Synopsis written by: Dest
Once upon a time, there was a prince in Korea during some era they use for all these k-dramas. There was not only a prince but also a guy that dressed like a girl because he was a spying eunuch who apparently wasn't castrated like most eunuchs; a smart guy who wore the funny Korea hat that's standard in these dramas and was a lazy mofo who laid around doing 'smart' things all day, and a guy who played with swords but was dumb as a box of rocks. This is their story...Rooftop Prince.
Suz: Well, you forgot to mention that the eunuch is bi-sexual, the smart guy... Uh, I have nothing to add for that, and the sword guy has an awesome manly brow line. As for the prince, well, he's an idiot but does great Calligraphy!
Dest: I was trying not to think about the eunuch being bi-sexual since I'm kinda partial to him. The whole chin scratch thing was precious. Yes...precious.
So...yeah...there was this prince who, as a young boy, wanted a beeee-yoooo-ti-ful princess. Enter the sisters -one supposedly cute, the other not-so-cute. Cute Sister gets pissed because Not-So-Cute Sister is nominated by Pops to be the princess wannabe. Seriously -who DOESN'T wanna be a princess? So Cute Sister 'accidentally' burns Not-So-Cute Sister which in turn gets Cute Sister a chance at being Princess again.
Suz: Burned sister should have kicked bitchy sister's ass... I can only say that bitchy sister's ***SPOILER*** drowning was pure Karma. Also, bitchy sista ain't nuttin' but a liar!
Dest: Be that as it may...
Well...obviously..Cute Sister becomes princess and the prince is just soooo in love with his beeee-yoooo-ti-ful princess. What about Not-So-Cute Sister you ask? Well, she's there...masked like Zorro because she's scarred thanks to Cute Sister...making the best of her crappy life while Cute Sister steals all the credit for everything she does. Imagine that.
Suz: The veil did nothing for the burned sister if you ask me. It should have had sequins or sparkles or something all gawdy and sparkly. Something like that yellow sequined shirt Sir Eunuch likes. 3
Dest: I agree. Not-So-Cute Sister is treated like a second rate maid when she's the sister of a princess. Maybe it's a Korean culture thing? Not really sure and not really caring but I think the royal family could have at least coughed up a nice mask for Not-So-Cute Sister -their cheapness just makes them look tacky.
Suz: Totally. Her mask should have had some lovely embroidery or something on it, though I suppose that would call attention to her face. But at least it would be pretty!
Moving along, Princess dies. Yes, she's murdered. *Shock* *Gasp* Deader than a doornail. Are we really sad? No. So the prince's overly dramatic hoopla over her death sort of falls on deaf ears -the bitch got what was coming to her. The prince, however, is so overcome with grief he gathers his mighty trio of cuteness, smartness, and strength -Princely Power Rangers to the rescue!- to get to the bottom of this most terrible crime.
Suz: Yeah, karma bit her ass but good when she drowned. So sad. And here I am playing the world's tiniest violin. *eye roll*
Dest: Okay. Yeah. While I wasn't feeling his angst, the guy was at least acting well. Applause for Yoochun or whatever his name is.
As they search for the culprit, they are attacked and chased across the Korean countryside until.....
-BIG DRAMATIC SCENE MOMENT- They are swept up in a total...yes, TOTAL...eclipse and whisked away to....now because -DUH- a total eclipse obviously means eeevvvvilll magic is afoot and it's time for time traveling. Anyway....
*Poof*
The boys are gone.
Suz: Evil my ass. Well, my ass is evil when it expels noxious farts. However, that is not the point.
Dest: I base this total eclipse evil thing on various past cultures believing it's evil and, while I am not going to expend a lot of effort to back up my assertion here, I'll roll with it because how the hell else would they bodily time travel without 'magic' involved? Unless you want to say a black hole with a double singularity opened up, sucked them in, then spewed them back out in 2012. Or are we going to claim a wormhole spontaneously opened up to whisk them away?
Suz: That explanation would have been more interesting... But then, if that explanation did exist in the plot line, we'd be watching some bad SyFy show and not a Kdrama.
Dest: Is there really a difference?
Suz: Probably not much of one. Well, not enough of a difference for me to care. I have low standards.
