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whatisgodtoanonbeliever · 2 years

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Ep 9 thots straight from the word document I made at work to organize them

1. Good afternoon, a daily reminder to not just KIDNAP RANDOM CHILDREN

2. Okay so her little pause when she saw Jun Ho – awkwardness after the feelings discussion?

3. THE EYELASH SCENE IS SO EARLY JESUS WE GOING FULL JEALOUS THIS EP I KNOW IT

4. Nothing like choosing violence in court when you’re the defendant

5. Okay I’ll be honest, the stubbornness of this man is annoying me right now, just while in court, work with Woo Young Woo for a bit then deal with the rest later

6. Every dinner scene in that restaurant just kills me; I love them all your honor

7. Jun Ho is immediately over hearing about this man, and at this point in the trial so am I

8. I just love how Woo Young Woo is so ready to put advice into actions. That being said, I too would be a little concerned about the violence of the chair pull out

9. Please tell me he didn’t drug the bus driver

10. Okay but carrying all those backpacks is impressive as someone who is very “I can totally make this in one trip”

11. Okay time to gag Mr. Defendant I would be SCREAMING if I was his lawyer

12. Nothing like the classic “let me do this or so help me” competition for who walks closest to the road

13. And rip Jun Ho he has no clue why this is all happening all of a sudden

14. I understand that there is a very different culture to children being out on their own in Korea (compared to my rural Midwest upbringing), but a loose child buying themselves food at a restaurant after dark stresses me out

15. I did not expect an exposure of some of the side effects on children due to how academies are run and the surrounding achievement at any cost culture, but I’m here for it

16. WOO YOUNG WOO’S FACE DURING THE SLOW-MO CHOI SU YEON WALK

17. Ah the classic “it’s for their future” what good does it do if their present is unbearable

18. If I wasn’t at work rn I would get a screenshot of that shot of Woo Young Woo through the orca’s bent fin, what a cool shot

19. Jung Myeong Seok I could kiss you (this is both in reference to right after the courtroom and in general)

20. Cry about it or leave Kwon Min Woo

21. “So the price of playing as much as I want, is a prison sentence.” All right, I’m giving him points here because that’s a valid concern of how the children will actually perceive this whole course of events

22. “we can use the bus to take the kids to court” is fine in context, but hilarious without

23. Bro Jun Ho is so stressed with all this, thank god he brought it up

24. NO WAY SHE HAULED ASS AFTER EXPLAINING WHY SHE WAS BEING NICE

25. Look, the defendant is right and quite frankly I like his ideology, but damn was hijacking a bus full of children a shit way to go about practicing it

26. Kwon Min Woo, please don’t IMMEDIATELY STEAL HIS FOOD

27. BABY HER SHOCK WHEN HE OFFICIALLY CONFESSED

28. STOP CUTTING AWAY WITH SCENES LIKE THAT I DON’T CARE ABOUT HER MOTHER I’LL BE HONEST. THAT CONFESSION WAS UNCALLED FOR

29. Fucking paparazzi dammit

30. Preview: we really getting into the thick of it now my dudes

#extraordinary attorney woo #ep 9 #spoilers #og #thoughts

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overthinkingkdrama · 4 years

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Jona’s 5 Worst Dramas of 2019

A couple words about this list. I’m making this for fun. If a drama you love ended up on this list, it doesn’t mean that I hate you or I think you’re stupid or have terrible taste. But these are dramas that inspired strong negative reactions in me for one reason or another, whether that be disappointment, rage or disgust.

I’ve only included dramas that finished airing in 2019 in my selection process. If you have some dramas that hated, feel free to share them in the replies or send me an ask. It’s fun to complain about things for some reason.

Also, I have included major SPOILERS in a couple of these. So read at your own peril.

Dishonorable Mention: Melting Me Softly

I sincerely tried to limit myself to only dramas that I--for whatever misguided reasons--finished in their entirety for this list. Mainly because I don’t think it’s fair to brand something as the “worst” of anything without actually giving the thing a fair shake. That’s the only reason Melting Me Softly isn’t higher on this list. But I felt that it wasn’t right to leave it off entirely, if for no other reason then out of respect for the fallen Ji Chang Wook stans out there who lost their lives trying to make it through this trash fire. Somebody needs to stand up for those brave soldiers, out their gifing trash dramas while people like me are safe and sound on our couches, watching the tag like it’s a train wreck.

