Tell Me That You Love Me: Episodes 13-14

37 January 10, 2024January 10, 2024

Tell Me That You Love Me: Episodes 13-14

by Dramaddictally

Can love conquer all when the differences between partners are vast? It’s the question our drama began with, and the question we return to now. Hurt feelings, family secrets, and romantic interlopers abound this week as the past comes to the fore. But there’s something more under-the-radar intervening in our leads’ love story.

EPISODES 13-14

One thing I really love about this drama is that it’s full of complicated feelings. There’s no good and evil here, just people that have lived, hurt, and learned. Sometimes they’re more guarded (like our hero) and sometimes they’re learning to be more vulnerable, which is what we see of Seo-kyung this week.

We left off last week with a stab in the heart as Jin-woo opened the door to Seo-kyung on a rainy night. Mo-eun drags herself away from the scene in obvious pain — and now we witness the aftermath.

To begin, let’s jump into the backstory about the fire, since we finally get all the details. Seo-kyung was being followed around by a looney stalker, who attacks her in the arts college building and accidentally sets fire to the place while she’s trying to break free. She’s knocked out and he leaves her there to die.

Jin-woo smells the smoke and goes looking for Seo-kyung as the fire gets bigger. Seo-kyung wakes up and sees him outside the room she’s in, but he doesn’t see her. She’s screaming his name (in vain, of course) and he runs in the other direction to keep searching for her.

We later learn that Jin-woo never finds her, and Do-hun is the one that pulls her out and saves her life. Now, last week it seemed like Do-hun was the guy stalking Seo-kyung. As it turns out, he’s just another obsessive weirdo who was in love with her and was secretly following her around to protect her from her stalker (got all that?). And as he’s carrying her out of the fire, he sees Jin-woo run further into the building to find Seo-kyung, but has no way to stop him. Jin-woo ends up needing to be rescued and gets a nasty burn on his arm.

So, what does all this mean for their present-day feelings? Well, it’s pleasantly complicated. The story goes that Seo-kyung broke up with Jin-woo after this incident because she thought Jin-woo abandoned her that day. This is what Jin-woo has believed all these years. She hated and resented him, and he hated and resented himself.

The truth comes out later when Seo-kyung finally admits to Do-hun, and to herself, that she knew Jin-woo was looking for her that day. When she runs into Jin-woo in the street right after her conversation with Do-hun, she tells him she was lying to herself back then and looking for a reason to run away. She kept telling herself he’d abandoned her because it seemed like the only way to leave. She never told Jin-woo about the whistling stalker, and she wanted to break up because the fact that she could hear and he couldn’t made her feel alone in the relationship.

Seo-kyung tearfully tells Jin-woo not to blame himself anymore. Then she apologizes and walks away. Jin-woo, crushed and angry as he is to learn all this, understands that she must have been dealing with a lot on her own. And since we learned last week that Mo-eun is feeling lonely for similar reasons, I hope this means our hero can put this new information to use.

This whole thread plays out over the course of the two episodes and it serves a couple of purposes. First, we see Seo-kyung admit that she’s been overconfident before she comes clean about the past. When we met her, she seemed smart and like a good person, and it’s in line with her character to be this self-reflexive. I was happy to see the drama pull her back around from what we saw last week.

That being said, the second thing all this does is to get in between Mo-eun and Jin-woo. In the opening scene, where a rain-soaked Seo-kyung is at Jin-woo’s house, she says she misses him a lot. At first we don’t see Jin-woo’s response. But the pain that emanates from both Seo-kyung and Jin-woo any time they’re together says they still have deep feelings for each other — just not the kind they should pursue.

Still, holding off on Jin-woo’s response for a bit allows us to get into Mo-eun’s head and feel all the insecurity that she’s feeling. After she leaves Jin-woo’s door, she goes home in a daze and sits awake all night. Jin-woo doesn’t see her text until after Seo-kyung leaves, and then he texts her right back. But she doesn’t respond.

The next day, Jin-woo goes to visit his best friend/neighborhood bartender, Ki-hyun, who tells Jin-woo to wise up a little. Mo-eun came to see Ki-hyun a few days before, asking questions about Jin-woo’s prior love life, and he advises Jin-woo to make sure Mo-eun doesn’t worry. “Tell her as much as possible about yourself. It’s really upsetting to hear about the person you love through other people.” He doesn’t want Mo-eun to start thinking, “Am I the only one that didn’t know? Am I not that important to him?” (Wow. Simple advice that’s worth repeating.)

