Shrimpy

Jin Do Joon was long dead when that happened so no.

I keep having to explain this one lol

Ok so first life - grandfather never takes that trip, never gets on that plane and survived. But the plane itself is still attacked, crashes, becomes a well known event in Korean history so of course our Do Joon knows about it.

Second life - Do Joon's presence gets the grandfather to act differently. He takes the trip, books the plane but Do Joon recognizes the flight and managed to get him to switch.

I am glad we sorted it out 💪 😂

🫂 got to giggle at something as we (not so) patently wait!

Ah, yes, yes it did. Hopefully someone will fix it ☺️

Or hear me out. I am going to blow your mind here.

People have different tastes and love the show and you are not the arbiter of truth. Shocking, I know. There, there.

It was a joke.

😁😁😁

I had to joke a little as we suffer through the pain 🤣

Because the presence of new Do Joon changed his actions.

In this life, he triggers a different reaction from the grandfather who now goes on a trip that he didn't take the first time. Luckily, it was a well known event so it ended well.

First life - grandfather never went on that trip, so he never boarded the plane. The plane crashed and people died., becoming a famous event in Korean history which is why new Do Joon knows of it.

This life - new Do Joon's actions get the grandfather to behave differently, go on a trip and book a return on that plane. New Do Joon recognizes it as the famous flight that was attacked and then saves grandfather by having him change flights.

This show is the absolute worst. The absolute worst I tell you. I am so frustrated. The worst. I have no words to explain how awful it is.

Why do we have to wait four days?? Why leave us hanging for four whole days??? Why do you play with us so??? I don't have the fortitude to wait that long. The worst 😭

Because it is properly spelled as Jin Do Joon.

There was no grandpa dying in the plane crash in the first life. He died much later from something else. The plane thing was new to this reality which is why Do Joon did not anticipate it. He just recognised the flight number as the one that crashed and could help. Therefore, there is no inconsistency with when the autobiography was written.

Eh?

This page has literally thousands of comments about the great plot, phenomenal acting, fantastic production plus discussions, often heated because we as viewers are involved and care, about the happenings and your take is that? Bizarre.

No, he won't.
Yes, there is something that happens and I think we are very close to it in the drama if they are following the main points of the novel. But he doesn't die.

If it did happen, it would have fundamentally changed this story in at least two ways.

One, currently the focus is on his back and forth with his grandfather. If he had chosen FL 2, that focus would have split right away and then turned into his struggle with her.

What Do Joon says his life would be like is the nightmare situation he would be facing and that would take all his energy to fight because he wouldn't be dealing just with her, he would be dealing with her powerful family as well. He couldn't risk trying to tackle his grandfather without dealing with that first and time is ticking.

Two, his entire life would be a super stressful situation. He would have stress in his professional and private life and be fighting on two fronts. That kind of a life results in nothing good. He would break, mentally or physically sooner or later.

Now personally I find Do Joon to be a sympathetic character so I want good things for him. I am not interested in romance here but if we must have it, then a supportive, moral person to be his harbour of peace in a horrible world is what I will choose.

Not to mention that what I truly want to see is the main plot of his grandfather play out properly and without distractions and the current FL allows for that as she doesn't pull focus.

Do Joon literally told you how things would have turned out.

Tbh I find it seriously frightening how many are describing FL 2 as a strong woman. She is a toxic manipulator who would have made Do Joon's life a living hell. He basically tells us this with his description of what would have followed. Is that really a person he should have in his life, in his private life?

In his first life, the FL was an actual strong woman. Not someone who treats people like puppets and steps on corpses on her way forward at any cost but a person who has a strong sense of right and wrong, justice and morality, who will pursue it even against overwhelming odds and someone who has a bottom line, something absolutely necessary if you have any hope of being a good person. She was a strong woman who fought for justice. The current FL therefore has the same potential and though it needed more buildup, it was still visible in the scenes we were given.

Do Joon's mother actually reiterates this point during her conversation with him and his father. Do not cross that line in the sand.

I am not sure I understand the confusion?

People everywhere, not just Asia, married really young in the generation of Do Joon's grandfather. He would have had his first child by 20 easily. So his child was 20 and also capable of having their first child by the time grandfather was 40. Which brings us to grandfather being 70 and that first grandchild being 30. It's really not odd.

I am not in Korea so I can't comment how it is there exactly but in many parts of Asia university has moved the line upwards in the last two to three decades and even with that, for example when it comes to women, if you aren't married by 30 it's considering you are then too old (nonsense obviously but the pressures are insane). In rural areas you will still easily meet young married couples. Anyway, it really isn't far fetched that older generations married young. It's very realistic.

A Dream Like A Dream, the theatre play that Xiao Zhan is a part of as Patient #5, the male lead.

Circumstances have changed from the time I posted the above though precisely because of COVID, two stops have been postponed.