Heirs: Episode 18
by girlfriday
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you’re not really broken up. Our couple spends a lot of energy in being apart-but-together and together-but-apart, and I can’t even tell you which is worse. Let’s just say there are lots of tears. But in better news, when Tyrannical Daddy digs his heels in further, it actually spurs the people around him to make some changes. Let’s just hope they don’t get run out of town first.
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EPISODE 18 RECAP
We return in the midst of Tan’s meltdown, as he lies bloody and bruised in the street and tells Young-do he can take Eun-sang now. Oh are you done playing with that toy now? Young-do fumes: “Do you wanna die?” He challenges Tan’s right to rebel now, after what’s happened to Eun-sang because of him.
I do admit I see things from Young-do’s point of view in this conversation, because Tan made this mess and is now the one crying about it. Tan admits he can’t do it anymore, and Young-do just leaves him there to wallow a little more in his own self-loathing.
Tan trudges home to a shocked Madam Han and Won, and an annoyed Chairman Dad who shouts after him that his antics aren’t cute anymore. The fact that you thought they were before is disturbing.
Won comes up to his room to try and talk some sense into him, with reminders that no amount of kicking his feet will change the way their household goes ’round. He tries to order Tan to go to the hospital, which is sweet, but just gets met with more deadened stares.
Tan finally asks when he’ll get sent to America. ” I feel like I’m dying. Please just send me away. Please, save me hyung.” He breaks down, and Won is taken aback by his desperate tears.
When Won returns to the hotel, he runs into Young-do wearing a matching bloody lip, and stops him to ask if he’s the one who fought with Tan.
Young-do says he did the hitting and sighs that he forgot that he shouldn’t hit kids with hyungs. “I forgot Tan had one. He’s so good at hiding it.” Buuuurn.
Won just needles right back: “Looks like he doesn’t have any friends either.” He tells Young-do to put some ointment on his wounds, and heads upstairs.
Bo-na gets upset when she realizes Chan-young is staring at Eun-sang’s posts online, hoping for a clue on her whereabouts. The stream of messages back and forth between Tan and Eun-sang both posing as Eun-sang confuse her, because she’s delightfully simple like that.
Eun-sang sits at work staring at the same posts, and takes one last lingering look before deleting them. Tan sits up with a start as he watches every last picture and message disappear from the account before his very eyes.
Hyo-shin sighs to see Tan so troubled, and jokes that wearing his pain on his face is a little clichéd. He knows it won’t solve anything, but suggests that he should just go see Eun-sang or bring her here if he misses her that much, thinking it’ll at least lessen his suffering.
Young-do goes down to Eun-sang’s house for a visit…stalk…visit-stalk. There’s no sign of her, but just as he turns to go, he recognizes Mom, who remembers him too. She turns him away at first, but decides he’s probably harmless (if only you knew) and invites him inside.
She makes him food, which is probably the first home-cooked meal Young-do has had since he was a child, and he chokes back tears as he takes a bite. It’s pretty heartbreaking, and a scene like this makes me wish Young-do had been written this sympathetically from the start.
Mom asks if he’s good friends with Eun-sang, and he admits shyly that he likes her. But as soon as he says it out loud, he gets this sheepish smile on his face that he can’t hide. Mom tells him Eun-sang went to Seoul to wrap up some paperwork at school, but in reality she’s sitting in a room with Chairman Dad. Eep.
Chairman Dad accuses her of taking his money and then overstepping her bounds, feeling so high and mighty about it that he doesn’t even want her saying Tan’s name. What, is she going to taint it by uttering it with her drugstore-chapsticked lips? Good grief.
Eun-sang promises to repay the debts that Chairman Dad covered in her own time, but doesn’t apologize for liking Tan: “because that’s not wrong.” Good for you.
She tells him that she won’t see him anymore as promised, but there’s nothing the chairman can do to stop her from liking Tan. She asks not to be called here again.
She stops at the dreamcatcher store for one last look, which is exactly where Tan is headed on his zombie walk through town. He stops short at the sight of her, and they brace themselves and walk towards each other…
…And they each walk past without stopping. Tan keeps going for a minute until he finally breaks down and turns back. He runs to catch up with her, but she’s long gone.
He chases her down all the way to the bus, hopping on just as the doors close. Eun-sang is shocked to see him sitting across the aisle, but they just continue that way in silence, as he walks behind her all the way back to her house.
She doesn’t look back once, and he just watches from afar. This writer just reeeeeally likes this silent follow-walk motif for all her drama heroes.
It’s only when Eun-sang gets inside and closes the door that she lets herself cry, and she runs back outside. You two and your delayed reactions.
