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Episode 4: 12 April 2025
Episode 5: 19 April 2025
Episode 6: 26 April 2025
Episode 7: 3 May 2025
Episode 8: 10 May 2025
Episode 9: 17 May 2025
Episode 10: 24 May 2025
Episode 11: 31 May 2025
Episode 12: 7 June 2025
Episode 13: 14 June 2025
Episode 14: 21 June 2025
Episode 15: 28 June 2025
Episode 16: 5 July 2025
Episode 17: 12 July 2025
Episode 18: 19 July 2025
Enjoy the rewatch!
I made a change in screenplay files:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EG8_pz4hviEHnwQ-NgzhbYchSqSSw-0E/view?usp=sharing
I replaced (inferior/superior < >) characters with { and }.
What it does: in case you copy-paste a scene here, (inferior/superior) would delete the line, because they are html tags. For example, you would loose any line like <cut>, then it’s replaced with {cut}.
You’ll argue that you can see < and > here, but it’s because I used a special encodage to make the tag in escape mode. 😆😄
@WE What a lot of work you’ve put into making the script copy-paste-able!! Thank you so very much!
It will be so much easier to post about the spoken words as we discuss the scenes. You’re a gem!!!
I may not be there tomorrow. We will be busy tomorrow. I will try to carve out the time if I can.
Have a good watch and I will catch up when I can.
Noted @MM! I was also thinking that if I feel unwell, I may put in my comments early and then head off to bed before the end of the party. Episode 4 is another interesting one with an interesting new case.
I regret not joining you all today but will be back next week.
I just finished rewatching My Daughter Seo Young. Lee Boyoung plays another prideful lawyer.It is a 50 episode weekender, not my usual cup of tea but I did enjoy rewatching- a lot of character growth and good acting.
As I’m reading the screenplay, I jumped on this:
UNCLE: (holding character balloons in the distance, locking eyes with Soo-Ha, startled, dropping them/E) Please.. just disappear. I can’t take you with me to emigrate. (turning away and leaving)
SOO-HA: !!!
WORKER: (still looking around) Where is he? What color clothes is he wearing?
SOO-HA: (staring where his uncle disappeared) I.. must’ve seen wrong.
Balloons float high into the blue sky.
One gets caught in a tree branch, unable to fly away.
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Excellent! How we call that? Symbolism or Metaphor?
The ballon unable to fly away is Soo-Ha, while the rest of family go away.
I will not be able to join today either. I have house guests coming tomorrow and will be singing in a symphony choral tonight so time is limited. Hope to join you all next week.
Hi @WE! I was thinking to myself that in this rewatch I’m suddenly seeing things I never considered important or symbolic before and this exact scene was one of them.
It was so poetic. I believe even the number of balloons that flew away may have been the exact number (5) according to the size of uncle’s family.
I wonder if he was abandoned already at that young age, to live alone in that apartment. Poor boy.
See you next week @SD!
Starting NOW!!!
I must say that nice song never sounded so eerie!!!
Hi GB.
@GB, I told you maybe someday: when reading the script, everything jumps more easely. So, for mysteries/clues, it’s a lot more difficult to “hide” something in the script. You’ll just read what’s is written and it will rings a bell “oh that’s important”, while when you are watching you can easely understate it or even miss it.
Hi @GB, @WE.
Yes the balloon scene makes so much more sense now that I read the script. Thank you hardworking @WE.
It’s a horrible feeling when it’s clear that some strange person has been touching one’s personal things in one’s absence. I had that experience before so I know. The police as such dunces… it took the attack of Killer Min to take HS seriously.
Cops are so annoying in this situation, arrggh.
Hi @FF! It’s just the 3 of us today!
I didn’t read Ep 4 script fully, but this time I watched more avidly LOL.
@WE in this show almost everyone except the Killer grew… even the cops. At the end only did they take HS and SH’s fears seriously.
Hi FF.
@GB, yeah, someone can enter your home, brrr, you can’t feel safe anymore.
Booboo scene. 🙂
@GB, I read the script beforehand. I can’t manage reading the script, watching the drama and commenting concurrently.
