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Reason why I think Cha Young shouldn't have killed Jang Han Seok / Choi Myung Hee
Putting it under the cut.
I think I finally understand why in the last episodes of the series Cha Young is scripted to be injured and unable to kill Hank Seok and Myung Hee; much to our chagrin.
It's because Cha young is a legal working official. No matter how morally grey she is. It doesn't change the fact that she does not have blood on her hands. She did not cause death. Even when she tortured the three killers or threatened the truck driver, she only cause suffering, it was Vincenzo and his underdogs (which Vincenzo eventually kills) who predicted and carried out the death.
Compared to Mr Han, Jang Han Seok, Choi Myung Hee and other officials, the only corrupt things she has done are mainly to bribe her witnesses and others related to the case to get their testimonies. She climbed the corporate work ladder using her abilities in court, she became Wusang's Ace in 8 years due to her skills. Not because she bribed and got a promotion. She even hands cases she dealt with without Wusang's knowledge to Vincenzo. This shows her competency.
Even though she says to share the danger, and consequences of the dark side of Vincenzo's world, she knows and he knows that adapting to a world like that is undeniably daunting and draining.
Cha Young knowing her way around the toxicity of the upper-class conglomerates and the wimpy law system doesn't mean she's fully capable of assimilating into a bleak deadly world of the mafia or even killing.
She may fight (I hc Mr Tak shows her moves of self defense), she may be unapologetic for all the suffering she has caused. But she cannot get into that state of villianity just yet.
Vincenzo got into that realm because he joined it willingly at a young age. The perfect time to learn and hone. Now all his tricks and abilities are second nature to him. That's why he mentions his plans by using the term "mafia" every time he plans something (ie the court scene with the hornets ep6 / discussing pig's blood ep13). He's used to it, and he needs to show that his methods were common and not at all offending hence he used the "mafia" word to give an example, to make it seem to everyone that his way is effective and has been tried and tested. To convince.
No matter how much we want Cha Young to torture Jang Han Seok and Choi Myung Hee like how Vincenzo delivered their deaths, she won't. Because she hasn't assimilated to that life. She's still hanging on her moral compass though it's pointing the wrong way. She says it herself in ep 19 when Vincenzo gives her an out. "What we've been doing was hard on me. It hurt me. But I pushed through and chose your methods. Because it was the lesser evil."
She chose Vincenzo because he was her partner. But that is not the only reason. She didn't put blind faith in him. She didnt blindly accept him and his actions. She chose Vincenzo's methods because she knows there was no other way to bring Jang Han seok down. She aces in court, she can demolish her opponents. Heck, she demolished her father's case and he has 22 more years of experience than her. But that doesn't mean accepting Vincenzo's actions didn't make her question herself.
It did.
And it led her to be a more morally grey Jipuragi CEO than the competent lawyer at Wusang.
This in all honesty just a rebuttal against those calling out the writer and director for making Vincenzo end the two villains because MC privileges rigging CY. But I'm still salty for that to happen she had to get shot. It felt like a rushed scene. Theu should have done something else.
And by the way, what I said doesn't mean she isn't capable of what Vin does. But it would need years of exposure to such vile backgrounds as the mafia and she would have gone through a more intense character arc than the one we see in the show for her to enable to do such things Vin does.
But that said, I don't see it out of character for CY to unintentionally kill someone for the people she cares (ahem Vinny ahem) while trying to fight the bad guys.
All im saying is the ending felt earned to me IMHO and this is a stance on why I support the writer and director for ending the villains' fate in Vin's hands rather than CY's.
That's it thank you for coming to my ted talk.