Sly and Single Again Korean Drama
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Sly and Single Again Korean Drama
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Sly and Single Again: Episode xvi (Final)
by purplecow
We've finally reached the cease! As the first drama I've recapped for Dramabeans, Sly volition always have a special place in my heart. I call back of information technology like my child, in that I despaired whenever I saw information technology heading down the incorrect path, nevertheless I defended information technology rabidly against its detractors and always tried to explain its idiosyncrasies so as to identify information technology in the best possible light. And while Sly may non win whatever awards or get a scholarship to a drama Ivy League (no, this analogy will never end), it'south shown a lot of eye, loads of cuteness, and the self-awareness both to express mirth at itself and to learn from by mistakes.
FINAL EPISODE Recap
Ae-ra has tracked down Jung-woo to a dilapidated former part, where he divides his attending betwixt several computers and a cup of instant ramen. History is repeating itself before Ae-ra'south eyes, and she is pissed! She calls out to Jung-woo and he adorably tries to run away, cowering when she blocks his escape.
Ae-ra reams him out, and returns the glass CEO nameplate that Jung-woo threw away later quitting. She tells him non to show up in front of her over again and stalks abroad. But Jung-woo's gooey expression as he watches her go suggests that he's not all that discouraged by her coldness.
That nighttime, Ae-ra considers a number of messages to send to Jung-woo, all of which express encouragement or business concern. After sending i, notwithstanding, she deletes information technology immediately.
Jung-woo receives her message in his Programming Man-Cave, hard at work with coffee and junk food. The message reads, "Don't announced before me again… ever!" Jung-woo simply laughs and murmurs, "See you tomorrow, Ae-ra."
Sure enough, the next morning time she'south knocking on the door of the JW Ventures role, though no one answers. She circles effectually to a window, and sees Jung-woo and Secretary Gil sitting together.
Since Ae-ra doesn't know that Jung-woo is working on designing a new game, information technology looks like the ii of them are merely wasting fourth dimension. She huffs that he tin can't take felt that poorly, if he'south well enough to exist playing games. The mood is playful and light despite Ae-ra's angry eyes, and then Seung-hyun has to ruin it by showing upward exterior.
Jung-woo and Seung-hyun have a individual chat, during which Jung-woo learns that he withal has some supporters among the investors and employees at DonTalk. President Kook's health isn't very good, and Jung-woo's name is still valuable for the company's image. Seung-hyun tells Jung-woo that the choice to return or not is up to him.
Ae-ra and Seung-hyun caput out for a quiet talk in the park. While Ae-ra waits for Seung-hyun to return with drinks, she sees a father and son go by and flashes back to the moment when she explained to Jung-woo her existent reason for leaving him. Losing her babe made her concluding hope for a brighter future disappear.
Seung-hyun arrives, bringing Ae-ra back to the nowadays. He admits that he talked with Jung-woo about returning to the company, and asks Ae-ra how she's holding up. She's ignoring love, and only focusing on helping Jung-woo brand his comeback.
Seung-hyun says that he, too, is trying to control his feelings, although he feels starved "in body and centre." He reminds Ae-ra about the meal that she still owes him, and she promises to make good.
Later, Jung-woo visits President Kook in the hospital. Jung-woo promises that no matter what happens, he won't forget his debt to the man who changed his life. Even if they went down different paths, Jung-woo's gratitude will remain.
The ailing businessman is glad not to accept lost Jung-woo's regard, but he tin't leave matters equally they are: he asks if Jung-woo can't stay beside Yeo-jin and Seung-hyun, to protect them even after their father passes away.
In a surprise twist, Managing director Kam and Team Leader Wang encounter on the rooftop for a clandestine chat. It'southward not equally surreptitious every bit they might adopt, even so, since Soo-cheol sees them through the Big Glass Lift. Jung-woo was right in Episode 15… they take got to install opaque walls in that thing!
At the family restaurant, Min-young keeps her new female parent and begetter-in-constabulary well-supplied with refreshments while they work. The parents reverberate that Soo-cheol couldn't have found a better partner. Talking almost their new daughter-in-constabulary leads them to the topic of their ex-son-in-police, who chooses that exact moment to enter the restaurant.
Ae-ra says she thought she told him never to appear in front of her again, just Jung-woo merely scoffs and asks for a bowl of rice soup with extra scallions. I honey this version of Jung-woo, who cowers in front of Ae-ra when she gets mad, yet steadfastly ignores her attempts to be a Noble Idiot.
