The wait had been long, and I was pretty excited for this. I watched this as soon as subs were out, which isn't such a big deal. I live in Canada and subs are out sometime in the afternoon. I can say this is possibly my most anticipated show as of the moment, which again isn't a big deal since my attention span is pretty much that of a teaspoon which is to say, I probably don't have that much.

But I like this. Jong Suk is my baby, as I have said a lot of times, and I feel this intro is on some ty repeat, but hey, whatever, I don't care all that much. LOL. This post will be about my thoughts, not a recap, or a review of the regular sense, just uhhh... a reaction of some sorts.

I still think this is pretty good, though my attention is dwindling a little. It's like I was really, really excited, but now I dropped one really, so I'm just really excited. Ha!

The thing is I am really into the message of the show, possibly because I'm a fiction writer and this problem with one dimension and character motivation just is like a minor writerly-, and I just love, love, love it. And the antogonist, and his existential dilemma of who am I? it just rings true to me. This is like Toy Story for me, like if I finding out all my characters are real and screaming diservice. I am just in love with this plot.

The bad thing, however, is that it's kind of ironic, that Yeon Joo is kind of singular in purpose and drive. I mean, I like heroines who are in love and go for the important artery. I do. My problem is how she threw her life for a fictional one and we are cheering her on. I mean, fiction has always been accused of escapism, but it's romantacized here to the point where I am going is this a meta-commentary?

Because we have lovely, smart Dr. Yeon Joo who is the happiest to be loved by a fictional perfect guy......... and I'm still kind of iffy about this that you'd forget like a medical degree which takes a minimum of eight years to complete for a guy, and I know, I know that love is fine and good but she is throwing away her identity to have a singular defining character and that's to be a love interest... It's just a bit... well, anywho, there might be a big reversal, or not, whatever. Haha

I had this conversation with someone before about the singular pupose of women in stories, and she said that a girl who is just a guy's love interest is "doing her job", and that, for me, is just really, like crap. I mean, sure you can pursue being a house wife and a mother full time, but it's more than being some guy's love muffin, that's so in' wrong.