Jin-woo and Mo-eun meet up later and he starts apologizing for texting her back so late, as if that’s the big issue between them. Mo-eun is the one that has to tell him what she saw, instead of him coming out with it (and man do I feel her pain in this moment). Jin-woo apologizes for not telling her beforehand. He was wrong, he should have told her from the start.

Fair enough. But then he takes a wrong turn when he starts defending himself. “I didn’t know she was coming. She was standing in the rain.” Blah, blah. (Come on, Jin-woo! You can do better than this!) But it’s worse because Mo-eun, who’s been crying through this whole thing, can’t understand all of what he’s signing. He wants to explain himself, but she tells him it’ll have to be later. (Another great job with the writing here. Mo-eun is honest and brave through and through, and I’m happy to see her character doesn’t waver.)

We continue to see Mo-eun question the relationship, as we started to see last week. When she talks to Ji-yoo, she notes that, in the beginning, when she didn’t know sign language and couldn’t understand what Jin-woo said, she felt like she understood him. Now that she knows more sign language, she feels like she understands him less. “I know a lot more words now. Why is it getting harder to talk to him?” (I love that this question goes unanswered as food for thought.)

The next time Mo-eun goes to Jin-woo’s house, he apologizes again — and then empathizes by saying he never would have been able to understand the situation either. (That’s better.) Mo-eun follows with a good question: “She came late at night, drenched with rain — are there still such important things to discuss between you two?”

He shakes his head no, and then writes (so it’s clear), “Since I met you, I’m really happy. I still have the scar I got back then, but that’s it. And I will never let that scar make you sad and have a hard time. I’m so sorry.” He takes her hand. She smiles. And they’re back.

But the waters have been disturbed and it’s not so easy to calm them. Mo-eun starts shooting the new drama she landed, and she and Jo-han are spending a lot of time together as he teaches her guitar for her role. At one point, she starts to cry. She says it’s because she feels so comfortable there with Jo-han, laughing, joking, and playing music so easily. She’s afraid that the special moments with Jin-woo will someday feel uncomfortable.

On the day that Seo-kyung meets Jin-woo in the street and tells him the truth about why she broke up with him in college, Mo-eun also happens to see them. So, after everything Jin-woo said about not hurting her, it looks to Mo-eun like a replay of the other night.

Mo-eun contacts Seo-kyung so the two can meet, and Seo-kyung apologizes, saying she didn’t mean to make Mo-eun uncomfortable. She wants Jin-woo to succeed as a painter. Mo-eun takes the assertive girlfriend role and responds that she understands the painter-curator relationship, but Jin-woo has her by his side now. (That’s the confidence I was waiting for.)

Afterward, Seo-kyung thinks back to the moment that she told Jin-woo she misses him, and we finally see his response. “I might never be able to love anyone as much as I loved you long ago. Because the old me, who loved without being afraid that it would end, doesn’t exist anymore. I may not be as passionate as I was back then, but I do have someone I love with all my heart now.” Thank you! Maybe Jin-woo missed the boat on telling Mo-eun the truth when she needed it, but he’s honest when it matters most. Now he just has to say those words to our heroine.

So, with the Seo-kyung story moving into the background, we end our episodes with a newer thread. Last week, we saw a woman crying in front of Jin-woo’s exhibition — and it was pretty clear this woman was going to be revealed as Jin-woo’s mother. This week, it’s confirmed. She has dementia but still remembers the house she lived in all those years ago when Jin-woo was born.

Mo-eun learns the woman’s identity, takes a trip to Busan, finds the house, and sends a pic to Jin-woo. He’s seen the house before, in the lone photo he has of himself as a baby. We end with our hero comparing the photos, and setting us up for some family reunions next week.

Wow, I loved these episodes. And I can’t believe I got everything I asked for last week. Seo-kyung’s confidence was toned down and Mo-eun’s was kicked up. There were zero scenes of Mo-dam and Ji-yoo — but we did get more of the adorable high school students in Jin-woo’s art class. Can they have their own drama, please? And the nuanced writing has been a lovely constant. In essence, this is a simple story, but that’s why it works so well. It takes simple, relatable themes and digs deep into them.

