19 Comments On “Love Scout: Eps 10 & 11 Open Thread”
nrllee
Ep10 thoughts
I liked how quickly the whole daddy issue for JY was resolved.
I am wondering how I would’ve approached the whole Princess party issue with Byeol. Would I be like EH? Or would I have caved like JY? Their parenting styles are very different. It’s going to take work for them to present a united front 😂.
How quickly we went from “let’s keep our relationship strictly outside work” to “let’s just shout it from the mountain top”! 😂.
Looks like we already have a “solution” for EH’s leaving? He was only supposed to stay for 6months and he has one month left. JY seems to be of the impression that his talents are much better served elsewhere. Not in his current secretary role.
We have blurring of lines again and inconsistencies in how they relate to each other at work. I thought she was all for dating at work? She marched into the office holding his hand and everyone knew already? So why deny they were out on the balcony together when GyuRim (?) walked in to ask where EH was? 🤷🏻♀️.
I thought the IKONIK guy looked suspicious. In Ep1, JY seemed to imply that there was someone on the inside who wasn’t ethical but the boss ended up being the scapegoat for the fall out – which resulted in his suicide. It wouldn’t surprise me if CW CEO was the unethical employee involved.
Fern
Thank you, @packmule3.
Fern
Ref Episode 10:
@nrllee, yes, the director let us know that the IKONIK guy was shifty without going full moustache twirling. I don’t think that JY gave him a formal answer, so I’m not sure how involved Peoplez is in his actions. At least, she didn’t on screen that we have seen. To me, she isn’t the sort of person who would quickly agree to shares in lieu of payment upfront. Plus she would conduct due diligence research on that company. I would hope. Otherwise, couldn’t that result in a conflict of interest, among other things? She’s not stupid.
I was surprised by the hiding on the balcony as well. Unless, by dating at the office, JY means more obvious displays of affection than simply hand-holding.
I thought the reveal of Seo Jun’s parents was good on the part of his adoptive mother, but he seemed to me to accept it all easily without any confusion, anger or fuss, and very little surprise. I would have thought that he would need some more time to process, ask more questions. It almost seemed to me that he had some idea of the truth in advance. He is a very perceptive child.
Fern
@nrllee, as to the princess party, I felt Byeol’s outfit was nearly like showing up to a wedding wearing a better, more elegant white dress than the bride. A bit OTT, in other words. But she looked adorable and she did get the birthday girl a very nice gift, so perhaps the outfit could be overlooked? I think I would have fallen somewhere between EH and JY in other words.
nrllee
@Fern 🤣🤣🤣. Good one about showing up to wedding and overshadowing the bride. I was a bit uncomfortable about how JY stepped in and did what she did but I guess the writer had to paint her as someone who could understand Byeol more so than a father would (about dresses and fitting in social circles). I also agree with you about how unrealistic it was that SJ seemed to just accept what was said to him by his adoptive mom with little fuss. I was waiting for tears, some confusion maybe? But we got nothing. His adoptive mother was more upset than he was? 🤷. Unless he had overheard the gossiping on the playground by the other mothers? How did they know anyway? I would’ve thought such things would be kept private?
Fern
@nrllee, if the families live in the same community, there may have been some talk about Jung Su-Hyeon’s family, perhaps some rumours?
But as far as the script goes, many children don’t look like their parents, particularly children of the opposite sex might resemble the parent of the same sex and therefore not have so much in common with the other parent. Conversely, some nieces and nephews look like aunts and uncles more than like their parents. It’s strange that the women would gossip about that. I think the writer was just looking for some shade to put into their mouths.
monmor
I agree that the way the young boy reacted to the news was either not well scripted or well acted. I expected him to at least look surprised. He took it so matter of factly it seemed.
Fern
@monmor, yes, especially after all of the build-up about it. Maybe there’s a reason and we’ll get it in a later episode?
monmor
Since the drama is so well directed, I wonder if the little boy just did not have the acting capacity. I’m trying to remember what I thought of previous scenes he was in.
monmor
Maybe there is more to come.