I made it through only two episodes of this drama, and despite my goodwill toward the majority of the cast, they were two of the most bafflingly bad hours of television that I forced myself to sit through this year. From what I could tell while side-eyeing the drama on tumblr and twitter it didn’t improve much over the course of the run. There were a couple steamy kisses that I enjoyed in clip form, but I don’t think it would have been worth the brain cells lost to sit through any more than that.

Bottom Line: Painfully unfunny, overwhelmingly expositional with no character development, confusing pacing and sloppy editing. Two episodes was two too many.

5. When the Devil Calls Your Name

It pains me to put this on the list because it was just last year that a Jung Kyung Ho, Park Sung Woong collaboration (Life on Mars) ended up in my top 5. And giving credit where it’s due, the two male leads seem to have a great deal of fun working together and I believe that all the actors gave this drama everything they could and sincerely tried to make it work. That’s one of the things I like about Jung Kyung Ho, he picks unique, risky projects that either pay off in a big way or fall flat on their faces (like the amateurishly written and edited Missing 9) Unfortunately, this script just too messy and too bizarre to work. Ha Rip as has a deeply frustrating character arc. He’s such a self-centered jerk for the vast majority of the drama, which is fine for a Faust type story if it’s written with conviction, but every time you think he’s started to turn a corner or grown as a person he reverts back to his old ways. The writing and tone are whiplash inducing. Plus the vague “soul mates” relationship between Ha Rip and Kim Yi Kyung seemed to want to have it both ways, flipping between implied romantic potential and a father/daughter dynamic, which made me quite uncomfortable.

Bottom Line: This drama’s bizarre mythology and world building barely makes any sense at all, but at least they’re easier to follow than the character development. Attempted something unique, but couldn’t pull it off. The OST is super dope though.

4. Love in Sadness

When I watched the first teasers I got the distinct impression that this wasn’t going to be a good drama, or at best it was going to be a guilty pleasure, but at the time when I started it I was hungry for a melo and there wasn’t much airing to hold my attention so I started it on impulse. I think in this case I got what I deserved for continuing to watch something I didn’t think was very good.

The first few episodes were actually pretty gripping and intriguingly dark, but that petered of quickly and the drama became and infuriating wheel spinning exercise with barely any perceptible plot development from episode to episode. The protagonists in this are all so stupid that in the final few episodes the female lead gets kidnapped not once, but multiple times because she keeps meeting her unstable husband alone. Plus nobody in this drama seems to know how to call the police when a madman is waving around a gun. It probably wouldn’t have made me so very mad except that in the last few episodes the writer became unaccountably preoccupied with how sad the psychotic, wife-beating husband’s family life was and how lonely and pathetic his life was when he wasn’t allowed to stalk, assault, and psychologically terrorize his wife. Seriously, in the last leg of the drama the villain is the only character who gets any character development at all. The drama pulls out all the stops to try to make use feel sorry for him. It’s disgusting.

Bottom Line: When a drama about a woman trying to escape domestic violence becomes completely preoccupied with painting the abuser as tragically misunderstood, you’ve got some serious problems.

3. The Lies Within

If it wasn't for the last two episodes this drama would not be on this list, but that isn't because it was in any way an exceptional drama, or that it otherwise would have ended up on my best list. Without the last two episodes The Lies Within is a merely adequate thriller, somewhat heightened by the brutal nature of the premise. I picked this show up largely to fill the void that was left by WATCHER and it was more or less successful, plus it helped that I liked the cast. However even at the beginning this drama I felt like it had some pretty glaring tone problems. There were parts of the drama that were standard OCN dark and gritty thriller, and there were other parts that felt like a campy police sitcom. The humor, when it does crop up in this drama always feels super out of place. But then that last big twist happened and man...I can't remember the last time a drama made me that angry or cratered quite so hard with a twist.

[And this is where I spoil the HELL out of this drama...]

