ShortCircuit

He has a VERY serious point though. It hasn't even been a year since this happened:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66655572

Also, they had about 100 suicides among teachers in the past five years only, and a lot of those are linked to depression and workplace harassment from parents and students.

So yes, it's not too much for a teachers' union to come forward with a complaint about things that already have consequences in real life, even if they happened in a drama. Or did you miss this part? "They also said, "Following the broadcast, provocative edits of the content with titles like 'Taking down a (school) teacher who speaks rudely' and such have already been uploaded on platforms like YouTube." "

I haven't watched the drama, so I can't say if they actually wanted to comment on things in the educational system or just used it as a ploy in the story, but the union rep has the right to say something about it, if they find it does throw unwarranted shade at people already under a huge amount of stress.

These are my 2 cents on it.

Okay, I have to say it - Great has the greatest little smile :)

They're so freaking cute still, I want to carry them both in my pockets :D

PS Also the OP song is so hype :D

The OP song grew on me so much, the OST improved a lot.

So, we're now into the serious stuff - wow, they did the final scene really well, I got second-hand heartbreak from it, and I KNOW I don't even like Ming, LOL. So I guess we'll see the flashback end in the next ep and on to the present :D

I can't WAIT to see the mother/son moments, I hope they do well with those, they were the highlight of the novel for me :)

As @Levitate14 said, JJM is the ML of A Shop for Killers, one of the best action dramas I've ever watched. Sorry to have spoiled that detail for you, in case you want to watch it...

Regeneration kind of reminds me of Be Reborn, what with the swindlers theme and the atmospheric soundtrack. Also, Jing BoRan - he's mature enough and established enough to pick good dramas with morally gray characters. I'll trust him. The first half ep I watched before deciding to wait it out and binge it was pretty interesting - and the technical details are also very good. I think this one will be a winner.

I'll wait it out. I have a feeling he'll do a Jeong JinMan in the end.

And the OP theme is beautiful, one of the best I've heard for the past year. This is on my TBW definitely.

They are both so freaking cute! Great plays an amazing, confident top, and Inn is way too funny, LOL, he's been awesome in the special too. If the plot helps them, they'll do some magic with this drama. I particularly love how fit Great/Yoyak is, wow, those are some honest abs!

I just hope Thai BL learns sometime soon NOT to use freaking sound effects all the time...

112 is the catch-all here, LOL, you talk to the operator and tell them what happened and they decide who and how many to send. I think we have 119 too but I'm not sure what for.

*runs to Google* Oh, TIL, in my country 119 is used as a special number for child abuse of any kind.

... Still don't know the uniforms. Though I guess the firefighters going to a case would at least have those fire hazard helmets on and the axes and hoses, right?

I don't know, we have 112 here. (I thought it was the same number in SK). I guess they'll send any/all they think are needed, LOL, in an emergency, but I definitely don't recognize the uniforms :D

I guess he managed to save her and THEN decided to become a firefighter (if he really was one, mom/grandma maybe played an innuendo there, LOL). They're not that far apart in age, he would've been a kid himself at the time. Unless he goes back all the way from NOW to THEN, after he (finally) meets her.

I think she's the only one he can actively rescue or the only one whose presence allows him to actually do anything physical in the past. We'll see.

Maybe mom/grandma is right and she's his fated soulmate, LOL.

She was in a fire in her childhood and someone (a boy/teen/man) saved her. She has PTSD and goes into shock when there's anything on fire around her.

Watch til the end of the episode. It's not that he CAN'T change the past... It seems he CAN, but only in very specific circumstances. Remember he couldn't even touch anything in the past so far? But he and DaHee touched hands in the mall.

This looks to become pretty good by now.

OMG, they have Moon WooJin in this. Yes this is a must-watch. I don't even care if the drama even makes sense. That kid is going to be the best actor of his generation and I want to be there with him when it happens. I just hope they give him a big enough role.

Also... I find the FL quite cute. I think I might have a girl crush on her already.

"Let's report them to the NIS. Or Marvel." That was a ROFLMAO moment :D

There's not much chemistry between the leads (or none apparent yet), but there's still a bit of time. I really want to see the swindlers totally swindle the superpowereds LOL. They (the swindlers) seem like a very interesting and hilarious family. What are the odds the uncle ends up with the ML's sister? I already ship them :D

So... the daughter DOES have a superpower herself. I hope it's not implied she's the cause of the accident, but maybe she can teleport and so wasn't hurt herself. It sure looked like the mom was troubled and aiming to make the accident happen... or at least so it looked to me.

I am not sold on the superpowers thing (looks like it won't be the focus of the story), but the swindler family keeps me glued to the screen. Them and the daughter. It's on :D

There are two timelines - present (eps 1-2 then 33-50) and the long flashback to the past (3-33). Don't skip, the flashback is the most dramatic part ever (the second half of it anyway) and it's so worth it :D

Also, lots of clues already in the first 2 eps about who, why, what they did in order to get WWX back... *wink*

In the novel, 2nd Joe is younger (and closer to Ming's age), while original Joe is quite a bit older (and more mature, emotionally, too). The interraction between the OG charas was kind of iffy for a bit because of that (IIRC Ming is under 18 originally, though he obviously acts just as arrogant as he always does, no matter the age). But in a story so red-flagged you could believe it's a Red Army display... what's one more red flag? :D

But obviously, you don't SEE them in a novel as you see them in a drama... I guess they'll just keep Poom as Joe even if they follow the novel - they did so far - and have his original body found later on.

He doesn't come back. His original body is dead. He's now in the second Joe's body and should remain there. (2nd Joe's soul is now gone, too).

Then again, the drama can do its own thing...

I needed more KSH after QoT and finally bit the bullet and started this drama. TBH, I like it while watching but it's EXTREMELY easy to get distracted from it.

The best thing about it (so far, 6 eps in) is OJS's acting, and the only relationship I want to see more of is the two brothers' relationship. They're a bit like the charas from Rain Man, LOL (though obviously MKT is a lot more involved and caring than Tom Cruise's character in that movie). I am getting REALLY tired of the SFL and even of the FL's constant chasing of the ML - what, are all men from Earth already taken? - and I hope it's not going to go on for the rest of the series, because it's going to make it a very long watch...

The sex scenes are kind of off, so to speak. I'm watching the uncut version (and BTW why the hell are there two versions on MDL?!) and it's not really sizzling anything between them. Knowing what Ming is doing, it's not a bad choice, TBH, to have them be in a more mechanical-like relationship so far, but it's not really selling why is Joe so fascinated with Ming, either.

(He's in love because Ming is pretty hot - model hot, which is his official profession, though in the novel he's not out from college yet in the beginning so not really looking for a job anyway. And even if he's usually a gong, he likes being a shou with Ming. And that's what the drama is missing so far.)

I'm all ready to move on to the betrayal and realisation that Ming never really saw "him" for himself, then to the second life. I want to see the mom and son relationship T_T

Still keeping close to the novel, I like that. But I just want to have a long discussion with the music director because what the heck. That cheesy music keeps ruining the atmosphere.

The guy playing Sol is hot. I can totally see him as a wannabe Korean idol, LOL. And the MC and him have more chemistry so far than the main 'ship, LOL, the director must be smoking something.

Anyway, it looks like they're going to move on with the story now, after we've all seen and been convinced Ming is an a**hole (which he definitely is) and that Joe can be a fool (which he was.)

PS The actress playing Ming's sister looks a bit like Bai Lu, I like her a lot :D Tong doesn't deserve her character's love.

I give up. I found myself trying hard to motivate myself to start the 4th ep, but this isn't doing it for me.