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Fascinating. I'm going to make the safe assumption that this is going to be a tamer version.

I loved every second of this. Sweet, nostalgic, so well acted, beautifully produced, quirky and funny at the right moments, surprisingly thought-provoking and philosophical at others. This is about first blush love, and it perfectly captured it. The fact that it's set in summer is so poetic, in fact much of the dialogue is set like prose. I really want to commend the writer/author and production team for their excellent command of tone, inflection, language, and emotion to set scenes and build a story. It came across as very simple and easy but felt complex at the same time. I think a lot of the subtleties and nuance were lost on some people which is unfortunate.

So excellent. Up until the last minutes, I was left gasping on the hook. I almost passed out from all the feels in the ending lol. Now I'm really hoping they take on Euthanasia (spare me your mercy). I think with the ending they're setting up that they might be, considering Bunn plays a significant role in that story.

I hope Tae and Tee get another challenging project like this one, they were so good and honestly have been wasted in some of the past productions they've done. I'm so glad to see that they're finally getting roles that suit their talents.

Maybe I'm being pessimistic but I can't bring myself to have high expectations for this...

I think something really key to consider for this episode is that Tol is now being tested. Jinta didn't just reverse time, he placed Tol in a specific timeline that would make solving things as difficult as it was for Tin. One thing I love about this series is the way it looks at time, not as a successive run of events but how theoretically time works in multiverse. Jinta told Tol that there were a hundred different timelines (infinite actually) that are all different based on the decisions people make. Thinking in a multiverse, every time you make a decision the timeline splits, and if you consider that each decision forms who a person is, you're going to meet very different versions of people depending on what timeline you land in.

Jinta is such an interesting character because he's not necessarily good or bad. He's definitely toying with them in one sense but also trying to help them. I love when "beings" like him aren't inherently good, if you think about it he's too far removed from human emotion by being whatever he is, he just is. By placing Tol in an alternate timeline he's made it so Tol essentially has to save Tin in every sense. Tin in this timeline was how Tol was when Tin first met him, lost, drowning, spiraling, and making poor decisions that would have turned him into an awful person or ruined his life even if he hadn't died. It's going to be so interesting to see the dark side of Tin. I love this so much because if you think back it makes perfect sense when "dark" Tin started to form. When his sister died that was a split when the timeline diverged. The Tin we're familiar with decided to stay positive and focus on being the best doctor he could so he could finish and go home to help people in honor of his sister, "dark" Tin did the opposite. I really wish we could get a good, professional translation of this novel, I would love to read it.

EDIT: (sorry ya'll I keep adding things because I can't stop thinking about it lol) The possibility of a multiverse has always been fascinating to me. I loved this explanation of a multiverse if anyone is confused about why things are so different now and why they changed so jarringly without much explanation "in a multiverse there are infinite versions of you living in infinite alternate timelines. There’s a version of you that got out of bed on a different side this morning, one that ate a different breakfast, one that has differently colored hair, one that’s a different gender, one that’s a foot taller, one that’s a psychopath...that might make you feel less than unique. On the contrary, the you that you are right now is the only you there will ever be. The moment you do anything, the universe splits and you’re a you that’s living in a different timeline than the you that didn’t take that action. Wild, isn’t it?" My question now would be, can the Tin from this timeline become the Tin from the timeline that Tol knows and loves. Jinta...man JInta's pretty fucked up lmao he deliberately placed Tol in a timeline that was going to be REALLY difficult for him. And honestly, a timeline that's going to really challenge his feelings for Tin.

All you have to do is look at the rating lol it's rare for a series to survive that long with a rating that high if it's garbage.

The way that Tol looks at Tin now is absolutely everything. There is so much love in his eyes he can't hide it. The emotional chemistry between Tae and Tee is so good. I just need the final scenes of them together already. Wedding! Wedding or we riot!

There is also something so poetic about Tol now having to live through and experience everything that Tin did. Having to work through his own timeline to truly rescue Tin, not just from death but from himself. Like...can we just pause to think about the brilliance of that...it's exactly what Tin had to do for Tol. I don't think I had considered quite what an impact that would have on Tol's feelings and cementing their relationship. Because sure, Tol was already in love with Tin by the time the final loop started but I don't think there's anything quite like seeing the person you love fighting tooth and nail for you AND having to do the same in return to keep that person by your side. This is probably one of the most beautiful love stories, when it comes to development and depth of feeling, I've seen in a while. It's like you have full faith that if Tol and Tin could make it through this, they're making it through anything. I also loved how realistic their love was. There has been so much humanity throughout this series that I appreciate. Not all the characters are perfect but like...none of them are complete assholes? What a novel idea lol. Ok, other than Lukpair and Win but they get the villain card along with Sak and Doi all day, I don't care how "redempted" they were in Tol's loop lol.

