- This episode had so much potential, but some story points were set up in a really amateurish way. I totally laughed at things I shouldn’t have laughed at.
- Maybe the problem isn’t that the odd episodes suck. Maybe it’s that Monday episodes suck.
- Ji Hoo/Jandi is starting to be really convincing lately. (Or…Jun Pyo/Jandi are just driving me absolutely batty.)
- I really don’t give a flying hoot about Yi Jung’s backstory.
When you put off doing a recap for days like you do a school paper, it’s time to give up. No recap for episode 17, just thoughts on Jun Pyo/Jandi vs. Ji Hoo/Jandi.
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This episode got me SO annoyed. Tuesday episodes aren’t supposed to be like this!
I wish they would stop putting Jandi in these mindlessly unrealistic situations where she acts like an absolute LOON with no brain cells at all whatsoever. Biggest rant I’ve ever done for any episode of anything ever. I haven’t been so ticked off by an episode of Kdrama since watching Kim Sam Soon.
The episode wasn’t bad per se, but like my reaction to episode 6, a bunch of little inconsistencies added up to a lot of annoyances. And, sorry for the delay — when you don’t like an episode, its recap takes about a thousand and sixty five years to put together. It’s hard out here for a pimp recapper. (Whut up, 6500 word recap.)
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You know what type of character trait annoys me the most? PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVENESS.
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Upon rewatching this scene for the thousandth time, I realized what was bothering me about it the first 999 times — color scheme.
First, the lighting doesn’t help. The four are in an indoor basketball court with white lights, and they all look pretty ghostly to begin, but the lighting highlights this even more severely. Second, the thing that bothers me most, is that Yi Jung’s damn paisley bandanna matches the walls of the court, and Woobin’s hoodie matches with the dark blue stand of the basketball stand.
Dark blue, dark green, and dark red are all really strong colors by themselves and it’s hard to make them look good together. Granted, I’m fussing about colors on a basketball court, but that in conjunction with Yi Jung’s green bandanna and Woobin’s dark blue hoodie, it’s just too much. It bothers my eyes! And ultimately, Boys Over Flowers has already proved itself to be pretty undependable in terms of artistic merit…
In terms of the acting in this scene, I’m once again asking myself why Lee Minho shines so much more than all the other actors. I think part of it has to do with the obviously more complex character of Jun Pyo, but aside from that, in comparison to Kim Bum’s Yi Jung, Lee Minho’s reactions are a lot less forced. Kim Bum was very loud with his anger and to it didn’t convince me of the logic of Yi Jung getting riled up over this turn of events. Yes, YJ could’ve felt that Jun Pyo was really being a bastard in cutting ties with Jandi, but this isn’t congruent with the way that he’s been acting in the series thus far. He’s been rather vocal about siding with Jun Pyo during Jun Pyo’s quarrel with Ji Hoo, and he’s made several statements about how someone like Geum Jandi could shake up the F4 dynamic. He could’ve changed because of Ga-eul’s implication that he’s scared to fall in love and is thus angry with Jun Pyo for not taking advantage of what he has, but really, I don’t believe this. I guess overall, something about Yi Jung rubs me the wrong way and I’m not inclined to give him benefit of the doubt.
First time I’ve been so glad that Ji Hoo was there for Jandi. I still don’t particularly ship them like I did with Makino and Rui, but at least I don’t feel that Jandi’s just hanging out with Ji Hoo for some weird pity party.
This episode was really dialogue heavy. For most of them, I only translated the dialogues because paraphrasing the conversations isn’t good enough. With that said, these recaps are getting wordier and wordier — almost clocking in at 4000 words.
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