Psychological Coach Jegal: Episodes 9-10
by missvictrix
As our psychological coach continues to do what he does finest and mentor athletes sorely in want of him, an previous enemy boomerangs again to the ice rink (once more). In the meantime, love is within the air, and the confessions will not be delicate.
EPISODES 9-10 WEECAP
I’m starting to lose observe of what this present’s precise plot is — because it looks as if the identical primary arc every week on repeat — however I’m nonetheless having fun with our wacky warm-hearted Gil get proper to the soul of the matter with the athletes he helps.
This week opens with the coaching journey promised to Dr. Park, Gil, Ga-eul and Mu-gyeol on the finish of final week’s episodes. They’re tagging together with the archery group although, so it means scary belief coaching, all-nighters, and the like — however don’t fear, there’s nonetheless room for comedy and pep discuss. For example, after they go to their first cease and take photographs in that enormous nest — I used to be dying! There was one thing about Jung Woo and that caw sound impact that killed me. I rewinded that scene approach too many instances.
However laughs apart, the “journey” is definitely about hardcore psychological coaching. We see Dr. Park attempt to get by means of to Ga-eul as she trains, DOCTOR SONG (Cha Quickly-bae) attempt to get by means of to archery star SHIN YE-JI (Music Ji-won), and naturally we have now Gil attempting to get Mu-gyeol to make it by means of his water trauma coaching. All of the athletes have heavy obligation emotional baggage round their fathers, and our psychological coach is to the rescue!
Gil is the one Ga-eul now trusts and cries to — coming head to head together with her unhappiness and guilt round her father. Gil additionally helps Mu-gyeol to understand that his personal trauma is about his (horrible) step-father and childhood. And it’s the identical for Ye-ji, who has her personal guilt round her father’s loss of life and should come to phrases with it and permit herself to grieve. Regardless of the difficulty at hand, Gil appears to have the heat and encouragement to get these children to handle their shiz and be taught what it’s that’s really blocking them. Even Ga-eul now shares with others what she’s realized from him: we develop once we’re at our weakest.
One of many occasions throughout the journey is a bungee soar, and earlier than Mu-gyeol jumps, he screams out: “I really like you, Ga-eul!” He’s been not-so-subtly hovering round her like an adoring pet, and desires to this point her once more. I so love this smitten model of our swim star! His kiss won’t come to fruition, however his selfless look after Ga-eul will get him into the water once more (yay!) when he rescue-dives to avoid wasting her.
Whereas all this therapeutic is occurring, although, the scheming continues to be going robust, and Tae-man is at it once more with the boring blur of unions, committees, and power-hungry males which might be rubbing their palms collectively for a scheme higher than the final. The lengthy and wanting it’s this: Coach Oh is again answerable for the short-track group (once more)(for the third time), and Tae-man resigns his spot on the Human Rights Committee solely to additionally boomerang again as head of the skating union. Huh? I’m not amused by any of this; it’s getting previous, and I might fairly these guys get crushed already so we will deal with the therapeutic and all the opposite, extra attention-grabbing characters.
Coach Oh, in fact, is again to his normal crap. He units up one other choice race, torments the women, pits them towards one another, and tries to repair the race but once more. However by this third time (although it feels just like the five hundredth time!), the women are lastly beginning to stand as much as him. They skate their race the best way they need to — like actual athletes — and we see the worth of that in Ga-eul’s beaming smile afterwards. She may need fallen and gotten disqualified, however she skated freely, and that is the reply to the query that’s been haunting her: what’s it I really need?
However that’s not the tip of Ga-eul’s jubilant second. After standing as much as the Coach and getting saved by one more epic Gil slo-mo punch, she bursts out with: “I really like you, coach!” And I don’t know who’s extra horrified: Mu-gyeol, standing down the corridor; Dr. Park, standing beside him like she’s trying on the wreck she noticed coming; or Gil, who’s simply standing there in shock, solely to seize his face in torment that’s comedic genius. Roll credit.
I positively didn’t anticipate them to go this manner with the Gil/Ga-eul rapport, however I ought to have — it’s working so effectively and feels so clean as a result of it’s bringing hints and jabs from earlier within the drama full circle. Our early episodes had these jokes about Gil’s age and the blind date misunderstanding, however newer episodes (and this week’s particularly) leaned lots on the identical, as if telling us what was going to occur subsequent.
We not solely noticed Mu-gyeol getting just a little jealous of Ga-eul’s apparent easiness when she’s with Gil, however balking at his pleasant bodily affection, and mistaking the phrase “rapport” for “ppo ppo” (a fast kiss). Then, there was the scene the place Dr. Park solemnly warned Gil that she thought Ga-eul was growing a crush on him. Gil had laughed it off as absurd, however they agreed to be careful for any emotional transference happening. I guess that dialog was rolling by means of Gil’s horrified ideas after Ga-eul’s hallway confession lol.
As a lot as I catch myself questioning why this drama wants 16 episodes if we’ve already been by means of three rounds with the identical villain, I actually did get pleasure from this week’s episodes. The drama is at its finest when Gil is free to be candy and inspiring, and I really like his wacky strategies and pep talks and improv music live shows for the children.
The drama is wealthy and attention-grabbing sufficient with out the redundant villain plot arcs, so I’m hoping we will lean rather less on Coach Oh’s whiny voice and Tae-man’s tantrums and/or threats and as a substitute spend extra time with our athletes and their coaches. Though, I’ll say, the little dip into Tae-man’s crush on Dr. Park was surprisingly amusing. It doesn’t appear to suit his character in any respect — rapidly he will get derpy and likeable — which is what made it really feel all of the extra entertaining when the drama dedicated to it. (However nonetheless, Kwon Yul, why’d you decide this position?)
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