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Did you see my question asking why you think I’d like Heavenly Ever After?
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Hi All, I’m here although I’m yawning widely and frequently. I tried to nap a while so that I’d be more awake but it seems that my sleepiness is tied to this chair and does not follow me to the bed!!!
Hi All, it’s time!!! Let’s start now!!!
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Hi GB and SD.
Hi @WE and @GB. We are discombobulated to find HS in a hospital bed!
I like how HS is so focused on the well-being of SH, even when in hospital with a stab wound herself.
She actually says (am I hearing it only properly this rewatch?!) that SH had always listened to her voice but that she had failed to listen to him at the time when it was most needed.
Hi @SD and @WE! Sadly I heard from @MM that she will be unable to join us for the rewatch parties, but I hope she’ll still have time to come by here and read us.
For the first time, the narrative mode change.
Using a time gap. So we get a “3 days before” to know why she’s in a hospital bed. It was a short teaser for this episode.
Oh, I will miss @MM.
@GB, I hear HS saying this differently this time as well, in the voice-over. It sets us up for the trial to come where she tries to listen to his voice, though he is in effect voiceless.
@GB, Roger that.
@WE, it’s interesting that we shift form HS in hospital fretting over SH and jump to her with a client who is lying to her that he is blind. If she could not hear what SH had said non-verbally, then she was more blind than this lying client.
By contrast, we get a scene of SH seeing more than is said as he knows that his school friend Chung Gi has a crush on Sung Bin. And even Lawyer Cha is able to tell that someone is following him without turning around.
@SD, yes, that’s a good point!! Later on SH will not be able to read minds or defend himself and HS has to work doubly hard to defend him.
@WE, Writer makes use of the time gap twice in this episode. First just 3 days, then later on a year gap during which time HS reverts to the time before SH.
@GB, yeah, characters know a lot of things from the start, without reading minds. I guess Sung Bin suspicion will be important later. She has very good vision, seeing and reading from afar. 11/10 each eye! 😉
@GB, another textual emphasis on seeing, when Song Bin can’t quite see to read what SH is writing, though she reads enough to get the gist.
It seems a good reason for a breakup, even a divorce if it would.
Killer Min has the ability to ‘spin’ a defence for himself while planning his murders, to make it hard for any outsider or judge to think him guilty.
At this point only SH and HS believe that he did murder HS’s Mum and would murder again.
@WE, I agree. Even in my best days (when my prescriptions were most accurate, lol) I would not have been able to read a note from that distance. And the running gag with the student who cannot see even basic things like SH’s form on the school grass, let alone now when it really would be difficult.
Heartbreaking crying scene and top acting!
@SD, yes about Sung Bin… and this makes it entirely plausible that she then waylays SH who’s out to ‘kill’ Min, and she discovers the strange knife-like object in his bag. Writer has made all these points tie in nicely so that there are no holes.
Actress Lee BY did a great job just squatting in the revolving doors to cry like a child. What a great visual of how stuck and trapped she felt, especially in the law that she was supposed to serve, and which had been upheld but ironically had let her down.
It is no wonder that she lost interest in defending clients after this.
Now we come to the odd behaviour of ex-judge Seo when he hears that Hwang Dal Jung was the cellmate of Min whom he had gotten his daughter to ask to perjure himself. Convoluted!
You know I watched all Park Hye Ruyn dramas that I could find. With lot of search, I ended to find the first drama she wrote alone (main screenwriter), “Get Karl! Oh Soo-jung”. I had to find it on rutube in a 480p version with arabic subtitles engraved and downloaded from there. Then using french subtitle file.
It’s a based on a true story.
Now we get an interesting 2 instances of HS thinking how it would have been if SH was still living with her. The clues are given to us so that we know he means a lot more to her than she probably knows herself.
Attorney Cha speaks to policemen as he was the police chief, and the two silly guys obey, LOL !!!
@WE, I admire your dedication to getting your hands on all Park Hye Ryun dramas! Arabic subs!!! Did the translation work well enough when you read the subs in French?
@SD, we see two instances finally of how Cha used to be a police officer. He has a sixth sense to being followed and he gives the right kind of instructions to the police like he’s so used to it. Before this, he was mostly the bumbling, eager-beaver lawyer.
I have fallen behind again. I am struck again by the 3 judges. Like 3 incompetent fates looking on, always when HS is stuck in the revolving doors, figuratively and actually.
Sung-Bin pushes HS and Cha to move forward, instead to stay at house eating their nails.
@WE, I can see why you would want to watch everything by Park Hye Ryun. Meticulous attention to detail, and the pathos, so well executed. Many of the dramas listed in dramalist are on me ‘to watch’ list.
@GB, yes the french subtitles is clear because in my watching soft, I can set option: so I choose white subtitle on a black background, and it mask totally the arab subtitle. 😉
@WE, from the time SH is away from her and even before that, HS is concerned about keeping him safe, away from the police and away from committing a crime.
We get more flashbacks now from HS’s point of view on what SH had done for her, including installing a location tracker app.
@SD, wow what a meticulous killer (written by a meticulous writer). He’s planned how he will kill SH in the dark.
He knows so clearly, even without the ability to read minds, that whether SH gets killed or becomes a killer, it would gut HS and either way is fine. Min does not value his life… for him revenge comes first!!!
Lee Jung Suk practice Teakwondo since he’s a child. And another of his talent: he practise Piano too.
So, he can perform quite good fight scenes.
WOOHAHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! THE twist!
She runs in the knife.
