While I am enjoying Heirs/The Inheritors with a lowered expectation and an enjoyment of the little details in there that particularly intrigue me, I wish the drama could be better. A lot better, so that the enjoyment lived up to its sprawling cast, famed screenwriter cred, and clearly big budget. It’s not a hot mess but there is a sensation of waste, of prime opportunity that is not tapped into. One of the things that keep bogging down the narrative is repetition, along with its mostly lumbering pace. I can accept the slowness because it corresponds with Tan’s ennui and loneliness, adding to his feeling of disjointed isolation, but the repetitiveness is unnecessary and really out of character for Kim Eun Sook. She likes to make parallels, to tie things together in the end, but for her to repeat a major OTP moment a mere two episodes later is really sloppy writing. Tan already spent time watching Eun Sang sleep back at that roadside motel. Did anyone need to see a redux back in Korea? I think this scene looks pretty, don’t get me wrong, but the visual effect doesn’t actually translate to emotional satisfaction. I want to see Tan and Eun Sang spend time interacting, especially since they spent most of episode 4 apart. Plus this scene is almost a carbon copy of the first meeting scene between Taeyang and Kang Woo in The Master’s Sun, where she was doing laundry in the rooftop and then fell asleep and he came by and watched her. TMS aired right before Heirs, so once again the similarities and timing are too coincidental not to jump out at me. Lee Min Ho does a fantastic job in these stills of quietly watching Eun Sang with interest and reservation, while Park Shin Hye has enviably gorgeous hair but I could have done without seeing her actually do laundry chores for the Kim household. I get that she’s sorta their part-time maid as well, but the laundry trope needs to end here. Other than that, I can’t wait to see the school yard narrative begin in earnest in episode 5.
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Pretty scene but void indeed.
In spite of a busy business trip you have managed to watch this show and updated your blog as in any 'regular' working week? Hats off Mrs Koala! :D
Yup all so very very pretty I wanna bottle it up. But then again its lacks a certain punch since we've been there and seen that already.
The previous trailer excited me but this still made me wary again. I really am getting bipolar with Heirs.
I hope the story moves, I mean for a story that has a lot of scenes, the narrative moves as fast as a turtle.
Anyway will be watching ep5 tomorrow and will be checking here again. and really like to commend koala also, really you're such an amaze-balls being able to update/recap. thanks...
I understand everything you say about Heirs and i think you are right miss Koala, but strangely enough i find Heirs really really entertaining and addictive, why? i can't tell, maybe my love for PSH and LMH, maybe because it reminds me of secret garden, and god knows i really loved that drama, i can't quite tell the reason why i like heirs but i like it, so let's go down with this ship!!! :P
You and me both, monch! :-D
OH MY GOSH !!!!! im so eXcited!!!!!!!! I cant wait for EP:5. its sweet that he watching her when she doesn't notice.
thanX so much Koala
Yah agree, just love them even it's 'lame'. Just love the scene, the clothes, the siilly thing that LMH did so cute and I just smile at them.
OMG, really can't wait for ep.5, TanSang couple Fighting !!!
LMH watches the heroine sleeps in like, almost all his dramas.
Yes, I'm more interested in the interaction of Tan & Eun Sang than him starring at her sleeping. Really no need to repeat the same action. Get to point and start dialogs with as much interaction as possible. Humm... a steal kiss or a gentle facial kiss would satisfy me and might be many other audiences.
yes, am all in for the steal kiss or gentle kiss, whatever kiss as long as there is one for ep.5, that would be a bonus!
I fervently hope that PSH will not repeat her cold fish kiss and up her performance like a certain noona, YEH. peace...
The underlying theme of the drama is dreams and nightmares: The heroine keeps falling asleep in all kind of situations and the hero likes to dream awake for hours, lost in thoughts. Both want to escape their gloomy reality and are experiencing a state of depression, of mental paralysis. Add to that the "Sleeping Beauty" reference and the dreamcatcher... I'd say this is coherent if anything else.
Hopefully, starting from ep 5 they will both wake up. Outsiders can also shake them out from their funk.
Yes, I've been thinking just this. :) Thanks for pointing this out!
Good point that would be interesting to see being played out as envisioned by KES
That really makes a lot of sense. Thanks for pointing it out!
yeah! I really think that KES is trying to incorporate sleeping beauty in this drama esp that KT's mom, KiAe, read Sleeping Beauty as an English tutorial on a prev episode.
Yup, he is catching her dreams.
Very zzzzzzzzzzzz inducing!
Youngdo was also watching her sleeping in previous episode.
I guess all of the men in this drama loves to watch her sleep
She does look beautiful sleeping.... :)
She looks like an angel while sleeping.