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Me Too Flower! Episode 15 Recap — 28 Comments

  1. A rushed and abrupt ending. In the real harsh world where competition is super keen, story telling which does not get its required share of bang for the buck will simply be truncated or terminated.

    It would have been so much more enjoyable if it had been allowed to run its course (I think, I guess).

    Thank you for so much for your extra quick medicine for our urgent need to understand the drama episode. Gracias.

  2. Hello and thank you as well!
    I had been waiting for your recap as well, and thank you for working on it and posting it this late (or this early in the day, depending on where on earth one is) and not make us wait a day or more to read this. I saw the preview recap and wondered how long we would have to wait to actually read the recap of the episode.
    Don’t get me wrong (please), I appreciate all your hard work and your enthusiasm about the shows you choose to recap. I just thought it was a nice surprise to see the recap being posted, finally. I am off to read now, I probably need to stop babbling… Thanks again!

  3. Thanks for the recap!! I was waiting for it for a long time. Everything you said about the series was correct. I think the whole series is about learning how to properly love someone and how to accept the love that was given to them. The series to me very much accurately portrays that point. The ending may not be perfect, but it was perfect for me as it tied up most of the important parts of the drama. Everyone in the end got something good in the end. It is very sad that Jae Hee had to leave Ah In’s life because Hwa Young wasn’t going to be self-reliant if Jae Hee didn’t do that. I would love to see Jae Hee in Ah In’s life since he is so used to him. Now, Ah In has to accept the fact that he won’t get to see Jae Hee so much anymore and have to accept someone new. I’m also really sad that Jae Hee had to start things anew after he had worked so hard for the previous company. In the beginning, I was worried that that he wouldn’t get to continue designing if he left the company, but now that I knew that he was starting a new company, I was relieved. At least, he is still designing because I don’t want to see his talent wasted. Even though it seemed like he didn’t need to start from scratch to be with Bong Sun, to me, Perche was always a company he started with Hwa Young, which was his first love. Since he didn’t love Hwa Young like that anymore, he needed to start a new company. It sort of means that he is leaving his past behind and starting something new. If he stayed with the company, it just means that he is never really going to move on. Hwa Young was his past, and Bong Sun is his future, so he is starting a new company, in a way, with Bong Sun even though she will have no part in it. I’m very happy that the ending is like this, but sad that the series was not that popular. Oh well, things like this always happen. So looking forward to Yoon Si Yoon and Lee Ji Ah in other series’ because I really loved their acting.

  4. Thank you so much Captain! 😀 Once again, you’ve generously gave us thoughtful and detailed recap. Thank you very much! In this recap, I especially love the way you sum up the beautiful lesson/message of this drama.

    I too love this final episode. I’m grateful that all the main characters were given a happy ending or a new beginning for Love. I’m also grateful for the second appearance of the prayer before meal scene; LOL at Jae Hee praying for Bong Sun to get rid of Pink Chicken poster. And like you, I found the OST outstanding; the songs are refreshing, heartwarming and were properly placed.

    I echo your praises for Yoon Si Yoon’s amazing performance. In this final episode, I thought his scene with the Hwa Young’s dead husband’s character is one of the many examples of his brilliant acting. In that scene, how quickly his eyes welled up with tears when he turned around to face Hwa Young’s dead husband’s character. When I saw this episode raw, I did not know what was being said in that scene but because of Yoon Si Yoon’s very moving acting, the message that he was being freed from the guilt effectively came across the screen.

    I also would like to praise Lee Ji-ah’s portrayal of Bong Sun. Apart from her convincing acting as a fiesty, temperamental, emotionally hurt, and at the same time compassionate and caring policewoman, she also delivered her dialogue lines that I find real and that made me want to pay attention. In this final episode, I found Bong Sun’s dialogue with her father while having lunch, moving.

    Last but not the least, BRAVO to the chemistry between Yoon Si Yoon and Lee Ji-ah. When the drama was still being promoted, I was among those who thought they were an unlikely pair. But they remarkably overcame the naysayers and gave open-minded K-drama fans an OTP that is memorable and a drama worth watching (imho).

  5. Oh, I was looking forward to this episode so much, but so sad that the drama is now over. I loved BS and JH so much – what an interesting, complex and adorable couple. I hope all the hurty parts are behind them so that they can just enjoy their lives together. By JH starting a new company he leaves behind all of the baggage of the previous 10 years. Just cutting everything loose gives him a fresh start with his own life and being free to be with BS. This is a story I wish had many more episodes as I really want to know what happens to them in the future. But, oh well, this is how I feel every time a drama I love ends….

    • I should not fail to mention the great acting Yoon Si Yoon and Lee Ji-ah. They made these characters come alive and connected to the audience with their hearts. This is what makes changes a drama from something you watch into something that you feel. Yoon Si Yoon definitely has a new fan here.

