YICHAN STRUGGLING TO SEND CHEONGHA A FAX?? FALLING TO THE FLOOR IN FRUSTRATION WITH ALL HIS CRUMPLED UP PAPERS? THE FIGHT, THE WATCHING, THE SKETCHBOOK CONFESSION, THE SONG ALL FOR HER 🤧🤧🤧 AND HE FELL FOR HER BEFORE SEKYUNG EVEN CHOSE EUNGYEOL AH I'M SO EMO 😭😭😭😭😭
the absolute cutest part for me was in the original past, Yichan chased after Sekyung, got rejected, lost his hearing, and THEN dated Cheongah. i was really worried about the butterfly affect (or, in Eungyeol and Eunyoo's case, the bull in a china shop affect) making it so if those things didn't happen, he wouldn't have ended up with Cheongah, but here he goes still choosing her 🥺 here he goes punching abelists for her 🥺 here he goes learning sign language and teaching his friends to greet her 🥺🥺🥺 here is Yichan, who fell in love with Cheongah dispite them being in "diffrent worlds", and immediately showed her off. AND THEY DID ALL OF IT basically by themselves 😭💔💔
+ 5 bonus points for Eunyoo getting happy when Eungyeol told her he started liking "Sekyung" after she came back from the US, so he truly only fell for Eunyoo and not her mom
Twinkling watermelon has ended and now I don't know what to watch. My Mondays and Tuesdays aren't going to twinkle anymore now :(.
My thoughts on the ending :
Keeping all the criticism about the ending aside, I think this was the best possible ending for everyone. Ha Eun Gyeol's family isn't struggling anymore as Ha Yi Chan and Yoon Cheong Ah are both successful, happy and charming as ever. Most importantly they are still in contact with their bandmates (their friends learned sign language for them and that's the cutest thing ever :( ). Ha Eun Gyeol doesn't feel 'burdened' anymore and can finally do what he always loved. On Eun Yu isn't suffering anymore either as she changed her mother's future which ended up changing her present as well. And Ha Eun Gyeol and On Eun Yu ENDED UP TOGETHERRR!!!
☆ ALICE IN BORDERLAND !! arisu, chishiya, kuina, usagi, ann, niragi, last boss, aguni, lisa, mira, heiya, karube
☆ ALL OF US ARE DEAD !! nam-ra, gyeong-su, ha-ri, wu-jin, min-jae, u-sin, cheong-san, na-yeon, su-hyeok, on-jo, joon-yeung, mi-jin, jae-ik, dae-su, gwi-nam
Sweet sweet girl who’s never done anything wrong in her whole life yet is treated like garbage and made to feel like an outsider in her own home
Sir Thomas 🤝🏼 Chairman Yoon
The master of the household which beats her down and who conveniently turns a blind eye to the abuse until the rest of the family/his children’s failings become impossible to ignore, leaving him only with the sweet girl and making him realize that maybe he should value her a bit a whole lot more than he has been
first of all, Eunyoo and Eungyeol not realizing they're both from the future is starting to piss me off like it's TIME. how did he listen to her say they're from different worlds, she doesn't know how to leave, and she's trying to help her parents AFTER she refrenced SQUID GAME, and he still has no clue?? i'm also PLEADING ANYONE to connect the dots about Eungyeol calling Yichan his dad, Chungah his mom, and Sekyung "ajumma". two 18 year olds are falling in love with people they think are 46 years old right now, i need someone to stop this madness 😭
ntm WHAT IS HAPPENING to Chungah right now ??? i know why she's upset, but wtf is going on with her plot? her dad's whole "make her smile at me" mission seems so completely removed from the rest of the plot, and i'm completely lost about where the weird power dynamic between him and his wife is going. i have a suspicion the writers made Chungah suddenly blow up at Yichan so he can miss her and realize he wants her back (?), but it feels pretty random to me that she suddenly yelled at him like that 💀 anyways, i hope all of this confusion means more time spent on Chungah's plot in the next episodes
If all parents are like Yoon Cheong Ah's dad, then it would be better to be an orphan. What the actual fvck. Some people need to be sterile so they'll never become parents. 🤬
( ANONYMOUS ASKS ) ——- hi! mw characters/fandoms from kdramas?