@WE the feeling is like the person violated all that was intimate and personal. Very horrible feeling.
I like the OST music of his flashback to the balloons episode.
LOL HS is so casual about how she is appears to SH.
@WE, one other thought I had about the balloons. The one stuck in a tree is SH lonely, alone and trapped in his world of many voices. But this ‘dream’ is juxtaposed immediately with the scene of SH sleeping in HS’s bed and being ministered to with medication by HS.
She took him in although he was still a stranger to her (she still did not know his name!) whereas his uncle had abandoned him. That struck him and it finally strikes me.
@FF, I’m not reading the script now. I’m just reading comments and catching bits of the show. I watched it yesterday so that I don’t have to watch every scene now.
Do-Yeon in family. I’ve read the scene ofc (I had time to read whole episode). It’s interesting to see how actors do it based on the script. They understand the deep of the scene, as well as director (and people adding BGM).
The other thing that hit me … Do Yeon’s birth secret is already hinted at. Her father Judge Seo, couldn’t care less that it’s her birthday and gives her his disapproval. Her mother says that Judge Seo’s treatment of DY makes it look like she was found under a bridge, however it’s not a joke – it was ‘true’ in a way. It might have been what Seo told his wife when he brought home a baby girl.
I didn’t know that scripts are so detailed in describing the scenes.
“#15. HYE-SUNG’S HOUSE FRONT (N)
The lights in Hye-Sung’s room go out.
Someone’s back (Min Joon-Kook) watches this.
As a patrol car passes, Joon-Kook hides behind a wall.
In his hand, a rolled-up poster from Hye-Sung’s mom’s chicken shop (from Episode 3, Scene 37) is clutched tightly.”
@WE, the BGM is so changeable and cute in this episode. When SH is happy and positive and when he gets a shock, etc.
LOL Love the scene in class when he is angry about his first love being such a mess and spoiling his happy fairytale.
Good comedy lines.
“isn’t it food for dog” ?
“with this mess the intruder searched your home” ?
Next a trick used by SJJ too and many other writers: put something unrelated (teacher lesson) but make it related to make suffer the protagonist. 🙂
And the directors and actors follow the script so closely.
@FF, yes I think these kdrama scripts are more detailed. Someone once let me see an English script (US?) and it was not detailed.
Now we see HS’s Mum trying to set her up on a blind date… little did she know that the blind date was her colleague.
@FF, it’s something I often rant about, when people think the director or the editor did this or that. Nope, everytime, it’s in the script! You can see it now. But you can also see what others do in a specific way (actors, director, editor, etc). You noticed all montage cuts are also in the script (so, it’s not from editor).
@GB, Hye Sung’s mum just likes smacking her on her head and she is already a working adult!
@FF, yes, that’s impressive. They remember it all and interpret it so that it looks so natural.
HS lies that she just had a feeling and believed Sung Bin LOL. Because of this, she gets a free coffee and dinner from Lawyer Shin later.
A good screenplay like Park Hui Rhyn ones are like a big armchair for all the production team, a strong base everyone can work about, with a safe feeling. The sense of “if we do a good job over this, yeah, the drama will be a hit!”.
@WE alot of work from the script writer.
For this scene with Killer Min and the soup kitchen, there were many extras hired and they had to provide food, etc. That was such a short scene but they had to take a lot of trouble to set it up.
@FF now we come to the interesting case of the twins Robbery-Homicide.
The case of the twins who stabbed the storeowner is reminiscent of HS’s experience but somewhat in reverse. She was unjustly accused as a child by Judge Seo and Do Yeon to flush out the guilty party/force HS to admit to guilt… Now the twins were using this tactic after planning the stabbing. Although only one of them had stabbed the man, both were pretending to plead guilty, in order to save the other twin, and hence both were using a loophole in the law that preferred to err on the side of the innocent, to get away with murder.
SPOILER
In HS’s case she never buckled under the false accusations and so her guilt was never proved. But she’s faced with the case of the twins where she has to make one of them change his plea, so that she could flush out the guilty party (or parties).
I like this case, the identical twins committing the crime.
