Idol I: Episode 11 {Watch Party Wednesday #9-KD}
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My name is Taffryne, shoppekeeper of Midnight on Memory Lane, and it is my absolute delight to welcome you to the first of two KD-type posts for this week's gathering of Watch Party Wednesday!
'Tis a pleasure, 'tis a pleasure indeed.
As the title of this post says, we're going to be talking about the eleventh episode of the K-drama, Idol I.
I humbly present my thoughts for your enjoyment and consideration. Accordingly, please mind that there will be spoilers ahead!
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Trigger Warnings: Hye-joo, Hospitalization, Psychiatric Hospitalization, Depictions of Murder, Suicidal Characters, Threats of Suicide, Police/Prosecutor Corruption
Episode 11
- A now awake Jae-hee asks La-ik where Hye-joo is, but quickly becomes disorientated again
- The earrings are from a 1-of-1 pair of couples earrings that Hye-joo got herself and La-ik...since La-ik's earring was still in the safe...
- Mr. Informant found security camera footage pointing into the garden at La-ik's place that shows a small-build person walking suspiciously in the rain
- Se-na takes the footage to the police, but they are stuck under the orders of Mr. Prosecutor to focus on indicting La-ik
- Jae-hee recounts to Mr. Prosecutor that on the night of his car wreck, Jae-hee contacted him to come out and talk over coffee
- Hye-joo accidentally reveals that she new he was at La-ik's that night, fails to convince him about why she knew (she definitely shouldn't have), but he passed out before he started driving away
- Jae-hee says he didn't write a note or confession, so the Prosecutor should get his head on straight, leave La-ik alone, and investigate Hye-joo
- La-ik and Young-bin have a heart-to-heart about everything that's happened both pre and post Woo-seong's murder
- Se-na confronts Mr. Prosecutor about his messed up way of handling this case and shows him all the evidence against Hye-joo while urging him to do better than his father before Hye-joo flees the country
- While she's at the airport, La-ik calls Hye-joo to ask her if she was at this condo that night, but she denies everything
- Hye-joo is then immediately detained by police at the airport after Mr. Prosecutor finds a moral backbone
- Mr. Prosecutor interrogates Hye-joo with all the evidence that Se-na showed him, but Hye-joo is adamant she's innocent and leverages her family status
- He also finds even more of a moral backbone and stands up against his father and basically declares ware against being his father's son
- In trying to crack the password to Woo-seong's cloud storage account, La-ik and Se-na listen to every hidden message in their CD albums
- After getting into his account, La-ik and Se-na listen to the recording of Woo-seong's fight with Hye-joo
- After Woo-seong told her to fuck off in many words, Hye-joo was going to kill herself with a knife, but ended up killing Woo-seong when he tried to stop her
- Se-na tries to stop the recording when La-ik starts crying, but he stops her and listens to the whole aftermath
- Hye-joo gets imprisoned for the murder and attack on Jae-hee after La-ik and Se-na turn the evidence over to the police
- La-ik visits Hye-joo in prison to ask her why she did everything, where she reveals that she wasn't abroad, but in a psych ward after they broke up which made her obsession with him grow (she blames him for everything and wants him to hate her forever)
- La-ik says that what Hye-joo feels for him was never love nor could it ever be
- Timeskip to 1 year later where the Gold Boys have reunited as a trio with a sold-out world tour
Okay, Mr. Prosecutor, congratulations. You stood up against your father and are pursuing a more righteous path of doing your job correctly. Additionally, you apologized to Se-na and appreciate that she hardcore helped your ass. You get the most bare minimum of acknowledgement for that.
Onto the important thing, HYE-JOO!?!?!? I...I'm not surprised but just, AGH?!?! I WANTED YOU TO MOVE ON AND DO BETTER!!! How could...why, Hye-joo. Also, how dare you try and play the "I want you to hate me and yourself forever" card!!! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO KEPT TRYING TO CLAW HIM BACK TO YOU WHEN ALL OF THIS FELL APART!!! Ugh, I hate how much this makes her make more sense now! Of course she was playing around with the detective, she had to figure out if La-ik was in danger or if she was under fire! Of course she kept trying to get him to run away with her, she was hoping his life falling apart would make him helpless without her. AND THEN OF COURSE YOU JUST HAD TO TRY AND KILL JAE-HEE TO SEE IF THAT WOULD WORK! Aggghhhh, HYE-JOO!!!!!
I'm so mad. I'm boiling. I'm fuming with such a noxious combination of disdain and fury.
For a distraction, at the very least we got Mr. Informant being all shy about accepting Se-na's feelings for La-ik. We also got La-ik getting all blushy-blushy over listening to music with Se-na. Ever so brief moments of sanity admist the hell that is Hye-joo.
I'm also glad that Jae-hee woke up to put everyone in their place and clear the record. Good for you, man!
The Questioning Queries
- Did you think it was Hye-joo all along?
- Are you surprised that Jae-hee woke up and was coherent enough to set the record straight?
- What do you think happens now in Episode 12???
Thanks for Reading!
I hope you've been able to watch and experience the story for yourself!
If you haven't, that's okay too! My thoughts are here to keep you updated and entertained in the meantime.
That'll be the end of this post, so off into the nighttime I go to publish the next one shortly!
May we always meet at Midnight!