InspectorMegre

you seem to be a smart and observant thinker.
Indeed, the scripts show lack of experience... and wisdom. And thus.. lack of solutions :)

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I cannot really relate to your experiences in the UK bc I am not familiar with that world. Western /Norther / Eastern / Southern Europe does not interest me LOL never interested me...
My name here is what my mother calls me when she is angry that I expose her LOL

But th little that I dabbled, this is what I learned about it.

I am familiar with Mind Your Language and Keeping Up Appearances sitcoms, and also of course comics by Mr. Been :) It says a lot what UK is like...

I have tons of friends from India and China bc I went to school in the USA

The only time I visited the UK was to go to a wedding of a friend of mine in some part of London and that .. was ... disappointing - the white colonizers in full blast.... sexism... small mindedness... And London itself - so ... creepy.... really creepy... I could "hear and feel" screaming from the dungeons LOL it felt so opressive and everyone looked so bloated and unhealthy, I guess the infamous english food got them really really grumpy LOL

and then I took a bus to Glastonberry (out of the festival, I wanted to see the sacred Druid land) and I had a meeting with the ancient England, I felt like magical beings are gonna jump out any time, everything felt so steeped in ancient mystery and 100000% MAGICAL. I went to the well and sat with huge oaks and tall nettles..

And then everything that England did... with colonization and neo colonization and industrial revolution ... it seems as if England was a place of some ancient civilization that perhaps was quite advanced and then something evil took over and stayed there and spread over the world. TO be honest, that's my hunch.

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So in short, I can barely relate to your life experiences bc I have not lived near something that you live in. I think it is pretty loaded, to be honest, a lot of history.

So yeah, sharp thinking is the only way to survive :)
Or just be asleep like the rest LOL Or move to Australia or New Zealand for warmer sunnier life :) Just kidding.

I think your conditions are starting from there and from there, you move forward.

So I wish you good luck in proceeding from there.

Use your gift of observation, and with self reflection, the discernment

Aloha

yeah that's right, giving the fake test will push GC and Stella together :) and replace SJ :) why would he want that... ? he said he is doing only things to keep her afloat so that he can live...

Who is Gae Dong?

Wow great discussion here everyone, this cleared up a lot! Thanks for the insights.

So please help me to clarify after ep 99:
1. At the end of ep 98, SJ opened the envelope and it said DO NOT.
2. Then he gave the envelope to the advisor at the *very* end of ep 98.
ON SOME SITES, THE SUBS SAY THAT THE ENVELOPE SAYS "DO NOT" AND ON SOME SITES, THE SUBS SAY THAT THE ENVELOPE SAYS "DO" So that is error in translation?

But based on ep 99, it is clear that SJ changed it to DO and gave it to the "Advisor" .
Even if subs in ep 98 said DO NOT, that was some kind of error in translation OR it was SJ's fantasy. What really happened is that the receiver got a tampered envelope with DO....

So all the discussion about him giving the untampered envelope are obsolete already.

==== FYI different platforms have different subs for the end of ep 98... ====
On Monday, the subtitles at the end of ep 98 giving it to "Advisor" said DO NOT but then ep 99 made it clear the receiver received DO ..... so I rewatched the same scene subtitles of ep 98 again on Tuesday - on another site - and it says DO.... ??

BUT I JUST WATCHED THE SAME SCENE ON YET ANOTHER, THIRD, SITE AND THE SUBTITLES SAY " DO NOT" .

What the changes... ? The subs are different on different sites..

By Ep 99, it is clear the receiver got a tampered envelope that says DO

what's going on? Did I miss an episode or the subtitles were off on Monday and corrected on Tuesday... ?? Are subs with DO NOT just a fantasy of SJ? But then why do different platforms have different subs...???

In any case this is solved. The receiver got the DO :)

Thank you.

There are theories that MiSo and Se Ri are switched at birth by Ms. Gong the housekeeper - I think Zango posts described it

I have lived in the USA for like 40 years and most people I know do NOT have a father at home. In some white poor rural areas, kids make fun if a guest family arrives with a father..... And, almost by default, African Americans do not have a father at home.

As for ML, his reaction to FL trying to "hug him" ie close the laptop lid indicates that he is very naive with women, so he looks like a good and naive boy who got mixed up with a wrong woman and was left with a child. His suspicions about FL and his fighting skills... can come from legitimate training in class, maybe he even competed. Or maybe not :) As you said...

But you are right, we do not get to learn about him at all, he is more of eye candy for the drama. That actor seems new - at the start of the drama, he was sooo bad at acting :) Luckily he later improved. So perhaps the filmmakers didnt want to give him too much acting, beyond his capacity to handle.