We are suddenly taken to New York where a girl who has lived in America since she was little is hawking fruit *in english with a bad Korean accent* while...- O..M..G - the prince (Tae Yong/Lee Gak) who is no longer a prince but the grandson of a television station director i.e. Tiger Grandma watches...doodling. A butterfly draws his attention to this said Korean girl and it's love at first sight.
Suz: If that butterfly had died on her shoulder I would have laughed. A lot. But alas, the butterfly flew away. *sings* I'm like a bird/butterfly; I wanna fly away... from the bad Kdrama!
Dest: I found this entire part to be lame. Yellow butterfly like the one on the handkerchief flitting around so as to insinuate something I could have figured out by the fact that this guy doodling looks EXACTLY like the Prince. No brainer here -we're talking reincarnation, people. In order to actually have an impact with this butterfly, it needs to appear frequently when things are syncing up -similar situations and circumstances- so that it becomes a symbol for the two time periods becoming intertwined. But maybe I'm just trying to hard to make this 'good' and should just suspend my horror and disbelief and go with the flow.
Suz: Syncing would have been nice. I'd like to see more of the butterfly in the show. I mean, at least it's pretty. I'd also like to douse the butterfly handkerchief with chloroform and use it on Se Na but hey, I doubt I will get my wish.
Dest: I just realized I put way more into this show than was necessary. I think I scared myself.
Suz: You scared me a bit too.
**The butterfly theme originates in the Old days with some handkerchief that WE know the Cute Sister did not make but the prince thinks she did so this handkerchief is precious to the prince. Remember this -it's important.***
Suz: I must insert that I feel gas bubbles in my stomach. Remember this- it's important.
Dest: :/ Snarkiness aside, the stupid handkerchief is important...
Suz: Hmmph
Trying to hit some theiving little kid in New York, Korean girl accidentally pops Prince Charming with a piece of fruit. Again..love is funny like that. Painful. His friend, Tae Mu, hurries to help him as well as the girl who no doubt feels like a huge jackass. And, oh yeah, three Koreans in one spot in New York -imagine that.
Suz: MOOO! I mean, TAE MU! I love your sexy hair! I wanna lay you down in the middle of the vegetables and go to town! We could make fruit smoothies with all that rollin' around.
I expected a comment about this but apparently the thought of me rolling about with Tae Mu making fruit smoothies is either too funny to comment upon or I killed Dest's brain with the thought of it.
Now for whatever reason and maybe it's just what Koreans do in New York, Prince Charming and his buddy, Tae Mu, go boating. Yes, I thought of Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat" and giggled inwardly. Prince Charming doesn't want to go home -oh no, he wants to stay in America where the girls are easy and he doesn't have to apply BB Cream or drive a high-end Hyundai to impress the ladies. He's in America -can't speak English bu,t hey, when did that matter!- and life is good. But Tae Mu isn't buying it, gets pissed, and knocks his ass out...of the boat. Pretty much drowning him. Bloop, bloop, bloop -Prince Charming is floating like a piece of seaweed in the murky depths and, well, it's over for this poor prince.
Suz: I believe he will be resurrected, not as the loser prince, but as himself, because let's face it, this form of him is waaaay cooler. Plus, artists are HOT.
Dest: I like the Prince -for all his douchebaggery, he's alright. He's like the head dumbass -him and his Princely Power Rangers make a complete team. I'll miss him when he goes back to that era whose name I can never remember and can't say anyway.
Suz: Joseon. Say it with me. Joseon.
Dest: Also Chosun or something was mentioned. SO CONFUSED!!!
Suz: Pond scum? Jizm? Choosy Ones? Josey Tums? Josie and the Pussycats?
Tae Mu just killed our man. OH NOES!!
Fast forward two years. Korean girl whose English was terrible is now living in Korea with what is left of her family. She remembers nothing of her life before which we know from an earlier scene was basically just a new version of Cute Sister/Not-So-Cute Sister with Park Ha (Bad English speaking Korean Girl in New York) as the Not-So-Cute Sister. Her step sister, Se Na, is a huge twat and wants nothing to do with her as she is not only guilty of letting her little step-sister ride off into the sunset in the back of a stranger's truck but also lying to everyone at work including her boyfriend -OH YEAH- Tae Mu.
Suz: Go figure, the princess is still an evil ass heifer. She has learned nothing!
Dest: I think that was the point...wouldn't be a show if she'd seen the light.
