Household by Alternative: Episodes 7-8
by starrygazer
It looks as if our drama is rounding up the teenage portion of the story, displaying us this week how the boys are going to be leaving their makeshift household. Maintain on to your hats and your tissues — this week is just not a straightforward watch.
EPISODES 7-8
There may be extra sorrow for Hae-joon this week — sheesh, it’s exhausting to not really feel dangerous for this child. Hae-joon fills in San-ha and Joo-won on what his aunt informed him about his mum paying Dad Yoon again what she owed him. Clearly Hae-joon is upset that his mum didn’t need to see him, and in true Hae-joon style he places on his masks and constructive angle. It’s so candy that San-ha and Joo-won are upset on Hae-joon’s behalf and supply him meals to assist him really feel higher, the way in which households do.
Within the first of our heart-wrenching scenes between Dad Yoon and Hae-joon, Hae-joon tells him to make use of the cash from his mum for his tuition, with a view to paying Dad Yoon again when he finishes school. Dad Yoon appears saddened by this (Hae-joon nonetheless thinks he owes Dad Yoon one thing) and Dad Yoon tells Hae-joon to not say something Joo-won wouldn’t say. This hit me proper within the feels, I’m not crying – trustworthy.
Enter Actual Dad to stir the pot – urgh. Hae-joon has a basketball match the place his staff wipes the ground with the staff from Seoul. Actual Dad sees this sport and takes it upon himself to go to Dad Yoon to inform him that Hae-joon must go to America for basketball alternatives. Actual Dad implies that Dad Yoon is standing in Hae-joon’s method of turning into one thing nice (which he can solely do in America apparently). Dad Kim coming throughout this dialog — and chasing Actual Dad out by throwing salt at him – had me laughing my head off. What a legend.
After catching wind that Actual Dad has gone to see Dad Yoon, Hae-joon races again to the restaurant solely to stumble upon Actual Dad and his gaudy sports activities automotive on the way in which there. Throughout their chat, Actual Dad tries to strain Hae-joon to go to America with him. I believe there could also be an ulterior motive apart from Hae-joon being his “inheritor,” however we’re but to get readability on this. Actual Dad even goes so far as to threaten to do away with Dad Yoon’s restaurant, which Hae-joon doesn’t recognize. (It’s superb my display screen hasn’t cracked from the filthy appears I’m giving this dude.)
Hae-joon appears to have an actual knack for listening to conversations he actually shouldn’t. Poor Dad Yoon collapses from fatigue as a result of he has been preserving the restaurant open late to attempt to get monetary savings for Hae-joon to go to varsity. Then Hae-joon overhears the 2 dads of our household discussing Hae-joon going to America to additional his basketball profession. Dad Yoon brazenly admits it doesn’t matter how a lot he works — he can’t afford it, he’s too scared to disappoint Hae-joon, and may’t even ask him simply in case he says that’s what he desires to do.
Our second heart-wrenching second between Dad Yoon and Hae-joon is quick approaching, and I’m simply not prepared! Hae-joon asks a pal from basketball for recommendation and this finally provides to the “I ought to go away for America” column. (God rattling it pal, Hae-joon mentioned he didn’t even need to go as a result of he’s glad right here!)
Cue tears about to stream (for actually everybody). Hae-joon tells Dad Yoon that he’ll go to America with Actual Dad, Dad Yoon (understanding Hae-joon overheard all the pieces) explains that he was simply having a whine to Dad Kim and Hae-joon doesn’t have to go away. Hae-joon replies that he’ll simply go as a result of he doesn’t need Dad Yoon to endure. *Sobbing* The heartbreak on Dad Yoon’s face – I simply can’t.