Before this drama decided to go all M. Night Shyamalan in it’s last two episodes, there seemed to be at least one, if not two really reasonable candidates for the kidnapper. Actually all the ground work they’d done up to that point would seem to have pointed to Young Min and if he had turned out to be the perpetrator, I would have completely bought it. Instead they decided to blow everyone’s mind by making the kidnapped husband complicit in his own kidnapping and dismemberment. Which might seem like a shocking twist until you think about it for even half a second.

What it winds up doing on a narrative level it makes everything the characters have done to investigate this series of crimes up to this point feel pointless, resulting in a huge anticlimax. It makes the ambiguous figure of Seo Hui’s husband not only hopelessly stupid, but also cruel and unsympathetic. Because he thought somehow simply sharing the information with her would put her in more danger than threatening and psychologically terrorizing her into investigating the very people he was theoretically trying to protect her from. The explanation that he was already terminally ill doesn’t to anything to mitigate the stupidity of his plan for me. Seriously, you couldn’t think of any solution aside from cutting bits off yourself and sending them to your wife in the mail? I could rant about this ending at length, but I’m going to try to stop here.

Bottom Line: As far as I’m concerned, if you choose to sacrifice the emotional and narrative coherence of your story for a cheap and dirty twist to surprise the audience, you deserve every ranty review you get.

2. Love Affairs in the Afternoon

I’m really not sure what possessed me to watch this drama to begin with. That I continued to watch it is on me. The fact that I watched it despite hating the shallow characters, the thin story and the abortive message at the core of the drama is simply a lapse of judgement for which I shouldn’t be forgiven. Why did I do it despite not having a single nice thing to say about this show? Well, there are two reasons. I was curious to see if they would do anything compelling with one or two of the characters, (specifically the serial adulteress housewife an the broody artist) and I was surreptitiously watching this drama at work and it was really easy to follow the plot while only actually keeping my eyes on the screen about half the time. I watched the last episode before the subs were available and had no trouble understanding what was going. Which could be a sign that my Korean is improving, but is more likely a sign that the writing was so predictable and simplistic that you could follow it if you didn’t speak the language at all.

[Spoilers beyond this point.]

It’s my understanding that in the Jdrama that this is based on all of the characters basically wreck their lives and end up miserable, pointing toward the emptiness of the lives of these people who try to find fulfillment through extra-marital affairs. If that’s how this drama had ended, I still wouldn’t have enjoyed the execution but I could have respected the intent. But in this watered down Kdrama-fied version all the couples’ issues are resolved in the whitewash of a last episode time skip that makes the suffering and bullshit that led up to it feel completely pointless.

Bottom Line: Maybe this level of trashy, uninspired tripe would be somewhat justified if the chemistry between the leads had been better, but somehow they even managed to screw that up. The leads are just bad, vacuous people, a fact which is rendered all the more unforgivable by them being utterly bland. Everybody needed to divorce, nobody deserved to end up happy. Please be wiser than me and avoid this one.

1. Memories of the Alhambra

Initially, I was on the fence about even producing a “Worst List” this year, because in the past few years I’ve tried to be better about dropping dramas the moment they start to disappoint me, rather than hanging on to them and winding up burning myself out. I wasn’t sure if I’d have enough material to write this list, or at least not enough material to make it worth reading. Then I remembered that Memories of the Alhambra finished airing in January of this year (2019 was impossibly long, wasn’t it?) and I thought, “Aha, I can make this work.” I knew at once this drama was going to be the shitty tinfoil star atop my Christmas tree of suck.

I’ve already written a full review of this drama, where I got about as mean as I felt I could reasonably be. You can go read that if you like, I’m not going to retread all my many complaints here. What I will say is that Memories of the Alhambra took my mixed-to-favorable opinion of the writer, Song Jae Jung, and turned it to a negative one. She’s someone who clearly has a lot of interesting high concept ideas, but the execution is just not there. You can hook an audience with a concept, but you have to keep them with craft and structure.

Maybe the industry can be blamed for that. Maybe she just has a hard time ending her stories, or maybe writing on a deadline doesn’t agree with her. Whatever the reason, I can no longer trust her to deliver a satisfying story. And that’s deeply saddening to me, because Queen In Hyun’s Man is in my top 10 favorite dramas.

To be front-to-back terrible is one thing. The joke’s at least half on me for bothering. But to have potential, to have an interesting hook, a budget, a cast, but then to be either unwilling or unable to live up to that potential feels like a con. That’s how I felt about his drama, like I had been willfully deceived by special effects and flashy editing, all orchestrated to disguise a narratively bankrupt, unsatisfying drama.

