MadelineMaureen

So theory time activated...in spoiler tag below.

the final song was it sung by the leads? i think I recognize their voices.

Im wondering if the production left it a bit open in case they wanted to expand on Duan Wu's story later on. As there have been a fair few season 2s of shows the past few years. Though in my heart of hearts i know Yan Zi Jing succumbed to the poison I still have some critique about how they went about showing that.
With a show about jewelry & the like, I would have liked to see something to represent his passing or their relationship within the Jewelry she wears in the final scene with the rest of the guild. I dont know enough about Chinese culture like I do my own & Korean culture so im not sure if they have similar ways of showing age, occupation, marital status etc through hair accessories & jewelry.
The ways to show mourning arent as clear to me in this time frame. If anyone knows what im talking about please help me out.

I'm still sad thinking about this drama's ending. Cause like she's just alone sort of by the end. She has her new found family, but yeah...he's 100% dead. Don't know what happened to his righthand man, if he stayed with Duan Wu or went his own way. Zhang Jin Ran wouldn't have been able to legally marry her so he most likely would have been married off at some point and continued to rise within the government. In old age she's still with the trading convoy of her own. It's giving Titanic, but without the knowledge that Rose went on to love again and have a full rich life even though she loved Jack still into her 90s.
I don't know why all the networks decided that all their shows were going to have sad endings for the back half of 2024, but next time can you through us a damn bone please. The only one that I sort of liked the ending to was Love Game in Eastern Fantasy. (By the way I'm mainly upset about the tragic endings because of all the bs happening in the real world. I wanted some happy endings in the fictional worlds that I watch as an escape.)

first time in a long while I wasnt checking to see how much was left in an episode while watching. The episodes are only an hour long instead of the what has become usual hour & 20-30 minute episodes that tend to drag(imo). With 12 episodes & it being more on the suspense side I'm hopeful that there won't be adding weight in the back half to fill runtime.

He's the son of a presidential hopeful & also works in the government so it is classified information. Also her mother married into a big news conglomerate so they are also able to pull/wipe things from the internet. i.e. his father's indiscretions magically not making headlines news. They are a marriage of mutual destruction. The families tied each other together so that if one goes down they both do.

12 is perfect for suspense dramas. longer ones tend to not know what to do and end up filling the runtime with unnecessary characters or have random extra plots popping up out of nowhere.

it's one of those shows I understand why people become content reviewers/reaction channels on youtube. because I just want to interject with my own thoughts in the middle of a scene. I'm glad I watched alone cause I would have annoyed the shit out of anyone near me.

my dumbass thought there were at least 4 episodes out & i didn't double check i just clicked start & now I'm stewing in the makings of my own frustration at not having more to watch.

It's the vibration. Their car-port(with no cars) acted as an amplifier for each whack and thump. As my non insulated bedroom window is less that five yards from said car-port it was the equivalent of being behind the car of a teenage boy with his first subwoofer blasting dubstep. You can't hear shit but you can sure as hell feel it.

Come home at 3am to find all the episodes have dropped...😭I hope I can finish them before I pass out from tiredness. It's Wicked weekend and I'm a theater manager...yall...pray for my sanity. And I swear to all that is holy, if my neighbor decides he wants to be Noah again while I'm sleeping I will have a mental breakdown. Nothing like waking up 2 hours into sleep to the sounds of an outbuilding being hammered into existence.🥺😢

PS I will never actually complain to my neighbor about building things on their property on a weekday at 10 am...I just happen to work nights, & my bedroom is near their backyard, that is not their fault.

It was worse in Go Ahead. He had physical scars from burns and glass from when she threw boiling water and broke things in anger. She was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to her son. He was held hostage as she literally took and locked away his passport, making it impossible for him to leave her. Repeatedly threated to kill herself and possibly her daughter with her so she wouldn't be left alone. Blamed the son for everything. He had no one to talk to as the brothers had sort of lost touch. He would get simi regular updates from FL's best friend about FL, and he clung on to that like a lifeline. He became obsessed with getting back to FL. He became a dentist because FL was scared of the dentist, but loved sweets. He came back with the sole purpose to pursue the FL and sabotaged her relationship with her boyfriend(he was a pos away, but still).
He was completely lost without the FL and broke down at the mere thought of her rejection. He was codependent with the FL similar to the ML's mother's codependence on HIM. Kissed the FL in front of his mother and her friend just to piss off the mother(and a bit to feel grounded in a moment of turmoil as the mother was invading his space and trying to set him up on a blind date.)
The 2ml ends up in the hospital because the ML put his pills for anxiety and insomnia in vitamin bottles to hide them from FL and 2ML. 2ML thought he was taking a multi vitamin and almost ODed.
Their relationship in GA was 100x more violent and 100x more manipulative than they've chosen to depict in FBC. He has a stronger support system in FBC than he did in GA as well. He is much more willing to open up and get others to open up. He doesn't feel as fragile/on edge as he did in GA. It always felt like if FL had really rejected him that he would have rather not lived anymore. She was his way out of his living hell, and if she wasn't able to pull him out he would have drowned.

Salt, incense, holy water the whole shebang .
If there was ever a need for a the infamous kimchi slap it is now. Do it you cowards.

I do feel like we missed a bit of her perspective in those episodes. With everything going on with the mothers I feel like her internal struggle/realization wasn't touched on as much as it could have been.

They are doing sooooo much better with the mental health aspect of the story in this one. The main leads are actively trying to break the cycle that hurt them as children by communicating with each other & stand up against those who hurt them. Even if they have a hard time one of the main 4 will encourage the other to speak up & ask questions instead of being stuck in their own head for too long.
I feel like the ML in this version isn't as codependent & mentally/ emotionally unstable as he was in the OG. I love that it was the brothers who kept intouch the most while separated. I like that the brother(2ml) is the one with the love triangle & completely oblivious to someone liking him. It checks out with his personality. The relationship with the 3 main leads is so well balanced.
I love 'Go Ahead', but I also love this adaptation.

There isn't a love triangle with the main leads. But HaeJun has always felt like a third wheel with everything. So when he finds out they are dating he feels hurt & like once again he is being left behind & abandoned. Not because he likes Juwon romantically, but because if they aren't all siblings what is he to THEM.
They actually do a really good job of showing the complexity of all of their feelings & past trauma when it comes to family, and how they are working towards breaking that cycle.

No...not even a little bit

Episode one. Our boy can't even tell that his online friend is talking about him. I'm dead. Does he think she's in a different city or something? She names the book and the exact situation that he was just on the other side of and can't connect the dots. I'm dead.

The main couple do not kiss, but the second couple(main couple in the novel) have two. Ep 17 & ep27. There is a forehead(?) kiss of the leads in episode 32.

This is one that could benefit from a season 2, but a season 2 isn't completely necessary. I would want either like a movie length special or 24 episodes tops season 2.
This one actually had a much longer time in the real world than most in the last episode. But I still wish shows would have a full episode or episodeS in the "real world" to finish off certain stories. Did I still enjoy the ending we got? Yes, very much. That doesn't change the fact I would have liked to see her meeting her classmate and getting to know the adult him. And maybe finding a firmer footing in her professional life after getting a bit of herself back...she had stopped standing up for herself and others because of what happened to her father and found that side of her again in her "dream" so I would have liked to see a follow through.