**Let me digress for a moment. Tae Mu. Aside from a shitty name, this guy's hair is fascinating. It's this sort of J-Lo caramel at the top and dark on the sides. The steel pad cropped thing going on on the side contrasts nicely with the wiry over-gelled mess on top. Then he's got these eyes...oh, yes, the eyes, that just make you think he's bad news. Well, that and the suit jackets are always four inches too short and I get this mental image of Pee Wee Herman dancing on a bar somewhere which screams 'evil'. The guy playing Tae Mu fits this role with the overly dramatic eye-narrowing looks and perpetual scowl whenever he's near His Shininess, Prince Charming.
Moving on again...
So remember how the total eclipse whisked the boys away? Well, poor Park Ha finds them in her tiny little rooftop apartment. Dressed in their old clothes because you OBVIOUSLY time travel via total eclipse in your clothes, she is naturally annoyed at having four morons in her house. The prince is a douche, his Princely Power Rangers, collectively like the Three Stooges. After much ado, she feeds them...OMURAAAIIISSSUUUU. (Now I know what I'm going to try to make when I figure out how to use a wok.)
Suz: Don't burn yourself, homie.
Dest: Always a concern when I cook.
Now you get the whole 'Rooftop' part of the title. Park Ha...rooftop...prince from back in the day...Yeah.
So the prince insists on going 'home'. Park Ha is more than happy to oblige, driving them to 'palace' where they promptly get arrested for being idiots.
Suz: Sillies. Can they not tell things have changed? OH GOD, I'm already thinking about all the shit that has happened and am dreading commenting on the rest of this drivel. Can I kill myself now? No, then I would come back as Park Ha and have shit karma. Really, the girl needs some confidence. And balls. Really.
Dest: I second the balls -while some may consider her to be the perfect independent heroine, she's about as meek as a mouse when it comes to standing up to the Prince AND Se Na. It's sad...really. Just one time I'd like to see her go bitchy on both of them.
Suz: Aye, I heartily agree, matey. Yes, I was doing some sort of mild pirate accent in my head when I typed that. Not the gay Jack Sparrow one though.
Remember the cartoon about the cat that came back? Yeah, that cat is like this prince. He comes back...the police don't want these four retards and unfortunately Smarty Pants remembers her license plate number so the police dump the boys back on Park Ha who really -all things considered- just doesn't need this kind of stress. So after they wreck havoc on her apartment and nearly burn it down, she decides to put their sorry asses to work.
Princely Power Rangers naturally do all the heavy lifting....ie..they do all the work while Prince Ugg (his emperor boots were replaced by...yeah, you guessed it...Uggs) stands around popping his collar and pimping his skinny jeans. In the midst of all this, he sees Se Na who looks just like Cute Sister. Reincarnation? That's what Prince Ugg thinks.
Suz: Yet she's still a lying bitch. Also, I bet Tae Mu tried to kill the Four Korean Musketeers back in the day.
Dest: I wondered about that but I was a little afraid they'd put him in the hat so I'm glad we haven't seen it yet if he is the one.
Suz: I wonder what his hair would be like then. I'm wagering that I'll laugh if that happens.
As life goes on, Prince Ugg searches for his reincarnated dead bride to try to understand what happened since obviously him and his Princely Power Rangers were brought to this crazy time to discover who killed her. Seeing her again, he is now set on Se Na -he's in love!- and, well, Tae Mu is not having this AT ALL. Not only does this dude look like his cousin who he killed, he's after his girl -WTF IS UP WITH THAT? I get his anger and fear...I'd be worried too.
Suz: I have to pee. Random thoughts.
If I were Tae Mu, I'd also be worried about my aunt who has obviously started a running tab with a plastic surgeon and, whom I expect at any moment, will be flitting around the scene in her tutu singing Cindy Lauper songs. Not to mention my father is a serious douche bag. Luckily, Tae Mu is not so much a douche as he is kind of villain you feel a little sorry for. Tiger Grandma has spent all this time idolizing Tae Yong and ignoring his obvious interest in running the company -Tae Yong didn't even care enough about her to give her a phone call. I feel sorry for him through the show because he has tried so hard and yet keeps getting a slap from karma as if he had been some kind of serial killer in a past life. OOOH! 0.0 Maybe this is the key to the mystery? We shall see.
Suz: Why does Auntie have those funky eyes? Did she kiss a toad? No? Her plastic surgeon needs to work on that. Also, Tae Mu should've manned up to his yellow teeth father a LONG time ago. I mean, knock out those nasty snaggly teeth and then be on your way.
