Coffee Prince: 15th, 16th, and 17th

I suppose that if you're reading this you'd like to know about the end of Coffee Prince. Well...I suppose I can tell you.

It was honestly on of the most anti-climatic, disappointing endings I've ever seen. Three hours of nothing but fluff. There was some fake-out drama of Eun Chan going to coffee school in Italy, but it really only lead to a montage of everyone missing her. You'd expect that there'd be a big wedding scene at the end right? Wrong. Nothing. She just comes back. That's it. End of story. I was highly upset. I was ready for a blow-out not a flop. Granted, I haven't seen the after-series special (since everyone has taken it down), but the end of the series proper did not give me the sense of satisfaction and closure that I have come to expect from drama endings.

Don't get me wrong, the fluff was cute and all but after Han Kyul and Eun Chan made up it was like the plot jumped off a cliff. There was no tension, no nothing.

I wouldn't say it was bad, per se, just boring. Overall score of the series, 5. Score for the ending, 1, but only because it was cute.

Coffee Prince: 13th and 14th

Today was the 13th and 14th episodes of Coffee Prince. So let's get strait to it.

In episode 13 Yoo Joo came back after ditching Han Seung. Han Kyul and Eun Chan had a "date" at his house. They (meaning the two couples) had a dinner party at Han Seung's place. Everything was really cute and it really did make me smile. Unfortunately, that's all that really happened. Can we say "filler"?

Episode 14 was when the real drama happened. Han Kyul's family finally found out that he was dating Eun Chan. They hated her immediately after finding out. They had met her before, but like everyone else (besides Han Seung) they thought she was a boy. It came out when they visited the family's house after making coffee deliveries. Han Kyul was just too smitten to keep it quiet. Both Mom and Gramma were like "Hell no, she's ugly and would make a terrible wife". Han Kyul yelled ( he does that a lot, btw) and stormed out dragging Eun Chan behind him.

The next day Mom and Gramma came to the cafe and bitched Eun Chan out some more. They even offered her money, because I guess if you're dating a wealthy guy, that automatically makes you a golddigger. They had a heart-felt talk with Han Kyul, too, where he told them he wouldn't be going to New York (mostly because of Eun Chan, but he gave some other bullshit reasons too). They left, Han Kyul told Eun Chan he was staying, they made out in the kitchen (at least by Kdrama terms, which really means just a few kisses on the cheek), and the episode ended on a happy note for them.

Things went pretty well for Han Seung and Yoo Joo too. In episode 13, Yoo Joo foud out she was pregnant (did I forgot to mention that? Well, now you know) and she tells Han Seung via text and ultra sound pic while at a baby supply store. Both are, as expected, happy yet nervous. Han Seung even composes a "Prenatal Baby Care" soundtrack.

And that was about all that happened. Both episodes were really adorable though. Really. I enjoyed them. Though, may I add, what's with the rich family hating on poor family theme that comes up in so many dramas? I mean, why must you meddle in your son's love life? So what if he marries a poor girl? Is that so bad? Will their children turn out retarded or something? Eesh.

Coffee Prince: 11th and 12th episode

I have been watching Coffee Prince for a while, and I do not care to go back go through all of the episodes. But since I'm not done with it, I'll start here. But I will provide a short synopsis of what has happened so far.

Go Eun Chan (played by Yoon Eun Hye) is hired by Choi Han Kyul (played by Gong Yoo) to pretend to be his boyfriend to get him out of the blind dates his grandmother has sent him on. What he doesn't know, is that Eun Chan is actually a girl. After the failed blind dates, Grandma makes him re-open a coffee shop to make it profitable. Eun Chan goes to work for him, still pretending to be a man. Eventually (and predictably) she falls for Han Kyul, and he for her, even though he thinks she's a man.

In episode 10, Han Kyul confesses his love for Eun Chan and kisses her, despite still thinking she's a he.

Now, on to episode 11. Han Kyul finally finds out that Eun Chan is actually a girl, because his friend can't keep his mouth shut. One would think he'd be ecstatic. He isn't gay after all. But no. Just like every other main guy in a genderbender drama, he throws a bitch fit, says a bunch of really mean things, storms away and ignores her for days. He even fires her, despite the fact that she is the "breadwinner" (their term, not mine) for her family. Long story short, for an entire episode he's a total douche.

That is the kind of thing I don't understand about those kind of situations in dramas. Sure, she lied and had no good reason to pretend to be a man, that doesn't mean it has to be a big deal. It wasn't in You're Beautiful. Just accept that it's a girl and move on. You should be happy, Han Kyul. Eesh!

Anyway, this episode also features the demise of poor Han Seung's (played Lee Sun Gyun), Han Kyul's cousin, relationship with the artist Han Yoo Joo (played by Chae Jung Ahn). She decided to leave him and go back to New York because Han Seung developed a little crush on Eun Chan (he knew she was a girl from the beginning). Well, he did kiss her too, but that's another matter. So of course he's heartbroken and begs her not to leave. And of course she won't listen, because this wouldn't be a drama if there wasn't, well, drama. Now everyone's all alone because no one can play nice.

As for episoede 12, it's mostly a continuance of the main characters torturing themselves over their relationships, or lack thereof.

On the Han Kyul/Eun Chan front, there is another episode of turbulence, until Han Kyul finally gets with the program and admits that maybe, just maybe, he was wrong to get all pissy and that maybe it isn't all Eun Chan's fault. By the end of the episode, they're back together, happy as can be.

For Han Seung and Yoo Joo, it's a different story. She makes a big show of leaving, Han Seung begs and yells on the side of the road and gets all depressed and mopey. Turns out though it was all for nothing. Yoo Joo doesn't leave, not to New York at least. She takes off to somewhere unknown, possibly never to be seen again. Which does make me a little sad. She wasn't a bitch, like most side character girls are (case in point: Yoo He Yi in You're Beautiful)



So that was 11 and 12. Pretty basic. And if you were wondering, I do like this series. I give it five stars.