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  • Rescue Me: Episode 11rescueme11-00557.jpg

 

With no adults to turn to, our young heroes must resort to cloak-and-dagger methods to try to save one of their own. While Sang-mi begins to execute her own plan within the confines of Guseonwon, her would-be saviors are taking two distinctly different methods to try and extract her, though which one will work in the end—or if it will work in time—is anyone’s guess.

 

 

EPISODE 11 RECAP

We rewind a bit to see Sang-hwan watching as Dong-chul boards the Guseonwon van for the morning service, moments before he receives a call from Ji-hee telling him that his father wants to speak with him.

In his mother’s hospital room, Sang-hwan is greeted by a shocking sight: Father Baek is there, calmly and pleasantly conversing with Sang-hwan’s father. “Say hello, this is the pastor of Guseonwon,†his father instructs, as Sang-hwan gapes in shock.

“Your son has a pure soul,†says Father Baek, as if he didn’t just call Sang-hwan an evil spirit the last time they spoke.

 

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At first, Sang-hwan tries to reason with his father: “That man isn’t a pastor, he’s a cult leader!†But his father isn’t having any of it—he silences Sang-hwan immediately and apologizes to Father Baek for Sang-hwan’s outburst.

Sang-hwan’s father assures Sang-hwan that Father Baek said he would take good care of Sang-mi. As his father now understands it, Sang-mi is just a girl with an illness and a wounded heart. “Don’t worry,†says his father, as Sang-hwan reels from this fresh betrayal of trust. Sang-hwan retorts that Dad did the same thing three years ago: He abandoned a person in need because helping that person (Dong-chul) wasn’t going to help him get elected.

Sang-hwan snaps, finally realizing the extent of his father’s hunger for power and influence. “When I was little, you told me that someone powerful like you should help the weak and the poor! That man locked up a girl who is young enough to be your daughter to make advances on her!†When Dad blusters an interruption, Sang-hwan just asks, “Dad, are you willing to join hands with a cult leader now? How could you stoop so low?â€

 

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Having had enough, Dad exclaims, “You brat!†as he slaps Sang-hwan sharply across the face.

When Father Baek tries to placate Sang-hwan with religious teachings, Sang-hwan just gets even angrier. He catches sight of the flower bouquet that Father Baek brought for his mother, and throws it to the ground, where it shatters.

He glares accusingly at the adults: “You’re all the same.†Finally disillusioned with his father’s empty promises, he stalks out of the room.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/09/rescue-me-episode-11/

 

 

 

COMMENTS

Finally, the threads of this show are coming together, and several disparate elements of the show make more sense now that they’re put side by side. For example, I was frustrated that the biker gang kept relying on these figures of authority but couldn’t see that those authority figures were really just people that were only invested in upholding the system. There was no payoff for our heroes, and yet they fell for it again and again.

Now that they’ve turned away from those avenues of help, it makes sense to me that their actions were actually realistic—they were going to the police and their parents because that was the only way they knew how to resolve their problems before. But while their trust in these authority figures was being eroded away, Sang-hwan’s dad struck the final blow by teaming up with Father Baek out of his selfish desire to increase his own power.

Sang-hwan has finally seen the truth about what his father and Muji are like, and his final disillusioned walk out of that room said a lot about how his character has changed since his blindly trusting self, three years ago. On that note, I’m also pleasantly surprised by the small details that have shown up recently. The clothes of the characters in particular are a telling feature that serve the visual storytelling part of the drama well.

 

One striking example of the use of clothes was at the Spiritual Mother proclamation. When Sang-mi walked in wearing the black dress and Father Baek faced her wearing his customary white suit, the contrast between them is quite obvious, hair colors included. It’s no accident, really, because the writing references the color significance as well: Father Baek talks about white pureness and sinful, filthy darkness. Notably, those colors are reversed on him and Sang-mi.

Speaking of which, the scene with Sang-hwan watching Father Baek pray in this episode finally convinced me that Father Baek truly believes in his own cult religion. Even if he didn’t believe in it at the beginning, he definitely does now, and he recites his religious words and teachings even when there’s no one around. His maniacal laugh in the private worship room really upped to the creepy factor for me. At this point, the only ones inside Guseonwon that don’t actually believe in it are probably Disciple Jo and Sang-mi.

I’m still not too sure about whether or not So-rin can be trusted, even though the show made a point of checking on her credentials. Even though it’s a little counterintuitive, I’m still going to be on edge about her trustworthiness for now, because all our information about her is fairly roundabout and shifty. As a double agent, So-rin can technically play both sides. But in general, it seems that So-rin’s words are genuine, and so far it can only help that our heroes have another ally in their midst.