She runs down the road where he was shadowing her just moments ago, but he’s already gone. She trudges back down the empty street alone, but then there he is, waiting for her and asking why she came looking for him.
She tells him not to speak to her, or come to her, or do anything, but as soon as she turns her back he back-hugs her. “I can’t let you go, Cha Eun-sang. What are you going to do?”
She cries in his arms but then pulls away, as if to say she’ll be the first to let go then.
Meanwhile back at Chez Kim, Chairman Dad now turns the blame on Madam Han, accusing her low-class blood of being the reason Tan turned out this way. Wow. There are no words for how disgusting you are.
He says he should never have let her dream of reaching the executive suite so to speak, while she cries that he’s the one who brought her in this house and made the top floor her home. She goes up to her room in tears and takes off every piece of jewelry the chairman ever gave her.
Rachel and Young-do run into each other as they clean up their parents’ cancelled wedding arrangements, and joke amicably now about losing each other as siblings. Young-do still calls her sexy sister, which ew, but at least it won’t come true anymore?
He turns down her offer to share a friendly meal, opting instead to go to his favorite snack shop alone. And there among the scribbles on the wall, is a lone message from his mother: “Are you doing well…Young-do-ya?”
Won has Hyun-joo over for a sleepover and asks if she still doesn’t have a wish for her wishbone necklace. She thinks marriage would be a boring use for her wish, and he brings up his blind date, clearly feeling bad about it.
He asks her if she would’ve liked it better if he had been like Tan, but Hyun-joo says he couldn’t have been: “You’re someone who dreams of the highest seat, while Tan’s dream is for Eun-sang to be his entire world.”
She tells him to go after his dream, and promises to wave from down below. He says he’s working his way up now, and asks her to wait just a little longer.
Eun-sang reads a passage from a novel called Wonder Boy that gives her pause, and she prints out a copy to paste in the bookstore window. It reads:
Our two hands that clasped one other as we escaped past those people. Those bones, and muscles, and veins that gave their strength not to let go—that is almost all the love I know. What other love is there than that?
Other than the fact that I couldn’t let go of that hand.
The door opens and she gets a visitor she wasn’t expecting: Won walks into the bookstore, and though she assumes he’s here to rattle her cage, I think we’re in for a brotherly save.
She tells him defensively that she won’t see Tan anymore, but he says he’s here to fix the mistakes of his father, and asks what it is she wants for her life—to return to her old life, or to be next to Tan?
He suggests that if it’s hard to choose, maybe thinking of tomorrow instead of the long term is easier. He even offers her an excuse—final exams are coming up, and she can use that as a reason to return to school.
He tells her that sometimes when you can’t come up with the courage you need, leaning on a flimsy excuse is a start. Well, he ought to know about that.
Won returns to find Tan sitting in the wine cellar, and asks if he’s really going to do as ordered from now on. Tan agrees to leave for the States whenever hyung wants, but Won says the first thing he wants is for Tan to do well on his final exams. He adds a cute, “And if you’re in last place again…”
He hands Tan a little note left behind by Eun-sang, wedged in between bottles of Won’s favorite wine. He says it must’ve been a request for him to pass it along, but he didn’t really see the need to until now. He says he asked to be saved, so he’s doing it.
Tan sits in the cellar and reads the note as we see Past Eun-sang in the same frame as she writes it. She recalls the dreamlike mid-summer when they met: “The days were hot, the nights cold, and I liked you.”
She apologizes for lying to him and for running away. “My relief amidst misfortune, Kim Tan. I’m really disappearing like yesterday’s dream. It was nice to see you in my dream, Kim Tan.”
Early the next morning, Eun-sang puts on her uniform and returns to school. She sits down next to Tan and he’s so shocked he just stares and stares, finally asking, “Is it you?”
She says she won’t run away anymore and she’ll stay by his side, and he just envelops her in a hug.
So…is that the end of the separation segment? Not that I’m not happy about the misery being over; I’m just not sure what changed. Whatever, moving on.
Young-do hears that Eun-sang is back, and even though she greets him with a smile in the hallway, he walks past her without a word. W…hy?
It’s a happier reunion with Bo-na and Chan-young, and Bo-na is especially adorable with her I didn’t miss you at all! followed by a bear-hug. Cute.
Everyone takes finals and even Tan keeps his promise to hyung and tries. When he passes Young-do in the hall, the air is back to icy between them, and it’s another silent pass-by. I can never keep up with the randomness of you two and your up and down relationship, so I’m just going to go with, Today Is Not-Friends Day.