Bottom Line: Is Memories of the Alhambra objectively the worst drama on this list? No, it’s not. Is it the most disappointing? Absolutely, it is. And that’s the more heinous crime, in my opinion. And that’s why it’s my worst drama of 2019.

#kdrama reviews #worst list #kdramas 2019 #jona spoils #exit review

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bangtanbulletproofscene · 6 years

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Taming of the Beast - 2

Summary: All her life, Ye Chin Sun has been in the mafia world against her will. Finally, she breaks free of her family’s tainted history, only to be roped back in against her will. There, she will finally know where her loyalties lie, as well as where her heart lies. Genre: Mafia!AU Chapter: 2/? Pairing: Kim Taehyung / Reader Word Count: 2 490 TRIGGER WARNING ALERT: There is a trigger warning on this chapter for abuse. It is not my intention to upset anyone, nor to remind them of events they may wish the forget. However, it is a vital part of the story and understanding the characters. I will repeat again, it is not my intention to upset anyone. If I do, I am apologizing in advance, and you are more than welcomed to message me so I can discuss what I should be more aware off. Thank you.

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The clock ticked mercilessly, reminding every student of how many minute had passed since they had sat down, how long it had been their lecture started, how late their new professor was. You see, the last professor had to go on an emergency stress leave which was due to having a full schedule, as well as living in one of the most mafia active areas of South Korea.

Chin Sun sighed through her nose, checking her wrist watched. Their lecturer was about half an hour late, and if another ten minutes passed, she would walk out. She wouldn’t be the first either. A handful of people had already left, scowls etched onto their faces and cursing the new professor under their breaths.

Her body guard, Yoo Mae, sat behind her, his eyes keeping a steady watchful gaze over the classroom, as well as outside the room via the windows. If he let anything happen to Chin Sun, Jun would have his head. It wasn’t easy at all looking out for Chin Sun, but it was doable. Barely.

The door opened with a start, making half the students jump. Chin Sun barely blinked but felt her protector stiffen. It was a young man, who looked in his early twenties. He calmly walked over his desk, setting his dark brief case down on the mahogany table. His eyes glanced over everyone.

“I apologize for my tardiness; I had some last minute forms to sign. Usually, I’m fully prepared. Anyway, my name is Kim Seokjin and I’m going to be filling in for your previous professor.” His voice was stern, yet his words kind. Seokjin gave them a smile, before taking his glasses off and folding them and placing them into his pocket. “Now, honestly, I hate being called Seokjin. You are all more them welcome to call me Jin.”

Chin Sun looked at him, slight confusion filling her. Was this how all teachers were supposed to act? All the professors/teachers she had met were strict and unforgiving. They had always expected a professional relationship, and were never this casual in conversation with her.

The sound of hurried footsteps filled the room. Everyone’s eyes were drawn to the door where a group of three stood, trying to catch their breath. Jin’s lips drew into a line as he glanced disapprovingly at the trio. Their flushed faces reddened more as they saw that they were later than their teacher.

Chin Sun sat up. She had never seen them in the course before. If they were always in the course, she had never noticed them before. “Well gentleman, it was nice of you to turn up finally.” Jin’s words were harsher than before, causing Chin Sun to raise her eyebrow. It was almost as if Jin knew who they were personally.

“Sorry Hyu- eh Jin – er Seokjin – er professor,” the front one spoke, his black hair hiding his eyes. His voice was young, younger than what would be expected. Was he old enough to be here? Chin Sun questioned as she saw him turn to cast his eyes over the room.

“Just call me Jin, Jungkook. I expected better from you Jimin,” Jin spoke, addressing the blonde of the three. Jimin flashed a smirk at Jin, finding the whole situation amusing. “You three can go sit down now.” Chin Sun glanced around the room, and realized everywhere was essentially full. The only empty area for all three of them to sit together . . . was next to her.

At that moment, Jung kook and Jimin seemed to realize it too. Their eyes flashed to her before the seats beside her. Chin Sun brushed her hair behind her ear. She looked away from them, choosing to focus on her note book. Jimin and Jungkook glanced at each other before their third party member before walking up towards Chin Sun. Yoo Mae sat up, watching them.