Tomorrow besties! Let's go 😭🥰 I'm preparing myself to feel all the emotions at once.

This series really became the dark horse that nobody expected lol

Honestly, what am I going to do with my Mondays once this ends...my whole morning now revolves around me being available to watch the live stream, and then I spend all day thinking about the episode and rewatching it at night lmao just me?

Yeah, I definitely think he's not going to remember. At least for a little bit. It'll probably come back to him like how Tol started to remember Tin in the later episodes. I think the stronger their feelings are for each other and the more time they spend together in loops means it's easier for them to reconnect and remember each other when they have to re-start. It's going to be painful to watch, but we'll get there! Someone commented that it seems only fair that now Tol gets to experience what it's like and I found that funny and a pretty good point haha.

Don't worry, it'll be reuploaded in a few hours if you make a search for it (I usually like to watch it on bilibili or dailymotion if I miss it), the official source takes it down after the episode airs on YT.

Definitely. Someone posted the teaser for next week, and it shows Tol going back like Tin used to T_T

Omg a wedding...I'd bawl my eyes out all over again.

Right there with you. Not only did he circumvent a murder attempt to disappear evidence, he proceeded to get Dr. Sak and Doi caught (smart boy turning everything into the police before heading out to meet Doi), and THEN calmly proceeded to try and perform a risky emergency procedure on one of his best friends. What an ace.

I think because a lot of the aspects in the novel are missing in the live-action version. How long he's in captivity for, how much he's deprived of (food, water, human interaction, etc), the positive/negative reinforcement for behaviors that's Vegas conditioning him, the number of times he rapes him, the switch Pete mentally makes from fight to survival mode...it's all glossed over so it's not a prominent connection to make. I'm not sure if you could call it Stockholm syndrome with only what they've shown in the series tbf, which I think was intentional on the part of the writing/production team. As far as I know, they had made statements previous to the show airing that Vegas and Pete's story was going to be tamer, i.e. more palatable to audiences which is what we're seeing. I've seen so many comments with positive descriptors for their relationship, like beautiful, which seems like an odd choice of words to me but everyone is going to make different connections. Personally, in either depiction of their story, I would be more apt to use words like sad or tragic. I think it takes away from their characterization and from their story to try to dumb it (or fluff it) down that way. Vegas is a broken, mentally unstable individual who starts to abuse the only person he's ever going to have any kind of romantic feelings for because that's all he knows, and Pete is so used to abuse from those who love him that he accepts Vegas' flaws as a normal condition of being. As I said, it's sad and tragic but you can see why these two particular people would gravitate toward each other and start to revolve around each other. It's a co-dependency cycle in many ways.

Standing ovation for Dr. Sing (Tonnam) doing the most this episode like a badass 😭

Can I just say that I super appreciate this comment section. Some comment sections I'm actually scared to comment in, they're a little too intense LOL and actually sometimes have people commenting really shitty things. I love how most of us just stumbled across this and became completely absorbed in the plot to become superfans haha. Every episode unraveling here is so wholesome and it's made my watching experience that much better! All the speculation, and discussion...I love coming in after each episode and reading what everyone has to say <3

Exactly! That was one of my absolute favorite small moments in this episode. I just commented on this above but Tol reading out each item Tin had written down confirmed a lot about Tin's thinking that was intentionally nebulous, like his reasoning for why he wanted Tol to be his boyfriend. That was a total "want" not a "need" in the schematic of him saving Tol, and he KNEW that. I remember there was some understandable debate in the comments over whether Tin really understood what he needed to do to end the loop, i.e. Dr. Sak was the key not necessarily Tol. And yes, my man knew wtf was going on, he's not dumb lol making Tol his boyfriend wasn't necessary to his survival but it was necessary to Tin's heart so it made it on the list XD. I don't know that little moment was really poignant to me, especially Tol's reaction.

When he read that! My heart...also, this confirms that list item #3 was a total want not a "need" to save Tol lmao. I know people were debating how much Tin understood, but that man ain't dumb. He knew Tol being his boyfriend wasn't necessary to save him, but he was already a goner at that point and just wanted to make that happen for himself haha. Tol reading each list item confirmed that Tin knew the ultimate way of ending things was exposing Dr. Sak not dating Tol but you know...love matters.