In the 1990s, there was a popular catchphrase, “What would Jesus Do?” (or WWJD) which I’ll adapt for this blog as “What would Bitches do?”
We try to keep it real in this blog.
Almost all other forums will swoon over Capt. Firefly and none of the posters will venture to say anything against him out of fear of being flamed. Here, I’ll allow his idolatry along with his mockery. A big part of my tolerance for dissenting voices is that I know where each one of you is coming from, since we’ve been on this HdL journey together for weeks now. And this familiarity leads me to view questions and opinions expressed in this blog, not as a mean-spirited attack on a poster, but as a vigorous rebuttal or defense of a character.
We’re bitching over dramas…all in good fun.
@flying_tool asked:
So, what would you have done in the Captain’s place, standing on that bit of sand, faced with MW’s gang of rebels dead or hundreds of your own dead?
The HS seem to be taking the utilitarian view.
@nrllee answered with her classic hyperbole that brought us laughter.
I will attempt to answer @FlyingTool’s question although personally I would never have ended in that predicament in the first place because I wouldn’t have flirted with her knowing the relationship was never going to end well when we’re on different sides of the law. 🙄
“So, what would you have done in the Captain’s place, standing on that bit of sand, faced with MW’s gang of rebels dead or hundreds of your own dead?”
I would’ve decided like the Captain. BUT I would NOT have
– shown up armed in the bed chamber (as if to egg her to kill me)
– NOR used her sword to kill myself.I would’ve come unarmed
– explained my predicament to her, APOLOGISE (yes it’s a dirty word nowadays but do try it, works wonders), and let her do with me as she will. If she chooses to kill me, then so be it. If she chooses to let me live, then I would live with regret and pain for the rest of my days. This would actually be the bravest option. Because the ball is then thrown into her court and she decides my punishment. Killing myself on her sword when she obviously couldn’t go ahead with it in the first place robs her of that choice. I made the choice FOR her. It makes it all about ME (O woe is me, MY life is no longer worth living 🙄) and not about HER.But I pined for 1000years (O look! The sun shines from my butt 😂) as a Firefly buzzing around my beloved – romance has another name and it’s The Captain. I was miserable 😩. Poor little Me, Myself, I. Did you not swoon when I saved her from impending death? O so galant of ME! And brandished my sword as we locked blades and gazes. (Ooo…) My long luscious locks would give Fabio a run for his money (O Captain my Captain!). My exit from this world was just as spectacular was it not? I drew her blade into my chest and embraced her…ONE…LAST…TIME. (Chorus of sighs please). Blood spatters on white garments. So poetic. Gaston from Beauty and the Beast has a twin and his name is Firefly. Not just any firefly mind you. A thousand year old one. Vintage. Unique. Come thee hither fair maiden, take my hand and we shall cross that bridge together. You know you want to. How could you resist? Mr StraitJacket hotelier just cannot compare to c’est moi. 😂
Here’s my response. Remember, this isn’t meant to flog a dead horse…errr… Capt. Firefly. I’ll watch Eps 13 and 14 tomorrow when I get home.
First, there’s false equivalence there. There’s no way Manwol’s gang of bandits can withstand the destructive force of a trained, well-armed, and better-fed regiment of hundreds. If his hundreds cannot decimate her ragtag group of wannabe-rebels in open warfare, then he’s more feckless as a military strategist than I thought. lol.
Second, standing there on that bit of sand was a dumb move. He can’t have his cake and eat it too. He can’t have the Princess and Manwol at the same time. If he’d been thinking with his head on his shoulder (and not the head on his groin), then he should have known that he was exposing Manwol to danger by meeting her at plain sight in daylight. That hairpin was better off hanging on the tree, with the wine bottle, as a goodbye present.