hi! i got quite the list for you: kim bom, yong soo-chul, park ki-joon (swedish laundry), kwon jihyuk, im soo-ah, lee hyunsoo, jang do-il, kim hajin, seo kyong-jong (flower band), vincenzo cassano, hong chayoung, jang jun-woo (vincenzo), cha hyunsoo, yoon jisoo, jung jae-hoon, lee eunhyuk, lee eunyoo, park yuri (sweet home), kang tae-moo, shin hari, cha sunghoon, jin youngseo (business proposal), na bora, poong woonho, baek hyunjin (20th century girl), nam on-jo, lee cheong-san, choi nam-ra, jang hari, yang dae-su (all of us are dead), lee yeon, ryo hongjoo, lee rang, cheon moo-young (tale of the nine tailed), so mun, ga mo-tak, do ha-na, cho mae-ok (uncanny counter), jin jung, shin a-ra, oh do-hwan (bad prosecutor), kim dogi, jang sung-chul, ahn go-eun (taxi driver), kim shin, ji eun-tak, wang yeo, kim sun (goblin), lee ikjun and ahn jeong-won (hospital playlist), and jayoon (the witch)!
The second show that I'm gonna be talking about is The Penthouse which is quite popular in South Korea. The show has 3 seasons as of now but I have only watched 2 so far. The reason for that is my short attention span, every episode is like 1 hour and 20 minutes long.
A short introduction to the series (from MyDramaList): The residents of Hera Palace, a luxury penthouse apartment with 100 floors, have many secrets and hidden ambitions. Shim Su Ryeon, who was born into wealth, is the queen of the penthouse apartment. Cheon Seo Jin, the prima donna of the residence, does all she can to give everything to her daughter. Oh Yoon Hee comes from a poor family background, but she strives to enter high society by becoming the queen of the penthouse, the pinnacle of success in her eyes. A battle for wealth, power, and prestige at Seoul’s most coveted penthouse begins.
The genres of the series are Suspense, Drama, Crime, Revenge, Thriller and Mystery. It can be also called as a Makjang drama (exaggerated drama) because of the out of control happenings, unrealistic and abnormal situations, that are being portrayed as normal. Some of the most common storylines for this genre include absurd birth secrets, murders and crazy revenge plots. As you may have already thought, all of these are present in The Penthouse. A lot of K-dramas have elements like the theme of rich vs poor, hierarchy, the elites' influence and power, however, this show takes that to the next level. All the secrets and continuous plot twist make sure that the viewer won't get bored.
The characters in The Penthouse are surely interesting. Everyone does the thing that's the best for them, acting really selfishly, but there's something that always kicks in, in crisis situations. And that is their parental instincts. All families in the series have at least one child. The parents have a lot of work to protect their children and to cover up for their crimes. But don't get me wrong; the kids are not the villains here. It's the people, who taught them to act this way, who showed them the worst possible examples, who were only driven by money and success. The people who have brought them up. The adults are completely rotten characters -apart from rare exceptions-, who try to solve their problems in the worst ways possible. The parents do hate one another (openly or secretly) but different situations make them work together.
Some people in the show are close to psychopaths and sociopaths. It portrays really well how the longing for success can make people go insane. The constant yelling doesn't do this justice either. They are incredibly smart though, always trying to one-up each other.
The person I hate the most in this series is probably Joo Dan-tae. He's truly a mastermind, a very abusive one at that. He's one of the few that doesn't care about his children, only himself. Backstabbing is his speciality if it means that he can safely stay in his penthouse, whether that involves betraying his wife, beating someone up or using people for his benefit.
My favourites are Shim Su-ryeon and her stepson Joo Seok-hoon (who is also Joo Dan-tae's son). Family is the most important for them, Seok-hoon always protects his sister from their abusive father, and Su-ryeon acts as a great mom for both of them. The boy doesn't care about status and falls in love with the main character's daughter, Bae Ro-na, who is bullied by his friends from the penthouse. Su-ryeon also becomes friends with Ro-na's mom, Oh Yoon-hee, and in my opinion, she is undoubtedly the most intelligent character of them all.
What I really like about this series is the use of classical music. The kids are attending Cheong-ah Arts School (Cheon Seo-jin('s father) is the head of it) where they learn classical singing, but this kind of music also plays an important role in making the show more suspenseful.
All in all, I think The Penthouse is great if you love angst but it's not exactly for the faint of heart. It can be a little overwhelming sometimes but it's pretty addictive. Once you start watching, you just want to know what will happen next.