While the family stuff could be interesting in the final week, the part that has me on edge is how Mo-eun will resolve her mixed feelings. She and Jin-woo love each other. But it’s in the drama’s DNA that love is not enough — we know this because of how things ended with Jin-woo and Seo-kyung. Will the relationship be too hard, like it was for Seo-kyung? Or will they find a way to bridge their differences, like Ki-hyun and So-hee? I think it depends on how much work they’re both willing to put into it, and how comfortable Mo-eun can get with being uncomfortable.

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1 jerrykuvira

January 10, 2024 at 10:19 PM

I couldn't wait for both episodes to air so I simply penned down my thoughts after each episode cause it was a bit overwhelming.

Thoughts...
Episode 13.
I don't know what to think or feel or process. I'm just there reacting and I don't know what exactly I should react to in all this.

I wasn't expecting this sucker punch gut feeling. Why? The episode title - Confession. So here I was thinking we'd get a confession from Jin-woo that would sort of calm Mo-eun down. But no, instead we get a confession from Mo-eun. A confession that registers thoughts I had but had pushed to the background because of how much care the writing has put into this drama, I was assured it won't be a problem. And now thanks to Soo-kyung, she was cornered into that space.

While I think it was reasonable and realistic that we see her process these things and feelings, I want it to be that Mo-eun just wants to breathe, away from the Jin-woo-Soo-kyung drama. Cause if another heartbreak happens... I don't want to be stunned out of my element as I was while watching this episode.

As if Mo-eun shrugging Jin-woo's hands off her wasn't enough, the part that pained more was she putting the headphone over her ears. Jin-woo knew she heard his footsteps and her actions in no unclear terms let him know how hurt she is.

And then there's her conversation with Jo-han that I'm still reeling from. I have no idea of what to make from it.

One major thing Soo-kyung did the earner my respect further was she walking away from Ki-hyun's bar. I'll be sad if she ostracizes herself for Jin-woo and Mo-eun's comfort. I'd like for them all to heal to a point where they can occupy the same space together. I know it might be too much to ask cause of the kind of person Jin-woo is.

I want Soo-kyung to walk through her "regrets". She needs to heal from it. While Jin-woo was deeply hurt and has moved on, it doesn't mean that he is ready to face his "what would have been" rehashing their past every single time. He himself said it : "To see you again after breaking up as if nothing happened, I like you too much". It is breaking his heart as much as he is not fine with her unsettling his life and love. To the point where he'd want to have her back? Sadly that ship sailed before she returned.

Normally I should be angry with this SFL. But somehow I am not. I'm not happy with the way she's caused ripples in serene waters but that's just it. It is not everytime that dramaland writes romantic second leads in this well thought out manner.

Let me get myself ready for episode 14

Tissues...And more tissues.
I'm caught between feeling bad for Seo-kyung, and being torn by what her choices made Annoying Kwon Do-hun and Jin-woo pass through.
I came to realize somewhere around EP 7-8 that Seo-kyung's reappearance was to find closure for herself. A reveal of this magnitude - I surely wasn't expecting. But then this reiterates something that has stuck with me since...

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jerrykuvira

January 10, 2024 at 10:21 PM

...The Spies Who Loved Me: The reason two people are together becoming the reason they break up is one thing that stings for a very long time. I don't know how they'll both heal from it.

Seo-kyung and Jin-woo's 3 minute dialogue was just too good. However hard it was watch and see it play out, I watched those 3 minutes one more time to let it sink it again. Jin-woo drawing his arm away from Seo-kyung's touch for the very first time since Seo-kyung appeared was well captured. I'd do same. And I liked how Seo-kyung walked away afterwards.

Once again, TMTYLM respects the history it's characters has garnered over the years. I particularly loved that Jin-woo made it clear that he'll probably never love anyone as passionately as he loved Seo-kyung, and I agree with him. But that person doesn't exist anymore. He now loves someone else with all his heart and that's where his heart lies.

But, Seo-kyung telling Mo-eun about that one time he talked in his sleep was very dirty. Ma'am! That's now how you play this game🤣. She basically gave Mo-eun another episode of something special she shared with Jin-woo that Mo-eun might never experience. Now look at Mo-eun sleeping at Jin-woo's that night and looking, just looking that maybe Jin-woo would say something. I don't know if that was what was running in Mo-eun's head but that's what ran in mine. Seo-kyung played dirty here😄.

