I said I was a Bitch, not a Goddess.
After enduring three long weeks without kdrama, two hotels in foreign lands, and one nasty fall from a @#$@#% bed, I’m back to bitch about dramas.
What the hell is wrong with you, Hong sisters??!!
I was expecting a nice romantic ending when I downloaded the recaps of the last four episodes from Dramabeans to read on my flight home.
But the Hong sisters managed to outdo both the scriptwriters of Goblin and The King Loves in execrable endings. A Loch Ness monster? The Hong sisters killed the female lead for a Korean Loch Ness monster? Then they gave the Monkey King AMNESIA?
It was a good thing my plane was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific, because I would have parachuted off – commando style — and hunt for the Hong sisters in South Korea.
And what’s this about SunMi and the OhGong sharing an eye? On what planet is that supposed to be romantic?? What if SunMi is reincarnated as a Cyclops, that one-eyed monster from the Greek myths? A lot of good that ONE eye will do for her. lol.
I was so pissed off that there’s no meme nor gif to describe my anger.
In a way, it was a good thing that I fell off my bed on my first night home and broke my wrist.
Yah, you pervs!!! It had nothing to do with rough sex. 
I had this nightmare that crickets were after me. I was stomping on them in my dream, and somehow, I got entangled in the sheets. The next thing I knew, I had rolled off the bed and landed on my poor wrist.
But pain is a good way to distract me from the abominable ending of Hwayugi. It’s hard to remain in a foul mood about the drama when your wrist is wrapped in a cheerful bright pink. Plus, my cast is so cumbersome that it takes me a good five minutes to write a 40 word sentence.
So I’m not a goddess….
I don’t know for certain the relationship statuses of writers Kim Eun-sook (Goblin), Song Jina (The King Loves), or the Hong sisters: if they’re spinsters or married women. Normally, I would have called them out for being misogynists if they were male writers.
But from now on, whenever I sense that these female writers and their ilk take more pains in developing their hero than their heroine, I’m going to speculate that they have some sort of repressed infatuation for their male actors and are projecting their secret and unrequited attraction onto the plot — to the detriment of the female leads.
Really! Their female protagonists get the short shrift. While they’re treated as static or flat characters, their male counterparts are dynamic and evolving. Take for instance OYS’ insufferable character. From the beginning, her martyr-complex was obvious. Had there been no Loch Ness monster in the final episodes to kill her off, she would have built her own sacrificial pyre for self-immolation.
Whatever! It seems to me like almost all the female characters in this Hwayugi were woeful creatures: Secretary Ma, the Octopus, the zombie, the doctor, even the evil priestess.
But I must say that one nice thing about being incapacitated is I was able to watch eight episodes straight of this nice kdrama, Radio Romance. I still have the final Episode to watch tonight but I don’t expect anything abominable as the Hwayugi finale.
At first I thought the plot was stale and overworked. However, sometime around the seventh or eighth episode, I realized that it was another gentle story that could grow on me. Take for instance this moment when the heroine was demonstrating to the guy how long seven seconds of “dead time” could be on the radio.
Little did she know that he could wait for her in silence – while she slept – for hours. Watch the clock on the upper right hand corner.
I thought that was brilliant and subtle. Because HE had been waiting for her all his life. He knew her from before, even though she didn’t recognize him. lol.
Thank goodness for underrated writers! They try harder to please the audience. lol. Will post my comments later. I’ve to rest my arm now.
But this bitch is back now.
Welcome back! I’ve been refreshing your page till I lost counts, waiting for you to grumble about that Hwauygi ending with me. They called it “open ending”, well, I called it dead ending 🙄
yey!! I was like Charlotte for a while. A bit of a stalker. I guess I needed someone to scream at the Hong sisters with for all the logic fails in the last episodes. This is kinda briliiant, could very well explain what happened: “I’m going to speculate that they have some sort of repressed infatuation for their male actors and are projecting their secret and unrequited attraction onto the plot — to the detriment of the female leads.”
Hahaha. 👍
I’m going with that theory: their emotional repression led to that diarrhea of a finale. Like what kind of SHITty ending was that?!!??
