A MATTER OF STORYTELLING PERSPECTIVE
This weekendās episodes really got me hooked in this drama. Like most users in other sites like Reddit, Iām satisfied with how the plot finally built-up to this point. Normally, by episode 12-13 of a drama, Iād be losing interest already. But I have to give it to the team for planting all the seeds in the previous episodes. The plot is picking up, and although a lot of us have expected the reveals, HOW THEY REVEALED IT is rather interesting. I felt like this episode slapped me for being an ignorant viewer.Ā
Itās really difficult to judge the latest-released episode of Itās Okay to Not Be Okay because the show puts so many throwbacks and references to previous episodes and scenesālike a different perspective. For example, we had episode 9, 10, 11. The entire thing was a sequence which caused a change in viewer perception, from people dislikingĀ Sang-tae for lashing out at Kang-tae and being a baggage for Kang-tae to them appreciating him for finally stepping up and becoming an older brother. All these things happened in a span of three episodes, where theyāve also inserted a lot of events.Ā The writer tackles something in more than one episode, often extending to two weekends. For Moon-young, her story started in episode 11ās Park Ok-ran, and it would stretch on until episode 16. Itās just appropriate to highlight the root and cause of her behavior aka the people involved in her crappy childhood.
And I like that they will solve and reveal everything one at a time, without sacrificing the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and without disregarding the emotions each character will feel.
Another example is the entire sequence of Moon-young saving Kang-tae. It was introduced in episode 2, but was only clarified in episode 6. There was also the sequence of KT and his mom (from episode 4 to 7).Ā
Episodes 12, 13, 14 are all REALLY confusing because the story is building up. And we have these premises to consider:
1) It is possible that just like Kang-tae and Sang-tae, Moon-young doesnāt remember the exact details of her childhood, and
2) Ko Dae-hwan may be experiencing delusions at the memory he recalled, not to mention he was DRINKING. He could have been drunk when the entire sequence of events happened.Ā
3) And it is possible that the traumatic events experienced by Moon-young caused her to have a distorted memory of exactly what happened.Ā In this case, perhaps Dr Oh will sit down with KMY and help her recall her past, the way he did with Sang-tae.
4) KDH said Moon-young saw him kill her mom, but when MY was telling the story to KT, she never mentioned about her father killing her mother. Plus, in her sleep paralysis, she is always dreaming about a woman in the lake.
There are so many unanswered questions about Moon-youngās past, but Iām just going to trust the writer on this one. Episode 14 wrecked me so I donāt really want to think anymore. They were able to tackle a lot in a span of several episodes, including the backstory of several patients.Ā
Anyway, Iām sure the answer to the mystery is written in the final manuscript of her book. That, and hopefully with the interpretation of Dr. Oh about the recent turn of events (he looks like he really is trying to figure everything out), will clarify a lot of things in the last two episodes.
I think majority of us react like this because we are watching it while it airs. Those who will binge-watch this will definitely have another experience.Ā
Personally, I donāt find this dragging at all. This is the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT we wanted to see from a character-driven story. It culminates here because they need that to face and solve the mystery in the next two episodes. All the scenes are necessary in order to show WHY they will act a certain way in the last two episodes.
Iām glad that they saved the motherās reveal for last. As much as I want a happy and sensible ending for the three of them, I donāt think I would really enjoy it if the last two episodes of this drama are filled with fluff and a lot of emotional fluff. Kudos to the writer for INTERJECTING those heart-wrenching scenes at the appropriate moments while the plot is being unveiled. I prefer that the mystery and thrill extended to the latter part. As much as I like the domestication, having too much of it is also a bitā¦ boring.Ā
There is definitely something more to this. NOW CANāT SATURDAY COME FASTER SO WE CAN GET ANSWERS?
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