Unlike many viewers, I don’t mind the show’s irregular schedule. It allowed me to catch up with the other dramas on my watch list.
Tomorrow, we’ll have back-to-back showing of Episodes 5 and 6.
1. Fantasy vs Reality
In this episode, reality bites back.
a. Seo Won the teacher vs Seo Won the newbie driver
b. Seo Won in a suit vs HaeNa as a pickled radish
c. Seo Won’s passenger to the wedding vs Seo Won’s passenger from the wedding
d. BoGeum’s hints vs BoGeum’s threat
e. Haena’s transformative kiss vs Haena’s dud kiss
f. What dogs say according to Haena vs what dogs say according to SeoWon
2. BoGeum’s metaphor
The mystery surrounding BoGeum continues to grow.
BG: When I saw the beach for the first time, I was really mesmerized, especially by the ebb and flow of the tide.
HN: True. I think I was surprised by the low tide because it happened a lot faster than I expected.
BG: I even sat still and stared at the waters for days once. Even though I was watching the tides come and go, I didn’t realize it.
In my opinion, being oblivious to the tides ebbing and waning is an indicator of a great emotional turmoil. Given that the tide changes four times a day (i.e., two low tides and two high tides in 24 hours), he must have been so lost in thought or grief that he didn’t notice them.
BG: The fact that the ocean is being pulled by that tiny moon. If you were the ocean, would you feel it’s unfair? Regardless of its will, it gets closer to the land and grows distant again by an existence it doesn’t even know well.
HN: I don’t think I ever thought of it that way. But I think being still would also be quite boring.
BG: (taken by surprise) Right?
She leads the way back to their car. Looking at her, he muses, “You’ll grow distant faster than you think. Regardless of your will. Just as I did.” And there’s a flashback of bloodstained Haena sobbing over a dead SeoWon.
On the sand appears an image of a ferocious tiger, ready to pounce on HaeNa.
My comments:
a. BoGeum is saying that life – and love – come and go like the tide and Haena has no control over them.
Just like the ocean waves rush to the shore then recede, she attaches herself to somebody, only to detach herself in time. Her love rolls in and out like the tide.
b. Also, similar to the tiny moon controlling the ocean waves, a silent and distant entity controls life. Some may call it fate; others may call it deity. Either way, BoGeum says its power over human existence is unfair.
c. But Haena points out that doing nothing isn’t an option.
If, in protest of the moon’s control over the tide, the waves suddenly cease to roll into the beach, then what’s the point of being a wave?
She makes a good point: What good is living if you’ve already decided to give up struggling and loving because life is futile?
BoGeum is taken aback by her answer because he hadn’t considered it before.
d. Nevertheless, as she walks away, he predicts that the time of her separation from SeoWon is coming sooner than she expects. Life will come at her fast, and only then, will she understand his meaning.
3. The Dog Kiss
I grew up knowing the three kisses from fairy tales:
Sleeping Beauty’s kiss, where true love’s kiss broke the evil curse. A disgruntled fairy who wasn’t invited to the princess’ christening had cursed the infant to death by pricking her finger on a spindle. Fortunately, another fairy undid the curse so that instead of sudden death, the princess would go into a long sleep.
Snow White’s kiss, where true love’s kiss was the antidote to the poisoned apple. The Evil Queen had given her stepdaughter, Snow White, a poison apple so she could be the fairest woman in the kingdom. The seven dwarves had kept Snow White in a glass coffin until the Prince came.
The Frog Prince’s kiss, where in exchange for the frog’s help, the princess had to reluctantly promise to kiss the frog. When the promise was fulfilled, the frog turned into to its original Prince body.
Now, I’ll add this one. The Dog’s kiss, where the girl will return to her original female body once the guy kisses her consciously and willingly while she’s still in canine form.
I didn’t think that the curse could have been broken that easily. If the curse had to be ended once and for all, for HaeNa and for her family and descendants, then a more significant personal investment from both main characters must be necessary.
4. “Our house. Our roof.”
This line is romantic.
HN: Mr. Jin. Try imagining this is our house. The most comfortable and safest place in the world. This is the roof.”
My comments:
a. A roof over one’s head is protection from the elements. Symbolically, HaeNa is reassuring him that his secrets are safe with her. She’ll guard her secrets as her own so he has nothing to fear from strangers and the outside world.
b. I wish that he could do the same for her and her dog curse.
c. What’s up with them hiding from the world?
In episode 3, they hid under a yellow umbrella. He was protecting her from their overbearing co-teacher.
This episode, they hid under her cream-colored trenchcoat. She was protecting him from the energetic dog.
What’s next? Hiding under the sheets?
Thank you, @packmule3, I’d better get cracking. I forgot the episodes would come on this week.
🙂 I’m not going to issue an all-points bulletin on you, @Fern, if you decide to skip some dramas.
@packmule3, it would go against my household ethics to miss one about dogs. 😅🐶
Hahaha! What’s next indeed.
Love the golden hues and really enjoying this show!