I really liked how they set up the ending of episode 8 with IS talking to LYJ (her best friend) and how some events…
In real-life scientific theory of time travel, everything that should happen already happened. So, for example, if someone was changing time, it actually already happened.
This means that, no matter how many times we change history, things will still happen because they already happened. We either just delayed it, or worst, accelerated it.
In fictional time travel, it is a very common trope called “fixed time”. A “fixed time” is a concept or fictional trope that there are certain events in time that will happen no matter what you do. You can change and prevent it 100%, but it will have a major repercussion. So, to prevent time from unravelling and destroying the universe, the universe will ensure that an event is 100% fixed in time. It will happen no matter what, it is the only way, there's no avoiding it.
If anything, I think they're going that route as well. Things will happen no matter what. The question is, how can you make an event happen without the person you love dying. How can you ensure that things still happen to avoid the repercussions of preventing it, and at the same time, save the person you love.
The FL needs to find a way to save the ML without preventing that fixed point in time. The ML needs to be attacked, that is the fixed time. Because maybe, through that attack, things will change for celebrities; and/or, things will change for the suspect and how they're handled by the law and the police.
Because in a future after this fixed point in time, things got better. And if the attack doesn't happen, more innocent people will suffer, and die. Thus, this must happen. The FL must find a way to ensure the ML survives.
That means, the FL will probably time travel again.
And this time, the FL will be torn and afraid. If she changes things in the past again, she is now fully aware that she might accidentally change the future of her brother and best friend, the way she did in her previous time travels when she saved her legs, everything changed, not just her legs.
So, if the FL will indeed travel back in time once more, she's in for a very hard and challenging situation.
Oh, one more thing, they showed her first crush in E08, but nothing much on that front. They basically dropped a clue that he is also a very important character in this wild and interconnected relationships. Whatever the FL will change in the past agian, things might get worst because she's missing one important factor: her first crush.
In defence of Na Young, re: kindness sceneYou have to understand that scene where she confronted the ML about…
It also applies to men, by the way.
There are people who show acts of kindness because they're kind naturally. There are people who help others because it is in their nature to help.
More often than not, it has nothing to do with “you”. They don't have feelings for you, and they don't pity you. It's not about “you”, it is just who they are.
As we autistics learned, always clarify so there are no misunderstandings. ^_~
You have to understand that scene where she confronted the ML about his kindness to her, is true-to-life. It was not fiction just to make it dramatic.
I've experienced it myself, first-hand (multiple times at that LOL). As a Filipino, we were taught to respect women, and to show kindness to everyone. While not all Filipinos act that way, I took it to heart and became natural for me.
There was this young lady, legal age don't worry, who suddenly confessed to me because I showed kindness to her. Like the ML in this show, those meant nothing. It was just me acting naturally. That's how I was taught. That's how I grew up.
Sadly, the young lady, like Na Young, gave meaning to the acts of kindness and mistook it as having feelings for them. The only difference, fortunately, the young lady I met was not psychologically sick like Na Young. Although, thinking about it now, I think it was a mistake to not accept that young lady's confession, because she's a daughter of one of the largest conglomerate in the Philippines. ^_^;;
Anyway, as I said earlier, in Na Young's defence, it does happen and it is true-to-life. The sad thing about Na Young is that she's psychologically ill, there's no question about that. While it is understandable that she misunderstood the ML's acts of kindness, if you combine it with her instability, it can become very dangerous for everyone.
It's just so annoying they didn't clear their music license for most of the foreign groups. They have to “silence”…
Yo, Mr. Zhang Lay, whoever was your manager for licensing clearance and inviting gorups, tell them to include song and performance license in the contracts. It's SOP.
It's just so annoying they didn't clear their music license for most of the foreign groups. They have to “silence” the songs of the foreign groups. Baah.
It should've had been part of their contract to have a license to use their performances and songs in anywhere their show will be streamed and aired.
The official channel/streaming have two versions:* 30 min per episode, currently at episode 15* 1:30 per episode, E05 just released.But MDL have 2:00 per episode × 12 episodes. Huh?