Another I liked this week was how Mo-eun was able to play the guitar without missing anything while she was rehearsing with Jin-woo. And then, there was this nice call-back to episode 2.

And, with the final scenes, I think Mo-eun is slowly catching up to Jo-han's feelings for her.

Until next week, I'm reminiscing these last two episodes with my favorite music score in this series : Try Not to Cry. I must say that the title is very fitting.

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2 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 10, 2024 at 10:36 PM

Thanks @dramaddictally for the weecap.

Seokyung’s all about me show was very frustrating for me, she needs to do her processing in therapy and stop offloading her random late night reflections on Jinwoo, especially after he told her he wasn’t interested in hearing them. I also hate her contaminating his safe places by constantly turning up unannounced. I hope now she feels better she can stop dropping the little comments in to try to undermine Moeun’s confidence in the relationship. Jinwoo needs to tell Moeun how special she is to him before it’s too late.

The fact Jinwoo’s mum is still around and still longs for him is sweet but it’s a shame her husband’s long term resentment about her previous life resulted in him ruining any potential for joy in their relationship. I hope she can rest in peace if she sees her son is ok.

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jerrykuvira

January 10, 2024 at 11:57 PM

I really don't understand the timeline about Jin-woo's Mom. Of course, a health crisis that takes a quick nosedive can occur within weeks, days or even hours.
I'm surprised she's checked into the hospital for what seems like a late staged dementia. I'm more confused because she had more grasp on her cognitive abilities when she came by the exhibition. Or perhaps her showing up at the exhibition was at a time she was in control of her mind, both past and present.

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 11, 2024 at 12:20 AM

I think with Korean dramas the hospital setting is short hand for this person is physically ill; they give drips and bed rest for things that would get seen in a general practitioner setting or a chemist in other countries. People with dementia have good days and bad days unless its very late stage so she may be having longer gaps between those good days. Her husband is well off so she may be in a private care home that is like a hospital. Castaway diva had the mum in bed for large parts of the day when usually you would maintain normal activities and routines for as long as possible.

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM

You spoke my mind. I think SK, becoming vulnerable as she is, has to stop trying to sabotage the OTP's relationship by dropping hints to ME here and there about the deep and long relationship she has with the ML. That's not what you do to a person whom you think you love them. I think though those gestures should have stemmed out her insecurities and all, they are toxic and she need counseling. JW deserves better than this.

I'm not sure the reason she didn't tell JW about the stalking thing is because she cares about him or she doesn't care about him at all.

The part where the husband of JW's birth mom talks about him being angry at her for her past doesn't fit the whole narrative of this show somehow for me. I think it's unnecessary, and I don't see why we need it.

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM

Maybe the angry current husband provides an explanation for why she has not looked for JW sooner.

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3 Kurama

January 11, 2024 at 1:01 AM

I love every Seo-kyung's scenes and I don't really care about Mo-Eun's ones.

I don't understand how it looks that nobody seemed to take seriously the past incident to find the real culprit. He traumatized Seo-kyung by following her and using a way where her boyfriend couldn't understand. It was a real assault that happened, she had to fight hard against him. She needed help to treat this trauma.

Do-hun was completely stupid. He could defend himself and said the truth, his self pity in this story is stupid. He knew what was happening but he didn't talk about it to anybody, he could have told to Jin-Woo instead to follow her secretly... one weird guy was enough.

Jin-Woo was hurt by this incident and the fact he still felt guilty about it is sad. It's bad luck's fault. He tried to save her and suffered from the fire too.

They needed to talk about it because it was very clear that still impacted their present life.

I'm not really interested in Jin-Woo's mum arc. He looked he accepted this fact, so I don't understand why it needs to comeback in his life now.

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jerrykuvira

January 11, 2024 at 1:50 AM

Do-hun was completely stupid. He could defend himself and said the truth, his self pity in this story is stupid.

If he did, who would corroborate his story? Seo-kyung who heard the voices relocated to France. It's his word against the misconstrued conceptions the college students formed thanks to his following Seo-kyung around for her own safety, or Jin-woo who disappeared Avatar Aang style for is it 7 or 13 years?

