ShortCircuit

I don't care what her reason to keep away is, FINALLY she's taking a step back! I'd rather have him heartbroken over her and alone (maybe looking at Dr. Kang from time to time, just sayin') than them being together. Though maybe that might have been re-edited for the final part of the drama, if there was enough reaction to the maybe-siblings part of the plot, LOL, so now this is damage control.

I still don't mind, I didn't want them to end up together again if she didn't have a real reason to leave him without breaking up properly and going to get married in his face. I don't think anyone can move past that (but this is dramaland, people... just kind of do, at times.)

Because I was hoping he was just in a dementia phase and not really planning to kill the person who was his most trusted aide for so long.

But I guess it had to happen or SDJ won't ever let go of DaeSan otherwise.

What now, is Chairman Cha REALLY making DeokHui give up TaeYun's shares so that there's no chance SDJ gets them?! Because that seemed to be the vibe. So she loses even her "half-blooded" son's shares, not just her husband. Chairman Cha is really stupid, but then he deserves all that's coming to him.

I still don't get Mrs Ji's take though. She didn't want to have anything to do with DaeSan until she suddenly wanted it all. How come?!

The only way the little troupe of sidekicks didn't get caught so far was because the guys looking for them were really stupid, too. There were so many coincidences, they could have tracked SDJ's moves - but no, they had to do a tricky car memory card tracking to get to the violin store, and THEN find the island guy there alone. None of them, NONE, ever took care of not being followed, it was all pure luck until now. Good thing they didn't get the hacker, she's more fragile but at the same time more intelligent than the island guy. What now though?

I'm SO glad that the romance between SDJ and YEN seems to be kind of winding down. He seems to be completely spent and unable to go back to the heights of his passion for her - and HER!! The total nerve it took to tell him "you're the person who matters the most to me" - like GIRL!! Wake up!!! You almost got him killed so many times already! Shut up and sit the f!ck down!

Anyway, we got our daily attempt on SDJ's life and NO Kopiko add :D All's good. But I am not certain how solid is the livestream "evidence", any good lawyer will twist the truth in Yeom's favour. I still hope the original files aren't destroyed yet. We'll see.

Two more eps, again no preview... I want SDJ to take the money and freaking run, and have YEN watch him marry another woman, and SeonWoo destroy the conglomerate and TaeYun should run away with SDJ. That is all.

TBH, the most shocking thing was that Chairman Cha was in on it. Dammit.

Anyway, SeonWoo is either playing it for the giggles or he really is kind of... not really serious. For Chairman Cha's sake, I hope SeonWoo is actually a bad guy and drives his conglomerate into the ground LOL.

4th ep is all about Chan Young from Class 2 and his gf Ji You from whatever class... :(

Where? ... Though now I don't want to see it LOL. I'll take the stress :D

I don't know what comes - because they decided no preview, dammit! - but it's a three-male lead drama, I don't think they'll let go of HID so easily.

I guess he'll still have a redemption (short) arc, or at least do something before going, to make SDJ come on top of everything. Maybe he'd be the one to kill Yeom (I'd choose GuHo myself, Yeom needs to feel the betrayal from his most trusted tool).

We'll see tomorrow. Here's hoping HID didn't die (yet).

He did a flip on the couch (it's smeared in blood), they didn't land directly on the floor. There's hope he's still alive and ready to sell YJS out.

I'm rewatching the ending, HID hit the couch first, he didn't land directly on the floor. He's probably alive.

I don't think Chairman Cha knows what YJS wanted to do. Maybe he even thought he was going to SDJ's house and talk it out. But then, he can't tell morning from evening anymore, I guess his memory is cooked and that's the writer's excuse for it.

Still, yet ANOTHER betrayal from the Cha family. Let's say HID survives and tells all, LOL, that would bring the whole house down. And they would deserve it.

DeokHui might have wanted to kill them, but it would only have happened in the heat of rage, not cold-bloodedly. She threatened Mme Ji too - what did she actually DO, though? Nothing. She maybe intended to have HID ask YSJ for an intervention, but on herself, other that a killing in the heat of the moment, she's unable to do much. Still wondering what's Sec. Gong's thing though (other than being addicted to Kopiko now, LOL). She and DeokHui are thick as thieves.

We still have three eps. I THINK Mme Ji IS Mme CHU (I really really REALLY want that twist.)

Imagine SDJ the nameless orphan saddled with all the brothers in the drama, LOL - he's TaeYun's older bro (it kills me when TaeYun calls him hyung), he might be SeonWoo's older bro (if my theory about his mom is right), he's drama-only-not-really the brother of YEN, is there any other kid around he could be tied to? :D Where are the useless' daughter's kids, they could be around him too, just sayin'.

ETA I just realised - isn't it funny we have a Cha family, a Chu family and the thug killer who just came calling is named Cho, though? And then SDJ is a Seo, EunNam is a Yeo, the writer really likes short one-syllable names :D

SDJ's initial motivation and all his plans of going up in DaeSan were due to him wanting to impress his father (that he thought was Professor Lee).

It kind of shows he's missing a father figure, after never having one before the initial assassination attempt,and later losing Mr. Ko almost immediately after being taken in with YeonJoo and her mom.