Young-do bursts into the broadcast room and tells Eun-sang he knows what debt-collectors must feel like now, and asks why she keeps making him ask about the debt she owes him. So they finally go get those noodles she promised forever ago.
He takes one bite and asks why she came back—if she’s really going to fight this fight. She says she wants to try, and he takes it in silently, and then tells her to give up if it gets too hard, that way he can say “I told you so.”
He tells her not to talk to him anymore, and she asks if they can’t be friends. Young-do: “No. You were a woman to me from the start, and you’re a woman to me now. And from now on, my first love. If we see each other, let’s not say hello. Let’s not ask how we’re doing. Even after a long time passes, let’s not smile and pretend to reminisce about how we were back then.”
And with that, he tells her she can pay for the noodles and walks out. Aw, poor Young-do. At least you learned how to be sincere.
Eun-sang tells Bo-na she’s sleeping elsewhere tonight, and elsewhere turns out to be Myung-soo’s studio with Tan.
He tells her that he likes her, that he missed her, and that he felt like he was going to die, and that he swore to himself that he’d never laugh again and never fall in love again. “So don’t ever throw me away again, Cha Eun-sang.”
She reaches over for his hand and they sit there holding hands and smiling.
In the morning he grumps that all she did was study all night, and sighs that he hates the fact that they’re underage. The first reason is that everything he does ends up looking like an adolescent tantrum to the outside world, and the second reason is one she doesn’t let him say because it’s certainly naughty. Let him say it!
Madam Han calls to say vaguely that she might not be home when he gets there after school, which Tan just takes as her going out for the evening. But we see that she’s packing a bag.
She goes downstairs to tell Chairman Dad that she’s going to leave him, which he finds absurd. But she’s prepared to go if it means giving Tan what he wants, and heads for the door. Leaving isn’t as easy as she imagined though, because Chairman Dad tells her she’ll be going to the States to ride out whatever angst she’s feeling, making it clear she’ll never be truly free of him.
She panics as his minions load up the car with her suitcases, and grabs a passing taxi to make a run for it. She goes to Tan’s school and happens to see Young-do out in the street, and begs him to find Tan for her.
It’s eerily similar to the moment when Young-do’s mom came looking for him, and he puts her in his car and goes running to find Tan. Aw, you really are friends when it counts.
Thankfully he finds Tan right away and tells him to hurry, and sends them both off in his car just in time to avoid being seen by Chairman Dad’s minions. As Young-do stands in the street, he envisions his mother asking for him on the last day she was here.
He goes back to his snack shop and writes a response to Mom’s message on the wall asking if he’s doing well: “No. I think I lived wrongly.”
Tan tells Mom to go wait at Young-do’s hotel for now, and goes to see Chairman Dad. Tan tells him that he’ll take responsibility for Mom now, by parting ways with his father for good. Nice.
He says he’ll only live as Mom’s family from now on, and bows: “Thank you for having me.”
It shocks Dad, but he continues to go ahead with arrangements for Tan’s eighteenth birthday as planned—company stocks, along with a big press conference at Zeus Hotel. Tan hears about it from Won, and decides he’ll attend after all.
Won gives him the Cheondam-dong villa for his mother’s use, admitting that her troubles have something to do with him, and Tan apologizes for always doing things his way when it came to hyung.
Won tells him not to apologize because it makes him uncomfortable, but then offers up a happy birthday as Tan walks out, and it puts a little smile on Tan’s face.
It’s time for Tan’s big birthday press conference, and he has Eun-sang escorted there to be his date. Time for the big Cinderella makeover. She wows him in her pretty red dress, and he says they’ll need some courage tonight.
Off they go to face the row of cameras, and he steels himself as they prepare to face the world head-on.
COMMENTS
If this entire conflict goes away with one press conference, I’ll die laughing. Anyway, at least there’s some indication that Tan is doing something, even if I’m not entirely convinced he’s cutting ties with Dad for good. And I sort of laughed at the Cheongdam-dong villa for Mom, because these people talk about leaving like it’s some huge sacrifice and they’ll have to be penniless and destitute in exchange for their pride, when in fact they’ll really just move into that other villa provided by the other rich guy. It’s the same for Eun-sang, whose life changes in no visible way except for the fact that in one moment Chairman Dad is pulling the strings, and in the next, slightly more magnanimous President Won is backing her instead. Why… can’t she just live her life instead of being allowed to do things by one rich guy over another rich guy? Or am I just asking the wrong questions for this drama because those are her only options in life ever?
