I’m been delaying watching Episode 14 because SunMi drives me nuts.  It doesn’t help either that I find Oh YeonSeo’s coy act grating on my nerves.

Have compassion for my poor nerves, Hong sisters!

Unlike some viewers, I understood that, as a monk, SunMi couldn’t be a violent or vengeful character. I tolerated her character EVEN when she exposed herself to danger because I knew she chose to see goodness in people and to forgive them their wrongdoings.

Her magnanimity or “greatness of the soul” was obvious from the start. In Episode 1, she didn’t blame the child who bit her because the groom demon made him do it. With the ghost of the dieting kpop singer, she kindly fixed the ghost’s hair and fed her an energy bar. She allowed the crazy driver, whom she saved from the traffic demon, accost her on the road; I’d have called 911 or taken out my Taser. These last episodes, we saw her extending this same kindness and benevolence to PK, Bu-Ja, Mawang, Secretary Ma, and even the Priestess.

However, this “greatness” of hers was severely diminished when she trusted this whole stupid Death Bell to dictate her fate.

Her blind faith on fate drives me nuts. Look, if the tooth fairy tells her that she needs all of her teeth pronto, will she appear toothless the next day? 😂 

To me, that was the watershed moment – the turning point when I realized that this female lead is the kind of person I would find weak and insufferable in real life. She’s a superstitious person.

Me but with blonde hair. See? I don’t let “superstitions” about my blonde hair dictate what’s going on inside my head. 

Moreover, the reason for her belief in the Stupid Death Bell became obvious in Episode 13 when she told OhGong that she wished that she had powers like the Priestess.

If I’m to psychoanalyze her, her dependence on the Stupid Death Bell is driven by her feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness AND her desire to control her world.

She wants something to happen so badly (that is, OhGong to love her for who she really is, forever) but she cannot get CERTAINTY or assurance that it will happen on its own, without an outside supernatural intervention (in OhGong’s case, the Geumganggo).

This profound desire for certainty, WHEN COMBINED with her sense of powerlessness to control her future, result in her clinging to superstitions like the Stupid Death Bell (SDB).

The SDB gives her a FALSE certainty. Of course, we all know that it’s false. But to her, who was left in the dark about the real meaning of the bell, this false certainty is better than uncertainty.

That’s why I find her character fatally, annoyingly, and insufferably weak. Instead of increasing in her greatness now, she’s shrinking in my original estimation of her.

This belief in superstitions, talismans and prophesies provides only an ILLUSION of control. Rather than relying on these stupid things to guarantee her happiness, she’s better off developing confidence in her abilities to determine her destiny. She’s easily conned by people, like the Priestess, and she’s “shrinks” instead of rises up to momentous occasions, like the star-calling in Episode 13, because she doesn’t have confidence in her ability to change her “fate”.

Literally shrinking back from greatness. 

That’s right! Tell her please! She’s the freaking SamJang, why is she so timid?

Unfortunately, it won’t be easy for her to get rid of her dysfunctional dependence on superstitions because it’s been ingrained in her. For far too long, she survived on her own, without anybody to help her out, and she learned to passively accept the injustices done to her as her assigned “fate.” Remember her uncle who asked money for her grandmother’s memorial services but didn’t invite her to join them? On what planet is that INSULT ever acceptable?

That’s why, for me, it makes sense that OhGong is the one to help her out.

I’ve said before that this odyssey is about OhGong reaching divine status by learning selflessness. He must learn to love another being more than himself, even to the point of sacrificing his own life and happiness. SunMi, as the monk SamJang, is his guide in this spiritual conversion.

Well, it works both ways.

For SunMi, this is also her personal journey to reaching divine status by finding her true self, gaining self-confidence, believing in her own powers, be they god-sent or self-taught abilities. There’s no better guide for her than OhGong, the proud and irreverent Monkey. 

I told you readers here that there’s nothing that I want more from OhGong than to defy those Stupid Gods of the Stupid Death Bell. I wanted him to give them a big “I don’t give a flying eff!”

Scroll down to the end to read again what I wrote about him defying the gods.
https://bitchesoverdramas.com/2018/02/08/hwayugi-episode-11/

 

Well, he did it in Episode 13 when he burned that talisman.

OhGong is MY kind of fellow. He creates his own destiny, unlike SunMi who follows whatever shit that fate doles out to her.

Deadly fates are only for newbies, plebeians, fools, and low-ranking demons like Mawang. (lol)

He challenges anybody to dare stand in his way. Sometimes he even threatens:

He was saying that the gods had stupidly awaken a “sleeping giant” and it was THEIR mistake to mess around with him. Honestly, this moment was more swoon-worthy than that triple kiss exhibition in the office. 

I was cheering him on because he is like one of us. He’s one super-bitch, too. We don’t tolerate bullshit from anybody. If only some of his self-confidence and bitchery rubs off on SunMi, then SunMi will be fine.

This is OhGong’s scorecard for kissing telling the gods to kiss his arse!