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scottishlassFaith ep 22 ...
So near and yet so far. Only two more eps to go and in a span of two hours (two eps) the whole drama has turned around on its head. And I'm a loss for words. I feel numb and desolate, my heart and mind aches for these two ppl as well as the tough choices they are still facing ahead. Only one drama/series has reduced me to such an extent and that was the epic love story of Aeryn Sun and John Crichton in Farscape, and they even were dysfunctional to a huge extent. Here in FAITH, we have a couple that is destined to be, it MUST be, because they are so functional, so compatible, so wonderful together.
The politics are going to be the death to me. Gongmin using himself as bait and hoping (keeping the faith) that his ministers will come to the right decision. Nogook who shows her mettle more and more and her love for Gongmin is boundless, accepting her fate that Eun-Soo has hinted at and make every day, every year she stays with Gongmin count.
Sun-Yoo does everything to make Eun-Soo go back to her timeline, wihtout killing her off. The assassin stole her surgical tools and while doing so inadvertedly smashed her antidote sample, so now all hope is lost :(
I suspect Sun-Yoo is a time traveller from the past. I don't think it was just a slip in the script when he mentioned Goguryeo, which was the name of the land before Goryeo and to which Ki Chul explicitly inquired. He seems to know far more about Eun-Soo and history than Eun-Soo herself. He warns her off, to give up on Choi Young otherwise he might get hurt/killed. He also warns Young and I think we are in for a surprise as to the real identity of the Yuan envoy.
Ki Chul whose dwindling KI forces drive him more and more into insanity. I just hope his pledged siblings will abandon him or just wander off and die somewhere without bothering ppl anymore.
I loved the little scene between Choong-Suk and Eun-Soo, Choong wanting to comfort and mediate between ES and CY and all for the wrong reasons (he thinks she has to sleep on a chair, he could not be more wrong) and that the Daejang's moods can be a bit rude and such. I loved how he wants to protect both Eun-Soo and Choi Young and somehow creates the feeling he does it all wrong.
Our Imja couple kills me. They love each other so much, so completely and truly, it's so painful to watch them struggle. It almost feels too real, too big to endure. They show there love not in grand gestures, but in the small things. Them sitting together, talking about the past; them quarreling and getting frustrated. And there is this one big love that entertwines their souls and minds. It's stunning.
My heart bleeds when I see Choi Young struggle to make it all right, to protect Eun-Soo and the king at the same time, I can see his frustration, his anger, and that deep, bone-weary heartache as he prepares himself to face. Eun-Soo must go back, or she will die.
But when Eun-Soo asked him in the last couple of minutes of the ep, what is that life she will live? When she cries for him at night and in the day she will just function, like a living dead. He knows how that feels because he did so for 7 years and will continue to do so when she gone.
He wants her to live, to protect her, he wants to send her away but Eun-Soo has grown so much, has overcome her money-grabbing, selfish ways that she cannot go back. She wants these final 14 days with him, at his side and if that means she has to pay this happiness with death by poison, then so be it. Because she loves Choi Young so much, nothing in this world or the future is important to her any more.
And Choi Young is frustrated, because he wants to protect her, wants to hog tie her and bring her back to the portal himself so she can live. Him wanting to send her back has nothing to do with his promise anymore, he wants to ensure that even if he can't see her, touch her, talk to her, he wants to continue living that somewhere in time she lives. It's what will give him energy to continue living and function as a warrior to the king. He wants her so much that it is painful how he quarrels with her, telling her they must go and her calmly stating that no, she made her decision even if he retracts his question about staying at his side.
He gets so frustrated, so worked up that his hands begin to shake again, his life as a warrior has become such a burden for him that it manifests itself in physical deficiencies.
And we see Eun-Soo crying openly for the first time in front of him, showing him how much she loves, how much she herself suffers in order to make it right for the both of them. Because only together they can be truly happy. They need each other so much it is insane.
I don't see this epic drama ending with a HEA. The choices to make this a HEA are too cliched and won't work with the characters of Eun-Soo and Choi Young. He cannot go with her, because in doing so they would change the history of Korea. So if he has to remain and Eun-Soo indeed stays with him, then she will die and we will see a devastated Woodalchi General.
Then there is the choice of Choi Young forcibly sending her through the portal, but then we have two lovers 7 hundred years apart pining away for each other and both dying alone and heart-broken.
I would hate for Eun-Soo ending up with a 21st century re-incarnated version of Choi Young. Because that would feel like cheating. The re-incarnation wouldn't be the real deal, he would not be the Choi Young she had come to love and admire.