Other than the fact that it’s annoying on principle, it also downplays her decision to go back to Tan. Isn’t it more meaningful for them to say, Screw it, we’re just gonna love each other anyway? It’s like the drama wants to say that that’s too unrealistic, so instead we have our teenage romance playing out under the umbrella of choices made by the overseeing (and puppet-string-yanking) adults, which has the effect of taking away any dramatic oomph from the choices made by our lead characters. They’re told to go away and they’re told to come back, and it’s played as if it holds the same dramatic weight as if they made the decisions on their own. I don’t necessarily disagree that these eighteen-year-olds are in fact powerless in their universe. There’s just a disconnect for me between the characters’ agency and the dramatic weight of their choices.
What exactly about Won’s declaration makes it okay for Eun-sang to go back to Tan? Why does Tan think it’s going to be different this time around? The only major shift we saw in this episode is really Madam Han’s choice to leave her husband, which gives Tan freedom from the last reason he’d have to cower to Dad. I’m just pinning my hopes on Tan making some kind of useful declaration at the press conference, and truly cut ties with Dad, officially, for GOOD. At this point I’d be disappointed if Tan didn’t sacrifice his entire kingdom to be with Eun-sang. Tan has so failed to impress me that it’s the only thing left in his arsenal, though I’m not going to hold my breath because obviously this drama is not going to let them (gasp!) be poor.
It was really Young-do’s episode, and the fact that I really felt for him in this hour just made me lament that it was too little, too late. At some point they flipped a switch and the Young-do who secretly wanted to be Tan’s friend and was sincere towards Eun-sang was written with sympathy, and for that character, this episode was a great moment of growth. For that other guy who started out the series pre-lobotomy, it made me sad that his existence fractured a character I could’ve rooted for and loved. I suppose the realization that he lived wrongly is better late than never. It’s just too bad it’s this late.
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101 Anduril
December 6, 2013 at 9:49 PM
I don't think KT's breakdown is merely because of difficulty/grandiose-impossibility of being with ES. It is the reaction to watching any hope of having a say in his own life wither and die. Being with ES was his first attempt in years to want something, to strive for something (rebellion homework not really counting).
He pleads with Won to send him back to America, i.e. to return him to the place where he was able to ignore his lot in life. (That lot may not seem all that bad to those who have had it worse. But pain is relative to every individual. Those experiencing it feel it no less keenly than those with more "valid" pain)
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dibudiaz
December 6, 2013 at 10:37 PM
I don't sorry for KT at all, he had the choice to be a violent drunk or to work towards financial independence, he chose the prior. He has everything most people would kill to have; the best schools, the family name and the money. He could easily forge a future for himself and separate himself from his father. Personally I think he is super lazy and instead of working, he wants to spend the time fighting and blaming everybody else. At least GYP from BOF tried to be responsible for the people that are employed by his company. He worked his *ss off to be able to understand the business world. KT on the other hand, doesn't really show much interest in ANYTHING besides ES, and sometimes his mom.
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xanti
December 7, 2013 at 9:45 PM
KT has so little love. He has never been shown what trust is all about. And he has a dysfunctional home. I do understand his character. Looking from the outside it seems ridiculous. But you can't really have it all when you don't have love. In fact, I don't think you got anything at all if you don't have love. ES may be another silly preoccupation of his but when a person who has never been shown affection and love and trust all his life finds that on something or someone, he sticks to it because finally, he feels he has all of the above. It may sound trivial to most...but not to a young boy who doesn't find meaning in his existence despite the status he has in life. King Edward VIII gave up his throne and title for a woman. So I don't find that hard to believe.
Also....maybe KT is just growing up. Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way. No one was born knowing it all. Besides, in his case, no one really took interest guiding him well.
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saranghaelmh
December 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM
I agree.. I have seen people side with less benevolent villains. I don't see why everyone is ragging on KT when he is clearly just reacting to his circumstances like an 18 year old.
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102 kDkiddo
December 6, 2013 at 10:42 PM
Ong dramabeans I just saw the web update! I loooooove it
As for heirs ! Its amazing I love it no matter what ! I dont care about details and stupid stuff I just love it
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103 yangjein
December 6, 2013 at 11:00 PM
Quick question, do we know what happened to Young Do's mom? Did she die or just leave? Why wouldn't Young Do go look for her if she left?
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Thandy
December 6, 2013 at 11:09 PM
I wondering the same thing, how is it that he hasn't tried to find her. or did he? I hope before the drama ends we find out what happened to his mom.
