I’m stuttering here I can’t even get the words out without wanting to HulkSmash my keyboard. The writer for Missing You needs to take her meds again and maybe go to Jeju for a looooong sabbatical and stay away from drama writing. With her drama alternating between interesting conflicts that she can’t seem to develop with any competence, sheer whatthefuckery when it comes to having her characters act like schizos, not to mention the most laughable murder plots and investigations that even the Scooby Gang can solve with one Scooby snack, I think I’ve hit my tipping point when it comes to this drama. After finally finishing Rooftop Prince recently, all my affection for Yoochun’s hilarious yet tender performance as Lee Gak (Jeon Ha! I wub you!) came rushing back and I was all prepared for the drama to slowly resolve Soo Yeon and Jung Woo’s emotional pain so they could slowly get to know their adult selves before finally ending up together after Hyung Joon goes insane from his revenge plot and being all jealous control freak.
I knew what the writer wanted to do and was all set to run with it. Until I saw the preview for episode 13. WHAT THA?!?! Seriously? Writer-nim, does what you posit happening even feel logical within the narrative of episode 12, because it sure as hell feels like you just threw that in for fanservice. I am not amused. Not to mention I’m totally offended by it on multiple levels. This drama was never just about two people in love the moment the writer threw in a real life frequent trauma that happens to too many women around the world – rape. The writer chose to use that crime, but then she refused to write the aftermath with any shred of consideration and thought, only choosing to highlight the pain, oh the pain, without understanding why the victim and the families ought to be doing to heal from it. Many folks have called the writing exploitative, and I hesitated to make that call, but now I’ve gotta call a spade a spade. This is all sorts of messed up writing. No wonder Yoo Seung Ho admitted he was confused about his character, everything about this drama is like picking raffle tickets as plot devices.
So yeah, after Jung Woo spends ALL of episode 12 saying he’s letting Lee Soo Yeon go, understanding why she doesn’t want to be Soo Yeon anymore, in the beginning of episode 13 he sees her in the little supply room and drags her behind the curtain and then kisses her. I’m not even bothering to flay the return of grabby Jung Woo, I’m just so damn pissed off on two levels with this kiss happening now. Oh yeah, Yoochun and Yoon Eun Hye can kiss, but this happening now is just so narratively shitty. Before Jung Woo and Soo Yeon reunite in the open and TALK (the other thing the can do with their mouths which is much more constructive in their situation in dealing with 14 years of lack of communication), they first kiss each other’s brains out. Because, yeah, Jung Woo is all hot for Soo Yeon because in the 14 years he’s been wallowing in guilt he’s actually been pining for her in that romantic way. I don’t buy that shit, drama, no matter how much you try to shove it down my throat. That tastes rank, and reduces Jung Woo to a man who has no purpose in life other than Lee Soo Yeon (taking care of her mom, being a cop to catch bad guys like the rapist who hurt her, waiting for her, being guilty because of her, wanting to be with her if she comes back, yadda yadda yadda). It’s totally not Yoochun’s fault because he tries so hard and there are moments Jung Woo is adorable, but ugh his character just pisses me off to no end. Imma going to watch RP episodes to wash this ickiness off me. Even if the kiss was all sorts of hot, which it appears to be, it just feels so wrong at this juncture I can’t even enjoy it properly. And I’m such a cheerleading for kissing and boating as a general rule. I can’t believe this drama actually made me dislike a kiss for once.
Now let’s get to Soo Yeon – who kisses Jung Woo back and then says she can’t leave Hyung Joon and is planning to still marry him. Excuse me? Did you just kiss a guy back that is not your boyfriend, and then immediately say you can’t leave your boyfriend? On what planet is that right, Soo Yeon? If Hyung Joon was some guy who just took care of your material needs and hovered around you like an extra in a movie scene and you two were just platonic friends (and he had an unrequited love for you), then maybe I’ll be okay with you kissing Jung Woo behind his back. Maybe, but not really, because anytime you have to sneak around that is just a shit thing to do. But you said “the man I like” and have been all lovey dovey and cozy with him in scene after scene. Yes, you can dump him for Jung Woo, just like you can leave Jung Woo for him. Your life, your choice. But your actions in the interim needs to take into account the feelings of the man who has been by your side for the last 14 years in all his devoted glory. Either cut his heart out first before returning to Jung Woo or tell Jung Woo to back off. The writer’s mental state eludes me in how she thinks this development makes sense in the context of her story (when both Jung Woo and Soo Yeon have decided to just stay away from each other not ten minutes ago in the drama), and how it is even fathomable since Soo Yeon spent 14 years hating Jung Woo for abandoning her but the moment she returns she’s all affected by him like he set her panties on fire or something. I am not amused by this depiction of her character, who has been reduced to simply a representation of everyone’s guilt, desire, and hope.