Dest: Tae Mu...he's actually the only real character here with depth. He loves Se Na but doesn't wanna rock the boat so he's scrambling trying to figure out what to do about his father hating her while stressed about Tae Yong -obviously he knows the Prince is NOT his cousin since he killed Tae Yong- but what the hell can he really do but wait until he can kill him again I suppose. Poor Tae Mu, what a predicament. I will enjoy seeing how this whole Se Na/Prince thing affects him.
Suz: I still have to pee.
Poor Prince/Lee Gak finds himself accosted by the matriarch of this bunch of misfits who assumes that he is her grandson whom she apparently was psychotic about. At first he resists the urge but after Park Ha, thanks to Se Na, decides she might better move back to America because Korean chicks are apparently 3/4's bitch, he changes his mind and claims he's the long lost Tae Yong...which we know is dead but obviously a reincarnation of the prince.
Suz: Can I skip to the toy radish and helium balloon bit?
Dest: *inhales helium* Yes, you can!
Suz: Do the chipmunk voice! Sing "All the single ladies" for me! Heh.
So now the prince is trying to act like Tae Yong who conveniently is wealthy so he gets the black credit card which I assume has no spending limit -lucky him. He also gets his trusty Princely Power Rangers jobs at the family biz which consists of them not really working. To oversee them, Aunt Wang's crush, Dog Man, is brought out of the doghouse.
So Se Na, his reincarnated princess just happens to be Tiger Grandma's secretary although she doesn't do anything secretarial except polish Tae Mu's brass apparently. Tae Yong/Lee Gak/Prince Ugg doesn't really realize this so he has his heart set on Se Na -the whole 'I got my girl back' thing.
Suz: Se Na polishes Tae Mu's brass balls. NOT! No skinship shown there.
Dest: You can't tell me after 2 years of dating on the sly during which time he's set her up in a posh little place that he hasn't hit that. He's getting something -believe dat!
Suz: I wonder if she's frigid in bed...
Dest: Probably. Or stares at herself in the mirror the entire time.
Suz: You told me that mirrors in the bedroom are a no-no for Asians. I don't see her being passionate enough to do the kimbap in the kitchen or bathroom either; she likes comfort too much.
Dest: I said mirrors in the bedroom were no-no's for feng shui. And no...I don't see any sweeping the plates off the table either which pretty much assures that Tae Mu is partly angry because he's repressed. Bless his heart.
Park Ha obviously...OBVIOUSLY...is falling for the ever-so-douche-y Prince Ugg and keeps getting her feelings hurt. She tries not to like him...and the Princely Power Rangers do keep her amused with their antics...but Prince Ugg/Lee Gak/Tae Mu just has it...whatever it is that he has...and she wants it.
In the midst of all this back and forth with Park Ha and Prince Ugg there's Se Na who is being told to GTFO by Tae Mu's father who has now figured out she is not the daughter of some professor in England -like, DUH- and now she's turned her sights to Prince Ugg/Tae Yong/Lee Gak. For one, she wants to be a rich housewife and then there's Park Ha whose life she now fervently wants to ruin.
So Park Ha accidentally loses the Precious Handkerchief and spends ALL NIGHT looking for it. Remember the Precious Handkerchief with love in every stitch which Cute Sister gave to Prince Ugg back in the day? Yeah, that one. Park Ha loses it -or so she thinks since Se Na found it right outside the door and took it -evil wench- and didn't tell anyone. Park Ha being the person she is goes and spends all night looking for this not lost Precious Handkerchief because Prince Ugg decides to throw a fit about her losing it and she feels bad. After digging through half of Koreas disgustingly dirty old clothes, she trudges home -and promptly gets sick from digging through nasty clothes all night.
Suz: That scene did make me giggle a bit on the inside. It would have been funnier if she came across some underwear with skid marks on them.
To his credit, Prince Ugg does some Chinese Medicine crap on her and determines she needs various herbs that he sends cute Eunuch Ranger out to get. Making up some noxious potion, he dispenses his medical wisdom to her and leaves her to sleep -leaving a note which Se Na sees asking her to meet him. Se Na, being a bitch, goes to the meeting herself, lies to our moronic prince that Park Ha won't be showing up, and Park Ha shows up after reading the note and expecting a date only to find the two hugging.