Ae-ra'due south begetter decides to lend Jung-woo a helping hand by strolling through with a dirty grill, muttering that he needs to hire a part-timer to help with all the work. Jung-woo takes the cue, offer to help launder the dishes. Back in the kitchen, Dad offers Jung-woo some sage marital advice: say "I'chiliad sorry, honey," and "I empathize, honey." A phone call comes for Jung-woo, hinting that there may exist a problem brewing with the software development for the computer game.
After they get off piece of work at the restaurant, the young people potable a few beers and campsite out under the stars. When Min-young and Ae-ra become to replenish their snack and beer supply, Soo-cheol seizes the opportunity to ask if Jung-woo is planning a comeback. He'south quite put out to hear that Jung-woo has no intention of reclaiming his position, but that he's just preparing something to assistance out the company if the game Jung-woo was responsible for runs into problems.
After that night, while Jung-woo pretends to exist asleep, Ae-ra checks his phone to meet what he was staring at before. It's the selca he took in his apartment, the dark she got drunkard and ruined her own plans to be a Noble Idiot. Jung-woo pulls her side by side to him, and they share a comfortable moment of silence.
The next morning, Ae-ra is already at work cleaning the tiny role when Jung-woo arrives. Ae-ra gives him a resume, declaring that she wants to work with him. The two of them are and then incredibly cute, tardily adding the polite "-yo" so as to keep up a professional person tone in their new workplace.
The interview simply consists of ane question: why should Jung-woo hire her every bit his personal secretary? Ae-ra replies archly that no i else knows him too as she does. "You pass," Jung-woo declares with a smile.
At the company, Yeo-jin hears that the game is running into issues, and the only sure style to fix them is to bring back CEO Cha. Needless to say, she doesn't seem to like that idea.
At Jung-woo'southward new startup, Ae-ra keeps sneaking peeks at Jung-woo while he works. She then gets called out to dinner by Seung-hyun, who says that information technology's his altogether.
It doesn't accept a genius to effigy out that information technology isn't, in fact, his birthday. He wanted to come across her, and knew that she wouldn't accept come if he hadn't lied. Since she's already out, Ae-ra lets information technology slide and continues to spend the evening with him. She's a little more forgiving in this situation than I would be, but mayhap by this point she'southward realized that the easiest style to deal with Seung-hyun is just to let him get his petty out.
Jung-woo calls Ae-ra later, wanting to know where she is. She prevaricates for a while, simply he eventually learns the truth. "Whose birthday?!" he bursts out. "Seung-hyun's altogether is in the middle of wintertime when there's tons of snow! Go back here!" Pfft.
The cavalry arrives at Jung-woo's office in the form of Secretary Gil, Manager Kam, and Team Leader Wang. Information technology turns out that their sneaking around on the roof was part of Jung-woo's plan to look after the company even afterwards leaving. They're keeping tabs on things, and Jung-woo tells them the good news that Shilla Hotel has expressed interest in investing.
While the investment bug may soon be resolved, the bug with evolution seem a petty more serious. Right on cue, Jung-woo receives a call. He rushes to the DonTalk headquarters, ready to salvage the day. I was hoping he'd change into his DonTalk Superman uniform, just instead he rocks the Sweatsuit of Programming Ability.
With the evolution team and Yeo-jin looking on, Jung-woo tries to become to the bottom of the problem. He thinks he knows what's wrong and intends to set up it, while he and Yeo-jin awkwardly ignore the tension betwixt them.
Jung-woo's new role becomes unexpectedly lively, equally his fellow conspirators join him to help the company. Squad Leader Wang and Manager Kam throw themselves into the projection wholeheartedly, with Ae-ra, Soo-cheol, and Secretarial assistant Gil all offering their assistance.
After they become off work, Min-young and Ae-ra invite Team Leader Wang over. She says that everything is upwardly to the CEO at present, and pulls out her tarot cards. The card she draws is decease, which she interprets as an terminate to Ae-ra's human relationship with Jung-woo.
Team Leader Wang tells Ae-ra that she should be adept to Jung-woo while he's by her side; she herself was widowed, and knows what it's like to miss someone who's no longer with you. Although the tarot bill of fare makes her uneasy, she points out how special it is to love someone not once, simply twice.