So, in case folks think I’m being a biased meanie again, let’s reduce my gripes to easily digestable nuggets: (1) I like Jung Woo, I am fine with Jung Woo-Soo Yeon being the OTP, I’m fine on principle with them getting together in the end, especially in light of Hyung Joon no longer being a viable second lead from the way his character is getting written, (2) I like kisses! I think Yoochun and Yoon Eun Hye kiss well individually and appear to be kissing well there, lips be moving, body be aligned, eyes closed, all good, (3) this impetus and timing for this kiss is so wrong on multiple levels – she’s kissing a guy not her boyfriend (yes, Hyung Joon is her boyfriend, she’s said so to EVERYONE), and she’s kissing the guy who she claimed to hate for 14 years and just recently found out he’s living a guilt ridden life keeping her mother company, which does not make for any reason to kiss him at this juncture. Where is all this sudden romance coming from, I seriously DO NOT GET. I wanted the writer to have Jung Woo and Soo Yeon become friends again, maybe start dating, talk through the rape trauma – you know, the part where he watches her getting raped before running off, they have not addressed that giant pink elephant in the room and here they are kissing already? – before finally getting together at the end after showing us that they love the adult versions of each other now. ROARS OF RAGE AT THE BAD WRITING. I need 10 aspirins to quell that headache in my brain. My beloved Eun Hye is soooooo wasted in this drama. *sobs*
I really connected with how young Soo Yeon and Jung Woo fell in youthful love with each other, so sweet and so heartwarming the way he changed because of her. I was heartbroken they were split up by such a cruel and senseless crime. I feel bad that Jung Woo carries such immense guilt, and I feel even worse that Soo Yeon felt so violated and unloved that she chose to run away from her life and start anew. What I don’t feel, and what makes no sense, is how either can be pining or still in love with each other during the interim 14 years. She was happy in France, a successful designer living a peaceful life with Hyung Joon. He has created a make shift family with her mom and Eun Joo. If the writer spent the drama developing Soo Yeon and Jung Woo reconnecting and re-falling in love as adults, then their love story becomes this really healing thing to overcome their childhood heartbreak. But to have them meet and then immediately be all hot and bothered by each other frustrates the heck out of me because even in the drama world of heightened emotions I call bullshit on that. On a happier note, I’m sure this kiss will make lots of people happy, so I guess it’s an early Christmas present of sorts for fans of MY.
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OMO OMO!!! The kiss...finally...this scene is so beautiful...they are holding hands which makes it much more intimate...
PYC and YEH are going to win best kiss this year..I cannot wait for thursday!
Kyaa! Seriously so happy to see them kiss. I mean exploding chemistry between the two leads with just the picture still... and then the preview... I thinks Yoochun and YEH are so physically compatible. I am so shipping these two.
thanks for your lovely thoughts, i do not agree with them at all. bye
I became a fan of YooChun after RP. I don't follow this coz it's too dramatic but I always read your comments. LOL you just gave me a laugh how you described the writer. If Tommy Hong can see greed on SK eyes, here I can feel your frustrations.
Betchay
I love Koala and all, but you have to watch the drama to understand it yourself. Seriously it is such a good drama and the actors are all so charismatic. Don't rely on the comments either, because most of the negative comments come from people who don't watch the drama.
I'm with u... i'm also shocked to see them kissing, and i agree that it's too sudden. Hope it's just a dream or it's just baaad, baad writing. I guess we'll have to see it then rage later (ーー;)
I hope it's not a dream. And a lot of jungwoo-sy shippers will be crushed if it is so. Are you watching the drama? Come spazz with us on soompi after the episodes airs. I doubt if you will have to "rage" later.
I'm a JW-SY shipper, and i think HJ is bad for SY. i do watch the drama. But to get where they are now(the kiss, i mean) still doesn't make sense, it lack 'the feels' i'm hoping for. So yeah, we'll see whether i'll rage or spazz or indifferent...
You rock! I love your thoughts and am so happy you express them so well. My head - filled with logic - completely agree, but my heart is excited to see any YEH kissing (she is so good at it).
Aish! I guess the writing can get worse huh? I take back what I said earlier about including the rape part was a good thing and it was not just to get the audience to see and heap on more pain. As far as it has progressed now, I really do feel like it was just to heap on more tears and more pain just for the sake of it.
I wish SY would just dump hj already and move on with jw. Sometimes I don't even know what to say anymore. I used to love everything even the ones that don't make any sense. But not anymore.
I agree with you 100%. And I am now glad that I jumped ship on this drama after episode 12. It has been going downhill for a while now, and I see that it isn't going to be getting better. I feel like this show is written purely for emotional reactions without any thought to plot or motivation. "Let's have lots of crying and bad things because that will make the viewers feel strong emotions. Now let's have a sexy kiss because viewers love sexy kisses." Ugh. What a sad waste of 3 great actors (and 2 more if you count the kids who were just as good).
2012 has had some great dramas but it has also given us some of the biggest wastes of great talent I've ever seen (Fashion King, Big and Missing You are the ones I've seen).
