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Tree and Water

One thing among other things that amaze me in this episode is, the fact that Hwang Si Mok is thriving, from a man who didn't have empathy, then he met Yeo Jin and starts smiling just to/for her, then somehow over the year, he managed to smile not just to Yeo Jin anymore, he even made a joke to someone who is not Yeo Jin.

And I don't really care if they are platonic or not, but I am sure we can say that Han Yeo Jin is Hwang Si Mok's muse for exploring emotion, not just his own, but others as well. He had to ask Kim Sa Hyun to catch a clue of worry, he confessed to Kang Won Cheol he might not understand what any men his age already knew. And throughout the season, she is the only one he's open up to his feelings and emotions. He observes Han Yeo Jin as his emotion compass. She made him not only capable of understanding her, but made him stand on his own foot in understanding other people as well.

This understanding made me realize (again and again) that even though their interactions are much less in this season and filled with conflict between them, Han Yeo Jin is still a super important part of Hwang Si Mok, that he would never find in anyone else. She filled his emptiness just as he needed, not too much or too little.

And how great she is to make a human out of a man like Hwang Si Mok? I can't stop pounding about how brilliant Han Yeo Jin is to be able to pull Hwang Si Mok out of his box (that he found not comfortable but unable to open it by himself). They deserve each other.

Hwang Si Mok is a tree, and Han Yeo Jin is the water pouring on him enough to make the tree grows and people became comfortable sitting under it.

#Han Yeo Jin #Hwang Si Mok #Hwang Shi Mok #Secret Forest 2 #Stranger 2 #Bae Doona #Cho Seung Woo #Jo Seung Woo #Hwang Simok

luna-lina

it hasn’t been long since I reblogged a post about a thief/reposter and I already found 2 more accounts since then. I @ some of you if I recognized your gifs. I hope you won’t mind

1. the first one

- they don’t reblog anything else so it’s easy to just scroll down and see all the stolen gifs. here are some I recognized from

kinnporsche x - pretty sure all these belong to @nanons

my name x - these to @toptaps

river where the moon rises x x x x - these belong to @surii @mostlyfate @yesdramas @winar @cuddlybitch @gominshi @shangyangjunzhu

ashin of the north x - @gominshi

the great wall x - @wuyus these are yours

the wolf x - some belong to @ohsehuns

the untamed x x x - I recognize some from @wangxiians @blinkplnk @luffys and @thejingshi

word of honor x x x - @zhouszishu @maikhiwi00 @recapitulation @gusucloud

and there are others from dramas I’m not so familiar with like: snowdrop, princess silver, jiu liu overlord, shes of love, some marvel shows, x-men

2. the second one

- it’s harder to recognize the gifs bc they were cropped (they cropped your watermarks too if you had any, they did to one of mine) and resized, added text, so they lost quality. I recognized some here

law school x - these are from @cuddlybitch @apokalypsiaa and @chaselikewolfs

doom at your service x - @yeo-rims @dramadailyy @surii @jaehwany @dramaism

my roommate is a detective x - some belong to @movielosophy and @lunlvns

2gether x x x - I can’t find the owners rn but I remember seeing some of these gifs on my dash

some tags in which you can find more reposts: x x x x

“He has not gone. I see him often even now. Every night, in my sleep, who else I would dream of but him? The Crown Prince protected me. And yet I... did not do the same for him.”

Lee Joon Hyuk as The Crown Prince in Secret Royal Inspector & Joy (tvN, 2021)

#Lee Joon Hyuk #Lee Joonhyuk #Lee Junhyuk #Lee Jun Hyuk #이준혁 #Secret Royal Inspector Joy #Inspector Joy #Royal Secret Inspector Joy #어사와 조이 #Crown Prince #tvn #tvn drama #kdrama #kdramaedit #5 minutes cameo full of elegance #charisma level 1000 #so handsome

Hwang Shi Mok & Han Yeo Jin on the rooftop

Shades of Koo Kyo Hwan as Han Ho Yeol

D.P. (Netflix, 2021)

#Koo Kyo Hwan #Goo Kyo Hwan #D.P #D.P.#DP #Deserter Pursuit #Netflix #Netflix drama #kdrama #korean drama #kdrama edit #scene stealer #gifset #icon #he's so charismatic!!!#what a scene stealer!!!

