And please stop assuming that all the people who like Soohyun are pro-Sora/anti-JSY. Lifetime Movie Present: The Secret Lives of College Freshmen (Tagalog Dub) Uncut TV5 Dubbing. I want more of these scenes. On the other hand, in the other pictures as Han Seung Hee, Jin Se Yeon pulls off a perfect transformation by having the chic look down while wearing a doctors gown. Laughing awkwardly, Soo-hyun denies the claim, and explains that Hoon acted so strangely around Seung-hee because the dead woman he truly loves does look uncannily like her. And the former Secretary Kim continues to be adorable and funny and thankfully not-evil. I happen to see lots of interaction between him and Dr Moon too. He's desperate to save the woman he left behind in North Korea. (: Doctor Stranger Episode 17 The Shattering of Jae Hees Pretense. Sure, he doesnt make much sensea hospital director who perfected his hand at smuggling refugees because hes sorrybut since hes literally the one guy who seems to have Hoons back, that instantly makes him better than most. YASSSSS! Well i got curious about it and Google information related to it and surprisingly, the heartbeat is actually unique! But that is exactly the problem. The way you described it eyes wide open, empty expression is exactly what I would describe a person that is about to die would probably have. As of July 7, 2014 it has been streamed close to 400 million times. It lessens his character, one with unique background and dark history of being a doctor in the NK human lab. Am not too concerned, let the plot show its face when it shows its face! I don't want him to be one-dimensional. 1:20:30. To my understanding, JaeHee was dead or nearly dead, and the NK revived her and insert some kind of chip in her brain to wipe her memory and control her and sent her back to SK with a mission as SeungHee. Thanks for a lovely recap Head2no! Loving the show so far but the plot can get pretty confusing (or maybe its just the subs). For that I appreciate the fact that you're just as engrossed to that pairing koala. Going back to Hoon and Jae Hee, I like for the fact that Hoon's love is more than just vanilla romance, that it has a dimension of dependency to it as well. Right! Omggg you read my mind! (P.S. Ditto. Add to it, I kept thinking LJS and Kang Sora will get together because they had real chemistry not the leads but no. It was a never ending one -upmanship in the hospital and as said by others, the ML and FL (who I was surprised was the FL and not Kang Sora) had zero chemistry. So by a single scene one can have so many differing interpretations already. I need more to feel more, but I doubt we'll get that since the show has obviously moved on from establishing that. There's no logical reason to love someone in kdrama anyway. Either ways, I don't think it worked. i know very few dramas where they move on from first loves (Twelve Men in a Year, I Need a Romance)and they weren't executed in the best way. Whether Hoon now has a definitive answer as to whether Seung-hee is Jae-hee is up for grabs, but for his sake and ours I hope that hes made a decision. And 'were just thrown a lot of facts about them and were supposed to just take it that theyre madly in love with each other, without really feeling it'. On the plus side, I'm now more encouraged to finish watching Man to Man with Park Hae Jin (even though I probably shouldn't as the FL has no chemistry with him). However, as he later reveals to Chang-yi, hes still not sure about who Seung-hee is. js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; In the drama, Jin Se Yeon plays the roles of Song Jae Hee, a North Korean medical student, and Han Seung Hee, a South Korean physician. I'll look them over, thanks! & 33,456 people watched this episode Doctor Stranger will airs its first episode on May 5, with writer Park Jin Woo, who wrote the robust script that PD Jin Hyuk, who is a magician of this complex genre, will demonstrate in the drama. I love LJS but if PH is going to spend the entire show running around just trying to find JH, it annoys me. Of course don't get me wrong, shipping is totally fine, and I ship many drama couples too. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Jae Hees confession to Soo Hyun that she will be leaving soon confirmed my suspicion that theres a higher probability that the ending of this series wont veer away from the original ending in the book (Doctor Stranger is based in a best-seller book Northern Doctor). Hoon was the one who did the transplant, so he should know how many kidneys (out of the two) he had to remove and how many he inserted. But thats just a minor detail (admittedly one of many) that I can easily overlook as I'm loving this show so far! I would love to see stiff competition between Hoon and Jae-joon in the operating table too. May 4, 2014. . }); And I can't see how Seung Hee is not Jae Hee. Unbeknownst to her, Jae-joon is watching from a distance. It's not like the rest of the main cast have been stellar. And although Hoon's undying love for Jaehee is killing me, I still want him with Dr. Quack. Other than the romance, the drama is about political corruption, revenge, secret assassinations and medical drama. But she must have a reason to behave that way, did she turn her back to join force with the evil for revenge, is she trying desperately to protect Hoon in her way, either way I hope the writer will develop her story more in future eps. My theory is opposite-so far: Hoon finds out she is Jae Jee when he listens to her heart (second kidney and all)-but with the revelation-realizes there's a reason she's pretending, especially since this all involves North Korea, so he decides to keep quiet and pretend she's not Jae Jee in order to protect her until he can find out what it's all about. And since theres a convenient shortage of anesthesiologists, Seung-hee steps up to the plate to help(?) Observations this week: Lee Jong-seok needs to get himself back into white coats stat because that coordi is awful. But before she can even turn her head, she focuses instead on Director Choi as he enters, recognizing him as the man who got her out of the prison camp. In South Korea, Park Hoon begins to work as doctor . Just as a rebuttal (never mind that I'm a Hoon/Jae Hee supporter as well). So he asks for a favor, but doesnt tell her what it is ahead of time. 170 Views. They have chemistry, and in a rom-com format, I might have shipped them together too. I also like the fact that both Hoon and Seung Hee (if JH is indeed SH that is) are not pure hero or heroines, that they do have shadows beneath their seemingly brighter facades. Any others? Doctor Stranger is currently the only drama outta the current bunch thats got me hooked. It's like there's a