Oh NOES! (Yeah, you didn't see that coming, right? *eye roll*)
So Park Ha is pissed and hurt. Go figure.
Suz: Park Ha needs to give Se Na laxative laced brownies. Just a thought.
Dest: She needs to give her more than that. She's got two lifetimes of bullshit from Se Na to get even for. Laxative brownies aren't even nearly enough to cover this debt.
Suz: Give them to her daily... With a sprankle of arsenic.
In the midst of all this, Tae Mu is both trying to get Se Na back since she's now blowing him off and trying to take over the television station with his father, Supreme Douche bag #1. Taking over the company involves some mysterious woman Jang who is looking for her daughter. Somehow, some way she left a kid with Se Na's mother but the plot gets hazy in that Park Ha has a torn picture of her father and mother -mother missing- but it's alluded to that Se Na is also her daughter. Jang has this same picture that Park Ha has but with the mother in it -which happens to be her. Still...Park Ha and Se Na's mother had her daughter and now she wants her back (now that she's grown -again, go figure). In what is the most confusing plot line of this entire messy drama, one of these girls (or both) is her daughter and she's convinced that it's Se Na and is giving her rings and stuff trying to woo her.
Suz: Remember what I said about having gas? This is how I feel about which daughter is that woman's actual daughter. See, I told you that was important.
Dest: Yeah. I assume this has some Cinderella-esque plot device coming up in the future but, seriously, why can't a prince just fall in love with the common chick? Why do we need to invent some woman who wasn't rich then but is now mysteriously rich and able to elevate some one's social status immediately? It's so transparent that it's lame.
Suz: It's the making of a prequal...
As we muddle through episode ten where I will end this for the time being, we have Se Na acting like a fool trying to woo Prince Ugg, Prince Ugg acting like a douche to Park Ha then getting worried he was acting too douche-y and chasing her down, and Park Ha -poor idiot that she is- melting every time he's around. Se Na decides she's gotta wow the Rangers as well as her intended target so she suggests a bbq which will apparently be hosted by His Shininess, Prince Ugg.
Who can blame Park Ha when she says screw that and decides to go ride around Seoul on a bike?
Well, Prince Ugg -for whatever reason- just isn't appreciating that she isn't following him like a stalking fan girl and decides to go chase her down...on a bike. They argue, he drinks his now signature yogurt drink, and storms off when he gets pissed. She texts him that she loves him by accident -oooops! He comes back and she realizes that, to her relief, he hasn't actually read her message yet. She tries to delete it but his phone is password locked so Park Ha being Park Ha decides to bury his phone...literally. A dog digs it up, the Prince recognizes it and puts two and two together (amazing that he can figure THIS out but not that she's crushing on him) and so Park Ha, mortified, takes off on her bike. He reads her message and takes off after her, cuts her off...BAM! End of my synopsis for now.
Suz: BEST PART OF SHOW YET! Heh. Totally loved that. Pure idiocy. I mean, burying the phone? Sending a text by accident? How silly. *burp* And thus exits the gas.
Dest: Seriously? Of all the scenes, this is the one? I personally would have voted for the chin scratching or the car on the flatbed being towed around.
Suz: Well those were funny too. I think it's because I died a little on the inside for her. Plus, I've sent some texts accidentally, so I feel her pain.
Dest: I also forgot the pay day stripper scene as well as the cake.
Suz: The payday stripper was fab-you-luss.
My thoughts: So here we are in the middle of the show and every reason to watch is being utterly destroyed. The tension between Park Ha and Prince Ugg was priceless -she likes him, he acts like a douche. He tries to be nice, she bites his head off. I want to believe something is lost in translation with these shows but I'm to the point that I just think Korean drama writers are shitty writers. At Episode 10, I know for the rest of the show it will be regurgitated bullshit and my only reason for watching is to know who really killed the Princess. I don't even really need to know why -that's obvious. She was a bitch. The rest of the plot lines -except for whorish mommy Jang- are done. We'll just scrub, rinse, and repeat for the rest of this show. There were plenty of instances where I thought maybe...MAYBE...the writers had hope but then they slammed the door or just let good moments fade into oblivion.
Suz: I will say this, I don't try to analyze these shows; I just sit and wait for something interesting to happen. Besides, since neither of my guys are in this show and there's not enough eye candy, I think that if I fall asleep, then I won't miss much. I sort of agree about the waiting for what back-and-forth crap will happen in the upcoming shows. OH, here comes the gas again!
