Thanks for everything, drama! Yes, we do get a happy ending but it felt completely unsatisfying and made me feel so disappointed. Completely agree, Kaye. Make it confuse and let us choose the ending we want. By the end, I was amazed at how, for virtually every character, NHK had managed to show the good, the bad, the ugly and the more beautiful than a flower. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. "I loved churches the way I loved cemeteries and books. He acted well but he still not converting me as one of his fans. It was only in the last episode where the drama hinted at how he likes to cook. There was realism to that. Rachel Brown, a fellow teacher and . In fact, it's degenerative. The cafe, the talking people, Soo dressed as a waiter. She had been missing for days. Third, I agree with Ashely above in that Sung's relationship had soured (three suiters?) Almost everyone believes Anne to be Eoin's mother, though this Anne is the great-granddaughter of that Anne. Five minutes before the ending: WHAT!? Matthew Weiner knows the power of an ambiguous ending. What the Wind Knows is a masterpiece written by Amy Harmon, an amazing interpretation of events in Ireland during the period of 1916 1922. They are most probably dead and in heaven somewhere. I totally agree with all your comments, except, I rather liked how they twisted the Jin Sung - Oh Soo loyalty in the end. She can see him, even if the picture isnt too clear, and smiles brightly. I'd rate this above "Nice Guy" but below "I Miss You". Love it! When Charlie. Did the CCTV goons end up getting him because his promise, in a sense, broke (to let Soo & Jin Sung go unscathed)? Now, with Gideon gone and Emma and Isaac dead, Izzy is well and truly alone, with no hope of anyone coming to look for her. In the very last scene of "Younger," Liza (Sutton Foster), wearing a chambray button-down shirt, tries to order . Anne and Eoin have no other family and are exceptionally close. Did the show sacrifice its potential just for fan service? I think that is what the writer ment. Stop playing with my emotions! To me, this drama fizzled out around episode 8. A tiny moment passes before he asks if they can see each other again. Plot Summary In 2001, best-selling American author Annie Gallagher loses her beloved Irish grandfather Eoin to cancer. Bravo to the whole cast, and especially to the dreamy Zo in Sung. and because JIS's acting is so AMAZING - Soo looks so dead there to me! Though I was happy to see OS alive, I was not jumping up and down, I was not clapping (meaning I was not overly excited), and I couldn't help but wonder if MC dying (though maybe we had that coming) and the other characters being alive (I am assuming) was a way of doing fanservice, the main characters got to live and all. I glossed over a lot of the things a lot of people struggled with eg. Thats where Young fails as a character, even though earlier episodes showed her growing and changing from the cold and prickly person she once was, which was mostly due to Secretary Wangs heavy hand in keeping her in a child-like state, into a woman who realized that the world wasnt always out to get her. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. I dont want to admit it, but I cant be a better person. The Final Night (Edie and Dawn) What Remains of Edith Finch - Story and Ending Explained. It's lovely and I don't think you can blow it off as just pretension. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. No one told her Soo was dead. If Oh soo died, the flowers would be placed to a location where he died or to his favorite place or maybe where Oh young and Oh first met. But then she adds that if she lives through her surgery, theyll meet again, and finally talk out their issues. Some of my questions might seem superficial, however I wish things had been made clear for us :-(. The scenario with the child and sec wang of course was only a part of the scne that it should be clear. Oh, and yes, thanks to TWTB, I also discovered Jo In Sung!! Here's the guy who warned you again and again that Kim was bad news, to get out of Dodge ASAP and don't look back, who was always trying to get you out of the gangster life - and so you take the knife and leave the only true villain in the entire melo and go all the way out to the rooftop to stab your friend. There are no amount of words to describe this book. Good to know a little wrist-slitting never hurt anybody. Because a dead Soo wont give him any money, Boss Man has no choice but to try and win the pot to save himself from bankruptcy. The relationship between Lizzy and Emma begins on a friendly note but takes a turn when Lizzy starts to suspect that Emma is having an affair with Isaac. Anne and Thomas spend a lot of time together and fall in love. I think soo is alive:) eith regards to yhe "blurred" background.. i noticed that too yet i understand it this way :) young can't see clearly.. shes not totally blind, the background is actually her vision (that's my take) the first time she saw soo after a year when he was on his bike i noticed it's blurred so i thought maybe it was young's vision and i confirmed it when young visited yhe restaurant she cant see him that clear but she can see him :). heads, i remember u commenting on SHK casted in a melodrama (TWTWB) which makes me think u don't like her acting abilities? At the end of the twentieth century, it became the general theory. After the death of her mother, Ania