Endless Love Episode 4 Review:
Haha. I found the whole “You’re in my class?” incident to be hilarious because it’s happened to me before. Though I think the writers really misnamed the class since the concept explained in class (the eyes cannot see what the brain doesn’t recognize) seems like it’s more of a philosophy question than it is a quantum physics question. And really? Was it necessary to use this as yet another opportunity to pound the true-love-ness between these two, complete with a pleasant-voiced professor narrating? Is the red thread story not enough? That said, I did like this episode.
Watching Rui En torture No-Q with his misconceptions was so entertaining! She plays the part of the smug manipulative girl so well, No-Q is just so gullible and sullen in those scenes, and Jing Hao is so oblivious. Poor Jing Hao looked so lost when No-Q finally lost his cool. That much headshaking can’t be good for someone recovering from a head injury. But I loved how No-Q and Rui En used this incident to form the basis of their friendship.
Rui En has officially won me over. And I say this even before she admitted her feelings for Jing Hao at the end of the episode. I realize that my previous posts have obviously made me out to be much more sympathetic towards Jing Hao. Her speech about how the human heart is a complex thing, made up of hundreds of different types of hearts, was delivered exceptionally well. It was completely honest and heartfelt, communicating how helpless and confused she is in the face of her feelings for Min Shuo. She was also really wonderful when she yelled at Jing Hao to snap him out of his self-condemnation and when she confronted him about completely ignoring her for days.
Will Pan has really embraced his role as the dark tortured hero of the story and I’m liking it. When his father is admitted to the hospital, his quiet admittance to his fear of facing his father condemnation was completely heart wrenching. I think he has definitely improved a lot, even compared to the last episode. His scenes are much more natural compared to the first episode. Though I don’t completely understand why Jing Hao decided that he must stay away from Rui En, to a degree that others may consider cruel, it is completely in character for him to make that decision. The reason the writers provided was very weak and poorly explained. He wants to stay away from her because he can’t do anything for her but at this point, they are simply friends. I don’t know what kind of friends Jing Hao’s had before but friends help each other when they need it, without asking for retribution. So maybe he’s influenced by the fact that he likes her but even then, his character is polite enough that he should at the very least have told her that his father is fine before shutting her out of his life. If a complete stranger did for him what she did, it would still be common courtesy to say thank you, I’m grateful, here’s an update.
I’m really enjoying the complexity and humanity of the parental figures in this drama. They are just as flawed and haunted as you and I. Though Jing Hao’s father comes across as a particularly naïve old man with Alzheimer’s, the audience is also introduced to his dark, destructive side when he is plied with alcohol. And though Rui En’s father initially presented as a kind, sagely character that his daughter looks up to, we later find out that his advice and generosity actually stems from a deep profound guilt that continues to haunt him. Sadly enough, Min Shuo’s mother, the only mother figure in the drama so far, is very one-dimensional and not motherly at all. She is flighty and callous, often coming across as a middle-aged woman with all the cares and concerns of a teenage girl, albeit with a much larger shopping budget.
Min Shuo is a rather pitiful character. He appears to be this successful doctor with a flock of girls clamoring to date him. But then you come to realize that his mother is rather narcissistic, all the girls he dates are beyond shallow, and the one girl who shows interest in him who isn’t shallow (Rui En) moves on by the time he realizes how wonderful she is. Of course, some of this is his fault but the mere fact that he hasn’t become aware of this at an earlier point in his life is rather sad.
Oh and I just found out that the story originated from Korean writers so all this melodrama in an idol drama makes so much more sense now.
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