Crazy good kdrama scene, in the style.
In the dark, it was entirely possible for SH to have been killed by Min because SH depends on reading minds to know how to avoid being hit and when to strike.
The tables turn when the lights come back on.
@WE LJS looks like a skinny kid but he probably has more strength than is evident.
Just as Min does not care that he dies, neither too does SH care that he would become a fugitive, as long as HS would be safe from Min. What irony that she runs into the knife meant for Min.
Now as she gets stabbed, she says to SH why does he never listen to her to not be a murderer, but later in the hospital she’ll say that she did not listen to him in time to stop him from trying to kill Min.
It’s telling that no matter what, HS’s voice will stop SH from killing Min. Then it’s finally Cha’s voice that saves SH from being killed by Min entirely.
Now we know everything about the first scene, except where is Soo-Ha now.
Cha sees a bloody Min limping away and realises that he never believed (listened) to HS when she had warned about Killer Min. At least he had sort of believed SH and so had been on hand to watch over HS.
@WE, it took the almost tragedy or trama of accidentally stabbing HS to get SH to agree to listen to her advice (her voice) and not to kill Min.
@WE yes, so 38 minutes later we are back to the beginning of the episode having been brought up to date as to what led to HS being in hospital.
The 2nd half of the episode shows HS in the year after this, without SH.
We see the changes after the stabbing. We seem to go back to the beginning after this as if re-starting the series in some way. We are exactly at the half-way mark. 9 Episodes in and 9 more to go!!!
@GB, yes!! Cha is transfixed: maybe he realises that HS was alone, in danger and she was sure she would be killed. But in another way: Soo Ha of course know everything about that and how HS is in danger.
Comedy scene: Chung Gi is the bully of the high school, but allow the girl he love to bully him in public. 😀
@WE so in believing SH’s voice which she heard while ‘unconscious’ in hospital, HS had chosen to listen to his voice and believe that he would never let her down.
@GB, plus Cha had just read the police report from the first murder. He realizes that Min had threatened HS with death. On this watching, I imagine Cha seeing this (finally) from HS’s point of view, just how frightening it would be to be attacked by a murderer and threatened. He starts to believe at that point, I think, since he quickly leaves the office. But you can tell by his stroll up the street to her house that he does not fully believe. Only when he sees the smoke does he start to worry (and run).
I like the silent evidence that Choon Gi had actually cleared out SH’s belongings first so that the police would not find them in the locker. It was evidence that Choon Gi was more a friend to SH than he wanted to appear to be. That’s probably because SH had told him to just tell Sung Bin that he likes her, so SH was not a rival anymore.
@SD, that’s probably why SH chose to throw in a smoke bomb… to get Cha and the police to take seriously taht HS was at risk from Min. SH is admirable as a ‘kid’ who took on the job of protector so very seriously.
Just as SH had given Choon Gi to go ahead with dating Sung Bin, now Sung Bin who has kept the teddy bear for ages finally gives it to the rightful recipient, knowing that SH had meant to give it to HS.
We get another flashback of her saying she wanted SH to tell her that she had done a good job 10 times. The bear can say it any number of times!!!
@SD, one year later and HS’s hair style has changed a bit but her home is back to being in a right old mess and her attitude in court is back to being indifferent.
@WE LOL Cha in a silly wig does not look like a good lawyer at all. Yoo Chang comes by to see him and give him and us an update on HS.
@GB, HS is depressed and dying to find Soo-Ha again.
Now she’s like him at the start of the drama: she runs after random guys, thinking they could be him.
Perfect reversal! 🙂
LOL HS’s attitude is so bad. She believes all her clients are guilty and won’t defend them properly. They are all asked to plead for leniency I believe. Every case in court takes only a few minutes to be done. We see that neither HS nor Do Yeon even need to have a change of clothes to show that it’s a different day.
@WE yes, what a perfect reversal! I’d forgotten that he had run after girls that looked like her.
Until I read the Script, I missed the detail that HS had gotten dressed to go to work, but no longer wore the lawyer’s pin. That says a lot about her disillusionment.
Amnesia trope!! But ok, I think it’s ok. lol
Another little reversal. Do Yeon before closed the lift door on HS but now she opens it for HS and even wants to invite her to eat since she enables DY to win all cases. It is a slap in the face for HS to realise that now even DY has the right to look down on her as a bad lawyer.
@WE, I find that this is one of the best uses of the amnesia trope. It really fits so well into the story and enables HS and SH’s dynamics to change again and again.
Ah that was a good episode. Now I’m dying to watch Ep 10 although I know what will happen since I’ve watched it before.
@GB, I agree about the amnesia trope. I had not thought about it changing the dynamic between HS and SH multiple times. It also ties in with SH no longer being able to hear people’s thoughts; like some sort of brain injury that prevents what the brain should not be capable of in the first place. SH is so trapped that he cannot access his own thoughts let alone those of another. He cannot hear even his own voice.
@SD, that is so poignant, that SH cannot even hear his own voice because he has lost access to his memories. My heart really went out to SH and I always see this young, hapless boy of SH, in LJS even now when he’s grown older.
I think even Do Yeon feels bad about HS, along with the judges and Lawyer Shin. She is just going through the motions. There is no one to help motivate her, not her mother, not SH, not Lawyer Cha. They all feel it, and I think, all feel culpable.
I was struck when I first watched this (and again, now) how HS uses her phone to talk (text) to her dead mother, similar to Ae Ri in Kairos talking to her dead father on her phone.