Hating on a drama for poor directing, wonky script, or even bad acting, that’s all good and fine. Those are merely cogs that make the drama machine move and hardly worth getting emotionally invested in. What really chaps my hide is when the failure is with characters getting hijacked midway through after I’ve grown to care. Dr. Stranger has been operating in whiplash inducing extremes on that front. Hoon in episodes 9-10 was all about Jae Hee to the point that he was going to run away with her on a freighter ship and left Chang Yi by the side of the road. He was all “Jae Hee-ahhh” until even I was ready to shake some sense into him that he won’t solve the scary problems looming over them that way. Now a scant three episodes later and one single incident is enough for Hoon to give Seung Hee the cold shoulder. And it’s not even an incident that he has any right to be mad at her about specifically, she’s neither the reason for his conundrum not the hindrance to his medical calling.
She’s the one thing standing between him and death. What’s even more preposterous is that Hoon knows he’s a goner at any time, and so is Seung Hee/Jae Hee. He called off the surgery because Comrade Cha threatened to snap Seung Hee’s neck. Then minutes later he did the surgery, how does he know Comrade Cha wasn’t going to off Seung Hee just around the corner? He doesn’t know that but he’s conveniently put that plot element aside so that he can get on his high horse with her. How can the writer character assassinate Hoon this way? The Hoon who said “because she’s Jae Hee” when asked why he loves her buckles under one disappointment which overtakes all those years of love? Sheesh. The previews for episode 14 indicate more train wreck horrible developments to come so I’m here to warn everyone to strap on your seat belts.
Written preview for episode 14:
PM Jang hands the corruption evidence on First Hospital which was chosen for his surgery over to Chairman Oh, and also suggests that he take Park Hoon back. On the other hand, Park Hoon sees Seung Hee’s suspicious actions and no longer trusts her. In the end Seung Hee finally reveals the secret behind the nuclear tests….
Preview for episode 14:
PM Jang: Park Hoon’s mother has disappeared. Could Park Hoon that bastard have taken her away?
Comrade Cha: How could Park Hoon’s mom have disappeared? How can a person disappear at this critical juncture?
Secretary Kim: Did your side do it?
Hoon: Haven’t you thought that I’m suspicious of you?
Seung Hee: Not once have I thought that.
Park Hoon: Tell me immediately where my mom is?
Soo Hyun: Sincerely welcome back Dr. Park.
Hoon: Hey Quack, why is your expression like that?
Secretary Kim: Han Seung Hee, that woman appears to be really Song Jae Hee.
PM Jang: That’s impossible. I saw with my own eyes she doesn’t have the surgery scar.
Hoon: Now I don’t even know if you’re really Jae Hee or not.
Seung Hee: Please trust me one more time, I beg of you.
While the drama wants to keep Seung Hee’s identity under wraps, I will forever pin my conclusion that she is Jae Hee on Hoon’s heartbeat confirmation hug. He of all people knows her heartbeat, as silly as that is the drama posited already that they have the same heartbeat. So Hoon knows she’s Jae Hee in his heart, and yet he’s going to act all aggrieved around her, and based on the preview for episode 14, start not trusting her? She offered to tell him everything earlier and he told her no need because he trusted her! Then he turns around and doesn’t trust her. Why do I feel like this writer actually has short-term amnesia and forgets the dialogue and plot points he wrote earlier on. If I were Seung Hee/Jae Hee, risking my neck to protect a guy who is that inconstant, I really would feel so utterly hallowed out by a love that professes to be earth-shattering but can’t withstand much pressure. I can’t believe Seung Hee has to beg Hoon to trust her. To hell with that.
