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 onikewn:

Helloo, I just finished watching Episode 9.

Honestly, who would you want Dal-mi to end up with? I wanna know your thoughts on this. 

Hehe in all honesty I ship Do San and Dal Mi in the drama but Suzy and Seon Ho in real life. I have my ships sorted out very nicely, you see, though I'm only holding out for the one in the drama. What happens in real life between the actors themselves is really none of my business. But I still like Suzy and Seon Ho together ;-). 

 onikewn:

Helloo, I just finished watching Episode 9.

Honestly, who would you want Dal-mi to end up with? I wanna know your thoughts on this. 

I really want it to be Do-San. However, if its Ji-Pyeong I am cool with that too. 

I just think Do-San doesn't really have anything going for him but Dal-Mi. Part of my reason is because I will feel bad for Do-San if he does not get her. He has never found a girl who was interested in the stuff that he likes, until now..

 Maggie Shannon:

Helloo, I just finished watching Episode 9.

Honestly, who would you want Dal-mi to end up with? I wanna know your thoughts on this. 

i get a lot of people ship her with ji pyeong but honestly team do san all the way

 Suckerforhappyendings:

also the way dal mi was ready to defend in jae was my most favorite part from this episode

Oh my same. It showed that Dal Mi still cared about In Jae. 

@Sayonaraaa

I hate Nam Do San so much this episode with his stupid wind analogy, and his lies and selfishness throughout that has caused everyone so much unnecessary hurt. I gave him the benefit of the doubt at the start - “oh he’ll become more mature” or “he’ll stop acting petty” or “he’ll own up to the truth”, but in this episode we not only learn that he started lying to her because he “liked her smile”, but continued because he “didn’t want her to cry”.

Not to mention, he’s cheated his entire life yet somehow his parents find out about it now and knowing all of this, he STILL wants people to sympathise with him. When I secretly had hoped he would improve as a person, he does a complete 180 instead and becomes worse.

I'm neither a DoDal or MinJi shipper but I think you're getting NDS's character wrong. NDS never wanted to lie to Dal-Mi, instead, he was one of the first ones who insisted on telling her the truth. It was the grandma and HJP who told him not to- but admittedly there was also his growing fear of losing SDM once the truth is unveiled. 

The wind analogy is not meant to taken too profoundly. It sounds stupid if you insist on how it's been very unfair for NDS to "reap" all the benefits of HJP's work. But the analogy is supposed to show you how NDS has never been a person of his own. He has always just chanced upon a better version of himself that people offers to him...based on pure luck. (eg. like the math olympiad genius or the "NDS" that DalMi fell in love with). So like... it's a good thing for him... but it's also not, bcs it is still a delusion/lie. (basically, his whole life has been a lie lol)

Point is, you're not supposed to sympathise with him. You're supposed to see how his character has grown to come to terms with who he really is, instead of the projections people put on him. That's why I'm neither a DalDo shipper nor a MinJi shipper, cause both male leads are still respectively immature and using Dal Mi as a means to make themselves feel better.

@Maggie Shannon. 

You've said it. I really think we should just enjoy the show and let the ships sort themselves out. The romance isn't everything. There's a lot more to this drama than who Dal Mi chooses, and if you don't see it, then the whole drama is wasted on you. 

 AoiTenshi:

any evidence ?

I agree. Yong San stayed behind one time lying that he was backing up database. He was typing code instead. I can't pinpoint know the motivation. Maybe Yong San  wants to sabotage Sandbox because someone close to him jumped off the bridge.

 Daydreamologist:

There's something that bothers me about kdramas sometimes. It's their depiction of suicide. 

If you look at the dictionary definition of suicide it's literally "Intentionally killing of oneself". What annoys me about suicide in kdramas is that they're always looking for someone to blame for another's suicide. They'd look for someone to call murderer. It's wrong. If someone hurts someone so badly that they want to end their life, the bully deserves to be punished. Painfully. He deserves to be hurt just as much as he hurt others. 

But he isn't a murderer. He didn't kill someone. Don't tell me that doesn't count. It does. A person who hurts another that terribly is despicable, but he still isn't a murderer. 

 I KNOW that sometimes what someone does or says affects the decision to commit something so terrible, but in the end the person chooses to kill himself. It's a horrible horrible choice that just leaves an ocean of wreck behind. But it's still a choice. 

Agree with this so much. I see this in a lot of fiction, not just KDramas - an almost romanticization of suicide, when it's a horrible terrible thing that the person committing suicide perpetrates on their survivors and which stems from mental illness. Where attempts are a 'cry for help' I can understand, but ultimately no one is responsible for suicide except the perpetrators themselves. 

On a different topic, I'm almost watching this series as a Melo/tragedy and I don't know how I've come to sympathize so with Ji Pyeong. Maybe because he's never had family or any support. It was so painful when the 2 were comparing what they had and you know the Ji Pyeong wanted to say that Do San was better off because he had a family (the drama implies Dal Mi and his name, but I think it's famlly). And the only one who has ever been there for him is Halmoni but Do San is also squeezing him out there. 

Anyway, it was clear from this week and Dal Mi and Do San are end game, so I know I will have my heartbroken. So I'm watching knowing that it's going to have a sad ending (for me). 

The other funny thing (which never happens to me) is that I had no empathy for Do San's struggle. I know he tried and Nam Joo Hyuk did an excellent job portraying Do San, but I just wasn't moved. I found it whiny and a little over the top (the feelings, not the portrayal) (especially compared to how Ji Pyeong with his much sadder life, in a way, refuses to acknowledge his hardships). And because I couldn't relate to Do San I was having difficulty relating to Dal Mi, who would normally have me in tears. And it's not Suzy - Suzy had me bawling for much of the beginning and middle parts of Dream High - I just didn't feel Dal Mi's pain beyond an intellectual appreciation.