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Early Access: Breakup Probation, A Week E2 (Patreon)

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2021-09-12 07:33:41
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2024-02
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E2. Ooh. This little show is shaping up to be pretty darn solid, from what I can see so far. It definitely feels like it's delving deeper into relationships than the average web drama, and it also feels thoughtfully conceived. Both very good things.

This is kinda-sorta vibing like a do-over story, with the way Ga Ram goes back a week, from the date of the accident, and is given a chance to save Seon Jae.

I find it interesting that Ga Ram would tell Seon Jae everything about the accident, and why they have to break up - so that he can live. I suppose this keeps things neater, since we admittedly don't have a lot of screen time to play with. Also, this honest sharing feels refreshing, to me. Ga Ram doesn't try to hide her knowledge of the accident from Seon Jae, and instead tells him everything. That indicates a pretty healthy level of honesty in their relationship, at least on her part.

I really like that in this moment of vulnerability, when Ga Ram appears sincerely frightened, the consistent sense of frustration that we'd seen hanging over their relationship, seems to disappear. Instead of being dismissive, Seon Jae is comforting, and assures her that he's right there.

And I really like that with this warm gesture from Seon Jae, Ga Ram is immediately reminded all over again, of everything that she likes about being with him. "The smell of your skin that I like the most; your breath on my neck; your warmth that melts my hardened heart; your presence that I can feel with every fiber of my body." It all feels so raw and detailed, and makes Ga Ram's act of breathing in Seon Jae's presence, come alive.

This, in turn, helps Ga Ram to accept Seon Jae's sudden need to meet his friends without protest, unlike the scene we'd seen in episode 1.

I enjoy this idea of how we trigger vicious or virtuous cycles, with our behavior. In episode 1, anger and suspicion on Ga Ram's part, had given rise to more anger on Seon Jae's part. But here, her vulnerability had triggered his empathy, which in turn had caused Ga Ram to appreciate his presence, and feel able to accept that he has valid reasons for leaving the apartment even though it's late.

I always say that context is everything, and Show demonstrates that, this episode, by having Seon Jae finally explain why he's been reluctant to introduce Ga Ram to his friends.

Ga Ram's always assumed that Seon Jae was embarrassed by her, but it turns out that Seon Jae's been ashamed of his friends, and had wanted to keep their smarmy presence apart from Ga Ram, whom he sees as pure and wholesome, and whom he didn't want to see being turned into a subject of gossip. Night and day, seriously.

With this big misunderstanding out of the way, and her appreciation for Seon Jae completely renewed, I can see why Ga Ram would choose to think of the supernatural contract as a dream.

However, it seems that it's not a dream after all, since we see her supernatural creditor, X, look over the couple with a dark expression on his face - right before Seon Jae collapses, right there in Ga Ram's arms.

Eep. Is this an immediate consequence, of Ga Ram deciding not to break up with Seon Jae? Like, he's starting to die right away, even though there hasn't been a traffic accident? Also, what a dilemma, that Ga Ram will need to break up with Seon Jae, after realizing all over again, how much they love each other. I'm not sure how Show is going to resolve this, but I have it on pretty good authority that this story ends well, so I'm expecting Show to deliver. 😅

Next episode notes will be out on: Friday, 17 Sept 2021!

Comments

Anonymous

I honestly found this episode (they go by so fast! such perfect little snack length, really...) much more compelling and interesting than I was expecting. The first episode was fine, as far as it went, but I was expecting to be set up for some kind of conventional and maybe even boring "oh we must breakup" histrionics, and it wasn't really that at all. I was continually struck by the conundrum of, seriously, how does show expect us to believe Joe Salaryman is going to be embarrassed by Kwon Yuri as his girlfriend, and so I felt pleasantly vindicated, both when she unexpectedly crashed the scene while he was in the bathroom, and his colleagues were telling him "oh, she's so pretty" (granted, they could be indulging socially polite fiction, but it's clearly true), and more, when he tells her that he's not ashamed of her, that in essence, she's too good for them and he wants to keep her away from the trashy frat boys he works with (he doesn't frame it in so many words, but that's his implication). Now, I think there is a bit of a problem with his revealed stance; it's kind of paternalistic and has a whiff of fetishizing and putting her on a pedestal, or at least could seen that way if carried too far, but it's at least understandable and a lot more benign than if he were to actually be ashamed of or embarrassed by her.

Anonymous

I liked the first episode more and am somewhat disappointed that in E2 the sense of the mundane seems to be lost. While I really like your comment, KFG, about Ga Ram’s vulnerability triggering a virtuous cycle, I quite appreciated Seon Jae’s portrayal in E1. He was so ordinary and came across as completely emotionally illiterate and, in this sense, so much more realistic. 🙊 In E2 he falls back into the default “prince charming” archetype, 🤴🏻 which I find a bit dull and uninventive. I just wonder if this means that Ga Ram is going to be a Beauteous Lump of Ultimate Good (as per Andrea Dworkin), which would mean that she is bound to be dead soon. Unless she is rescued by Prince Charming, that is. But I suspect this will be possible only if, thanks to the Groundhog Day-like time-loop, she refines her character and gets rid of any traces of real-life womanhood. 👼🏻 Or maybe I am being too cynical and in fact Show will surprise us with a more imaginative take on a romantic relationship? 💑 🤔

Anonymous
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Paulina; interesting, we had kind of mirror reactions here; I liked the second episode better. I do take your point about the danger of both characters tilting toward certain archtypes--Prince Charming and the beautiful but insipid princess--and in fact that is at least somewhat what I was trying to get at near the end of my comment above, in seeing the seeds of paternalizing and fetishizing in Seon-jae's position. But I would also flip it around, in this way...I feel like in the first episode, he was perhaps ordinary, emotionally stunted and thus realistic (although that's a sad commentary on menfolk in general, I guess it is what it is...), but it left me feeling a little too alienated, like there was no hook to understand or empathize with his character. At the end of the first episode, I was honestly left wondering why they should stay together, what as the basis of their long relationship? Obviously there was something, and he still had to feel something to run into the street for her, but...was it reflexive duty? vestigial habit? or still-present love and concern? At that point, I honestly wasn't sure. So while I can kind of see the potential problems with the second episode, it started to open up the characters and give more of a glimpse of their inner lives, with some hooks to start making sense of this relationship, and giving a reason to start caring about it.