#mok-ha

[ohifonlyx33]

Castaway Diva... had the potential be top 10... Maybe even top 5 which is why it's so frustrating. Because I really enjoyed it. Except for when I didn't.

The first half is a solid 9/10 with emotional build up that is really promising. I was very invested in the connection between the young ki-ho and mok-ha and eager to see their reunion from both POVs. But the back half slows down and drops to a 6/10, with many wasted opportunities to give us moments that could have had so much emotional payoff.

It feels like they cut out a lot of Mok-ha's trauma and jumped straight to this being a story about a girl who wants to be a pop-star.

It's a tragedy that shifts the emotional weight from the main characters to the side characters... its a deeply meaningful and heavy setup with romantic implications that barely come to the surface in an indulgant way. Even though the FL and ML mean so much to each other, the main characters nevertheless refuse to get swept up in the gravity of their own story...

Even though it's pretty obvious who Ki-ho is, they try to keep it a guessing game a little too long, so it ends up feeling like Ki-ho never gets to react to finding the love of his life after 15 years.

Pros:

One of the best OSTs that I would actually listen to imo.

Excellent setup for trauma and angst

Past and present Ki-ho with those same sad eyes 🥺

Actually every interaction with the young cast was perfect. And the same mannerisms from the past really carried over to the present.

When he smashed the fish tank... I felt that

Step-father is OG

The shoes he gave her... twice and the way she couldn't leave them behind 😭

Showcases how twisted and pathetic abusers are

Made me emotional multiple times.

Hope, perseverance, forgiveness, etc.

Seagull as a way to show her emotional state

When Ki-ho briefly considered patricide but opted for getting beat up instead.

Everytime mok-ha was desperate to find ki-ho it was like she needed to breathe and she even defended him to his face while also insulting bo-geol, ironically.

Cons:

Wdym we don't see a flashback of Ki-ho excusing himself to buy shoes and then collapsing into a puddle because he just heard the name Mok-ha and found her after 15 years and now he's not able to hold her or tell her he's there...

wdym mok-ha doesn't spend time in a hospital so that we can get scenes of ki-ho secretly visiting her?

Wdym he doesn't hear a scream then run up to the roof to comfort Mok-ah after she has a nightmare?

Sometimes Mok-ha is a little too at peace with her trauma but then she's just comforting everyone else.

Anti-climactic Ki-ho reveal and post-reveal development... or could they at least acknowledge that he's probably depressed?

Too much unnecessary focus on the over-dramatic side-characters started making me like them less and detracted from the actual drama of the ML/FL

Could have cut put chunks of the pop star's plot while still giving her a good arc about her mom and her company.

We like ki-ho's bro... but his arc didn't really go anywhere in the end so it felt like too much time and energy was wasted treading the same water.

The murder weapon was bees? And he really had to try to kill this man?

Everytime they bring up how Mok-ha was lost on the deserted island for 15 years right before introducing her... like it's a fun fact and not a potential ptsd trigger

Who in the writing team thought "ah yes let's have the family take our girl camping she would definitely want to go camping after 15 years on an island" SMH.

[everythingsouthasian]

- Being King Bo-geol is better for you! - It was. But there was one day when I regretted it. The day I found you on the island, I wished I was Jung Ki-ho again. I wanted to find you before anyone else could.

CASTAWAY DIVA 무인도의 디바 (2023) ✦ Episode 07 "Seo Mok-ha vs. Eun Mo-rae" dir. Oh Choong-hwan

[johnny-dynamo]

Thundarr The Barbarian by Gene Ha

[outmealcookie]

i'm glad they met each other.

Castaway Diva (2023)

[theongp]

Why all 'Mr.Seo' in homoerotic antagonistic Kdrama are like this

Hot 🔥

Tall

Rich

Bad

Scary

Crazy

Babygirl (yup, babygirlify unhinged men is my thing💀)

Gay

In suspicious, questionable relationship with some little guy who's also unhinged just like them

[fyeahtv]

PARK EUN-BIN as Seo Mok-ha in CASTAWAY DIVA 무인도의 디바 (2023) dir. Oh Choong-hwang

[rewrite-canon]

the fandom acting as if kyoshi is the most brutal cutthroat avatar lady there is makes me shudder to think about how they’d react to me as an avatar. and i dont mean this in a ‘ohhhhh im so built different 😈💪🔥’ kind of way, i mean this in a ‘if i was put through what kyoshi was put through my main goal would’ve been to blow up and then act like i dont know nobody.’

[millidew]

maizuru and milsiril are my favorite fucked up dungeon meshi mother figures

[kamibakura]

[asiancentral]

PARK EUN-BIN as Seo Mok-ha in CASTAWAY DIVA 무인도의 디바 (2023) dir. Oh Choong-hwang

[evadingreallife]

Is that the "i've been spirited away" club's t-shirt or...?

[blexbees]

Seo Mok Ha. 🎤🏝️☀️

[everythingsouthasian]

Those words Mok-ha said weren’t of comfort. They were words of resolve.

CASTAWAY DIVA 무인도의 디바 (2023) ⦿ Episode 09 "Consolation vs. Resolution" dir. Oh Choong-hwan

[spaceymarz]

okay but rq can we talk about Kim Doha's insane babe magnet? FOUR characters have fallen in love with him, and the only past tense is because she fucking died. on top of that, Eumji and Shaon threatened to kill themselves to get him to date them, Solhee continued to date him even when the heavens were telling her that he killed his ex-girlfriend, and Deukchan ACTUALLY killed Doha's ex-girlfriend 💀

prayers to Solhee so she keeps her sanity in the last episode 🙏🏼

[jadeinretrogrde]

me omw to watch this week's new eps of My Lovely Liar:

[theongp]

I'm so normal about middle-aged men in Kdrama