#bong seok

[kdramaxoxo]

Moving (무빙) K-drama ep 1-15, thoughts

[ SPOILER FREE ]

I'm not the kind of person who likes superhero stuff because I find that it follows a formula that doesn't focus very much on my favorite thing: Character Development. AND it is about as far away from my favorite genre: Slice-of-life that it can get.

But Moving (무빙) is different!

First a side note: A while back there was a tumblr post about how much it would be fun to make a show/fic about captain america getting a new dog (or something like that) and I remember thinking "WOW if superhero movies/dramas were more like this, I'd be 100% game." (if you know that post, send it to me??)

The creators of Moving took NOTES y'all.

Yes, it's gritty, has a lot of violent action scenes (I'm a fast forwarder don't @ me ;-) and an over-arching villain plot but it's so much more than that!

Moving focuses on the humanity of dealing with super powers, growing up with them, having to hide your talents while not being 100% isolated from friends and family. The Trauma, The Comfort Healing. It's freakin' TOUCHING ok? I'm in love with literally every couple, and every person on their own has things to overcome and room to grow. There's so much softness and love and friendship-- I just haven't seen a drama recently that has me caring about every single person??

Now, we are at episode 15 tho.

This is where I get nervous because if a kdrama is going to make a left turn off a cliff, it happens right about now. The last quarter is where the writers decide we need way more action and villain than we need all of the things that make Moving special (think about how many dramas you've seen where all of a sudden there is a stalker plotline, or a murder, or a kidnapping at the very end for no reason at all?).

I'm just anxious that my 10/10 drama is going to fall apart even though so far it's like, perfect? But fingers crossed!!

Moving: FIGHTING! (but like in a slice-of-life way, not in an actual fighting way :P )

[naksushadows]

“It’s not flying itself that matters but how well you fall. That’s why flying well means falling well.” – Kim Doosik/Moonsan

[soijoh]

Bongseok & Huisoo 🥺👌💙

[giezyvon]

Y'all we won!!!!! A short but meaningful family reunion...... Myyy heartttt.....

And I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we're getting season 2!!!

Damnn that new NIS commissioner or whatever they call him, I'm already pissed! Also that effin principal huh! I'm so happy to see him looking like what he deserves fuckin years ago.

Dayummmmmmmmmm I just can't....

[wantingwhatiwant]

Bong Seok & Jang Huisoo | Message in a Bottle

(Moving, 2023)

"You're not weird at all, just a bit special."

[giezyvon]

I miss them already!!!! See you soon ❤❤❤❤❤

KIM BONG SEOK & JANG HUI SOO MOVING 무빙 (2023) dir. Park In Jae

[pudding-bitches]

the loserism is high with these mfs

[kruzbr]

sorryy sorry i know hes a terrible guy but he likes a girl soo dsfasadkjf

[bluepopsicle]

at this point i'm watching strong girl nam soon just for byeon woo seok. plot? nonexistent. logic? who that. gotta go back to minmin and bongbong, i can't take this.

[giezyvon]

💜💜💜

"My son's all grown up now." MOVING (2023), dir. Park In Je

[fragilefangirl]

Silly little scenarios in my head post-dooshik return;

Bongseok walking in on his parents doing too much PDA for the first time, going confused and flustered and kinda panicked

Dooshik perpetually forgetting that Bongseok is no longer three and going home with various toy trucks and stuffed animals

Mihyun's restaurant offering delivery for the first time ever because now Dooshik is around to do it

Dooshik being super shocked at how much weight Bongseok is able to carry when the kid walks in with two water gallons in his hands and a near-intact pork on his shoulders without breaking a sweat

Dooshik being so jealous of Bungaeman because Bongseok idolize the dude, to the point that Mihyun had to sit him down and tell him that he needs to snap out of it

"I missed our son's first girlfriend?🥺"

Mihyun keeps being pulled for sudden kisses by Dooshik because the man has been deprived for 15 years damn it let him smooch his wife

"OUR SON'S FIRST GIRLFRIEND IS JANG JUWON'S DAUGHTER?!?!?!"

Bongseok's first superhero outing with his father around, he couldn't sleep and waited at the rooftop with anxiety, asking Mihyun "is this what it feels like for you all the time?"

