Strong Girl Nam-soon week 6 episode 11-12 top post (#1):
Here is Si-oh, Binbin, Anton.
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He still has plans to get back at them. According to himself, he is new to love and friendship – except that one friend in the clip above. He needs to not be completely alone.
BTW what happened to that friend? Was Anton forced to kill him? Or is he somewhere around … someone we know?


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He is building his hope and his better self on this girl who is big time spying on him. It’s hard to see how that can end well.
Problem is, he is judged not solely based on whether he is nice to Nam-soon.
I know! I know. I wanted him to be the ML all along. I still want that. But the person they present to us here in the drama, he is a little bit too terrible. Especially when it hurts people who are not mobsters at all, like this innocent truckdriver. I can’t even give you the whole clip, it’s so disgusting.

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Still, I can’t help thinking of all the times they have said that people can change, and that they should have a chance. Also, that what they really want to bring down can only be done in cooperation. Everybody storms out alone all the time, without telling everybody else what their plan is. What if Si-oh had shared his plans earlier on?

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    Strong Girl Nam-soon (‘s brother, Nam-sin) w6 #2

    When we left him last week, Nam-sin was in danger of dying. But the whole family gets together and takes care of him, and Mama Geum-ju even pays the shady organisation for the antidote.

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    This beautiful scene happens
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    This part of the story should have ended here. Or Geum-ju could have said something like: “Anything I can do for you, I will help you” or “I don’t base your value on your weight. I will not comment on what you eat anymore”. Instead her epiphany end up like this:
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    “Ha ha”.

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    Strong Girl Nam-soon and civil rights w6 #3
    K-dramas seem to have an ongoing war on civil rights. Especially when it comes to privacy and warrants. Both Nam-soon and Behind Your Touch people’s right to phone privacy. (+ indicating that breaking the bones of prisoners is “cool”. Yeah, cool like when Shi-oh beats up his employees).

    https://www.dramabeans.com/activity/p/1466000/#acomment-1466428

    In this episode, we have two attacks on civil rights. I am not one to know exactly where different limits should be, but this seems like too little confidence in the legal system and too much in the police.
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    I know rich people get away with things they shouldn’t because they can afford lawyers that are cleverer than the spirit of the law, but having a lawyer in itself is not a villainous thing. The law is not made for people to cheat justice, otherwise, why don’t we just leave any judicial process to lynch mobs?
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    Strong Girl Nam-soon w6 #4
    I can’t say that I wasn’t warned, but as long as I could hope Si-oh would get in clinch with Nam-soon in a good way, this whole show was more interesting for me.
    It’s not gonna happen. Nam-soon hates when he touches her even in a non-sexual way.
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    But clearly, the interesting thing is what his reaction will be to having his feelings taken advantage of like they are.
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    Hee-sik seems to finally have given in to the pressure of consummating. Maybe it helped that it was Nam-soon bringing it up instead of her mum or dad, and also, she mentioned the word “love”.
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    I think this was it for now! This last episode was the first time I was not thoroughly entertained. I want to know what happens, but we all knew from the start that this show would not be what it promised to be.
    This crazy writer should work with someone visionary one day – what a fantastic drama it could be. [sigh].
    My favourite “desperate longing” gif. This time representing me longing for what I could imagine this drama to be.
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    @sp2022 @seeker (Cera) @GhostofTim

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      Thanks for keep us in the loop. I do wish I could join you for live watching but I missed the bus setime during week 3 and was never able to continue after that. Sigh. But I do enjoy your gifs thoroughly. If some enterprising soul over at YT makes a supercut of Nam-soon and Hee-sik, I would watch that and call it a day.

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      Thank you for the gifs! I tried to stay with this drama but with with so many live watches and the downward slope it seemed to be on I had to call it a day once I stopped enjoying a few weeks in a row.

      I’ve enjoyed staying connected through your gifs and thoughtful posts. And I completely commiserate on the wanted potential, those at the dramas that frustrate me and stay with me more than the dramas I just didn’t expect much of and then didn’t enjoy.

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