Episode 11 Commentary

#1. FLASHBACK - Sang-Deuk's Living room (late afternoon).

The sleuthing of the duo got extended screentime. I’m anticipation some major moves from that that would either be unnecessarily irritating, or would be really funny.

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#5

Yeon-joo now knows that In-jin is the biggest villain so far in Butterfly Girl. Is he the main villain or someone more sinister will appear?

so much so that she feels panicked in #8

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#12. Real live action of manhwa + MANHWA + MONTAGE.

I don’t actually understand this montage. She went to a company called Arborea, but it’s not clear at this point why.

C#12. MANHWA - LAST dissolve from "real" to "image".

Also, at this point, Fairy Spark appeared to comfort Ren-bo. But if I remember correctly, she was missing. Yeon-joo and Soo-bong thought that she did not go back with Soo-bong simultaneously to the manhwa world.

Had she figured out how to teleport back and forth from manhwa to the real world? Or did she teleport with Soo-bong but both ended in different places?

C#16. MANHWA - LAST dissolve from "real" to "image" + Thought bubble.

This answers my question. She was invited, perhaps, to be abducted.

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“Close-up of the sheet, moving and zooming on... Top, "In case of death". Middle, "I agree to leave my body to the beneficiary". Below, "Beneficiary: Jin In-Jin". Next to it, "Signatory: Ren-Bo", with fingerprints and seal.”

Okay, the sinister plan is clearer.

C#35. MANHWA - LAST dissolve from "real" to "image" + Text Bubble.

“I will never give up the only profession I love.”

At this point, I had to stop and check back on Episode 1 or 2 to check if Ren-bo had declared a specialisation or some similar information. I know it’s hinted somewhere but I did not pay enough attention.

Okay, after searching, none appeared. In fairness, she had a garden at her home. She cultivates it with ease, but the thought of her doing gardening professionally did not cross my mind.

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C#44

When Sin-moo arrived, only did I realise that the scenes I am witnessing in frame #12 is the original continuity, that which was set prior to Soo-bong being absorbed in the manhwa.

That means this is just an extended recall. No wonder I am lost as to why Ren-bo went to the company owned by In-jin.

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#13. In Kang Chul's car + Sung-Moo's Living room (night).

I like how plotholes can be used as an element of plot

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#19 and #20 explain the trauma that Ren-bo experienced. It’s one thing to read a synopsis of it earlier, but it’s another to see the scene unfold. This one hits harder.

#24

I can process these scenes logically, but I can imagine other personalities who tend to be feelers rather than thinkers would be crying so hard at these scenes.

#25

And after typing the texts under #24, Yeonjoo was crying. She must be a feeler type.

I haven’t memorised the detailed desciptions of every MBTI type, but if I would haphazard a guest, she is likely ESFP.

 https://www.truity.com/personality-type/ESFP#:~:text=ESFP%20indicates%20a%20person%20who,planned%20and%20organized%20(Perceiving).

“ESFP indicates a person who is energized by time spent with others (Extraverted), who focuses on facts and details rather than ideas and concepts (Sensing), who makes decisions based on feelings and values (Feeling) and who prefers to be spontaneous and flexible rather than planned and organized (Perceiving). ESFPs are sometimes referred to as Performer personalities because of their playful, energetic nature.”

I’m not sure I got her personality type right. I was merely guessing based on what I know these 4 letters stand for.

And while we’re at it, I suppose Kang Chul is ENTJ. I have a hard time believing he is introverted because he is rather charismatic. He was forced to be more reserved when he was accused of killing his family.

iNtuition for seeing the big picture, not just facts. Thinker because of his solid deductions. J for planning things.

https://www.truity.com/personality-type/ENTJ

But based on this description, I may be off.

“ENTJ indicates a person who is energized by time spent with others (Extraverted), who focuses on ideas and concepts rather than facts and details (iNtuitive), who makes decisions based on logic and reason (Thinking) and who prefers to be planned and organized rather than spontaneous and flexible (Judging). ENTJs are sometimes referred to as Commander personalities because of their innate drive to lead others.”

ESTJ? The description is even more off!

Anyway, let’s go back to the episode.

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And we’re almost done. Yeon-joo and Soo-bong were just discussing on how to take down the villain, and some light-hearted jabs.

And of course, the image that shocked the core of Soo-bong’s being!

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The next episode certainly feels like a last episode, or at least a season finale.

(Anyway, I have so many things to do tomorrow. I’ll try to see if I can finish reading Episode 12.)