A cutie and a softie.

Voice 4: Time of Judgement behind the scenes

#Song Seung Heon #Song Seung-Heon #Lee Ha Na #Lee Hana #Voice 4 #tvN #tvN drama #Voice 4: Time of Judgement #bts #behind the scenes #they're so pretty #drama theme is thriller #bts theme is semi romcom

Derek Jo’s proposal to Kang Kwon Joo... to use her as a bait to catch the killer.

VOICE 4 (tvN, 2021)

V O I C E 4 in c o l o r s

directed by Shin Yong Hwi

Agree with your Taxi Driver post. I think (hope) the second half of the drama will deal with how neither Do-ki's or Ha-na's methods work on their own. They need to work together because the Rainbow group may be brutal in the short term but quite forgiving in the long term. Meanwhile Ha-na has to find a way to pursue justice in a system that wants her to fail, and yet that system is also the most tangible form of justice they can get.

I was waiting for the drama to end to respond to this hahaha. But unfortunately, I didn't find any of them solved properly until the end.

The first writer (episode 1-10) seemed to like the established Rainbow Team. If I were to say it, I think the drama will have no 'actual' conflict (outside of each case's conflict) until the very end. It would be like most long-running American series with different case every episode. The drama will only focus on the eye-opening cases that people should look forward to, contemplate, and eventually empathize with the issue given. This is the essence of the drama that had been introduced and widely known (as well as received) to viewers.

The second writer (episode 11-end) seemingly wanted to add 'actual' conflict that involves every major cast member. But in doing so, they forgot the essence of the drama, that is to empathize with the issue.

Giving something like a kick to shake Do Ki, Ha Na, and President Jang's principle is a good idea, but the execution isn't delivered well. What seemed to be a mix of two principles (Rainbow's & Ha Na's) imo actually make sense, but the process to get there feels rushed. Therefore I can't feel the sincerity of the ending.

But, I also think 6 episodes aren't enough to build a strong core conflict and achieve a good resolution. So, if the first writer were to continue to write until the last episode, it would be hard to get a strong ending, too. Unless if the writer wanted to write American style hoho. I wouldn't mind more series like Criminal Minds (tvN, 2017) that solely focus on solving a different case in each episode.

Regardless, I enjoy this drama very much. The reconstruction of the cases, the so many perspectives given, the epilogues, the hidden tracks(so good!!!); all packed in a way viewers can relate and laugh-cry along easily and sympathize dearly. It is a must-watch if you want to see the reality of the world we live in.

I hope Taxi Driver not only end up in our must-watch, all-time best, or buzzworthy kdrama list but actually move humanity in everyone who watched it.

#Taxi Driver #SBS Taxi Driver #Lee Je Hoon #Esom #Pyo Ye Jin #Kim Eui Sung #kdrama #kdrama thoughts

A Psychopath’s Son

The ending of Taxi Driver is here and while the change of writer made the plot isn't as smooth, I like the short minutes they explore, this time, not the victims and the bereaved, but the serial killer's family who’s actually the victim and the bereaved too.

Feeling empathy for a psychopath's family is something hard to do. The prejudice is "it is impossible not to know" when the known fact is: when someone do something bad that you never imagine, it doesn't mean he's not who he is in front of you, rather he has another life he doesn't want you to know. Another prejudice is "he will end up like his father who is a killer".

Being a family member of someone evil is something really hard to comprehend. Most serial killers have a happy family, and not all necessarily having family because they want to appear normal to others or have offspring who will continue their legacy (as Mouse did). Some love their families dearly while others abuse their own families daily.

Then when the hard truth revealed, the things left for the families were "How could you not know?", isolation, and mean things on the wall.

While the victim's family is grieving, there are also many things left to do for the killer's family: Pretend to be deaf, resisting humiliation, shrug off whispers, relocate if possible, change identity, start again like a newborn, all while self-questioning "how could I not know all this time?"

