Mr. Plankton EP 2
Added 2025-03-22 13:00:11 +0000 UTCComments
honestly you always help me appreciate shows more no matter how i felt about it on the first watch. this one had disappointed me a little when i watched it the first time, but I appreciate your commentary on the cinematography and your perspective on the story. it makes me excited to watch this drama and appreciative of the art (while still viewing it through a critical enough lens, i.e. hae-jo being an asshole but understanding that he's meant to be charismatic but not necessarily likeable)
Lele
2025-04-23 06:13:31 +0000 UTCfrom my perspective the show isn’t making Haejo to be a hero, he is quite charming and if you’re wanting a charismatic character Dohwan is an excellent pick, bc you can’t 100% hate him but still acknowledge oh wow this is SCUMMY, I also think it’s a great exploration of the “bad boy/badass” trope bc guys like Haejo are usually super shit in relationships!! Go figure!! Like yes super charismatic and he is fearless, and kicks ass, but that had to come from a life of trauma and ofc he’s terrible at communication — and it helps that we know it’s a doomed relationship, and he is acting out of end of life grief, but still I haven’t seen the show try to absolve him for the things he’s done, Haejo is the protagonist but he’s not a hero. Also props to the actress, not everyone can play a woman who has been kidnapped and not have her feel powerless or like scared of playing into misogynistic tropes (hope the show continues this way), she feels fully realized and still has some agency intact
Liv
2025-04-05 21:23:16 +0000 UTCI find all these characters so interesting and my opinion of the show will greatly depend on how this continues and ends, right now the two leads are hiding their true feelings and built bad habits and social behaviors to cope with their past—they’re not good people but they are just people, people who are desperate, and yes all these actions are bad, but there’s something so compelling bc the acting and the directing is saying they’re not 100% bad, there’s something more to this and hopefully they land this properly, and side note there’s something incredibly heartbreaking about Jaemi’s character, she’s a good parallel from Haejo in that they grew up hurt from not being loved by their blood family and she went in the direction of I need to fill the void with my own children vs Haejo who has given up and is pessimistic side—I think Jaemi’s outlook 100% less rude but also so full of denial and desperation to be loved even though I don’t buy that she loves her fiancé, I think she partly even has convinced herself that she loves him bc he could bring this concept of stability in her mind. But you don’t fill that void by forcing in a wrong puzzle piece, I understand the want and need but I feel bad for Heung bc he’s the placeholder of her fantasy, it becomes sad bc she’s forcing herself, lying to herself that this will make her happy and I’m sure he knows deep down that he loves her more than she can ever love him AND ITS SAD FOR THEM BOTH 😭 Heung is also escaping from his controlling, strict mother through loving someone else and placing a lot of that onto her, he wants to be loved and have family that supports him, enough to make the fake pregnancy idea—going back to desperation, he is naive but he’s not innocent. It’s not bad to want family! To want kids! I just find it heartbreaking bc them getting married and having kids won’t an all cure fix anything and be a solution for past hurt and loneliness—interesting show!!! Exploring, mortality and loneliness, the most human emotion: scared to die, and even worse, to die alone; I think that’s the end of the road that Haejo is confronted with immediately whereas Jaemi is still being affected by that scared mindset too but in an existential in the future way; and this is a large source of their desperation to be loved wowwww
Liv
2025-04-05 21:16:14 +0000 UTCMy goal for this show is: find someone to root for.
Jet
2025-03-28 15:40:06 +0000 UTCHonestly this ep made me really uncomfortable with hae Jo's character and the things he did to jae mi. To the point where this slow and positive ost will play and I'm looking at the scene thinking about how he threatened to expose her, kidnapped her and gave her head injuries (she also passed out from one). I'm interested to see where this show goes from here but right now I am so not rooting for him. I understand that he is not in a good place mentally after his childhood but it will take a lot before I can start rooting for him.
Lilac Kaur
2025-03-23 02:42:02 +0000 UTCYou seem to have missed it: Jae Mi explicitly confirmed it this episode. It was Eo Heung's (not Jae Mi's) idea to fake a pregnancy to get approval for the marriage from his mother. So he knows that she is not pregnant. The only thing she hasn't told him yet is the very recent news that she can't get pregnant because of her menopause.
Guthwulf
2025-03-22 14:21:12 +0000 UTC
