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So I was thinking......and this was triggered by the many posts we've gotten lately about new viewers asking if this was worth watching...

Depending on how they finish the series (who gets the happy-ending), I thought that a GOOD editor (not even a great one, just a good one) could re-work the footage and give us a fine, maybe 35-episode series. Wouldn't necessarily win any awards for Best Family Drama, but would be a fun watch (like it was in the beginning). Off the top of my head, he could:
-reduce the InOk craziness to 2 eps max, maybe 1 ?
-Have YD leave for only 1-2 eps (we do need her to be gone though, those scenes of them apart tells a lot about their story, plus we need the reunion scene in his apartment). I think we still need the timeskips to make the story sensible.
-Minimize the Hee storyline, if it really goes nowhere w/SoonJu. This would hold true for all the secondary couples. Since none of their arcs were ever developed, maybe just cut them all out, and make the story solely about YD/TK/SJ/KJH
-Minimize the KJH story to essentially write him out (never comes back from US?) and reduce the angst
Among other things...

But then I thought it might not work, because YD changed so much as a character that it would be too jarring in dealing with her sudden new "personality".

Ami I asking too much? Is such a thing possible without having to re-shoot scenes?

Oh well, random thoughts on a Tuesday.

In a series full of eye-rolling moments, the fact that he did NOT say I'm moving out when HD was brow-beating him about SunJu was one of the worst. He CANNOT live in that house anymore. I don't care about cultural differences, this is plain common-sense. When he got up and went to his room, I wanted to throw a shoe at the Monitor.

Let's face it: This daughter is more expendable.

OK, use the Pages app to compose, then select text and copy and then paste to the MDL app.
I use that method of longer text messages I need to send.

Oh, BTW. I was for sure HR was gonna pull MR aside and tell her about JD after the restaurant scene. I sense the tension building up in her to keep it secret.

Please use MS Word, Sher. Or even Notepad (if on a Win PC). I've been getting phantom error messages when I post, and am seeing delayed typing too.

I'm trying to figure that too. I still think she'll head back to the US, but she liquidated all the real estate holdings she inherited. Why, if she was heading back there? That is what throws me.

MDL is getting really weird, especially this last couple of days.

It looks like SS is on his way to work in the morning, as he said he'll file it today. So, it's before KS heads to the chairman's which seems to happen sometime after 9am (when MR heads for the Academy).

We continue to race headlong to the finale....

(We all know where this is going to end up, despite how they are framing the current episodes, but I'll just ignore that and focus on what they present us, as it happens.)

Here in 112, KS continues to do his best impression of the biggest dope on the planet. How ON EARTH he would stay at that restaurant and dine with The Witch and mini-witch is beyond me. He just sits there, instead of dragging JD out and scolding her for lying to him, then leaving her with her beloved "mom". And of course, since there are only a few restaurants in Downtown Seoul, MR and HR encounter them. I was actually glad for MR to see this. It was almost the peach-peeling scene all over again. She needs to see the real KS, not the idealized one she occasionally sees at the Academy or with her Grandfather.

And this time, the YJ/JH encounter did not seem comfortable. They're pressing it, I think.

The best line of this show was YJ telling SJ she was like an evil female character in a drama.

Fittingly, MR calls it quits with KS. At this point, there is no reason continuing with their relationship unless he gets a divorce and is free and clear. Otherwise, there will always be doubts - not about his fidelity, per se, but his commitment to her vs. his lack of backbone in dealing with SJ, who knows how to manipulate him. And she is correct to second-guess JD's feelings towards her vs. SJ. But, naturally KS can't fathom that he needs to send JD to her mom for good (like she'd have her - again, we know where this all is going, wink-wink).

So JD, prepare for surgery, you'll love sedation and the pain from the bone-marrow extraction afterwards. All for the half-sister you know nothing about and the Mom who will leave you in a flash once her other kid is healed.

I'm 7 mins in, and I can't believe what I'm seeing.

Actually, I CAN believe it, that's whats sad.

Agreed. Going to watch 112 now.

I think we just have to accept that this show has more plot-holes than Swiss Cheese. I no longer believe the resolutions were left on the cutting room floor, because that floor would be hip-deep in cuttings by now. It's just what they figure they have been able to get away with all-along, so why stop now?

Yeah, despite how she treats her Dad, I find her behavior around MR to be the most reprehensible. This is a woman she admitted feeling like a Mom to her. And she just stabs her in the back, over and over, despite how much she may think it's wrong.

I'm biased, because I haven't liked the character from the start.

I especially agree on the HR/KS pairing. I've been saying that forever, but it's not a popular concept here, LOL. He NEEDS an experienced woman to teach him what females want/need. He has no concept, and she would be good for him. He needs a strong woman to lead him along, his passivity knows no bounds and gives no sign of ending. It's also, IMO, why his MIL was so against them being together. She knew HR was capable of taking him from them.

KS/MR is a terrible couple. You can't have two people in a relationship like that. At some point a 3rd party with a strong personality is going to come along break them up by stealing one or the other. Plus, they'd just plod along in life and not make each other grow as a person. MR needs a strong man with a decisive personality to bring out her inner tigress. Otherwise she just looks like the female version of Gomer Pyle. 'GOLLLLYEEE, KANG-SAN"

Thanks for saying that, Sean. I thought I was the only Aunty Ding fan here.

Gosh! Lots of familiar faces, including SangJi's mentor from BML! And the dad from YLAG.
And SangJi looks much healthier now! Thank goodness.

She starts out as a hellion, then calms down somewhat, but returns to her selfish form after the return of her mom. She only really cares about her dad for a couple of weeks I guess, otherwise she demands he sacrifice his life for her interests, much like her mother and grandmother.

The real touching moments between them are few.

I am in the same boat. But am too invested in both to just dump them. TRHC makes me angry because it became something it wasn't. I would never have watched such a show if it was promoted as this misery-fest that it turned out to be. This show is just aggravating because we KNEW she was coming back and would cause trouble - the bad part is the poorly planned story arcs and the lack of any character development for the ML.

YES! I was shocked by this when I watched 48 last night.