• • Enchanteur

    Thursday 22nd December 2022 at 19:11
    

    #1. Ah! You're not a fan of these two guys. I can tell the making-of. It's best to remove characters from a story that have no use. And so I've been evaluating for a long time whether or not to keep them. It's hard to weigh at a stage when the story is in its infancy. They are funny characters, but that's not enough. I had an important point about them, but I can't give away spoilers. The day you see this, you'll let me know if it was worth it, and if not what substitute idea you'd have instead. In the meantime, aside from the comedy, they highlight the actions of the main characters from a different angle. Since they're focused on them, we get unseen information, or in this scene, we get a snippet of what the main characters are doing. 

    One of the reasons why I had doubts also came from the drama "I'm not a robot". There were reporters spying on the main characters. But they annoyed me more than anything else.

    I think there is a bit the same problem with professor Park Min-Soo, but he has less scenes. Ditto, I can't give away any spoilers, but he will have a higher importance than just the comic at some point.

     

    #5. Kang Chul says that In-Jin is the villain of volumes 5 and 6, the last two volumes of this short manhwa of 6 volumes. So, certainly, Jin In-Jin is the biggest villain of this manhwa as it was written. It would be hard to find a more evil villain than someone who considers the heroine as a bug to be pinned to his collection. ;-)

     

    #12. I guess you have the explanation now. The original manhwa. Allow to know how Jin In-Jin dealed with Ren-Bo, and how it was cruel for her. Very makjang style. It was one of the only way to get more of President Jin before what's coming next. Ren-Bo is looking for a job. In one of the first sub-scenes, she is facing recruiters. We have a clue that Ren-Bo is a gardener in episode 3 (inside cover of the manhwa). We know it directly in episode 9, when Soo-Bong goofs and says she's a horticulture student, and then she tells him how she created a new kind of flower. I had almost taken that out of the scene, but I realize it's useful. That's why I left that part of the dialogue in the scene, among other things. Biggest Montage in W was in episode 3, 25 sub-scene, about 8 minutes. Here, even it was not my purpose, I broke it with 51 subscenes. I don't know the screentime, maybe 10 minutes or something like that because the subscenes are very shorts. It's like a story in the story, like a kdrama in the kdrama but in resume mode. The whole thing could be read by someone who didn't read anything from the drama, I guess it could be understandable as a stand-alone.

     

    #13. Plot-hole as a plot. This is very meta. Typical in the spirit of W. :-D

     

    #19 to 25. Emotional scenes. If they have an impact on the reading, I imagine that on the screen, with the music and the staging, it could hit very hard. In order to write them, I have to immerse myself in the deepest part of the emotions related, which is a sad and intense moment to live. That's how little heartbreaking details come up... like Ren-Bo losing her little pink rabbit. Or the fairy who is too small to hold her cheeks. The reason I'm interested in kdramas is because of their ability to produce strong emotions, but they have a hard to crack secret to produce them.

     

    MBTI, etc. Interesting. Although I have never used this type of tool. I just note on a character sheet the personality traits. It's possible that some of them are contradictory, or maybe don't fit this kind of pattern. Even writing down their personalities on paper is partly unnecessary because I live with the characters as if they were there. I found no other way than to get under their skin as much as possible. Having them have multiple reactions all the time makes it difficult to use a cerebral process. The brain is regularly a dead weight to get to the deep emotions. It would paralyze me. And maybe it would make the characters predictable, when unexpected development can take place in them, sometimes irrational reasons. However, it's hard to say for sure if a character should act like this or like that. Often there are many doubts about this. 

    As some of the characters already existed, it's both an advantage and a difficulty: to respect their way of being, but also to consider their possible evolution. If I take the example of Kang Chul: he has changed since the end of W, because he has to face the real world, which is not a world that revolves around him. That's why I placed him in a surprising and conflicting relationship with the director Jung Dae-Yoon (who also brings a lot of comedy). It would have been more logical if Kang Chul had become a businessman. He brings up the subject at the beginning of episode 6.

  • Enchanteur

    Wednesday 28th December 2022 at 19:17
    

    I'm sorting through the mess of idea files for corrections. I just found a note in there: For the surgery scene, one possibility: that Fairy Spark appears and wakes up Ren-Bo. But it didn't fit well with other facts. It's hard to evaluate if it could make the scene more dramatic or the opposite. Anyway, instead I used a miscalculation for the anesthesia.