went through therapy. The beginning of this drama was so so so good!!! It blows harder, annoyed, and tells Santiago to talk to the Hand That Wrote All. : Learn more. Jin-sung spots him while on his way to the hospital and starts to piggyback him the rest of the way, even though Moo-chuls already got one foot in the other world as he mumbles, Just leave me be, Jin-sung doesnt give up, until he feels Moo-chul go limp on his back. Soo makes Jin-sung and Boss Man nervous when he keeps folding, but Soo reveals his tactic during a time out he wanted to come this close to losing so Boss Man would have no option but to buy in. You brought up an interesting point for 1. Theoretically, you have a beautiful setup with Jin Sung regarding Soo as his brother, as a part of his family, as the object of his loyalty and on the other side his commitment to his blood-related family and Hee Sun and Boss Kim in the background, pulling evil strings and digging his grave. However, I really think her brain cancer would be treated with gamma knife radiation - had a friend's mother die from a brain tumor and they didn't treat with chemo but radiation. But, to be perfectly honest, I wasn't thinking about her hair at all this episode, haha. "I must not be crazy, it is not all in my head" I thought. But they crammed it into like a freaking two-minutes-reactionif that. It was so much surer earlier on. Back in the present, Lizzy is visited by a traveling reverend, who turns out to be the spirit haunting her in disguise. I'm confused with the ending. Only when hes out does he call Secretary Wang to ask her to return, because hell feel more at ease if shes there to take care of Young. Also, Jin Sung was actually about to stab Soo a second time, but couldn't bring himself to do it, so he dropped the knife. 5 min read. Now he knows, and knowing is half the battle. Not Soo asks her if she cant see, and she responds by asking if hes ever met a blind person. Since everyone went all in, he won the game, and all of Boss Mans money. @picklemonster: I was happy with the happy ending, too. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { Then I realized that this drama is just like the character Young: beautiful to look at, given to half-disclosures or sideways feints that make you go into hours of analysis to try and figure it all out. Im not sure where Soo is (Dramatic Rooftop? i can't believe that is finished now.best best drama i have ever seem and it's the best drama of 2013. But then Id be asking for realism, and that is not what this show was selling. Does this item contain inappropriate content? Is this another instance of Drama Syndrome, where characters would rather undergo pain and irreparable harm than do something logical? I see that as a sign that they are now in heaven-finally away from all the pain and suffering that tormented both while they were alive. If that was for Oh soo's grave then why it is on the table? Because now just isnt a good time? Harmon has become a go to author for me as a talented writer. Maybe because I felt like whether or not he gave it in, Kim still was going to find some excuse to kill him. Sure, we can theorize that Soos stabbing somehow put the kibosh on his burning desire to be there for Young during her surgery and chemotherapy, because its totally fine to let a suicidal person depending on you assume youre dead. ), but he stays on the phone with Mi-ra to get updates on Youngs surgery. This show started out great but slowly became distant with the sudden implausibilities and uncertainty of what Young was thinking as well as glossing over Sec. or (Seriously though. TWTWB, with its muted colors, its intensity 24/7 (made even more intense by all of the close-up shots), its one-dimensional side characters like batshit-crazy So Ra, its hard-to-read heroine, and its contrived plot full of holes, made TWTWB feel quite unreal which would've been fine had it come together as an inspired mythic tale. I was so in love with it until that forced kiss and then it basically took a giant swing downhill. . Furthermore, they focused on the flowers, which looked like the lamb's ear and freesias they were talking about. The bad friends, the conniving fiancee all forgiven and even rewarded, what a message to send to the public. I agree with you Canxi. Vox Media's own Chris Grant played Link . Well , some missing point that we need to understand OY is not only blind but psychologically is not stable. and then she comes and "finds" him meaning her surgery must not have worked out and she died. It's at a drama's standpoint. For Vegas and victory. The surreal film follows a womans slow descent into madness as she struggles to survive the crushing solitude of the 19th-century frontier lands. Young's hair, everyone's fantastic health etc. Anne learns that Garvagh Glebe is one of the properties she inherited from Eoin. In the end, the struggle becomes a question of whether she should or could stay in a time period she doesnt belong in but has become home for her. They've seen and heard all that has ever been said or done. As Anne fell for Thomas, I did too. GRRRR!! Were Boss Man's minions watching to make sure OS had been killed? Please try again. Her books have been translated into thirty languages around the world. Then that means shes still the same old Young, still capable of putting those around her through unspeakable misery because she cant see past herself and her feelings. // Load the SDK asynchronously