#queen of tears spoilers

[baileybasses-archive]

"I was so scared."

QUEEN OF TEARS, EP. 04

[factorygirlsstuff]

Haein providing the “com” that we’ve all needed in this “romcom” lol 😂.

[delicate44]

VINCENZO FAN SERVICE AT ITS FINEST I'M CRYING MY CHAYENZO HEART IS SO FULL

[ritahayworrth]

a vincenzo crossover was not on my fucking bingo card

[coreancitizen]

"Queen of Tears" really said here, in case some of you are confused LOL

[newtmastime]

SEOOCHEOL AND DAHYE THIS EP SOOCHEOL AND DAHYE THIS EP SOOCHEOL AND DAHYE THIS EP SOOCHEOL AND DAHYE

SOOCHEOL AND DAHYE

SOOCHEOL. AND. DAHYE.

HE RODE A BIKE AND SMASHED IT ON THE CAR

SHE SAID SHE LVOES HIM

HE SAID ME TOO

THEY LVOE EACH OTHER

AAAHHHHHH

[togaki-kun]

Queen of Tears Ep 9 Spoilers

Okay, so I had been really looking forward to seeing what it would be like for the Hongs to live (even temporarily) alongside the Baeks, and I just adored this episode. The mother is unused to living in anything other than luxury and hates this, the son is an immature, insensitive, and ignorant idiot, the aunt feels guilty because she thinks all of this is her fault, Hae-in is actually really adorable bonding with her (former) mother-in-law.

But what kind of broke me most was the scene with Hae-in’s dad and Hyun-woo’s dad, where Hae-in’s dad says he doesn’t want to go back to the Baek home where everybody else is, because he’s supposed to be the head of the family, the one who’s supposed to reassure them that everything will be okay, but he can’t do that, and it tears him up inside. I really wasn’t sure what to expect from him this episode, but that part gutted me.

[lausol]

My thoughts about this drama: “what a valiant roar, what a bland goodbye”

I loved the first episodes, how complex their dynamic was and how well Soohyun and Jiwon brought them to life with their micro expressions. The way the pacing felt realistic, since a lot of things have passed between them. For me the drama took a bad turn when they lost focus of the main characters and expanded so much on the Queen’s drama. Especially the villains, they had so much screen time and were not really nuanced. Or the aunt, like yes, she was a nice character, but ???? why would they think I wanted so much screen time with her and that bland guy? At first it was cute, but when they gave them so much screen time the last episodes it turned out really annoying for me.

I feel like the car crash was unnecessary and something the writer included because she felt like the audience had not forgiven Hyun Woo enough for the way he acted at the beginning of the drama. That we needed to see him have this big gesture and go rescue her as proof of his love, but it was unnecessary and redundant by this point. We’ve already seen how much he loves her ever since the reality of losing her was on the table and he realized it (when she gets lost on his hometown and she admits it and he hugs her and cries).

In episode 1 and 2 we see how distant and resentful they’ve grown of each other, how they’ve built walls between each other (like when she says he is acting out of character by siding with her and taking her hand) but the moment she is honest and vulnerable (probably it’s been years since that) it dawns on him that she is sick and loosing herself. And it breaks him, because it turns real, that maybe she won’t be saved, that they’ve lost years of companionship they took for granted and both of them could’ve done something to fix things (their talk outside of the supermarket). Him recognizing he forgot that love (while she didn’t) and that scene in episode 6 in Germany was top notch, and staying by her side with Queen’s take over and also recognizing his own mistakes (like how Haein tells him she never wanted to be alone, and both understand she is talking about their baby; or him saying that he wishes he would’ve asked her about her day back then instead of acting as strangers) for me was enough. Him egging her on to have a reaction out of her, bringing her family to his hometown, being vulnerable with her and recognizing his faults, listening to her and caring, were reasons enough to forgive him.

I was also not a fan of her losing her memory. I think they chose way too many conflicts and they overlapped and we didn’t have enough scenes of them being happy without the threat of her disease. I would’ve either picked the Queen’s take over or her amnesia, both was too much. Especially when the pacing by the end was so bad and they chose to keep her amnesia instead of her remembering. We didn’t have scenes of “them” but of HyunWoo and a HaeIn that didn’t feel like HaeIn at times and did not know their past. Like, yes, their past wasn’t perfect, but it was what gave their relationship depth.  And then they chose to skip her falling in love with him or any life milestones between them!!! Like them finding out about her being pregnant again and this time supporting each other and facing the uncertainty together. Their child’s first birthday! We got like a few seconds of them on the steps and then were clubbed with old HyunWoo facing her death and meeting each other again as “souls”. I think it would’ve been a little less shocking if we’d had at least more scenes of them spending their life together before that scene. Especially after most of the drama they made us bawl our eyes out.

