Instead of recapping That Winter, The Wind Blows in episode order, I think I am just going to recap it using random pics from the show I found on Google. Mainly because I forgot a lot of shit and also the order in which it happened. But pics will revitalize my stupid memory!
Also, PICS!!! Because I have no attention span and PRETTTTTTTTY!
Okay, one of the main things I want to address about the show are - okay, I will attempt to correctly write the actor's name - In-seong Jo's acting ticks. Or, "choices".
So, the pic above^ illustrates one of his go-tos. It's sort of this open-mouthed angry breath thing. He does this so much. Oh Soo has like two modes: angry and angry tears. Actually, really just angry tears. But sometimes Oh Soo is just something I'll call dry angry, where there are no tears. Possibly because the actor is too dried up from all his many wet angry scenes. So, anyway, anytime Oh Soo is pissed or offended, or shocked or whatever you get the above face. It's great but also terrible. Like this show.
Here is another example. I think in this pic he is ~shocked~. This is probably when Attorney Jang visits him looking for Oh Soo 2. Should I explain Attorney Jang? NO, I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT.
One other "acting choice" In-seong Jo does a lot in the first ep, but then it sadly disappears, is this laugh-scoffing thing. Like, he's offended by something but you can see he's mentally telling himself "It doesn't matter I'M COOL. FUCK YOU, MOM!" Oh Soo in episode 1 is super cocky and obnoxious. He is obnoxious all throughout the show, but he loses the majority of his cockiness after his year in jail, as well as the laugh-scoff thing. He seems sort of beaten-down in his soul. The laugh-scoff thing is replaced by open-mouthed angry cry breathing for the rest of the show. There are a few moments when Oh Soo is ~happy~ and the laugh-scoff returns, but it's never the same. He's never the same. Wait, why do I miss episode 1 Oh Soo? He was a fucking dick. Well, at least episode 1 Oh Soo never sleep-kissed anyone.
SPEAKING OF SLEEP KISSING!
So, I have watched three Korean Dramas thus far: this shit, I Miss You and currently The Master's Sun (which is really more of a comedy). I am about four episodes into The Master's Sun, and so far, no sleep-kissing. But it's happened in both That Winter, The Wind Blows and I Miss You, causing me to wonder if this may be a theme in k-dramas (because two means a theme ugh).
Sleep kissing is when one character is asleep and another character takes advantage of this by kissing them. The intent behind the kiss, as far as I can tell is, "Please don't ever find out that I kissed you. THIS IS A SECRET THING I AM DOING." It's very...creepy. A lil rapey. I am being a bit unfair. It's pretty harmless and there really is no ill intent, especially in I Miss You where the sleep kiss occurs between two teenagers and it's accidental. Um, but in That Winter, The Wind Blows...Oh Soo...Wait, let me post the pic of the sleep kiss heard round the world.
Okay. Oh Soo attempts to sleep-kiss Young one or two times before he eventually succumbs to his ~desires~. The first time, Oh Soo stops himself from kissing a sleeping Young and says to himself something like "What am I doing? Am I crazy?" And I was like, YES GOOD DON'T DO THAT AND DEFINITELY FEEL WEIRD THAT YOU WERE ABOUT TO. But then a few episodes later...he does it anyway. In the pic above, Young's eyes are open. Because she is awoken by some dude macking on her face while she is unconscious. I get that it's supposed to be this romantic, sleeping beauty esque thing...but it's just weird. OH, ALSO, YOUNG THINKS OH SOO IS HER FUCKING BROTHER AND ALSO SHE IS BLIND. Not to take any agency away from blind people, but idk, it just makes it...especially worse?
Speaking of worse.
The cotton candy scene. Maybe...I should sum up the show from when Oh Soo 2 is rammed to death by a car in the street. So...Oh Soo 2, Young's real bro, dies. Oh Soo goes to jail because he was framed by his girlfriend. She stole money from Boss Kim but told Boss Kim it was Oh Soo who did it. A year later, when Oh Soo is released from prison, he is told that he has like 90 days to repay all that money back, or Jo Moo-chul will murder that ass. It's a lot of money and it's impossbile for Oh Soo to make it via gambling because Boss Kim has had him and Park Jin-sung blacklisted from the casinos or gambling rooms or whatever. LUCKY OH SOO, he gets a visit from a man named Attorney Jang looking for Oh Soo 2, the unclaimed heir of THE BUSINESS AND MONEY AND STUFF. Oh Soo is like: oh, yep, yeah, I am him. He moves in with Young, pretends to be her bro, and attempts to get close to her by lying about all kinds of shit, so he can gain access to dem funds. EVERYONE suspects that Oh Soo isn't really Young's bro. Like, he is not convincing at all. But despite everyone's deep, and justified suspicions, Oh Soo is allowed to remain at the mansion and force Young's blind ass to fall in love with him. ~~Her brother~~. At some point, Young mentions that Oh Soo owes her something from her childhood. She's like "don't you remember? If you bring that thing to me, then I'll know you're really my bro." Because Oh Soo is not actually this bitch's brother, he has no idea what she is talking about. But, even if he was, this is something that happened when Young was six. Who the fuck remembers shit when they were six? AND THE THING SHE'S TALKING ABOUT IS SUPER WEIRD AND SPECIFIC. It's fucking cotton candy. And how Oh Soo figures out what she is talking about is ridiculous. Like, literally it appears that he looked at a photograph of child-Young and was able to recreate the day that photograph took place in his brain. Like, on the show, it's playing as an original memory in his brain. BUT HOW I HAVE NO IDEA AS HE IS NOT YOUNG'S BROTHER AND WOULD HAVE NO MEMORY OF ANY OF THIS. NOR WOULD HE BE ABLE TO JUST CONSTRUCT AN ENTIRE MEMORY BASED ON ONE PICTURE. But anyway, he looks at a picture and a cotton-candy shaped lightbulb appears atop his dumb head. So he buys some AND BY THE WAY PULLS IT OUT OF THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR AND IT'S SOMEHOW PERFECTLY INTACT????
idk, anyway, Oh Soo and Young both smush their faces into the ball of perfectly intact cotton candy even though it was in the trunk of a car and it's the worst thing I have ever seen.
Look^ at his face. I can't do this. Pray for me, Jesus.
smh
SOMETHING THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE CUTE THAT ACTUALLY WAS
was a scene later on in the series when Oh Soo and Young go out to some weird ski lodge place for a conference or some shit. All the ski lodge shit is really cute, to be honest. But the thing that I rewinded because it killed me was
this^. Did I mention that Young is BLIND?? In this scene she is baking a fucking gateau or some shit. Because she is a blindo, she burns her hands on something. Immediately, Oh Soo takes her hands and presses them to his ears. Idk, to cool them off? To...heat his ears? ...Because he is a moron? DOESN'T MATTER - IT'S THE MOST ADORABLE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. LOOK. AT. THAT. SHIT.
Young still thinks Oh Soo is her brother in this scene, btw. SO CUTE!~
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