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104 Limmy
December 7, 2013 at 12:06 AM
Not the biggest fan of this screenwriter—all that wrist-yanking and submissive woman-ing, eeysh—but I will say aside from her witty banter, I quite like some of her it's-not-in-the-dialogue moments. They're frustrating, at times, but when I get them, they're quite meaningful.
She does this a couple of times with Young-Do this episode. The start when he's mad at Tan for saying something as callous as "You take her," and "Do you have a right to be destroyed right now." He's not saying it, but he's mad that Tan is talking about Eun-Sang as something that can be taken (after all, Young-Do has certainly tried that), something that's light and inconsequential. He's mad at Tan for starting this fight and not seeing it through to the end but losing. He's mad at Tan for not getting up after getting knocked down the way he told Young-Do he would. He's mad at Tan for starting this fight that he already warned him not to. Perhaps he's even mad at himself, for calling all this from day 0, and not being able to stop it. For believing even for a moment that Tan would prove him wrong and see this through.
Essentially: I warned you not to do this, to leave Eun-Sang alone, you refused. I warned you you'd get knocked down, but you said you'd keep getting up and win in the end. Now everything's come true as I predicted and you're giving up, like you said you wouldn't? Damn you, Tan, why'd you have to make me right. Now both you and Eun-San are hurting, and it makes me hurt, and we basically all feel like crap.
So then when Eun-Sang shows up at school, Young-Do immediately knows it's a sign that she's decided to keep fighting even after all this. That's why he ignores her at their first sighting, because he's pissed that after he's cared so much, and been so right, Eun-Sang is coming right back to do what he told her not to. That's why he goes back to ignoring Tan—because the last time they saw each other was them beating each other up, Young-Do trying to get Tan back to his senses, but Tan has clearly decided to keep going down the road he warned him against.
I've made a mental list of the points when Young-Do was "healed" from his nasty self, to see if I believe the transformation, and I've found that I do. Eun-Sang's appearance in Young-Do's life jolted that instinct in him to care and protect someone, and brought in an outsider who was detached enough from his social setting to be sympathetic towards him. She hits the nail on the head when she figures out he's both a good person and a bad person—he acts out when he's trying to hide his loneliness, when he's trying to get to know someone, when he's defending his friends, when he's trying to set them straight. He's not evil at the core, he's just been trained to use only evil methods. So I think the couple of turning points for him was when he and Tan had "counseling," and found they couldn't write a thing against each other without blaming themselves first, and when Eun-Sang's mum was so sweet to him. That's when he started to care about and help Tan in his own weird way, and actually care about Tan's birth mum as a person—which leads him to stop, apologise to her, and then run to get Tan. It's such a moment of clarity and honesty for him that he can admit to his mother that he's lived wrong.
I hope recovering Young-Do still has shining moments ahead of him, in our last 2 eps!
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Dania
December 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM
wow, Limmy. I LOVE YOUR INSIGHT ON YOUNG DO CHARACTER, it;s so true,i hope he get his happy ending in the end like meeting his mother or new love...huhu
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Limmy
December 16, 2013 at 3:22 AM
Aw, thank you, Dania! *takes a bow*
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105 Marie21
December 7, 2013 at 12:49 AM
oh that episode was so goooood!!! because Young-Do and Kim Won Oppa were just fantastic in this episode! these two really shine in this!!! The scene when Young- Do says "goodbye" to Eun Sang was so well-played by both actors, the scene felt so right, so natural and at the same time really heartbreaking for Young-Do!!! As for Kim Won (Choi Jin Hyuk), I am so glad we could see him so often and in a marvellous way in this episode!!! Thank you to the screenwriter and to PD -nim for giving him all those scenes where he can shine for once!!! and big swoon for me with the bed scene with Hyun-Joo, soooo lovely those two!!! :) <3 <3 Yes, I swoon a lot for Kim Won Oppa/ Choi Jin Hyuk!!
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106 potatoluvah
December 7, 2013 at 5:14 AM
Sigh, YD... he really made me cry in all of his scenes. My fave part was his meal with ES's mom, very touching and heartwarming. And cute actually. He shyly admitted his feelings to the mother of the girl he likes. Did KT even bother to talk to ES' mom? After all the trouble they went through, shouldn't ES' mom deserve his apology, of all people? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I'm really curious about what the writer's true intentions are, making up this ridiculous characters the viewers should root for.
I still have a lot of thoughts about KT but I guess there's no point of expounding anymore. Right now with the way things are going, what's left of the story will just be fan service. I imagine the production people going, "Let's just get this over with. Give KT and ES their happily every after and one long hot final kiss." I hope that won't be the case, but that's highly unlikely unless KES decides to get really creative at the last minute.
