ShortCircuit

Like, WWX posing it up for the lulz LOL, rubbing his scent ALL OVER LWJ after the reunion, telling JC he is into everything (hey, pansexuals welcome hahaha~) BUT HAS STANDARDS, and won't - for example, you see - be attracted to the village's cow OR JC (I was already dying at that point) but instead he'd totally hit up LWJ?! and LWJ - just as in the novel - telling him "Better remember that"!

And then the actual Lan ribbon thing also happens as in the novel - WWX ripping it off the very much shocked LWJ and only after realising what he's done...

Or LWJ yearning for WWX each and every time they're apart - actually, when they're together too, LOL, OR the actual drunk-as-in-the-novel LWJ stealing jujubes for WWX because he wants him and wants to live freely as the little brat, too...

The donghua managed to bust the ending though, what with the core reveal being out of order and hitting completely different, but they did right by the actual horror aspects and the Burial Mounds scenes, too - and quite a lot of the danmei. They did get a bit reined in, it looked, from the carefree and open first season to the third, but then, I guess the censors got scared a bit LOL.

I haven't read the manhua (because I like XZ as WWX the most, and the actors' faces are nice to imagine when reading the novel), and the novel is obviously the standard, LOL. But the donghua is good. In my line-up, it's the novel, the audio-drama (I'm telling you, they do SOUND effects for the *censored* parts, LOL), then the donghua and then the drama, in order of climbing censorship. But the drama - TBH I like it as a bromance more, because all the *censored* parts would spoil the love-by-glances-and-sacrifices story and atmosphere they built.

But - just sayin' - it wouldn't have KILLED them to let in the kiss in the forest. I like the scene we got... but seriously. A kiss would've made it perfect.

PHS looked a lot better in Happiness, though, TBH, he looks kind of markedly older now. Which makes the highschool parts not really work out, IMHO - for PSH either, actually. Or all the other guys.

But seriously... he had a patient DIE under his hands, dramatically so, even if he's not to blame (but shouldn't he had checked the patient's medical records?! I mean, if she DID take warfarin, it would have had to be there, wouldn't it?!)

(Sidenote - not a doctor or pharmacist here - is there no way to decide WHICH anticoagulant was she on?! I mean, there have to be some ways to decide if it was the original warfarin or the heparin he "supposedly" got her. I know it's a subplot and the anesthetist will probably be revealed as the culprit... but still, isn't there some blame to be given to the actual doctor doing the op?!)

WHY is he being so overdramatic in his antics with HaNeul?! If I were him - and a serious/professional doctor - I'd be wrecking my brains every second trying to figure out what the hell went wrong.

I like HaNeul, instead. She took it until it broke her BUT she did stand up for herself, eventually.

I guess we'll see them working for/with the SML in his clinic, probably. I'd like some friendship/bromance antics. Just - at least in the beginning... I wish they were more serious about the death of the patient. Most of the comedy aspects hit a wrong note in these two eps because of it.

How the hell is this supposed to be rom-com, with such a setting?! I am kind of enjoying it - mostly because of PHS's looks, TBH, and because it looks like the second pairing will be wholesome as f, but it's still jarring. Not to mention these two guys are the fakest drunks I've EVER seen in kdrama, and that's telling a lot. At least the crying-setting-other-drunks-crying is real, LOL.

If you want to see a version that's a bit closer to the novel - though also not completely the same as the novel - there's the donghua version (three seasons - first season is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg1AdtYYS1M&list=PLN4icrL9ZAnmVk39Rl2PFlq2fXVKFWJcZ )

The ending there is definitely closer to the novel, too (and quite a LOT more of the danmei parts made it through) :D

Spoilers, LOL.

But yes, this drama - and the novel it was based on - are a whole different league than the usual censored Chinese danmei.

Seok-Hui+HyunWook=LOVE. Had they had started the insta-BFFs bromance sooner, I would've lived to see it each week, LOL. They are PRECIOUS.

EDIT WAIT THE FINAL EPISODE DOESN'T AIR THIS WEEK?!! I even post-poned the penultimate ep watch just to see it together with the finale!! *Darth Vader yell*

30 (of 32, 33 comes this Saturday). I don't know where we are in the novel.