Chin Sun felt eyes on her. She looked up and made eye contact with the third member and froze. It was Taehyung.

Taehyung was not expecting to see Da Eun. He didn’t even realize she was in this course. Well, this was only his second lesson in the course. Jimin took the seat at the end of the row, with Jungkook sitting beside him. Taehyung sat down beside Jungkook, and was only a seat down from Da Eun.

Chin Sun didn’t know what to do. She wasn’t 100% sure Da Eun was the name she had enrolled under, and if it wasn’t that would make things complicated.

“I hope you three know that despite being my friends, I will not tolerate tardiness. And that applies to everyone. I expect you all here on time. I also will not tolerate bullying. We may have a joke or too, but if it goes too far I will stop it. This is a safe zone. Am I clear?’ Jin cast his eyes towards Jungkook whom raised his arms in defence.

Everyone murmured their agreement, and Chin Sun stayed quite. She knew Jin would call the roll next, and her anxiety was reaching its limit. She glanced at Yoo Mae out of the corner of her eye. He of course could already tell she was worrying. He had his phone out, ready to tell Jun to send a car to pick her up if need be.

Jin muttered to himself as he opened his computer. “Right. Now it’s time to see whose here and who isn’t.” And with that, he started to call the role.

“Baek Chi”

“Present”

“Bong Di Cho”

“Present”

“Choi Yoo Mae”

“Present”

With each name, Chin Sun felt her heart rate pick up. Why couldn’t she have been more careful? Why didn’t she think properly? She belittled herself mentally as the role got closer and closer to ‘Park’.

“Jeon Jungkook. Yes I know you’re here. Kim Taehyung, you’re also present.” Jin’s eyes glanced over the names, marking two of the three late comers present.

“Park Da Eun.”

Chin Sun felt her heart stop beating as she breathed out her “present” in relief. All would be good for now. She felt something nudge her hand. She glanced in the direction and saw a folded note. She then looked at Taehyung. He was looking at Jin, but motioned with his hand towards the note. Chin Sun picked it up and opened it.

‘Are you okay? You seem a little on edge.’ It read. Chin Sun glanced at Taehyung again. Was she allowed to pass notes? Well, Jin is still marking the role, she thought. With that, she put her pen to paper writing her response, before promptly re-folding the paper and passing it back to Taehyung.

‘Yea, just feeling unwell.’ Taehyung read her response. She seemed fine to him earlier when they bumped into each other. In fact she looked perfectly healthy.

“Taehyung. I had hoped you had known better than to pass notes while you’re in my time.” Taehyung snapped his head up to look at Jin. Taehyung cursed himself as he crumpled the note up. He was supposed to be proving to Jin that he didn’t need to have any of his hyungs around him all the time. And it wasn’t working.

Chin Sun sent Taehyung an apologetic smile, feeling bad. It wasn’t her fault; he was the one who wrote the note. But she did feel a little responsible.

“Now that I have all your attention, I’d like to discuss you’re next assignment. It’s going to be done in pairs. I have taken the liberty of already assigning you your partners. I’m sure you will all get along just fine.” The screen behind Jin changed, displaying who was partnered with whom. Jimin and Jungkook high-fived each other when they saw they were partnered up. As for Taehyung, his partner was Da Eun.

Jin had walked up to the three boys. “Now, just because I am your friend, and your brother, doesn’t mean you get to get away with anything am I clear? If I see a hint of you three misbehaving or putting any of us at risk I will go straight to RM. Am I clear?” Jin spoke, his voice quiet and menacing. Chin Sun felt chills shivered down her back as she accidentally heard that.

The three boys muttered their responses, not looking at Jin at all, choosing to look elsewhere. Jin, satisfied his point was made, walked back towards the front of the room. Taehyung turned to Chin Sun. “Ready to do this Da Eun?”

The sun was close to finally getting its well-deserved rest. The song birds had finally stopped their singing, choosing to ready themselves for sleep. Tired bodies dragged themselves home, may it be via public transport or private. Another long and tiring day was drawing to a close.

The sky had changed from forget-me-not blue to sandstone orange. Litters of cloud pecked the sky in many different forms and shapes, each showcasing their individuality. The silhouettes of the city were encased by the setting sun, making it both beautiful and deadly to look at.

