New Drama Stills and Episode 3 Preview for Heirs

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• I think Lee Min Ho is playing a character of a lazy, indifferent rich kid who gets bored in most of the things and that is the reason why he is acting that way...

  I'm really liking Heirs. It has flaws....but there is this inexplicable fondness that has developed for the leads,especially the OTP, which is making me more and more excited for it....

  Thanks koala for the preview :-)

  • nah, on faith he was just like this. "Boring''

    he doesn't know well to make ''lonely, sad, thinking deep'' scenes... it ends up with him ''bored''

    • I saw that in Faith as well which is why I never bothered after the first few episodes. But I have to disagree, I think he knows how. Or at least he knew how before. Not sure where that LMH has been recently.

    • To ...on and koala,

      Lee Min Ho's Choi Young is anything but "boring" in Faith. My first question would be how much have you all seen of Faith to make that judgment because his character is supposed to be stoic and quiet at the beginning. He isn't the type that showcase his emotions or feelings to anyone because he is a general. You don't show your weaknesses or any signs to your enemies and in his case, he cannot show it to his subordinates too because that would worry them. Also, it is the setting of his character that he is supposed to be 'dead' or living without a purpose due to what he has experienced in the past.

      If you two have stayed on longer through to the later episodes, you would see his gradual changes brought out by Eun Soo (Kim Hee Sun). He would have seen Lee Min Ho displayed his hotness through his wrath, angry gaze, desire through his eyes etc etc.

      Lee Min Ho has learnt to act differently since City Hunter. He has learnt not to exaggerate his acting and uses his face and eyes to act. Gu Jun Pyo is the simplest and straight forward character, and I think it is the most exaggerated way of acting Lee Min Ho has employed on him. In that I think, GJP has the least challenge to play for what LMH is capable to do now. Yes GJP helps make him famous but it is the characters like Lee Yong Sung and Choi Young that shaped and challenged Lee Min Ho's to grow and become a better actor.

      I would advise both of you to try it out again and hope to see your opinion change after that i.e. if you can see through the flaws (because all drama has its flaw) and feel what the writer wants you to feel and think. Faith is a thinking drama with a lot of emotions, which is why I believed not many people feel entertained by it.

  • I don't feel it, that he's playing Tan just right as the character is written. In fact, I feel that he's playing Tan as if he's too uninterested to really actively portray the pained indifference of the character so instead Tan comes off as just plain uninvolved. But that's how I see LMH's performance so far and think others can see it differently.

    • About trying out Faith again. Don't. I watched it through all the episodes, even the bts, so I have a really good grasped of the story and the acting and all the controversies. Better leave it alone. It's painful for the viewers and it's even more painful for the actors, the staff, and the director. I'd rather see again LMH in City Hunter, because he's at his best in that drama.

• Kim Tan and Eun Sang can supplement each other in terms of necessity 'to be active'. I still think though that to be a lazy intelligent is the best (much better than to be an active fool). I like Kim Tan too. It's his character that draws me to this drama.

• Ockoala, I've been following your blog for a while (after readings your posts on City Hall on dramabeans a few months back) but this is the first time I'm writing. I too have great empathy for Kim Tan already but I disagree that his interest in Eun Sang has no plausible foundation. Kim Tan is a very lonely teenager with huge family issues. He has been living abroad all alone since he was 15! His relationship with his half brother and mom are strained at best. He is told by everyone (but his English teacher) to have no purpose in life but be merry. Noone around him has the depth to understand him and he pours his troubles into that said teacher's assignment he doesn't intend to submit. Then one day, while he is thinking things his brother told him not to he sees and recognizes a fellow soul. Witnessing Eun Sang's fight with her sister is the best thought out first meeting from Kim tan's perspective. Here's someone else like him who is betrayed an abandoned in a foreign country by a sibling. He is intrigued. And the more he sees, the more intrigued he gets. First, she shows her vulnerabilities to him, not a common thing to do for people in front of strangers. Granted, not all are intentional like the fight with her sister or the phone call to her mom but when she tells him in the hospital she is offering money because she's afraid he'll leave (abandon her?) as well this is a surprise confession. Secondly, Kim Tan is rich, very very rich (that humongous house for a high school boy living alone?!!!) so he's probably not used to people offering money at every turn for very simple things like a phone call, gas for a drive, use of an otherwise empty room in a ginormous house or people eating food with passed expiration dates. Or someone that works so much. This is most probably not something he is used to or thought about before. So he observes her curiously.

  As important as him witnessing the fight between Eun Sang and her sister is the scene in which he overhears her phone call with her mother. First let's remember, even though we don't know what they are we know that Kim Tan has serious mommy issues. I presume her being the mistress of a married man and as such bearing him as an illegitimate child has something to do with this. He avoids her phone calls. He doesn't seem to have the soft spot he has for his cold brother for his unhappy mother. During the sisters' fight he overheard of the mom a few times, how Eun Sang abandoned her mom to join her sister, how hard her mom worked to make that money, now he witnesses her trying to protect her mom from her sister's deeds with her lies. This kind of an attitude towards her mom provides a deep contrast with his relationship to his mom. That intrigues him as well. On top of all that there is obviously some physical attraction. He is drawn to her. I don't think he thinks abut her seriously at all at the moment but he is curious to learn more. The fact that she acts so mysteriously (avoiding to tell him her name, refusing to answer his questions about "her boyfriend") adds fuel to the fire. So all this lead to him not wanting her to leave the next morning.