First big argument and Bongseok was fighting dirty when he said "Why should I listen to you, you were never around!"

The family sleeping together the first night when Dooshik got back in the formation they last slept together

Just the tonkatsu family being happy 🥺🥺🥺

[lilizsky]

★ Choi Heejin (actres) lockscreens

[jugeullae]

The Best Boy

MOVING 무빙 (2023, Park In-je)

[giezyvon]

GIVE US A FAMILY REUNION, JEBALLLLLL!!!

[ladywatereton]

As my research deepens, the greater the expansion of my new Roman Empire: Byeon Woo-seok as Ryu Shi-oh.

JTBCDrama literally confirmed via IG account that Ryu Shi-oh FELL IN LOVE with Tsetseg.

Much is said that he only wanted her by force, but Tsetseg was not Gang Nam-soon. He also didn't know about the power of women. So why would Shi-oh look at Tsetseg with anything other than coveting his power other than with affection? Why wouldn't he fall in love?

Tsetseg and Gang Nam-soon were not the same person. Tsetseg challenged him, she was bold and seemed not to feel uncomfortable around him. She listened to him and showed compassion for his sad life story.

And, I still make room to comment on Ryu Shi-oh's stance. When he was around anyone else, he always walked around with his hands in his pockets (which can be considered a disrespectful gesture in Korea). Even when he hit the Delivery Man, he had his hand in his pocket.

Beside Tsetseg, he always had his hands exposed. He treated her as an equal and even as a superior (he sleeps in her presence, proving that he had trust in her to guard him in such a vulnerable state).

I'm not trying to justify the character's actions, but it's unfair to treat everything as black/white. Ryu Shi-oh was a character that had several layers. He was a Psychopath (although I don't agree with the definition in JTBCDrama itself) and could fall in love with Tsetseg.

[glitterytreechild]

The nerve of gang nam soon, the pampered kid with FOUR parents who would do anything in their power to provide for her, who has not ONCE in her existence felt an ounce of loneliness, who's trillionaire mother would rip the world inside out for her, who discovers capitalism and has the realisation that the world isn't cotton candy and bubbles but actually evil for the FIRST time when she's 22 yrs old; the nerve THE NERVE of that girl to chastise Ryu Sio, an orphan abandoned by the world, who was used and abused by the mafia, forced to murder people at 6 yrs of age, used like a puppet, torn between a war inside him, who not once in his life received the chance to be human.

Hwang geum ju is a filthy hypocrite with her "people can change if they're given a second chance", where was your magnanimous-forgiving-second-chance giving spirit when you were dealing with someone being forced by one of the most powerful mafias in the world to distribute drugs? As for Gang nam soon, I've never hated a main character as much as I hated her. How could you turn around after someone tells you they've been abused their entire life, trusted no one, and were forced to do terrible things to survive, and call them a bastard? Does nam soon not have an ounce of empathy in her hypocrite body? The parallels between Nam soon eating lunch in a villa with her two mothers and relatives who love her more than anything else in the world and the scenes where Sio sat alone in the place where his orphanage stood? And knowing that despite being abandoned by his parents which resulted in him being abused for years he understood that his biological parents were probably not in a position to provide for him and tracked them down and provided for them? And all this for the drama writers to just include a scene where the main characters on their romantic stroll to muse once about how different ryu Sio would have turned out if the world had shown him an OUNCE OF KINDNESS? Like you guys are seriously telling me that this thought did not occur ONCE in gang nam soon, daughter of philanthropist and believer of goodness of people Hwang geum ju, that this man opening up to you about his traumatic childhood and life and the fact that he does not want to die being controlled by an evil mafia could possibly be a better human if he recieved the chance? This drama could have explored a complex relationship between Sio and Nam soon, where she recognised that he was really a victim of society's evils, Hwang geum ju could have helped Sio escape the clutches of the mafia and they could have taken down this organisation together, but no instead the writers decided to make a drama chock full of loopholes, cringe dialogue, predictable and boring plot "twists", a painfully one dimensional male lead, and a forced romantic relationship between the main characters who had ZERO chemistry. From a kdrama fan who LOVED strong woman do bong soon and only and only started this drama because of bongbong and minmin's 5 minute cameo, I'm beyond disappointed. It ruined my year ending (almost)