I felt that in that scene - after SDJ and HID both had a week to steam inside with their new knowledge - they were like two tired boxers trying hard to find some weakness on the other, to land some punches and make it hurt. But HID was also acting like taunting SDJ into blaming him, accusing him. ANYTHING, so he could continue not feeling remorse. I liked that scene a lot.

And the last scene - if both survive they're going to turn into tee-totallers LOL. If only SDJ survives, he'll never touch the freaking egg yolked soju again (and Chairman Cha doesn't really deserve his loyalty either. I don't care he has dementia, and I don't want him to pretend/really not remember plotting to test SDJ and setting him up for the kill.)

Where did I say that part of my comment was about Trump, though? Yet you instantly thought of him.

You know what he and his ilk are. You just don't want to admit it. And it's not my purpose in life to be your wake-up call, if you didn't hear that call by now, it's probably not going to happen, but then again - that really is not my problem.

I don't think he knew what Yeom intended when he set it up. He might've actually forgotten he was supposed to go there too, or maybe Yeom managed to keep him away.

But he was indeed quick to distrust, and not even ask SDJ's side of the story. I guess his mind is really going away fast.

I wouldn't count on that, this is makjang. 'Tis but a flesh wound.

There were 9 attempts on his life. His mother and his adoptive sister and her parents died (though I'm not really sure about mom's death now that they fell into a river and not on the road somewhere so the bodies could be counted.) There are many more targets, LOL. And HID is not dead yet, either.

I want to see him take a nuke to that house and light it all up.

Mme Ji, SeonWoo's mom, is actually Mme Chu, also SeongHyeon's mom. That look she threw to HID was highly suspicious. There's something there between them, even if he might not remember her.

"I'll explain everything once it's all over" - these are FAMOUS LAST WORDS material... One of them is going to die, aren't they? I just hope it's not SDJ but by now they're setting him up to be a tragic hero. Let's just hope if anyone really dies it's not SDJ.

Wow, ain't HID something?! He's suffering because he tried to kill his son 4 times, when he didn't know. What if SDJ hadn't been his son, then was it okay to kill someone else's son?! And what about YSH and the kid's mom? He didn't even mention it. Like if they were extras and only the fatherhood part mattered. And he's not truly remorseful either, he even put it in clear words - to admit to what he did means sacrificing the things he earned through it and he's not ready to do that, ever. (I don't think he'll die, maybe he'll get into a coma or something. Or become amnesiac, LOL, wouldn't that be something? Feed him some Kopiko if he's in a coma, see if he wakes up).

Oh wow, those weren't blanks. It's just HID being a terrible shooter LOL. I mean HE'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, THREE METERS AWAY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU SHOT HIM IN THE LEG?! For a seasoned killer, HID is the most incompetent killer ever. LOL.

TBH, I loved all their interractions. SDJ almost forgot about DaeSan and the overall plot, and he's still very cold towards YEN - he might not be over that shock - but he was VERY invested in HID's reactions. And all those scenes were perfect. If he doesn't die, I hope HID goes to prison so he could have a few more stare-downs with SDJ.

DeokHui being so shaken by whose son SDJ is... What, remorses? She wants HID out of DaeSan, well, that love went out like a light. Maybe she tells YEN who killed her father for real.

Which brings me to Chairman Cha... Oh wow, old man, you really suck. I know, dementia and all... but WTF?! This was your trusted aide for ten years, your right-hand man and the keeper of your secrets and you decide to just "test" him after immediately believing Yeom? Not even directly ask SDJ what's that all about? And then you take Yeom's suggestion and set him up (I know he probably didn't know what would happen, but still) to be killed, YET AGAIN (what are we at, drama - wait, 2 childhood accidents, his father not wanting him from the beginning though probably his mother couldn't have aborted the pregnancy in those times anyway, 2 times being shot, one time being poisoned with cinnamon, that time when he was ambushed in the dead VP's app't, that time when Yeom almost let him shoot himself (still loving that scene though), and now being almost knifed to death... OMG WE'RE OUT OF LIVES, THIS WAS HIS 9TH AND PROBABLY LAST OMG!!!!!!)

And after all that, no preview??! *throwing furniture around* DAMMIT!!

Oh... I guess TaeYun remains a cinnamon bun (yay!) Then again, we'll see if he changes his mind after today's happenings.

I am 85% sure that...

Mostly romance-less makjang. There is a romantic sub-plot though.

Whatever you say. The SK Constitutional Court did remove Yoon from office though, which just goes to show SOME countries actually respect their own constitution. Must hurt for the ones coping with being taken over by fascists.

It worked in 2x for all the villain's scenes LOL.

Anyway, it's now done. The one scene that actually was great in the last eps was turning on the TV to (through an amazing coincidence as always) watch the news that someone had escaped and getting a porn movie instead. YES!!! Let's see if anyone else gets the itch to lampoon that trope :D

His eyes are beautiful as always, half a star up just for that.

This started really well, got really bogged down by the midway point while the romance got underway, there's zero anything that made sense about how NIS agents are supposed to work, but there are a few action scenes that take back some of the start's spirit and make it palatable by the end.

If you go in, don't expect it to keep the initial vibe. Oh well. Here's hoping he gets some actual action dramas, he's pretty much made for it. Or if it has to be comedy, then get an actually good writer. Peace and out.