Love Subsequent Door: Episodes 11-12
by missvictrix
It’s our hero’s flip to cope with his baggage this week because the battle in his circle of relatives reaches a painful crescendo. Nonetheless, this may simply assist him and his love subsequent door lastly get collectively…
EPISODES 11-12
Okay guys, we’re again after final week’s galling episodes and after we open this week it’s the day after the airport scene. As anticipated, Seok-ryu’s horrifying/traumatizing/upsetting most cancers arc has been put to mattress. Her household now accepts her dream to prepare dinner, and the household is general supportive and great.
For points that had been so deeply baked into the make-up of this household and its members, I discover it exhausting to imagine they’re utterly resolved. However for the sake of the argument, let’s say they’re. If the lesson we acquired from Seok-ryu’s story is that you just want your family members round you to assist you on this life, then Seung-hyo’s story additionally confirms that very same message… besides all his household will get is a two-episode story arc that unpacks 30+ years of luggage in as many run-time minutes.
Seung-hyo’s dad has witnessed his spouse’s “affair” one too many instances, and regardless of the actual fact he was swooning over her like loopy a couple of hours in the past, now tells her he needs to divorce. Seung-hyo’s mother agrees with none kind of argument, and tells everybody she’s going to Africa on a brand new project. Besides all of us keep in mind that she was truly compelled to resign (huh?).
Seung-hyo is enchanted to have a household dinner for as soon as, however when he realizes it’s only a stage for his dad and mom to announce their divorce, he will get up and leaves. Poor boy goes by all the emotions right here and cries like he ought to have as a child (as an alternative of simply pressuring himself to be excellent). However Seok-ryu is there for him throughout all this — dragging him dwelling when he’s wasted and patting his again when he’s crying — and certain their reciprocity is good, however does the whole lot must be so further on this present?
At first it looks like Seung-hyo’s mother was going to faux to go to Africa as a handy solution to escape the ache of a divorce and leaving her household, however when she packs a suitcase and heads to the airport, issues don’t add up. We comply with her for a bit solely to be taught that she’s been very forgetful these days — just like the spoon that shattered the washer glass. When this new growth reaches a fever pitch, Seung-hyo’s mother has despatched her suitcase and cellphone someplace however she’s at a temple with no concept what’s actually happening. What the ever-loving Alzheimer’s is happening right here, Present? I confess I used to be about able to throw within the towel proper then and there. Mother has been hiding this, and that’s what’s happening? Actually?!
Whereas Mother is stranded/lacking, her husband confronts the ambassador character who he thinks has been her lover all these years. However Dad learns that his spouse is definitely retiring, and each males then understand one thing is mistaken, since she will’t bear in mind truly doing this…
Cue: Seung-hyo and his dad — with Seok-ryu in tow — on a rescue mission to the mountain temple to avoid wasting Mother, who’s fallen within the woods someplace like all the various heroines earlier than her. By some miracle they discover her, and she or he’s okay. Dad’s like a university boy in love from right here on out, and that is additionally the scene the place Seung-hyo will get to cry his eyes out (aw his unhappy cry face although!) and unload all of his parental/household baggage. It’s not in contrast to we’ve seen Seok-ryu do a couple of instances now: all of the ache and misunderstandings and unstated issues during the last 30 years come tumbling out. Mother apologizes for the hurtful issues she’s mentioned and performed prior to now, Seung-hyo explains how unloved he’s all the time felt, and with that out of the way in which, his household is just about put again collectively.
Seung-hyo’s dad and mom have Mother assessed, and don’t fear — it was solely a pink herring meant to torture us — she’s advantageous. The physician says it was simply stress. Stress? That made her overlook she give up her job? I don’t get it, however I’m glad she’s okay. Seeing these two all giddy over one another was the cutest factor I’ve seen shortly, and I’m all for it. (By the way in which, the affair was one other pink herring — they had been “simply associates” and the man is homosexual. Speak about a 25-year misunderstanding.)