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Can someone get the writer and have him strapped to a chair and forced him to watch the previous episode! It's like he(yeah, the writer is a guy) doesn't even care or remember what he already established in the previous episodes. And PH not trusting the woman who he grew up with and eventually proposed to? I guess that's what you call "true love." (=.=)
Maybe Park Hoon didn't just get a haircut in episode 13. He got a lobotomy as well and swapped his heart for a new one that quacks instead of beats. Bummer for Jae Hee. If she suffered through all that just for a chance with Hoon and ends up with this? then she's officially the most tragic character in this drama.
Well, that what happens when Voldemort and Death Eaters take control of the script writer.
As you may know, they even eat JSY alive.
I'm not even her fans, but I hate You-Know-Who and her follower for doing all the things that successfully destroy the drama.
The Hoon I know has died, my only hopr is Jae Joon now.
Please don't let Jae Joon be with cheating Voldy...
And just let Hoon die, I don't care anymore
I never been so exhausted from watching a drama in my life! It appears that Hoon is always the damsel-in-distress in Hoon and Jae Hee's relationship. And most of the time, it's Jae Hee who protects him from his idiocy while he run around flirting and having a jolly good time. Where's the Hoon from ep 1 and 2?! Furthermore, Soo Hyun following him like a shameless, thirsty woman isn't helping the case either. (I want her to find out that Jae Hee is alive so she can leave Hoon alone!) I guess all of the love that he had for JH disappeared along with his old hair. I'm riding this crazy train for one final ride then I'm off to greener pastures.
Lmao can't agree no more. True love my a**. Forget destiny, red string of fate by blood, because she's Jae Hee, I will search the whole world and find you, ur father doesn't like me but he can't change our destiny. Pfft Hoon-ah, all of them disappeared in thin air he moment he doubt JH/HSH. (This is how frustrated I am with Hoon's character development.)
Maybe writer is forcefully trying to change ships himself. WTH.
Just kill off PH love interest, let PH move on and be great as a surgeon. I watch this drama for its medical thing. can't the writer just focus on that. it will be a greater drama if there is no political conflict. i can't figure the genre for this drama.
Kill off his love interest? Then i suggest to kill off soo hyun as well..only then he can be a great doctor since soo hyun is just another needy hopeless quack that cheated on her faithful fiance after all..
I don't even know the purpose of Soo Hyun. She's like a pimple that no matter how much you want to get rid of her, she keeps popping up.
And she even had the audacity to get mad at Jae Joon! The nerve of that girl!
i don't care anymore. i just want him to focus. haha
i think the writer got lost in his own writing…or swayed by the media or something, maybe drugs? lol…i don't know n e more with this drama… i actually stopped caring so much for it when we are halfway into it. I just want it to end already…& for Joseon Gunman to air so that i can get rid of this aftertaste i feel from watching Dr. Stranger…
Lol, I think he was on crack while writing the scripts. Someone give the writer some badly needed lessons on characters 101.
xD…IKR?
y is park hoon treating soo hyun better than seung hee? wat shit is this? he once lived her to the max but now he changed so much! that's idiotic though . n nonetheless , seung hee was trying to protect him! omg.
I think the real jae hee is either dead or still locked up in the concentration camp...and I won't be surprised if the plot turns out that dr han is actually jae hee's long lost or evil twin sister :X I just thought of it when the prime minister said he didn't see any surgery scars on her... coupled with the fact that she still has two kidneys and they never really established that she is jae-hee by bringing up their past. x.x
At this point I feel quite lucky about deciding to NOT watch this show (I don't trust or like the mixed genre), but I'm still following the plot trough forum and recaps (at first because of LJS). I've read this is based on a novel named "Doctor from North" or something and in that very same novel Hoon and Soo Hyun end up together and, yes, I think this is crazy too because if they wanted the same for the show they should have definitely tone down the epic love story/destiny in the beginning or give Hoon a different purpose in his life, different from JH, because I personally didn't like his obsession, but of course I can't believe he is now so easily sick of her either and if the changes were decided based solely on public appreciation (how can you build a life long love story in a way that the general public can't unitedly root for, me first), they could still have done a better job and just focus of other things (there're plenty) rather than romance. That said, I personally can't blame SH for falling over someone else even if she's engaged (it happens in real life too), falling for him in 13 episodes (there's no a time limit or something) or crying because she misses him (in dramaland it happens ALL THE TIME), but the fact that she's still in denial and hugging JJ while crying over another man, I think these things are quite awful and they show how the writer is not sure himself of what he's doing and he's like testing the audience reaction, before making her take a real decision and THIS, for me, is the problem, you listen to the audience, but you still must have an idea of where the story is going as a writer and if you're good enough the audience will follow and trust what's happening, even if their ship is sinking, because you made it coherent and things couldn't have happened in a different way. I'm not really affected anyway so I'll see just how all this mess will go until the very end~
OT - Did you watch High School King, the first episode was just really good~ ^^
Agree. I can watch soo hyun being confused, fallen in love and in denial but not made use of Jae Joon. Still, it happens in real love when you don't know what you feel and you're too stubborn to admit.
