ShortCircuit

First, it's Neil doing that meme - "Where's he going with mah man?! What's he doing with mah man?!"

Then obviously they have to have the dick swinging contest LOL.

Poor XiaoHai, having to deal with two grownup kids...

I did read the novel, and actually re-read it mid-series because I was unclear on some details.

No, it's not exagerrated, LOL, did we really read the same book?! They're talking about it directly, when Kirchhoff is investigating and discovers how Laura's death happened. She did beg for her life after she was thrown in the oil tank, and they left her there for Jorg's father to come and push earth over the tank's door in order to stop them from taking her out.

And the mother's hatred of everything her husband didn't do right - including not disposing of all clues properly so that they would never be found and her son would get off cleanly - is also there throughout the story.

I pay attention to details, but even so, it's not even needed with this novel, since Neuhaus' style is so pragmatically direct, it becomes mechanical. She doesn't even imply things, she straight out tells them to you all the time, including what the characters think at a point in time - there's nothing to debate and consider you might be wrong, the author already overexplained everything. (IMHO she's not the greatest mystery writer, BUT she did write at least one interesting police story - this one, anyway.)

What I've recounted above is not about their motivations, BTW, just the sequence of their actions. Actions that were thus presented in the novel... So I don't really understand what's the gripe.

P. S. Not to mention that Laura's disappeareance and eventual presumed death wasn't even the main part of the story, a lot more attention and plot development was given to Stephanie's presumed death and disappeareance instead, exactly the other way around than in the drama.

First episode, I'm not really sold. There were a lot of predictable things happening, a lot of posing for good shots but not much of actual substance. So far it really feels like a teenager's revenge fantasy in which supernatural beings come and solve (all kinds of) problems.

I might give it the second episode before deciding to continue or not. Just not right now.

So this is on the same shelf as MoDu, right? Is there any news, of any kind?!

I didn't mean she was alive - she isn't. But she's not far.

... Remember that after the doctor panicked and ran, DeokMi/NaGyeom went to leave that tool at his door and scare him - but the last witness was still there in the barn, with the body.

That's also true. Well, let's see how long it takes them this time around :)

Haven't met many cats, have you, LOL. Maybe like a good nice puppy adoring his master. But a cat? Never :D

But that's exactly how she died in the novel. They raped her, (in-novel) GeonOh returned, she was panicking and tried to run thinking he was going to rape her too, she slid/lost her balance and hit her head. Thinking she was dead, they took her to the oil tank, where she was at least awake and begging them to get her out. Instead they ran home to the parents who went to the oil tank and blocked the entry, so that the boys couldn't take her out in case they changed their mind in time.

And that's precisely how it's in the drama, too. Unless you mean she wasn't whacked in the head but died either by hunger or thirst or because of her wounds. In the end, the parents are the culprits.

I bet they said the same for the second season, too :D

In the novel, BoYeong's character (the girl who was raped) fell and hit her head. The guys put her body in the oil tank and she was still alive and had awoken then, begging them to let her out. They went home and told their parents, the parents went there and buried the oil tank's entry under dirt so that the guys wouldn't go back and take her out. The parents are guilty in the drama, too. ETA IIRC one of their fathers was friends or related to someone working at the derelict US military base where the oil tank was, so he had the keys to enter the base. That's how the boys knew of it, too (since they would mess around with (in-novel) GJW's car around the base).

Their motivation at the time was that she was the village slut and raping her would have destroyed the boys' shining futures. In the drama she was a virgin and there wasn't anything she did wrong, but the parents still didn't want their boys' futures to be marred by having raped her and tried to get rid of her.

PS Also (in-novel) MinSu's mom was the most vindictive one, she was extremely pissed the men couldn't deal with it better so that there was no chance anything would be found out. She was just as despicable as them. In the drama, she seems not to be really aware of what happened.

I took forever to start the first season, then really-really liked it.

Then it took forever for them to make the second one, and I am not really invested in starting it - it's going to take forever again to make the third one, I didn't really like the OST (yeah I know, but it matters a lot to me), I am not happy with the change of actors for a certain character at least, and basically the only one I really really like is Fan Xian (Zhang RuoYun is the best!)

It doesn't help that I spoiled myself on the novel and have a general idea of how things go.

I'll still watch it some time... maybe when they start working on the third season.

Actually, no, the culprits are the same. It's just that their professions are switched or changed totally. But it's the same characters.

Considering all the small and big changes they did to the novel in adapting it, they did manage to keep all the right whodunnits, actually! So, yeah, it's not just the one despicable friend - they're really all in it together.

The way the Chief of police said "take responsibility" when he never EVER took responsibility for his own deeds at all (despite GeonOh telling him to do exactly that in his letter).

Yup, this town needs to be destroyed with fire. Just take the righteous out of it before you light it up.

Yeah, got that vibe of, "go away now, we'll be just fine by ourselves" LOL.

If he's not careful, NSC will end up with the same obsession over GJW that NaGyeom has, hahaha~ (I totally understand it TBH, I'm all ready to obsess over him too :D)

She wasn't dumped... she's still close by.

LOL imagine if they show even a hint of those steamy scenes that were in the webnovel, hahaha~

TBH, I am just really happy someone's got JeongWoo's back - I mean, NSC is even keeping tag of his meals, making sure he stays fed. Maybe he's just trying to spare his card with the hospital, LOL, before JeongWoo faints from hunger and lack of sleep again :D

Oh LOL. He's like ~give THAT here~ hahaha~

They're so freaking CUTE I can't