I never thought I'd say this, but I was on Daddy Kim's side when he said KT should've been stronger. He was disgusted seeing KT going into self-destruct mode, and I felt the same. Perhaps it's because of the way he was brought up (so it's Daddy Kim's fault then), but KT acted like a brat whose favorite toy got taken away and he threw tantrums until he got his toy back. After that, he returned to being the sweet smiling innocent boy as if nothing ever happened.
For the remaining 2 episodes, who knows, KT might just drop the bomb at his birthday party and announce his own engagement or whatever. KT and ES can go back and study in the US together, or Argentina or wherever, I don't care. I just want them out of the way. 10 minutes of episode 19 would be enough for that. :D The other characters are much more interesting. And I really won't mind if they spend the rest of episode 19 and the whole of episode 20 on YD and his quest for his mom and a new life.
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Marie21
December 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM
I agree about the scene with Young Do and Eun Sang's Mom!!! that was a lovely scene!!! my favourite part with him in the whole drama, along with the scenes with Eun Sang in ep 17 (with the hug!!:)) and 18 (the goodbye scene!!! with Eun Sang's Mom, we could see how humble he is, how honest and sweet he is! the actor was really great in that scene, well in the whole drama, for that matter!!! I must finish School 2013!!!
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Evil Chairman
December 8, 2013 at 3:04 AM
The Chairman is a prick and he is always wrong.
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107 Kay
December 7, 2013 at 5:28 AM
I confess I havent been able to finish a LMH drama since boys over flowers. somehow I always get bored and lose interest. but for the pretty I will continue to look at DB recap photos.
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xanti
December 7, 2013 at 9:34 PM
i thought Personal Interest was fun. He looked really good there too.
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saranghaelmh
December 10, 2013 at 4:58 AM
Are Faith and Personal Taste good?
I dont need any riots here, it's a simple question. Feel free to critique and tell me but I really need to know.
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August
December 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM
Faith was well worth my time. It had action, comedy, romance, suspense, intrigue, and heartache. I am glad that I was able to look past the limitations of the director/directing and still enjoy this Kdrama. The actors, casting, and storytelling really helped Faith overcome some of its shortcomings.
The drama’s plot and main characters tackled what FAITH requires:
1) Trust
2) Courage
3) Preparation
4) Confidence
5) Victory
From their initial meeting to their final moments together, Lee Min-Ho (as Choi Young) and Kim Hee-Sun (as Yoo Eun-Soo) did a remarkable job portraying their characters's silent/subtle moments, facial expressions, and journey with each other.
I had a ball and loved watching Faith!
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August
December 11, 2013 at 7:05 AM
People kept mentioning or referencing the "Game Over Kiss." Once I watched Personal Taste, I knew what all the talk was about.
It was fun and interesting to watch Park Kae-in (Son Ye-Jin) and others assume that architect Jeon Jin-Ho (Lee Min-Ho) was gay. Also, I appreciate the fact that during the 16 episodes, we were able to witness the impact on the main characters once the truth was revealed and some of the fallout that occurred/aftermath because of the truth.
Definitely a different take on the "romance/love" triangle with Choi Do-Bin, Jeon Jin-Ho, Park Gae-In, and Han Chang-Ryeol.
You have to see the "Game Over Kiss" for yourself! Now I see why it always ranks high on the list whenever a discussion about great kdrama kisses happens.
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August
December 11, 2013 at 7:05 AM
People kept mentioning or referencing the "Game Over Kiss." Once I watched Personal Taste, I knew what all the talk was about.
It was fun and interesting to watch Park Kae-in (Son Ye-Jin) and others assume that architect Jeon Jin-Ho (Lee Min-Ho) was gay. Also, I appreciate the fact that during the 16 episodes, we were able to witness the impact on the main characters once the truth was revealed and some of the fallout that occurred/aftermath because of the truth.
Definitely a different take on the "romance/love" triangle with Choi Do-Bin, Jeon Jin-Ho, Park Gae-In, and Han Chang-Ryeol.
You have to see the "Game Over Kiss" for yourself! Now I see why it always ranks high on the list whenever a discussion about great kdrama kisses happens.
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Anduril
December 9, 2013 at 12:07 PM
City Hunter? That is the drama I use to hook first timers. I think Two Week may have just replaced it, but City Hunter used to be an all time favorite.
His character is at times a little insensitive. But any destructive behavior always rebounds back to him; same with ALL the other characters
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108 marmo
December 7, 2013 at 6:38 AM
I have stopped watching this drama for a long time now cos it a pain in the eye, I only keep up with db recaps. This drama is baseless, it makes absolute no sense, guessed lot of people watch it because of kim wo bin and lee min ho.
