DoYouLikeBrahms

Episode 8 is great! I think the drama is now finding its momentum. I used to only watch this show for OTP, but I think we are seeing more layered characters now. It seems like not everyone’s purpose is to be just spiteful. I have high hopes that Director Na means well for these students. It looks like we have good dads here too giving advise to their troubled daughters. A prof looks like he means well in training a musician who has lost his motivation and passion. And I am seeing Jung Kyung in a new light. She is sooo bad; it is soooo easy to hate her, but I hope she is redeemable. I hope the drama has something better for in store. I hope this drama becomes that healing drama where musicians from all walks of life are gathered and have found their place in this tight-knit industry.

My OTP bbs 😭😭😭😭😭 I love them through and through. They’re perfectly imperfect. They’re working hard to be better. I love that they fight/talk out their different point of views. It might not end on a good note, but they tried to amend what went wrong with their conversations in a day or two. They always talk even if sometimes it’s hard to bare it all.

Song Ah continues to amaze me for speaking out loud what runs in her head. It’s in her nature, really. She does what she wants, says what she wants even if it is a long shot. She’s going through a lot as that musician with passion yet not talented enough. She is not perfect, but continues to work hard to be the better version of herself. She is very easy to like and relate to.

Joon Young isn’t a man of words. He is so used to bottle everything in. He is too nice and this is what makes him great and why he is so flawed. He wants to please the people he cares about. As Director Cha said, he always puts himself second. Until he met Song Ah, no one knows what he truly feels and what he thinks. In Episode 7 he did something offensive to Song Ah again when she clearly told him not to do that back in episode 3. Don’t cover up for her. This hurts her more. Tell her the truth; she can handle it. His intentions were always good, but they rubbed off the wrong way.

In episode 8, he tried really hard to be that better person. He speaks up, tells her that she, too, matters to him. It’s not a one way street. He has so much baggage with him that it will take some time to unload each of them. He’s trying. He started by telling her how deep his relationship is with his two best friends and how much indebted he feels towards the people who helped him worked his way up in Episode 7.

By the end of Episode 8, the sequence of what he had to say might have been wrong or he could have worded them better, but again words don’t come out easy for him. But he tried really hard for her in this episode, so I forgive his imperfection. And he ended up saying the words he intended to say. He said “I like you” to Song Ah in several ways – from formal to informal to more formal to outmost formal form. He did everything he could to make his voice heard loud and clear. His words and intentions were finally understood.

My OTP is not perfect . But they’re working hard to be the best versions of themselves. So I’m fine with their little mishaps here and there. They’re work-in-progress – learning more about themselves and about each other.