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Is SaEon always going to rescue her from mishap by swinging her out of the way? In Episode 2, it’s a speeding motorcyclist in their garage. In Episode 4, it’s a wine glass lobbed by his father at HeeJoo. What’s next? Acid? Kimchee? Bullets?
How is it that she must pay him a penalty of 2B won if she spills the beans about their marriage, but he doesn’t? Who drew up the contract?
Let’s enjoy the show.
Thanks @pkml3, aside from 1 track villains and the constant need for SE to rescue HJ, it’s quite an engaging watch.
The question of who and why SE has those enemies, what his enemies want (the villain called his Master, whch means there’s more than one) keeps me curious.
The other part is of course when the couple are going to communicate properly.
One big clue that has not been mentioned yet is the fantastic ability of the villains to hack all vehicles in which HJ rides. Even the police car was hacked.
The other question is why the villains want to get at SE through HJ. Why not directly? What are they asking for?
@GB,
They want to get at SE through HJ because she’s his one and only weakness.
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I deleted my comment to post it on the blog. –pm3
@pkml3, thanks for this. It makes good sense. It seems that regardless of whom the mastermind of getting at SE is, it’s all within the family…. or the 2 families. By going through his weakness, it feels like there’s so much contempt, as if they are toying with him. They want to see what he’ll do next.
So much dislike for or lack of care for SE. That and the fact that he says his parents can just change their children, make me question if any of the children are their flesh and blood. Did the rich family who were the patrons of that orphanage go and ‘adopt’ a couple or more kids as it suited them? Just as In Na agreed to the replacement for the wedding, were there other replacements of children when it suited those parents?
We also have Sang Woo now suddenly poking into the Orphanage. He’s going to unearth a barrel of worms.
I wonder how much HJ knows about her step sister and her relationship with SE. She may think that she has to step aside because of In Na. It will be only at that stage that she’ll realise that she does not want to give SE up afterall. (Heh!)
I can’t get Episode 5 and 6 yet. I’ll try later. Thanks very much for your thoughts. I’ve missed reading you in our live watches. 🙂
Ep 5 isn’t out yet on Netflix. It should be ready by 10am EST.
Yes, I’m looking forward to SangWoo’s reveal about the mysterious rich boy he befriended, and the horrifying scene he saw in the basement of the house. It got him interested in…what’s that again? Psychiatry. He’s a criminal psychologist on YouTube, too.
I’m watching Love Your Enemy, too. It’s cute.
With elections done 🤞🤞🤞, I hope to get back into the swing of kdramas again.
Can you please go through the contract between SE and IA? 🤣
I don’t understand it as well with that 2B that HJ has to pay incase their marriage is broadcasted.
So both SE and HJ have families that’s just using them. So sad especially for HJ.
I hope I get some babies for the ending. I miss seeing a whole family in my dramas. The last one was Queen of Tears. 🤞🏻
Looking forward to episode 5 and 6. Hopefully I can get to it earlier after lunch tomorrow.
Queen and @GB, I saw on X that they apparently cancelled showing episode 5 and 6 this week. 😳
I’ll try to watch Love Your Enemy this weekend then.
Caught up on all the episodes so far.
FYI: I see that the next episode is on 12/13. did not see any today.
They’re postponing Eps 5 & 6, @agdr03??
Must be due to the emergency martial law the SK president Yoon SukYeol declared last Tuesday evening (Seoul time). All media was placed under state control, no strikes and demonstrations allowed, etc. Though it lasted for a few hours (6 hours?), it shocked everyone. The producers, director, actors, editors, and subbers of WtPR wouldn’t be in the right frame of mind to continue working on their projects with all the political turmoil.
And the people themselves too wouldn’t be in the right frame of mind to watch politics in their kdrama when their government has taken a weird turn.
Watch “Love Your Enemy” in the meantime. It’s good.
Booo!
Let’s just watch something else then.
My mind keeps going to my memories of “Youth of May” about the Gwanju uprising/massacre. Helps me get an idea of what this recent turn of events must feel like to Koreans.
@pkml3 thanks for mentioning “Love Your Enemy”. I watched the first 2 episodes and enjoyed myself. I LOLed so hard that I had to tell my roommates that I was watching a funny show.
It’s nice to see those experienced actors again. Not an idol drama but a fun rom com with veterans.
The male lead (Joo Ji Hoo?) is the one I ever first watched in Goong (my gateway drama), and it’s nice to see him back in something light.
