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I think we can all collectively agree Oh Han Byeol is all of us

As embarassing oh han byeol is... She is also so relatable cause i too will scream and die when something romantic finally happens to me

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PLS their relationship has me on a chokehold

This time, don’t run away.

SH**TING STARS (2022) dir. Lee Soo-hyun

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This drama is hilarious by nature but I think this takes first place as funniest plot twist, not only in this show, but in recent kdrama history:

She’s processing lmao

HER FACE! HELP!! 

OH MY GOD I CAN’T HAHAHAHAHA

Why is she staring at him like looking for confirmation???? I’m crying wtf she’s the one dating Taesung lol

Ah. This episode truly delivered on every aspect. This is what romcoms are supposed to be. HAHAHA

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- shooting stars

• please like if you save

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when the love of your life doesn’t give a crap about your celebrity status

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[김선호] Epitone Project(에피톤 프로젝트) - Reason(너라는 이유)(Vocal by Kim SeonHo(김선호))

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on this episode of “i was going through my drafts when i came across this”:

Dal Mi and Ji Pyeong Parallels/Etc.

I don’t care if they don’t end up together.  They’re the characters/story I care about the most so here we are.

It’s been hard to watch this show and see that their story, ostensibly at the core of the central conflict, doesn’t get explored as much as the others.  I think the show purposefully ramped up that feeling in Ep. 10 – no, the Sans don’t deserve to get hate for stopping Ji Pyeong obviously, but after that scene I have zero doubt that what the show did (i.e., make it very clear that in some ways Dal Mi and Ji Pyeong are being kept apart) was intentional.

When you look at the whole show, half the work done to endear us to the potential of this couple was done subliminally, at the scene setting level - so much so that you have to counter arguments that you’re making stuff up. 

People can say that if they want - I’ll wait not too patiently for the show to give some payoff for all of this (and keep my clown outfit nearby).

Looking in the same direction

Often without meaning to, JP and DM end up looking in the same direction, or being in the same places.

Third episode, they were caught up by the fireworks a lot more than Do San was (remember the fireworks may be a symbol for the show):

Tenth episode, they have a similar existential soul search via alcohol thing going on, in the same chair, in front of the same lady:

They are pondering their choices and whether to trust themselves. 

Their journeys as letter writers end in the bus station, down to the same chair again (maybe off by one?): 

While Grandma can turn around Ji Pyeong’s disillusionment at the bus station, Do San doesn’t quite succeed.

People have already gloriously GIFed the “when their words don’t match their actions” moments, and their penchant for sniff tests.

Are these just superficial similarities?  Is that the point the show is trying to tease us into admitting?  Or are the similarities a sign that they’re connected, but not as lovers?

I don’t know – honestly that’s part of what’s so frustrating about this show.  Only time will tell if Ji Pyeong/ Dal Mi were just a pretty canvas for not much in particular, or if the show was setting up one last rodeo to explore this relationship (don’t get your hopes up)

Nosiness

This, at the very least, I know is real.  

Ep. 7 – Ji Pyeong accuses Dal Mi of being needlessly nosy.  Offering help when it hasn’t been requested.

Dal Mi is completely right in firing back.  A big part of Ji Pyeong’s issues is that he talks crap and then offers sincere help in the form of advice or goods, which altogether makes him look like an ass if you’re not paying attention.  Do San takes verbal input to heart so he can’t see that often Ji Pyeong’s nosiness = actual care.  

But Dal Mi doesn’t have an issue with JP’s nosiness. She tells him in Ep. 7: I like it, your nosiness. 

She then says to tolerate her own nosiness - that Ji Pyeong will “learn to love it.” (Little did she know..)

In Ep. 9 Ji Pyeong tells Grandma – I got too nosy for my own good.  I was made the fool, basically.

Dal Mi in Ep. 10, after hearing she got JP noodles that weren’t actually his favorite:  I shouldn’t have gotten so nosy.  (Feeling like a fool, too, I’m guessing, but honestly she almost sounded apologetic)

Can I just say that this conversation was a little strange?  Some people say that she was focusing on Do San only in Ep. 10, but when presented the opportunity, she asked about Ji Pyeong.  Out of all the things to talk about with Ji Pyeong, she asked about the noodles she gave him.  While eating noodles with him.

You could argue she was fishing for anything to say. To me, she seemed to want to know if something she shared with him was real.  I’m open to other interpretations.  Remember she asked this before he said he liked her.

Anyways, Ji Pyeong’s responses are interesting.  He says that it was his first time tasting the noodles, but they were delicious.  (Code for: I like your nosiness.  Followed later on in that conversation by an honest I like you)

When confessing he slightly reversed and echoed her words, by the way. He says: “You weren’t nosy.  I like you.” The way Korean works, when Dal Mi first said “I like your nosiness,” it initially came off exactly the same way as “I like you” sounds in Korean. She just tacked on the “nosiness” part at the end of the sentence, while JP tacks on the “not nosy” part at the beginning.

