ShortCircuit

It doesn't get better. I like LJH but this is one of the lighter dramas he's been involved in, and in no way showcases his acting ability (actually, no one's acting ability). It's like a massive PPL add-full bland drama used only to show glamour and scenic decor, but there's nothing there to catch on and hope it carries the drama to its end.

There are hundreds of people here - and probably everywhere there's talk about kdrama - gushing about chemistry (they have none together, IMHO, though they are spectacular separately, LJH in particular), the clichees that used to be the norm 15 years back (I mean they ARE indeed so old and they were never that great even in their time) and how fluff rom-com is basically stupid rom-com and there's no place in it for such extravagancies as plot or good dialogues.

I guess IF you watched it in higher speed (I've taken to giving it 2x faster just to get through ep3) it's bearable. It's forgettable, badly scripted and other than LJH's starring in it, there's basically nothing in its favour - again, this coming from someone interested in watching LJH in some new drama. Yoona never really impressed me in the two dramas I've seen her in before this one, and she doesn't impress me in this one either.

So my suggestion is - if you have nothing better to do, speed it up and try it like that. It might be easier to go through it. If you can't, or have better dramas to watch right now, it's skippable, IMHO.

...What chemistry?

This is 100% improved when watching in 2x speed. I wish there was some higher speeds, but the TL would probably be unreadable. Still. It looks better and just the BGM gets f'ed up. I am still calling it a win.

The girl in the rickshaw seemed to look a lot like this new chara, HanNa, and it's implied the one pulling it was a past life of JiEum's (because she now still knows how to pull the contraption).

But since JiEum doesn't look like her past selves anywhere in her lives, so far... I wonder who was that girl in the end.

Would there be some who not only reincarnate, but get to keep their gender AND their memories? Or would there be actual, proper immortals?! Curiouser and curiouser...

No, she's HanNa, the girl leading the dancing girls in that club. And she's somehow related to the mysterious boy passing by JiEum at one point.

The dad is definitely a psycho. What the hell does he hold over DoYoon's head? He's acting like HDY is just a robot and shouldn't even breathe wrong in his presence. Don't tell me... it was the FATHER who arranged for SeoHa's accident?! O.o

JiEum's current dad is also a bastard. And I don't remember any brother being mentioned before she found her ex-niece. Is this a much younger brother or someone the dad got with some other woman sometime?

I want ChoWon to find out the first, can we have that? She's so cute and understanding, and basically identical to JiEum, LOL, they both proposed a night out or few to their crushes ASAP, no hesitation involved. These two will make an indomitable team :D

The cutest thing in ep 4 though was SeoHa going straight to HDY's home just because he's confused and wants someone to set him right LOL. That's such a BFF thing to do :D

So is that mysterious boy someone who also remembers their past lives, or is he someone hunting down people who remember? They had a strange reaction to passing by each other. Is he like Methos to her Duncan MacLeod, LOL? A kind of "Watcher"?

The very best part is that SeoHa reacts to JiEum like he's Markl and she's Sophie, I wouldn't want to add a Howl to the story though :D

Ep 3 was slow even in 2x speed...

HaeSang told her to look deeply in a mirror and she never did before. So she CAN see them if she's paying attention, and most dramatically in the underground passage scene, where the scary hair shadows were present in the mirror, but not in the real world. She saw the actual ghosts in mirrors or reflective surfaces.

As to WHY now and not her whole life... maybe the spirit attached to her has something to do with it?

But resources would be even more scant - and it didn't seem like the Gu family ever ran any kind of food place, so she would have no reference points to guide her...

LOL, her waving that broom around and cursing was AWESOME!! And also LOL @JiuSi - "You waved a SWORD at me, you think this was anything important?" hahaha

From starting again in YouZhou it's like the plot started all over again. I would have expected someone to send a spy or two into YangZhou just to absolutely check if Mr Gu isn't still alive...

Ah, the classic "wants to make it better, makes it a whole lot worse" blunder LOL.

What, almost 4 more days now?! And I thought thr 3-day break for TTEOTM was bad :D

Hyper-ventilation (that usually happens in a panic attack) depletes the body of CO2 (more than the safe limit, that is; CO2 is not helpful for breathing, but should be present in the blood for a balanced pH.)

There was a time when people hyperventilating found it useful to breathe into a paper bag and it was thought that would calm the attack down. Nowadays it seems to be not that helpful, but I've seen people still using it for attacks. It might be something psychosomatic too - if you THINK it helps, it DOES help.