conspiracy but the conspiracy isn't there. Leave aside the PM-Jang-and-comrade-Cha-are-bad, and that Hoon is somehow Super Important to them because of their guilty secretsbut how does it make any sense for Soo-hyun to be a part of Seung-hee's mission? but nope, it doesn't mean I want a PH/Soohyun end game. js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; Also, if weird things occur such as you, rooting for the 2nd female lead for the first time in your over a decade of voraciously consuming gazillion of drama series, you just couldnt stop because it is such a bloody mystery that needs to be solved. I found one recurring thing unbelievable. Father and daughter share a moment as she sheds a few tears in his arms, and hes sweet enough to even wipe away her tears. - The whole "I don't want to admit I helped to find Chang Yi's mom until I find Seung Hee" explanation sounds dodgy. Rate. I'll keep watching because I am a glutton for punishment and I have hope that it will make sense soon. If they were trying to show that PH is madly crazily in love with JH, fine, we get that. Navigating through the nefarious plot is like mountain climbing with a 80 lb pack while being attacked by bees. Instead he walks right up to her, wraps his arms around her, and listens. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The ending will also make you tear out your hair. And to that end, Im equally worried that this entire circus of connivance would end up falling flat on its face, that it makes the entire reason for Jae Hee to join the fold of both Koreas villains and their conspiracy just factitious. It's nice to see the "good" 2nd lead in a K drama being the female one too--often if there's a "bad" and a "good" (rather than both bad or both good), it's the man that's good. Over 868 TV Time users rated it a 19.6/10 with their favorite characters being Lee Jong-suk as Park Hoon, Kang So-ra as Oh Soo-Hyun and Jin Se-yun as Song Jae-Hee / Han Seung-Hee. So the ending was actually more gratifying than it wouldve been just one episode ago, though Im not big on admitting that after an hour that was sluggishly grounded at best and frustratingly convoluted at worst. Agent Cha loads his gun and, unable to control himself, mutters Long live the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea before he shoots Hoon twice. This website is still under development. Park Hoon became a genius thoracic surgeon. How much time has she given herself for self reflection? Your email address will not be published. In fact, there is upcoming technology trying to use the unique heartbeat ecg as a means to replace password to unlock things! I think I made it through 4 episodes before I couldnt anymore. Agreed. I hope shell take more acting lessons after this series. Three cheers for Hoon being proactive! a). But them becoming a couple is just too convenient for me. Has anyone watched Coffee House? Then, I decided to try Doctor Stranger and went in with low expectations because I hadnt heard much praise for this one. The thing with Hoon-Jae Hee relationship is, we are told from day 1 that they're so in love with each other, while the portrayals of the actors indicate that Hoon does the loving part much more than Jae Hee. Moon misunderstood that as Jae-hee/ Seung-hee has one because she donated not received! Yeah to me there was only one end game from the beginning in there but that's b/c the writing was good and set it up so logically and emotionally resonant that I appreciate the ride of getting there the entire time. I liked the PH/Soohyun scenes because those felt real. Sumedha spends her days reading books, bingeing Kdramas, drawing illustrations, and blogging while listening to Lo-Fi music. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm close. [3] Due to the drama's success in China there are currently plans to edit the drama into a film and release it theatrically exclusively in China with an alternate ending. RECOMMENDED. Searches were done to search his body pretty soon. The reason she says she'll live as Jae-hee after the surgery is so that N. Korea can keep have an eye on Park Hoon and "threaten" him using fake Jae-hee whenever they need anything. Doctor Stranger broke my heart because it had a really cool premise and I thought the first episode was great. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I still do hope to see Jae Joon make a turn around and be the proper lover to win back Soo Hyuns heart which will inevitably only be broken by pining too much to our Dr Stranger. Season: 1. It was the same expression throughout her screen time in the show. She was equally upset when she broke it, even though she covered it up. Which episode would you say was the turning point for you? We start off with Park Hoons dadPark Cheola brilliant heart surgeon, being called to North Korea. As not to waste this double-post let me just post this link to the beautiful pics of Kang Sora and Jin Se Yeon: http://koalasplayground.com/2014/05/22/jin-se-yeon-and-kang-sora-are-lovely-in-spring-magazine-spreads-as-shipping-wars-heats-up-dr-stranger/. Moon because gosh, those two are hilarious. He deeply fell in love with Jae Hee (Jin Se-yeon) in his high school. Why? I love that she's a competent professional even if Hoon calls her a quack, and a concerned friend to him. Reviews: 1 user. Hoon doesnt realize, and keeps murmuring Jae-hees name. I like Kang Sora so much more than Jin Seyeon, and Soo Hyun has been so well written and performed so far. I did like the hug though, his hand was actually in her hair! As a child, a man and his father are kidnapped and brought to North Korea. That makes the relationship more organic and less forced. Song Jae-Hee, in the small amount of time we saw her, was shown as a vibrant girl and I liked her instantaneously. I don't really know what they were planning to do with this, was it to make us confuse or if they were trying to drop hints about who SH really is. But they were tricked and the father-son duo wasnt allowed to return to South Korea. I wonder if the PD likes to twist things around justfor the sake of it. Maybe in the second half? Meanwhile, he found a girl that looks exactly like Jae-hee, Doctor Han Seung-hee, who claims not to know Park Hoon. With both SH and Hoon asking what Dr Moon is doing there. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. book recommendations, blogging tips, & asian dramas. 9. . By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. A lot of her facial expressions are inscrutable; I don't think it's because of the actress or anything, but she's probably given the same amount of information we are so she's not really able to express a hell of a lot, just in case the writer goes a different way~! And I know yours, Jae-Hee.