If Dal Mi ever likes him, it’s because he’s nosy AF.

Throat and heart

Ji Pyeong holds his throat around Dal Mi, blink it and you’ll miss it.

It’s cute (and vulnerable). Meanwhile Dal Mi holds her heart in key moments.  We’re getting another one of those moments soon, in Ep. 11:

Plants

Ji Pyeong, resident rich guy, is represented by plant-green. I think vegetation represents the kind of nurturing quality that Ji Pyeong has deep down, that he fosters through Dal Mi’s influence (her plant). 

If you credit that plants = JiPyeong, these threshold scenes at Dal Mi’s house get mighty interesting.  Honestly, this pair of scenes drive me bonkers. They feel very structured in a show all about structure.

Dal Mi and Ji Pyeong are both grappling with different things (Dal Mi probably with some conflict about Do San not being quite what she expected; Ji Pyeong with entering Grandma/Dal Mi’s house), but they’re the only two characters to grapple with them in the same location for actual minutes at a time.

Feet

Wanna know why I think they’re not endgame?  This pooped-shoe heart:

But honestly, get yourself a man who takes your pooped-on shoe, sits in the car with you while you sleep (while the pooped-on shoe is stinking up the place), and smiles like an idiot all the while. That was the real act of love in that sequence.

Ji Pyeong gifts her slippers, just like Grandma gave him shoes.  

Episode 9

This scene hurt.  So much.  But I was annoyed at how soothingly pretty and almost (almost) reassuring this was.  

First, the show preps us – Dal Mi is awash in green trees here; Ji Pyeong, in plum.  Usually, Ji Pyeong = Green.  Their colors are switched. 

Ji Pyeong can’t move towards her (see the no turn sign). But she can move towards him (and does).

Dal Mi’s colors – plum colored flowers, extend towards Ji Pyeong’s side.  While most of his side is just green glass, cutting a vertical figure at odds with Dal Mi’s side, a small green plant extends towards the flowers on Dal Mi’s side.  The plants connect.

I don’t know why guys - it kills me that the plants barely but definitely intersect each other. Their connection was (is?) real.

More to come if I can muster it before the show launches the Revenge Plot at us.

#start up kdrama #tvn start up #kim seon ho #Bae Suzy #nam joo hyuk #han ji pyeong #jidal #dodal #seo dalmi #kang han na #2d1n #1 night 2 days

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y’all this show had SO much potential

#guess the show #this show gave me ptsd #but also a weird new obsession #i love you kim seon ho

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hands

TOM HIDDLESTON Bafta 2021

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the way he set the table and mixed it for her… yup

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tell me you’re not over a show without telling me you’re not over a show 🥲🥲

PLS it’s been months—

cr: @kimseonhoes on tiktok

#is this healthy #han ji pyeong #kim seon ho #dal mi x ji pyeong #seo dalmi #bae suzy #start up #kdrama edits

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ALSO

don’t come @ me saying Dalmi and Dosan are meant for eachother lol. trust me, i believe they are. they deserve eachother like two cockroaches in love (sorry NDS)

BUT what REALLY gets me is how, Dalmi’s crush on Dosan, the real Dosan, started from the way JIPYEONG made him into the “perfect” Dosan. I swear to you, if they had met differently, dalmi wouldn’t even bat an eye towards him

what’s messed up is that jipyeong was UNNECESSARILY trashed in the process.

hold on a fuck long second,,,

you mean to tell me that the only reason Seo Dalmi chose to stick with Nam Do San was because he provided the tech brains to her company??? which was convenient ONLY for her and her business to prosper???

this man LITERALLY dropped off his mom in the middle of nowhere in order to get to dalmi so that he could show up as a knight in shining armour in order to help her with that ransom ware attack???

wtf?

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hold on a fuck long second,,,

you mean to tell me that the only reason Seo Dalmi chose to stick with Nam Do San was because he provided the tech brains to her company??? which was convenient ONLY for her and her business to prosper???

and this man LITERALLY dropped off his mom in the middle of nowhere in order to get to dalmi so that he could show up as a knight in shining armour in order to help her with that ransom ware attack???

wtf?

#yall its 4am here #get this show out of my head someone #start up kdrama #han ji pyeong #i only believe in ji pyeong supremacy #dalmi can go f herself #i mean this in the nicest way possible #nam do san #seo dal mi #dodal

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that’s the tea ☕️

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Tom Hiddleston talks about his most profound movie theatre experience during the BAFTA LA Tea Party, 7th January 2017

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Kim Seon Ho for Nobleese Men.