So she didn't have a paper bag around and used a plastic one. The rest of it was the usual - he's the one using it, so he can control how many breaths he's taking, and he takes regular breaths in-between, which is also recommended.

It's been 3 eps so far, so we didn't yet get much info on what actually went on in her previous lives. Maybe there IS something particularly important to SeoHa that we're not privy to, yet.

Or maybe she really was going bonkers, alive again - boring! - remembering 17 more past lives - all possible futures explored - and along comes this young boy who believes in magic and believes HER when she tells him she's a witch and remembers her past lives. She'd play with him for the novelty of it, if only that, in the beginning.

But then she promises his mother she'd care for him, and she is killed in his presence, thus further traumatising him. She probably feels a lot of guilt over that, it's not just the memory of the good things.

With most previous lives, she didn't immediately reincarnate, so there wasn't much superposition with the lives of people she knew or loved. This time she reincarnated basically immediately and her young life was bad enough to make her look for past connections and an escape from her own bad childhood.

IMHO, the character is pretty easy to understand. Yes she's outspoken, brazen and takes initiative a lot, and that's exactly what I like about her.

It might be because I keep seeing pretty tall people in dramas, LOL. I mean, ABH, Cha EunWoo, Kim SeonHo, Rowoon, Lee DongWook, Hyun Bin, Lee JongSuk, Lee MinHo, Kim WooBin, and so on, and so forth, they're all over 1.80 (and lots of spare LOL).

And it's happening in cdramas too - Chen FeiYu is 1.88m LOL. Song WeiLong is also pretty tall, so is Dylan Wang, Xiao Zhan, Xu Kai, Gong Jun, Deng Lun, and so on, and so forth...

Definitely selection bias, BUT even so, SeoHa (ABH) stood out a lot in ep3 among all other support cast. Maybe it was a perspective thing or maybe his body is bigger than the usual slimness tall actors seem to try to achieve LOL. It just hit me as noticeable :D /okay I'll stop here :D

I'm not the bawling type, LOL. But I did get teary-eyed now and then. (For me, it definitely means it got to me).

Actors. Actors. Actors. I haven't been in Japan, Korea or anywhere in SEA. But actors are usually pretty tall, including the support cast of this drama. Yet ABH still stands out among them.

Oh well. It was an observation and I don't care to make a mountain out of an anthill.

She felt like dying sooner and not reincarnating at all (actively praying for it) every time she remembered her past lives. SeoHa makes her NOT feel like she's living too long, but actually want to stay around and feel alive again. That warrants some focal point of interest for her.

She doesn't keep declaring out of the blue - they're all hints. She's trying to make him remember her and put things together by himself. (Because he definitely remembers JuWon, and is still affected by her death, but JiEum doesn't want to just "tell" him and make him choose for everything to be magical again or just reject her completely). I can see her expression every time she does something to remind him of past encounters and she's always searching out the OH! moment on his face. She's not doing it out of place, she's always trying to link it to a memory they both should have. TBH it's cute.

Also - disclaimer, I'm a woman - there is NO WAY IN HELL other than using guns, drugs, or severe drunkeness that a woman, particularly such a small one as JiEum, could EVER do anything physical to a man (and I don't even mean just SeoHa, who is pretty strong). But most men, feeble old men and children aside are way stronger than the regular woman. He has no problem in telling her off if he wants to, and keeping her off if he means it. He's not in any danger.

He just doesn't mean it so far - keeping her away.

She didn't matter in her 18th life, other than being SeoHa's friend (and their respective mothers being good friends). But IF there was an assassination attempt, it was aimed at SeoHa, most probably.

Maybe it's an agency thing, or he also wanted not to be typecast into "serious" roles only. His simple presence in a rom-com might be more lucrative - as in more fans, more merchandise around him (this is important to the investors, right?), more exposure toward a younger audience (serious dramas need people to be a bit more pensive and mature than the people who generally only like rom-coms or fluff).

In terms of career, it might not be a bad move for him, IMHO. But yeah, for someone like me, who appreciates the more serious roles, it's time spent doing something other than what I want to see. I am happy for him though, and I hope this drama is successful, for his sake. It seems to turn out not to be my cup of tea at all, but I'll give it a few more eps if only for the catwalk stance LOL.