      • >>> This is what makes changes a drama from something you watch into something that you feel.

        YES! Well said! I was just clumsily trying to put into words the very same thing in Dramabeans, to convince someone to stay on, and give this drama a longer try. But you saif it way better.

        I am definitely a newly minted YSY fan too – or at least will be partial to looking out for his future works since I don’t do much service to ‘fan’.

        Thanks to YSY – with his every nuance of expression, I stopped thinking about the age difference between the leads, how young he is, what his looks are (like whether he’s the type I normally like) or how much acting experience he has.

        MUCH THANKS for generously giving us your time for this drama ockoala!

        – This drama breaks new ground in mentioning depression and other disorders (even JH and social phobia). Correct me if I am wrong, ut I think no drama has broached these issues before. Given Korea’s high level of celeb-suicides (even in modelling) it’s about time they addressed it.

        – Not your typical Cinderella meets chaebol story. I like how our content down to earth ‘Cinderella’ actually rejects the chaebol lifestyle, being happy with her own identity; vs
        Dal her sister who is always trying to change her ‘roots’ (the unfairness of being born who she is) and aspiring for a more materialistic existence.

        Wonderful irony that one sister is aspiring to that lifestyle, while the other rejects it even as it is looking at her in the face. Ditto Jae-hee. And how how fake and empty that lifestyle could be, when you were actually in it (Hwa-young). Realistic too how nasty the old-rich crowd could be to the new-rich. And how true to himself JH stayed, instead of being ingratiating/grovelling to belong – as too many new rich groupies can be in real life.
        Heck even our favorite therapist (Jo Min-ki’s Tae Hwa) had issues himself!

        The writer had the ideas and she threw many out – but unfrotunately somewhere along the way she checked out and didn’t connect the dots.

        – Lastly, kudso to LJA and YSY for my love of this drama. I actually feel withdrawals already,, which I haven’t for any drama for a while.
        JH came alive next to BS. Even the too-long circus scene (ep 14) seemed worth it when I heard JH’s worry and fear, that (natural) slight one-sec hesitancy when he discovers her ‘body’ …. the real anguish projected in his voice when he finds BS (ep 14 –> 15) …

        Love both their voices – LJS has a beautiful one (without being sickeningly-coy) in their quiet moments. I miss this couple already!

  6. Thank you so much for the recap. I watched it without subs and waited patiently for your recaps! Agree totally with you on most things except I wished that the writer didn’t use the ‘ghost’ to help resolve issues with Hwayoung and JH. I guess she didn’t have a whole lot of time to plan for a daebak ending and this was the only way she could have a closure and a new beginning for them. Pretty satisfied with the ending nevertheless. My only gripe is that I didn’t get another kiss scene from my favourite couple! But there were lots of warm hugs for everyone tho and it makes me sad that I shan’t get to see them anymore 🙁 I shall miss them terribly but I’ll make sure I get the video to watch again on a cold wintry day!

    • Agree on the ‘ghost’ bit. It felt a bit like ‘spirit magically resolves all conflicts’ to me…

      I’m happy JH and BS ended up together – and their getting together made sense (and, indeed, did not need marriage, babies all projected already), but not so keen on the endings for the other characters. Neither the somewhat sudden relationship between Dal and Dr. Park (even if there were hints of it beforehand, it just doesn’t seem plausible), nor Hwa Young’s turn. She parts on cordial terms with Bong Sun? She’s suddenly developing feelings for a new man? Mrs. Psychoterror? That just seemed unrealistic and a too quick letting-go-of things she was previously completely obsessive and lunatic about. I get that she is still working through her problems, but one day she is raging at JH not to leave, the next she is cordial to BS?

      Well, I’m happy for JH and BS in any case.

      • I didn’t like “ghost” either, or how her new therapist was uncannily like her husband.

        Dal got off easy, and she got her chae-bol. And after all his enlightenment (to the pt of divorce) and subsequent journey of self-discovering that lead to Tae-hwa being a therapist – he marries a materialistic wannabe?!
        Hwa-young also got off easy (other than losing JH). I think they should have left their (BS-HY) friction unresolved. That makes way more natural sense. But since it also maybe leads to thoughts that HY will be brewing more evil potions and spearing voodoo dolls and our OTP will never be at peace. Perhaps then a peaceful resolution was necessary, and that was the best the writer could do.

        It wasn’t original btw.
        ~ I recalled Secret Garden when I saw the ghost + falling flower petals scene.
        ~ The ear-muffs – I remembered Kim Bum doing the same for Park Jin-hee, with UGGs being the huge sponsor.

  7. Thank you for the recap and introducing the series. Some episodes frustrated me but overall this series was much better than I anticipated.