One of the worst things they chose to do was that the reason they both grew distant and started to resent the other was not addressed with the depth and care that it should’ve been. They both hurt each other. HyunWoo felt that his feelings were not taken into consideration by HaeIn and that she did not care as much as him (shown by his surprise by the date being her passcode) and that he was not given space to grief. Like he grew up in a family in which they talk things together and support each other, that’s the way he is able to bear sadness, and HaeIn closing off emotionally and being on the defensive made him feel isolated. Meanwhile, HaeIn has already suffered the loss of a family member and she was blamed and resented by her mother for it, so it makes sense that because of that experience and the guilt and trauma of the miscarriage she was going through she thought HyunWoo would do the same, especially after seeing that he moved his things out of their bedroom. He did it because he felt hurt by her breaking down the nursery and not giving him space to grief, but it was how she was taught to grief: walk around it, pretend it did not happen and don’t talk about it (like how her father was going to turn the page of the family album when there was a photo of her older brother). I feel like the way they started to approach it was on track: HyunWoo seeing the birthdate being her passcode, HaeIn admitting she never wanted to be alone and HyunWoo understanding she is talking about the miscarriage and realizing he misinterpreted her back then and the look of regret when he apologizes and hugs her. But I think they should’ve talked about it sooner (like when they’re in his apartment) instead of the gloss over they did on the final episode when she still does not remember a lot of what they went through.

The drama started out great but I feel like the screenwriters didn’t understand the characters enough and thought we needed big action scenes to be impressed and hooked. Instead, it would’ve been better if it stayed as more of a character study on how for love to be kept alive it needs to be nourished, it needs work and communication and respect between each other.  Jiwon and Soohyun are amazing actors and have the range to bring those scenes to life, so it’s a shame that the writers chose to sideline them. Tbh, Soohyun and Jiwon were the reason I kept watching, especially by the end, I can say that the last two episodes are some of the worst episodes of the drama.

I love HyunWoo and HaeIn, and it’s been a while since I’ve been so hooked with a drama and the actors had the ability to make me care so deeply about their characters.

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new”  by Ursula K. LeGuin  reminds me of their relationship.

[baileybasses-archive]

"I thought I'd find it here. A miraculous way to live... or a place of no sadness. But there was none."

QUEEN OF TEARS, EP. 5 (2024)

[factorygirlsstuff]

The way that he acknowledged how he could have done better in their marriage, it wasn’t just her. I’m so glad they’re finally starting to talk.

[delicate44]

I cannot get that image of Vincenzo stepping out of the elevator to the actual bgm outta my head. Vincenzo in the year of 2024? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MAN. GIVE US SEASON TWO

[ritahayworrth]

brb omw to kill eun-sung

[kiestrokes]

Queen of Tears: KieLo Discussion Post

‼️ Potential Spoilers Below ‼️

Anyone who is watching the show is welcome to join in the discussion🫰🏼

1. Why is Kwan always the annoying little brother 😂 I need to see this man play main love interest or second lead that works his butt off to get the girl.

2. Them having all the son in laws prepare the memorial food was wild...but also amusing. His "What a waste of talent." 😅

3. That blue suit of hers is everything.

I am dying over the hunting episode. Her fan girling over her own husband. Him being afraid to go upstairs. Two idiots.

Colorblind Daddy is even more sinister in this 👀 the dog scene had me so nervous.

NOOO IT WAS THEIR BABY 😭

Nvm her brother also died?

I am caught up 🧍🏻‍♀️

Just kidding I forgot to post this so Pt. 2:

Her brother AND her baby died, I think. I really truly do not like her mom. I hate the whole boy mom culture.

Omg. Auntie found out. BOYYY. The auntie isn’t going to make it, she's going to slip up.

I cannot stop thinking about how much I love Haein's makeup, it's so minimal in this way that gives off royalty vibes. All the props to the makeup artist and stylists.

DUDE (gn) every time they show us another person who is in on the plot I gasp. My brain has been so fuzzy from the new meds that I am not figuring things out before like I usually do. and I am kinda enjoying it tbh.

