ShortCircuit

I took it exactly the opposite - he looked at the painting and saw his present and future. As if she painted him there alone and that's where he would be. Without her. So he said goodbye to that life and went away.

He didn't only say he needed time off, he also said it would take a lot longer than the first time (when it was months but it would've been forever if HID wasn't a Storm Trooper.)

If they have no dramas in their list and have had the account for some time (like the one you were replying to), they're usually alt-accounts they're using in order to curse at people and write abusive comments and not get their main blocked or reported. So again, people of this moral "consistency" who won't even claim their own opinions but at the same time they're hiding their actual likes and dislikes... it's not worth arguing with and wasting all that time.

I wonder what treasure of drama they're claiming as the very possible best would they be claiming on their main accounts though :D Since they won't use those accounts to comment in here, I guess they're pretty aware they would become laughingstocks because of it LOL.

But in the end, it doesn't matter. The drama's best revenge is that it made the best ratings in its country which means success for the cast and crew. Int'l fans or anti-fans won't move the needle on that too much.

He was the naive Cha. The rest of them are killers waiting for an opportunity (Cha had HID killed and wanted to get SDJ too, DeokHui had her husband and SDJ's mom killed, SeonWoo pushed TaeYun, the other daughter, the useless one, had lots of schemes, she's just incompetent so nothing much panned out). Even YEN was trying to get HID dead and "accidentally" poisoned SDJ with the cinnamon while they were living together (because it makes sense to keep something your SO is deadly allergic too *eyeroll* I mean, she might be addicted to cinnamon and needed it around. Or something).

So YHC had a lucky escape divorcing her, and now SDJ also had a lucky escape, 'cause that relationship is ashes. Everything the Cha family touches dies, and good for SDJ he managed to find a way to break and leave them all behind.

TaeYun tried, too, poor kid. He was the weakest Cha and his mom made him the cause of everything she did so in poetic manner he had to be the one to deliver her greatest punishment. If she had let him go, he'd be alive.

(Though yes, he could be in a coma, if another season comes, though I think not.)

It was not.

He started taking a distance from her since he wrongly thought she was his sister. (Not to mention there HAD to be something giving after what she did to him at the end of ep1). The trust is gone.

Then she started the revolving door policy with the Yeoms, coming, going, coming again while being totally an idiot around him - I mean, she left the freaking phone out in the open so that HID found out where he was and could come shoot him. She'll never ever be a fully thinking human being.

Then she brought him to his sister just for him to see her obliterated by that truck. I think that was the breaking point for him - he even called her out on it, later. YEN was the one who set up the meeting, and while she had nothing to do with the murder... she DID set it up.

You can see the passion drained from him after that. There are no more secret small smiles for her, no "accidental" touches, no caring tone when he addresses her. And she still doesn't realise what she did wrong, keeps calling him "DongJoo-yah" as if she still has claiming rights on him... Nah, that relationship is done.

Then later on, the revelation of maybe being siblings, and then the way she APPROVED of him being Yeom's killer, even if he's horrified by it and keeps having nightmares and hallucinations about it all - it's the final nail in the coffin.

Yes, he kisses her on that pier, but it's a kiss goodbye. No passion, just breaking the last strand between them. And he won't be back - while she's waiting for him stupidly wearing his ring and painting herself with him on that yacht, he's been away for long and didn't come back even if Taeyun is (maybe) dead (he could be only in a coma or something).

So no, they won't get back together.

Vagabond made a full circle, it starts with the ending and goes back to how we got there... then ends. They never promised an actual sequel, and even if they make it I won't be watching. But this one doesn't go that way.

No they don't end up together. He kisses her goodbye and leaves. A long while later she's still waiting for him, stupidly wearing his engagement ring.

He won't be back to her.

It was pretty clear from the first two eps this is makjang with an action side, if you set your expectations for anything else it's on you, not on the drama. And from the ending of the first ep it was pretty clear the romance won't matter a lot for this.

As the Chinese say, you're hating iron for not becoming steel.

It's not a perfect drama, but it makes perfect sense. Not every drama needs to have a HEA. The ratings are what they are - the MDL ones can easily be manipulated with brigading (even for this one, and for others who objectively suck and yet have high ratings), but hey, they have risen from a 6% viewership to a 15+% viewership, so I think it's a successful drama in its coutry. If you don't like it, that's too bad, happily there are lots of other dramas you can choose instead and be happy with.

Peace, out.

Don't bother with them. There were people rating-bombing this since it started because it was competing with another drama that has since ended. That drama's ratings are abnormally high for what it presented, but then this is MDL, everybody rates however they felt like, so maybe some people just want silly romcom and bring it up to heaven while a drama that - while imperfect - isn't forcing romcom down their throats or doesn't end in a perfect HEA gets downrated.

Don't mind MDL ratings, and also don't mind mean-worded comments either. You like what you like and they like whatever they like, and if they become obnoxious, just block them. Life's too short to fight persistent naysayers (like those who wanted YEN to be basically a virgin, and then freaked out when she married and there was a talk about children with YHC, then when there was the possibility she and SDJ might be siblings, then clung on to the "legal step-siblings" side though it carries no water, then on the why does SDJ care HID is his father (as if he should be the Terminator instead and just kill, kill, kill - etc.)They won't ever be satisfied, I wonder why they're not out there writing their own dramas.

So don't pay them any more attention, see you on some other drama's comments section :)

There won't probably be a second season. But there are threads starting that won't be tied off neatly because life goes on and it's never done. He left, is free of the Cha family and everything, he has the money still, he's not the suicidal type even if mentally exhausted. He'll be fine on his yacht while the Chas continue to destroy themselves (worth it anyway).