@GB, yes lots of extras. I remember Love Scout also has many scenes that requires lots of extras.
@FF, yep, not only get the whole story, but setting all the feeling it should create in audience hearth, depending on how and when it unfold, and doing all of that with “on-the-screen” work. So, it’s that, screenwriting. It’s different from just writing. And doing it in a more concise way, avoiding long and endless flowerly wording, but still give the intention and feeling. 😉
@FF Now HS is asked to take in a stray dog. Is there a metaphor here? We know that she will take in SH later.
@WE, in order to make the drama tight, we have the unlikely situation where there are only these 3 public defenders constantly taking on the same cases. What are the odds that both from the same office would have had to represent the twins?
@GB, yep this is the case where Hye Sung is wrong in her initial judgement and Soo Ha call her out, told her that she has to admit her mistake and try to revert the situation. I think it is also the ice breaker to the friendship between Hye Sung and Do Yeon.
@FF, Yes, this is the first time that HS and Do Yeon work together on a case.
Then, director can do changes, if he thinks it’s really better for the story.
Example, in the church scene:
JOON-KOOK: !! (stops chopping/E) This kid saw me there?
SOO-HA: (tensing, gripping the knife tightly) …
JOON-KOOK: No. I’ve never been to the courthouse. (resumes chopping)
SOO-HA: (covering with a grin) Oh, then I must’ve mistaken you. (keeps chopping)
JOON-KOOK: (wary of Soo-Ha) …
Instead of Soo-Ha gripping the knife, the director makes it’s Joon-Kook instead, to give more threat from him. However, I can’t be sure it was the good choice here, because the episode focus later on how Soo-Ha can be when SH is threatened. I think the director made a risky choice by changing the script like this, and I wouldn’t have made that, because it seems obvious for me the writer put Soo-Ha with the knife first.
The title: ‘I hear your voice’ refers also to the case that Kwan Woo defended. Again it’s the deaf and dumb woman who caused him embarrassment before when he had not researched her case fully before defending her. This time he was well prepared.
His style of creating a live simulation for the court is something that HS picks up for her own cases.
HS observes Kwan Woo’s defence and is lost in thought. Could everyone who refused to listen or who blocked out the voice of the woman have put her on the defendant’s stand?
Now we get Do Yeon baiting HS that she should be careful about Kwan Woo who is also her opponent in the twins’ case.
@GB, oh yeah, well see. Additional thematic.
This writer, really. 😀
Min Joon Gook discovers that SH has been lying while he volunteered… he goes to the school and sees the real Kim Choon Gi, and hears the name Park Soo Ha. Unlike HS he remembers exactly who SH is. He gets hold of his number. Music is tension creating and a bit ominous.
The dinner scene is made so HS just get the feeling her only force is her non-existant eyes (rotten) and she can’t do anything without Soo-Ha. So, well, of course, they’ll need to meet again (when she said him to never go back, haha). Their team wasn’t given to the audience in one go, but first with a “it won’t happens”, then “it has to happen for the sake of HS”. 🙂
LOL now we see HS getting upset because she’s only getting a free dinner for having good eyes to recognise who was innocent…. but those were SH’s eyes and not hers. So she has no good points LOL. This might have been another one of those turning points for her.
At least HS is honest when drunk. She tells the truth that she did not tell when sober LOL. She admits that her eyes did not see anything about innocence but she thinks Kwan Woo is a pretty boy!! Oh dear.
We get a spark of love-triangle here. Just one minute before Soo-Ha take HS with him (from Cha), writer made sure we get a moment of “maybe” when HS says to attorney Cha “my eyes go wrong, I see you as a flowerboy”. LOL.
The scenes about seeing are so cute… so aptly interspersed with her not being able to see because her hairband covers her eyes.
SH sees her with KW and takes her home in a taxi. He hears her talking in her sleep that she needs him for the trial. So he keeps turning up to help her. But then she becomes too dependent on him.
Haha Kwan Woo a pretty boy! Hye Sung is funny but her house is so terribly messy.
Kuan Woo sneaking up on Hye Sung again. Hye Sung still finds him handsome.