Ok so I do have a theory though, stepmom is bad. Colorblind daddy is her child she gave up for adoption...the apple does not fall from in fiction stories typically.

@still-with-koo

[safestorms]

soft yongduri mornings - Queen of Tears - Baekhong - G

[Set after Hyunwoo gets discharged from hospital. This fic snippet takes place in the same verse as ‘to have and to hold (& be held)’ which diverges from canon in that Haein regained all her memories as a result of the night she gets kidnapped by Eunseong.]

Haein pulls on the pair of boots her mother in law has lent her to collect the eggs from the chicken coop. Just as she’s about to head there, Hyunwoo appears by her side.

“What are you doing, Haein ah?” Hyunwoo asks, peering into the basket she’s holding in her hand.

“None of your business,” she says, playfully. “Collecting eggs for your breakfast, if you must know.”

Hyunwoo’s eyes light up at this. “Have you met our chickens?”

“No.”

Haein eyes the chickens suspiciously when they get to the chicken enclosure. “They look bigger than I thought they would. Do they…attack humans?”

Hyunwoo bursts out laughing. A small smile tugs at her lips. She hasnt seen him this carefree, hasnt seen him laugh like this in so long. “Theyre not wild animals, Haein ah. Come on, theyre not scary. Chickens arent normally aggressive to people.”

“Im not scared of them!” She protests even though a tiny part of her maybe is but shes not about to let her fear get the better of her. She has her pride to maintain after all. Holding her head up high she follows Hyunwoo into the chicken coop.

One of the hens immediately fixes her with what looks like a death glare before she has even crossed the threshold. Haein hasnt noticed what beady eyes they have before. And their beaks are so pointy. Haein glares at it right back. She can give as good as she gets and as CEO of Queens in the harsh chaebol world of Seoul, she knows a thing or two about intimidating her competition. “I’m watching you,” she warns it.

“Haein ah,” Hyunwoo calls to her, “see this is uri Bingsu.” Haein watches wide eyed as one of the chickens comes running to him, rubbing against his leg and making soft greeting sounds. Hyunwoo picks the chicken up in his arms, cooing at it and petting it. The chicken snuggles into his arms. The sight of him cuddling the chicken is so cute that her heart instantly melts, scary birds be damned. He looks so soft like this, in his familiar worn house clothes with his boyish bangs flopping over his forehead against the pinkening dawn sky. It makes her love him more, if that’s even possible.

“Bingsu ah,” hes singsonging to the chicken like its a baby that can understand Korean. “Theres someone very special I want you to meet. My wife, Hong Haein.”

He holds the chicken out to her but Haein shakes her head at him, refusing to take it in her arms. But fine, she thinks grudgingly, she is curious why Hyunwoo likes the chicken and what exactly is so great about it that has her husband’s eyes lighting up like that? Somehow he looks lighter, less weighed down by the suffering he’s endured these past few months from car crashes and bullet wounds, false imprisonments to a wife who treated him like a criminal because she forgot him. She reaches out tentatively to touch a feather on its back with one finger while Hyunwoo holds it.

“See?” Hyunwoo whispers in his soft voice that he only uses just for her, looking at her tenderly. “She looks fierce but she’s just soft on the inside like you Haein ah.”

Haein can feel herself flushing at this though shes pleased. “Yah, Baek Hyunwoo, dont go around giving away my secret. Should I be jealous of you and these hens?”

“Yah!” Theyre interrupted by the sound of Miseons loud voice. “Hyunwoo yah, youre meant to be collecting the eggs for your breakfast not playing with the chickens!”

“I am getting the eggs, Noona” Hyunwoo yells back. “I just need to ask the chickens permission first.” Haein smiles. Its adorable how he’s the maknae of his family.

[newtmastime]

did i miss something? if hae-in had thoroughly confirmed her situation like she said she did, then why didn't she see articles, videos, tweets, news outlets, or literally ANYTHING about the time she announced to every living soul in SK that the little bitch next to her threatened her and her husband? like? did that event just magically disappear? and why tf did no one tell her she was being weird for leaving tg w that little shit after she publicly humiliated him? like not even a slight slip of the tongue? from bystanders? paparazzis? media outlets? hello

[kimsmingyu]

i do not get hae in with eun seong because how does she go from announcing he threatened her and her husband to just feed into everything he says and believing he won't twist the knife again