also i am so so relieved that eun chan doesn't have a "feminine" makeover so that she's allowed to be with her coffee prince (well, i have five episodes left but i'm assuming if it hasn't happened yet it's not going to). she dresses and looks exactly the same as she always did, he was attracted to her then and he's attracted to her now, the only difference is he knows.
honestly i went into the show assuming it would be inevitable. but they are approaching gender roles so differently than i feared. yes, there was a big transformation/reveal with heels, dress and makeup. But crucially, it was for the wrong guy.
and she never tried to change herself. she just dressed and acted as she wanted to, and other people made assumptions. I have no objections to She's the Man and its ilk (though somehow I've never actually seen it), where someone has to disguise herself as a boy for Plot Reasons, and work at getting it right, but the way Coffee Prince does it is so much more intriguing to me and has much more interesting things to say about gender.
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Was Celia drunk as fuck or is this something supernatural?? 👀
Who the fuck is Jack?? 👀
Alice is such a delight, I love her!
Oof so one or both of them have trauma involving grandparents then.
I love Samama & Alice so much. 💜 They have a great dynamic!
Oh shit, right, Gwen is probably still getting over Mr. Bonzo too. 👀
"I just… I dunno. When I left the coffee shop, it felt like someone was following me."
Please don't take away Alice, she's one of my faves! I hope this post doesn't age poorly. Watch me have to quote this post very soon.
OH NO, is it that [ERROR] following her??? 😰
"Don’t joke about that, mate. I was dreaming about it all day." Okay, yeah, that's a creature.
Sam & Alice are both about to run into a creature... 👀
"Classifying unspeakable horrors all night for no discernible reason?" @/entities-of-posts & @/which-entity-this-post-serves is that you? :]
Hmm, now why is this episode called "marked?" I assumed Mr. Bonzo was gonna find his mark, but maybe Alice is marked by an entity/creature that was locked in the Magnus Institute?
"giving up the ghost" okay so someone saw an apparition? Honestly not sure what entity this episode is about so far.
It's giving The Corruption ✨🧟♀️⚰️ (maybe The Buried)
"It’s just that one of the graves had a body in that was too well-preserved for the age it should have been." 👀👀👀
This thing is about to jump out of the grave & run off, isn't it? 🏃♂️
"The back was completely covered in this complicated tattoo of a ship sailing across an open sea towards an open horizon." Peter Lukas?!?!?
Oh 100% The Buried, without a shadow of a doubt.
Lots of tattoo & carvings in walls imagery in this sequel prequel sidequel, isn't there? 👀
Hey wait, that's Ink5oul from episode 2, isn't it? 👀 Ink5oul definitely feels like a conduit or vessel for The Flesh or some other kind of entity.
Okay, there's something weird going on with this place, the salt water & waves near this cemetery are kind of seemingly enticing them to come drown in it's waters. In the very least it's messing with these guys' mental states! Pretty freakkyyyy! 👀🌊
Also the repeated emphasis on dreams is interesting this episode, wonder if that'll play a part in something later on. 👀👀
"If it’s any consolation, he’s with the sea now. The deep will care for his bones." I literally called it!!
I think Gordon Alan Johnson also wants to be with David. 👀🌊🌊
I think Gordon Alan Johnson also wants to be with David. 👀🌊🌊
I don't know, Gordie, I think you did it! Unless Ink5oul is collecting tattoos like an alternate universe version of the Leitner books. Wait yeah, what if the tattoos are like conduits for the entities of this world or even the original one? 🖌
Another way to look at this is asking... Is The Deep a new entity/fear or is it a servant of a fear like The Vast? I stg there was a colossal water monster at some point in The Magnus Archives!
Okay so yeah, there's already a precedent for this. Also feels like The Lonely, The Buried, The Corruption, The Vast, & maybe even The Flesh are all involved in this one though I don't know if Flesh (Ink5oul) is working with or against the other fears at this time.
Gwen, you can tell your coworkers what's wrong, oh my fucking god. Please. Celia, you have me so invested in whatever is going on with you.
Weird unexplained noise at 17:44 too as Celia enters the office. Wonder what that's all about, maybe it'll come up later on.
"He is one of our Externals." Okay; so, there's more of them & they have their own secret hitman title too!
Mr. Bonzo when he was on TV
"And they usually like it." I bet fear creatures do like it when you scream. That makes a lot of sense actually.
Also what's that weird "boowomp" noise as they're talking or is it just the OST? 👀
Is Gwen going to be turned into something not quite human at some point? Just throwing darts at a board with that speculation, but wouldn't that be wild?
Okay; so, these little digitized noises are absolutely important!
I wonder how many times & when people have lied so far throughout this season. 👁️👁️
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Also I actually really like this ragtag bunch of coffee princes? I usually get annoyed with the "interfering friend group" but these guys work for me. probably because they do very little actual interfering. Mostly standing and watching as the train wreck happens, but with love and worry. And because what actions they do take seem to stem from their individual characters, rather than the plot need for "interfering friends." This bit with them telling her to text Han Gyul "I love you" crystallized this for me. It's so sweet and supportive and not actually pushy since they let her do it.
I also appreciate how the coffee shop itself feels like a really working coffee shop, and they all seem to be actually working. Another detail that grounds this show. Even their "concert" was something I could totally see the hip young staff of a hip new coffee shop putting on. Just skilled enough to make it fun, but not too much to overly strain credulity.
(I personally preferred the cozy floral look of the original coffee shop, but I agree the rats and cockroaches were de trop. Plus in 2007 the concrete minimalist style was not yet overdone.)
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