Chin Sun rested her head against the cold window that belonged to the car. She was exhausted and just wanted to take some food to her room and sleep. Her day continued fairly alright after she and Taehyung started to work on the assignment. It was fairly easy. They just had to research an ancient place of religion and write an essay on how that had helped the ancient civilisation Joseon to develop and expand.

The road tossed and turned as the car followed its journey home. The street lamps slowly flickered to life one by one, illuminating the darkening world. The temperature also slowly dropped as the night approached. House lights were put on, showcasing the world’s impeccable need for electricity and sight.

Chin Sun pulled her jacket closer around her as the wind picked at her exposed skin. Oh how much she wanted her bed. As the car went around one last final bend, her family home came into view. With its long ascending drive way, the house was as intimidating as it was grand. Long iron gates rose out, guarding the inhabitants and sending a silent warning to potential robbers.

The gates opened on their own, and the car drove up the narrow driveway into the concealed garage. Chin Sun excited the SUV, hooking her bag over her shoulder as she forced herself into the house. She was closer to getting to her bed.

“CHIN SUN!” A child voice yelled out, giving Chin Sun a few seconds to prepare herself. A thud was heard as the child, Soo Eun, propelled himself into her arms. Her bag had slid off her shoulder as she caught her younger brother.

“Shouldn’t you be in bed?” Chin Sun asked, raising an eyebrow at the child. Soo Eun looked sheepishly away.

“You know I can’t sleep unless you tuck me in and read me a story.”

“Is that so?”

“Yesssss.”

“Chin Sun.” A cold voice spoke out of nowhere. Chin Sun turned to look at her older brother, Jun, as he stood in the door way. Chin Sun put Soo Eun down much to his dismay, and set him on his way to his bedroom with the promise of her joining him soon.

The moment Soo Eun was out of sight, Chin Sun found herself pushed against the wall, her breath being knocked out of her. Jun may have look impassive, but now as she was forced to look into his eyes, she could see the fire light in them, a fire threatening to engulf her.

“I told you to stay with Yoo Mae,” Jun hissed at her, tightening his grip on Chin Sun’s shoulders. “You know better to go running off on your own!” Jun let go off her, and Chin Sun slumped against the wall, taking deep breaths. She hadn’t realised she was holding her breath that whole time. Jun turned to face away from her.

“I suppose though, something productive did come out of it.” Jun said before turning back around to face her.

“And that was?” Chin Sun asked, her hand resting on her chest.

“You were able to acquaint yourself with the very man you’re going to help me take down.”

“Who? Taehyung?” Chin Sun asked, confusion dancing it’s away across her facial expression.

“Yes.”

“You know very well that I want nothing to do with this life. What makes you think that I will help you?” Chin Sun snapped, not believing that Taehyung had anything to do with the life she tried so desperately to leave.

“You don’t get it do you! He’s the enemy here! He and his friends are a part of a rival group trying to take me down, take us down! And you don’t even care! I’m trying my hardest to protect mother, protect Soo Eun here! I’m trying to protect you!” Jun snapped as he cornered Chin Sun against the wall again.

“You don’t even care about me! Why are you trying to protect me?” Chin Sun asked, anger lacing her voice. She was sick of this. She was sick of him. She was sick of the world she was born into.

“Because I need to protect my tools,” Jun said.

“I’m you’re sister not a – “

“No, I don’t see you as my sister. I only see you as a tool of manipulation. And you will help me achieve what I need to. Because if you don’t, I will have to punish Soo Eun for your arrogance. Is that what you want? Do you want me to hurt the innocent because you’re too selfish?”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

The sound of skin hitting skin filled the room. Chin Sun found herself looking at the floor as a stinging pain erupted in her cheek. Jun stood there, puffing in anger as he looked at the red flare developing across his “tool’s” cheek. Chin Sun blinked a few times, willing the tears of pain to go away.

Jun grabbed her chin roughly, forcing him to look at look at her. “Let me make myself clear. You WILL do as I say. You will do it because you don’t want to be responsible for Soo Eun being hurt. You will help me to take down Taehyung and his pathetic gang. Do I make myself clear?”