The writer only use those actors to get a higher rate for this drama, in actual sense it doesn't deserve all the rate at all.
This is one drama I wouldn't like to re-watch. As much as I like lee min ho I hated his character here if I continue watching it I might actually hate him too.
Min ho please stop accepting teenage script as this again
It doesn't suit you!
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109 love minho
December 7, 2013 at 7:26 AM
I have stopped watching this drama for a long time now cos it a pain in the eye, I only keep up with db recaps. This drama is baseless, it makes absolute no sense, guessed lot of people watch it because of kim wo bin and lee min ho.
The writer only use those actors to get a higher rate for this drama, in actual sense it doesn't deserve all the rate at all.
This is one drama I wouldn't like to re-watch. As much as I like lee min ho I hated his character here if I continue watching it I might actually hate him too.
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110 dramaville
December 7, 2013 at 8:40 AM
what's the instrumental song from when ES was wearing the red dress until the end? nice music.
i think it's the same when KT saw ES enjoying the view in his posh house in LA.
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111 hyun joo
December 7, 2013 at 10:37 AM
What does "shipping" mean? Worshipping?
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August
December 8, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Shipping means the pairing of a couple or for a particular relationship in a kdrama.
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112 windsun33
December 7, 2013 at 10:59 AM
To end up in a relationship. Supposedly the term comes from relation'ship', but may have also come from old movies where the OTP sails off into the sunset - ie., on a ship.
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hyun joo
December 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM
Thank you!!
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113 Hannah
December 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM
You can not compare Heirs to any of the dramas this year. heirs and marry if you dare were probably the worst dramas this year. great cast bad script.
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114 Lin_K
December 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM
@fantasma - One opinion I forgot to add. When I said I don't understand Tan's love, what I meant was the intensity of his love. I understand that he can like her under the circumstances he saw her. However, they fell in love too quickly too (by the 2nd episode??). And their love only has the duration of a few months but his intense emotions are suited for a deep love that comes after a long time. Comparing to that, YD's love or maybe the intensity and demonstration of his love is more believable. I did not explain myself well before. Sorry.
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xanti
December 7, 2013 at 9:31 PM
True. But maybe it was purely physical attraction to begin with for KT as it usually is for young kids. Then maybe he liked the feeling of being able to rescue her from her misery...that feeling of being needed as there was no one who needed him in his life. Then maybe, it was also finding someone he had in common with, another Korean, in a world where he just breezed through in the US. It could have been a lot of factors combined. I thought it was easier for him to like ES as they met in the US and there, he was just like everyone else. He wasn't tagged as the heir to whatever. He acted like himself most times around her and she didn't know who he was so it was relaxing for his part.
I find it more surprising for YD to like her as he had seen her work part time jobs already before he actually saw her in school so in the world he moves in in Korea, one of his kind may not even give ES's kind a second look. I think what got him to like her was she wasn't too easy to get. He liked the chase.
But I guess, in both situations, when you fall in love sometimes you don't really know why, especially when you are a kid. You just do anyway.
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saranghaelmh
December 9, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Yes I agree. How many times havent we seen movies wherein the guy asks a girl out just because she's cute. They had their own reasons. I dont find anything unbelievable regarding either one's interest.
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115 Kenanga
December 7, 2013 at 5:47 PM
Another DISAPPOINTING episode :(,,, guess I'm not gonna watch the last episode as soon as it's uploaded,,
I'm kinda lost my 'appetite' for this drama,,and it's sad to know that I've been hopping from one drama to another drama recently just because many of them just make me disappointed in the middle or at the end of their episodes
I liked watching Marry Him If You Dare first than the Heirs,,,yet it suddenly made me bored which made me move to the Heirs,,and now with 2 last episodes,,it successfully makes me move to another drama,, it is REPLY 1994,,, 14 episodes and A LOT OF FUN, CARING, LOVING, and WARM Friendship drama ever!,, finger crossed for this drama for not letting me blue till the last episode
Annyong Heirs,,,
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116 kikidee
December 7, 2013 at 8:39 PM
*sigh*, You see my problem, as it stands now, is that I want to lick Kim Woo Bin's face even though he is way way too young for me.
Wait, was that TMI? Err..sorry. There was wine involved with this post.