Talking of cute, now that everybody’s well being and household conditions are good (*dusts off palms*), it’s time to get to the meat of the story: Seung-hyo and Seok-ryu getting collectively. I want I might say it was satisfying, but it surely wasn’t. Seung-hyo goes on website to a phenomenal location for a mission he’s engaged on, whereas Seok-ryu stays dwelling and cooks, listening to a recording of Seung-hyo translating her French cookbook. In that recording, Seung-hyo snuck in a “my love for you’ll by no means expire” whereas she was sleeping. And immediately, listening to it, one thing clicks for her. Seok-ryu can’t keep the place she is for one more second and drives 1,000,000 miles to mentioned location, and finds Seung-hyo standing in a sea of sunflowers. She tells him it was boring with out him and asks if he needs to drink some banana milk together with her. And since this feels like a confession, Seung-hyo walks over. He takes her head in his arms and gently kisses her. That is picturesque and the whole lot, however I didn’t simply undergo 11 episodes of what I did for a candy kiss in a photogenic subject.
We open up Episode 12 with our OTP having kissed. They sip their banana milk and talk about how they’re not associates anymore, and Seung-hyo says that it was the toughest factor he ever did (aww). Sadly, we don’t get that a lot cuteness between them as a result of 1) like each good heroine, Seok-ryu needs them to maintain their courting a secret; and a couple of) they don’t actually know learn how to transition their relationship from friendship to romance.
Now, you’d assume that the latter half — having a friendship flip romantic and bodily — can be the lifeblood of this story, proper? You’d assume that we’d be capable to get pleasure from a lot of episodes of the mounting rigidity between these two, and all of the hesitations of performing on their new emotions. At the least, that’s the present I got here to look at. As a substitute, what we acquired was no matter these first 11 episodes had been, and now, in Episode 12, their whole awkwardness collectively as a courting couple.
Don’t get me mistaken — this is a vital subsequent section of the story and a sensible one for his or her relationship — however I don’t really feel like we ever acquired that first section we wanted. And since we by no means acquired that first section, watching them being awkward of their Making an attempt to Date stage didn’t get me very excited, since nothing felt at stake. (Facet word: Backside of the ninth with Two Outs might be nonetheless probably the greatest friends-to-lovers dramas for me that truly picked up on the stress of that relationship evolution.) Anyway, in a handy plot transfer, each their units of oldsters go on a visit collectively, and Seung-hyo and Seok-ryu are left alone in her home. After they go to her bed room to retrieve a stack of manhwa, Seung-hyo will get tremendous uncomfortable LOL. However Seok-ryu provides him permission to “assume unhealthy ideas” and the 2 sleep collectively beneath the thousands and thousands of plastic glow-in-the-dark stars he glued to her ceiling. Oh, Okay-dramas.
Transferring on to our different romance arc — Mo-eum and Mudflat Man — now that Mo-eum’s mom is Yeon-du’s new afternoon babysitter, their households are getting awfully shut. Mo-eum remains to be avoiding Dan-ho after their kiss-with-headbutt encounter, however they comply with ignore it. After this, they return to their earlier snug relationship… till Mo-eum begins overreaching once more.
She plans a full day of tenting with Dan-ho and his daughter, and the three are performing like a contented little household. Mo-eum is considering what I’m considering, and she or he blurts out to Dan-ho that she is aware of she’s transferring quick however she’d actually prefer to be Yeon-du’s mother. Oh, and her coronary heart goes loopy every time he’s round. However this time, it’s Dan-ho’s flip to flip out, and he exits out of that dialog earlier than the confession is barely out of her mouth. *weeps in frustration*
Wrapping up, we’ve acquired a number of progress with all of {our relationships} and lovelines this week — Seung-hyo’s dad and mom, Seung-hyo x Seok-ryu, and Dan-ho x Mo-eum. However one thing feels prefer it’s lacking. I’m not squeeing over any of this, and it’s all presupposed to be very squee-worthy. I believe it’s as a result of I really feel like my feelings have been mishandled by the present for thus many weeks. Now that they need to ship as promised, I’m probably not certain I can imagine them. No quantity of sunflower subject kisses can rebuild our damaged belief, Present. And with no actual sign as to what’s going to occur plot-wise in our last two weeks, I’m extra involved about what they’re going to invent than excited to see the way it performs out.
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