Angel Last Mission Love Kurdish
Jessica Wade
A successful ballerina is involved in a tragic accident that all but ends her career, and leaves her bitter and hateful. When an angel is sent to her with the difficult mission of finding the woman a true love, he winds up falling for her instead.
She holds out her hand and suggests they dance like that again. So they go out to a more open space, where he twirls and dips her just as he did on that day. Only now, they hold each other much closer. *sniffles*
Nina then receives a text that makes her go wide-eyed. She hurries to the hall, where Luna is waiting, and tells her sister to stop going after Yeon-seo. However, Luna reveals that she has a new target.
By the time the dancers have to return to stage, Yeon-seo is nowhere to be seen. With no time to waste, Kang-woo orders Nina to take over for the next act. As she hurries out, we also see Dan spotting Luna and chasing after her.
Dan runs to the stage, stopping by the curtain to see Yeon-seo acting out the final scene of Giselle saving Albrecht. The side of her costume is now stained with blood, but she pushes through the pain.
I really liked this episode, but at the end had no idea how they would actually resolve this to everyone's satisfaction. I feel like they have painted themselves (or written themselves) into a corner of their own making.
Hoo turned a candlestick into a flower, but can't do the same for a knife. . . * sigh* Luna's in jail for murder, but they let her non-chaebol, prosecutor, or otherwise connected self escape so she could stab Yeon-seo *heavy sigh*
While I'm willing to "nothing to see here" plot holes for a happy to happy-ish ending, or even just a plausible one, I don't feel quite as generous when those holes have to be ignored to end up at a wholly unsatisfying ending. At this point, if Dan and Yeon-seo can't have their happy ending--in the present, not some time-jump years of depression, longing, and pointless sadness--then all of Seoul needs to turn into a wispy black mist and swirl away at the end.
But she is by far the most rational character in this show. I thought she was going to put up a fight against the deity. She also hates Dan's noble idiocies so I wondered why she suddenly thought of being a noble idiot.
I understood where she and Dan were coming from, but they obviously weren't thinking rationally. Can you really think rationally in their situation though? Kangwoo made a good point comparing them to Romeo and Juliet.
All the who-will-die angst got a bit much, but I did think that ending scene was done well. Once again, the scenes wherein the plot or character moments are expressed through dance tend to be the most emotionally resonant. I love that this show never lost its connection to dance as a means of expression not only for its characters but for the show itself. I feel like the creative forces behind the show truly appreciate dance as an art form, which is nice to see.
Not only was the end of this episode clearly reminiscent of Black Swan, like @sailorjumun pointed out, but it also made me think of Moulin Rouge. I kind of wished the show ended here, since it felt like an ending that could potentially be defended. I don't see any ending totally making sense at this point, so having this kind of epic scene with an entire episode to go made me nervous. I'd rather have a tragic ending that's somewhat logical than a happy ending that feels inauthentic.
Oh yeah, even the trailers for this show brought to mind Black Swan. There's no doubt it was influential in the making of this show. Based on how things have been going, it wouldn't have hurt for the writer of this show to take a little more inspiration from Black Swan...
Noooo...Sunbae Hoo!! That was a sacrifice I never saw coming. *Sobs uncontrollably. His parting words to Dan....*Sobs some more. If anything, this drama had all the best dialogs, said with such earnestness from each character that it never sounds contrived or corny.
Ahh...so many great scenes in this episode, but the standout was of course them dancing together. I love how this show keeps throwing back to the beginning. The way Yeon Seo started the dance by yanking Dan to her. What was that about? So hot tho! And I never knew that was the moment Yeon Seo started falling for Dan. I wonder when did it happen for him?
Another unforgettable scene was Yeon Seo craddling Dan and that silent "Jaebal, jaebal...." Masterful. Also the hospital scene with Yeon Seo and Dan yelling at each other. How can they make an argument sound so heartbreaking?
The ballet performance was breathtaking! Even better than I had imagined. Everyone did so well. I'm glad they resolved the Ru Na business in this episode. I knew Kang Woo and Ni Na would come to their senses, and I loved their redemption arc which is in line with their characters.
And Dan, it didn't do much harm this time, but DON'T PICK UP THE KNIFE!!! Don't ever pick up any knives. If you had watched kdramas you would know that, but I guess paradise doesn't have cable. Is that what makes it paradise?