And inasmuch as we can decry his obsession as much as he beats himself about it, that obsession saved Seo-kyung's life.

Seo-kyung's scenes are pure gold. And Kim Ji-hyun is doing a very great job with her character. I've noted her since Thirty Nine and always wanted to be in a better production than Thirty Nine after I noticed the direction of her character there. I'm so glad she got to shine properly here.
And inasmuch as Seo-kyung is causing ripples in the present day, I'm not disliking her for it. And I liked that TMTYLM says in clear terms that Seo-kyung was as impactful as Mo-eun is now. Her kind of SFL is a make-up class writer needs to study when writing second leads. I know the writer of Welcome to Samdalri needs one ASAP.

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Kurama

January 11, 2024 at 1:59 AM

I guess there was a police investigation that said somewhere he wasn't the one who lit the fire. It wasn't a small incendie. He should have been punished for this crime otherwise.

Yeah, he saved her but it's still very creepy to follow her like he did. There were better way to help her.

I hated Kim Ji-Hyun in Hundred Million Stars From the Sky, she was too good in her role. She deserved so much better in 39, her character had no real arc.

Their scenes are great because it's just them signing and the beautiful OST (that I'm still waiting for its release of >_<)

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welh

January 11, 2024 at 8:06 AM

Did anyone else catch the dig on Thirty Nine in the series? ME's drama was called "Thirty + 3." When I saw that I immediately thought of Thirty Nine because of how the FL overwhelmed the 2FLs (including Kim Ji-Hyun). This script writer treated 2FL much better.

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Kurama

January 11, 2024 at 8:10 AM

No, I didn't pay attention.

Thirty Nine was Son Yejin's drama. Even the male lead wasn't really well developped.

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 9:31 AM

No, I didn't notice that. But since you talked about it, it might really be a clever and witty writing.

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 9:38 AM

You are right. Do-hun couldn't do anything about it. He suffered a lot, and he has been resenting both his whole life. *sigh* I really like the writing here. In previous eps, many would have thought that he was the stalker and the culprit, but it turns out to be the opposite: He saved her. The lives of these 3 are intertwined in one strange way. I loved it when Do-hun said he resented SFL. She resented the ML. And the ML resented himself. I think maybe because of this conversation, SFL could really be able to face the reality that she knew that the ML was trying to save her. She just needed one good reason to leave him because of her circumstance. It's so sad... for all of them.

Somebody catches that stalker!!!!!! Please!!!!!!

I feel like I'll be able to understand SK better in my next rewatch. Right now, her character is too complicated for my lovely little brain to process, so I just hope she doesn't try to come between the OTP any longer. But you know what, I ADORED her in that pale pink dress. She looks DIVINE there. I couldn't take my eyes off of her at all in all the scenes she wears that dress.

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4 Mrs Buckwheat

January 11, 2024 at 3:36 AM

Thank you Dramaddictally for your great recap.
I agree with your opening statement - " One thing I really love about this drama is that it's full of complicated feelings. There's no good or evil here, just people that have lived, hurt and learned."
It has been a nice change watching adults portrayed as adults and having conversations. There is a certain intelligent sensibility and tone that has made this a joy to watch.
I wish it wasn't ending so soon.
I'm not sure why the birth mother storyline is so late in the episodes.
It feels like this has been tacked on. It's too easy and convenient that the mother randomly turned up to Jin woo's art show and only now that she has dementia is there the possibility they could meet.
I would have happily spent more time with the art students or Mo eums parents getting to know Jin woo instead.
Hwaiting show for the final episodes.

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welh

January 11, 2024 at 8:09 AM

I think the mother arc is another way for JW to find closure with his past. Even if he was abandoned, once he knows the reason, he will know his mother never forgot him.

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 9:42 AM

I think I may have missed this, but has there been any part of the show that suggested that he was insecure about this?

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM

Agreed. I think in such a delicately-written show, the mother storyline feels a bit out-of-place and forced. I don't know why we need to have this this late into the story.

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5 Kafiyah Bello

January 11, 2024 at 4:21 AM

I was frustrated with Mo Eun in this drama. She was hurting her feelings all by herself. I can understand wanting to process them, but not making it the fault of the man who has given no indication that he even thinks in that way. That being said I really did enjoy these episodes. I also need Seo Kyung to get it together. She was understandably and irrationally hurt by Jin Woo not hearing her when she needed him most. That is a terrible trauma, but she also understands it wasn't his fault, she needs to work it out herself.

