Actually, I don't like sweet food. Their layered walnut cakes are too sweet. The Imperial Kitchen's cooking is similar. They're not as good as yours back then… You still remember it.
You know, looking at this scene again, what stands out to me is how… uneven it is.
Vegas has his gun drawn on Kinn, ready to shoot, and yet I can’t help but feel sorry for Vegas.
How long he’s dreamt of this moment…
How much time and energy has Vegas spent - wasted - hating Kinn? How much of Vegas’s mind has been occupied by this constant loathing for someone who… spends far less time thinking about him?
Like, Kinn does hate Vegas, but we only see him take defensive moves against him. He doesn’t seek Vegas out to annoy him, or send assassins after him. Kinn has a life outside of Vegas, but Vegas…
And I think, in this moment, Kinn realizes that too.
i didn't get the time to watch queen of tears ep 14 so i'm catching up now. halfway in, i have to say kim ji-won and kim soo-hyun shine in fully emotional scenes. the scene outside the church when he finds her sobbing? immaculate. when he finds her safe after our least favourite cameo (dump truck's cousin from abroad) and hugs her? heartwrenching. this push & pull between them is portrayed beautifully.
Vegas putting his gun in his non-dominant hand because Pete shot him to keep him from using his gun hand. He expects to die right here but Korn of course won't even let him have that.
Kinn and Pete paralleling, asking Porsche and Vegas not to pull a gun on Korn in exactly the same way.
Pete wanting to run after Vegas immediately but realizing that he has to do this properly to appease Korn and for his own sense of duty to some extent.
Pete thanking Korn for his mercy in not killing Vegas - yeah this one breaks me. Legitimately if any character in the entire series should be the next head of the mob, it's Pete.
See, I'm asking because I don't know how Korn could come back after everything that's happened...
We saw in the meeting Kinn held with their 'business' associates that the news of Korn's death wasn't just kept within their family, to lure Gun to act. Everyone thinks Korn's dead and that Kinn now has full control of the main family.
In this same meeting, Kinn kills two of their associates, who questioned his authority:
Now that could have been part of Korn's plans, to let his ruthless son take care of disloyal allies - fun fact: this whole argument started over the main family not being fast enough to sign a Russian dealer, Mr. Vadim, who Kinn was supposed to meet in the last episode before Korn very kindly rescheduled it.
But, even still - how would it look for Korn if he came back to life after both this meeting and the coup? What would all of the other gangs think of Korn's deception leading to the deaths of three leaders (the two here, as well as Gun's)?
I think that would be a step too far away from the 'fair and reasonable’ image Korn projects of himself. It would cause too much unrest among the underworld, and threaten the very power he's spent so long cultivating.
No - I think Korn is stuck here. Whether he intended to or not, he's now locked himself permanently in his compound.