ShortCircuit

He might have saved the memory stick or whatever it was saving the record on, but I don't have much hope.

TBH, I didn't notice much love interest. Other than the fact they were ex lovers or something, he doesn't pay her more attention than to the rest of his colleagues. The way the drama set it up, there's much more banter and friendship between him and his small group of friends than closeness with SYR. And she's the only (young) woman acting as a main character (the ex-Special Forces woman is even more present than her, and has a stronger role, IMHO), so we're probably supposed to feel some romantic tension between the leads - but again, I just don't see it.

Re: the camcorder video... He has no context for it. Nobody seems to know much about the incident other that it made the survivors "heroes" and they built careers on it. But why would random soldiers in a DMZ area know many details about it? The one who could know more would be the ex-SF woman, and they haven't yet had time to talk about it.

After all, we the viewers saw the scene clearly and in HD. He's supposed to have seen some fragments of it, and that in the middle of a stressful mission (his mind would probably be taken with killing the mutant, not with what appeared in a random video from a random camcorder a kid gave him).

If he doesn't know the name of his father - maybe his mother changed their names, if his dad is Jo Min-Gook, so that the stigma of him having "defected" to NK wouldn't cling to them. I don't know. I mean, if JMG is his father, his name would also be Jo, right? But he is Yong. I guess he 1. is not his son or 2. his name did get changed.

If I were in the army and had only days until discharge, you bet it would be the only thing in my mind, too :D

He got infected while defecting, and he probably only vaguely remembered he was supposed to go to the SK army outpost/village in order to surrender. And he attacked the soldiers because he wasn't actually reasoning any more, just reacting to their uniforms probably. (I initially thought he was SK, as his uniform was a different colour than the NK ones. But I guess if he were, he'd be posted missing and people would know he was supposed to have become lost/captured along the area?... I don't know enough about uniforms to really tell, though.)

He only moved along the canal because the vegetation around it is too pungent (so said YDJ) and it was the only way in where he could go around it and not through it. The virus that infected him makes him have certain symptoms, one of which (also according to instant expert YDJ) would be being too sensible to olfactory signals.

In other words, he took the canal way because everything else stank too strongly and he couldn't stand it. LOL.

Strangest French I ever heard, but it's enough to make me happy, thanks! :)

"We'll never disagree" - those are Famous Last Words worthy material.

What language were those random hotel strangers speaking? It sounded a bit like Japanese, but they looked European, so I'm confused. Was that a recognizable language?

Also, I am now a bit underwhelmed with the buddy-buddy slapstick humour. I get it, the guys are bros, could they grow up a bit now they're in the serious world?...

With the RZW looking so mutated, I believed he was actually Jo Min-Gook resurrected. But he's one of the newer RZWs.

Is there a daddy RZW? Where did the dogs get infected? Dogs don't live all that long, so there's bound to be some reproduction between the mutant gene carriers, or an infection site somewhere.

I had SO much trust in LJS's conscience! He seemed such an upright and caring person, and even initially seemed to stand up to his traitor and killer dad but I guess not. At this point, the scheming captain seems a better prospect to bring all the old traitors and killers down, LOL. I want him to do it, for all the wrong reasons :D

That little girl better not have the radiation disease. Her arms seemed sunburned, which would cause a slight fever... but she also carried the damned camcorder and if it were radioactive, she'd be exposed (and she didn't have any clothing to get in the way, like YDJ did). The fact that the CC still worked and the images weren't spotty would tell that it shouldn't have been irradiated... but this is a drama and anything is possible. They'd better not try it though.

And now we have the half of the series left for YDJ to get away from prospective killers, the initial exposure site to be found, the secret to the FL's birth to come to light and for JMG and the other soldier's killers to be served some justice.

I'm actually starting to like this way more than I thought I would.

So I have to say this... It's becoming rather hard to start the episode - I love it once I get it going, but I don't find it in me to start it up (LOL). I don't care for the main romance (what we've seen of it), I'm in this only for the mother-son relationship between HJP and Grandma.

If it weren't for them, I'd rather think I'd give this one a pass. Not that it isn't funny, not that I don't like NJH (because I actually do, a lot), but I can already see a lot of tropes coming my way, and I don't really like office-type tropes. Or romance tropes that aren't all that hard to predict.

I mean seriously - this won't be a spoiler, because nobody's watched the whole drama yet - how much does anyone want to bet that the script came out true because one of the twin programmers used a real script and not a composite? Or that WIJ will use her sister's story of the sanded lot to get in the better view of the Sandbox CEO? (Which isn't actually very hard to be a true memory, either, after all, she was her father's daughter too.) Or that WIJ's step-dad will throw some twigs in the wheels to make his step-daughter win and get her back or something?

The good thing that happened this ep was that HJP is less Cyrano-ish, which is a good thing IMHO. He shoud get Grandma her store back and they should live happily ever after like mother and son, the end. I hope he doesn't fall for the FL, because that would really spoil the sweet relationship with Grandma, and I like him too much for that.

Also, his ears are really strange, aren't they? After "Good Detective" and Jang Seung-jo's boxer ears, I tend to notice actors' ears, LOL. Kim Seon-ho really has strange ears, too.

