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I'm posting in the blind here as I won't get to see anything for several hours today. But it occurred to me over the weekend: Since Little Dong now knows who YJ is, would that jerk use/abuse her as a way to get back at KS, who I presume he still resents/hates? Being treated badly by a man would fit YJs character history, I'm afraid.

Kathryn, I've never had luck with the REVIEWS part. With It's Beautiful Now, we ended up creating a Discussion for "discuss current episode" and posting reviews there. The only time I've been able to post a review is after the show ended. Not sure what up with that.

Yeah, in Engineering School this would be referred to as a 'kludge' - building something that never looked good or worked right out of parts that were never meant to be used together. I'll do a post about it later tonight or tomorrow, once I can wrap my head around how absurd this episode was. I guess we can now go back to not wincing every time we hear its intro music at broadcast start. thank goodness we have 5 days until the next episode.

Yep, that too.

I just watched it and my head is spinning. What on earth????
Shouldn't this have been Ep 35?or 36?
This felt like a cobbled-together mess that was rushed into production - for God's sake, can't they even hire a continuity person? It has all the signs of multiple people writing the script all at once.

I've got to try to think this one out before writing any more.

Good Gawd.

"Weird family" is putting it mildly. It was like some kind of demented Harry Potter thing. It amazes me that someone with that kind of imagination to come up with that, gave us this InOk arc.

I've not seen the subbed version yet, but here's the weird part:

She came running home when she got word that InOk ran away (we have to remember that she's the only Gong that actually treated her as her mother, so she'd be more inclined to side with InOk). When she entered Granny's room, she is shocked to see YD and HN. So in all this time, she's had no communication with her family about what has been going on with YD and/or TK? Do they not talk about anything with her? As inconceivable as that is, it would slightly explain how YM/DW have no real idea what is going on with her family as she's just not that connected with them.
Here I go again, trying to make some sense of and justify crappy writing.

I just rewatched that again. His very last glance, after he exhales, to me says "determination". He will see this through. (fingers crossed).

It's funny, KTL and well, YooNa & JunHo have so wiped out the concept of "chemistry" that everything else pales in comparison. I can't imagine any series ever coming close to that. Hoping for a season 2.

YD is so reserved, I just ONCE wanna see her LET GO.

Knee-jerk reaction to everyone's outrage? What are we supposed to think now? It was all a bad dream? WTF?????

I mean, thanks, we're all one big happy family now, and strawberry hunt begins, as does dealing with JH and youngest couple woes (if anyone cares), but to reverse course like this.........

I just like the expression on his face.

OMG. Sher, You won’t believe it. Lunkera I left you a question there.

Lunkera, do we know when this episode was filmed? I’m wondering if it was right after the furor when InOk changed back in Ep 31(?) and this was a frantic effort to fix things???
I’m sitting here in disbelief at these YouTube clips.

I’m gratified that so many members here enjoyed this episode. While it didn’t leave us wanting to jump into the Han River (until the very end – thanks again, writers) we continue to have our intelligence insulted by the show’s production team. So instead of highs/lows for Ep39, here are LAD’s Excellence in Disdain Awards, presented to our TRHC Brain Trust:

1st place – The “I guess we forgot to mention that” Award. Granny goes missing and the Gong Family is in an uproar! Where could she have gone??? So, let’s remember shall we? We’re talking about an 80+year old woman with mobility issues who frequently needs assistance and uses a cane. Her ability to go long distances (and short ones, for that matter) are limited due to age-related lack of endurance. Did it occur to ANYONE in that house to check with the family driver who is at her beck and call 24/7? Didn’t anyone realize that she sure as hell ain’t walking very far, or God-Forbid, taking a bus –That was a plot hole big enough to SWALLOW a bus! Mr. Kim would have taken her, ASK HIM! Who the hell is checking these scripts??????

2nd Place – The “We think you’re stupid and it shows” Award. And yet ANOTHER episode goes by and they continue to have us believe that a couple can date for over a year, and not ONCE ask each other about their respective families? That YM & DW have never even thought about meeting each other’s parents????? That he is so dense he’s not figured out where she lives by now? OK, that might be believable, he IS pretty dense, but she’s not! And what about SK??? And you writers think that’s OK??? Because we won’t notice as we’re giddy-as-heck because of the new direction the show’s taken???? GET “REAL” YOU IDIOTS. You’re as delusional as SeJin and InOk!

3rd Place – The “Why be smart when you can be predictable” Award. Yet again, and all-too-predictably YD lies to TK and does not mention her terror ride with InOk to JH’s joint. This was so obvious I even put it out as a poll question a week ago! And all this, after both of them promised to tell each other the truth about the things in their lives (for the umpteenth time). And TK is just fine with her lying to his face about something so important???? Have the writers just stopped caring about the leads and keep them in the same rut, because IT’S SO “REAL”?? You people are PROFESSIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT WRITERS. Don’t let a retired IT Professional out-guess you. Be better!

(Dis)Honorable Mention – The “We didn’t forget, we’re just teasing you award”. After finally showing us some Signs of Intelligent Life at KBS Headquarters and having TK say he’s going to register their marriage right away, the matter goes unmentioned here. Our leads both have a day off, and do they go to the borough office and see our favorite civil servant to get registered? Uhhhhh, NO. He’s too busy waiting tables and she’s doing whatever-the-hell she does. SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

And the really sad part of this is that I haven’t even watched the whole episode. I just FF’d liberally thru it and probably saw a little over of half. So there might be even worse stuff that I didn’t see.

Bartender, it’s 8pm and time for TRHC Ep 37 to air on KBS America….Give me a Belvedere Collins and keep them coming.

We deserve it for staying with this mess.

Wait a minute....how was the apple pie?????

Respect? Nah. Pity? YES!

Happy birthday to your Mom! Enjoy your time with her.

i just rewatched that ep before I was about to turn off for the night. It's funny, they keep putting her in flats.....I guess with heels she'd tower over KS? They're almost the same height?