@FF, KW took a risk with sneaking up around her. She tells her mum that she’s broken up with the law and might consider the blind date, never knowing that it was KW, however she still thinks of him as a pretty boy!
These episodes really set us up for their relationship
Hye Sung becomes over sensitive after learning that Jung Kook has been released from prison. Suspecting Soo Ha is in cohoots with Min Jung Kook.
This scene where Jung Kook makes use Soo Ha’s mind reading ability to frame him for attacking him unreasonably. Min Jung Kook is not an ordinary guy, he plans his revenge meticulously.
@FF, after HS’s fear that Killer Min and SH are in cahoots, Min actually calls SH up, but to bait him. He uses SH’s real name so they know it’s not a friendly meeting … he meets him in a fast food restaurant where he makes it seem like he was innocently eating and SH beat him up. Min plays the part of the victim and says SH is going to kill him. All this in preparation for the future when he might have the opportunity to get SH accused of murder. Killer Min thinks so far ahead.
@FF, the bad guy is able to take the advantage of the good guy, and turns it in a disavantage. How evil!!!
@FF Killer Min really wasted his brains and talents on revenge. He was such a one-track minded villain, it was tiring and scary.
Although the episode set us up for their relationship, I still find the two of them very unnatural together.
@FF Well, finally HS finds out who Park Soo Ha is. It took her 4 episodes!!!
And now, we get the huge emotional feedback, when HS remembers it’s Soo-Ha !!! Daaaammmnnnnnnnn….
@WE yes, and finally HS takes SH’s side fully and takes him in. He has to force himself to call his first love ‘Noona’ LOLOL.
Hye Sung finally remembers Soo Ha after watching the video where Soo Ha beats Min Jung Kook.
Wooooo. This cliffhanger…. aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!
@FF This is like the preview for the much later scene where once again SH might be considered a perpetrator and Min could have been seen as the victim. Now HS comes in to save SH from getting himself deeper into trouble.
Yeah @WE that was another good cliffhanger. Among the possibilities of why SH should be in HS’s life, she never considered this one… where they were linked by the murder and where the murderer was going to be out to get her.
Yoo Chang earlier hears that SH was around to bring HS home and notes that he brings her to work too, like a bodyguard. He’s surprisingly astute. That’s what SH was doing and HS has finally found it out.
Bye @WE and @FF, see you next week!
@GB, yes HS stop SH from telling the police that he can read people’s mind, the same mistake that he made in court in Min Jung Kook was prosecuted for killing his father. HS is the more level headed one between the two of them.
Then, here, we all know that Park Hye Ryun is a “master of emotions”.
And often ask “but how she can do something so powerfull” (in an emotional way).
We have the screenplay and drama, and can check what she chose for her “optimal scene order and information delivery to make that the most powerfull).
It’s the order of the last scenes of episode.
Coming from the live situation. 53
Cut with HS at her home. 54
Almost same as to go to police station. 55
When she learns it’s Joon-Kook that Soo-Ha beat.
They look at CCTV. 56
It insists on “Soo Ha speaking, Joon-Kook not saying a word”. So we understand that HS understand what’s going on. Soo-Ha hearing thought from Joon-Kook AND Joon-Kook playing a bad game to corner Soo-hA.
Going into a FLASHBACK from the police screen. 57
Not said with precision in the script, but we get it.
Last word of Soo-hA: Don’t think, SPEAK!
Back to present. 58
Words make HS thinks, and she get it. Flashback CUTS.
Soo-Ha as a child, reading minds.
Big emotion for HS, she says “I’ll be the guarantor”.
No doubt, us as audience guess she understand everything now!
Quick pace, now Soo-Ha about to say the same idiocy that 10 years ago “I read mind” with a twist: HS comes and “minds” him “stop or you’ll be the same than 10 years ago”. It’s the peak emotion when Soo-Ha understand that now she remembers him. (When previously in the episode, he got proof it was too long and she couldn’t).
So, what happened here.. Well not 100% clear enough. Makes something impossible (she can’t remember him). Use the high-concept so she understand Kook just was thinking but “speaking in thought” to Soo-Ha, what she can understand. Raise. Go back to flashback to precise that, and focus again on HS. The emotional power depends a lot of how HS understand the truth then it’s Soo-Ha, for the last step, cliffhanger. Peak of emotion.
