There’s always a case between JCW’s characters and his partner’s parents. Healer and now Suspicious Partner. It’s like Lee Jong-seok’s characters can’t have a living mom or happy family. 🙃
Yes I always think about this. They always have some traumatic, distressing childhood (of course, best example being in Suspicious Partner and I hear your voice, seeing their fathers die in front of their eyes) leaving them cold and unreceptive of love or needy (in a good way, I guess) and very protective.
Yeah it is a kdrama trope but in a sense LJS and JCW are kind of typecast with these roles. With Suspicious Partner I found his character very similar to healer and LJS’s character in Pinocchio is so similar to IHYV (but that due to the writer really and I do not know about his other roles).
neener
June 29, 2017 at 3:38 AM
There’s always a case between JCW’s characters and his partner’s parents. Healer and now Suspicious Partner. It’s like Lee Jong-seok’s characters can’t have a living mom or happy family. 🙃
kabsy
June 29, 2017 at 3:42 AM
Yes I always think about this. They always have some traumatic, distressing childhood (of course, best example being in Suspicious Partner and I hear your voice, seeing their fathers die in front of their eyes) leaving them cold and unreceptive of love or needy (in a good way, I guess) and very protective.
CrimeFighter
June 29, 2017 at 3:47 AM
cliched kdrama I think. Either some hidden backstory on their childhood or some trauma etc.
kabsy
June 29, 2017 at 4:01 AM
Yeah it is a kdrama trope but in a sense LJS and JCW are kind of typecast with these roles. With Suspicious Partner I found his character very similar to healer and LJS’s character in Pinocchio is so similar to IHYV (but that due to the writer really and I do not know about his other roles).
neener
June 29, 2017 at 4:13 AM
Yup, kdrama cliche it is. I find it quite amusing actually and I just laugh it off if I find some similarities.