Fern
The boy seemed pretty good. He did well with the earlier scenes where he wouldn’t say why he got into a fight and later explained to his grandmother when they were alone.
nrllee
@MM @Fern Initially I thought the boy just didn’t understand it because SH seemed to be framing it like a bedtime story and it was too vague for his young mind to grasp. I was waiting for his penny drop moment when he realized the baby in the picture was him and then the confusion to follow. But it just never came. He just accepted the fact that he had 2 moms. Byeol says she’s 7? So he must be that too? They are in Kindergarten. I am just trying to think if a 7yo child would react the way he did to such a revelation. Thinking back on previous episodes where he and Byeol were teased for being in unconventional families, he seemed to take it in his stride? Yes he got into the fight with the other boy who teased them about it but he did it more so because he was standing up for Byeol? Or so he said to his grandma. Not because he himself was terribly upset about it. So perhaps he didn’t seem particularly concerned about it at the present but it could maybe in the future? Or maybe it is as @MM suggests, that he just didn’t have the acting range to convey those feelings adequately.
Kate
Hi all,
I thought he might be nonplussed – hence the rather blank response while he was processing. Perhaps there will be more to come.
Or, along with all the other things you mentioned… do you think he was being directed to be calm and interested but not overly thrown by the news… to make a (didactic) point about how happy he was with his adoptive Mum and how much she is the centre of his life anyway.
He has been seen to be very sanguine in other scenes when the issue of his family has come up.
I wonder whether it was the writing and intent of that scene – unusual families where there is love work well and children are secure etc- that didn’t quite land with us the viewers. A little too condensed.
He wasn’t exactly given a lot of time to act out the processing of the bombshell news was he? Again, perhaps that was the point the drama was making. He was taking something on board that he was able to receive because he was secure and loved.
Will the show build on this theme and allow him more scope for response later? It was done and dusted in one scene. JK was given far more time to process the information about EH’s profound connection with her Father.
Kate
ps Correction – rather than one scene it was one segment where we saw the news delivered and the little boy watching the video of his parents.
On a minor note – I was slightly irritated about the way this story was triggered in the plot – the two gossiping parents at the junior school talking about the little boy not looking like his mum and this being in some way ‘dark’ – presumably they meant ‘shady’. I don’t look at children and wonder why they don’t resemble one parent. Frankly, this makes no sense anyway – the little chap is genetically connected to his adoptive Mum.
But this also underlines the way the drama is setting up the issue of adoption as something to be depicted in a different, positive light.
So it is trying a little too hard to make a point and the quality of the drama suffers slightly.
nrllee
@Kate maybe that was what it was. There’s just not enough time for any further development in his story and that’s why he seemed nonplussed. He did seem secure in his family situation even when teased about it. So perhaps like you said this piece or news didn’t seem too bad. I was rather surprised that others outside of family knew about it. It wasn’t exactly obvious eg like in interracial adoptions.
Fern
I suppose it is possible that he just didn’t care that much. Secure in his family, as you say above. It was before his memories start, so it’s not part of his current being.
I was surprised by a co-worker one day. He told me he was adopted – presumably he knew my daughters were, I can’t remember. I asked him if he had made any contact with his birth family once he was an adult. He replied that he wasn’t interested. End of story. ‘Nurture’ won in his case.
nrllee
Ep11 thoughts
– I may or may not have shed a tear when Byeol attempted to cheer JY up with her power vitamin/card and her lullaby. It’s lovely that she turned out so well thanks to EH’s parenting. His caring nature certainly rubbed off on her. As a side note, this child actress has been extraordinary in her role as Byeol.
– I loved the mint chocolate decoy. I was expecting a ring? 💍 😂. But a necklace would suffice. Especially one picked out by the daddy-daughter duo. I liked that EH included Byeol in his choice and that he didn’t keep her in the dark about the seaside trip with JY.
– I liked JY and Byeol’s attempt at cooking breakfast together under the watchful eye of EH. Burnt the toast. 😂 And JY’s suggestion of just doubling up the ingredients to make up for the mistakes had me laughing. I am glad to see her having fun in spite of all the difficulties she’s facing at work. It’s nice to see her smiling and enjoying life outside the workspace. It’s given her a new perspective on life and things that bring her joy.
– I was wondering if CW CEO had something to do with the whole investor fraud fiasco in the beginning (which resulted in the suicide of her then boss) and it looks like she did.
– JY looks to be backed into the wall when it comes to her position as CEO. It looks like she’s steeling herself to walk away so that the employees keep their jobs. It’s heartening for her so see firsthand how her employees care so much for the company and are banding together to help her cause. She may be prickly and brusque but she’s fair.
monmor
About the little boy
perhaps he and his mother/aunt will write the book together.