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117 kikidee
December 7, 2013 at 9:57 PM
Okay, more wino commentary. I just read the stupidest comment about Heirs. Some girl was saying that she was annoyed that people kept harping on the fact that Kim Woo Bin was a better actor than Lee Min Ho, and she didn't think it was fair because it's not the actors fault, it's the writers fault. BULLS***. The actor's job is to take the character as it's written and *find* it. A bad actor never finds the character, a good actor sometimes finds the character, a great actor ALWAYS finds the character. Meryl Streep is considered the greatest actress of her generation (and many people would argue of all time) because she ALWAYS finds the character. Young-do was not a well written character, but Kim Woo Bin found him anyways. His performance makes the writing better. Kim Tan is not a well written character and Lee Min Ho can't seem to find him. Yes, that's a problem with the writing, but I bet Kim Woo Bin would have found him anyway, just saying.
I have no idea what I'm writing anymore. Drunkard OUT.
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kikidee
December 8, 2013 at 10:31 AM
Err..nothing to see here folks. Move it along. Tbh, I'm actually really impressed that this is all coherent and spelled correctly.
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lizzieb
December 8, 2013 at 10:11 PM
^^ This. I think the most surprising turnout from heirs is KWB. I bet they didn't expect the guy to outshine LMH's acting chops (in this drama anyway). Everything about Tan is just wasted on him. IMO.
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saranghaelmh
December 9, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Tan was badly written. LmH made him lovable. KWB's character was drawn out and had more dynamic. Sorry I still think Tan doesnt receive all the rap he's getting though. YD's circumstncs dont scratch the surface of Tan's.
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118 alex
December 7, 2013 at 10:42 PM
There is nothing in this drama except looking at park shy hey cute face.
One of boring drama i ever watched.
I think story or acting or school stuff...beginning was good with america ..thought they get better ..instead it become school romance which is not really good one.
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119 ankervera
December 7, 2013 at 10:44 PM
I find it interesting no one picked out on the Chairman's first wife, Won's mother. In ep 1 we heard from Won that she is a woman from poor background. And then in the ep where Tan's mother broke into the Chairman's safe, she only managed to do so with the date of birth numbers of the first wife.. those were clues pointing to the fact that Chairman had once loved a "poor woman" ..someone like Eun Sang.
And that she was still the most impt love of his life, hence her date of birth was remembered by him.
I think this could be the turning point at the conclusion.. this show is abt love across the classes, shown by Chairman, Won and Tan.. so probably one wd have a happy ending :)
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Jamie Ling
December 8, 2013 at 2:56 AM
You are a genius! I didn't even remember that! Hopefully this will be in the finale.
Fun fact: Young Do has an IQ of 150 and went to Mensa.
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120 antwerp
December 8, 2013 at 5:17 AM
I do love Young-do even when the whole episode doesn't make sense. I want the last episode shows how he lives after moving on from eunsang. Perhaps he will find a pretty average girl from an average family, walk hand in hand along with his giant dog, eat noodles, and he will inherit the hotel network when he's ready, maintain it honestly, and have cute boys running around shouting "appaaaa!!". And i'm sure he will not two-time his girlfriend/future wife. He's seen enough of that from his father, he will not repeat the same thing.
Just sharing my thoughts of what i want young-do to have because surely i don't want The Heirs 2, i don't trust the writer enough to make the story works -______-
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121 Nesie Delice
December 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM
really show? that's what you've got up your sleeves now? really?!?
Well, so much for anticipated dramas for the Fall/Winter calendar...waste of time.
Good dramas to really watch that I hope the DB team will recap or at least comment are:
A Word from Warm Heart; Let's Eat...and although it's already going on Wang Family (great writing, great acting)
Okay - I'm going to dig my car from under the snow...laters yall :-)
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122 BZBee
December 9, 2013 at 3:55 AM
Interesting how in soompi, they're all about ES and KT, hoping PSH and LMH date in real life and all that sh*t. Here it's like YD has won everyone over. :D
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saranghaelmh
December 9, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Here its YD and all that shit. I enjoy both characters and I find both actors are great. Just enjoying LMH and KWB while I can.
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123 Stephanie
December 10, 2013 at 8:44 AM
It's either someone wrote the plot and this writer ruined it... Or this writer just canNOT do live shoot.
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124 Monica
January 4, 2014 at 6:51 AM
I'm kinda late watching Heirs but I love recaps after watching the episodes. I've been reading the recaps on here for a long time but now I've got to speak up ! I see so many people complaining about the show... If you hate this drama so much, why would you watch it until the 18th episode ???
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125 Fanney
October 14, 2014 at 7:45 AM
Hi!
Does anyone know the song that was used as background music while Kim Tan and Lee Hyo Shin were talking at the cafe?
Super thanks! I really hope to hear from someone here.
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