Tak JonHo's face though LOL. He was thinking SO HARD. Did I like it?! Did I not like it?! Damn, this is hard to decide :D

So... It's also hard to decide who the Sunbae who's written the novel, is, though. His face MIGHT look like an older's SangWon, but he could also be YeoWoon... Who IS the mysterious writer?~

Not til chapter 32, chapter (latest TLed.) I don't know about the novel, though. The drama almost got to the part where the webtoon is already.

OMG they almost already covered most of the webtoon TLed. I wonder how much of the novel that would be.

That being said - LOL, I love how confident and aggressive YeoWoon is (still being shy at times), and how flustered MyungHa is, LOL (considering he's the one who should know everything.) This is even cuter than the webtoon :D

And I really, really like MyungHa STILL being the mature one, while YeoWoon's definitely the younger, more fiery type LOL. I mean, cute, but hissing stray cat-attitude with everyone coming between him and TMH hahaha~

That WAS my point exactly. Transmigrating to a world WITH A SYSTEM works like that. And there are MANY such stories. Not that most of them make it into drama. It's not new, not scary, and definitely not written to terrify people. It just... is.

I've been reading such novels for ages and I'm no spring chicken. These stories aren't written for teens - or if they mainly are, then they're not restricted to just teens. The concept and "general rules" for transmigration stories are pretty known at this time, enough that they get put into their own genre/subgenre.

As to what a certain character would think/feel when placed into such a situation... This (and a lot of similar stories) won't dwelve on that, since it's just a device to set up the situation. What follows is what's important, and how to change the original (presumably unwanted) setting. And, strictly related to the characters in this drama, MyungHa is young enough to have been exposed to such stories, so it's not that great of a scare for him (he even proposed something like that from the beginning). Anyone who ever watched some isekai anime or read any transmigration story has, at one point or another, fantasised about what THEY would do when being placed in such a situation. (Because, again, there ARE rules). And it is, after all, make-belief, like all fantasy.

Ju JiHoon in anything, yes please.

Days since I haven't missed TTJ: zero.

How do you know that? How many chapters are out in SK? There are only about 32 of them TLed and so far it's just YeoWoon crushing hard on MyungHa who's planning to let him down gently. Is there a novel too?

Actually... this is a whole genre. Transmigration (including rebirth/time travel and going into a world with a system) webnovels / anime / dramas have been around for quite a while. It's a sub-genre of (urban/historical) fantasy, very popular and pretty well known even if you're not a teen.

I don't think it's all that well-known in SK, TBH, it's a genre you'd find more in Japan and China. But rare / unique / scary? Not at all. And it's been growing a lot recently in SK too. For example, right now there's the other transmigration drama that's getting a lot of attention in SK - Marry My Husband.

Other pretty well-known (and some pretty well-rated) transmigration stories: Someday or One Day, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Joy of Life, Life on Mars, Again My Life, W: Two Worlds, (ETA Reborn Rich too, come to think of it), and so on, and so forth...

And if China didn't frown on transmigration stories, we'd be drowning in this type of dramas, LOL.

I won't even begin to mention the anime series, there are way too many and I give them a large berth, LOL, even if I like the original - most/a lot of them are usually based on a novel or manga/manhwa...

The webtoon is also good!! I wonder how much they'll cover it in the series, looks like they've used about 10 chapters for the first two eps, and the webtoon is still running, so there will probably either be an original ending (if any) or they'll stop at an appropriate point...)

I really like the hint of mystery about the novel's author - don't tell me he's either 1. YeoWoon himself, trying to get a re-do with MyungHa, or 2. SangWon, because he's just troublesome like that!

Or else, why would MyungHa even forget who the author actually is, later on....?

Oh wow, wow, wow~ (good things need to be repeated three times, LOL).

This is great!! (Just on the first episode though). The OP/ED song is so cute, and the leads actually can act! (TBH I wasn't expecting a lot, since this is that rare, one-in-a-blue-moon BL kdrama they play with). I'm going to look up the webtoon immediately, this is cute as all that!!! :)

I'm declaring myself a fan of Tae MyungHa already, he's the perfect transmigrating chara who is wholesome and totally into it, let's gooooooo~~~

After KSW's suicide - which is basically the climax of the drama, TBH, it felt like the plot lost its goal and meandered. It's very possible someone falls into depression after such a traumatic event, but let's be serious, there are always signs, and it doesn't happen at lightspeed. And I also guess some (medically trained) people would also try to minimalise it and hide from such a diagnostic, but with someone as empathetic and intuitive as we're supposed to consider DaEun, it's kind of out of the blue, IMHO.

