Answer to 1997 - eps 7-14 thoughts and caps

I pretty much binged this weekend (I was holding off until it was clear who the endgame OTP was going to be, I don't like shippy uncertainty). Warning - a ton of caps behind the cut (of varying sizes as the files were of varying sizes).

Does anyone else feel that this is more of a jdrama than a kdrama, back before jdramas went all procedural or wacky?

Adorable!

Pretty!

YH reading SW's slash fic :)

I love them!

I totally ship them while also shipping YJ/SW. How it is possible, I don't know.

Cute!

Yoon Jae finding out his ~~creeper~~ brother to whom he owes so much likes Shi Won.

This relationship will never be not creepy. She is in high school (and immature for her age) and he's in his late twenties at least. Yuck!

Yeah, angst central.

Every time Shi Won was doing all these unthinkingly physically affectionate gestures, I would feel awful for Yoon Jae.

I love all the scenes between Yoon Jae and Joon Hee - in a way, it's a mirror of YJ/SW - only this time, YJ is the one unaware that his best friend is in love with him and unthinkingly breaking his heart (when JH tells YJ he likes him and YJ assumes he is joking - ouch!)

This sequence! SW is walking home and is terrified that a potential robber/rapist is following her and calls YJ. And he bolts out, losing a shoe, completely not noticing that as a result of a fall, he's bleeding badly...ohhhhh. Honestly, if she is oblivious after that, she is the Queen of Oblivion (and she doesn't even have Yoon Jae's excuse of assuming everyone is straight and not even thinking his BFF can be gay, seeing that it's conservative Korean society in 1990s).

Is there any way they can end up together? Please?

Heart. Break. Oh, and Tae Woong is creepy. I am sorry, he may be a great brother, a genius inventor and a wonderful philanthropist. He is still a creep. An adult who wants to date a high schooler is creepy, as a default.

This scene! Gibber gibber! He finally tells her everything - how felt, how long he liked her, how he was going to confess to her only to find out his brother likes her. And she is emotionally overwhelmed (I get the sense she subconsciously knew, only was pushing it aside - not only is she 18, she is an awfully immature 18) and asks him if they can stay friends instead. And it kills me, yet it feels so right, when he tells her (I am paraphrasing) "Do you know what it means when a man tells a woman he loves her and pours his heart out, even though he knows she doesn't love him back? It means he never wants to see her again." Ouch. It hurts so good.

They meet again after seven years! I am generally fond of timeskips but especially here because Shi Won desperately needed to mature (she is actually the least relatable character to me, as a high schooler - her stalkish fixation on a boyband, including breaking into their house or starting a fight with fans of others and other insanity make me want to smack her and tell her to freaking study. Ahhhh, I am too old).

Can the be an OT3? Please. I also loved the little comment Yoon Jae makes about growing up without parents...

She asks him if he still likes her...

I just like this shot.

OMFG this scene! She asks, again, if he still likes her and he asks her why she asks. And she tells him she likes him 'Not as a friend. But as a man.' His face! Her face! My face!!!! The thing, I totally don't blame him for not reacting - not only has he been so badly hurt (and he's an enormously emotionally-self-contained person with big barriers, to start with), thiis is so far from anything he expected...

This drama seemingly sold me on the idea that everyone ends up with their high school sweetheart :)

SW apologizing to JH for liking YJ even though she knew JH liked him too. I loved this scene. And Joon Hee is such a wonderful person. And they don't know, but Yoon Jae overheard! I was terrified he'd say something awful to JH or act awkwardly around him (I didn't think he would but you never know).

But he doesn't! ILY, YH! And he feels awful when he remembers his never noticing (that should make him more empathetic to SW).

AWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Why are they so cute?

Her apologizing for not knowing whom she liked when she was younger. This scene!

If it wasn't for the kissing scene later, this would be my favorite scene in the episode - Joon Hee selflessly setting Yoon Jae's head on straight about loving not being a choice and he and SW love each other and so should just stop regretting and get together. YJ's face when JH tells him sometimes people can't tell if you like them...