The villain is a psychopath of a caliber that can only have a mean expression LOL She is a serial killer. I think dramas like Flower of Evil and Mantis are educational on that topic

I think since you got a good eye for holes in the script, you should write about that ASAP so that the drama makers adjust asap. Dramas are typically made as aired and audience feedback is taken into account

Sure! that kind of miracle happens often in this script LOL but DMS was going to kill him anyways bc TK's existence is a liability. DMS was already looking for TK....

on goplay

I love the scene when Oldest Son and his wife meet at the lobby of Mingang in ep 99. Because the tan-brown blotchy short jacket he is wearing looks stunning on him and also he smiles and looks happy, and he looks really handsome. He CAN smile. Many of those model actors and even famous actors like AlienDoMin cannot smile :)
I remember when OldestSon was at the mic for some party - I think the competition between online and onground teams? He was fantastic!!!! so cheery and fun he is a GREAT HOST. That actor should have his own guest talk show or something like that

I cannot see how TK could stay out of trouble :) DMS will try to kill him - unless he gets a fatal brain attack and dies before that

Omg unbelievable LOL Trust anything that Lawyer gives you or says or does... WOW STUPID lol

I found them finally on goplay

yes indeed LOL but ... this is dramaland of some not-so-skilled writer with very little life experience and lots of fantasy LOL
It is a fantasy to think that a man will be so devoted so instantly - however, it IS possible that it happens .... as ML is totally immature.
Also understand his position - he is in that isolated small place and finally found a woman he likes - and he can tell she likes him too - so close!!!!. We can tell he has not have much sex life since the kid... So ... He is like a stallion in heat at this point and DID get carried away following her, That is how the other dude got stuck to Ballerina...
It is like - either they bring a woman in or they stay spinsters forever... In Muchang, they have no chance to even find some one night bangers to let the steam off and I wonder they would even do stuff like that... so - they gotta work HARD to bring themselves a bride...

he is still a lot better parent than many :)

On your side, it is a fantasy to believe that "any man who has children and is involved in their care ends up protective of their child/s welfare" - omg so many fathers do NOT care at all.... !!!!! at all..... There are addict fathers, fathers who float in and out, molesting fathers, old school patriarchy distant fathers, just jerk careless fathers, etc etc etc. Even if "involved in care" they could be cold and distant and abusive.... Stop being naive about this. Think of father from Itewon class who taught his son to kill ... Or father from FLower of Evil who tried to recruit his son to kill... Or adoptive father from The Defects who molested his daughter.... Or manipulative scheming ceo ather from Love Scout.... Or boyfriend who beats up the girl in The Mother. Or what was that drama where the father drinks all the time and beats up the boy and brings women home and then his last woman is very sick and tries to run away with the little boy and dies?

In american movies, I will always remember that movie from Lousiana poverty, where father and very young daughter live together in this trash area, and she has nothing to eat bc he goes partying... She walks through trash looking for food, dressed only in her boots...
Or in foreign films... Black Cat White Cat scene where the son and father live together alone and son just made himself scrambled eggs and the father just takes it and starts eating, adn the son has to grab the plate away from the dad...

Or "loving fathers" who are abusive like in current kdrama Graceful Liar where father who is soooo in love with his daughter, tells her she is low life nobody and should never dream of becoming somebody, and he tries to manipulate her by trying suicide? Similar "loving father" in Young Lady and Gentleman...

So - dont be naive, men in care of children do NOT necessarily try to protect the child ...

My father was one of those, so I did not even notice that Mr ML was acting as a bad father LOL I was actually impressed by his excellent fatherhood and loving his kiddo in all scenes before that,,,,,,

So thanks to you, I noticed it now :) and learned something about myself :)

I hope that one day all of us have high expectations like you, and these high expectations based on personal experience

so in dramaland, you have to go with the flow and notice all the things that annoy you - and look at yoursel WHY that annoys you - and inform the writer by writing comments here...

FL? Maybe she had plastic. I was not paying attention and I saw her only in Glory so I cannot really tell.

BUT you cannot deny, she acts so differently than in let's say Glory. In Glory, she was a really super perfect villain. I was impressed. All the details with facial expressions and body language - she really was that psycho killer whore.

In this drama, she IS someone else. She really really really acts this political corruption reporter, a good fiesty girl. I am impressed with her acting. All the details in facial expressions and body language - she really is that reporter.

Seems like you missed to notice her acting.

your loss :) she really is an EXCELLENT actress

Hey wanna be art director, critic, God, and decider.

I have never seen ML actor before and just yesterday learned he is some hot shot actor from Sqid Games, which I havent watched bc I dont watch violent stuff.

So my eyes are fresh and neutral. And ... MY EYES SAY THAT ML LOOKS CUTE AND CHARMING AND SO WONDERFULLY LIGHT AND FUNNY.

I LIKE HIM.

AND IMO HE ADDS TO THE DRAMA
and I see that he is having lots of fun acting makjang, the ML character is actually his own life story

IF YOU SO HATE THAT ACTOR AND HAVE NOTHING MEANINGFUL TO SAY ABOUT HIS ACTUAL ACTING IN THIS DRAMA AND YOU ARE JUST GOING TO HATEFULLY NITPICK ON HIS AGE,

THEN SAY IT ONCE AND THEN SHUT UP. DO YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE BEEN POSTING ABOUT HIS AGE IN LIKE TENS OF POSTS??? . JUST * S T O P * Or else ppl will block you.

i am glad there is progress LOL

or feminism LOL what do you know :) it is really sad when a woman, who is abused and SHOULD fight to get up, is actually helping to keep herself down

you should think before you speak

I love hometown Cha Cha Cha. How she nails him down to share his life... then dealing with some heavy topics like being gay... Like marriage issues... I think that series is very deep while very fun
There is absolutely nothing corny about it

that is why the kid's mom was some flukey and he is a single dad... who said he has experience with women or is mature enough? ??

But also - she is HIS WOMAN, in his mind, so he is protecting her. He is all set on marrying her