Open ending after 20 episodes?
Such a lazy excuse of writing. They couldn’t think of a proper Happy Ever After despite being given a four episode extension?
I’ve told other people before that a lousy script is like bad sex. There’s so much foreplay, like there’s so much anticipation and build-up going on in the early episodes, but these stupid writers fail to deliver the big O at the end. Ugh!
Worst writers = worst lovers
But who was the producer who okay-ed this project?
Lol! This probably explained why Park Bo Gum declined the project after reading the script. 😂🤣
The Hong sisters went on my “you are absolutely freaking dead to me!” list of scriptwriters after this Korean Odyssey…no, Korean Wreckage.
I was on the plane and I wanted to hurl my iPad at the wall when I read the Dramabeans recaps. I’m still four episodes behind. I’ve tried to argue with my angelic alter-ego 😇to see this kdrama all the way but I don’t want to further waste four hours on this. It’s like breaking my other wrist just so I can have matching hot pink casts. What’s the point of that?
Hi Charlotte!
Open Endings. There should be a rule against them in kdramas.
I don’t mind them in books because books allow the readers to use their imaginations in creating the scenes in their heads. But a televised story or a movie? After spending so much trouble giving us their vision, they canNOT just say at the end, “Here! You go on ahead and fill in the blanks yourself. Whatever works for you.”
I felt conned. Duped. I want to be monetarily recompensed for spending at least, AT LEAST, 16 hours on this kdrama. 😂
Had I known the Hong sisters would do that open ending, I wouldn’t have troubled myself with the drama after Episode 11… I think that’s about the time the whole reincarnation crap and SunMi’s passivity began to annoy me.
lol! Now I am thinking should I watch the last two episodes! I will skip.
Interesting you liked Radio Romance after ep 6-7. I dropped it after ep 6-7! 😛 I got so irritated with the hero.
Why? Because he was morose? hahaha. Tell me why, I want to know.
At first I thought the actor was ugly but there was something about the way he constantly looked at her. Like he knew her from somewhere and wanted to tell her something but he couldn’t. It was that restraint, that immobility when he looked at her which I found interesting.
It reminded me of what she told her mom on the bus as she described the sunset.
She said the sunset was the time for the blue sky to turn red. But the manner in which she described the sunset, it would prompt the listener to stop and PAY ATTENTION to the moment. And that was what the guy was doing. He was paying attention — no, he was transfixed when he looked at her. To him, she was like a wonderful sight to behold.
And I thought it was corny at first. But it worked well with the clock ticking in the background… 🙂
Hi!
Open endings are fine if it feels earned or if it makes sense to me. At least “Hello Monster” did that somewhat right, I was fine with the how the drama ended.
But Hwayugi ending feels rushed. I could be wrong but I read somewhere that the writers wrote the last two episodes within a week from airing.
If that’s true then, of course, it is going to be a mess.
But I think the blame also goes to the directors apparently there were 6 of them that worked on this project.
What I most disappointed however is the missed opportunity this show had.
They never gave Sunmi anything to do other than to cry and then die uselessly.
Also, they never explored Son Oh Gong backstory. Who was the human that betrayed him? I believe the reason why they didn’t show it was because
A) it was either too dark and they weren’t willing to show him being punished
B) Orthey were lazy, and said “Hey let show the formula show don’t tell since we can’t think of anything”
If only OCN network took this project.
One thing that bothered was if they wanted to show Son Oh Gong being injured by having an amnesia, why couldn’t they instead use coma?
He is in a coma for awhile wakes up and mourns the death of his beloved. She appears in his garden and he is overjoyed to see her. You know that scene would have been more satisfying then him saying “who the hell are you”. He would have had time to figure out how to make her stay, after all, he is shown to be quick-witted. But no, he recalls her last moment and says “I will find you”. Where the hell did he become so patient? Sure, he goes to find her the next day but I expected more from him.
The fact that there are people who liked the ending, just makes me scratch my head. Did I miss something? I mean most of the scenes were filler and If I wanted to see those moments I can go back and watch the episodes.