  I thought overall it was a fairly good setup and foundation for the interest on his side. But if you don't watch their scenes back to back this might get lost in the flurry of introductions.

  • wow! i love what i read

  • Moonbeam, that was quite insightful and well written!

  • Moonbean! Loved what you wrote. Keep up your insightful posts!

    • @moonbean, that is so true to truth. yes, please keep it up. enjoyed your analytical thoughts, way to go.. Hwaiting!

  • Really amazing <3

  • What great analogy! The only thing I've thought about Kim Tan is that he's seeing Eun Sang as a kindred spirit. Here is a girl who breaks away the monotony of his life and after just hours of meeting they've already shared a lot of memories and experiences.

    • Moonbeam, u should do a recap on Heirs...i would totally follow u. I love ur analysis!

  • Shine your insights, Moonbeam!

  • i agree with you... your analysis about Tan issues & Eun Sang.

  • whoa! well, that though has been processing in my mind but don't know how to express it.

    love the initial development — it's not a smack-in-your-face thing but it gives you a feel of what to come base on little gestures and innuendos. I guess it is basically the director's discretion, controlling how much we, as viewers should see, feel and think. Love the slo-mo scene when LMH walked back to the house when he saw PSH dressing down and the dreamcathcer's feather-tail slightly touched his hair… and then there is this small glint thingy… makes a suggestion that there's "magic" brewing somewhere.

• Haven't started watching yet. Just waiting until I have a reasonable backlog of episodes before jumping on board. Find it hard to accept him as an angsty teenager though. I suppose like BOF - none of them look particularly like high school kids yet went along for th ride and enjoyed it.

• too many characters, but I only focus on Eun Sang & Kim Tan's love story...

• I want them to be in high school FAST. I find the three friends in the playroom far more interesting than the whole chasing scenes in LA.

  • yes

• I don't get it, someone explain this to me: if Won is the eldest son, how come Tan is the heir? Is Won going to be disinherited once Tan comes of age?

  • I didn't understand that either. I hope someone will clarify that for us. Why is Kim Tan such a threat? He is an illegitimate child after all, even though he is on the family's registry.

    • My guess (and it's only a guess!):

      Based on my understanding, Kim Tan's mother is the one that Chairman actually cares for (why he has no power over getting a divorce is beyond me.) Therefore, Kim Won's position as heir is justifiably sitting in a rocky position. At any time, Chairman can overturn him due to Won's mother, especially since Tan is now in the family register. An illegitimate child on the family registrar is a big deal; with the power the group has, this is actually unnecessary, and for it it to occur means that again, Chairman could be considering to take out Won's mother and Won. Think Joseon Korea and what the Kings did then for an analogy. The point is, to survive with what he feels is his entitlement, Won has to make Tan as unqualified an heir as possible (i.e. spoiled brat rich kid).

  • It's just a guess, but I'm guessing that despite being the eldest son, Won is actually in a precarious position, even without considering Tan in the picture. Won's mother is dead, so she has no hold on his father's affection; he's not close to his surrogate mother, the one who brought him up, who is also indifferent to her husband (she speaks of his affair so coolly and dispassionately). His relationship with his father is strained; his father thinks his handling of the company is too high-handed (remember Chan Young's father chiding Won about treating the maintenance man nicely, instead of the landlord, or something like that, and obviously Chan Young's father is the mouthpiece and spy of the president), and his father keeps reminding Won that the position of the company president is not necessarily his. I'm getting the feeling that he(and most of the higher-ups of the company) doesn't like Won's arrogance or sense of entitlement? Maybe Won is not exactly suitable to inherit the company. And getting rid of Tan is the least Won can do to secure what little chances of him inheriting the company. And Won can try all he wants to prove himself worthy of being president, with nonexistent competition. After all, if there's no rival in sight, any person, even a lousy leader, will do as heir? Though I don't understand why Tan's father didn't object to Won sending Tan into exile? Not that Tan is doing himself any favours by getting into all sorts of trouble that even the police knows him by face and name...

    • After seeing the trailers, I revise my opinion. Maybe it's not so much that Won sees Tan as a threat to his position, but it's more of Won seeing Tan as undeserving of inheriting anything at all, since he knew that Tan is an illegitimate son, even if this illegitimacy is not reflected in the family registry. So Won exiles Tan to deprive him of his right to the position...

    • Hello Chocolander,

      Thank you for your explanations, both of them. I also appreciate that you actually watched the trailers again, and came back once you realized that your opinion had changed.
      It's interesting to me that both of your opinions could actually be argued, though I would agree with you that your 2nd opinion seem to be more in line with what we have seen so far, and what we have gathered so far from the trailers. I really liked what you said in your 2nd post(I know, I am repeating myself :-)),and I am hoping that the writer will make it clear to us the issues and conflicts existing between KT and KW.
      I liked your 1st post, because it helped me see how you got to your opinion in the 2nd post. Thank you again.

• @moonbean, that's the best... I like it, oh noh! We like it... Fighting!!!!!

  • LOL..

• See koala uve changed ur mind ! It didnt take u long !

• those of you interested to know more about LMH may want to browse through this recent interview at
  http://www.tenasia.com/archives/74483

  here he gives a fairly candid interview about himself plus his role as Kim Tan.

  • I like him more after reading the interview Lol. Thanks for sharing

    • you're welcome!! cheers