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Adamas: Episodes Fifteen-Xvi (Terminal)


What a finale! We accept followed our twins on their journeying together with taken every twist and turn amongst them. There are tons more than to live had in the drama’sec decision, merely the wallop it packs isn’t only about the activity — it’s likewise almost the culmination of long-fought fights in addition to deep familial bonds and emotions. Also, Ji Sung is amazing.



 

EPISODES fifteen-sixteen WEECAP



If it was upwards to me I would accept delayed watching this finale for weeks! I don’t want it to live over, I don’t want to tell goodbye to our twins, together with in addition to too… what if 1 of them doesn’t go far!?


But, getting right into it, nosotros selection upwards alongside the cliffhangers from concluding calendar week: Woo-shin’second eureka minute over the adamas’ hiding place, together with Soo-hyun together with the SIH discovering what is essentially Team A’second volume grave site.


Interestingly, Episode xv is a pretty serenity episode — low on action, heavy on planning and setup, together with more often than not centered about the brothers coming to terms amongst everything that they’ve uncovered. And you know what? It was a perfect episode because non alone were they laying earth for the terminal episode, just the emotions were then raw in addition to heartrending that — dangit, Ji Sung — I’m but completely carried away by his portrayal of these brothers. In fact, almost of my notes for these scenes between them consisted of this: adjajkdhjkashddfkjasjdhasjdjkahdjah!!!!!!! which is the exclusively fashion to actually explicate them.



The commencement is when Woo-shin, inwards his meditative fashion, in conclusion meets up with the far-more than-harried Soo-hyun together with gently helps him realize where the adamas is. This scene is just packed out amongst amazing floor together with amazing acting — from Ji Sung playing both sides of this telephone exchange so masterfully, to the willful conclusion of Woo-shin to percentage the truth, fifty-fifty though he knows it volition break his blood brother.


And it does. Seeing Soo-hyun’second agony is merely… agonizing. Lee Chang-woo is nearby too witnesses the whole matter, eventually becoming a function of the exchange. First, Soo-hyun is furious for the danger they were in all along (how he shattered that precious toy!!), only and so merely has to express mirth over the irony of it all — that the boys had the adamas all along. It’sec the best role of the drama, correct here, non solely the fashion it’second drenched inward irony too heartache, only the style the brothers’ intentions are overlapping, besides.


Woo-shin, nosotros acquire, embarked on this whole matter out of honey for his brother, knowing the agony he was inwards all his life, blaming himself for his male parent’second decease. And only like that Soo-hyun’second whole life of guilt together with grief is turned upside downward.



But it simply gets always meliorate, because while the squad is planning out what the heck they’re going to make — as well as Seo-hee follows a creepy “Dr.” together with finds Team A’sec electric current hideout — there’second all this far deeper stuff going on likewise.


The brothers run across upward yet once more together with this fourth dimension it’second fifty-fifty more centre-wrenching, if you tin believe it, with Soo-hyun breaking downwardly in sobs, too Woo-shin putting his manus on his blood brother’s middle as well as wish he wasn’t inward hurting. GAH!! This floor has only transcended wildly well-written suspense drama as well as striking me direct inwards the center with my favorite assort of story e'er: virtually family, brothers, heartache, and sacrifice. I require a moment.



We continue amongst a whole lot of hatching of plans together with making deals until we finally go to the activeness that sets off most everything to come up. Soo-hyun in addition to what’second left of the SIH need to become their hands on Team Leader Lee, so they brand a plan to caput to the chairman’sec funeral where Team A will live gathered.


But it all goes to the devil quite fast when their hideout is raided by Team A and their endless render of rifles. Our skilful guys accept a duet of handguns as well as are running for their lives (leaving the dead behind too too the rat in their midst!) until they’re boxed into a tiny room too prepare to brand a last stand.