But nothing infuriates me more with the way they treated Sunmi. The show never went to show how powerful she is, also the lack of her curiosity bothered me.
Couldn’t they have shown us a little in episode 11? After all, she accepted her status so why isn’t she researching or I don’t know do something.
This is why reading Hwayugi fanfiction gives me some consolation. Funny how even the fanfic writers hated the ending too and some of them wrote fix-it stories.
Here is a question for you would the show been better if it was more character driven rather than plot driven?
Sorry, but as you see I had a lot of stuff to rant about. 🙂
See ya next time!
Give your wrist some well deserved rest. Let it heal completely, then give it some exercise to make it stronger. After that, let’s catch a flight to Korea to punch the Hong sisters. WTFing hell was that ending?! ARGGGGHHH.. I can’t even. They are dead to me now.
I don’t understand whats gotten into writers of Kdramas these days. Whats with the shitty endings, you morons? We spend so much time watching your shows and this is the thanks we get? *bitch slaps them*
*Eats Cornetto* Imma cool down now.
Same here. I was enraged with the Hong sisters. I didn’t get to watch the last four episodes. I glanced through the recaps and I sat there in utter disbelief when I read that she died in his arms.
I think I was shell-shocked for a solid 10 minutes.
Then I started looking at the duty-free items on the plane because I needed retail therapy asap.
Winterose96 suggested reading fanfics as palliative remedy but I just want to bleach my brains so I can erase that whole drama from my memory.
I wonder if these big-named writers think they’re too big too fail so they experiment with their endings and expect us to just go along with them.
I enabled dictation on my work iphone for my work stuff. But I’m still manually typing posts here in this blog. It’s pretty slow going (this short reply took me 10+ minutes, lol) but manageable.
Welcome back!!! I missed your bitching ;–) And wishing you a speedy recovery!!
As for the so-many-missed-opportunities Hwayugi… I got the impression that the writers didn’t manage to keep up with the live shooting… so instead of the one big logical arch they only had this little thing here or there to fill in the next five minutes… and then, well, the Loch Ness happened :–)))
(Btw I think the writers are married and have kids… funny that their best dramas were when they were young and single.)
Anyway, I still don’t regret watching it, it gave me one hot Seungi :–P
(And Summer Fairy… and secretary Ma… )
I was like Charlotte and oli. Then I thought you might have given up on the drama halfway.
I gave up on the drama 4/5th of the way. 😂 But SunMi’s character (and OYS’ portrayal of her character) had long grated on me that I was sorely tempted to drop the kdrama earlier.
I told a handful of people on soompi that I was going to be in France for a while. Usually when I travel on business, I don’t bring my personal laptop or phone; they’re too cumbersome to haul around. And I don’t access Asian dramasites from my company laptop anyway. I just didn’t expect to be gone for so long….
I’ll be traveling to Asia in a couple of months and I can bring my personal items then. It’s fun watching Asian TV. I’m beginning to understand the sense of humor too. 😜
JSM’s death was not a shock to me at all. All the hints and clues since the beginning pointed to her dying. The writers even showed us the Lyra Constellation for her, which made me sure of her dying. What was unexpected was them NOT showing SOG bring her back from the Land of the dead. It was left to our imagination. THAT was lazy writing since they strung us along for 25+ hours and then gave us no closure! S.O.Bs! If I wanted to imagine the ending, I would have read a book not given the show 25 hours of my life!
Plus, she was dying to die anyway.
Not only did she have a death fate, she had a death WISH, too.
When she stepped in that sarcophagus, I knew there was no stopping her. OG couldn’t fight for her when she was hell-bent on committing suicide (or if you want to look at this from a religious angle, martyrdom).
😂 If I want to continue bitching about this, I can write about doctor-assisted suicide … or in SM’s case, fake gods-assisted suicide.
Not really. Your prejudice against JSM is showing again LOL. Dying to save someone/the world and dying to end your own pain is a different matter altogether. I don’t think calling it a suicide is fair at all because she wanted to live for and with him. Just not alone, at the price of his life.