Kokdu: Season of Deity: Episodes 7-8: Our hero is sent back to the afterlife while the original owner of his body takes over. The story picks up speed and gives us some much-needed action after last week’s boring episode. Our heroine is also starting to realise how she really feels about our hero. Will she notice or miss him now that he’s gone?
Kokdu: Season of Deity: Episodes 7-8 Recap
I didn’t care much about this week’s episodes of Kokdu: Season of Deity, so you can imagine my surprise when I found them to be pretty entertaining. Still, I wouldn’t say this drama is on the road to redemption. In fact, the fact that it’s not always enjoyable is a whole other can of worms, but at least I didn’t get bored and start shopping on my phone this time. Surely that means something, right?
So, can we say that the triumphant return of Jin-woo is what made the show more fun to watch? Ehhhhhā¦ That’s too far for me. Jin-woo helped move the story along, but as a character, he’s about as consistent as the rest of this drama, which, as we all know, isn’t something to be happy about. I’m not sure if I should blame the directing or, sorry to say, Kim Jung-acting, hyun’s but someone decided that the best way to show the difference between Jin-woo and Kokdu was to make Jin-woo have a stone face to contrast Kokdu’s crazy facial expressions.
As soon as Jin-woo returns to the driver’s seat, he’s all serious and proud. All signs point to him being a terrible doctor. Still, at least he jumps in to save the pregnant woman’s life and says what we’re all thinking: that the hospital’s emergency procedures stink. Gye-decision jeol’s to do surgery with a sidekick who can’t remember anything was beyond stupid. Okay, so maybe I don’t hate Jin-woo as much as I thought, because he has at least one thing going for him that every other character in this show seems to lack: intelligence.
Jin-woo initially thinks that meeting with his dead mother in the afterlife was just a dream. However, he soon figures out the truth. On the one hand, I’m impressed that he was able to figure it out with only strange bell sounds and strange people (Ok Shin and Gak Shin) hanging around him and jumping out of nowhere to give him an alibi when Cheol finally cornered Jin-woo and questioned him about Kokdu’s murders and the 24K gold goblin-mobile.
But on the other hand, if that’s all Jin-woo needs to figure out that Kokdu took over his body for 40 days, why the hell can’t anyone else figure out that a god has been walking among them? Then again, not everyone has seen Jin-woo vanish into thin air like Cheol has, so I guess it’s easier to believe that Jin-woo is the amnesiac illegitimate child of a chaebol family than to think that he’s a god like the Grim Reaper who is cursed to wander the earth for 99 days.
Jin-woo is smart enough to keep his mouth shut about the attempted murder that caused the soul vacancy that Kokdu filled when he came back from the afterlife. Here, though, his character development isn’t as good as it could be. In Episode 1, we were led to believe that Jin-woo, despite his stoicism, was a good man who wanted to expose Chairman Kim’s bad behaviour, which is what led to his death.
But when Choong-seong finds him, Jin-woo lies and says he fell off the roof of his apartment by accident because the medicine he was taking made him feel bad. Choong-seong became a target because Jin-woo pretended to be stupid, and Choong-seong had every right to know that the threat was real. Jin-silence woo’s was a huge jerk move, especially since Jin-woo didn’t know that Joong-shik had put spy cameras in Gye-clinic jeol’s and was listening in on their conversation.
So why did Jin-woo lie? Well, the story wants us to think Jin-woo has changed a lot for the worse since he realised he was going to die. He is afraid to die, and he thinks Gye-jeol is the lucky charm that will keep the grim reaper Kokdu away until he has grandchildren. In this situation, Jin-instincts woo’s to stay alive would have made him want to hold on to Gye-jeol, but why not tell Choong-seong that their search for the truth will kill them both?
Oh well, it doesn’t matter too much because Jin-time woo’s is still running out. And 49 is that number. Even though Jin-woo is back in control of his body, he can’t get away from fate. He was meant to die 40 days ago, and when his time is up, his soul goes poof! Even though this might seem good for Kokdu, he can’t just wait until Jin-body woo’s goes away on its own.
Instead, and this is how I think the drama makes sense, Jin-woo is kind of like a zombie when Kokdu’s godly magic isn’t keeping his body young and beautiful. Jin-soul woo’s is what keeps his body alive, but since he’s dead, the body is still slowly breaking downā¦ or something like that. So, if Kokdu wants to move back into Jin-body, woo’s he should do it as soon as possible, preferably before Jin-body woo’s is a mess.