I'm disapointed by Dan. The fact he wanted to kill somebody was not him. If love made him change, it was not in a good way. Because of him, his sunbae disapeared. I hate when Kdramas use love as an excuse to make the worst thing like parents defending their children when they did an horrible thing.
Luna's reasons are weak. She wants to see her sister dancing? During all the drama, she was free to do what she wanted without being stopped, it's tiring to see. She's not a good villain because her characters is badly written.
Yeah, the murderous rage didnt sit well with me either. I think Dan still seems like a child sometimes, very impulsive and naive. Which I guess makes sense considering his personality and dying at such a young age.
Hats off to SHS she's awesome. Her breakdown after holding Dan's unconscious body, tearing up at finding up Hoo sunbae's departure because she truly felt how much pain this loss has brought to Dan, the pretty little dance with Dan in the blue dress & her determined self pushing aside Luna(tic) to save Dan were some of the highlights of this show. She really expressed it all beautifully *applauds*
Thanks @sailorjumun. I guess I'd better start by saying that I don't hate the show and there are many parts in it to enjoy. However I feel robbed of the fuller enjoyment that would have been possible, if at least the main characters had remained true and if changes had been organic.
Am I to be convinced that from a brief conversation, YS does not fight the erroneous depiction of god punishing Dan for saving her life, and thinking that killing herself will therefore re-establish the status quo? For this I blame KW and Hu. (Also the bargaining with god to exchange a dance for a life? Is god to be so moved by her dance that he would relent? Then she has found the way to manipulate god).
I mentioned last recap that Dan's descent into choosing 'murder' was totally out of character. Now Hu's recklessness in order to save Dan is also out of character, and he could have stopped Joon Su without killing him. I feel as if the writer decided that we needed to have the one great sacrifice being Hu's and hammered it into the script. What a waste of a fun, body-shifting sunbae!
Ru Na or Lu Na's motives can only be understood if she's mentally unsound. At least she remained consistent until the end. Aunt's and Uncle's remorse over Ru Na was too little, too late, but at least we see it.
ok uhhh this episode was kinda a hot mess. i've been one of the few who have been standing with this drama despite its ups and downs by seeing the potential...but i felt like this episode was just all over the place
- the whole hu sunbae thing was so random too. like.....tbh it wasn't even touching or sad, because i was just sitting here thinking to myself "really?" like, he was just trying to protect dan and it was an accident. he didnt mean to kill the guy....and even if the guy did end up stabbing/killing dan, i refuse dan would actually die because he's still an angel. it just doesn't seem like that big of an incident for hu to risk everything
- the whole yeon seo and dan wanting to sacrifice for each other is getting tiring. like doesn't yeon seo realize the whole point for dan to be alive is for them to be ALIVE TOGETHER and her "sacrificing" herself or killing herself (ie, pills) to save dan is just so necessary??? like why do you think dan would ever be able to live with himself or live in peace after that lol
Haven't seen the finale yet and im nervous!! I also think that Dan won't let anything happen to Yeonseo. But I don't know how they can both make it out of this alive, unless the writer just brings them both back with no explanation. Anyway, lets just hope for a happy ending. Not too many tears please, the babies have been through enough! Ok, here we go.. last episode..
Thank you for your recap of a chaotically action-packed pair of episodes, @sailorjumun. I was appalled that Dan attempted to strangle Luna Looney, who in turn has truly morphed into the Energizer Bunny Of Evil. That must be Park Il-do and his legion of minions whispering in her ear. Sheesh.
That scene in the dressing room of corporate underwriter Lee presenting the flowers to Yeon-seo and Dan introducing himself as hubby made me smile. Secretary Kim positively looked like the cat who ate the canary.
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Many Christian Hedonists have come before us. For example, Simeon, the old man in the temple in the Gospel of Luke, who waited for years to see Jesus, was a Christian Hedonist. So was Thomas Chalmers, who wrote The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. David Livingstone, the famed Scottish missionary to Africa, was a Christian Hedonist because he became a missionary only because he believed it was in his own best interest to do so. Maybe he found the two verses that I found, one of which is 1 Corinthians 9:23, which says:
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