Mi Ahjussi – Rambling on about it! | We Talk Dramas All Day

Perfect casting we had here..the leads AND all the supporting cast..loved them all. Spoilers after the jump!

At first I had no patience for the brothers at all and was ready to label them as silly fillers but then that changed as their personalities appeared..yes they were a burden to him but at the same time they were the most loyal of brothers and it was so refreshing to see no petty jealousies or backstabbing in order to promote a side story. I LOVED it that our meek and placid hero became a tiger in order to defend his humiliated brother..I LOVED it that the brother just couldn’t allow himself to be happy knowing that his brother wasn’t happy at that moment (though I don’t know if I’d be happy if I was his girlfriend..lol!)..these guys were closer than normal brothers and maybe that’s why his wife always felt like an outsider. I don’t condone her affair..especially because she betrayed him with the person that would hurt him the MOST..and we don’t know what effort she made to fit in or to communicate it with him..it looks like she was always welcomed warmly by his friends but I guess we will never know.

I loved his staunch and supportive office family..with a few exceptions..he could be their boss and their mentor..a nice thing for a frustrated father to have…never will understand why his little boy was sent away to be raised by someone across the world at that early age..makes little sense to me! They ached for him..they laughed with him..they rejoiced with him..for a lonely guy he had SO much support and genuine love around him didn’t he?

#my-ahjussi, #my-ajusshi, #my-mister

Robin N 11:28 am on July 17, 2018

Of course, there are spoilers in my response too!

When I first started the show I was annoyed with the brothers for seemingly leeching off their mom after their lives fell apart: the writer made it seem a little too easy to be judgmental about their behaviors. I should have been a little more sympathetic with the older brother who was (apparently) tossed out for being too “old” by his corporate employers and left to try and make a career for himself when he was ill-prepared to do so. Looking at how many of their neighborhood pals were in similar straits was informative about conditions in Korea today. And, as someone who found herself in a not-too-dissimilar position, I should have had a little more sympathy – except for the excessive drinking part.

The failed filmmaker brother was a harder case to crack. Was he legitimately talented but had come across bad luck, or was he a dreamer who would never make it as a filmmaker? It wasn’t until we got to see him through the eyes of the actress that we discover that he truly did have potential but all it took was one colossal bad break for those dreams to collapse. I think his story at the end was intriguing; was that script he starts on going to be that comeback? I like to think so. I don’t think he’ll get back with the actress though. I think that their relationship was one more of healing than of genuine and long-lasting love. I could see how attractive the sense of family was to her.

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