Unpopular Opinions: A Piece of Your Mind

Now, I like parts of A Piece of Your Mind as much as the next person. The early episodes have lots of gorgeous shots (that they stop doing a few episodes in really). The OST is decent. Jung Hae-In is great. Chae Soo-Bin is great. Both are likeable and adorable, even if their characters do stupid stuff. 

I like artsy films and shows that don't hold the audience's hand and overexplain every little thing. I thought it was mostly a beautifully done drama. I think 12 episodes was the right length for it as well. That might be an unpopular opinion, but I think these will be far more unpopular:

Jisoo: A Total Bitch

Jisoo made everything about her, and other people allowed that to be a thing. Self-centered people often surround themselves with other people who are willing to make them the center of their worlds too (like most of the characters in this drama).

All she had to do was tell her husband how she felt, but then he'd stop doting on her and begging her to stop whipping him over something that hurt him badly as it was. Jisoo could have called up her abandoned buddy and told him something she knew he'd been dying to hear his whole life--but then he wouldn't have kept chasing her.

The script gave her weak ass motivations for what, really, made her the catalyst of a fucked up story that didn't have to be fucked up at all. It serves her right to go die alone in the middle of a fucked up game she was playing for no reason. Jisoo sucks at communicating and so... everyone in the whole drama had to suffer and/or watch other people suffer? Really?

Painting her as a frail woman, stuck in an impossible situation is giving her too much credit. She abandoned her oldest friend who had practically no one in the world over a guy... who she then treated like shit too. Fuck her.

Jisoo's Husband: Alone & Suffering & Victimized

Kang In-Wook hated the ML as kids presumably because he was so close with the girl he had a crush on. So he did a stupid thing that he couldn't fix. How many young people have done a stupid thing that they regret? All of them. It wasn't callous or cruel, and he clearly beat himself up over it for his whole life.

In short, Kang In-Wook was a good guy who did a bad thing once as a kid. He confided in his wife so that maybe he could live with himself, and she (being the aforementioned huge bitch) made it all about HER and how hurtful it was to her because of this old friend she abandoned.

So she lived in "misery" while really just amplifying HIS misery because she was a cunt. Just saying. His wife victimized Kang In-Wook again by making him feel like he was destroying her life, trapping her in a world of misery. She even gave him, essentially, an anxiety disorder over his failings as a husband.

And then, every character in the drama took turns using him as a punching bag and making him the bad guy.

He didn't steal everything from the ML. He did something stupid, instantly regretted it, and tried but failed to fix it... as a child. Kang In-Wook is not some monster. He also fell in love with a manipulative bitch.

I feel super bad for him. Like, Kang In-Wook doesn't have "the right" to ever speak to this AI they made of HIS fucking wife? But some rando (FL) who met her twice for five seconds does have the right, huh? Oh, and Han Seo-Woo has the right to tell him that he didn't care how his wife felt when she was alive? Excuse me, who the fuck does she think she is?

Who are these people to treat him like that? Talking about being a grown ass adult and breaking a pianist's hands because of a stupid thing he blurted out when he was in an awkward situation as an early teen? That, mind you, had nothing at all to do with YOU and really just affected your boyfriend. Ooookay. Sure, she's a great person. 

Mind you, during his grief, he even acknowledged that he probably hurt the FL's feelings by not working with her and agreed to do that. What a dick, huh? 

Ha Won was alone because of him? Well, Kang In-Wook was all alone too, even when his wife was still alive. Now, they all have each other and ganged up on him? Irritating. To make matters worse, when Ha Won let him know his wife's true feelings, the FL acted like it was the most unbelievable thing... what a great guy to do this for someone who made a mistake one time. 

Really, that would be considered not being a petty dick in my book. If Ha Won loved Jisoo, he wouldn't let her husband suffer for no reason. It's not some amazing gesture from a saint... it's being an empathetic human being. I thought he should have told the guy not to blame himself for a mistake... that would have been a step above the not-being-a-dick level of caring.

All Kang In-Wook wanted and needed was for someone to understand him and support him... and forgive him for this thoughtless thing he did one time ages ago. The actor, Kim Sung-Kyu, killed it too. Clearly. He's a very talented dramatic actor.

It isn't that the ML and FL are not sympathetic at all. The ML is, in particular. The ML also had the most right to take it out on Jisoo's ex-husband... but he didn't. He wanted answers, got answers, gave the guy what he was looking for, and told him to leave his girlfriend out of it. Fair enough. But the actions of the FL definitely made me like her less. A feat, since Chae Soo-Bin can get away with almost anything for me.

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