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#53. BURGER JOINT (N)
A busy burger joint packed with people.
Students in uniforms, staff bustling.
Soo-Ha enters, spots Joon-Kook eating alone, and sits across.
JOON-KOOK: (offering a burger) Didn’t know what you’d like, so I got a cheeseburger. Eat. (E) Here you are, kid..
SOO-HA: (glaring, not eating) What’s your game?
JOON-KOOK: (smirking/E) You’ve grown. Even ten years ago, you read me. Still got that trick, huh?
SOO-HA: (hands trembling) Speak. Don’t think..
JOON-KOOK: (tilting his head slyly/E) What’re you worried about? Scared I’ll hurt someone?
SOO-HA: (suppressing rage) The phone was you, right? You planted it?
JOON-KOOK: (E) Scared over that little thing? I haven’t even started.
SOO-HA: What’s your plan?
Nearby students glance at Soo-Ha, talking alone.
JOON-KOOK: (smiling/E) Don’t worry. I’ve got no beef with you. Ten years ago, it was your dad, not you. This time, it’s someone else too.
SOO-HA: (guessing who, holding back fury) If not me, who?
JOON-KOOK: (sneering/E) She’s a lawyer now. That girl..
SOO-HA: (exploding, grabbing Joon-Kook’s collar) Argh!!
STUDENTS: (shocked) Oh my!! / Eek!
Soo-Ha tackles Joon-Kook, pummeling him.
Joon-Kook takes it, groaning “Ow, I’m dying..”
People around jump in to stop it, chaos erupting.
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#54. HYE-SUNG’S LIVING ROOM (N)
Hye-Sung lies on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket.
She clutches a baseball bat and a stun gun.
A cat’s meow startles her upright.
Silence returns, she lies back.
A sharp phone ring cuts through, jolting her.
HYE-SUNG: (cautiously answering) Hello? (shocked) What? The police station?
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#55. POLICE SUBSTATION FRONT (N)
Hye-Sung runs up in thrown-on clothes.
UN-SEUNG: (stepping out of a police car, spotting her) Jang Hye-Sung! Over here!!
HYE-SUNG: (heading over) ..What happened?
UN-SEUNG: You know Park Soo-Ha, the kid from that phone incident, right?
HYE-SUNG: ..Yes..
UN-SEUNG: He beat someone up and got brought here. Needs a guarantor. No parents, no teacher’s answering. So we called you.
HYE-SUNG: ..The victim?
UN-SEUNG: Just said he doesn’t want punishment and left. Probably didn’t want trouble, fresh out of prison.
HYE-SUNG: (heart racing at “prison”) Out of prison..?
UN-SEUNG: But Soo-Ha’s on CCTV beating him, so we can’t release him without a guarantor.
HYE-SUNG: …The victim’s name. Can I know it?
UN-SEUNG: Sure, Min Joon-Kook. Got out last month.
HYE-SUNG: !!
UN-SEUNG: (noticing her face) What? You know him?
HYE-SUNG: (composing herself) Can I see the CCTV?
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#56. POLICE SUBSTATION CORNER (N). Computer Room
Un-Seung operates the computer to show Hye-Sung the CCTV.
UN-SEUNG: (searching files) Let’s see. This is yesterday’s..
HYE-SUNG: Why’d Soo-Ha hit Min Joon-Kook?
UN-SEUNG: (still searching) Don’t know. Witnesses say it was one-sided.
HYE-SUNG: There’s gotta be a reason.
UN-SEUNG: There isn’t. Min Joon-Kook didn’t say a word, but Park Soo-Ha just started swinging. Tons of witnesses too.
OFFICER 1: I was there. Min Joon-Kook didn’t say anything. That kid just kept ranting alone.
UN-SEUNG: Ah! Found it. (clicking)
The burger joint CCTV plays.
Soo-Ha pins Joon-Kook, beating him relentlessly.
People try to stop him, but he keeps shouting, soundless.