Team Kokdu comes up with another stupid plan to trick Gye-jeol into calling Kokdu for help. It’s such a stupid idea that it might just work. It doesn’t work. Before Gye-jeol can say the magic words that are supposed to activate her smart watch’s “emergency safety feature” and call Kokdu, Jin-woo comes to save her from the intruder, who is neither Joong-shik nor Team Kokdu’s fake henchman. This makes Kokdu very angry.
Team Kokdu comes up with another stupid plan to trick Gye-jeol into calling Kokdu for help. It’s such a stupid idea that it might just work. It doesn’t work. Before Gye-jeol can say the magic words that are supposed to activate her smart watch’s “emergency safety feature” and call Kokdu, Jin-woo comes to save her from the intruder, who is neither Joong-shik nor Team Kokdu’s fake henchman. This makes Kokdu very angry.
After the break-in, Jin-woo and Gye-jeol sit down and talk about his feelings, or lack of feelings. Gye-jeol knows that Jin-woo isn’t interested in her romantically because she is an expert on crushes. This makes her very sad because it makes her realise how much she misses Kokdu.
Jin-woo says he wants to get to know her because he wants to know why he was so drawn to her when he lost his memories, but the truth is that he doesn’t want to give her a reason to miss Kokdu and wish for him to come back. And maybe, just maybe, there is a part of him that is attracted to Gye-jeol, but his reasons (other than wanting to stay alive) are still a little bit unclear.
Our bad guys have already decided on their next step, so Jin-woo doesn’t get the chance to win Gye-jeol over. Joong-shik breaks into Jin-car woo’s after first torturing and killing Choong-seong. Jin-woo dies in the accident that happens next, and Kokdu is back! He teleports to Gye-side jeol’s right away, and Joong-shik watches from a hidden spot as a witness to Kokdu’s cosmic powers.
However, she is not as open to Kokdu as he had hoped because she thinks he is Jin-woo, whom she has already turned down. Even though Kokdu is happy to hear that Gye-jeol likes him more than Jin-woo, this is a big setback for Kokdu. He has to win her over again, and this time he has to do it despite the fact that he seems to have more than one personality. Ok Shin is using Kill Me, Heal Me as a dating guide to get through this strange situation.
But Gye-jeol finds out on her own that Kokdu is back before he tries anything stupid to win her over. Does she know that he is a god who has taken over Jin-body? woo’s No, but she thinks she has the “power” to call him and send him away because of how things are, so she promises never to wish for him to leave. Still, I don’t think this is the last time we’ll see Jin-woo.
When our couple is reunited, they go on a date. The first place they go is a museum, where Kokdu is horrified by the crude pictures of what people say he looks like. Gye-jeol just laughs at how he reacts, because a woman with a medical licence should definitely be nice to a man who is obviously crazy. How desperate for love and attention must Gye-jeol be for her to stop caring about his mental health and accept what she thinks is a second personality brought on by a serious physical injury?
When Gye-jeol reads an article about Yi-deun being sponsored by Pilseong, the mood turns bad after he went shopping for classic K-drama clothes. Kokdu doesn’t like it when Gye-jeol worries about her ex-boyfriend and Choong-seong, so he goes to find Choong-seong to put her mind at ease. Choong-seong is dead, but his death was set up to look like he killed himself.
When Kokdu was stuck in the afterlife and could only see Gye-jeol and Jin-woo through the magic mirror he had Gak Shin set up in the clinic, he heard Choong-seong and Jin-woo talking about the patient list. During that conversation, he heard Choong-seong mention Chairman Kim, so Kokdu (rightly) thinks that the clinic was bugged.
He finds Joong-spy shik’s cameras and decides to put a stop to Gye-murderous jeol’s schemes for good. He teleports and pops into Chairman Kim’s office, which is so aggressively fun. Sad to say, it’s also too aggressive and a big stop for the plot, which is only halfway over (checks calendar and whimpers to see that this drama is) So, of course, Gye-jeol walks into Chairman Kim’s office just as Kokdu is about to choke him and kill him, along with this murder mystery subplot.
The fact that Chairman Kim has offered Gye-jeol her job back explains how and why she was in his office. I don’t know which is more ridiculous: the idea that Chairman Kim thinks having Gye-jeol work for him and be under his thumb will somehow protect him from a god who can come and go from his office without being seen, or the fact that Gye-jeol is thinking about taking the job. What about her great job at the clinic by the beach, where the rent is so low that it seems impossible?
I guess logic doesn’t work when it’s clear that the drama is going in a different direction and that Gye-job jeol’s is to make Kokdu a better person and save his soul (yawn). I don’t know about you, but I really thought this drama was going to go somewhere interesting and have Kokdu kill off the bad guy halfway through the story. What a huge surprise that turned out to be! But, you know, it didn’t really go there, and I’m really sad about that.
Dolly
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