As an Exo-L I’m worried that the rating might be biased 😅 can anyone please honestly tell me if this is good…
It is biased, of course. Hahaha. Just like with most shows with idols. Also, MDL ratings are the worst in all sites with a rating feature. :p
That said, the show is good, at least based on E01 to E04. If anything, There are things that are far too obvious, but are justified because of the twists and surprises. A good balance between the two.
Back then could a queen dowager really hold so much power though? Why can't the king just kill her in the drama?
IIRC, there were points in Joseon's 500-year of existence where queens and queen dowagers, held a powerful network that rivals, or controls, the king and his ministers.
But, then again, Joseon isn't my concentration in history. ^_^
Gaah! If they only cast equally big and popular MLs, there's a huge possibility of seeing an FL+2FL pairing.
It's pretty obvious this is yet another FL+1ML pair.
1ML is EXO Suho. 2ML was a Produce X contestant.
Suho is obviously more established and more popular. He is also more expensive of course, so they wouldn't waste the talent fee they paid him. Hahahaha.
I pity the 2ML, he's doing all he can to get closer to the FL. ROFLOL.
1. yes2.yes3.no idea4.no soo ji's mother has never been in a relationship or had child after she lost soo ji,…
> 8. it seems everyone in Woo ri's residence aren't related to each other by blood, they seem like a family without any blood ties.
Ahh! That finally makes sense. I suddenly remembered how Soo Ji's mother explained how they are a unique family. I guess she's referring to that arrangement: a family that has not blood relation with each other.
Ha! That means FL and ML can date. LOL. All this time, I was thinking that the reason they are not hinting towards a romance was because they're half-siblings. I guess ML haven't truly realised yet; and basically doesn't care about relationships. (I remembered a friend who's like him, relationships and romance are not part of his vocabulary.)
Feedback on First Half of Season 02.Wow. I give up predicting this. The writer did well in changing their approach…
You know, now that the First Half has ended, it has always been clear that they're tackling their humanity when Da Mi's biological mother had a change of heart.
The writer used her to show to us that no matter how evil you may be, as long as you're not a psychopath, you can change and there is something good in you.
There was no way to reach out to the rest of them other than through her and her death. Deep down, each of them understood why she did it, they just wouldn't admit it because their knowledge of her evilness against her own daughter keeps on telling them she's evil to her core.
But, it is there. They knew she changed. Even though she deserves to die, their inner being is telling them: “it was too late for her, but not for you”.
Maybe, just maybe, in the Second Half, all of them will be facing choices on where they want to be in the future, and how they'll pay for their sins. Do they want to die as well? Or, are they going to change for the better?
All the while, they have to fight two psychopaths. Two psychopaths who were schoolmates but never faced each other until now.
Think of the “Pyramid Game”. In Pyramid Game, two psychopaths/geniuses (psychopathy and genius are two sides of the same coin), faced each other during school. In this series, they only faced each other as adults.
And that makes them far more dangerous because they can do more things, especially with that much money.
It will take the 7 of them (those in the burial) to bring them those two psychopaths down.
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This means that, no matter how many times we change history, things will still happen because they already happened. We either just delayed it, or worst, accelerated it.
In fictional time travel, it is a very common trope called “fixed time”. A “fixed time” is a concept or fictional trope that there are certain events in time that will happen no matter what you do. You can change and prevent it 100%, but it will have a major repercussion. So, to prevent time from unravelling and destroying the universe, the universe will ensure that an event is 100% fixed in time. It will happen no matter what, it is the only way, there's no avoiding it.
If anything, I think they're going that route as well. Things will happen no matter what. The question is, how can you make an event happen without the person you love dying. How can you ensure that things still happen to avoid the repercussions of preventing it, and at the same time, save the person you love.
The FL needs to find a way to save the ML without preventing that fixed point in time. The ML needs to be attacked, that is the fixed time. Because maybe, through that attack, things will change for celebrities; and/or, things will change for the suspect and how they're handled by the law and the police.
Because in a future after this fixed point in time, things got better. And if the attack doesn't happen, more innocent people will suffer, and die. Thus, this must happen. The FL must find a way to ensure the ML survives.
That means, the FL will probably time travel again.
And this time, the FL will be torn and afraid. If she changes things in the past again, she is now fully aware that she might accidentally change the future of her brother and best friend, the way she did in her previous time travels when she saved her legs, everything changed, not just her legs.
So, if the FL will indeed travel back in time once more, she's in for a very hard and challenging situation.