Third, to me, the Hong sisters are taking the “bleeding heart” approach, not the utilitarian view. A person with a “bleeding heart” is overly sympathetic to an individual or group of individuals that he/she perceived to be reviled by society. To me, the HS deliberately created the impression that Capt Firefly was a bad guy then rehabbed him to prove their point that there are two sides in a controversy, to name a few: IU’s Zeze scandal, the Burning Sun sex tapes scandal, and the right-to-die of a child. These “scandals” can be reinterpreted and become ambiguous when seen under different circumstances.
Fourth, Capt. Firefly didn’t read Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” which was written around 500 BC. Studying the book and taking it to heart, he could have avoided being such a loser. He lost the princess. He lost as many men as rebels. His army lost the captain. He lost Yeonwoo’s life. He lost Manwol’s Yeonwoo, and he lost Manwol. He had the advantage and he lost it, too.
He should have read the book instead of wasting time making googly-eyes with the girls.
Chapter III. Attack by Stratagem
1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
This is what Capt. Firefly did:
1. He shattered and destroyed the ragtag team of bandit when he could have used them to become part of his regiment, as foot-soldiers or even…think now!… spies. He could have saved Yeonwoo, too, by convincing the Princess that they could use someone like him in their camp.
2. If supreme excellence is breaking down the resistance, the supreme idiocy is emboldening the resistance. “If you want to kill me, you at least need to stay alive.”
17. He would have “won” had he timed it right (i.e., stall time till the bandits are gone and/or escorted the Princess and her guards out of the lakeshore before Manwol arrived), had he known how to handle both his superior troop and inferior bandits, and had he not flirted with the sovereign princess.
18. He neither knew the “enemy” nor himself.
Chapter IV. Tactical Dispositions
1. Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
2. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
3. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.
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8. To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
9. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, “Well done!”
10. To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.
11. What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
12. Hence his victories bring him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage.
13. He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
14. Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy.
15. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
This is what Capt. Firefly did:
1. He didn’t have to visit her in prison and say that stupid shit about his achieving greatness through her naivety. If he wanted her freed, then he should have bound and gagged her, and released her as far away as possible from that land. She didn’t have to see Yeonwoo’s death and the death of her people.
11. He wasn’t a clever fighter. In fact, he wasn’t a fighter at all. He took the easy way out by letting Manwol take out the Princess and himself, and putting the death toll on her conscience.
12. Hence his defeat brings him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage. Even his existence as a firefly is a cop-out. He avoided suffering through several reincarnations like Mira did.
13. He lost the battle by making costly mistakes and he blamed a girl for it. What a shrub!
14. Hence, this inept fighter put himself into a position which made defeat inevitable.
15. “Thus, it is that in a war, the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won,” whereas Capt Firefly had no back-up plans. He was “destined to defeat” because he acted without considering all the options and repercussions.
Chapter VII. Maneuvering and this one, for me, is on point.
36. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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This is what Capt. Firefly did:
36. This is the cardinal rule that he broke. He already captured Manwol’s gang. But he pressed tooooo hard on a desperate foe. What did he expect Manwol to do when he pushed her over the edge? Did he really expect her to go peacefully into the night, without a blood-lust in her heart?
Chapter VIII. Variation in Tactics
12. There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
13. These are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war.
14. When an army is overthrown and its leader slain, the cause will surely be found among these five dangerous faults. Let them be a subject of meditation.
This is what Capt. Firefly did:
14. As the Captain of his troop, he was killed along with the Princess. Of the five dangerous faults mentioned by Sun Tzu, I’d say his downfall was his recklessness.
So, there you go. What would Bitches do if we were Capt. Firefly? I think we would have made better decisions.
If you want to read “The Art of War,” here’s a link from MIT.edu. It’s an easy read.
http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
A more complete description:
The story on by the lake was
1. The princess’s father the king had received a report that CM had been consorting with the rebels. And wanted to see CM.
2. The princess told CM that if he went as is to her father, CM would be killed along with his family and followers totaling hundreds.
3. To stop that from happening the princess had already dispatched troops, and wanted CM to take charge and suppress the rebels.