HYE-SUNG: What’s Soo-Ha saying?
OFFICER 1: What was it.. (recalling) Oh! Kept yelling at Min Joon-Kook to speak. “Don’t just think, speak..”
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#57. BURGER JOINT (N)
The CCTV seamlessly shifts to the live scene.
People struggle to restrain Soo-Ha as he pounds Joon-Kook.
SOO-HA: (hitting) Speak! Bastard!! Don’t just think, speak!!
JOON-KOOK: (blood on his lip, sneering/E) Nope.
STAFF/OFFICER 1: (pulling) What’re you doing!! Let go and talk!
SOO-HA: (grabbing collar) Listen good. Without her, I’d have died by your hand ten years ago. So my life’s nothing, and I’ll protect her..
JOON-KOOK: (choking, loudly for all) Ow, I’m dying! Help!
STAFF/OFFICER 1: Let go!! You punk! Hey! Drop him!!
SOO-HA: (yelling) Get it!? I’ll risk my life for her!! Don’t mess around! I’ll kill you.. (police rush to pull Soo-Ha off, he keeps choking Joon-Kook) Got it!? I’ll kill you!!
The screen freezes.
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#58. POLICE SUBSTATION CORNER (N)
OFFICER 1: …Yelling he’d kill him if he touched that woman. (shaking head) Nearly shat myself stopping him. Total psycho.
UN-SEUNG: (showing Soo-Ha’s bag contents) He even had a hammer in here. Could’ve been a disaster.
Hye-Sung sees the hammer and keys on the desk.
She looks dazed, as if struck.
Then, memories from ten years ago flood back.
# INS Episode 1, Scene 34
Joon-Kook about to strike Soo-Ha with a pipe, Hye-Sung saving him with a camera flash.
SOO-HA: (E) Listen good. Without her, I’d have died by your hand ten years ago.
# INS Episode 1, Scene 52
Young Soo-Ha hugging a crying Hye-Sung, saying “I’ll protect you.”
SOO-HA: (E) So my life’s nothing, and I’ll protect her..
# INS Episode 4, Scene 6
Soo-Ha breaking in to shield Hye-Sung.
SOO-HA: (E) I’ll risk my life for her! I’ll protect her!!
# INS Episode 1, Scene 52 Extended
SOO-HA: (slowly releasing her, struggling to speak) I’ll..
HYE-SUNG: (looking at him) ..
SOO-HA: Protect you..
HYE-SUNG: (tears subsiding) What? You can talk..
SOO-HA: (nodding, smiling) …
HYE-SUNG: Kid.. What’s your name?
SOO-HA: Soo-Ha. Park.. Soo-Ha.
# Hye-Sung finally recalls everything, overwhelmed.
That kid was Soo-Ha..
Her expression shifts as it sinks in.
HYE-SUNG: (resolved) I’ll be his guarantor. Where’s Soo-Ha?
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#59. POLICE SUBSTATION CORNER (N)
Soo-Ha, handcuffed to a chair, yells at the police.
Seung-Goo (38, cop, burly and slow) eats jajangmyeon.
SOO-HA: (jangling cuffs, agitated) Undo this now! You can’t let Min Joon-Kook go!! Got his address? His number?
SEUNG-GOO: (eating) Hey. You’re mixed up. You hit him, Min Joon-Kook got hit! You’re the attacker, he’s the victim. Got it?
SOO-HA: Do you know what he said? Revenge! He’ll find and kill the one who testified against him ten years ago!
SEUNG-GOO: I checked his story, and he didn’t say that. Min Joon-Kook’s got over six volunteer gigs: soup kitchens, stray dog centers. A guy living straight. Why’re you slandering him with no proof? Bring evidence if you’re gonna accuse!
SOO-HA: (pausing, deciding) ..I’ve got proof.
SEUNG-GOO: What? What proof?
SOO-HA: (about to say) I can read his mind..
HYE-SUNG: (cutting in) Stop.
SOO-HA: (shocked at her arrival) !!!
HYE-SUNG: (E) Don’t say useless stuff. You’ll just end up a laughingstock again, like in court ten years ago.
