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If you found it unbearably ridiculous early on, then dropping it is a good call.

I don't understand this comment at all, yes 2016 has been a much better year than 2023, but by then we reached the "modern" era. It may be 7-8 years ago, but nothing much changed since then in terms of production and writing.

In fact I would argue that if we are nitpicking, then maybe 2019- 2020 has been the "healing drama" period.

Is there a triangle as of e10?

I'm still behind, I have but one question, are we done with Yura yet?

>Chinese dramas target teenagers more

This is not really true.
Cdramas have shitty parents, because that's one of very few ways to add a lot of makjang without failing censorship. (and the establishment likes plots where children stay loyal to their shitty parents)

You are not completely wrong, but you can enlist at any time once you are an adult. Most normal people enlist before graduating from university. A white collar worker cannot go on a 2 year carrier break and expect to not near certainly ruin his carrier prospects and so they'll get this over with as soon as possible.

This is different for actors, because if someone gets the opportunity to become famous, they would be stupid to miss out on a chance that may never come again. Once you are really famous, a 2 year break is not nearly as big of a deal. Na In Woo has reached that level & now he can easily get main roles once he is done with his time.

He is not doing anything wrong, but missing out on some immensely positive optics to go on a reward vacation. Perhaps the benefits (building connections maybe?) outweigh the loss.

This logic is insane. It took him this long to become an A lister, had he gone 2 years ago, much of his efforts to build his carrier would have gone down the drain.
Going now will make it very easy for him to come back after the service, this is a smart choice.
What is not so smart is going on the reward vacation, he should have just announced that he is entering military service immediately & his Korean fans would have respected that a lot.

The goal is to sell as many product placements as possible & have a high viewership for them and for the additional ad breaks.

It doesn't matter if the audience disliked the last episode as long as they watched it and generally speaking if someone (especially domestic viewers) gets to e12-13 they will finish the drama.

This is why the writing quality almost ALWAYS drops, even in relatively good dramas near the end. There is a writing team & once they are no longer motivated to do their best, they just won't care.
Most of the time writing happens while the drama is airing, there is a main writer & some interns & they work overtime to grab your attention with their witty dialog and everything, they will typically not do that for the final episodes, let's go home early, since it does not matter anymore. Let's prepare for our reward vacation instead.. (for example Marry My Husband's crew is already getting a reward vacation, but a tolerable ending is quite a bit up in the air, the plot certainly spiraled out of control, novel or not I have doubts if they are even willing to recover from this)

Sticking the landing is not commercially important and that is the main reasons it often doesn't happen, be it a 12 or a 16 episode drama.

He got a slightly different son instead from another timeline?

Thank You!

Asking for a spoiler, when do the time travelers realize that the other one is from the future?

Yes, but in the comic her cancer plot made complete sense, It was not filler at all & it mostly involved the leads & their actions.

I fear that might not happen here, I guess we'll have to see.

The final plots in the comic are insane in the sense that it's unlikely they would show something like that on TV.

So what is happening now is complete divergence from the tried and true comic story. Korean scriptwriters tend to not care about writing coherent endings, because typically the ratings will not drop much anyway. So yeah, the scriptwriter has to pull something new from her ass, when the drama offered a lot of buildup for something else and do all that while having very little incentive to actually try to do a good job.

It's almost exactly as you heard, but a bit worse :-D

They do have some love dovey scenes later, but the comic completely drops common sense after the main story is over, so I don't think we'll see that crazy double watch proposal in the drama.

>They have hung out together but why are they not showing us that??

In the comic timeline we have not had much more either at this point, changes or not. Whether we get any more or not, I don't know, but the comic had a really stupid plot involving EH& HY that I wouldn't mind not seeing on screen.

I kind of understand why. The problem is not the leads being less great, but rather people who typically read this drama's summary & then start watching tend to be not the types that enjoy peaceful romance or time travel.

Song Ha Yoon had some really bad luck with scripts as the 1. FL, I think this drama will give her back the chance to try again. She's really great.

These are all in the comic?