No.

She always has tears in her years. She probably tears up when she breaks a nail. It already means nothing for her. And she wasn't pretending to cheer for him, she WAS cheering for him, she thought it was the right thing to do to get revenge and that he had done it.

While he was having awful nightmares for a year, sleeping with a gun next to his pillow, being as much jailed inside his mind as the person he had jailed in the secret room. She didn't know that, but she was okay with him murdering someone. Because that's what she might have done had she managed to catch HID about her father's death (though notice she never told anything more to her mother about it after she found out.)

It is what it is. You can choose for him to be dead because he can't do it anymore. Or you can choose for him to rise and fight again.

He survived everything they threw at him and then some. He'll survive this too. He'll rise again and fight against the world.

My favourite kdrama killer (if one can say that) is the character played by Jung WoongIn in I Hear Your Voice. He was everybody's friend and the most brutal killer. And I already liked JWI from other dramas, LOL, it was a complete shock.

And Oh JungSe in The Good Detective, but then, OJS is good in anything he acts.

WAIT I forgot - the WHOLE VILLAGE in Black Out. :D

Anyway, it broke 15%.

Ep 15: 13.4% (1st)
Ep. 16: 15.4% (2nd, after Eagle Brothers).

So after starting with 6.1% I guess they did pretty okay.

1. He could say whatever, fact is he disappeared while being under investigation. Anything he says is automatically considered false. The investigation was suspended, not closed. When he came back they took it up again and this time he went to jail (because no powerful relationships and no money, LOL).

2. TaeYun sent the pictures and message to SDJ as he was going on the boat. There's nobody there yet to find the body and let everyone know, and maybe SDJ went off grid. The pic and the message are pretty much confirmation that TaeYun wasn't intending to kill himself and who he was with at the time - so in any case it means there's circumstantial evidence of the murder and whodunit.

3. They were partners in crime - Sec. Gong knew all about DeokHui and commiserated. DeokHui wanted the kid gone because she thought it was her husband's. And Sec. Gong learned about the killing at the same time as DeokHui (YEN heard them talking about it).

4. She might not have managed to find him if he didn't want to be found.

That's precisely why SDJ was crying at the end - he got to be CEO, he got to claim revenge (his mother's killer is dead, his father's and his sister's killer is locked up in jail for who knows how long, since he's in for both crimes), but also he lost the love of his life (because she's stupid, but that's another topic) and basically everything he ever worked hard for is now made hollow. All that fight - and for nothing. So the ending fits perfectly to that.

It was the ring he wanted to give to her that night. She chose to be stupid instead and then everything else happened. She's wearing it now because she remained stupid and thinks there's any possible way to return to how things used to be - dream on, YEN.

Okay, then Honda from A Shop for Killers isn't dead either. I will it so :D

Yeom lost everything - his reputation, his marriage, his power and all his money and after being locked up in a cage for a year he just exchanged it for a bigger cage. Sure he could get out (since he knows lots of secrets) but where is the proof for whatever he chooses to say? And since he's down, everybody will come for his throat while he's powerless.

DongJoo barely escaped with his soul after all this - he almost killed Yeom and became his father. Even stupid YEN praised him, thinking he DID kill Yeom and that might've shaken him up the most, the way everybody not just expected, but were okay with him being a killer. I think he's powerful enough to escape depression since he's out of the Cha influence, and he still has all that money to do whatever with it - give it for welfare, start another business, just live off it forever. And there's nothing else keeping him affixed, not like when he was forcing himself to be Yeom's jailer.

It was a pretty good ending all things considered. He's out (the ending is letting you choose what you want for him - to live or die), the Cha family will tear themselves apart, they already started, DeokHui has her own punishment in TaeYun (she could've let him leave and that would've stopped it) and Chairman Cha has the heir he deserves (because SeonWoo won't allow YEN to be CEO and he's not all that able either.)

It was a fair ending. I mean, not all dramas have to be HEAs, and the romantic part didn't deserve a HEA anyway, so better leave it bittersweet. At least Yeom HuiCheol got to mend some bridges with SDJ and now they'd be at least friendly enemies.

That's why I think he won't kill himself. Nobody, SDJ included, can kill SDJ :D

The Dandelion files are SDJ's card to get-out-alive-with-the-money. He did give them to the reporter, but I think she's smart enough not to play with fire. Hopefully.

SeonWoo isn't pivoting out of character - he used to be a teen delinquent and the way he acted around the Cha family and particularly his father showed he either doesn't really care at all about family bonds, or he's fooling them with the goody-two-shoes act. On the one hand, what pushed him into bad deeds as a teen might've been precisely having to grow up fatherless, and all that anger just bottled up inside of him. He thinks the Cha money is due to him and won't admit competition. But on the other hand - I think he's just a psychopath. I mean, his father was having an attack and might as well been dying for all that they knew, but SeonWoo didn't even move, looking at him kind of bored until his mother called to him to help. (As a contrast, TaeYun immediately rushed to help, then OR when SDJ got the cinnamon biscuits, for example. TaeYun has a lot more empathy, SeonWoo doesn't care for any other human being. Maybe his mother... at most.)

But since we never saw the hand that pushed TaeYun, what are the chances that Ms Ji did it? I think it was SeonWoo, but who can tell...

As for why did TaeYun have to die - he's his mother's reason for everything she did and so he must be her punishment.