#Midnight_asks

[midnightsgift]

hi !! im here to talk about The Devil Judge :-) okay so im super confused about why Ga On and Isaac look alike & im not sure if the show is going to cover that. any thoughts on why theyre literally identical?

Hey :)  sorry I made the post just before I went to sleep so sorry I'm replying so late. First point I don’t know if the show will cover it either, however I think this is probably where we disagree (idk just assuming), you say your super confused and ngl I am too, however I wouldn’t mind the show not explaining it. I’ll go into more detail but essentially I don’t think i need that answer. For two reasons. 1) From what we’ve seen the reason why he looks identical doesn’t seem that important to progressing the storyline. So I don’t mind the writers not having an explanation. As long as the storyline doesn’t call for it. 2) I don’t know if I would be satisfied with any explanation. Perhaps I'm saying this because of what i feel i know what the cheap way out would be, but I don’t think there is any reason as to why they’re identical that, would be pleasing enough for them to state. I don’t think that pay-off is high enough. 

This being said I have loved the writing of the show, the pay-off of scenes episodes down the line. It really highlights that they know what they want to convey to the audience and their writing ability. So, I have more than enough confidence in them to pull it off well if they choose to but personally i wouldn’t feel cheated if there wasn’t an explanation. I go as far to say I hope they don’t touch on it, at least in the show, as I feel like I don’t want one.

I stated before that i feel like there’s a cheap way out and I think we all know what the most obvious storyline would be... Family! Maybe I’m discouraged by how other shows tackle these types of storylines. It tends to be mediocre shows that do it no justice, but if they chose to go down this route i hope they execute it well. Firstly we’d have to ask ourselves is there any evidence of them being related, apart from the similarity in looks. And yes, there’s one quote from the show that I remember vividly it the explanation their (Yo-han and Isaac’s) father gives about why he treats the boys so differently. He states that Yo-han looks like him, leading us to believe that he believes that Yo-han is his illegitimate son, and why he felt better bout beating him but that’s not what the question is about. The relevant part was that he believes Isaac looks like his mother, and I am assuming this resemblance stuck with him as he grew into a man i.e. when he looks the same as Ga-on. This means if they were gonna go through the bloodline it would have to be a connection to Isaac’s mother. This would mean Yo-han would be aware of this link, I don’t believe he wouldn’t have discovered this link or that K wouldn’t have during his digging. However, a line near the beginning of the show from Yo-han being in shock about how similar the resembles shows he was aware of the Ga-on. I think this was solely because he had applied for the role and seen his picture on the CV, and thus taken an interest, However if someone would want to think he had discover him sometime after the incident as Ga-on would be related to Elijah, not Yo-han. Maybe he wanted to see if Elijah had anyone else who’d be able to look after her, and maybe that’s when K made a comment about them looking the same and it wasn’t till years down the line he was able to see the resemblance with his own eyes. I could also see something loosely similar to that also being true. Having said all this I don’t think the double casting was for no reason. I do think it was more a conscious choice on the writing side. When you have a character like Yo-han who’s so used to keeping people at an arms length, it hard to show him take an interest in anybody. I feel like a younger me was very similar to him, and the card scene broke my heart, but it was something that seems so unrealistic (that somebody doesn’t know any card game) but it felt so real. And how he keeps stating he doesn’t like people, where in fact he does, we’ve seen it on plenty of occasions, however he needs to believe it and he does think it’s true about himself. It makes being lonely more comfortable, when it out of your own choice and not regardless of it. But we heard of him as a child taking interest into people, the girl from school, his brother, the maid (he even spares her feeling by refusing to tell her, her food sucks), his niece and others. What makes it easier to believe is that he’s so out of place when it comes to any form of interaction with other people that he can mistake the lack of experience for a dislike.

 But anyway this isn’t a Yo-han breakdown ask, so why i think it’s important to take this into account is that by making Ga-on look like his dead brother you force him to take an interest into him, that deepens the story. It also means we can have scenes like after the bomb where he’s able to successfully save Ga-on someone who looks like his brother, when he had failed to save his actual brother in the original fire. I could sit here for awhile taking about the implications of the resemblance has on Yo-han but i feel like i made this way too long already. 

I’d be surprised if you’ve stuck with my rambles all the way to the end but thanks if you did.

[midnightsgift]

Assuming Yo Han and Ga On bring down The Foundation by the end of the series, what do you think happens then? Do they hang up the vigilante hoodies or do they find other baddies to bring down?

Hey @miss-lurker, I'm glad you said assuming they both bring them down, because otherwise I'd be sat here going off on one about if one of them betrayed the other, one was dead or the countless other scenarios.

So to answer your question do they both hang up the vigilante hoodies? No.

I do not see Yo-han stopping his path of trying to rid the world of evil, like he said in ep 10 monsters awake when the moment is right. I feel like he will always see other opportunities to correct the world. However I do feel like he would feel slightly empty after the fact, he has been planning this for such a large part of his life that once it's done he'll be left with all the emotions and trauma he's pushed to the side. He'll have to deal with that. This could go two ways, he builds better relationships with those around him or he spiral more into his god-complex of being a punisher. Ngl this is also why i partially think they might kill Yo-han because they already started to make his life more 'rich' as Ga-on states which would make it more heart wrenching when he fails his life's mission.

Ga-on on the other hand I feel like it's harder to say. To me it's still unclear how he'll be at the end, will he still beheading in the same direction he is know along with Yo-han's plans, or will his moral compass decide a different approach is required. Will he witness the defeat of the organisation and see the corruption that still lingers in the world? Will he feel he didn't stop anything but just allow a different power-hungry group take over. I feel like unlike Yo-han who sees the whole world as constantly evil, Ga-on will see other corrupt politicians taking over as less of a win and that all his efforts were hollow.

This is also a Kdrama and before I started the show I thought Yo-han was gonna be set up with Sun-ah, however now watching the show i think it's unlikely, but i do think they will make Ga-on 'settle' down to a degree with his best friend, Soo-hyun.