I also want to note a couple of things.

1. Jung Woo Sung is great in this, but he never actually looks at anyone's hands when they are talking, he looks in their eyes.

2. I just finished watching Echo on Hulu and the actress and the character are both deaf, but she fully mouths the words while using Sign language, but Jin Woo doesn't. I am curious if that is an American vs. Korean thing or if that is something the writers missed about folks who sign.

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jerrykuvira

January 11, 2024 at 4:30 AM

They do not mouth the words. Jin-woo's form of signing is the correct form. That's how it is in my locality.

Ki-hyun mouths the words as he signs with Jin-woo cause Jin-woo lip-reads. Also because he knows Jin-woo talks before. But we do not see him mouthing the words when he's with his wife So-hee.

But if the actress and character in Echo mouths her words, then most certainly she lost her voice over the years. She most likely wasn't born so.

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Kafiyah Bello

January 11, 2024 at 4:42 AM

Nope, she was born deaf. I looked it up.

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Kafiyah Bello

January 11, 2024 at 4:44 AM

Sorry, lol, my comment was abrupt. Thanks for the information, maybe it is just a thing Alaqua Cox(the actress) does.

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jerrykuvira

January 11, 2024 at 5:15 AM

Then it must be this

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 11, 2024 at 4:34 AM

I would say not everyone who signs makes the mouth shapes as it is not part of that language which is use of body hands and facial expression. Sign language sentence structure is different to the speech structure in some languages.

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Kurama

January 11, 2024 at 4:59 AM

I wonder if it's an american thing. Because in the movies/TV show in French or Japanese, they don't mouth their words. In Silent, it was even an issue between the leads.

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petrolia

January 11, 2024 at 5:06 AM

It could be generational and / or cultural. I think these days sign lamguage is the preferred and most used kind of language used by hearing impaired people, but that wasn't always the case - acfew decades ago sign language was often seen as bad manners, and hearing impaired people were made to learn how to "speak". Luckily those days are over (I hope they are). So maybe slightly older people still mouth their words over sign language because it's a habit they formed some time ago.
Or it could just be her way of doing things. From my work encounters with hearing impaired people I've never witnessed anyone mouthingbthe words they signed, not even the translators.

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petrolia

January 11, 2024 at 5:07 AM

Sorry for the typos! 😬

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Kurama

January 11, 2024 at 5:30 AM

I think the environment they grew up changes a lot of things. If they had to adapt to the world to hearing people because the other wouldn't do it, or if they had access to sign language with their family too.

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tabong is ironing the crosswalk

January 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM

I was confused with the way Mo Eun was treating Jin Woo and her relationship too.

The way she wouldn't talk to him, or worse, she wouldn't listen to him, was really out of character imo. She literally told him they needed to talk two episodes ago (last week). And then, episode 13 happened and she just avoided him.

I kept thinking "is this the same girl that ran to his house in the middle of the night just to confirm her feelings for him and the strength of their relationship"?

Tbh, I was even surprised SK had so much impact in Mo Eun. I'm guessing it really isn't about Seo Kyung, but I still find strange the way Mo Eun is handling everything. It feels like she's drowning in raindrop even tho she knows how to swim.

I didn't saw problems between someone that can hear and someone that cannot. I just saw problems between someone that didn't wouldn't listen and someone that didn't even got the chance to speak.

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Kafiyah Bello

January 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM

OOOOOH, your last two paragraphs. Well said, and I fully agree.

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haunt

January 14, 2024 at 8:18 AM

You might forget young Moeun found out that she is not the biologically her mom daughter. She heard her mom afraid moeun behave diffrently. So Moeun pretend she did not know. That also happened to Jinwoo too who know that they are might still in good term. Moeun seems avoid addressing their problem and just wait how their relation develop

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tabong is ironing the crosswalk

January 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM

But for me that still feels kind random, tbh. Mo Eun didn't act like this before about anything.
But only Jin Woo, she would always express her feelings and thoughts to everyone.