SOO-HA: (stunned) !!
HYE-SUNG: (staring at him/E) Park Soo-Ha.. I remember your name now.
SOO-HA: …!
The two lock eyes as the scene ends.
SH made a promise to HS that he will protect her. He spent the last 10 years searching for her. When he finally found her he did everything he could to protect her from Min Jung Kook. Yes he is astute in protecting her, yet a fairytale like love story.
@GB @WE, see you all next week. Have a good week ahead.
See you soon. Bye!
@WE, reading the script now reminds me of my school days literature class i.e. reading play script. I never understand play at that time, it does not make sense to me even though the teacher makes us act out the play. Thanks to you I now appreciate how the script and drama goes hand in hand. You are a gem.
@FF, it’s not much. Screenplay analys was bigger on W. 😉
I continued to think about this episode ending.
For 4 episodes we got a one sided situation:
HS doesn’t know who is Soo-Ha, while he knows it’s her.
Then I try to put myself in writer shoes:
– This situation is typical of a revelation coming later (just now).
– This revelation has potential for big emotion.
– Because we are a lot in Soo-Ha POV and he’s the one to react with emotion.
– HS can’t react because she doesn’t know yet.
Then, the question for the writer is “how to create the biggest emotion” with that.
As we could see in Castaway Diva Ep1, this writer choose first to establish what counter the best the revelation, to put a big obstacle: HS can’t remember, even when she starts to think a bit about him, even when this guy is by her side since days to protect her.
As the episode goes along, we can also observe the emotional charge is building on Soo-Ha.
So, when HS learns the truth, I was surprised by this counter-intuitive approach from the writer: There isn’t the big emotion I was supposed to get from HS. It’s just she remembers with much overacting. Yet, it makes us react as audience, even more than HS. Then three points about that:
1- It’s a “one time” revelation, so can only be short “you know or you don’t know”. But for audience feeling it, it’s done quite slowly. We could even think “is HS dumb? it’s so obvious!”. So we get the many steps creating the revelation and emotion, with finally the powerfull flashback from childhood. It’s like creating an emotional wave, starting small but deep in ocean, then rushing on the shore.
2- During this process, it catched me during watching (and reading) is HS understands “she’s that woman he’s ready to kill to protect her”.
3- Probably because behind the scene, we are still in Soo-Ha POV, and what matters finally is his emotion, when he’s quite down and upset. At this point he can’t continue alone, he’s self-harming. HS coming at police station and speaking to him by thought sounds like she’s saving him. It’s what was build up in the last scenes.
Final comment (for GB!): it’s the irony of situation.
A one sided situation with HS doesn’t know it’s Soo-Ha. Soo-Ha is alone.
And Soo-Ha is also in a one sided situation because the killer made him react while he was saying nothing, just thinking. Soo-Ha is alone.
@WE, yes Soo Ha is alone in how he is perceived, in how he was forgotten, but he cannot help it. Hence the great appropriateness of the caught balloon.
The great ‘reward/pay off’ for us is that now that HS knows who he is and understands what he is doing to protect her, he is no longer alone.
Next episode, suddenly he finds himself in a Noona-doensaeng relationship, when all along after his father’s death, he had no family. It was a funny and happy moment for me, the viewer. I did so want HS to appreciate SH and to acknowledge him. At last Ep 4 into Ep 5 gives me a sense of satisfaction.
I read part of Ep 5 already and watched some of the scenes again that go with the script I was reading. I look forward to the twists in the twins’ case, that affect HS’s relationship with Do Yeon and others.
@GB, I got carried away, as each times I’m starting to watch this drama, so I rewatched everything ’til ep13 and probably will continue to the end. Then, reading the screenplay will make more sens. I also read a scene or two per episode when I’m really curious how it was made in the script. This drama is my comfort drama and provider of all kind of emotions, sweet, good-feeling, intense, tragic, sad but in the end always optimistic and making myself better in my life. There is no price for such a drama.
@WE, I’m glad this drama hold so much that’s good for you. I must say that each time I watch, it feels like I need to continue watching too, although I know what happens. Spoilers never bother me!!