He gets to see some part of the recorded moments 20 years ago, where the SK party messed up and started the gunfire - and maybe even more, if the thing recorded well until the explosion, he may see/have seen the part where the SK soldiers who survived started covering their asses and executing the rest.

As for the rest - the villagers are tracking down the thing, while unsure what it is but believing it's a thieving NK defector, and the soldiers catch them in the attempt. I suspect people are going to start dying pretty soon. After all, the thing is back in the village, after attacking the HQ. It might have tried to attack soldiers, it might have followed YDJ back after the meeting with the NK party in the previous eps, it might be looking for the camcorder (probably not). So far, it had a chance to attack ordinary villagers and it didn't, so it's either focusing on soldiers, or reasoning enough to pick its time and place.

We'll have to wait and see.

I have serious doubts that just a cleaning (and not a too thorough one, either) and a recharge would make a 20-year old camcorder that was in the elements (last seen in the water, too) work again.

But let's suspend disbelief.

The radioactive zombie-werewolf is losing the thrill factor as it comes into the light. I'd have loved to see something a bit more preternatural. But I'll take this, as long as there's nothing going on with Mac. I mean, the dog gets heat stroke in a military bunker? How come? Was no one paying attention to her while YDJ was gone for a few hours? If she somehow got infected, this'll turn into the beginning of Carpenter's "The Thing."

Also, Baek-jun's death makes it (even more) personal. For YDJ's sake, I hope the radioactive zombie-werewolf turns up to be the NK defector, and not YDJ's "dead" father, so that he gets to kill it, in case they ever find it (I have this fear this'll be a first season, because Netflix taught me so). Or we're going to have a Star Wars moment somewhere along the line.

Baek-jun being killed by the RZW(tm) means he won't get to become another RZW, right? The way it worked for the first victim was that he was ravaged by an infected dog. *keeping figers crossed*

I like that they toned it down with the all-over-the-place editing, this is coalescing nicely by now. I'd also love some more green-lit scenes, that lightning is awesome and frightening.

Yep, KSM hit me so hard I was in denial for much of the rest of the series. On the other hand, I watched "Leverage" because of Kim Kwon, so we're kind of even now LOL.

Shunji was Kang-To's best friend ever, and it hurt me badly to see them drift apart through no fault of their own (initially anyway). I never liked the FL in that series and I didn't care one bit for the romance - but oh the bromance was extreme. I think that was the first drama when I could actually pin-point it as bromance from the very beginning (and there's a scene with Shunji and Kang-To and double riding bycicles that encapsulates it perfectly). There, and in "Warrior Baek Dong Soo", too, where Yoo Seung-Ho's Yeo Woon had such good vibes with JCW's Dong-Soo, like they were Naruto and Sasuke, LOL. Those were the times.

From the dramas in this list that I've watched, nobody I know/talked to (including on the internet) hated Wang So or Wol Ryung. They're good guys turned bad, or good guys growing cold and/or misunderstood (yes, even when they're sucking the lives out of innocent peasants. You can see where he's coming from, even if we're supposed to believe that makes him eeeeevil.)

Not on this list, also a good guy in the beginning, but an absolutely villain by the time the drama ended, the only character in a drama I really wouldn't want to meet on a dark street with nobody else around is Min Joon-Gook (played by Jung Woong-In), from "I Can Hear Your Voice". I had only seen JWI in "Ojakgyo Brothers", where he's basically a goody two-shoes, and I liked him in his almost-dowdy dad looking for love. And then he became MJG, and a terror. He'd top this list, if it was made by me.

I loved that character while being afraid to death of him. Best acting as a villain in all the dramas before and since.

With some indulgence, maybe Do Kang-Wo (Lee Jin-Wook) in "Voice 3". I really really liked his chara in the second season, and then they had to blacken him completely until there wasn't much left of the initial impression of the character. Some sympathy remained, though, so he really was someone I loved to hate in the end. Not even the ending changed that. (I also don't really like that 3rd season at all, it's the weakest and poorest written, IMHO.)

Oh wait, someone else who fits PERFECTLY - Kimura Shunji (Park Ki-Woong) in "Bridal Mask/Gaksital". I really liked him in the beginning, and then he became what he became and I really hated him with a passion. Great job for the actor. I think he left a larger impression than the ML, LOL.

Wait - Kang Sung-Mo (played by Kim Kwon) in "He is Psychometric". That's how you do it - you take the best and brightest thing in a series and develop him into a villain that you hate to root for - but who is totally relatable and unforgivable at the same time.

So it's a zombie-werewolf? Or something.

Question 1: WTH was it doing for the past 20 years? Did no one see it lurking around?

Question 2: is the Korean Army really that lax about back-talking to a superior? I get it that JDY's chara only has 2 weeks til discharge, but that's plenty of time to do some court martial-worthy things. I wish they'd tone down the disrespect, albeit deserved. Or maybe it's my wrong impression that the army is full of jarheads going around shouting "YES, sir! No, SIR!" to whatever order they get.

Question 3: why isn't anyone panicking about resurrected werewolf zombies yet? I mean, it's not like it's an everyday thing. I like that there's some order to the army response, but at the same time, they're not freaking robots. Or zombies. Yet.