  8. Thank you very very very much for recapping this show.
    It was interesting, fun, cute, sad and sweet while it lasted.

    I felt like we witnessed YSY change from a young adult actor to an adult in this series.
    Not just because he aged since BK, but he proved that the “older version” of himself was not accidental – meaning not just the result of being older. Hair and make-up help, but can only do so much for the character. In the flashback to his bag factory confession to HY, he showed us he understood how to project young: sweetly smiling, slightly unsure but at the same time cocky. Then FLASH forward to a grimmer JH, now aware of HY’s cruelty and ready to let go of that happier self, a JH who was blissfully unaware of the difficult times ahead. You could feel the heavier load of the years and guilt on his shoulder. The need to go after this new chance at happiness that meeting BS gave him, and his determination to do that whatever the cost.

    I think it makes a lot of sense that he pushed the restart button and dumped his wealth. He would always feel the taint associated with being successful over his dead hyung’s body. He was able to no longer be beholden to HY. His wanted to be a self-made man and he never seemed to be comfortable with the financial leg-up he received from her. He had referred to their relationship as them using each other, rather than being supportive. Maybe he did feel she whored him out all that time.

    I thought dead hyung was a dead ringer for Yonsama, prolly mostly because he himself played his own dead ringer in Winter Sonata.

    I think I will like all the “closure” scenes when they are subbed more.

    I am sorry they couldn’t afford to show us a more delightful epilog scene where we see BS on a visit to JH during his three years in France. It would have been really really poetic if it could have ended with JH’s “let’s runaway together” speech with them doing just that on a scenic wine road in Champagne country. I have been there; it is as peaceful and romantic as he described.

    ** Sigh ** Overall, this was a good one. I will be keeping this one close by for rewatches, mostly for the OTP scenes.

  9. Thanks so much for deciding to recap the series. I really appreciated having more insight into the drama as well as having somewhere to talk about M2F. I totally agree with you, this is a drama that won me through my heart. When the teasers and the posters came out, I wasn’t remotely interested. I didn’t like how either lead actors looked… LJA looked like a rough plain Jane and JH looked like a baby-faced wannabe with a bad hairdo. The story line didn’t sound interesting either. I started watching because I needed a filler while waiting for FBRS episodes By episode 2, I was hooked. By episode 13, even though I could tell from 12 and from teaser that I was going to hate it, I was so invested in the characters that I actually watched the remaining episodes raw… now I understand about 60 – 70%, but it’s an effort and I always wait for subs. Even with FBRS which I loved to death, I waited for subs. In the end, comparing the two Flowers, I was more invested, I cared more deeply, loved more the OTP in M2F. They were just so real …and I know that LJA gets a lot of flack about her acting…but I think both did such a fantastic job of portraying their characters. I went from, eek what is this boy doing with this ajumma to thinking in episode 15 that they looked perfect together.

    As for the final… yeah it eased some of the awful pain of 12 – 14. Do I still have some bad after-taste. Yes. Mostly because the final showed again, how much better this drama could have been towards the end. That really what made the drama was the OTP and their relationship with each other, whether they were fighting or being oh-so-freaking adorable in the final scenes, they made the drama. It made me wish that there had been more of that in 12 – 14. Also, I have one major gripe with the final… WTH that there wasn’t at least one freaking kiss? Really? I mean the cuddling and all were cute, but I wanted to see another kiss.

    I know a drama has gotten to me when I long for a continuation of the OTP’s story. When I wish there had been more episodes or season 2 and M2F, with flaws and all, had done precisely that.

  10. Thanks for the great recap and insights on this drama and its characters. This drama got me from the start, and despite a few bumps, kept me through the (shortened) end. It will remain a favorite of mine for a long time to come.

    Someone said this was not so much a great drama for seeing as much as it was for feeling (sorry for not remembering the exact wording). It left an imprint, in a way, on me that had me anxiously waiting for the next episode – I wanted to continue feeling the way I did when I watched BS and TH interact and show their love for each other. Both actors were terrific in their individual roles and together. I could say a lot more, but many here have already expressed so well my thoughts on this drama. Loved it and sad it has ended but look forward to re-watching it (and re-watching it) and also to see the main actors in their future works.

  11. I’ve been reading all the recap and I couldn’t agree more about the ending 🙂 I’m hoping for more sweet moment between them but oh well, what can we aspect with 15 ep only. I’ll miss the characters though.

  12. HAPPY NEW YEAR! So sorry to be late here….absolutely loved your comments and insights…Thank you for taking the times to recap M2F and this two wonderful characters thrill me to bits!

  13. Thanks for ur recap Ms. Koala. It really makes my heart warm when I find out that M2F ends that way. M2F really can be better than this though. Anyway, I ‘m happy to read it till the end!

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