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I think it registers as a lie to Solhee because he feels guilty about it and believes it was his fault. (And also because he doesn't remember exactly what happened and is afraid he really might have killed her—but we know he didn't because he's our male lead.)

My issue with this drama is that I keep forgetting the difference between the truth ding and the lie ding, so when they're supposed to convey important information it goes right over my head.

Like seemingly everyone else here, I thought Eunmi was really frustrating in episode 7. Telling the father of your child "sure, let's date, but only if you don't try to bond with my daughter" is such an insane thing to do. You either only get back together with him AFTER he's established some semblance of trust with your daughter IF that's what your daughter wants, or you don't date him at all! Her relationship with him or lack thereof takes precedence over yours! You certainly don't force them to spend time together only to get mad/jealous if either of them tries to get along with the other one! Jinhong is not a person you can date casually or keep apart from your child without cutting him off completely! It's fucking obvious he'll always be interested in Jinhee's life independently of his interest in you and the fact they're related will become an issue sooner or later! If you don't want that, stop seeing him! You can't have it both ways! You especially can't bring him along on Jinhee's mother-daughter apology trip without even telling Jinhee ahead of time!

Eunmi's behaviour today was not just immature but also irrational and actively hurtful.

Also it's already episode 8, so give us Jaewon's backstory FFS... Why was he demoted to the substation, why did Jinhee's boss say that Jaewon ruins everything he touches and she should stay away from him, why was he such a douche to her in university when he clearly likes her, and when did he start liking her? Also what does Jinhee even think of him? Jinsoo seems to believe there's something brewing between her and Jaewon and I do love their chemistry, but if Jinhee has any romantic feelings for JW she doesn't seem to be aware of them, so like... how do we get from point A to point B...? I really hope the next 5 episodes spend more time on this question and less on Eunmi's character flaws.

After watching the first two episodes, I have to say everyone at the hospital is extremely unprofessional and emotional, and so is the female protagonist, who is also really stupid.

You Are My Glory, Koi wa Tsuzuku yo doko made mo, See You in My 19th Life.

I don't think he deserved to get beaten up at all...

even if you were right, "heavily implied romantic tension" or "romantic resolution in the future" =/= "romance"

This is a very limited, even arbitrary understanding of romance. I also disagree that Sanyeong appears indifferent to Hongsae, but that's less important.

If you don't want to think about the two of them in a romantic light, no one is forcing you! The romantic subplot is subtle enough that you can ignore it, but the claim that all romance needs explicit declarations of love and physical consummation on screen to qualify is going too far.

I'm on episode 3 now and I'm not sure where the sci-fi tag comes in... Other than that, it's fun so far and Sakaguchi Kentaro is handsome as usual!

Contrary to what other people are saying, the romantic tension is heavily implied and the ending hints at romantic resolution in the future. There are no kissing scenes or love confessions, but it's as obvious as it gets in this genre.

The drama started out well as a slow-paced, adult office romcom, but the final episodes were such a mess they soured me on the whole show, and especially on Kanako, the female protagonist, who acted like a childish person and a terrible mother but was treated with sympathy by the narrative, as if her actions could be excused by her feelings. Additionally, there were three couples in the drama, but none of them received any romantic development until, like, episode 8 or 9 at the earliest; the third couple didn’t get *any* development at all, the second couple didn’t get any opportunities to clarify their actual feelings for each other and were only brought together at the last moment by a cheap plot device, and the main couple kept dicking around with secondary love interests, jealousy and misunderstandings far past the point where that stopped being interesting or tolerable. But despite all this, Kanako’s awful parenting of her son, which caused him unnecessary pain of the kind that leaves a permanent scar, really was the worst part for me. Her ex-husband was written as an irrational and incoherent person too, and only did things to serve the plot; his role in the climax of the final episode was so stupid it kept me angry throughout Toru’s big confession. The implicit condemnation of single-parent households was less progressive than the show was aiming for too.

All in all, Wedding Planner exhibits some of the unique strengths of romantic jdramas but also too many of their weaknesses.

You’re both being delusional…

I think season 2 was more heavy-handed/emotionally manipulative and less detailed and realistic, but I still enjoyed it.

No, that’s the real reason—but it can’t be the pretext because officially they wanted to capture him alive, and indeed they rewarded the DP team after the operation for completing it without casualties. The higher-ups wanted to kill him to cover up the circumstances of the shooting, but they couldn’t say that openly.

I guess the implication is that she was drummed out of the military by General Goo and his faction as punishment for allowing what's-his-name to be captured alive, which opened the door for a public trial that would reveal the systemic bullying he'd been subjected to and make the military look bad. But I didn't catch the exact pretext they used to push her out.

In general there were quite a few moments that didn't add up for me. For example, I refuse to believe Joonho only spent a month in timeout on base after the events of the finale and was subsequently even allowed to rejoin the DP team. He deserted, beat the shit out of like 30 people, including several superiors, escaped from custody, disobeyed many orders, etc.. He should have gone to prison for many years after such a stunt, even if his boss took the fall for the actual whisteblowing.

But it was fun, even if it didn't always make sense.

I do hope Captain Im and Seo Eun got back together in the end... I think that's what we were meant to infer, but it wasn't stated explicitly.

I think there’s still a chance he’s the dad, though… but if he is, I don’t think he knew about the pregnancy. The preview for next episode shows him asking the mother if she remembers him, which would be a weird and even insulting question if he knew. We’ll see!

I'm listening...

Oooh, that's a very good guess.

I think he's her first love for sure, but does that make him Jinhee's father? I guess it has to since the drama is setting up a childish feud between him and Jinhee (which will be used to show how similar they are in comical ways, I'm guessing), but when her mother talked about her first love in today's episode, she didn't explicitly acknowledge that person as JH's father, so I'm still not totally sure.

OMG, thank you so much for doing this!

This is a movie, not a TV show. Korean cinema can be way more transgressive than Korean TV.