It’sec here where I literally gasped loud enough to wake upwards the entire neighborhood. Lee Chang-woo motions for Soo-hyun to act behind him so that he’s protected… except he says, “Woo-shin-ah, act behind me.” OMG, certain enough it’s Woo-shin! The boys not entirely switched for a second time, merely Lee Chang-woo knew the difference between his estranged identical twin sons in addition to holy moly it’s merely i of the best moments the drama has packaged upwardly thence far. It says everything that nosotros need to know well-nigh Lee Chang-woo equally a male parent, together with it makes his inevitable as well as sacrificial expiry all the more than devastating.


Woo-shin as well as the SIH are saved thanks to Seo-hee who contacted Hyuk-pil too convinced him to assistance them. And then, all of Team A is apprehended, too boy is it satisfying.


But there are a lot more moments of realization to come up, because Seo-hee realizes that Soo-hyun is really Woo-shin, as well as Woo-shin realizes that the really person they need to capture is not in that location: Team Leader Lee.



The terminal episode backs upwardly too gives us more than context on how that whole operation played out, but I’one thousand glad they kept it from us because those twists were everything.


Woo-shin mightiness be safe for straight off, but it’sec Soo-hyun who is inwards danger. While all of Team A was supposedly offsite, he was going to their hideout to snoop about. But Team Leader Lee is in that location waiting, together with the ii take a really horrific contend. Like, around fast-forwarding was necessary, that’second how savage it got.


Soo-hyun puts upward an impressive contend against this trained killer, merely in the stop he’s strangled by Lee in addition to it’sec… horrifying. And what’sec worse is Lee’s laughing in addition to hollering later on. He’second truly an fauna. And Soo-hyun is really dead!? Disbelief is the exclusively thing keeping me from sobbing correct straightaway.



Seo-hee in addition to Woo-shin, followed by Tae-sung and [my novel oppa] Agent Han (Won Tae-minute), movement like crazy people next the GPS tracker inwards Soo-hyun’s hand. It’sec a race against the clock and I don’t know what. is. happening.


It’s a will to this drama’s amazing screenwriting, though, that when nosotros observe out what’sec happened to Soo-hyun, nosotros don’t really ask any dialogue at all. The GPS point goes out together with every bit they all draw upward to the spot, all nosotros necessitate to see is the looks on Tae-sung and Agent Han’sec faces to know precisely what’sec going on.


Woo-shin and crew operate out to the shoreline, too it’s but empty H2O in forepart of them. This scene is and so powerful; it’s similar the drama knew that it didn’t even ask words.



The heartbreak degree is off the charts, just they however postulate to grab Team Leader Lee, which leads to another brutal contend, get-go with him in addition to Tae-sung (as well as oppa Han), too then a truly horrifying standoff amongst Woo-shin.


I could first every sentence inwards this weecap with “Ji Sung’sec acting is aMAZing” together with it even so wouldn’t be plenty because he blew me away inwards these episodes. In this scene, Woo-shin endures Lee’second taunts well-nigh how he killed his brother, too with a self-restraint that’second difficult to imagine, somehow keeps himself from shooting Lee fatally during his taunts, as well as instead incapacitates him.


“It’sec over,” Tae-sung says to Woo-shin as they apprehend Lee — merely Woo-shin just collapses onto him in addition to sobs. Dude, I don’t know how many more of these sobbing broken hero scenes my eye can handgrip.



But of form, apprehending the culprits isn’t actually the terminate, and fifty-fifty though they’re in custody, the “higher ups” are pulling the strings, as well as nosotros encounter the SIH/good guys fight to get anywhere.


Backtracking a fleck is Woo-shin’s before deal with Hye-soo — Woo-shin volition hand her the adamas for Team Leader Lee, and his finish-finish of a retrial. She’sec already got her own bargain going on amongst Lee, though, in addition to she in addition to Team A take chop-chop formed an alliance that’second (seemingly) untouchable.



In the infinite of mere days Hye-soo has effectively usurped Haesong from her husband’s traveling bag, too with Team A behind her, she’sec the new master. Literally. I judge afterwards so many years of living inward that hell she learned how to go a principal chess role player together with manipulator because nosotros see her outwit together with outplay everyone with what she tin instantly offer from her throne.