The forcing function is the threat from the king…
And my apologies for an incomplete comment.
And yes, CM should have known better. Each and every time he spent with MW as a threat to him and his people. He *should* have just killed MW at their first encounter.
A more correct version of my question may be – what should CM have done to atone for his idiocy that got him to that beach with pin in one hand the King’s threat on the other?
Having led a less than idiocy free life…what can I say? Some of us are just idiots sometimes.
The “Art of War” still stands.
And with this extra info you gave me, Capt. Firefly’s recklessness and stupidity grew exponentially. He saved no one, not even his followers.
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MW killed the Princess. The king would retaliate because you know, his daughter? Got killed? Because somebody — who could that be now? 🤔 Ordered Manwol released?
With him dead, his clan would have no one to defend them from King’s wrath, once King realized that Manwol had been released as “gratitude” for aiding Mr. Dimwit aka Capt. Firefly.
Wrong move. As I said from the very beginning, I don’t get what he was trying to achieve. He wanted his cake and eat it too. He should have chosen a side and stuck with it.
*If* he had let her go her way, didn’t have a last-minute tryst to give her the hairpin, didn’t go to her prison cell and cheer, “Go me!!” and challenge her to kill him, had released her far from the maddening crowd and away from YW’s execution, and had convinced the King that he was gathering intel from the bandits and that some of the bandits were useful to their cause,
then he could have, maybe 10%, altered the course of events.
He messed up royally. He had so many alternatives so don’t tell me he was a victim too of events beyond his control. 😂 That’s the Hong sisters “bleeding heart” angle.
No one could spin his actions.
I think he did what he did at the prison cell was to give her a purpose to live, i.e. to plot vengeance against him. Nothing is a stronger motivator to live on than revenge/grudge/resentment and that is exactly what MW has all these years, to wait for the day when she can have her revenge on him. Had he not provoked her and just released her quietly into the woods, she would have been weak, pining for her dead comrades and probably lose the will to live and just let herself be killed, constantly fearing for his safety (for saving her and letting her go, while the princess is dead), trying to save him in a reckless manner, willing to sacrifice herself for him etc.
The tagline being – love makes a person weak. And by sacrificing himself, removing what will essentially be her weakness, he was trying to make her strong. Be angry at him. Resent him. Continue to wait for the day that she can have her revenge on him. He fortified her will to live on, and fulfilled his promise to Yeon Woo to make sure that MW lives on.
No, @pmsahjumoni. That’s false. Love is the strongest motivator there is, in human existence. Way stronger than revenge/grudge/resentment.
That’s why God is love, not hatred, because we equate love’s supremacy over everything to a Divine Being’s supremacy over all beings and things. And that’s why we always think that love will prevail; that love and goodness will overcome hatred and evil. Because in our consciousness, no matter what religion or culture, we all recognize that, in the natural hierarchy of the world, love is supreme and greatest of all things.
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” And I know that the Hong sisters know this Christian concept because of Hwayugi, and Warm and Cozy. lol.
You cannot justify what he did to her as good. Do not normalize it. Do not romanticize it. That’s what fangirls do. You have to see the Captain’s action for what was. It was mental torture. To goad her in prison, to let her friend die in her front of her, and to kill himself on her sword when she herself had a moment of hesitation, to see herself killing people in a rampage = her mental torture = her hell that HE created for her.
Frankly speaking, it’s quite upsetting to me, that viewers just don’t get how horrific watching Yeonwoo must have been for her. I know people who were raped and beheaded in …. and when I remember their barbaric deaths, I don’t feel much different from Manwol.
She hated herself for doing those things and she couldn’t forgive herself. That’s the symbolism of stabbing her own tree and the sword being swallowed up. That’s why her spirit tree was withered. Her own soul was dead, too. She killed herself spiritually.
She shouldered the blame alone for 1000 years while he flitted as a firefly. She took responsibility for the deaths of her friends. And she was punished too for his death, the Princess, and their men.