So yeah, I think we will see her dying in his arms and him struggling to be a warrior during his days and dreaming about Eun-Soo during his nights, wishing he was dead. I hope I'm utterly wrong, but atm as things be, I do not know how to get out of this bind :(
So near and yet so far. Only two more eps to go and in a span of two hours (two eps) the whole drama has turned around on its head. And I'm a loss for words. I feel numb and desolate, my heart and mind aches for these two ppl as well as the tough choices they are still facing ahead. Only one drama/series has reduced me to such an extent and that was the epic love story of Aeryn Sun and John Crichton in Farscape, and they even were dysfunctional to a huge extent. Here in FAITH, we have a couple that is destined to be, it MUST be, because they are so functional, so compatible, so wonderful together.
The politics are going to be the death to me. Gongmin using himself as bait and hoping (keeping the faith) that his ministers will come to the right decision. Nogook who shows her mettle more and more and her love for Gongmin is boundless, accepting her fate that Eun-Soo has hinted at and make every day, every year she stays with Gongmin count.
Sun-Yoo does everything to make Eun-Soo go back to her timeline, wihtout killing her off. The assassin stole her surgical tools and while doing so inadvertedly smashed her antidote sample, so now all hope is lost :(
I suspect Sun-Yoo is a time traveller from the past. I don't think it was just a slip in the script when he mentioned Goguryeo, which was the name of the land before Goryeo and to which Ki Chul explicitly inquired. He seems to know far more about Eun-Soo and history than Eun-Soo herself. He warns her off, to give up on Choi Young otherwise he might get hurt/killed. He also warns Young and I think we are in for a surprise as to the real identity of the Yuan envoy.
Ki Chul whose dwindling KI forces drive him more and more into insanity. I just hope his pledged siblings will abandon him or just wander off and die somewhere without bothering ppl anymore.
I loved the little scene between Choong-Suk and Eun-Soo, Choong wanting to comfort and mediate between ES and CY and all for the wrong reasons (he thinks she has to sleep on a chair, he could not be more wrong) and that the Daejang's moods can be a bit rude and such. I loved how he wants to protect both Eun-Soo and Choi Young and somehow creates the feeling he does it all wrong.
Our Imja couple kills me. They love each other so much, so completely and truly, it's so painful to watch them struggle. It almost feels too real, too big to endure. They show there love not in grand gestures, but in the small things. Them sitting together, talking about the past; them quarreling and getting frustrated. And there is this one big love that entertwines their souls and minds. It's stunning.
My heart bleeds when I see Choi Young struggle to make it all right, to protect Eun-Soo and the king at the same time, I can see his frustration, his anger, and that deep, bone-weary heartache as he prepares himself to face. Eun-Soo must go back, or she will die.
But when Eun-Soo asked him in the last couple of minutes of the ep, what is that life she will live? When she cries for him at night and in the day she will just function, like a living dead. He knows how that feels because he did so for 7 years and will continue to do so when she gone.
He wants her to live, to protect her, he wants to send her away but Eun-Soo has grown so much, has overcome her money-grabbing, selfish ways that she cannot go back. She wants these final 14 days with him, at his side and if that means she has to pay this happiness with death by poison, then so be it. Because she loves Choi Young so much, nothing in this world or the future is important to her any more.
And Choi Young is frustrated, because he wants to protect her, wants to hog tie her and bring her back to the portal himself so she can live. Him wanting to send her back has nothing to do with his promise anymore, he wants to ensure that even if he can't see her, touch her, talk to her, he wants to continue living that somewhere in time she lives. It's what will give him energy to continue living and function as a warrior to the king. He wants her so much that it is painful how he quarrels with her, telling her they must go and her calmly stating that no, she made her decision even if he retracts his question about staying at his side.
He gets so frustrated, so worked up that his hands begin to shake again, his life as a warrior has become such a burden for him that it manifests itself in physical deficiencies.
And we see Eun-Soo crying openly for the first time in front of him, showing him how much she loves, how much she herself suffers in order to make it right for the both of them. Because only together they can be truly happy. They need each other so much it is insane.
I don't see this epic drama ending with a HEA. The choices to make this a HEA are too cliched and won't work with the characters of Eun-Soo and Choi Young. He cannot go with her, because in doing so they would change the history of Korea. So if he has to remain and Eun-Soo indeed stays with him, then she will die and we will see a devastated Woodalchi General.
Then there is the choice of Choi Young forcibly sending her through the portal, but then we have two lovers 7 hundred years apart pining away for each other and both dying alone and heart-broken.
I would hate for Eun-Soo ending up with a 21st century re-incarnated version of Choi Young. Because that would feel like cheating. The re-incarnation wouldn't be the real deal, he would not be the Choi Young she had come to love and admire.
So yeah, I think we will see her dying in his arms and him struggling to be a warrior during his days and dreaming about Eun-Soo during his nights, wishing he was dead. I hope I'm utterly wrong, but atm as things be, I do not know how to get out of this bind :(