Dest: I suppose there is no point in analyzing a show that isn't made for American audiences but I'll do it any damn way because the glaring storytelling faux pas that riddle these shows fly in the face of all that is holy in the art of storytelling. Besides, if I'm not bitching, I'm not breathing.
Suz: If you stop breathing, do I need to give you CPR like Park Ha gave it to the Prince, or should I just fire up a Kdrama?
Dest: Just fire up another Kdrama, I will no doubt instantly find something to bitch about.
Suz: I shall keep that in mind.
Moments that should have been explored more and/or left out:
**Prince Ugg dancing as the Panda. Only the Rangers and some odd neighbor named Becky (Because there are so many Koreans named Becky) know this. It hasn't been mentioned AT ALL. Park Ha should know about this at some point -someone should slip up and mention that he did this trying to save her store. It makes him human and him dancing in a Panda suit eased the whole 'damn, this dude's a douchebag' element they have going with him.
Suz: Okay, Prince has his moments; I concede to that. Also, his booty shaking was quite... boisterous.
Dest: Yeah. I was sold on the dancing.
**Princely Power Rangers buying gifts for their families back in the day. Two were poor, the other obviously close to his sister. I think that they should have explored this more. These three guys are important in that the prince can't live without them but seems to be pretty clueless about who they are as human being -and apparently we are supposed to be pretty much clueless too. It would be interesting to see how their live experiences in that era have an effect on the choices they make in the modern time they have been forced into. These guys should be quirky -and they are!- but those quirks really need more than five minutes -and Park Ha shedding a tear or two- to explain.
Suz: This was a bittersweet moment of the show, and I did enjoy learning more of their background. Also, how could they not miss their old lives? However, think of how they would have to try and fit in with their old lives based upon what they have learned about the future? OOOOH, random thought - Park Ha should go back in time with them and be the princess!
Dest: This is how I see what they did here --
- Dumb Sword Guy: Mom and Sis were slaughtered, dad's all jacked up...we're starving so if I could get anything I wanted, I'd buy him some food so he'd recover.
- Eunuch: My mom works her ass off for the rich folks, her back's always hurting so I'm getting her some Icy Hot Patches to make her feel better.
- Smart Guy: My sister is cute and vain so I'm buying her makeup (I didn't really get this one but whatever -he loves his sister. Good for him.)
- Park Ha: Awwww. *shed a tear, sniff sniff* That's sad...SO ANYWAY, MOVING ON...
WTF?! These guys just told you that the Prince is a shitty 'friend', completely self-absorbed, and the people during whatever era this is called are hungry. If I were Park Ha, I'd have an issue with that -I'd rip him a new asshole for being such a crappy Prince. What's he gonna do? Pout? Throw a fit? Whatever. I mean these guys aren't beggars on the street here -these are supposedly his best buddies. He doesn't know any of this? Doesn't care? Oh yeah, he's a real winner. :/
There was a real opportunity for serious character development here that was just completely and totally ignored.
Suz: My friend, you have a point. The prince has the power to make changes but he doesn't. However, if I recall correctly, the 3 Musketeers were added after the princess' death, so the prince didn't have time to make changes in their lives. Am I right?
**Se Na bathroom scene -the Cute Sister lashed out at her younger sister because she wanted to marry the prince. Before that, she was fine with Not-So-Cute Sister. Se Na has never been 'fine' with Park Ha. She barely even knows her. So why is she claiming she wants everything Park Ha has? Park Ha has nothing! This scene made no sense. My problem here is that there is nothing to like about Se Na. No reason to feel sorry for her because she's beyond pathetic as a human being. I think they're really doing her an injustice by not giving her some good quality beyond the superficial 'I'm cute so I get what I want'. Se Na is a caricature and not a real person which makes her somewhat boring and predictable. The writers should have give her more than just an archetypal personality -she needs good qualities so that people can at least identify with her on some level. Even comic book characters have more personality than this girl -and it isn't the actress, it's the character itself.
Suz: However, Se Na is good at being evil, if not predictable. But yeah, I see no saving grace. I mean, how can you let your stepsister ride off in the back of a truck and just turn away? How can you see your mom get run over but do nothing? Why is she like this? Is she just a bad apple or inherently evil? One can only guess until if and when there is an explanation, though really, would it even matter? This woman needs the therapy of the touchy feely doctor in that other show we're watching - Me Too Flower.