An excellent article as usual, @packmule3.
Personally I gave Captain Brightbutt more credit than he deserved with my Tragic Character Theory: that he did what was best for his country – capture and execute rebels – regardless of the personal toll on him – losing his love and people he learned to love -, but now he seems like an idiot to me, and at the last moment he let himself to be cornered so bad that the Princess saw the disaster from miles away and had to take action.
And Princess Mi-Ra duties (traditionally) lied mostly in diplomatic affairs, because, well… she is suposed to have a COMPETENT person in charge of her army.
In Spanish the “Speak softly and carry a big stick” is “Habla suave y lleva un sabueso” (Speak softly and carry a hound). But if the dog decides to chase his own tail, bites it, wails over it and starts chasing it again then the hound loses respect as well as the master, who is left unprotected since the perceived menace of the hound is reduced to a bluff.
This sequence of events even robs him of his agency. I lost my respect for his character, and I feel bad for the people that will see this Drama in the future and will not have the opportunity we had in this Forum to discuss on Ethics through Captain BrigthButt’s perceived actions.
Hong Sisters could have their Bleeding Heart story, but thanks to that the Captain suddenly became a caricature instead of the complex character I thought he was.
Cheers!!!
If we connect this to the cool vs. uncool topic from the earlier episodes (which I admittedly still have a bit hard of a time wrapping my head around the dialogue, though that might be due to the quality of the translation), the Captain was stupid/delusional/overconfident/”feels first thinking later”/whatever you want to call it, because he was trying too hard to be cool. The direct flirtation when he first met MW, the “romantic” last words about watching over her, the secret relationship thingy, etc. – that’s all “cool” stuff a hot brooding jerk with a heart of gold from your stereotypical romance protagonist does. But in trying too hard to be cool, he becomes uncool. Meanwhile, CS does uncool things, but ends up looking cool because of it. Or something.
well, there is saying, man with brawn doesn’t always have a brain..referring to Captain Brightbutt…how is that emptying revenge like LOL just smiling at each other and saying “this is the end for us..?”..
i’m still mad how Chanseong almost die meaninglessly in 14th episode..without anyone help to clear the misunderstanding…
packmule: Yes, love is the strongest motivating factor for most actions, but we cannot deny the power of vengeance. In fact, that is why the hotel exists, because so many of these spirits remain there as they cannot resolve their grudges and can only move on once these grudges have been resolved. It’s also nice to think that love will prevail, but in reality, a lot of the times, it does not. Like it or not, evil sometimes do triumph over good.
Also people are willing to die for love. Vengeance requires you to stay alive in order to see it through. Well, I’m not trying to trivialize what happened, but I kind of understand the captain’s motivations for doing so. He knows MW is a hothead and for someone like her, she can only be spurred by vengeance. Again, I’m not saying what he did was right, but only the reasons why he did what he did.
Now she loves a Harvard Con, she learns from her mistakes :p
I almost curse out loud when housekeeper backstory has been revealed..
why is it so bad having a daughter as a child..??how I wish the oldie people know that men ( spesifically sperm ) is the one contributing chromosome that determine fetus’s gender..
I know right? But it isn’t just the “old” people. It’s still an issue. Daughters are regarded as inferior to sons. And here I am, lamenting that I don’t have a daughter! 😫😢😭
To this day, people in countries like India, Pakistan and China practice female infanticide and female feticide (the selective killing of girls in the womb) because of gender bias, patriarchal norms (i.e., daughters are inferior to sons), religion (i.e., religion emphasizes the desirability of having sons to daughters), government policy (i.e. China’s One-Child policy’s consequence) and economic reasons (i.e., boys are the insurance, security or pensions of the elderly parents, boys are wage-earners, boys earn more, parents live with their sons’ families, boys don’t require dowry).