Jung-woo is working overtime at the office when Ae-ra walks in. She's carrying a tray with snacks, and is dressed to impale with a short skirt and lipstick worthy of Chun Vocal-yi. Jung-woo tin can't believe his luck, and puckers up to smooch his sexy secretary…
…and information technology turns out to be Secretarial assistant Gil. HA! Jung-woo rubs the sleep from his optics. Secretarial assistant Gil reflects that information technology's merely like the sometime days, which triggers a flashback to Jung-woo's days every bit a poor aspiring programmer.
He owes some money to the cyberspace café, but when he comes dorsum to pay his nib, he finds out that a sure employee already paid for him. Jung-woo wants to pay him back, but he's already left for the army.
Secretary Gil had no idea that the grungy hobo from the internet café would plough into an Information technology mogul and offer him a job, but we're certainly glad he did. From such minor acts of kindness are the greatest of bromances born.
At the Kook household, Director Oh sits outside with his employer and feeds him rice balls. A flashback shows us the root cause of Managing director Oh's loyalty to the abrasive man of affairs: when Director Oh was but a child, saving his food to give to his younger siblings, President Kook offered him a rice ball and a job.
From that moment on, Manager Oh viewed the president as older brother, begetter, and mentor all in one. He reiterates his want to ever be in that location for the man who gave him everything, and the president shakes his mitt with a deep, unspoken gratitude. President Kook may have finally decided to divorce his wife, but bromance heals even the deepest of wounds!
A Boob tube announcer'due south vocalisation informs us that Jung-woo'southward new company, JW Ventures, is growing fast and likely to become even more than successful. But business concern doesn't seem all that important to Jung-woo, who leads a blindfolded Ae-ra up the stairs of their dream house. He leaves her on the stairs for a second, when he sees that the wind has scattered the rose petals which had been laid out in the shape of a heart on the lawn.
"Secretarial assistant Gil told me it wouldn't be windy today!" Jung-woo gripes, as he hilariously tries to push the errant rose petals into the proper shape. Ae-ra joins him before he can terminate, and the ii throw flower petals together.
They are seated together at a small-scale tabular array on the lawn with cake, a canteen of vino, and the model of their dream firm. Ae-ra scoffs that for an IT leader, this proposal is surprisingly low-tech. Jung replies, notwithstanding, that after hours of searching the Net for proposal ideas, he found that nigh people withal favored the classic approach with candles and flowers.
Jung-woo gives a heartfelt speech about how he came to realize that he still loved Ae-ra, and how he overcame his resentment. In spite of his claim that archetype proposals are still the best, he whips out an iPad to add a trivial technological flair (although he starts with the wrong image). He offers her the ring, and asks Ae-ra to marry him once over again.
Ae-ra says she can't accept the band, and Jung-woo covers her mouth when he thinks she's going to refuse him. She bites his hand and snaps at him to let her speak. Ae-ra is ashamed of trying to send him abroad a second time, and wants him to know that she'll stay by his side forever this time. She asks him to marry her, and sticks her hand out peremptorily to receive the ring.
They kiss joyfully in the thousand, and we see a montage of the highs and lows of their second courtship. 3 thank you for a second adventure at love!
Nosotros leave our favorite couple briefly to follow upward on the unfortunate Kook siblings. Seung-hyun is painting in his studio, and comes across the painting he made of the selca he took with Ae-ra. Information technology causes him to pause for a long moment, and retrieve his time with Ae-ra.
A adult female arrives outside the studio, sees Seung-hyun, and turns to walk away. That's when Yeo-jin arrives, and we larn that the woman is her mother. She opens her arms wide, and mother and girl embrace.
Dorsum to Ae-ra and Jung-woo sitting together on a swing exterior their business firm. They have a beautiful little dog wearing a sweater, but that'due south not the only modify in shop for these two. They bicker dorsum and forth about baby names, letting us know that Ae-ra is expecting.
Our final scene depicts the first fourth dimension they met, with Bowl Cut Jung-woo and Exam Village Goddess Ae-ra making a glorious comeback. They're both on the phone with their relatives, so they don't see each other walking towards the door to the rice soup restaurant.
They reach for the door at the same time, and their hands touch. They look at each other: Jung-woo is instantly smitten, while Ae-ra looks him upwardly and downwardly with a sly smirk. Then, at the end of our journeying, nosotros finally encounter how information technology all began.
COMMENTS
I can't believe information technology's over! Sniff… excuse me, I'1000 a little emotional. Granted, there were times when all I wanted was for the show to be over, mostly when Yeo-jin broke my heart past becoming little and tedious. Looking back, notwithstanding, I can honestly say that I really enjoyed Sly, and I retrieve it did more than things right than it did incorrect. Was information technology astonishing or groundbreaking? Non especially. Were there moments that annoyed the heck out of me? Absolutely (I'yard looking at you, Jung-woo'south family unit!). But it dealt with the issue of divorce in a way that seemed realistic, without losing any of the humor, sweetness, or playfulness that kickoff drew me in.
