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scottishlassFAITH ep 21 broke my heart on so many different levels than ep 20.
We do not get to see grant gestures of love declarations nor do we get full blow fighting scenes or politicking. No this one is about the characters, and how they act and live from day to day while all that insanity is going on around them.
The ep starts off where last week's ep ended but instead of a kiss, huge make-outs or skinship we see our favourite Daejang literally sitting Eun-Soo down and spelling out his intentions to her. The way he declares himself, the way he carefully words each sentence speaks volumes of the man he is. There is no flourish, no flowery confession of endless love, just stating the facts. Calmly, he walks her through the emotions she evoked in him ever since they met, from the annoyance, the confusion, to the happiness and to the love he feels for her. And he knows why she did her antics, why she put on a brave face and all, because she wanted to protect him and he appreciates that. And after this he poses the question of all questions that when he can keep her safe, will she be his, for life? Can he ask her to stay ... forever?
By the time that scene ended I was bawling my eyes out. So simple, so understated, so utterly, perfectly wonderful and so completely Choi Young. Kudos to writer-nim for that!!!
We also learn that the pledged siblings broke into the medical ward and while protecting a very promising sample for Eun-Soo's antidote, Jang Bin is slain (Phllip Lee has to undergo eye surgery which couldn't be put off anymore, so he had to drop out of the drama) and Eun-Soo blames herself for that.
When Choi Young finds her we see another confession from him, he has opened up so much since the first days of their meeting that it is amazing. He tells her that he killed the first time he was 16, that he still remembers that face but afterwards it was just another face and another, and yet another. Still his words, so coolly spoked, so matter of fact, calm and reassure Eun-Soo.
We take part in their daily routine, the Woodalchi's practising and guffawing at 'Daejang's woman'. The sweet short moment where Choi Young visits Gongmin and Choong and the Head Eunuch are grinning like idiots in the background because 'the general has a woman living in his quarters'. The small smile on Gongmin's face only to be followed by a concerned frown and the burden that lies on his shoulders.
Choi Young still does not answer the king's question whether he has returned or not. And while he is grateful that Eun-Soo is safe for now and can - by king's order - stay at his side, Choi also knows that putting Eun-Soo first will eventually rip that bond of friendship between him and the king apart. There are already little fissures in their easy way, the butting of heads where Choi Young's 'frontal attack' policy clashes with the politicking the King has to do.
I fear we will see a real break of that relationship soon.
Then Ki Chul and Deok Hyeung having become partners in crime again and Ki Chul not only wanting Choi Young dead but Eun-Soo and the king as well. While he got more erratic over the last couple of episodes where he was obsessed with going to Heaven, he now is coolly thinking about removing any of those who he thinks made a fool out of him. He is deadly, perhaps even more deadly than DH and the whole Yuan Empire together.
There are signs that Choi Young's sword indeed gets too heavy for him LITERALLY. He drops his sword(!!!), combs slip out of lifeless fingers and while Eun-Soo cannot find anything amiss with his hands, the fact that he seems to have some kind of nerve-damage in both his hands is significant. A warrior of Choi Young's mettle surely is ambidextrous, or at least he knows how to handle the sword with his left hand as well, to have both hands affected is a bad thing indeed.
I wonder if that comes from both the suicide attack, where he confronted Ki Chul and got iced for the effort as well as the attack shielding the king where Ki Chul froze his shoulder. I really fear for Choi Young ... a general not being able to even hold a sword ... it's fatal. (On a sidenote: what if Eun-Soo's presence from the future somehow disturbs the power of KI? That those with KI will loose their powers? Then again only Ki Chul and Choi Young seem affected by it, while Hwasoin and Eum-Ja still have their powers intact).
Son-Yoo, the Yuan envoy, does know about Eun-Soo, more so than he led on to have known and he has memorized Eun-Soo's name in Hangul. Apparently Past Eun-So saved a man who later became a villain and killed a complete village. He asks her if she can keep away from saving anyone otherwise she would change the outcome of the future. I think there is even more to it.
When Eun-Soo helps Choi Young putting on his armour I was so reminded of the scene in Legend where Suzini helps Dam-Deok don his armour ... back-hugging, silent prayer ... and I do hope it is just a coincidence and not already a hint of what will happen in the future. I so want my Imja couple to live quite happily in this or the future world, I do not care.
And no preview for today's ep even though it ended with a cliff hanger .. the Yuan assassin who Choi Young let go (where they mirrored each movement as if they were both the same person only on different sides, mirroring each other) has found Eun-Soo and the Woodalchi are off on Gongmin's mission to capture Ki Chul and his minions as well as the Yuan envoy for treason.
All in all another solid fast paced episode, even though there were a lot of dialogue scenes. The last three eps have to wrap up a lot of things and I hope the writer-nim does know what she is doing!
