#Dongsik my women respecting king

[leedongsik]

you said we could rant to you about BE so here i am! i just think that what makes BE so special is the themes that were at the forefront of this show like classism or mental health disorders or sexism. they weren't just addressed in the show as passing remarks like yeah these things exist and they're bad and we can only question them we can't solve them. in fact they were fully integrated into the story and the characters (1/?)

we have juwon who's a Classic Stoic Chaebol Male Lead(™) with OCD who represents rich people physically and metaphorically looking down at poor people and their 'dirt' but over the course of the show he's transformed into a completely different person and overcomes his OCD through seeing people for who they are. we have dongsik explicitly addressing sex workers and how they deserve to be seen as human beings (and juwon's entire arc being about not forgetting lee geum hwa no one else does) and in the end we have a happy ending where the issues were resolved by the good people teaming up to defeat evil rather than giving the message that good is essentially powerless against powerful people. im sorry for throwing shade at TDJ directly like this but TDJ cant even come close to all these raw and meaningful messages so carefully laid out through the characters and the plot and the story in BE. (3/3) thanks for listening to my rant, have a nice day!

Welcome, welcome!

Very well put, (I was about to diasgree a little about Juwon looking down on people but I understand now what you mean).

This show has just SO much respect, be it by the way we have characters speaking up for victims and that it shouldn't matter what kind of life they lead because a bar girl/sex worker is still a human being and does not deserve to be killed or the producers deciding not to give too much spotlight to the killer and the killings out of respect to real victims, let's not forget the amount of research and heart that was put into the script, like you had the author crying over the character she created herself and that's why I respect her and the show so much.