When Life Gives You Tangerines Episode 3
Added 2025-05-06 23:05:23 +0000 UTCHey beautiful people of the internet, sorry this is coming out late. We filmed it last week, and I thought we posted it on Friday. I was completely mixed up!
The kids have been sick since Saturday, so we first got back online today, and I was so surprised when Stephanie told me you guys were asking where it was! I was like what do you mean? I uploaded it? Wait . . . oh no!
We'll have episode 4 out this Friday as well! So sorry again! - Wesley
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Aitana Matos
2026-01-05 06:29:20 +0000 UTCperfectly said
Sheetal Chand
2025-12-30 05:14:15 +0000 UTCI see what you are saying wesley about people running away, but for as many of those stories there are also so so so many women who are stuck in or forced into marriages they didnt want, had to marry for connections or money, or couldnt stand up to their family. I think money would have so much to do.with it, but also some wealthy familys had a lot of comtrol over their kids family or dating life too. Idk i feel that it is actually also rare in the US for people to successfully leave everything for love, but it is a lot of the stories that get romantacised maybe because of our bootstrap/individualistic society. But also, i dont think that is exactly the story here, family aproval wasnt the only issue, it was also poverty and iu's character needing to decide to shut that door to a different life that marriage to someone connected/wealthy might have brought her, and for her to let go of her dreams to leave jeju to be able to let herself love and be with him, they tried running and it was a dangerous disaster and she felt she held him back and that maybe neither of them would be able to have a comfortable life if they were poor together and needing to lean on and suffer together the way they had always been doing. So to me it isnt really the narrative of a love story and their family keeping them apart, it was more about how poverty makes you have to sacrifice and make hard choices. I think if she really had decided she loved him then nothing would hold her back, and she realized that was the case when she was about to marry someone else but coukd only think of him as the family she loved and reloed on. So this is more the story of them recognizing that love as more than just childhood puppy love. And i think iu's character had to take longer to get there because she is a woman and orphan with more to lose if she doesnt marry 'well', especially as a teenage pregnant runaway who was kicked out of school before even high school!! (Tbh i think maybe they shoukd have had actual 16 and 18 year old actors playing the characters in these scenes where they are still so young, because their actions make a lot more sense for the characters ages than seeing the mid 20s actors and its easy to forget how young they were here.) And korean age plays into it too,they are even younger than 18! so yeah them 'eloping' at 16 and 18ish to a hotel would have been a huge huge deal in purity culture back then. She would have been afraid and desperate especially if she had a suspicion that she was pregnant and maybe feeling like he was too young to actually help her tangibly without also being dragged down. And it is more disturbing that her 'match' was 30 and yet kind of makes sense why she might have thought he would be a way to get security in life . She may have felt that having someone able to practically provide for her was more important than love or the promise of providing even with nothing to show for it but fish and jewelery he had to steal. It is a cold way to look at love but she saw how her mom had to work, had to look after kids who werent her own and died young trying to make a life for them and the husband just put all the work onto her, then moved on with someone new and abandoned her. She had to be tough to find a way for herself and she had to take time to actually trust and love him i think...and even with them loving each other, she probably feels she knows more about the harshness of life than he does and he is being naive so she feels some responsibility for both of them to try to make a choice they wont regret.
Nina
2025-06-18 01:24:58 +0000 UTCI think the 'she would never see him again' thing was purposefully misleading, but it was actually telling the story of her perspective in that moment being that she thought she wouldnt see him again, because she was trying to let him go! But i definitely thought the same as you wesley, that he would die jumping off of the boat! They did that on purpose for sure!
Nina
2025-06-18 00:32:23 +0000 UTCNo one would want to marry Ae Sun bc of her family background. Her mother is a widow and on 2nd marriage. That is a big no no....
Penny D Young
2025-05-08 21:29:04 +0000 UTCThe reason why they are so negative about the idea of Ae sun’s mom being with her, it’s because she was a widow and they are afraid that Ae sun will run the same luck will… Aka something bad may happen to Gwansik
Green_
2025-05-08 04:36:07 +0000 UTCI’m glad nothing bad happened! Again thank you for the reaction ! I love it ! And yes IU is playing two characters. Young Ae-Sun and also Geumyeon (Ae-Sun’s and GwangShik’s daughter) I totally love the scene where he jumps and swims towards Ae-sun. I watched that clip on TikTok and was the main reason I decided to watch the series . And I’m so glad because is now one of my favorites!!
Diana Casillas
2025-05-07 04:48:19 +0000 UTCAe-sun does not believe that she is cursed by her mom (you will see this in future episodes). When she yells out "Why do you keep taking everything away from me?" she is talking to the ocean, as the ocean is basically separating Gwan-sik and her in that scene. She was crying "Mom" because in some Asian cultures, calling out "mom" is sometimes used as kind of an exclamation. If you recall in episode 1 when she was small she also yelled at the ocean like that when she found out her mom was dying. There were also hints that her dad died because of the ocean. I feel this is a pretty important detail that needed to be explained so.
Selena Nguyen
2025-05-07 04:36:41 +0000 UTC