Question 4: so is JDY / YDJ (LOL @how they get his name reversed in the acronym of his chara's name :D) the son of one of the soldiers who died that day long ago when the werewolf radiactiove mutant zombie... thing was created, and SYR's mom died? Because too many coincidences will ruin this...

One of these dramas, that little girl will actually end up as JDY's love interest, just wait and see. She has that kind of determination, lol. They had the same kind of relationship in "Tale of Nokdu", too. And she's also assertive with Lee Yeon in "Tale of the Nine-Tailed", I guess she's born to wear the pants in her relationships lol.

I don't really like the editing, though. Things are already confusing, no need to jump back and forth in time and have those strange cuts in between. To tell the truth, the first ep impressed me way more than the following two combined, despite the editing. Must've been the lighting and the music.

Mac looks more of a pro than Leo did, too. I hope they don't repeat any history in that part of the tale.

More Cyrano vibes, but with a comedic undertone. I find myself rooting hard for the SML. The Good Boy is THE Goodest Boy.

I also thought nothing could top the "Sweet Dreams LOL" thing, but the MONEYYYY shot took over everything. That cousin should be praised and given 10% of any startup co they ever get off the ground.

NJH / NDS is cute and sweet and nerdy, and I love the preview for the next ep. I'll take rom-com, thanks. Just don't give me a lot of heartbreak either...

That's my question exactly - she doesn't know she has it, so she can't even treasure it so that it would work as payment (according to the Seer's rules). And the Seer suddenly tells her she has it and it's good exchange for Yeon. If she's so versed into the lore, and knows Yeon is a fox, she'd know the importance of the bead. But she very quickly gives it away.

Maybe there'll be more revealed later, but so far it's an enigma.

There's a workaround on the not-yet sacrificial scene - she was on the same island as it, and had been before while her mother was pregnant. Things might have started then that developed only after she returned as an adult...

But he tested her too, when she was the kid he rescued from those monsters who replaced her parents after the accident, and the fox bead didn't react to his energy.

My working theory on that is that there was something more needed in order for the fox bead to reveal itself - and thus let Yeon recognize her spirit, and that is she had to revive the Imoogi or have her Imoogi side awaken, too, before the foxlight could call out the fox bead.

So all the other previous girls who looked like AE could have been her, too, only not completely, since the Imoogi part of her could not be awake during those times.

If the show stays consistent to what it presented so far, it went something like this: in order to awaken the Imoogi, JA had to have her Imoogi soul awaken too, so that meant her parents had to go away (and maybe she would have been kidnapped to that island sooner, if LY hadn't interfered). Then once the Imoogi is awake again, the bead somehow protects her from him and keeps her safe, somewhat, until she gives it away to free Yeon. And now Yeon knows it's been her all along, but the bad guys - the Imoogi's slaves/servants/whatever - have known for longer and have had time to plan it all out. I mean, even Lee Rang was saved, as a young fox, by the Imoogi's servant, right? This has been a long time cooking.

As much as I can predict - given it's turned more romantic than horror by now - in order to save her again from either turning into an Imoogi herself or being killed by it, Yeon will somehow have to die. And if we're lucky and get a happy end romance, he'll become human and they'll live happily ever after.

But after dramas like "Black", I'm not so sure we'll necessarily get a HEA.

The bead gathers (and proffers) knowledge and powers - if the human who gets it knows how to use it. More often, the fox either gifts it away as a sign of affection (this thing is mostly in dramas, IMHO, I have this impression that in mythology it's not something really positive) or it's stolen away by people who crave that knowledge/power.

I'm basing this on "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho", "Gu Family Book" and partly on "The Fox in the Screen" and "Love and Redemption" (which are c-dramas, so mythology might differ), and on a few Japanese anime series where there were kitsune (which confusingly don't seem to have/give away fox beads to humans, but there's something similar to their foxlight in some of those, which might be restricted to those anime series only and not actually part of Japanese myths.)

But even if JA is AE's reincarnation, LY only gave AE the fox bead when she was already dead and being carried over by the underworld ferryman, so why would it be so precious to either version of the girl?

Wasn't the Blind Seer's thing to get "someone's most precious thing" as replacement for whatever he gives away? So that is the way it worked with Lee Rang giving away Lee Yeon - but why would the Seer accept the fox bead as payment when she's not even aware of its existence?! The fox bead is Yeon's most precious gift, and definitely worth the exchange, but as she doesn't value it at all, how come the deal is acceptable?

Is that a plot hole or am I thinking too much into it?

Also, now the bead is gone into that bag, and the Imoogi has access to the FL, does that mean the bead acted as her shield all along and/or now it's gone, Yeon is also in danger, indirectly? I only know a few bits and pieces about the fox bead meaning, can someone tell me more, please?

I guess this one's going to be a romance more than a horror show, and I like that - don't take me wrong, I have nothing much against horror, it's just not my cup of tea and there were some moments in the first eps that made me question if I should go on with it. But ep 6 introduced a conundrum for me, I'm gonna ask a question about it but put it under a spoiler tag...