My offset gripe: Yeo-jin. I was rooting for her in the beginning, because I thought I saw glimpses of uncertainty and quiet pride, mixed together with a reluctance (at first) to sink to the same depths equally many bitchy second leads who came before her. Unfortunately, information technology turned out the writing squad was only biding its time before turning Yeo-jin into exactly that tired archetype of the conniving woman, without enough emotional depth to motivate her scheming or arrive sympathetic.
It's a shame, considering her grapheme had such potential. If you'll allow a wannabe writer to indulge himself in a little rewriting, let me try to support that claim and create Yeo-jin two.0. Imagine if Yeo-jin hadn't lost her leg in a stupid and entirely avoidable auto blow with a random hottie who'due south never mentioned once again. Picture show this scene instead: Years ago, when Yeo-jin was 9 or 10, President Kook's wife left the house with Yeo-jin and Seung-hyun in tow. She meant to spend a few nights out of the business firm to protest her hubby's treatment of her. But her husband catches up to her, and the 2 start arguing next to the route. Yeo-jin tugs at Daddy'due south suit, but he brushes her bated. She trips and falls, directly into the path of a fast-food delivery scooter that can't swerve in time, and the ensuing accident causes her to lose her leg.
Yeo-jin 2.0 yet has cause to resent her father, only she has to stay with him considering of the cost of rehabilitation. Equally she grew upward, she would have become biting and cynical about dearest, not simply because of her parents' failed relationship, but also because of the mode boys treated her when they discovered she had a prosthetic leg. In this alternate earth, Yeo-jin'southward budding feelings for Jung-woo would represent the outset time she gathered her courage to have a take a chance at beloved. The audition would want to root for her, because nosotros run into her overcoming her old wounds and allowing herself to be vulnerable again. The heartbreak when Jung-woo doesn't return her feelings would be real and hopefully touching, simply ultimately it would exist result in positive growth and self-affirmation. Yeo-jin would realize that even though she tin can't exist with Jung-woo, she deserves to detect someone who loves her in spite of her disability, and even learns to promise that another Mr. Right is out there.
Ok, enough of that. As much as I might want to, I tin't change the fact that the real Yeo-jin bought a one-way ticket to Crazytown. And even though she doesn't reconcile with Jung-woo or Ae-ra, Yeo-jin does run across her mother at the cease. Then I estimate in that location's hope that 1 person, at least, may care about our grief-stricken Chaebol Princess.
My second-largest thwarting for this testify was Jung-woo's father dying in the aforementioned episode in which he was introduced. He was the but fellow member of either family whom I liked without reservation. While Ae-ra's family got ameliorate as time went on (and Jung-woo's female relatives disappeared entirely, thank goodness), they but didn't bear upon my centre the mode Jung-woo's kindly sometime dad did.
Sometimes the plot felt a scrap unsteady, with side characters taking on slightly larger roles and then fading into the background. For case, what ever came of Vocal-hee's run-in with Secretary Gil at that bar? They fifty-fifty had a follow-up moment in the Big Drinking glass Lift, but that was the terminate of any interaction betwixt them. Not only that, but Song-hee disappeared virtually entirely from the concluding episode, not fifty-fifty taking part in Jung-woo's cause to save the software development for the computer game.
In spite of the few head-scratching moments, though, the show stayed cute even when obstacles were looming large. I loved the way Ae-ra gave upward her ain programme to be a Noble Idiot, for example. She geared upwards for her big sacrifice, like and so many other misguided heroes and heroines in dramaland, then blurted out the whole matter the moment she had a few as well many shots. I thought it was a neat bit of writing, playing off of our expectations and avoiding the pitfall that we all saw coming.
So give thanks you, Sly, for keeping your light-hearted tone. I loved the heck out of our main couple, from their bickering to their fantasy sequences to their realization, at final, that they take to forgive each other and exist honest about their feelings. It's time to say farewell to Bowl Cut Jung-woo, the Rooftop of Not-And then-Private Conversations, the Big Glass Elevator, Ae-ra's scornful facial expressions, and of class, DonTalk Superman and Marilyn Monroe. It's been a long and sometimes bumpy route, only we (and Jung-woo and Ae-ra) ended upwards in a better place than we started.
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