DNA Lover Episodes: 15-16 (Remaining)
by Dramaddictally
DNA Lover ends in a lot the identical approach it began, with thrives and filler that keep true to its old-fashioned storytelling. After we get the total scoop on the arsonist’s motives, we’ve nonetheless bought a heroine who must be rescued and a hero who’s decided to depart the nation. However, as you may think about, all our threads wrap up in a bow with classes realized, love gained, and DNA theories chucked out the window.
EPISODES 15-16
Okay, first, the priest’s arsonist twin is definitely a brother, not a sister, as I acknowledged final time. I suppose that makes far more sense about why they’re similar, however for the story, it nonetheless doesn’t actually matter. I get the impression the present was attempting to say one thing about two individuals with the very same DNA who end up so completely completely different. However I don’t assume it landed any main epiphanies.
With that element out of the best way, let’s leap again in the place we left off with So-jin kidnapped and brought to a greenhouse. That is the unhealthy twin’s lair, the place he retains all these fire-starting flowers, and it’s not lengthy earlier than Yeon-woo is on his solution to execute a rescue. However as quickly as he locates So-jin, he will get knocked out and tied up alongside together with her.
And that is the second the place the baddie reveals his full motives to his (literal) captive viewers. We be taught that the twins had been raised by their mother, however Yeon-woo’s philandering father entered their lives sooner or later after they had been adolescents. He claimed he was going to divorce his spouse and be with them as a household, however he by no means did.
At some point, a younger Yeon-woo reveals up and divulges to the unhealthy twin that his mom’s boyfriend is definitely married to another person. The unhealthy twin pushes his mother to the bottom for being concerned in an affair and by chance begins a fireplace, which his mother dies in. Since then, he’s been out to get Yeon-woo’s dad (who deserted them after their mom died) and Yeon-woo for “inflicting” his mother’s dying. He succeeded in murdering the dad (and the dad’s newest girlfriend) — which lets Yeon-woo know that his personal mom is harmless. She was on the fireplace to save lots of her husband, not kill him.
Whereas they’re tied up collectively, Yeon-woo apologizes to So-jin for mendacity and pretending to be her DNA lover. He got here there to save lots of her as a result of he cares about her, not as a result of they’re fated. This data makes her cry. And earlier than lengthy there are fires throughout them and so they’re about to die. After all they escape, however within the technique of saving So-jin, Yeon-woo injures his hand, which is unhealthy fairly information for a surgeon.
On the similar time, Kang-hoon arrives to assist them get out alive and the unhealthy twin finally ends up perishing in his personal fireplace. Yeon-woo and So-jin are rushed to the hospital, the place Yeon-woo undergoes emergency surgical procedure. However even in spite of everything his different illnesses heal, his proper hand won’t ever be the identical once more.
On the hospital, So-jin asks Yeon-woo to not go away for the U.S., particularly if he’s occurring her account. She says she thought she was the one one which ever bought harm in relationships, however she thinks that, this time, she harm him. She got here into his life together with her experiments, and she or he doesn’t need him to be uncomfortable anymore. However Yeon-woo says he’s going anyway so he and his mother can have a brand new begin.
Earlier than they go, Yeon-woo’s mother wakes from her coma and tells him that it wasn’t love that stored her down her entire life, it was resentment. And so, it’s implied that he can cease being afraid of affection now. She apologizes for being an absent mother and all is resolved between them.
On the day they’re scheduled to depart, So-jin races to the airport to attempt to catch Yeon-woo earlier than he will get on the aircraft (at Mi-eun’s suggestion), however she’s only a second too late. Compelled separation is upon us, and our heroine sobs it out within the terminal with no thought after they’ll meet once more.
Since Kang-hoon and Mi-eun each need the individuals they like to be joyful, they resolve to allow them to go. Which results in them hanging out collectively, going to motion pictures and having meals, and I absolutely help this transformation of occasions. Perhaps it’s purported to be a comfort prize for the story, however these two are my favourite characters, and so, yeah, I believe they deserve one another.
And whereas every part wraps up properly for So-jin together with her mother and sister (no laborious emotions, I suppose), she has a complete change of philosophy on discovering love. She decides that she’ll neglect about DNA and destiny and comply with her coronary heart as an alternative. She thought Yeon-woo ran away from her, however she sees now that she ran away first as a result of they weren’t written in one another’s DNA. She was afraid of getting harm once more and she or he didn’t imagine his feeling for her. However now, she’s able to take the danger and face getting harm. If Yeon-woo returns and doesn’t love her anymore, she’ll cry and endure, after which recover from it.
After a one-year time leap, we discover Yeon-woo again in Korea, doctoring within the countryside. As destiny (or coincidence) would have it, our fundamental pair runs into one another when So-jin is delivering some check outcomes to Yeon-woo’s countryside clinic. His hand has modified his observe, however for the primary time he’s discovered ardour in what he’s doing, he tells her. And all she actually has to say is that she went to the airport the day he left (which I suppose makes some impact on him).
Afterward, they run into one another once more on the seaside the place they as soon as went on trip collectively. So-jin says that she let her DNA lover go due to him. She’s not asking him to take duty, solely telling him, however she needs to restart their “dangerous” relationship. She loves him, not her DNA lover. Yeon-woo reciprocates — and even says out loud that he loves her. In voiceover, So-jin concludes, “We’d discover ourselves harm and uncomfortable, however we determined to begin once more. As an alternative of DNA or destiny, I’m going to strive believing in love.”
And that’s the top — which we might have gotten to no less than 4 episodes sooner. This factor was like an old-school drama from begin to end, even the best way it padded the ultimate stretch. However, I’ve to say, I don’t actually get the purpose of so carefully following the older type. It’s not satire, there’s no making enjoyable, it’s only a whole rehash. And I’m not so large on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake.
Interspliced in all that, the present had an inclination to deliver up actually fascinating concepts, solely to allow them to drop. My favourite stuff was about gamers and polyamory, and the final episode does embody a good end on a kind of fronts. In Mi-eun’s remaining scene, she admits to her viewers that she’s not polyamorous anymore. However, she’s not monogamous both. She’s searching for another choice. She realized that “it’s unimaginable for somebody who can’t love even a single individual correctly to like a number of individuals.”
Wow. That is probably the most profound perception of the complete drama. And it’s an excellent wrap up for this explicit character as a result of that has all the time been the conundrum (and the issue I’ve known as out earlier than): Mi-eun doesn’t have an emotional attachment to anybody. I give the present credit score for not flipping her philosophy utterly, and for getting on the root of her character’s problem (which doesn’t have to talk for polyamory basically). That’s the purpose. And it’s properly carried out. However, I can’t say I’ll miss this drama. I didn’t like it. It undoubtedly wasn’t a match for my DNA.
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