Oooookay……so Da-Eun IS psycho PSYCHO. Then all bets are off.
I keep going back and forth about what her true motivation is. Is she obsessed with Ye-Ji because she is jealous of her and wants to ruin her or is she obsessed with Soo-bin because she wants him but he doesn’t want her so she’s trying to force him? Or is this her dark twisted way of making friends by manipulating them, controlling them through money and forcing them through blackmail? What does she want?? Is it chaos? 😅
In terms of the timeline, we know that Soo-bin and the others were friendly(ish) towards her at the start of the school year but they didn’t know her like that or even talked to her much. She was always just hanging around. Then we saw her first approach Soo-bin after that phone call where it’s revealed he’s having money troubles. He turns her down but ends up working at the same place as her. The place is a front for something shady and Soo-bin is forced to be a part of it to earn money it seems. Da-Eun takes a compromising picture of Soo-bin and uses it to blackmail him into hanging out with her and forcing him to act like they are together.
Three observations: Da-Eun has been messing with Ye-Ji since day 1 which is why I’m starting to believe the root of her obsession is Ye-Ji and not Soo-bin. That she’s only going after Soo-bin to ‘have something Ye-Ji can’t have’.
I wonder if Da-Eun was the reason Sae-Na was bullied before Sae-Na became friends with Ye-Ji. I bet Da-Eun started some rumours about her.
It seems like anyone is collateral damage for Da-Eun in her pursuit. Even her father it seems, because why would you blackmail someone with something that would be a problem for your father also. This is why I say she is psycho PSYCHO. There is nothing off limits. Nothing she won’t do to get what she wants.
Wait, how is this so similar to perfect marriage revenge aren't these 2 web novels? Oh well, maybe one will have…
I thought they were adapted from the same web novel since the stories are essentially the same. It’s crazy how two separate webtoon artists came up with near identical storylines and it’s not a typical storyline that you find in dramas anyway.
Put aside the fact that her best friend is a witch for a moment, but why is she wasting her time on that small little man who has nothing to offer? It would make more sense to go after a big fish. At least in the other adaptations it made sense because the husband was useful to the friend character. He worked and had a high up position but in this version the husband is lazy and useless.
No, I meant Soo-bin. 😅 I commented around the 3rd episode mark that I rarely feel for the SML but that I was feeling really bad for Soo-bin because it seemed like he was being blackmailed and that he really liked Ye-Ji. At that point most of us thought Seon-Jae was the ML but after episodes 4 & 5, it’s looking like the ML is Soo-bin
You’re right on the first point and some bits of the other points too. For point two, I think Seon-Jae has psd…
That’s such a good observation. I thought she just worked there but you might be on to something. Although, if her family is involved in the running or the ownership of that club I doubt she’d want anything happening with Soo-bin there exposed to the public. But who knows she might be PSYCHO psycho.
It’s partially bittersweet. The leads end up together and have a very satisfying ending. So do the childhood friends. I know some viewers couldn’t get past Ji Soo’s death and decided to drop it. I can understand where they are coming from. I usually try to prepare myself for series with sad outcomes or sad endings and if they’re too needlessly sad I tend to avoid them or watch them without the ending. For me, I feel like the ending is satisfying. Enough so that you don’t feel devastated by it and every wrong is righted. It wraps up nicely. In my opinion every character got what they deserved. Both good and bad (except for Ji Soo). I have no regrets watching it.
GMMTV is adapting the manga and adjust based on Thai culture, not remaking the JP live actionChanges in the JP…
I can understand both sides of the argument. I for one am pleasantly surprised by how this Thai remake has turned out so far. And this is coming from someone who loved the JP version. Also, something I’ve only just realised recently while trying to catalog the bls I’ve already seen and that is that more bls than you think are actually remakes. Every Asian country that does bls have been doing it and they’ve been doing it for a good number of years now.
If I had to pick a side, I would say I welcome remakes of Asian bls (and Asian dramas in general) by other Asian countries because there is enough of a cultural difference and filming style to make it feel different enough. However, I don’t tend to feel this way about western remakes because it’s the same filmmaking style being recycled over and over again. I’ve only ever liked the remakes of Nordic to English/American versions for example.
Ji Soo. She’s the female detective partnered with Seong Mo and is in love with him. We all thought they would end up together. Alas, it was not meant to be. 😭😭
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In terms of the timeline, we know that Soo-bin and the others were friendly(ish) towards her at the start of the school year but they didn’t know her like that or even talked to her much. She was always just hanging around. Then we saw her first approach Soo-bin after that phone call where it’s revealed he’s having money troubles. He turns her down but ends up working at the same place as her. The place is a front for something shady and Soo-bin is forced to be a part of it to earn money it seems. Da-Eun takes a compromising picture of Soo-bin and uses it to blackmail him into hanging out with her and forcing him to act like they are together.
Three observations:
Da-Eun has been messing with Ye-Ji since day 1 which is why I’m starting to believe the root of her obsession is Ye-Ji and not Soo-bin. That she’s only going after Soo-bin to ‘have something Ye-Ji can’t have’.
I wonder if Da-Eun was the reason Sae-Na was bullied before Sae-Na became friends with Ye-Ji. I bet Da-Eun started some rumours about her.
It seems like anyone is collateral damage for Da-Eun in her pursuit. Even her father it seems, because why would you blackmail someone with something that would be a problem for your father also. This is why I say she is psycho PSYCHO. There is nothing off limits. Nothing she won’t do to get what she wants.
I wondered because The Sign still aired this week and they are both GMMTV.
I commented around the 3rd episode mark that I rarely feel for the SML but that I was feeling really bad for Soo-bin because it seemed like he was being blackmailed and that he really liked Ye-Ji. At that point most of us thought Seon-Jae was the ML but after episodes 4 & 5, it’s looking like the ML is Soo-bin
If I had to pick a side, I would say I welcome remakes of Asian bls (and Asian dramas in general) by other Asian countries because there is enough of a cultural difference and filming style to make it feel different enough. However, I don’t tend to feel this way about western remakes because it’s the same filmmaking style being recycled over and over again. I’ve only ever liked the remakes of Nordic to English/American versions for example.