Oh, one more thing, they showed her first crush in E08, but nothing much on that front. They basically dropped a clue that he is also a very important character in this wild and interconnected relationships. Whatever the FL will change in the past agian, things might get worst because she's missing one important factor: her first crush.
And they know how to kiss on-screen! Not that silly awkward kiss very common in K-drama land. GOOD JOB!
The question is, who led who? Hahahaha. Who had the skills to kiss and made the other comfortable in the process. AYEEE
There are people who show acts of kindness because they're kind naturally. There are people who help others because it is in their nature to help.
More often than not, it has nothing to do with “you”. They don't have feelings for you, and they don't pity you. It's not about “you”, it is just who they are.
As we autistics learned, always clarify so there are no misunderstandings. ^_~
You have to understand that scene where she confronted the ML about his kindness to her, is true-to-life. It was not fiction just to make it dramatic.
I've experienced it myself, first-hand (multiple times at that LOL). As a Filipino, we were taught to respect women, and to show kindness to everyone. While not all Filipinos act that way, I took it to heart and became natural for me.
There was this young lady, legal age don't worry, who suddenly confessed to me because I showed kindness to her. Like the ML in this show, those meant nothing. It was just me acting naturally. That's how I was taught. That's how I grew up.
Sadly, the young lady, like Na Young, gave meaning to the acts of kindness and mistook it as having feelings for them. The only difference, fortunately, the young lady I met was not psychologically sick like Na Young. Although, thinking about it now, I think it was a mistake to not accept that young lady's confession, because she's a daughter of one of the largest conglomerate in the Philippines. ^_^;;
Anyway, as I said earlier, in Na Young's defence, it does happen and it is true-to-life. The sad thing about Na Young is that she's psychologically ill, there's no question about that. While it is understandable that she misunderstood the ML's acts of kindness, if you combine it with her instability, it can become very dangerous for everyone.
Penthouse formula?
HAHAHAHA
It should've had been part of their contract to have a license to use their performances and songs in anywhere their show will be streamed and aired.
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For example, it was obvious from E01 to E02 who the Queen Dowager was cheating on. Then in E03, they gave a surprising twist.
That said, the show is good, at least based on E01 to E04. If anything, There are things that are far too obvious, but are justified because of the twists and surprises. A good balance between the two.
But, then again, Joseon isn't my concentration in history. ^_^
It's pretty obvious this is yet another FL+1ML pair.
1ML is EXO Suho.
2ML was a Produce X contestant.
Suho is obviously more established and more popular. He is also more expensive of course, so they wouldn't waste the talent fee they paid him. Hahahaha.
I pity the 2ML, he's doing all he can to get closer to the FL. ROFLOL.
Ahh! That finally makes sense. I suddenly remembered how Soo Ji's mother explained how they are a unique family. I guess she's referring to that arrangement: a family that has not blood relation with each other.
Ha! That means FL and ML can date. LOL. All this time, I was thinking that the reason they are not hinting towards a romance was because they're half-siblings. I guess ML haven't truly realised yet; and basically doesn't care about relationships. (I remembered a friend who's like him, relationships and romance are not part of his vocabulary.)
The writer used her to show to us that no matter how evil you may be, as long as you're not a psychopath, you can change and there is something good in you.
There was no way to reach out to the rest of them other than through her and her death. Deep down, each of them understood why she did it, they just wouldn't admit it because their knowledge of her evilness against her own daughter keeps on telling them she's evil to her core.
But, it is there. They knew she changed. Even though she deserves to die, their inner being is telling them: “it was too late for her, but not for you”.
Maybe, just maybe, in the Second Half, all of them will be facing choices on where they want to be in the future, and how they'll pay for their sins. Do they want to die as well? Or, are they going to change for the better?
All the while, they have to fight two psychopaths. Two psychopaths who were schoolmates but never faced each other until now.
Think of the “Pyramid Game”. In Pyramid Game, two psychopaths/geniuses (psychopathy and genius are two sides of the same coin), faced each other during school. In this series, they only faced each other as adults.
And that makes them far more dangerous because they can do more things, especially with that much money.
It will take the 7 of them (those in the burial) to bring them those two psychopaths down.
It is always the 7, ain't it? ^_~