But whether it’s female or male infanticide and feticide, it’s still a barbaric practice.
and they dare to ask why such thing as feminism had to exist..?us girl just wanna live..😂my mother had been humiliated for giving birth to 6 girls..so i kinda relate to the housekeeper story..
not only the housekeeper had to share her husband, had to let her mother-in-law trick her to go pray & repent so they can kill her daughter & after all that, her husband make his people stab her back after forcefully take her dead child?how evil that fortune teller was making them kill that cute baby..?how traitorous..😡🤬
logically, no lives taken can satisfy one’s anger & resentment..i knew that..but..but..
As an aside, what are people’s thoughts regarding Hong Sister’s ethics when it comes to the person of MW? That’s been something niggling in my mind all along. That somehow just because you harbor a grudge from a past event, it is justifiable to take it out on the people around you? I see lots of fangirls “loving” her character so it concerns me. She is undoubtedly more “interesting” than straitjacket CS who people seem to find “boring”. But hers is the character one should “avoid” becoming? Surely? I think HS tried to address this with the cool/uncool analogy but it concerns me that it wasn’t spelt out as clearly as it should’ve been and a cursory viewing would leave the normal spectator thinking MW is cool (therefore to be lauded) and CS is not. It’s not that I don’t understand where she (MW) is coming from. Her circumstance may mitigate the punishment dealt out but does it mean there should be NO punishment? Like how a man abuses women in his life because he grew up in a household where he was abused. I can understand WHY but at the same time I cannot do away with punishment (justice for those he personally abused). Or to put it more plainly in a less dramatic scenario, just because I am tired and run down doesn’t make it right for me to be irritable and impatient with my children? It’s understandable but it is still not right? If I lean to the former I will rationalize my wrongdoing, but if I accept the latter, I need to repent and apologize? MW has been nasty and taciturn all this while, taking out her hate and resentment to everyone around her for a millennia. Will the Hong Sisters just sweep that aside and say that it was justifiable because of her past? Or is the fact that she’s locked in the personal hell of HDL sufficient to make up for that as well? That she’s not exactly “living” so the nastiness in this meta state doesn’t really “count”? That it was a “process” for her to find enlightenment and these people (that she was nasty to) were placed in her life as pawns (so they don’t count) to achieve the “process”? It will be interesting to see what awaits her as final judgement in the HS’s book. I have a feeling because of their portrayals of the different MaGos, their sense of right/wrong may well be ambiguous. If the “gods” in their Universe seem ambiguous (with seemingly no absolutes), what chance have mere mortals to figure that out for themselves?
Dear @nrllee , There are some things I don’t know if I should call this community attention about this Drama’s Fan response. Both of them would be controversial, but:
1.- When Chung-Myung appeared at first, ladies in DramaBeans swooned over him and some compared him to dull Chang-Sung. It speaks volumes on what these ladies perceive as a hot man, and probably in real life they would friendzone lots of Chang-Sungs. Now that the ugly truth has come to light about how dim and incapable he was, there are lots and lots of ladies still justifying and romantizing him. If it was not the case, then he would have been written differently.
In fact, if we put a closer gaze on him, he was swoony but we don’t see a moment where it is shown that he gets her, that they are close and understand each other, or that they are capable of sacrifizing for each other’s sake. Whith Chang-Sung we have seen that in spades. I think Chang-Sung understands and loves Man-Wol way more maturely than Man-Wol does for him.
There is a saying: “es mejor caer en gracia que ser gracioso” (free translation: is better to go down well – to be likeable – than to ve virtuous).
2.- Man-Wol is perceived as a strong woman because she has the power to impose her will. Not because she is just or noble while administering her power. That is a bad thing because it gives the idea that power is an end in itself, not a way to achieve better things.
It would be like me admiring a dictator because well, he survived the holocaust of his people (probably by his own forces) and was still in power and able to do whatever he wanted to his people.
As far as Man-Wol, to be honest she was a hairwidth to fail her test. Chang-Sung won it for her, and had to put all the hard work. She just took the final decision. Thankfully the good one.