Thank you so much Heads for your recaps. Its magical, atmospheric, and compelling, a book that will haunt you for a long time., Amy Harmon brings a tragic and fascinating period of history to life with a poignant love story that plays out across time and oceans. It is a stunning work of fiction interwoven with true historical events, combining the magical and the real. Because the earth's surface is made up of different types of land and water, the earth absorbs the sun's heat at different rates. Granted, some things started to not make sense towards the end, but NOTHING about this show makes me think the director or writer became lazy and gave up along the way. What we dont know is whether Lizzy was in her senses when she committed the murder. When Anne wakes in Ireland in 1916, she has no idea how she got there or how to get back to her life in twenty-first-century New York. And with that, all the players get gambling, while Young spends a restless night at the hospital window with the winter wind blowing. If i were Jin Sung, i would twist the situation turning the knife closer to the Boss Man's neck asking for his Family's safety in return!!! He loved you. Hmm .. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, By purchasing this title, you agree to Audible's, Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at. As for Soo, I mean, dude got stabbed not shot. Watching that drama made me want to be sure not to take any of my loved ones for granted, to look for the good in each person, and to sing Kumbaya (just kidding). But I definitely agree that first, Young is alive. ), Young gets out what she wants to say as she fights back tears, but as she speaks, Soo lets his flow freely. In the case of Deus, the system knows Lily should behave one way based on all the rules of determinism. You're right, everyone in this show seems to heal rather quick. Neither of them died! @ jenn, you're right. Then, again I don't believe Young would make up such an elaborate story for herself (even in a dream) to "blind" herself from his death. At first I thought it was some kind of alternate reality where they both died and created it so they (and us viewers) can come into terms with moving on. well probably what heads meant was that since she underwent a brain surgery, at least part of her hair had to be completely shaved prior to it being performed.. I will have to agree to disagree on the ending. If the ending of The Wind left you with a few questions, allow us to supply the answers. 2 pages at 400 words per page) I crack up at times while reading her recaps 'cause she's writing about serious moments in such a dry, humorous way. , Language I guess I understood his decision 'against' Soo ("the needs of the many blablabla blood is thicker bla") but it was so rushed that I totally did not connect on an emotional level. and the kiss at the beginning is (for me) the best kiss of this year in dramaland! About the ending, while watching the last episode, i really had the impression oh soo died. And yes, like mentioned above, to show lust and passion. And Oh Soo and Jin Seong ain't Robert Redford and Paul Newman. (function(d, s, id) { Even if you didnt take the money, it wont bring everything back to the way it was.. It looked blurry because Young's sight wasn't perfect, but just enough for her to make things out. Soon after the funeral, Lizzys husband Isaac, along with Gideon, leaves to get supplies for the winter and report the deaths, saying he will be back in a few days. From the very first page all the way to the very end, I was swept up in Amy Harmons beautifully crafted, enchanting story of American-born Anne Gallagher, who travels to Ireland for the first time in her life to fulfill her beloved grandfather Eoins dying wish to have his ashes spread in the lake at his childhood home. Are they both dead and finally meeting in the afterlife? The Thing Ending Explained . Then the shape of a man starts to form. Directed by Kristoffer Rus, "Into the Wind" is a teen drama that revolves around the romance between a young, wealthy teen girl who goes on a vacation and falls in love with a kite-surfing instructor. You will answer all my questions honestly. How about NOW, since youre already asking the questions? I'll bet Young cut the short way across her arm too, rather than the long way, which would again be what you would do if you actually wanted to die. And even if you were, wouldnt it have been cooler to see that moment of decision instead? I am just speculating of course, however, that was what went through my mind. Forgiving her, I guess, is all right but I felt letting her back into the house was another thing. (Shes implying that people need people, and that they need each other.). That made me think about the episode when they were up in the mountains, i recall oh soo told her that even when he's not around, every time the wind will blow will always be with her or something in this direction. One day, Anne is walking by the lough when she hears a familiar whistle, and Thomas arrives. !and more importantly they are both happy. I'm one of those people who would rather have a happy ending than a realistic one. This book has that but even if that was taken out, it's a lovely historical fiction set during the Irish Civil War. Great work, Heads. It really did feel very Kdrama-like to separate the characters for the sake of separating them? Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group.