We do not get to see grant gestures of love declarations nor do we get full blow fighting scenes or politicking. No this one is about the characters, and how they act and live from day to day while all that insanity is going on around them.
The ep starts off where last week's ep ended but instead of a kiss, huge make-outs or skinship we see our favourite Daejang literally sitting Eun-Soo down and spelling out his intentions to her. The way he declares himself, the way he carefully words each sentence speaks volumes of the man he is. There is no flourish, no flowery confession of endless love, just stating the facts. Calmly, he walks her through the emotions she evoked in him ever since they met, from the annoyance, the confusion, to the happiness and to the love he feels for her. And he knows why she did her antics, why she put on a brave face and all, because she wanted to protect him and he appreciates that. And after this he poses the question of all questions that when he can keep her safe, will she be his, for life? Can he ask her to stay ... forever?
By the time that scene ended I was bawling my eyes out. So simple, so understated, so utterly, perfectly wonderful and so completely Choi Young. Kudos to writer-nim for that!!!
We also learn that the pledged siblings broke into the medical ward and while protecting a very promising sample for Eun-Soo's antidote, Jang Bin is slain (Phllip Lee has to undergo eye surgery which couldn't be put off anymore, so he had to drop out of the drama) and Eun-Soo blames herself for that.
When Choi Young finds her we see another confession from him, he has opened up so much since the first days of their meeting that it is amazing. He tells her that he killed the first time he was 16, that he still remembers that face but afterwards it was just another face and another, and yet another. Still his words, so coolly spoked, so matter of fact, calm and reassure Eun-Soo.
We take part in their daily routine, the Woodalchi's practising and guffawing at 'Daejang's woman'. The sweet short moment where Choi Young visits Gongmin and Choong and the Head Eunuch are grinning like idiots in the background because 'the general has a woman living in his quarters'. The small smile on Gongmin's face only to be followed by a concerned frown and the burden that lies on his shoulders.
Choi Young still does not answer the king's question whether he has returned or not. And while he is grateful that Eun-Soo is safe for now and can - by king's order - stay at his side, Choi also knows that putting Eun-Soo first will eventually rip that bond of friendship between him and the king apart. There are already little fissures in their easy way, the butting of heads where Choi Young's 'frontal attack' policy clashes with the politicking the King has to do.
I fear we will see a real break of that relationship soon.
Then Ki Chul and Deok Hyeung having become partners in crime again and Ki Chul not only wanting Choi Young dead but Eun-Soo and the king as well. While he got more erratic over the last couple of episodes where he was obsessed with going to Heaven, he now is coolly thinking about removing any of those who he thinks made a fool out of him. He is deadly, perhaps even more deadly than DH and the whole Yuan Empire together.
There are signs that Choi Young's sword indeed gets too heavy for him LITERALLY. He drops his sword(!!!), combs slip out of lifeless fingers and while Eun-Soo cannot find anything amiss with his hands, the fact that he seems to have some kind of nerve-damage in both his hands is significant. A warrior of Choi Young's mettle surely is ambidextrous, or at least he knows how to handle the sword with his left hand as well, to have both hands affected is a bad thing indeed.
I wonder if that comes from both the suicide attack, where he confronted Ki Chul and got iced for the effort as well as the attack shielding the king where Ki Chul froze his shoulder. I really fear for Choi Young ... a general not being able to even hold a sword ... it's fatal. (On a sidenote: what if Eun-Soo's presence from the future somehow disturbs the power of KI? That those with KI will loose their powers? Then again only Ki Chul and Choi Young seem affected by it, while Hwasoin and Eum-Ja still have their powers intact).
Son-Yoo, the Yuan envoy, does know about Eun-Soo, more so than he led on to have known and he has memorized Eun-Soo's name in Hangul. Apparently Past Eun-So saved a man who later became a villain and killed a complete village. He asks her if she can keep away from saving anyone otherwise she would change the outcome of the future. I think there is even more to it.
When Eun-Soo helps Choi Young putting on his armour I was so reminded of the scene in Legend where Suzini helps Dam-Deok don his armour ... back-hugging, silent prayer ... and I do hope it is just a coincidence and not already a hint of what will happen in the future. I so want my Imja couple to live quite happily in this or the future world, I do not care.
And no preview for today's ep even though it ended with a cliff hanger .. the Yuan assassin who Choi Young let go (where they mirrored each movement as if they were both the same person only on different sides, mirroring each other) has found Eun-Soo and the Woodalchi are off on Gongmin's mission to capture Ki Chul and his minions as well as the Yuan envoy for treason.
All in all another solid fast paced episode, even though there were a lot of dialogue scenes. The last three eps have to wrap up a lot of things and I hope the writer-nim does know what she is doing!