If Chin Sun thought Jin was intimidating earlier, he had nothing on Jun. Chin Sun closed her eyes, willing herself to get a grip on her emotions. “Do I make myself clear!” Jun repeated, slamming his fist on the wall beside Chin Sun’s head. Chin Sun flinched before nodding.

As much as she didn’t want, she couldn’t let Soo Eun be hurt. She wouldn’t be the reason he’s hurt because she would never forgive herself for it. She needs to protect him from the cruel demons that threaten his innocence.

She needs to protect him from Jun.

#bts #bts mafia au #kim taehyung #angst #kpop #bts au #trigger warnings #apologizing again in advance if missing tags

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namjhyun · 7 years

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School 2017 Episode 16 (Finale)

Bittersweet justice. The school is starting over with a new Principal in Teacher Gu! and a new educational philosophy that won’t let the system destroy the students. Now the Teachers can help everyone try to achieve their goals or find a dream. This is an ideal scenario, although I’m sure Hee-chan is still out there doing his thing. Whatever, he doesn’t deserve any of our time.

I say it’s a bittersweet justice because with Dad admitting to all charges of corruption and buying a new school in the countryside, it meant that Tae-woon had to move away for his senior year instead of ending high school with his friends. I’m proud of him, I think he made the right decision by going with his father -even when he could have stayed- but he choose to rebuild his relationship with the only family member he has left. A mature and sensible decision that shows who Tae-woon truly is and why he won all of us over. It wasn’t only his assertive, swoony actions and constant will to growth but also his sincere heart that made him the perfect leading man.

At first I wanted for Eun-ho and Tae-woon to finish school together, but when I gave it some more thought I decided this was the perfect move for the show. In my eyes these two are the real thing, so there’s really no need to keep them in high school when they are already dealing with the “real world” together. Beyond their school years, Tae-woon and Eun-ho will always find a way to make things work between them because they share a tacit understanding of each other as friends and lovers, who have fun and support their individual dreams as much as their desire to be together. Watching this relationship develop was a real pleasure and I couldn’t be more happy to have found a show that portrayed such a healthy and mature relationship.

I love how the show kept Eun-ho true to herself through all the episodes but at the same time gave her enough space to growth as a person, to let her come on hew own. So when the time came to make a choice, she knew what the right thing to do was for her and those she loves. Going back to school was the right choice for her, that’s where she was most happy and wanted to spend her time, learn and keep on growing. But she also understands that just because it’s the right choice for her, it doesn’t necessarily means it’s the right one for everyone which is why she told Tae-woon, this time, she was the one giving to him.

It’s funny how Joon-ki’s words about Tae-woon being the one who gives because he has more than everyone, came back in the final episode. It’s true that Tae-woon has always been giving to others in his own way, so I’m glad Eun-ho choose to step up and declare herself as the one who would give and protect Tae-woon now and in the future. She has great stamina too.

Dae-hwi remains the MVP of this show. I have always loved how School 2017 had no problems portraying a good natured friendship between Dae-hwi and Eun-ho, and today that returned into the picture with him actively trying to help her find a solution. I like that he used his own experience of bottling problems up, that he knew the best and first solution for her and Tae-woon was to advice they have a honest talk about their feelings.

I like even more that he took his own advice and finally made some progress with Nam-joo. By proudly walking next to her and defending her, he gave her the strength to stand up for herself and confront her own mistakes. That final scene between them was cute AF and I only wish we could have seen more.

It was a nice touch from the show to not give the rest of the characters dreams set in stone, like for example we don’t know what Sarang wants to do in the future but we do know she’s thinking about it. Same goes for Bora, Kyung-woo and Issue. I like that they have their options open to become whatever or whoever they want because at 18 that’s exactly how it should be. You should be full of expectation of the good things life can give you, and considering how tough these kids had it until now, I say it’s a welcome change for them.

What about Teacher Shim? He made a real difference in the kids’ lives and won over the girl, much to Teacher Jung’s disappointment. Poor guy has to keep seeing them together now that Officer Han is staying at the school. Pffft!

Overall, School 2017 was a perfect show that delivered everything I was expecting from it and more, for it kept surprising me every week with its depth and mature views. For that and so many other things, I wouldn’t change one single thing about it. Okay, fine, one thing: a kiss!

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