Why didn’t you go home and called me instead?
It’s my choice. Being at home feels like I’m still at work sometimes.
Tag Archives: Episode 7
Do you want to exchange numbers?
Teacher Oh Hye Won picked me up and introduced me to Professor Jo In Seo. She’s the real teacher to me. I went to him when Professor In Seo was staying in the U. S. and I followed him to this school. I don’t see her as often now, but the pointers she gives me sometimes are really helpful. Do you want to exchange numbers?
No.
Sorry. Professor!
Mind Games
What is this? Why are you not answering? Are you upset? Or are you pretending to be upset? Are you being so brazen and playing mind games with me?
No. I understand what you said about Son Yeul Eum. And the mind ga… I’ve never played such a game nor would I ever want to.
Update: Live Chat Summary – REWATCH SCHEDULE: Week Four – Episodes 7 & 8 – Live Chat on Soompi – Sunday September 7
Update: Summary of Week Four Live Chat below
WEEK FOUR
Start Date: Monday, September 1, 2014
Episodes: 7 and 8
Live Chat: Sunday, September 7, 2014
Time Zone Live Chat Time
UTC Sun 11 pm – Mon 2 am
EDT UTC-4 Sun 7 – 10 pm
EST/CDT UTC-5 Sun 6 – 9 pm
CST/MDT UTC-6 Sun 5 – 8 pm
MST/PDT UTC-7 Sun 4 – 7 pm
PST UTC-8 Sun 3 – 6 pm
Update: Summary of Soompi Live Chat published by @gretac on Soompi, September 13, 2014
Secret Love Affair live chat September 7, 2014
Episodes 7 and 8
Soompi SLA thread pages 670 – 673
Summary
• Prelude to a LiveChat: Son Yeol Eum standing up after Kapustin performance HW: Go wash your face in cold water!
• Lists of thoughts pre- and post- Starting Gong started off the chat.
• HW startled by others’ unexpected presence after she’s been with SJ
• Encoded messages?
○ Kang to HW – be careful how you conduct yourself
○ HW to SJ – be responsible enough to take care of your possessions
• Why did HW a) flare up at SJ and b) go out to find him after the Love Hotel incident
• HW acting up … repeatedly (flaring after the Love Hotel, accusatory phone call with SJ, jealousy after seeing SJ and DM)
• Mind games – just who is playing them?
• SJ’s responses to MinWoo
• Good storytelling balance in ep 7 between the rising tension and the comic relief
• “Affair” plays during emotional affair when HW is baring her soul to SJ about her life (post jealousy scene); “Book” plays during physical affair, pots and pans
• “No bugs or rats” in the hotel room, please!
• Kang’s reactions – flashbacks of SJ and HW before SJ’s audition; foreshadowing “You go back!” to HW; his sudden interest in what she’s doing
• SJ’s questionable audition outfit
• Timing mismatch with the March scholarship ceremony and the December holiday lights at the hotel
• Changes in how HW behaves, and how she is treated
• Ep7 has to happen for pots&pans to happen – stark contrast between how HW is treated by others and by SJ, increasing awareness of abuse, increasing sordidness of everything HW has to juggle…
• Homage to Sec’y Wang!
• Love Hotel misunderstanding
○ HW is way ahead of SJ in her mind during the development of the affair – both here and piano stick scene
○ HW too frayed to engage meaningfully
○ What does the script say about what SJ is thinking on his long walk home?
○ The fallout of the misunderstanding – does SJ think HW has cut him off at this point?
• Discussion of HW and the soup ajumma scene
○ ick
○ HW’s lack of grounding cf SA
○ exemplary of the reality and consequences and indignity of what HW has done
○ soup ajumma as another SJ in HW’s life
○ SA as foil to compare/contrast HW’s choices
• SJ’s shock at HW’s abuse by SeoHan clan
• Foreshadowing of Madhouse in the audition scene
• The Rachmaninoff variations paralleling the SLA story line, complete with soft, unexpected ending, like SLA
• The cat outside Seohan building between Lily Han “trust-restoring” scenes: Props team couldn’t find a fox! Are there other such easter eggs?
• Discussion of the jealousy scene
○ Our reactions to SJ’s “Daebak!!” that HW was jealous:
-insensitive, should have explained more
-blazingly honest and sincere
○ SJ’s quick smile, quickly suppressed
○ First more-equal substantive conversation about values
○ SJ thinking how trivial his simply stating his love must seem to HW
○ There are reasons for HW’s violent and irrational behavior that make sense
○ Use of fleeting wrist-grab to help HW regain self-control
• DM bumping into Kang on the stairs and not mentioning it to SJ
• SJ’s audition performance (Liszt) – Kang v others’ responses, and SJ’s in return
• Matter-of-fact, overt acknowledgment that YW and HW are in fake/convenience marriages
• Religious hypocrisy
• Prof Jo’s earring
• SJ’s response to Kang’s pontification
• The guy who told HW she couldn’t park there: so rude to her?
• Discussion of SLA kdrama trope subversion:
○ wrist grab
○ honest, sincere expression of feelings and request for consideration
○ watch for Tropes with a Twist in the blog
• Theme of “the end” – completeness, fulfillment
• Coda: What did SJ play for HW post pots-pans-Pires? Thematic evidence points to the Mozart Rondo
Life Lesson
If you’re done, go on. Go on ahead.
That woman earlier… What’s she about?
Didn’t you catch it? CEO of the Art Center.
Then why is she treating you that way?
You don’t need to know. Consider that your life lesson.
All the hurt I felt because of you until yesterday has been completely wiped away now. Instead I’m so furious and pissed off right now.
Go already!
Poor listening skills
But…I’m just a messenger here so I have to get a firm answer. In other words, if he contacts you again, you won’t meet him…
Hey! (banmal)
Pardon?
I told you I dumped him because I hated him. You want confirmation in addtion to that? You’re dressed nicely but you have poor listening skills.
If you accept that (money), I’ll take it as confirmation.
What kind of bitch are you? Why are you making me say the same thing over again? If you make a living running errands for rich people, you should at least have the listening skills. I don’t ever want to see you again.
I don’t know what I did wrong
I don’t know what I did wrong. It’s not as if I said let’s sleep together.
You don’t know. Did you think that I’d jump for joy and follow you?
I told you. You said your home felt like work. You said you can’t rest even at home, so what do you think I could do?
Was that all? Do you expect me to believe that now?!
I’m being 100%, completely sincere!
As I said, what the heck is your sincerity?!
All, everything! Because I love you! Although someday I hope we do sleep together, earlier that wasn’t the case. You said you were having a hard time, remember?
Professor Kang
Did you teach him?
Of course I did, who else would?
Hye Won… I mean, what about Director Oh?
She’s been busy lately. She does take an interest in his playing though.
No comfort
If someone else sees it, if someone’s listening. That’s what’s important to you, right?
Don’t twist my words.
So . . . Is this, right now, what I should be getting from you instead of being comforted?
A falling star
Why are you hurt?
I was struck by a falling star.
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