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Sang-mi has really come into her own as a powerful force inside of Guseonwon, waiting to take it down, and the presence of her allies has enormously boosted her confidence and ability to act rationally. I’m still not sure why her goal shifted from simply getting out of Guseonwon to trying to save everyone and take down Guseonwon completely, but I’ll welcome a chance for Sang-mi to destroy the cult that has consumed her whole family.

I will say I am looking forward to how the show handles this big takedown of the cult. Even though they have five more episodes to do it, it seems like Guseonwon is still firmly rooted and established in Muji, and even with So-rin, there’s still only six people on the side of justice. After all this reconnaissance and evidence-gathering, I’m ready for some action and sweet revenge.

I also can’t wait to see the smug looks wiped off of the church leaders and politicians in this show. And our heroes can definitely make it happen, especially since they’ve all banded together and are moving forward, even if the exact details of the plans haven’t been revealed yet. Operation Guseonwon Takedown is finally a go!

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Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching??

 

 

So, what are we all watching this week?

What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…

 

 

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  • Rescue Me: I know it shouldn’t matter, but even if nothing else were to change about the show, I feel like it works better if I mentally think of Dong-chul as the hero and Sang-hwan as the ineffectual second lead who means well but can’t get anything done. Maybe that makes Dong-chul even more tragic as a second lead since I don’t think the show will sideline Taec; it just doesn’t work for me quite the way it was intended.

 

girlfriday

  • Rescue Me: I’m. So. Terrified. *watches rest of show through fingers*

 

HeadsNo2

  • Rescue Me: I loved all the new developments and twists this week, even if Sang-mi’s fate is even more uncertain than before. Somehow it was even creepier that her wedding dress was black when she’s supposed to be this symbol of feminine chastity and virtue, and I like that her impending (though hopefully stoppable) “wedding†with Father Baek is seeming more and more like a wedding to Satan himself. This drama’s darkness feeds my dark, dark soul. ♥

 

tineybeanie

  • Rescue Me: Wow, this is much much much more awesome that I thought it would be. The guy who is infiltrating the cult is amazing at acting; his sharp eyes are definitely swoonworthy; I think I may have found my next Kim Woo-bin. I don’t care about Taec or his sideplot political father, but Sang-mi and that guy are great. Lee David is being heavily underutilized though; he’s just showing up as a stooge, when we already know he’s capable of so much more.
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Guseonwon has never been the joyous, peaceful place it pretends to be, but Father Baek and Disciple Kang have been able to maintain a façade of spiritual wisdom and bliss. But in this episode, that façade starts to crack, allowing us to see the darker sides of these two leaders as they grow more desperate to maintain their hold on Sang-mi.

 

EPISODE 12 RECAP 

We rewind to the events of the last episode, as Sang-mi’s mom walks slowly down a hall in Guseonwon’s sanitarium, only to stop when she hears Sang-jin crying out to her. As she starts to run towards him, she gets pulled back by the specter of Sang-jin’s tormentor, who menacingly asks, “Don’t you know that you’ll never be able to get out of here?â€

Mom implores Sang-jin to help her, but he stays where he is and says, “You need to get out of here for Sang-mi to live, so please rescue Sang-mi.†All of a sudden, Mom wakes up in her bed screaming, and we see that she had been dreaming. Sitting straight up, she suddenly yells out, “Sang-mi!â€

 

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Sensing that something is amiss with Mom, Sang-mi manages to escape her prayer room. After she leaves the main Guseonwon building, Sang-mi starts running toward the sanitarium. At the same time, Mom nervously walks outside and into the woods to look for her daughter.

Instead of Sang-mi, Mom runs into Disciple Kang and, stopping dead in her tracks, she warns her not to come closer and asks where Sang-mi is. Disciple Kang just gives Mom a curious look and muses aloud that the drugs must have worn off.

With an awareness we haven’t seen in Mom for quite a while, she demands to know, “What kind of drugs have you been dosing me up with?†Kang replies that it is the drug that will allow her to stay in paradise forever before beckoning Mom to go back inside with her.

 

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Mom doesn’t move and asks instead, “What are you trying to do to Sang-mi?†Kang explains that they are trying to get Sang-mi on the Boat of Salvation first, and wonders if Mom doesn’t understand how blessed Sang-mi is.

Mom is not having any of it, and continues, “Why on earth are you doing this to us? Why?†To this, Kang gives her a more personal answer, saying that she needs to make Sang-mi Spiritual Mother so that she and her own daughter can reach paradise.

