imagine saying “this isn’t like one of your campaigns” to mike who fought and eventually managed to save will in s1 precisely because he approached the problem as a campaign, who has been inspired by will’s dnd actions and who perceives those actions to be as real as anything, exactly the same way that will does, exactly the same way that will prompts mike to reestablish leadership as his true core purpose based on his dnd persona. this is the more painful, more intense version of el putting hands over mike’s mouth when he started singing during their make out session. imagine saying “you don’t get to write the ending” to mike who is an idealist, who holds on to the heart metaphor to push through, who copes by fixing things, and who also believes el was the one to craft the metaphor itself. Mind you, this is also the first time el even acknowledged dnd or, hell, any of mike’s traits at all. which is just crazy and it painfully forces me to think once again about the fact that these two people haven’t been shown to know shit about each other. *finn wolfhard voice* damn
Today is Valentine's Day, and this is a good reason to repost an article about my favorite love drama.
The problem with most romantic stories, in my opinion, is that they use formulaic moves. As a result, showing love only on a very superficial level. While true love is not expressed only in isolated romantic scenes, it is woven into life, becomes part of the personality and permeates the world in the eyes of the loving person. This is exactly what we are shown in Beyond Evil. In honor of this, let's look at Beyond Evil as a love story.
1. Love is - mystery
Love begins with a meeting with a stranger (even if you are friends with them from school). Interest, the desire to know a person for who he really is, and not just to use their resources - that distinguishes a real feeling from a superficial attraction.
The ability to see the other person as a mystery, interesting in itself, an unexplored land.
2. Love is - to go out into foreign territory.
In another person, we are primarily attracted to what we lack in ourselves. But here lies the main problem. What we lack in ourselves is what we could not assimilate, what causes confusion or even fear.
And falling in love, we sometimes have to meet with what we have been avoiding for so long and diligently. And learn to understand and appreciate it.
3. Love is - desire to touch
This is how the great director Stanislavsky defined love. Behind this is not only sexual attraction, but above all the need for a sense of reality. The reality of the other, and the reality of oneself in contact with them .
Each of us needs someone else to feel the reality of our existence, we need a touch - with someone with whom we want to share this reality.
In Beyond Evil we see a great example, how love can manifest itself in this desire to touch, even before the person realizes their feelings
4. Love is - to see
Loving means being willing to see a person for who they are, even in those aspects that they prefers not to show to others or even trying not to see themselves . But the person who shared your darkest experiences becomes really especially close to you.
5. Love is - to protect
In love, we begin, often quite unconsciously, to extend to the other person our own instinct for self-preservation and our own sense of boundaries.
6. Love is - to share life
The desire to share - impressions, ideas, memories and just food. Sharing food is like sharing life, letting the other person into your personal space and giving them some of your life energy.
7. Love is - strive to be seen
Love energizes life. Raises the desire to be brighter, more noticeable, live your life more fully and, of course, attract the attention of a loved one
8. Love is - "Ram into you and bite"
Partner love, unlike other types of love, involves more than just gentle touching.
It is natural to want to penetrate lover’s borders - and in this desire there is something annoying, sometimes even aggressive. The desire to tease, to provoke each other, may be born from the desire for a sharper and more intimate contact.
9. Love is - compassion
In light infatuation, people use affection as a source of positive emotions, but leave as soon as it becomes stressful. But truly loving, we inevitably share not only the joy, but also the pain of a loved one. In the end, the lovers share each other's fate.
10. Love is - to Let go and to Catch
This is the name of the last two, final series of Beyond Evil and in these words the dynamics of harmonious relations. Intimacy is a wave, not a straight line.
We catch and release each other, only to catch again later. And it takes a special trust in both cases - to let go and wait for the return. To fall into the arms of another and know that they will catch us.
11. Love is - to share a common silence
Particularly deep relationships are distinguished by the ability to be together in silence. And to withstand that special level of intimacy when there are not even words between you.
12. Love is - to walk beside
It is hardly possible to stay in a long-term relationship if you make completely different decisions, choose different paths. The ability to look in one direction, to create some kind of joint world - this is what makes people a real partners.
rewatching Beyond Evil and it always makes me cackle when Juwon decides that "rebirth" means eating meat, flirting and buying coat almost identical to Dongsik's
coriolanus: i feel so horrible. I'm scared... of the ca... of the... of the gov... my friends are so young.... and they've been killed... this almost feels like the hunger games... but... if i was in the district kids positions... it's almost like.... like... i can't trust the capitol... and if i myself was in the hunger games... i'd feel.... i'd... i'd almost...
*thinking*
coriolanus: huh! I almost thought of something, that was weird. anyways, all district kids are rats except for my singing pet lucy gray!!! let's go hunger games 2248, rahhhh!!!
Lee Dong Sik giving Han Joo Won the most obvious hints ever and Joo Won coming to wildly incorrect conclusions is the best and most frustrating thing about this show
Okokok back on me B.E shit but OMG guess what I just found out!
Back in 2006 when your dear OP was just 2 if that, a korean film came out called No Mercy For The Rude with Shin Hakyun in it.
In one moment during the film, a younger version of Shin Hakyun’s character is shown. And that younger version is played by none other than YEO JINGOO!!!
I didn’t know this I honestly thought B.E was the first time they were in the same project.
In 2021, during B.E interviews, they were asked about this little reuinion.
Yeo Jingoo said it “felt right” and that “it was a new feeling.”
Shin Hakyun also said that he had no idea that Yeo Jingoo “would grow up so handsome” and that he remembered thinking “the little kid grew up this much already?” He also added that when watching Yeo Jingoo embrace the role of Juwon he felt proud.
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