[mslee's thoughts] Episode 3 Man From the Stars Review

Episode 3

The best part of watching MFTS is the funny sense of humor injected in the drama. The laughs I have in this episode alone makes me love the writer more and more. The irony of the situations are fun to watch and I can say that Kim Soo Hyun can deliver the part which makes the scene entertaining. Just when he, Min Joon was introduced to the hospital as the manager of Song Yi, the situation called for it but he insisted to her he is not her manager but when the nurse called the manager, he automatically answered. Guess the persistent Song Yi won him over. It was so spontaneous answer from him, he totally made me laugh!. I think I am liking the way the story is making those subtle humors.

Anyway, I am somehow understanding the flow of the story. I think Do Min Jon and Cheon Song Yi has a connection that dates back from 400 years ago, when he landed on earth. It's still not clear if it is a reincarnation but when he saw the picture of the girl he knew then in Song Yi's purse, he was too agitated to leave it alone. He looked for her and tried to find answers. But of course our heroine is not the typical submissive one, but a bratty one. She never did gave him a clear answer. By then he remembered snippets from the past of the girl he rescued, twice.

She was suddenly nowhere to go, her step mother died [ from a suicide ] and her life was in danger. He protected her. She was not so dense as to realize he came from nowhere and suddenly appeared in their time. She also knew of his unique power which was not that of common human. But she was not scared of him. In fact, she told him she developed a liking for him and wished she would turn to be a lady soon. I think, besides the urge to protect her, Min Joon also felt something more for this young agasshi who was widowed so early. After confessing, she told him it was only a lie, maybe to protect her feelings for him. They  parted.

While Min Joon was in between thinking of the past and cornering Song Yi, he noticed the shoes she was wearing which was the same from his dreams. Naughty Song Yi thought otherwise as she saw him staring at her feet.

I said previously that even though she sometimes acted nasty, she is vulnerable inside and hurting. She has a dysfunctional family. She is not in good terms with her mother, her sibling is away from home and her father I think is separated from her mother. It was a sad life she is living but conveying different facade in front of the camera. I think she best understood if people bash her than pity her so she doesn't care how people reacted to her.

That evening about 2 in the morning, she felt a spasm in her lower abdomen. Of course her pains were being heard by her neighbor who at the time is still awake. He knew she has no one to rely on, her manager out of town and she doesn't want to impose on her mother. Crawling her way out of her room, with make up on in case reporters saw her, she met Min Joon who went out exactly the same time she did. Min Joon although wanted nothing to do with her could not help himself. In the end, he brought her to the hospital.

I think their fate is intertwined and maybe he realized it but not yet ready to acknowledge it. Her complaints, her childish acts he tolerated even if he did not want, too. He even accepted his role as the temporary manager to his disbelief. I think this situation somehow made them understand each other. He even witnessed her vulnerabilities when her brother and mother visited her. No one cared for her or understand her. 

As much as Min Joon doesn't want to be a part of her life even as he knew what will happen to the owner of the shoes, he still told her not to go near water. Maybe a warning just in case. While he was regarded as someone to lean on, Lee Hui Kyung, the second son of a wealthy family always thought of himself as the boyfriend even during their junior years but never get passed the securities outside the hospital room. And he was surprised to see the neighbor, Min Joon walking out of the room. Petty jealousy came over him. A good thing Yoo Se Mi arrived and they both entered the room. 

With Yoo Se Mi, she has been a long time friend of Song Yi. They were classmates. Her inner character is hidden to Song Yi and to people around them. Unlike Song Yi, I think she really cares for her as a friend even though she has her own temper and childish ways. But because Se Mi has always loved Hui Kyung who only has eyes for Song Yi, I think her envy is feeding her desire to back stab her in a subtle way. Just like when she told Han Yoo Ra about the drama she wanted to do but was offered to Song Yi. Doing little things like that behind Song Yi will do damage in the future. I think it is more fearsome to have that kind of enemy who you regarded as a friend.

Even though I don't like Hui Kyung [yes, because I want Min Joon and Song Yi] I find his character funny in the office scene where he works anonymously but in the end he changed his computer background to his family photo, to the shocked faces of his sunbaes. I think he is okay more than his older brother Lee Jae Kyung. Jae Kyung has a dark side that will do anything and everything for his own agenda. I think he was the one responsible for the death of the old attorney, switching the insulin with another that causes death. I wonder what is his story? 

Another lost soul is Song Yi's father. He wanted to go see her in the hospital but when he saw his son, he hid and never enter the hospital. Song Yi was crying by then remembering memories with her father.

After the appendicitis surgery, Song Yi was invited to go to a wedding on a yacht. She could not find her shoes and even if she suspected Min Joon of having those, she bought a new pair. She called him to say that she knew she has her shoes. Min Joon was looking at the big monitor seeing Song Yi's arrival at the event on her way boarding the yacht wearing the shoes he dreamed of and that the owner will be in an accident, toppling over onto the water.

Even if he never wanted to meddle, I guess, he can't stay put knowing Song Yi will be in danger. I am excited to see what will happen next. How will he get inside the event and rescue her annoying neighbor?

So far the drama is not a drag, entertains and the scenes where Song Yi and Min Joon were in were all beautiful. 

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