The sunshine of our group, Joo-won, is extra of a bridging character this week as she is nurturing and the boys’ secure area. She is sort of a fortunate penny as they take the CSAT, taking care of them and even throwing a little bit rooftop get collectively after the examination ends. Joo-won manages to continually fluster San-ha which is good — mendacity on his mattress for instance LOL. When Joo-won burns herself making the meals, San-ha completely over-reacts and she or he nonetheless has no concept how he feels. *Resisting the urge to shake my laptop computer.*
Coping with his personal turmoil this week, poor San-ha’s world comes crashing down round him. San-ha has achieved very well within the CSAT. His profession advisor is pushing him to go to Seoul Nationwide College, which he doesn’t need to do as a result of he doesn’t need to go away house. This leads as much as devastation that simply could drive San-ha’s hand. San-ha receives a cellphone name that his mum was in a automotive accident alongside her now-deceased husband. Destiny is dealing San-ha a nasty blow and it’s so exhausting to observe.
Dad Kim and San-ha go to the hospital and San-ha’s (maternal) uncle is there. So-hee doesn’t reply effectively to her uncle in any respect, so San-ha finally ends up staying on to take care of her whereas they look ahead to his mum to get up. Remembering all of their latest exchanges, San-ha is letting the guilt monster take over. However ought to San-ha actually be feeling responsible about this?! (San-ha’s mum was extra vitriolic and manipulating in the direction of San-ha than he ever was to her.)
As I suspected, San-ha’s mum wakes up and the very first thing she does is have a pity occasion and punch San-ha when he tries to assist her up off the ground. Sure, I perceive she could by no means stroll once more and she or he is in ache and shock. However San-ha’s mum asking San-ha if he’s “glad now” that she’s on this state simply takes her selfishness to a different degree for me. (What about your youngsters?)
So as to add insult to harm, San-ha’s uncle places strain on San-ha to go to college in Seoul so he can take care of So-hee and assist his mum get better. Sorry did I simply hear that appropriately? Given the connection San-ha has along with his mum and the ten years his mum didn’t communicate to him, is that this actually the one method to assist her? However San-ha’s must take care of So-hee is successful right here, and my coronary heart is breaking for him.
Our remaining scene this week is stuffed with damage, guilt, and heartbreak. When San-ha returns house to inform them he’s shifting in along with his mom, Hae-joon desires to talk quietly with him to drop his personal bombshell. Hae-joon beats San-ha to the punch by telling San-ha he’s leaving to go to America with Actual Dad. Hae-joon explains it’s as a result of he feels dangerous for Dad Yoon, so it’s the correct factor to do. San-ha goes mad telling Hae-joon he can’t go away – they will’t each go away on the similar time!
San-ha tries to guilt journey Hae-joon by asking him what is going to individuals assume if Hae-joon abandons Dad Yoon after he raised him like he was his personal? Neither of those boys need to go away, however neither of them really feel like they’ve a alternative. My heartstrings have been yanked in every single place with these two episodes, and I actually hope there might be some therapeutic within the boys’ futures. Not solely do they want it, however we do too.
Our little Joo-won will need to have had a way of foreshadowing that this was coming as she went to Seoul alone to cheer San-ha up (on the hospital) and got here house with out even chatting with him. Joo-won had seen San-ha and So-hee (from afar) excited that his mum had woken up and she or he didn’t need to encroach on his “actual household” time. Now, Joo-won overhears the majority of the boys’ dialog and she or he appears shattered. “You’ll each go to your actual household?” she asks. And that’s this week’s cliffhanger.
The scene has been set for the boys to go away on their ten-year hiatus, and I’m intrigued to see how Joo-won and our two dads will cope. It has been an emotional journey this week as a result of despite the fact that I knew it was coming, I actually didn’t need our makeshift household to be damaged up. The boys had been glad the place they had been till their “actual households” set their sights on them.
Will the boys be simply as damaged once they return? And can Joo-won recover from the upset, or will she need nothing to do with them once they do return? On the midway level of our present, it’s time to maneuver onto the grownup portion of the story. And I’m wanting ahead to it, however can we’ve got extra glad household moments please, Present? My shriveled-up coronary heart received’t take far more of the damage and ache these youngsters have had – and can little question proceed to reside by way of after they go away.
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