I am excited to join you all in watching this drama. I sped watch the last four episodes of kairos knowing I will be rewatching them. So I’m ready to start when the phone rings.
Today we get our christmas tree. We buy our tree from a charity.And I really enjoy bringing out all my decorations. This year I have my daughter to join me.
@MM oh do join us! This is such a romance with the brooding tsundere husband and the delicate wife he wants to protect. We can see that if only they’d been left alone since childhood, they would have been great friends.
It’s a fun watch. I hope a couple of our suspicious characters turn out to be less one-note and more interesting.
Kalimera!
These episodes are going to be interesting!
Hello I have watched this drama up to episode Four and I’m looking forward to this weekend’s episodes.
I think I missed parts of three and four because I was snoozing- watching past my bedtime. I am going to have another look at these episodes.
What strikes me most is.How could they have so poorly communicated over such a long period of time without revealing, at least a little, how they feel about each other.
If he has spent time with her over twenty years, It seems unlikely to me for her never to have uttered a word Spontaneously. If she never did, it shows how tightly guarded she is.
I Feel like I already need to rewatch all episodes. I recall her mother telling her not to speak.But was there also some selective mutism At play, Perhaps as part of an anxiety disorder Like social anxiety. She alludes to having poor social skills, which initially I just assumed she was saying because she cannot speak.But maybe there is more to that.
I am wondering if he indeed Knows sign language. If he has really been in love with her all these years one would think he would have tried to learn it. I thought he picked up pretty quickly that she was signing faster than he was speaking but perhaps he could tell that by the subtitles. I don’t know. Perhaps this was what he meant by saying they are similar- That they have each been studying the other’s speech.
I’m not sure what I think about who is the villain. I think it will be more of a conspiracy, perhaps of family with others.
@monmor – Regarding HJ’s selective mutism, her mother forced her to be mute since the bio daughter of her husband lost her hearing and the bio son, died in the accident. Rumor has it it was the SA’s grandfather who caused the accident. they have not shown that. HJ mother wanted the luxury life that she was enjoying with HI father and so, wanted HJ to also have a disability to ellict empathy for having lost something too along with the other siblings. That is the reason why HJ can speak to her mother normally as she knows about it. Also, HJ is pretty guarded as to when she speaks with her mother verbally – usually when SA is not in the house.
With SA not communicating / learning sign language – to me – even though he liked HJ, he was just using her as a hostage since it was a business marriage and his emotions came to the forefront when she was kidnapped, not that he did not care but was mislead by HJ ‘s mother. He has a big secret of his own because of which he might not feel deserved – as he talks about children can be replaced by these people.
Sangwoo was one of the children who visited the house from the orphanage and knew about SA, being violent and vindictive in his behavior and a murderer since he was know for torturing and killing animals. I think this SA is somebody else child who replaced SA and the kidnapper must be the original SA who might have been replaced.
But won’t people recognize that they do not look alike – would the neighbors, friends and relatives not comment about it. Could have been home schooled to prevent such issues. Will have to see.
I am curious about the orphanage story. Who is the sadistic young master?
What happened to the children who disappeared?
Flashbacks revealed that SE cared about HJ since childhood. But why didn’t he learn sign language? Why does he guard his feelings?
I mentioned in another thread that this show reminds me of the classic Neo-Gothic tale “Rebecca” ( book by Daphne du Maurier and movie by Alfred Hitchcock).
There is a scene where the mother says something to the adult hj About not talking when she has married. Does anyone remember if there was any other pertinent information in that scene?
@angelwings I like your ideas about The possibility of the original SA Having been replaced. Do we know that that was his family and not her family that the psychiatrist was visiting as a child. I wonder if she was told to not speak because she might have seen something she should not have And that the reason her mother gave was misleading.
I also do not remember any scene Where she is seen by a doctor for her mutism. That would be Pretty difficult to defend to not have her receive treatment. Of course we know why she did not receive treatment.
@SF Our comments must have crossed Out there on the ethernet!
I remember the novel and movie Rebecca, not much of the plot but mostly the atmosphere of the novel. I just read the plot online. I see the similarities And will keep them in mind as I watch.
@MM, Rebecca is about a seemingly plain woman who is married to a rich and powerful man. Rebecca is the dead first wife of the ML. The FL (second wife) is not named in the book. She feels uncomfortable because she can’t compete with the glamorous Rebecca. Of course, nothing is as it seems.
In the drama, HJ has no voice, and her name is not her own.
I remember the joan fontaine version. An actress my mother really enjoyed.