Episode 11 Title: Is The Past Really Powerless?
These are my commentaries. Nothing profound, nothing serious, nothing mind-blogging. Just my ordinary notes in keeping with this ordinary episode.
1. Sex is not a four-letter word. When you’re a couple, it’s normal to desire that physical intimacy. Thus, I don’t get why CW doesn’t want YY to look sexy (especially when it’s just the two of them) but he doesn’t mind if SHE finds him sexy.
But I can see that they both have images of each other that they want to maintain. He wants her cute and adorable like a cuddle toy, and SHE has this image of him as this “intellectual gentleman” who stays above the fray.
2. “Don’t embarrass Yoon Yi in front of me again. Don’t make her feel embarrassed for the five years she dated you.”
Awwww… This is the one good takeaway from this episode, and young people should remember this.
CW doesn’t want ChangSoo badmouthing or speaking less than complimentary about YY in his presence. I like that he wants to protect YY’s feelings.
More importantly, he also wants ChangSoo to respect and honor the five years of dating YY by behaving in an exemplary manner. It’s the right thing to do. Changsoo’s behavior is a reflection of YY’s characer and her taste in men. When Changsoo became drunk (and a mean drunk, too), he embarrassed YY and made her regret her DECISION to date him for five years.
To me, that’s the meaning behind CW’s warning to ChangSoo not to embarrass YY.
3. Cutter Cho. Even the digital display in elevator was flipping him the bird. It was hilarious that when it came to exchanging barbs (not blows), Cutter proved to be a loser, too.
4. WangBi’s relationship with Yul should take a back seat to her relationship with GunWoo.
Frankly, I disapprove of this loveline.
Yul missed his mother. He’d been looking for a mother figure. Would WangBi be happy mothering two kids in her life? One, her real son. The other, her lover who’d only be a few years older than her own son, in both years and maturity level.
As a responsible mom, she should be paying attention to the needs of her troubled teenager before taking on the task of mothering her boss.
As for cooking “comfort food” and stitching up broken stuff toys… these don’t constitute love. They also go beyond office duties. What the heck??! He should find a housekeeper, cook or nanny to prepare porridge for him, sew his buttons and repair his dolly.
To me, Yul is a man-child and he still has a lot to learn and experience. A middle-aged woman like Jung-ae has no business developing and encouraging romantic entanglements with him. Shame on her. She should know better.
If I were Yul’ls parent, I’d definitely put an end to this budding dysfunctional relationship by cutting off his allowance (ala-makjang plot). Let me see how they’ll survive on minimum wage and how she’ll cope with two young boys.
Also, if she tried to run and avoid a family acquaintance who called her “Gunwoo’s omma,” how would she deal with the rest of her family and friends whose approval she still mattered to her?
Thumbs down.
5. Comic Book Store Date. This is new set-up for me. CW admitted that his life was more interesting with her in it. And I like the fact that HE invited HER to his hideout when in Episode 1, he resented the VP invading his personal territory.
What genre of anime did he have in mind? Office romance comedy, lol. He sure is living dangerously these days.
Cute. 
I like that he was earnest when he said that the “point” of his drawing was her lips. lol. The same lips that made the kiss mark on his yellow sticky. I also like that he’s now eating his words that SHE wasn’t at all his type. pwahahaha.
6. Not feeling the ex-girl angst.
YY has the clear advantage. He’s “sparkly” with her, more open, relaxed, and light-hearted, — and cheeky as the VP said. In contrast, he was distant with his ex.
7. Failed jacket swirl.
This must be a running joke. YY’s curator boyfriend, her ex-boss, (I believe her ex-boyfriend, ChangSoo, too) and CW all did the jacket swirl. Only Cutter failed to do it.
8. Phone call = contact. I like it when YY called him on the phone, he didn’t disconnect right away, even though his ex-wife was with him. He conversed with her, wanting to hear about her day and reminding her to “Don’t work too hard, and go home early.” Boyfriend points!
9. “Oppa”
YY was like a dog with bone when she heard the ex-wife call CW “oppa”. She wouldn’t let it go. I bet she was mad because SHE couldn’t call HIM oppa herself.
I like that she wasn’t passive about the relationship, and that she showed her intention to fight for him. I hate it in other romcoms where the heroine wallowed in stupid jealousy instead of voicing their likes and dislikes. She pointed out that he told her she could have anything she wanted that day, and she wanted him to stay. lol. Simple and direct.
10. Apology accepted. I like his apology. It was a textbook apology. He let her vent first. Get all the bad feelings out. Then he embraced her, saying that he was sorry. He admitted his fault, explained what happened, and volunteered to make amends.
The apology/non-apology I hate the most is when the other person begins his defense with “I’m sorry if you feel that way….” and makes it sound as if it’s MY FAULT that I feel wronged.
11. She was wearing angora on the bed. No. No. No. Looks itchy, feels scratchy, gives me allergy. Read my pet peeve about nightclothes in Korean dramas.
12. Housekeeping as a date.
I’ve seen this done before but the girl would usually clean beside the guy. YY was pretty brazen about her inactivity. She lounged on the couch while CW did all the work.
He probably sensed it was payback time.
13. “February 2004. Have you been cooking food for me with these?”
The realization that his girlfriend was a trying to kill him instead of feed him…priceless. He didn’t blow a gasket, so boyfriend points to him again.
14. Boyfriend food: hoppang. Sharing half a veggie and red bean hoppang — I don’t get it either.
But I understand that for him, this was the first time he’s experienced dating like this. So this was a novelty for him. I like her enthusiasm, too. Look: it’d be no-brainer that she and her ex-boyfriend ChangSoo had done all these BF/GF thing before. But this was her first time with him (strains of “Because This is my First Life”….) so she was relishing it too.
She became insecure when he mentioned that ex-wife didn’t’ eat much. But changed track when he said that he liked women who ate. (Nice save, boy!)
Next time though she should stop being curious about the ex-, in the same way CW refrained from asking about her ex-.
15. The office colleagues are seriously dense.
16. The VP’s relationship with CW is more like father-and-son. If there was anything in CW’s past history that could claim leverage or power over CW’s present and future, it would be his relationship with the VP. The VP represented all the family members he lost. And I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he married his ex-wife because he wanted to be part of her family himself.
So there you go. My Bitch notes on Episode 11.