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Jill 🛸May 13, 2023

Because Kim Woo-bin's new "Black Knight" series is out, I decided to start watching a much earlier #kdrama he was in: #TheInheritors or #Heirs. (I needed something more light-hearted than "Black Knight" or even "Misaeng".)

The fancy California house that Lee Min-ho's character lives in feels almost duplicated by his house in Spain in "Legend of the Blue Sea", so I had to check to see which series came first. LotBS is from 2016 and Heirs is from 2013.

I haven't seen much with Park Shin-hye before other than in the movie "My Annoying Brother" with Doh Kyungsoo. She cute! (And he sang at her wedding last year.)

Jill 🛸May 13, 2023

Omg, and there's Kang Haneul and Park Hyung-sik! Little babies!

Jill 🛸May 14, 2023

Ugh, it is SO CONTRIVED that I am UNCOMFORTABLE the way ep 5 ended/ep 6 started, with Eun Sang walking into the middle of this circle of rich students. Wasn't she just in the hallway recently? Why is she suddenly walking around school grounds into the vehicle drop-off area? 👎🏻

Also, I think Kim Tan's dad TOTALLY arranged for her to go to that school for multiple reasons. Like:
1) he knows Tan will go if she is going
2) he knows it will be uncomfortable for her being in a different social/economic class as all the rest
3) he's going to make Tan SEE how different their ranks are
4) ... and hopefully convince Tan to NOT continue his obsession with Eun Sang because of it

It definitely wasn't out of the good of his heart.

Jill 🛸May 14, 2023

So Young-Do is jealous that Kim Tan already knows the hot new transfer student? Future strife awaits, for sure.

Gah, it is such a power imbalance. She literally can't go anywhere else and if she does something the wrong way, both she AND HER MOM suddenly become homeless and her mom becomes jobless. And yet Kim Tan cares only about his feelings. She is fucking trapped and him insisting that even the maid's room she shares with her mom - that holds all of their earthly belongings - is his, too, is so toxic.

And his dad put her in that situation. What a fuck face.

Jill 🛸May 14, 2023

I feel like all these rich boys are just using poor women as their emotional support pillows. "I don't have any friends and my family is loveless, so I'm going to trap you, woman, who is dependent on this job, to console my fee fees. And maybe if you're lucky, I'll coerce sex from you, too."

🤮🤮🤮

Jill 🛸May 15, 2023

Kim Tan is just not very smart. He is ranked at the bottom of his class, has no skills other than being multi lingual, has no work experience, and yet thinks that he will be just fine if he loses his father's support. He does not know the gravity of his OWN situation, much less Eun Sang's situation. At least Choi Young Do seems to acknowledge the direness of Eun Sang's living arrangement

Jill 🛸May 15, 2023

No, Choi Young-do! Gah.

When Kim Tan told Young-do's dad about the fight, that was fucking CRUEL because he KNEW the dad would beat the shit out of Young-do. That was a really shitty thing to do.

And now all Choi Young-do knows is that if he does something bad, he'll get attention. Just like their seonbae who thinks the only way he can get his mom to see him is if he tries to take his life.

Choi Young-do wants Kim Tan to beat him up to do two things:
1) bring Kim Tan back down to his previous violent level, and thus ruin him for Eun Sang
2) get himself hurt enough to make Eun Sang show some amount of care for him, because he doesn't know any other way to win her love

Both Young-do and his seonbae (Kang Haneul's character) are hurting so much from the inside that they are trying to equalize it by hurting themselves on the outside. 💔

I feel like Lee Bona has some redeeming qualities, which is a huge growth from the beginning.

Jill 🛸May 15, 2023

The Kim brothers sure know how to treat their lady friends. Bark orders at them, tell them what to do or not do, restrict their lives as much as possible, expect strict obedience and compliance. Then force physical attention. They are more like their dad than they'd like to admit.

Jill 🛸May 15, 2023

Honestly, Kim Tan is jealous, possessive, violent, controlling, and physically forces himself on Eun Sang. He kept her passport from her MULTIPLE TIMES.

Girl, you should've run SOONER. I don't care how handsome he is.

Jill 🛸May 17, 2023

Kim Tan: "Don't cheat on me while I'm gone or I'll kill you."

Cha Eun Sang: "oh, what a cute love letter"

Everyone else:

Jill 🛸May 17, 2023

Is Choi Young-do making his amends in preparation of ... death?

I'm nervous. Don't do it, Young-do-yah!

Jill 🛸May 17, 2023

Oh shit. She had to find out her boyfriend was getting married to another woman from the news?! You are cold, Kim Won.

Jill 🛸May 17, 2023

Final thoughts on the #kdrama #TheHeirs #TheInheritors:

I am amused that, at the end, they mentioned what they would be like 10 years from then, and it is now 10 years after the show aired. We need a real "Where Are They Now" revisit.

Kim Woo-bin: if I weren't already a fan, this show would've made me one. What a character arc!

Lee Min-ho: I can understand now why, after gushing to a friend how much I loved #TheKingEternalMonarch, she said she didn't like LMH because of his role in The Heirs. Not that he was a bad actor! No! Just his role is of a spoiled, jealous, violent, clueless, but handsome, teen. It *is* a role that could be defining if that's your first exposure to him.

Choi Jin-Hyuk: I am glad I got to see him in both #MrQueen and #KangchiTheBeginning already. He has such an iconic voice. But he is absolutely NOT 12 years older than LMH, by any stretch of the imagination.

I have Thoughts™️ about the different roles women played in this series and how they were portrayed. 🤔 Diverse! And yet...

Robert May 14, 2023

TheArchaeologist May 15, 2023

@rLok @jillithd For sure! I was not a fan of Kim Tan. He had no sense of the danger he was placing her in. No sense. Just trapping her in an impossible situation.

Robert May 15, 2023

@TheArchaeologist @jillithd the rich kids have no idea - at least, not until later (again, my memory of this series is hazy!)

TheArchaeologist May 15, 2023

@rLok @jillithd I was able to forgive Choi Young Do because at one point he at least realized that he couldn't just force his feelings on to her. He had some actual character growth.