@FGB4877 CS’ calm, collected manner could be seen as “manly” and “cool” in another character, but unlike other stoic “manly” characters, from the start (even in the first scene when he’s a kid) he is kind, patient, and loyal. And not like he can’t flirt, crack jokes, put himself in danger, or isn’t hot either.
One thing I do like about MW and CS’ relationship is that it’s relatively chaste, though I noticed on other online places people who like MW and CS want more steamy stuff. In another story, this might make them appear naive, but here it works beautifully, ironically showing them as more mature, as intense physical intimacy isn’t the only thing they got going. Funnily, MW wasn’t as physical with CM as she was with CS anyways, so if we’re judging chemistry just by longing stares, sexual innuendos, touching, etc., CS actually beats CM.
Additionally, though things are shaky at times, MW and CS work together well as a team. With the imaginary spirit in Episode 8, for instance, when MW enters the room and sees the spirit hugging CS, her jealousy/concern gets triggered, but CS’ hand gesture communicates to her it’s okay, she acknowledges it, and they then work together to solve the case like good and bad cop detectives. So the story *does* have instances of MW using her power to achieve good things with CS’ help when they protect/trust each other – MW has external power, CS has internal power, yin and yang, it just works.
The problem as I mentioned before, is character and story development gets tossed out in Episode 14 for the sake of upping the drama. In previous episodes they may have argued, but they still try to communicate, yet here MW unashamedly gives Jiwon the evil lucky charm because Mago was misleadingly ambiguous. It’s as if all that build up of MW learning to use her power, knowledge, and heart for good – the culmination of MW and CS’ honesty, openness, and warmth with each other, their teamwork and communication – was for nothing if CS could just run in like “yo, I got your lucky charm, you don’t need to go to hell now!”
I’m still enjoying their romance if I kinda ignore the screwup in the first half of ep 14, but it’s a bummer too, since you don’t see a lot of these chaste but mature relationships with a male lead who’s actually cool and nice.
Will reply to you on the blog. 🙂
Dear @TheShcolarGentry and @packmule3 , thanks for your insights and hope to read you soon.
To be honest, I braced myself for impact at episode 10-12 since usually K-Dramas (and Hong Sisters) tend to lose control of their worldbuilding at that point. Man-Wol had a personality transplant (a bad one) this episode that was not in line of the person (Hungry Ghost? XD ) we have known and loved for the previous 13 episodes.
@TheSholarGentry , the end of episode 14 remembers me of the final leg in Fantastica in “The Neverending Story” (book by Michael Ende). Bastian can’t cross the portals to the Fountains of Life since he has no memories of his time as a human (does memories make us human? 😉 , even twisted ones?) and is thanks to Atreyu and Fujur that he can cross them, since they are his friends and can complete all the stories he has started… but that is another story and must be conveyed another time =) .
And @packmule3 , is there something like an Emoji tutorial?. I guess they can be helpful.
@packmule3 Thank you for the response, I am quite honored and I’ll mull it over!
@FGB4877 Thinking it over, I’d argue the story was still fine in the first few scenes of ep 14 – with the focus on MW feeling conflicted about whether CS=CM – up until MW went to ask MG1 questions and the latter kept giving asinine answers. I get it, MW needs to learn a lesson to let go, but if you’re literally driving her to physical and spiritual suicide, maybe you need to rethink your methods. And then MW gets that personality transplant as you say and turns from the lovable sassy bitch we’ve known since ep 1 into a true asshole, it makes her seem bipolar… yeah, I can see why you guys and everyone else online were fearing the plot would derail around now.
Speaking of her memories, I wonder when MW returns if she loses some or all of her memories, if this affects her personality. Normally I don’t like high maintenance, materialistic, sassy bitch characters, but IU has done a great job as an actress to make MW a likeable, funny, and sympathetic woman despite (or because of) her flaws (a likeable Hungry Ghost?), even before we got her full story so it would be a pity if we don’t see some of that remaining in her.