When the victim’s family try to live what’s left on them while secretly or publicly grieving and condemn the one who caused their pain, the killer’s family does the same. They try to start anew while regretting ever loving the one who caused others’ pain at the same time as they quietly longing for what would their family become if things aren’t twisted.

Not many kdramas explore what it’s like to be a murderer’s family. Taxi Driver taking the issue is somewhat completing the drama’s duty to show the viewers many perspectives of justice and revenge: the law, the unlaw, the victims, the bereaved family, the bad guys, the wrongly accused, and now the bad guys’ family.

I’m glad the writer didn’t follow the psychopath by genetic trend but instead showing how the killer’s family life is and how the psycho’s action affect his own family, even to his son’s life who to that age never know the truth.

The revenge for Oh Chul Young even not as big as the other revenge, somewhat is the most satisfying yet heartbreaking for me. Because for Oh Chul Young to feel pain and regret they actually had to make his son suffer without ever knowing what he did wrong.

Also makes me think how wide the spectrum of someone’s life is, as Do Ki must be conflicted when he met Oh Chul Young’s son. The family of someone who killed his mother is in front of him, and that person knows nothing about it. While the revenge plot doesn’t quite add up, it could be taken that this revenge played a great part in Do Ki. That when he revenge someone, he doesn’t revenge on a single organism, but on someone evil whose family is as innocent as the victims.

Because to the world, someone might be a sick apathetic murderer worthless of life. But for his family, he was a part of their lovely life.

#Taxi Driver #SBS Taxi Driver #Lee Je Hoon #Esom #Kim Eui Sung #episode 16 #kdrama #kdrama thoughts #bereaved #victims #psychopath

I'm not a big star like Who Joon, nor someone who has the say in this show. I'm just that punk's anti-fan.

SO I MARRIED AN ANTI-FAN (Naver TV, 2021)

IN MEMORIAM JANG HAN SEO; a kid caught in adult power game, kills to survive, grew heart in shelter, died in repentance.

#Jang Han Seo #Kwak Dong Yeon #Vincenzo #tvN Vincenzo #Babel #Netflix #tvN #tvN drama #Netflix drama #Netflix edit #kdrama #kdramaedit #gifset #my previous Jang Han Seo gifset's reblogs sum up the grief

Is Death the Best Revenge?

Almost everyone who watch this drama think that the U-data episodes is the best revenge plot so far. I understand that. The chairman is sick, obviously insufferable, and 100% will never repent on what he did.

But when they showed the bomb in the main server, I was like... he only got to suffer for less than an hour?

Maybe it hit close to home. I had worked and study in the same area of expertise with people who deal with victims of abuse/bereaved families who's going through trauma and rehabilitation. And mostly, yeah, those with trauma want the perpetrator to be dead... at first. But then, they realize that death won't bring their families back, won't bring their happiness back.

If we're talking about moral here, then forgiveness is the best medicine. Just like Ko Moo Won did to Jung Ba Reum in tvN's Mouse. But then, the concept of Taxi Driver is revenge. And when talking about revenge, the victims and the bereaved families think that the best revenge is seeing the person who caused their pain to also suffer as painful as they do.

Maybe for Go Eun, it will end her suffering and guilt. And I understand that very much. But thinking of other victims, I can't help but regret the U-data's chairman ending. He got to suffer for less than an hour before his death while the victims and the bereaved families suffer for life. I thought when watching episode 7 they will make the chairman suffer for life just like the victims (and other bastards they punish before).

Not just once or twice in real life I saw the bereaved families or the victims feel empty after hearing the news of their perpetrator's death by suicide/some kind of fast dead. And it took them long to recover and accept the fact that those bastards don't have to think about them and regret and repent, instead just die. Just escape.

I don't know, maybe the episode just too close to me that I feel disappointed of how the chairman's life ended. What he did was beyond evil and he doesn't deserve easy death. Boom and gone, just like that. He deserves life suffering.

Thus, I hope Prosecutor Kang Ha Na doesn't stray too much from her principle. Because, despite the best revenge we ever need from our deluxe taxi team, we need something real that we can rely on in our life. That justice can still be achieved in real life.