Romantic and the Idol, Season 2, Episode 3

Episode 3, it's a new day with new partners, date #2.  Hopefully you've watched episode 2.  The first couples were, JongHoon and G.Na, Minhyuk and Yewon, Kevin and Jiwon, N and Eunyeong. Seemed like the first date was a short date since it took a while for the  couples to meet up.

The second "date" selection was based the necklace selection.  Each guy selects a necklace for the girl to pick.  The girls then picks the one she likes.  The third "date" selection was based on the seating arrangements on the bus.  I think it was a more, get to know the others, and ends the 2nd date.  The guys first get to pick which seat they would sit in then gets off the bus.  The girls goes to one of the four seats and waits to see who sits next to her. They will also film a mid-selection, of who they like so far.

For the second date, Jonghoon was funny and a bit tricky.  He had a wine cork on a black nylon string.  He was hoping Yewon would choose it since he likes her.  He mentioned her when they were describing their ideals.  The previous evening he had told Yewon that he had drank a lot and now he hoped that she would remember and pick it.  Unfortunately, it didn't turn out how he wished.

The couples that did not change are Jonghoon and G.Na and Minhyuk and Yewon.

Yewon was really happy since Minhyuk was the person she mentions in the first episode that she likes.  Two days in a row being with Minhyuk and she must be in heaven.  Imagine being on a date with your idol, that must be how she felt. Lucky girl.  I think she's getting a bit too attached to Minhyuk.

N and Jiwon are a new couple as well as Kevin and Eunyeong.  N and Jiwon seemed comfortable with each other on their date until they got to their mission.

Their new mission on this date was to film the guy giving the girl a backhug.  What??? So soon?!?  I think all these couples think all this skinship missions are going way too fast.

Everyone at first seemed so awkward when they heard about the mission and just before they carried out the mission.  Jonghoon and Minhyuk acted like it was a movie project with their partner, giving directions, setting up the camera, scouting out the area to be filmed.  Basically, acted like a PD.  When the actual backhug happened, both couples looked comfortable with each other.

N/Jiwon and Kevin/Eunyeong couples both "chickened out" the first time they attempted to give a backhug.  It was the Kevin/Eunyeong couple that had to do 4 takes before they had one that looked romantic. One of the hugs looked like, as Kevin said, "he was strangling her."

In my opinion, out of the four couples, Minhyuk and Yewon seemed the most natural hugging each other.

After the date all of them went back to the cabin to meet up and head out to the aquarium, but everyone gets to sit with a new partner.  From here they would film their mid-selections at the aquarium.  Jonghoon was again denied to be with Yewon on the bus.  He was paired with Eunyeong, Minhyuk sat with Jiwon, Kevin with G.Na and N with Yewon.

The episode ended with showing each person's mid-selection video to the whole group.  They only showed Jiwon's choice and stopped at Yewon.

Now as I watched the last part of the episode, I had read some of the comments made regarding Jonghoon and G.Na.  They were saying how mean of Jonghoon for "dissing" G.Na when she came up to him and asked him a question and tried to engage him in a conversation.  I say, he didn't completely ignore her, he answered her question and looked back at the fishes.  She stood there and turned away.  I know she probably felt slighted because he didn't spend all his time with her and she is falling for Jonghoon but as Jonghoon said it was a "free date," meaning they are not paired up this time.  He likes Yewon and wanted to spend time with her.  G.Na should have spent the time talking to the other guys and even the other girls too.  Like Yewon, G.Na latched on to Jonghoon as Yewon latched on to Minhyuk.  Not Jonghoon's fault for have G.Na falling for him.  He was always nice to her on their dates even though he wanted someone else.  Which was probably why G.Na was falling for him.  By the way, Jonghoon looks like the oldest guy there but he's not, it's Kevin.  Maybe G.Na should hookup with Kevin, they even sat together in the bus.

I can also see Yewon getting possessive when Minhyuk was paired with Jiwon and Minhyuk was treating her real nice like how he treated Yewon.  Minhyuk fans were saying that's how he is. Always nice and caring to others.  So now, I don't know if Minhyuk really likes Yewon or is just being his nice self.  We just got to wait and see. =)

Wow, this was long. I don't know if I should go into details about the show and spoil it for those who didn't watch yet. I guessing you've all watched it before reading this blog.  Let me know if you want more details on the upcoming episodes or even the first three.  I can always update. =)

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