![]() Ryeon’s harshness towards Jun-woong (and her 100% negative energy) makes him go to the Jade Emperor, who finally intuits that he is ready to hear Ryeon’s tale.Īnd so - finally, after fourteen episodes of waiting - we take a deep dive 400 years into the past right into our tragic Joseon romance, and boy is it a doozy.Īs expected, this story sucks you in with the power of a Dyson vacuum. It’s with that feeling that we head into Episode 14, with Ryeon drinking her way miserably through the one day of the year that reapers get off: their death day. It cements what we thought we knew about Jun-woong’s character (is there a purer heart around?), and gives us the feeling that everything is interconnected - stories, fates, lives. ![]() He doesn’t remember it, of course, but he was a Korean fighter that helped save the escaped comfort women so many decades ago. When she reveals herself to them in the present, both grandmas find closure through embracing this young reaper, and at this point I’m just another granny hiding tears behind her hankie.īut the connections don’t stop there - early on, the Jade Emperor told Ryeon that this case was connected to Jun-woong’s past life. The story connections get a little bit wild here - the young reaper assigned to collect Jung-moon turns out to be Yoon-yi, now reincarnated as a reaper. She was the light of the other women’s lives, and even wound up saving them. We also learn about the young friend Bok-hui sent off: YOON-YI. The grandma, YOO BOK-HUI ( Kim Yong-lim) is connected to LEE JUNG-MOON ( Kim Young-ok) through our reapers, and through her we learn the horrors the comfort women endured. Instead, though, her story is wrapped into two other women’s tales, and through it they all find healing and closure - since that’s the aim of our reapers, anyway. After finding out, this poor grandma has been living in anguish the last few years, and is planning to kill herself out of guilt. She’s a grandma now, but in her youth she mistakenly sent her friend to work in a Japanese factory - which actually led to her becoming a comfort woman. We dig into the story of the comfort women not from one of the women herself, but from a friend of one. That of the “comfort women” - Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the benefit of Japanese Imperial soldiers during WWII.īy now we know it’s very like Tomorrow to pull us deep into an episode-long story of anguish, but at this point in the story - Episode 13, our comfort women story - it seems a little out of left field. But, before we get there, we take a one-episode turn through some real-life tragic history. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the moment we’ve been waiting for: the ultra tragic backstory of Ryeon and Joong-gil. It’s here, folks! The backstory we’ve been waiting for: the sad truth, the tragic events, and the story behind the red thread of fate that once bound our two reapers. 43 Tomorrow: Episodes 13-14 by missvictrix
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