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.)

Show threadJill 🛸May 13, 2023
Omg, and there's Kang Haneul and Park Hyung-sik! Little babies!
Show threadJill 🛸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.

Show threadJill 🛸May 14, 2023
So Young-Do is jealous that Kim Tan already knows the hot new transfer student? Future strife awaits, for sure.
Show threadJill 🛸May 14, 2023

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.

Show threadRobertMay 14, 2023
@jillithd yes
Show threadTheArchaeologistMay 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.
Show threadRobertMay 15, 2023
@TheArchaeologist @jillithd the rich kids have no idea - at least, not until later (again, my memory of this series is hazy!)
Show threadTheArchaeologist
@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.
May 15, 2023 at 12:24amWeb