Mom shakes her head at this and stumbles away from the disciple, calling out to Sang-mi to run away. Kang follows her, grabs her from behind, and pulls her away with a hand over her mouth.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/09/rescue-me-episode-12/

 

 

 

 

COMMENTS

This show continues to be as dark and intense as ever, but it has me completely hooked. As I watch, I wonder how many poor souls are locked up in the dungeon that Dad has been put in charge of, and how many other girls before Sang-mi were put in her horrifying position only to be met with tragic, untimely ends.

As for Father Baek himself, he has been somewhat of an enigma so far. Unlike Disciple Jo, whose facial expressions can turn on a dime, Baek has so far never broken character to expose himself as the charlatan he is, and unlike Disciple Kang, he has not made us privy to his inner thought process. But now, if there was any doubt, Dong-chul, Sang-hwan, and finally Sang-mi’s most recent experiences with him have shown him to be a cold-blooded, psychopathic megalomaniac.

Terrible, unspeakable things still occur on a regular basis, but there are rays of hope in these more recent episodes that were missing in the earlier ones. The fact that Sang-mi was able to escape once gives us hope that she will eventually escape for good, and that she’ll bring the entire cult down when she does.

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Another ray of hope is Detective Lee. Until this episode, he was the character I despised the most. He was utterly opportunistic and indifferent to anything that didn’t serve his own needs, even when he had the knowledge and resources to do the right thing. However, he has now turned from my most hated character to the best hope for an adult in a position of authority to help Sang-mi and the boys.

 

The fact that Lee saw Yong-min at Guseonwon right after his unsettling discussions with the folks there hopefully will compel him to pursue the truth; he knows things are not right in Guseonwon, and it might be just too much for him to look the other way. Let’s just hope his natural curiosity as a detective and sense of justice overpowers his desire to take bribes from Yong-min and the other corrupt power brokers of Muji.

On the other hand, there is a part of me that doesn’t trust So-rin. We still don’t know much about her, other than that she is a reporter, and her actions raise a lot of questions. For example, why did So-rin have Dong-chul look for a “milky-white liquid†in the pharmacy? First of all, it seems like she would have much better access to the pharmacy herself. Also, why did she specifically tell Dong-chul that the drugs to look for were “not red pills or clear liquid,†when she knows that Mom had been given red pills and that the elephant tranquilizer was a clear green color?

So-rin also showed Sang-mi how to break in to Disciple Kang’s room, and the two probably discussed Sang-mi’s breaking in during the newcomers’ class. So-rin was present at the class, so she saw Disciple Kang leave during that time. Did she try to stop Disciple Kang from going back to her room, or did she perhaps encourage her to go? I hope that So-rin’s intentions to help Sang-mi and her friends are sincere, but her actions certainly seem suspicious.

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Of course, the true heroes of our story, regardless of how things turn out, are Sang-mi, Sang-hwan, and Dong-chul — it was very touching that Dong-chul was able to see that Sang-mi and Sang-hwan are living a prison-like existence not unlike his own experience, and that he wants to help his two friends live better lives. His compassion for them shows that he no longer holds resentment towards either of them and sees them as his equals, no more or less victims than he is himself.

It is obvious that Sang-mi needs to be freed from the cult, but Sang-hwan also continues to suffer as his dad further aligns himself with Father Baek. Although the father and son relationship is already strained, it seems like the two will need to go head to head in some way before the end of the show.

The superb acting in Rescue Me has helped draw me into the world of Guseonwon and Muji, giving it a realism I wasn’t expecting. And despite finding Taecyeon bland in Bring It On, Ghost, I like him as Sang-hwan in this show. Granted, Taecyeon’s Sang-hwan doesn’t break my heart repeatedly like Woo Do-hwan’s Dong-chul, or make my skin crawl every time I see him like Jo Sung-ha’s Father Baek. Nevertheless, his portrayal of Sang-hwan and his often-intense relationships with the other characters strike me as genuine, and it makes me care and root for him as a character.

As I become more and more invested in the story and characters of Rescue Me, I find I am less fearful of what will happen and more curious and energized with each episode. Despite the hardships they continue to face, I feel like the tide is slowly turning for our heroes. With any luck, they can bring the cult of Guseonwon down for good and go back to living freer, happier lives.

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Ship till death.

I might need to change my sig now. This is even cuter.

 

How many eps left? If it's 16 eps in total, I wonder how they're going to finish everything of in the 2 eps we have left after today •~•

 

yeah ocn crime drama usually had 16 eps, they never had more or less than that LOLlaugh.png

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  • love changed the title to OCN Drama "SAVE ME" Ok Taecyeon, Seo Ye-Ji, Woo Do-Hwan etc. *Thanks for watching, Saviors!*

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