Dest: That doctor creeped me out at first but he's starting to grow on me.
***Park Ha texting scene - Okay. I know she likes him. I get that he doesn't realize he's sprung on her. He's got a one track mind -he's set on his princess. I also know how this story is going to end. But the tension between them is what makes this show so excellent. She's independent but soft and squishy, he's a douche but sensitive at times. They're very alike and yet very different -the perfect mismatch. And then the writers ruin it by making it end too soon like they're trying to hurry up to the love triangle drama that is so TYPICAL. It makes me want to cry and hold a funeral for what was going to be a good show until they killed one of the best things about the main characters.
Suz: Well they only have 20 shows, ya know. It's sort of a hurry up and wait sort of thing.
Dest: :/ Them fighting was a hell of a lot more interesting than them deciding they're in love and then spending 10 episodes going 'against the odds'. Besides, he sold her out to Tiger Grandma and at this point doesn't deserve Park Ha. I think Park Ha needs a triangle of her own. Maybe Prince Ugg, Eunuch, and Dumb Sword Guy. I vote Eunuch Ranger!
Suz: I like the dumb sword guy. He's manly.
***The weird backstory about Tae Yong seeing her in New York, drawing her, wanting to meet her- could have been left out. Unless they plan on reviving him in some American hospital on life support, I don't really care or need to know he thought she was a hottie. Beyond Tae Mu drowning him, who cares? The fact that they use this lame postcard drawing for Tiger Grandma to go ninja on Park Ha as if she's some scheming whore is almost insulting to my intelligence. What it actually does is make me wonder if Tiger Grandma was ever a scheming whore because this is the first thing she thinks -first thing that comes to mind is usually something you yourself are guilty of! If Tiger Grandma had wanted to kick her ass, she could have picked a million other reasons like her grandson redesigning this chick's house whom he's not supposedly dating.
Suz: OH PLEASE let Tae Yong be a vegetable in New York! I so badly want this non-douche version of him to surface.
Dest: I think he's a douche..just a different kind.
***Tiger Grandma going ninja on Park Ha: Okay, for one, Prince Ugg claims he loves Park Ha which, after a night of groveling in the yard under a cherry(??) tree that has more blossoms than any tree I've ever seen before, he then claims he's just basically using her. Like she's some kind of love-starved ho he's doing a favor for. I was actually a little offended FOR Park Ha on this one. What a jackass!! He didn't save anyone -he made Park Ha look like a dumbass. And for what? So they could live in the rooftop apartment? Phhbt. I hope...HOPE...that Tiger Grandma rats his ass out on that one some Park Ha can rip him a new one when she hears what actually went down behind closed doors.
Suz: I was also offended. What bullshit. I guess it furthers the story of social classes not mixing, thus furthering the Cinderella story.
Dest: This has to be the most douche bag moment of this show so far. He makes it sound like she's a booty call or something: "Don't worry, Tiger Grandma, I'm just bangin' that ho". And then...THEN...you get to see Park Ha fawning all over him. Would she be all concerned about his knees and ankles if she knew he just sold her out? DOUBT IT. Oh, yeah, he 'fixed' it alright! The douche bag...*grumble*
***Mommy Jang: is she or isn't she Park Ha's mom? We have a picture. But we also have Se Na's 'mom' saying she took in Jang's daughter. Who the hell is her daughter? Both of them? Park Ha? Se Na? I pray that she takes Se Na in; finds out Se Na's a lying bitch; and boots her ass back to Poorville -karmic justice done! I am sure, however, that the writers will tie this up with a nice little bow to make everyone happy. Furthermore, I don't know what the cultural significance of mothers abandoning their children in Asian cultures is about but why continually use this as a plot device as to why these girls are screwed up in the head/life?
Suz: Se Na will be put in a tiger's cage and eaten. That's my projection for the future. Makes total sense, no? *happy face* Wait, scratch that. I think Se Na should be relegated to scrubbing the underwear of other people. Perhaps with her tongue. The tiger would put her out of her misery to easily. Or, Se Na could make up the back end of the human centipede. *bigger happy face* I have to admit, she's easy to dislike.
Dest: I like the ass end of the human centipede idea
Suz: Can I have pink text for the next one? I like pink. Or purple. Purple is pretty.
Dest: You can
Suz: YAY!
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