When Jo Han reacted badly to Jin Woo being her boyfriend, she told him how much that hurt her. Even with the conversation she had with Seo Kyung in which SK acted like she didn't know what was Mo Eun talking about, she still made clear her point and how uncomfortable she was with SK's behavior that night.

But then she just acted like doesn't know what to say or how to listen to Jin Woo, and that's just weird to me. She kinda has been leading their relationship most of the time and she has been an expert in communication.

It's like when they had their first date and she waited for him till the end and listened to what happened to him and decided to just have another date. That's what I was expecting from her now.

But I guess this is different somehow. I just hope they have a proper conversation sooner than later.

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6 welh

January 11, 2024 at 7:56 AM

As expected, JW and ME’s careers begin to take off giving them less time together. ME’s insecurity about JW’s past puts her at the betrayal edge of her thoughts on their relationship. JW is not proactive enough to calm her assumptions and thoughts. When ME confesses to Johan that she is comfortable with their loud, laughing and joking - - she wonders if her past, comforting, special moments and time with JW will become uncomfortable. Episode 13 gave us long pauses that showed us the character’s inner pains, frustrations and doubts. JW and ME are not communicating as well as before (she should take the class students questions as a guide to getting straight answers from JW).

ME is curious but frustrated when she cannot understand JW talking to SK. Her insecurities are taking over how she feels about him. She does not know that SK’s apology and the fire event was an excuse to break up with JW. It was more of a gut punch of resentment or guilt to him. She decides not to know what it is all about because it could lead her to emotions that could damage their relationship. But without direct, honest communication, it will eat away at her - - perhaps in the same manner that SK felt prior to the fire. Ki-Hyun is a great friend (and viewer surrogate) to get characters to truly talk about their feelings and consequences of their actions. JW now understands that people around him have a difficult time because he cannot hear. He has to take this knowledge to calm ME’s doubts.

Johan believes as they got older, they realized that when one love ends another will come. The interval between depends on how hurt you are after the break up. He is still waiting for her love to come to him.

There was never a doubt that the woman at the exhibition was JW’s mother, but the dementia adds another disability or obstacle into JW’s story. They have to meet. They have to reconcile. It may be the greatest gift ME can give to him: closure so he can open his heart fully again.

This series has been the antidote to makjang shows.

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7 dlrgy

January 11, 2024 at 11:05 AM

really love this show, and I find the conflict/hurt between our main characters so earned. It's not really about picking sides between the two of them because we understand their perspectives so well and why they are behaving the way they are. I will say that Moeun has constantly gone out of her way to reassure Jinwoo (going to his house after her parents visited, saying she loved him twice with no reciprocation that we know of). My wish for the last two episodes is that Jinwoo rediscovers his passion and bravery and fights for her, rather than waiting for her to come to him (which again, I understand why he is doing). As the recap says, he outlines how important she is to him to Seokyung, but not to her. Agh!

I hope the Moeun/Modam relationship is explored again. If i recall correctly the last we saw of them together was him being rude when meeting Jinwoo unexpectedly and then they never had a conversation about it? I usually like Park Jinjoo as an actress but haven't warmed to Jiyu as much here (possibly because I'm allergic to hearing her talk about how much she needs to lose weight.)

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 10:01 AM

It's true that in the last few eps, there is a scene that Modam tells Johan that he is worried about ME. He doesn't express negative emotions or feelings for the fact that she is dating a hearing-impaired person, so to me it doesn't look like he is biased because of that fact. But I agree with you that the scene when he meets his sister's boyfriend, he can be perceived as being plainly rude to him -not just concerned. I am not sure why the acting in that scene and what he talks with his friend are different, but let's hope we get to see how they all can reconcile and perhaps have a talk about this.

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8 books7time

January 11, 2024 at 7:35 PM

Just dropping in to say thank you for the recaps, @dramaddictally and I second the notion for a spin-off drama of Jin Woo and his class. From the moment the three came on screen they have been a delight, but adding in the fourth has been magic. I still can't get over the scene when he says he is tired of people talking and the three students begin fretting because they ARE talkative. It is a comedic but sharp critique of hearing bias. Then in the next scene he is respectfully helping his classmate so she doesn't miss the bus. I mean, I sense the cuteness and heart that made me love TW so much.

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mmmmm

January 19, 2024 at 10:04 AM

Also agreed with this. It's a world-class writing there.

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