Snow Flower
If the CEO of Career Way were a man, he would be a classic one-note moustache-twirling villain.
Ep10 thoughts
I liked how quickly the whole daddy issue for JY was resolved.
I am wondering how I would’ve approached the whole Princess party issue with Byeol. Would I be like EH? Or would I have caved like JY? Their parenting styles are very different. It’s going to take work for them to present a united front 😂.
How quickly we went from “let’s keep our relationship strictly outside work” to “let’s just shout it from the mountain top”! 😂.
Looks like we already have a “solution” for EH’s leaving? He was only supposed to stay for 6months and he has one month left. JY seems to be of the impression that his talents are much better served elsewhere. Not in his current secretary role.
We have blurring of lines again and inconsistencies in how they relate to each other at work. I thought she was all for dating at work? She marched into the office holding his hand and everyone knew already? So why deny they were out on the balcony together when GyuRim (?) walked in to ask where EH was? 🤷🏻♀️.
I thought the IKONIK guy looked suspicious. In Ep1, JY seemed to imply that there was someone on the inside who wasn’t ethical but the boss ended up being the scapegoat for the fall out – which resulted in his suicide. It wouldn’t surprise me if CW CEO was the unethical employee involved.
Thank you, @packmule3.
Ref Episode 10:
@nrllee, yes, the director let us know that the IKONIK guy was shifty without going full moustache twirling. I don’t think that JY gave him a formal answer, so I’m not sure how involved Peoplez is in his actions. At least, she didn’t on screen that we have seen. To me, she isn’t the sort of person who would quickly agree to shares in lieu of payment upfront. Plus she would conduct due diligence research on that company. I would hope. Otherwise, couldn’t that result in a conflict of interest, among other things? She’s not stupid.
I was surprised by the hiding on the balcony as well. Unless, by dating at the office, JY means more obvious displays of affection than simply hand-holding.
I thought the reveal of Seo Jun’s parents was good on the part of his adoptive mother, but he seemed to me to accept it all easily without any confusion, anger or fuss, and very little surprise. I would have thought that he would need some more time to process, ask more questions. It almost seemed to me that he had some idea of the truth in advance. He is a very perceptive child.
@nrllee, as to the princess party, I felt Byeol’s outfit was nearly like showing up to a wedding wearing a better, more elegant white dress than the bride. A bit OTT, in other words. But she looked adorable and she did get the birthday girl a very nice gift, so perhaps the outfit could be overlooked? I think I would have fallen somewhere between EH and JY in other words.
@Fern 🤣🤣🤣. Good one about showing up to wedding and overshadowing the bride. I was a bit uncomfortable about how JY stepped in and did what she did but I guess the writer had to paint her as someone who could understand Byeol more so than a father would (about dresses and fitting in social circles). I also agree with you about how unrealistic it was that SJ seemed to just accept what was said to him by his adoptive mom with little fuss. I was waiting for tears, some confusion maybe? But we got nothing. His adoptive mother was more upset than he was? 🤷. Unless he had overheard the gossiping on the playground by the other mothers? How did they know anyway? I would’ve thought such things would be kept private?
@nrllee, if the families live in the same community, there may have been some talk about Jung Su-Hyeon’s family, perhaps some rumours?
But as far as the script goes, many children don’t look like their parents, particularly children of the opposite sex might resemble the parent of the same sex and therefore not have so much in common with the other parent. Conversely, some nieces and nephews look like aunts and uncles more than like their parents. It’s strange that the women would gossip about that. I think the writer was just looking for some shade to put into their mouths.
I agree that the way the young boy reacted to the news was either not well scripted or well acted. I expected him to at least look surprised. He took it so matter of factly it seemed.
@monmor, yes, especially after all of the build-up about it. Maybe there’s a reason and we’ll get it in a later episode?
Since the drama is so well directed, I wonder if the little boy just did not have the acting capacity. I’m trying to remember what I thought of previous scenes he was in.
Maybe there is more to come.
The boy seemed pretty good. He did well with the earlier scenes where he wouldn’t say why he got into a fight and later explained to his grandmother when they were alone.