Dear Ms Koala, I am lost. Even the recaps are confusing me. I know it's the writer and he has lost the plot. But even with the recaps I am getting confused where this story is going.
Im sorry but why is it so bad for hoon to have doubts about jae hee?
we still dont know if its her....and why that much negativity towards soo hyun?
Maybe you all are like 15 and never were in love.Plus shes not engaged to JJ and he didnt even love her from the beginning.He used her to get close to her dad and get revenge.
Im shipping quack couple to death and i hope they are endgame....i cant stand jae hee .
And im sorry but people change..and if people change then love changes too.
You all just cant accept the fact that hoon is doubting jae hee now...i was waiting for this since ep 8-9.
wowowow chill there .
this is not about hoon x soohyun or hoon x jaehee but the inconsistency of the character developments in this drama and the storyline .
i think you might as well read again what's the description box telling viewers about this drama
"As a child Park Hoon and his father were kidnapped by North Korea. In North Korea, Park Hoon was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a doctor. Park Hoon become a genius like chest surgeon.
Park Hoon begins to work as a doctor in South Korea's top hospital, Myungwoo University Hospital but he feels like a complete outsider. To bring his lover from North Korea, he does antyhing to make money"
There you go and the early episodes were enough to telling us that JaeHee take a big part in Hoon's life . He is so obsessed over her . Not to mention the so called "you and your soulmate have the same heartbeat" and the red string of fate by blood .
The shipping wars in this drama is so ridiculous to be quiet honest. At this moment i don't care who Hoon will end up later , i just want the writer solve the mysteries that left behind and what happened to JaeHee after she fell from the bridge . If SeungHee is really JaeHee then why she doing such things and become a North Korea spy ? But i believe that SeungHee is indeed JaeHee . It's about time for the writer telling us more about JaeHee and those politics problems in this drama . I want to know what North Korea insisted that the one who must do the surgery for PM Jang is Hoon . What happened to Hoon's mother all these past years . I don't need those cray cray scenes about unnecessary flashback and spending almost 45mins to watch someone getting confused about her own feelings and cry over a guy because she misses him . I'd rather all the mysteries to be revealed soon as what the eps 14 summary written above .
Of course Soo Hyun can fall for someone else but she needs to break-up with her current boyfriend and stop using him as an emotional crutch.
And what's with trying to dismiss people with opposing opinions as children who've never been in love? Way to ruin your own credibility.
I didn't bother to reply because some of the shippers can't seem to accept that for some of us, this drama is not all about the love lines. Not to mention comparing us to teenagers is just not the usual tone in this blog. Which shows us they think or lump us into teenage fangirls. Nothing wrong with being a teenager but it's just I know a lot of us are adults and are parents.
Seriously i hate Park Hoon character. Just because of one surgery you abandon jae hee/seung hee. I just hope that seung hee will have her own happiness eventhough without park hoon. She need an happy ending. I hate park hoon but i will alwaysove lee jongsuk