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Thank you for the fun yet again, StacyO! Keeping me challenged but not frustrated 😊

I guess I wasn’t thinking too hard when I said “switched places”.
Here’s what I’m thinking:
Despite plot summaries saying the spirit of Kang Dan-shim (KDS) is possessing Seo-ri (SSR), I’m guessing poor SSR is dead.
The catty lady CEO of the entertainment agency SSR was signed with said the she’d taken pity on SSR and employed her when she was starving.
So KDS was saved by the shaman lady who catapulted her soul into SSR’s dying body. I don’t think there will be any going back for KDS.
(Of course I don’t know this - I am just spit-balling here.)
As for SSR’s “accident” when she was younger?
My only stray thought on that is, remember how Joseon KDS protested her innocence before her execution by poison?
What if some stuff happened earlier in Joseon that affected outcomes, but KDS has no idea about it because it wasn’t her, it was something that was put into play by visiting SSR?

We’ve got 10 episodes to find out! Some people are complaining that CSG’s confession came too early, at a risk to the typical K-drama dramatic flow. Me, I’m all for it!
🔥🔥🔥

I first thought her mental capacities were at their limit from the shock of the attacking thugs.
(going back to Ep 2(?) when the 반찬 she’d delivered to the rooming house tasted bad and she said that lately she’d get mixed up about the seasonings. That seemed like a hint at beginnings of dementia.)

BUT, then I remembered what she said earlier in the day, that Shin Seo-ri had gone through a spell before where she’d forgotten memories of her earlier life.

Have Kang Dan-shim and Shin Seo-ri switched places before? Why wouldn’t Dan-shim remember? What would timid OG Seo-ri have done in Joseon?

This makes me speculate all kinds of things, but I’m trying hard not to!
I’m loving this drama so much that I want to experience it moment by moment. Simultaneously I am reading these comments and obsessing.

Instead of “degenerate” it’s more like someone who squanders the family’s money, a wastrel, a spendthrift, a trust fund baby.

‘Prodigal son’ was another result I found. The biblical prodigal son could be regarded as a degenerate in that he took his inheritance early and blew it on prostitutes and living wild.

Fun quiz, thank you for making it!

I just wish I could finish it.
Unfortunately I have the same issue as other commenters here - I can't go past PhantomL/GhostC because none of the 4 choices register as correct.
I know the right answer, and have retaken the quiz trying all four answers multiple times. No go.
Oh well - I will just have to look forward to your next quiz.☺️

Thank you, great fun! Hilariously true and well-written!
I played it 4 times to see some other Red Flags.
They are so irresistible on screen, the best and safest space to enjoy them.

Well done! Thanks for the great recommendations!

Fun! Thanks for making the quiz!

It’s a comment section, not a cheerleading section.

“If you have nothing nice nor constructive to say…”
Nice:
Her sadness in Eps 2-3 was genuinely and unexpectedly moving, almost triggering. She evoked every past traumatic breakup I’ve gone through, and had me thinking long after the episode was done.

Constructive:
There are several things she resorted to habitually throughout the show that I found distracting, but I won’t go there because people are getting so upset.
I knew nothing about her at all before I finished BoD, so this is not hate talking, or bias against anything she’s done before.

You ask, “how the heck do you think she can improve in acting if she is not allowed to act…”
Smaller roles, based not on her star-power draw, but on her abilities.

BoD was not terrible, Jisoo’s acting was not *terrible*, but I feel the overall quality might have been much higher with a more experienced actress in the lead role.
She might have made a fantastic 2FL in this show, while a more qualified actress wasn’t given a shot at the lead because she didn’t have an enormous fandom.

Another great quiz, thank you!

(Also, thanks very much for ID-ing that it’s K-drama (or C-drama, etc.) in the title. I haven’t explored anything outside of K-drama, so it’s frustrating to begin and find I know none of the answers.)

Thanks for another fun one!
(Question 26…I can’t believe they put him in that ill-fitting wrinkled tux!)

I hadn’t seen most of these dramas so this was hard! But you know what? The ones I had seen I got wrong too! I had to guess ALL the guesses almost every time, unless I got one right by accident.
Even so it was fun to try penalty-free, thank you so much. 😊
I guess I will have to watch more dramas and try again later.

For me, that’s the only part of the show that has kept me watching.
The attempt at chemistry is only going one way, though.
It’s like trying to light a fire with damp firewood. He’s the spark, trying earnestly, but there’s nothing flammable enough there for him to ignite.

The questions were a true test, and result gifs and messages were really fun - well done! Thanks for making this!!

I think it made a lot of sense that he withdrew from the face/eye contact and went to pay attention to her ankle.
Because: He only confessed to her before because of alcohol, so he wasn’t ready to say it to her sober. He is perhaps shy or reserved. He hadn’t found the courage to confess to her without being drunk.
Therefore , he must have been shocked. I think he needed time to take stock in the situation.

After tending to her ankle for a minute, then he could work up the courage to look her in the eye and see how she is doing. He then will see that she feels very awkward, and that will be his cue to man up, and say sorry, 💕, whatever he needs to say to convey his feelings and and make her feel secure.

I agree!
I think ep. titles are important to the flow, anticipation, analysis. etc.

Went back to check the 8 eps so far.

(One odd thing: they actually had a translation on the screen for Ep03’s title, but that was the only one. Funny!)

EP01
Unexpected variation
(Or unforeseen, Unpredictable )
예측하지 못한 변주곡

Ep 02
Sound and fury
소리와 분노

EP03
죽음을 멈출 수는 없으니까
Because I can’t stop for death

EP04
판도라의 상자
Pandora's Box

Ep06
새빨간 거짓말
A whopper

EP07
버리지 못해 텅 비어버린
I couldn't throw it away/Unable to let go,
it became completely empty

Ep08
어둠 속에 벨이 울릴 때
When the bell rings in the darkness

(I’m not a native speaker, and my Korean is very rusty, so please forgive any errors.)

A few I remember:
재빨간 거짓말: a red-hot lie, a whopper.
간지럼 나무 아래서: Under the tickle tree
Ep8’s title was something about a bell ringing in the darkness

I love your quizzes! You made the umbrella ones too 😍
I appreciate your hard work. Thank you for entertaining us!
😘💕

Thank you, that was a really fun and creative concept!
I hadn’t considered umbrellas scenes as a trope before, so it was nice to remember a small moment in a well-liked drama. Satisfying to remember the scene correctly, and not agonizing to guess wrong. I VERY much appreciate no sudden death, and being allowed to continue.

Thanks for making this, and making me laugh! Your pics and captions were so cute, like “Song Kang is not satisfied!” 😁🖕🖕I kept retaking it!