My prettt noona rewatch is over and I had….thoughts. Here we go.

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    Well. My Pretty Noona rewatch is over. I watched until the end of ep 8 and then watched the finale. I normally stop at Jinas I love you. Im glad I watched all of ep 8, I found a cute scene that I probably havent seen since I was watching live: a drunk Jina is hanging out at Jun-Huis office and she starea at him for a second and then says, “You are SO HOT”. He comes closer and she shoos him away saying she wants to watch him work. It’s so funny.
    Also. Girl. SAME.
    I wonder how things would have changed if they had confessed instead of being caught?
    Moving on to the finale. I wonder why they chose a 5 year time skip? Because thats how long it would have taken for the brother to be done with college? Thats how many years it would have taken Jina to return to the broken, sad, husk of a person JunHui brought back to life?
    Im halfway tempted to rewatch the build up to the breakup and the breakup scene. JunHui is SO ANGRY. They are both just so mad at each other, and hurt, and so painfully in love with each other still. It seems more like they broke up 5 days ago instead of 5 years.
    Mom and sister can miss me with their, “they are adults. [We] didnt have anything to do with the breakup”. They are both such great actors. This fight is brutal. The way Jinas chin is trembling as she tries to not SCREAM at JunHui the way both of their voices break and quake as they are having this fight. The fact that five years after they broke up they are still so moved by each other that they are literally driving back and forth across the city to scream at each other?
    I think it would have been interesting—and they totally set it up before coping out with this crappy ending–if they had done a season 2. JinA tried to see Junhui several times after they broke up and he refused to see her. What did that look like? Did she fly to the states? What did she want to say? During this fight its revealed that they both felt alone and abandoned by the other because she refused to go and he refused to stay. They both felt cut off from family and friends and the person that they are doing this whole thing for—this person who is supposed to always be on their side who is supposed to love them–is nowhere to be found. But they still love that person so they cant just give up the fight. What does it say about them and their relationship if they give up?
    This ending is just stupid.
    Junhui is packing his stuff and is still just vibrating with fury and heartbreak hes still so painfully in love with Jina when her first i love you comes on and something comes over him. Shes RIGHT THERE. So….go get her. He tracks her down to Jeju, begs forgiveness and then they make out. Next and final scene they are walking down the beach as the credits roll.
    Are they back together?
    Where are they going to live?
    Did they talk about ANY of the shiz that made them breakup? Its easy to say that her awful mom and his hideous sister broke them up but there were cracks in their foundation.

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      He wanted to make unilateral decisions for them. Jina gets so upset that he wants to make all of her decisions for her. Except that Jina wants to do the same thing. She wants to stand in front of him. They both equate protectiveness and even over protectiveness with love but they’ve both forgotten how (or maybe never learned) how to be partners. So whats changed? Anything? If they do get back together-with or without their stupid families permission/blessing–whats going to prevent them from breaking up next week or next year? They are going to have troubles and problems. Life isnt going to be a walk on the beach. So….what? Oh Pretty Noona. Why cant I quit you?

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        5 years…I think it took him that long to grow up a little more. I think it took him that long to realize his fault in this whole thing. It took him that long to maybe be in another relationship and realize he missed her and what they had.

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          Except that for the whole 5 years he never dated anyone longer than 3 months so may e he grew up and matured but I dont know if going into every relationship with a deadline shows that he knows what he did to cause their breakup. I feel like he still blames their familiies and JinA herself for not loving him enough (according to him) to run away to America. And honestly Im not sure she knows what she did wrong. She made her peace with family but I dont think she knows what she did wrong other than not going with him. They needed to have conversations not giggle on the beach! Stupid drama!

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            I don’t remember (or maybe I didn’t watch) what happened when he went to the US. But otherwise, I was okay with the ending—as long as they were together. They may always have that issue (where marriage and couples counseling would help emery kdrama relationship and IRL relationship too) that will crop up every now and then…but they will figure it out, I’m confident of that. Lots of relationships stay together with worse.

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            @ally-le they don’t show us what happened in the US. Its just a couple of throw away conversations between Junhui and his friend and sister.

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      I just finished rewatching this on 7/10, so having many of the same thoughts you are! I thought they time skip was only for 3 years, though. 2015-2018? Jina from 35-38 years old. I could be wrong. I actually bit the bullet and watched pretty much all of it again, since I’ve avoided the episodes after ep.8 like the plague. I was surprised at how many things I missed b/c of rage fast forwarding the first time or just didn’t remember. I used the FF button a lot, but watched more than I thought I would.
      It has always really bothered me that JunHui’s sister was able to drop the friendship so harshly, or there was a scene in ep. 15 (?) that made me think Jina had avoided her instead. Anyway, the fact that they are barely friends anymore seems like such a tragedy to me.
      I love your description of them “driving back and forth across the city to scream at each other”! That is just it. They are still so raw and angry and in love but hurting. I also want them to sit down and talk about what went wrong and how it will be different this time. I just don’t see how kissing in the rain and walking on the pier solve their differences. Now Jina’s going to have to be sister in laws with her former best friend? That seems even weirder than it was the first go around. Ugh.

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