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Drama Recaps
The King 2 Hearts: Episode 9
by girlfriday | April 18, 2012
COMMENTS
Nooooo! It’s not like he didn’t have it coming to him, but I swear, they have the worst timing ever. Plotwise, it was a nice progression throughout the episode of missed connections, things left unspoken, and then misunderstanding piling on top of misunderstanding. It was well-played, even though it left me screaming at the torture of it all. It also makes complete sense that she’d react this way, since frankly, I would’ve given the same speech a handful of episodes ago. Her feelings kept that anger at bay, but now that dam has broken.
In some ways, I don’t mind that there’s an active agent fueling that misunderstanding, because for one, it gives me a place to focus my anger, and two, I no longer have to deal with Secretary Eun’s possible wishy-washyness with one foot in Good and the other in Evil (or Stupid, take your pick), because the man is now dead to me.
My heart breaks for Shi-kyung, who’s starting to see behind the curtain a little, but at least now we get to see a little more motivation behind Evil Daddy—he’s starting to show his true colors when he gets backed into a corner, though it would’ve been nice to have this coloring earlier on. I’ll take what I can get though. Clearly the man’s got more of an agenda now that his feelings about what the monarchy should and shouldn’t be are starting to surface, which is a clearer ideological line than just I’m-trying-to-save-my-hide. Along with Bong-gu’s latest moves, the villain angle is starting to shape up a little better. Jae-ha’s memory loss is an interesting wrench to throw at the villain, which so far I like because it at least throws him off his game.
As far as the final dust-up, it kills me that Hang-ah doesn’t know how much he really cares about her and how high he jumped to try and protect her in this episode. But on the other hand, he’s also an idiot for not going to see her that night. Even if he believed it was her idea to appear at the hearing, he saw what it was like for her, enough to make threats and be all proud of himself for the outcome. So then why would you leave her hanging? Gah.
I especially like the way her dream rearranged history—picking up the most hurtful moments, which if you watch in a string like that, culminating in the shooting, you wonder how she ever deals with it at all. But clearly, there’s a lot that’s unresolved between them. It’s one of the most tenuous relationships, even for a drama-filled dramaland, which is a helluva lot like the very unstable relationship between North and South. Apparently love needs a DMZ too.
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发表于 2012-4-19 12:45
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