She gives Lee what he wants (Soo-hyun), as well as then she fifty-fifty fearlessly maneuvers her style out of the hit on her ain caput, offering Dominicus what she wants (to torture her sister, too boy does she).



All the activity feels over, only we have no real resolution. Seo-hee mourns for her parents and regrets everything that brought her to that betoken. Woo-shin sits on the shorefront where Soo-hyun disappeared — equally does Seo-hee — and they mourn for him. It’s some other beautiful scene where Woo-shin grieves in addition to admits how guilty he feels: “I started this whole thing to make Soo-hyun experience less guilty, merely it’s like I pushed him into that sea myself.” More crying. And I’thousand crying, besides.


For a trivial patch, it seems similar Woo-shin is tempted to enact revenge on Lee, merely fifty-fifty Tae-sung (I beloved how these 2 then openly trust together with rely on each other right away!) tells him it’s non worth it. That getting rid of Lee won’t become rid of the pain — or the beginning of the corruption.



And and then, that makes Woo-shin’second visit to Haesong mansion all the more than powerful. We become a lot of callbacks to the opening of the drama, merely this fourth dimension Woo-shin is greeted amongst a smiling by Dragon Lady Kwon together with welcomed to encounter the novel principal… Hye-soo.


Woo-shin seems lighter than when nosotros last saw him. He tosses a duffel pocketbook at Hye-soo’s feet in addition to says it’s the adamas, together with inward exchange for it, he wants her to proceed Team Leader Lee live, then he tin can be punished by the law. She says she thought their deal was off, in addition to Woo-shin says disappointedly just what I’ve been riding on the whole fourth dimension: I thought that yous of all people inwards this menage would accept the virtually decent middle.


It strikes me that where nosotros’ve landed at the cease of this drama is this: each character has suffered incomparable losses together with at that place’sec and so much grief — approximately that comes out in vengeance, together with roughly that comes out as a desire for truth.



The plot feels settled… ish? Woo-shin and Seo-hee encounter upward and speak about how no i wants to believe the truth about Haesong in addition to Team A, despite her convincing journalist as well as Hwang’s testimony. Woo-shin agrees, too says he’second going to write a book nearly it; people are more than probable to believe fiction, anyway. And possibly they’ll place the dots together and then.


I loved this equally the ending of the floor — that although in that location was no manner for them to completely beat the mountain of power inward front of them, they will continue fight to unwrap the truth (as Woo-shin so eloquently says to Hye-soo).



And then nosotros go to our twist. And I’ll live honest, I’k not quite certain how I experience nigh this withal, too I haven’t had plenty fourth dimension to digest it. But, Seo-hee heads over to Woo-shin’second flat to get interviewed for the aforementioned volume, and offhandedly notices a letter of the alphabet on his desk that’second left opened every bit if it was read inwards a hurry. It reads: Song Soo-hyun is live. Find the adamas.


WHAT! Just, what!? There are a meg dissimilar ways to read this — beyond bait for a instant flavour — only in our closing shots, we see Woo-shin (I mean?) at the shore again. The slightest smiling dashes across his confront, together with nosotros pan downwards to come across the adamas inward his manus.


So, are nosotros right to intend that in one case once again in that location’s a simulated 1 inward the possession of Haesong? And who sent the letter of the alphabet? My knee joint-jerk reaction was Hye-soo, because it’sec so circular, just I’m not certain, since she didn’t appear to agree to his request to go on Lee live (ordering the striking via Sunday). Or, mayhap Soo-hyun himself sent the letter? And is that Soo-hyun on the beach alongside the adamas, not Woo-shin? That power make more feel, only of grade the left/wounded mitt is in a bag, killing our entirely clue equally to which twin it is… I involve a few days to ponder through that twist together with all the clues there, just honestly I’one thousand non fifty-fifty ready to intend virtually that besides deeply correct instantly.


My center is all the same lost inwards these final few episodes, too I tin’t think beyond them still. All those emotions too tears and brutal deaths. Everything that was between our brothers, spoken too unspoken. Dammit, what an amazing show.



 

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