Then - correct me if I'm wrong... there are at least about three instances when YuChan is starting to feel an episode coming on and he BREAKS the cycle with either his mental superpowers or meds?! Wow, I wish the drama had patented and sold this trick to all the people suffering from panic disorders, it sure would've helped them a whole lot.

For such a small community, there sure were a LOT of mental disorders of all kinds, all bad enough to practically disable a lot of people (I'm not even talking about the patients, who, obviously, would come from all over). DaEun's sudden-onset suicidal depression, YuChan's panic disorder, GoYun's OCD (of MULTIPLE kinds, well...), head nurse's schizophrenic sister, YeoHwan's EXTREME co-dependency issue (combined with HyeWon's avoidant personality), CheolWoo's over-eating habits, and so on, and so forth... the only basically normally functioning nurse there is good old ManCheon. I'd TOTALLY go there to get treated if I ever needed to...

(I mean, I get it, people are people... but some of them there are barely functioning on their own, dragged down with so many personal problems or taking on patients' problems. It's pretty scary, in the second half, anyway.)

And TBH, the whole changing of a profession for HyeWon is very jarring. So she never wanted to be a nurse... and they have her go become an entertainer on a cruise ship?! She has zero experience in the hospitality business (it's atrocious), zero info on what she's getting into (aside some hula-hula dances she witnesses from over-boozed people on shore leave), and ZERO intuition in what she's going to see. She's NOT going on a cruise, she's going to WORK on a cruise, and it's a completely different story that she doesn't even pretend to become informed on. I am VERY disappointed with the drama for writing such an unnecessary and totally whacko plot sideline. And obviously, the cherry on top, YeoHwan is A-fine with it because he's such a mop. Their whole plotline was so cringe (he has the total personality of a wet noodle, his whole identity is that he's fawning over her, who is perfect in all her stupidly unplanned personal decisions.)

None of the actual doctors have ANY family member that I can recall at this moment, they're all hanging in the air or have come from immaculate conceptions. There's nobody to meet when they go home (though we don't really see much of a home life with the exception of GoYun and YeoHwan - who apparently have no families to ever call them). Some of the nurses do - but obviously they all have to have some mental problem in some way or the other, but they deal with it because of reasons.

TBH, given the high rating, I was kind of expecting something way better. The first half was promising, but then it went all away. I'm beginning to have this really annoying feeling that ANYTHING having to do with mental health OR disability of any kind issues ALWAYS gets a too-high rating on MDL, like people are over-rating them for some misguided second-hand sympathy or hidden guilt reason. Not all the stories are actually THAT good, not all the charas and plots are actually rewarding for the watcher, in the end.

And this one, for me, started really interesting and then lost its way.

The first and second halves are completely disjointed. It's like the second half took the ball from the first one and played a completely different game, all on its own.

So - the good first. I still liked the clutzy chaebol and his one-sided love (that turned out to not be one-sided) til the end. I like how he's courageous enough to stand up to his father but also ready to flee for his life at the sight of a cockroach.

Also liked the final exposition. Nice touch. KTH made a cameo later on, because why? Oh well.

Now the bad.

Soooo... the little girl is afraid of the water, and keeps hiding her grandma's suit wherever just so she doesn't dive any more, and the drama writer decided it was the best of choices to make her MOTHER, too, dive, so that the little girl can now have double the nightmares, yay! Stupid.

Then, CYP goes to Switzerland for two years and then comes back to - STILL - fight out loud over whether it's going to snow in JEJU again?! Is he still in Jeju after going to WMO?! Why is he not in Seoul? Oh well.

The whole expo-here-expo-there was boring. So she had an expo. And oh, the villain got exposed - so conveniently. Let's just forget about the crying fests and helplessness and oh! how she just GAVE UP yet again when the first hint of trouble threatened the KMA expo. This was NOT the CSD we were shown in the first eps.

Also - they have one (ONE!) non-Korean and kind of darker-toned actor with a speaking part... and he HAD to be some Arabian-maybe Royalty? Because WHY? He worked fine as a temp worker in some unimportant shop in Jeju, too. Why did they have to escalate it?!

TBH, this stared off promising and ended up not so much. I watched the last 3-4 eps in 2x because I couldn't take it any more. But it did show some nice bits in the beginning, and I'll pass over the ending for that. Still. It could've been a lot, lot more.