Guys, whoever, no one at all, I have so much to say about The K2, watched it twice now in the midst of a third. A bit obsessed, but really what’s a little obsession like this
I wanna watch it over and I’m not even done with my current stream, but also, I cannot with this.
The antagonist should have been the love interest especially with the story the writers gave her, and that fucking incredible actress, the actual female lead is so bland in comparison, and all I really feel for her is pity on some occasions. This isn’t a slight against the actress, I love her, but the writers did not try with her at all. They made her so monotone, and she rarely shifts from her constant anger. She’s been through so much shit and yeah that’s fucking terrible, but they made her so naive and helpless, and she just shows up sometimes to motivate Je Ha and then goes back to her melodrama.
The fucking chemistry between the male lead and the antagonist compared to what little seemingly forced thing he has with the female lead is like phenomenal it is incredible. The actual romance is disappointing af, it’s just cute in its Korean way, but there isn’t the same substance to it. There’s this sort of complete acceptance between Je Ha and Yoo Jin that there isn’t with Anna. Anna has it, too ig to some extent, but hers is the kind of turning a blind eye and almost “as long as you’re there to save me in my time of need” kind of thing. She relies on him so completely that she endangers the both of them more than once, and it gets really frustrating quickly.
There’s nothing hidden between Yoo Jin and Je Ha, no doubts, they know the best and worst parts of eachother, they know how to hurt eachother and they know exactly what the other needs to pull them back up. they actually support each other for their selfish reasons but there’s this immense respect for each other from the very beginning,
and I would add a yt clip or make a gif of that if I knew how but I’m talking about that funeral scene with the umbrella and the “keep your head up, your enemies are watching” and Yoo Jin constantly giving him free reign to do as he pleases and basically consort with Anna, fully knowing it would not in her best interest;
this^ whole part, where he didn’t have to say shit for her to know exactly what was wrong and figure out exactly how to save him.
I’m annoyed that they ruined the makings of a pretty perfect thing in keeping with the Korean cliché of the angry wronged hero having his walls broken by the sweet innocent girl he saved, and the vile woman whose trauma is not an excuse the way the man’s is and who deserves her misery because she made do with what she had and was forced to become ruthless to ensure her survival the only way she knew how, despite losing all the hope she had and being betrayed by a husband who should have loved her, over and over. She was grasping at straws, and the man she loved thought so little of her that he fully believed for more than a decade that she would hurt a person so dear to him when all she wanted was to be able to love that same person with him. And she was killed off with no one caring for her death in the least, with another man she seemingly fell in love with, living at the expense of her life.
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