#do u know how unfair it is to me that they've never met

[psychicwound]

two sides of the same coin

[once-upon-a-drama]

Thoughts no one asked for about search:www part 2

One of the best things I've watched, in long time. The drama about the search engine stuff. The main leads absolutely flooring it and living life on their own terms. Bad ass women goooooo!!!!!!!

(let me make a few things clear. It's absolutely not a perfect show, it's got a few problems.)

But honestly there's two things that really stuck out to me and I'd like to adress those two things.

1) working during your 20's

Their treatment of ai ra. The girl who initially works as a barista in unicon. She's clearly talented and ta mi acknowledges that, going so far as to call the people who rejected her as fools who don't know how to recognise talent. And when she leaves unicon ta mi even takes her with her.

In the beginning we see her wearing some offbeat clothes. She isn't as stylish as scarlet or professional as ta mi. Yet she never wavers in her enthusiasm or her drive to get better and work there. Obviously meeting her idol who turns out to be trash is turning point for her.

The writers could've handled this is a number of ways. They could've ignored it and painted the man in bad light. As in it happens. He's trash. U get better dressed from on. Its the way it.. ( ta mi says this precisely. I'll get back to that later.)

They could've made her angry. Pissed that no one understands that she has no money and therefore unable to dress herself appropriately and such. Etc etc.

I feel like the fact that they made ta mi acknowledge that an industry like their's expect a certain level of, how do I put it (looking rich disguised as professionalism) is very important. It makes her take responsibility for adults her age. That they've made a culture like that. It doesn't put the onus on ai ra to be better. Ta mi says it's a culture like this. People in their 20's just starting out barely have enough money. And in fit of guilt she offers her fancy costly bag to ai ra.

She doesn't offer any sympathies or explanations. She does what she can, at that point without patronising her. Ai ra on her part doesnt get angry.

She's devastated and goes home. We see her crying. Which is such a nice thing it self. Not that she's crying. But we never see this part. Where people are just feeling helpless unable to do anything. That someone would judge her for being a particular way when they barely met her.

I'm not saying you shouldn't dress professionally or be allowed to come in absolute rags. But there's a difference. Because no body in her workplace had a problem with it. And there's far better ways of gently asking her to dress better than some random dude you've just met saying u look weird.

I found this bit so heartwarming because I've seen other shows where the person dresses up drab on their first day. It's either played of for laughs or just ignored or she's gets a makeover without actually addressing any of the underlying issues.

I can't think of a counter example. But one such example comes to mind. I've been on a suits kick lately. Here Mike is kind of poor barely scraping by. He has to pay for his grandmother and lives with his friend.

And when Harvey doesn't like his suits he just hands him his corporate card and asks him to buy some better stuff. While albeit its a nice gesture on his part it doesn't adress practically any of the underlying issues.

2)on the topic of marriage

This is in reference to a particular scene basically. I've no particular extra opinions to add but I just found it to be such a different take on the topic. Park morgan and ta mi are discussing about marriage and their reasons for doing it and not doing for the umpteenth time.

And ta mi points out that it's unfair why people who don't have to marry have to always acknowledge their reasons. They have to explain themselves repeatedly for their choice. Whilst people who want to marry aren't given such shit. (now I know the underlying reasons why this happens. Because marriage is the norm etc etc)

But it was albeit portrayed very interestingly.