@MM @Fern Initially I thought the boy just didn’t understand it because SH seemed to be framing it like a bedtime story and it was too vague for his young mind to grasp. I was waiting for his penny drop moment when he realized the baby in the picture was him and then the confusion to follow. But it just never came. He just accepted the fact that he had 2 moms. Byeol says she’s 7? So he must be that too? They are in Kindergarten. I am just trying to think if a 7yo child would react the way he did to such a revelation. Thinking back on previous episodes where he and Byeol were teased for being in unconventional families, he seemed to take it in his stride? Yes he got into the fight with the other boy who teased them about it but he did it more so because he was standing up for Byeol? Or so he said to his grandma. Not because he himself was terribly upset about it. So perhaps he didn’t seem particularly concerned about it at the present but it could maybe in the future? Or maybe it is as @MM suggests, that he just didn’t have the acting range to convey those feelings adequately.
Hi all,
I thought he might be nonplussed – hence the rather blank response while he was processing. Perhaps there will be more to come.
Or, along with all the other things you mentioned… do you think he was being directed to be calm and interested but not overly thrown by the news… to make a (didactic) point about how happy he was with his adoptive Mum and how much she is the centre of his life anyway.
He has been seen to be very sanguine in other scenes when the issue of his family has come up.
I wonder whether it was the writing and intent of that scene – unusual families where there is love work well and children are secure etc- that didn’t quite land with us the viewers. A little too condensed.
He wasn’t exactly given a lot of time to act out the processing of the bombshell news was he? Again, perhaps that was the point the drama was making. He was taking something on board that he was able to receive because he was secure and loved.
Will the show build on this theme and allow him more scope for response later? It was done and dusted in one scene. JK was given far more time to process the information about EH’s profound connection with her Father.
ps Correction – rather than one scene it was one segment where we saw the news delivered and the little boy watching the video of his parents.
On a minor note – I was slightly irritated about the way this story was triggered in the plot – the two gossiping parents at the junior school talking about the little boy not looking like his mum and this being in some way ‘dark’ – presumably they meant ‘shady’. I don’t look at children and wonder why they don’t resemble one parent. Frankly, this makes no sense anyway – the little chap is genetically connected to his adoptive Mum.
But this also underlines the way the drama is setting up the issue of adoption as something to be depicted in a different, positive light.
So it is trying a little too hard to make a point and the quality of the drama suffers slightly.
@Kate maybe that was what it was. There’s just not enough time for any further development in his story and that’s why he seemed nonplussed. He did seem secure in his family situation even when teased about it. So perhaps like you said this piece or news didn’t seem too bad. I was rather surprised that others outside of family knew about it. It wasn’t exactly obvious eg like in interracial adoptions.
I suppose it is possible that he just didn’t care that much. Secure in his family, as you say above. It was before his memories start, so it’s not part of his current being.
I was surprised by a co-worker one day. He told me he was adopted – presumably he knew my daughters were, I can’t remember. I asked him if he had made any contact with his birth family once he was an adult. He replied that he wasn’t interested. End of story. ‘Nurture’ won in his case.
Ep11 thoughts
– I may or may not have shed a tear when Byeol attempted to cheer JY up with her power vitamin/card and her lullaby. It’s lovely that she turned out so well thanks to EH’s parenting. His caring nature certainly rubbed off on her. As a side note, this child actress has been extraordinary in her role as Byeol.
– I loved the mint chocolate decoy. I was expecting a ring? 💍 😂. But a necklace would suffice. Especially one picked out by the daddy-daughter duo. I liked that EH included Byeol in his choice and that he didn’t keep her in the dark about the seaside trip with JY.
– I liked JY and Byeol’s attempt at cooking breakfast together under the watchful eye of EH. Burnt the toast. 😂 And JY’s suggestion of just doubling up the ingredients to make up for the mistakes had me laughing. I am glad to see her having fun in spite of all the difficulties she’s facing at work. It’s nice to see her smiling and enjoying life outside the workspace. It’s given her a new perspective on life and things that bring her joy.
– I was wondering if CW CEO had something to do with the whole investor fraud fiasco in the beginning (which resulted in the suicide of her then boss) and it looks like she did.
– JY looks to be backed into the wall when it comes to her position as CEO. It looks like she’s steeling herself to walk away so that the employees keep their jobs. It’s heartening for her so see firsthand how her employees care so much for the company and are banding together to help her cause. She may be prickly and brusque but she’s fair.
About the little boy
perhaps he and his mother/aunt will write the book together.
If the CEO of Career Way were a man, he would be a classic one-note moustache-twirling villain.