I respectfully disagree. Putting Missing You along with Fashion King and Big is blasphemy! Missing you was never panned by critics like the other two in SK. I hope you give this drama a chance still.
waiiit, so she refuses to kiss hyung-joon (who is actually her boyfriend??!!!) and goes to kiss someone who she has apparently hated for the past 14 years?! That doesn't even make sense!
I love all three actors but this dramas is all sorts of batshit crazy, i dont think ill watch it when it finishes...
Thank you! I just don't understand how they can erase the 14 years like that and have her kissing him when she couldn't kiss the guy she has been living with for 14 years. I'm starting to hate this drama.
It's like Hyung Joon has been a placeholder for Jung Woo for the last 14 years. Which is all sorts of insulting to what was introduced as a very natural and warm relationship between Soo Yeon and Hyung Joon only to immediately hit the skids the moment she got back to Korea and Jung Woo showed up.
I don't know why the writer appears to think that the moment a person runs into an unfulfilled first love everything else can be diminished and that becomes the central focus on the story. You know, I don't blame Hyung Joon for being angry and bitter. I would be, too. This is just wrong and makes me really dislike the OTP for their self-absorption. Everything is about them and their schmoopy feeeeeelings for each other.
Forget their jobs, pffffft, let's spend time just revisiting the past over and over again.
I don't think Harry and Zoe is in boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. I notice it since the first time Harry showed up in Zoe's fashion show preparation. Harry mentioned 'the girl I love', but Zoe reply with 'the man I like'. And yes, they have a warm and close relationship, but it's not a love relationship. I just think that they are more like eonni-dongsaeng relationship. It's Harry who always puts his head on Zoe shoulder, like a little brother who try to find peace in his sister (He already did it when he is a little kid in a car after chased by Detective Kim)
About the fiancee status, I remember that Zoe is a little bit startled when Harry ask to Jung Woo, why Jung Woo can't take his eyes from his fiancee? So I think that their relationship is like a close friend.If they are really engaged, probably their France friends will acknowledge Harry as fiance, not just sponsor.
So what I thought of this preview 13 when Zoe told Jung Woo that she will get married to Harry, it means that she still don't want to be Soo Yeon (because her heart is still hurt) but she want to see Jung Woo, just like she said on the end of episode 12. So she aggree to go to the playground this night with Jung Woo, but she will come back tomorrow as Zoe. She use the fiancee thing as a reason for not going back as Soo Yeon. But unfortunately, Harry misunderstood it.
When Harry asked her to marry him, she didn't say "No" she said "Later".
When Harry introduced her as his fiance, she didn't call him out on it then or even later.
So my issues are not with JW kissing SY. He would have at some point of time. I just think the kiss was at the wrong time and quite inappropriate - but that's all.
What I don't like is SY's behaviour. And it's the little things that should have been shown to make her look better. 1) Harry should have been less understanding and more psycho since the beginning. 2) She should have told him at least once - straight up - that she has no intention of marrying him and that she thinks of him as her brother.
And all this is because the writer is not taking the time to develop SY as a character.
Ockoala - Your post and your comment - I second both!!!
My feelings and thoughts exactly!!!
Thank you so much!!
You spoke my mind!!
Harry isn't Joy's boyfriend. You have to watch the drama. They are just like friends/siblings who live together and look really really good together. But it's a one-sided romantic love from Harry. And Joy has been showing lots of signs in the past few episodes that she is affected by Jung Woo. Thus the kiss really makes sense, at least to me, who have been watching this drama and loving it.
So I'm in the minority who say that Harry is not joy's bf. I guess didn't catch joy actually saying this except for when she was trying to taunt jung woo. Whatever. I still think its one sided love by Harry. And her attraction to jung woo can't be denied.
I don't like LSY type of character. Indecisive, spontaneous and selfish!! I am totally calling this kiss 'cheating' on her boyfriend!!! I don't get why so many people are looking forward to it. It doesn't flow with the story and it is making me dislike LSY and JW. Especially LSY...She wants to stay with HJ not only b/c of guilt but I think deep down, it is also b/c she does not want to go back as being LSY!! It is really about herself!!! Also, by cheating behind HJ's back, is that not even hurting him more? Lol..
Wait WHAT? Did the last episode just not happen? The fuck is going on?!
I've officially given up on this drama. Now I have nothing to watch on Wednesday's and Thursdays. I hate everything that's airing right now. I just can't wait for one of them to be over so I'll have something else to watch. Or I'll give Jeon Woo-chi another go.
I usually put up with shit writing for very long and I love all actors (Yoochun <3), I've sat through crap dramas for them before, but the writer shouldn't have put in something like rape if she wasn't going to handle the aftermath properly. So I'm just done, no watching, no recaps. I'll get a damn hernia if I sit through this anymore.
Just read your comments: Oh koala, I wish you the best. Don't pop any blood vessels!
Amnesia. The writer has short term amnesia and keeps forgetting the script she just wrote mere minutes ago.