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No, not at all. Popular doesn't mean it's award-worthy, and to be honest, it shouldn't even qualify as a full season. It is half a badly written season. Just accept it and move on. The fact that it did well in terms of viewership should be enough. Accept that it was not worthy of a nomination. Just because you are dominating the streaming market, doesn't mean your work should get more than it deserves.

Hopefully we get a change soon. I think most recent Running Man PDs didn't last more than 2 years.

I don't think that's cheating. That's a skill he has. He is sensitive to both smell and touch so it's an advantage he has. Haha also thought he could tell, but he always failed on his second try. He said that one is heavier than the other, but I guess he doesn't have the skill Jae Suk has.

It was her decision to make it public. Seeing that her ex-husband decided to protect his family and take responsibility instead of fighting her, I don't think coming clean was the right move. Maybe if she talked to him first, he could've told her it was a bad idea and it would hurt their family. It is sad that it came to the public court but if's out of anyone's hands now.

Maybe it's just temporary? I don't think they know the names of the characters yet since this hasn't been produced yet.

She posted it because it will cause a huge scandal when it comes out. So she thought she might as well tell her side of the story first, explain why she made that decision on her own without her ex-husband's consent. The ex-husband would've probably told the story to the reporters, and she thought maybe people would be more forgiving if she came clean before that happens.

"without her ex-husband's consent" is a key info there.
I saw her Insta post. Unfollowed her instantly, can't be seen supporting such action. She could've just handled the matter privately. Maybe she knew her ex-husband rightfully would fight for his right to kill the embryo that is half his, and go public with his disagreement of her action. I don't support such behavior. I think since it's a joint "property", it should be both their decisions to have the baby or not, and if they didn't agree, killing the embryo would be the appropriate action. They are not married anymore, and it's within his right to not want to have a forced baby with his ex-wife. I can't believe this is even legal or that the center approved it. It is morally insane. Find someone else, a donor maybe, make another embryo. I can't imagine if the husband took the embryo, found a surrogate, and had the baby without her consent. Who does that? The other party must feel violated. Thankfully, he decided to take full responsibility even after he was forced into it.

Yes, you are right. I miss those too. I think maybe they thought because they are not doing individual missions where they run around on their own, they have decided they didn't need them anymore.Another thing. Hyung In asked Kim Jong Kook, the only member who had any competitive bone left on his body lately to tone down his competitiveness. This is why no one including him now cares about winning. Notice how he just picks anything and moves along with no spirit? This is because she thought it was better for the program if he didn't care about winning anymore. Then how is Running Man a game show? That also ruined it for me.I, like you, still tune in every week, but I would like to be some excitement every now and then. I used to get excited about who is going to win every week. I even used to avoid spoilers.Now it's just who is going to avoid the lame penalty, and I really don't care who gets it honestly. Why would I care who does a lame mission before they go home?

Who is the worst PD in your opinion?

I still thinks it's Jung Cheol Min. I can't get over the fact that I used to lose my excitement for 4 weeks because he was doing a long-term project and I didn't like its first part, so I had to wait 4 weeks to look forward to a new project, and there weren't that many projects to be excited about anyway, so that cycle would repeat itself very often. The guests also came way too often, and they weren't funny, with few exceptions. I only liked Lee Da Hee and didn't hate Kang Hanna. The rest were just too annoying to watch.

The current PD Choi Hyung In is second worst, I like her, she can be creative, but I think her episodes are too simple and have too many small missions without a climax. I don't think I've ever had a jump-out-of-your-seat moment while she is the main PD. It's all eating, interviewing and then doing small missions to determine who gets to eat or get a hint. Nothing that impressive or exciting. I also don't like the idea of having losers and winner chosen purely by luck, and their best prize is to avoid penalty. Remember when we were rooting for one person to rightfully take the win with their cleverness, strength, individual skills, or team play? I really miss that.

I think it's a character. I wouldn't say I like it, though. I think it gives a really bad message to people. Eat a lot of food, more than the average person, do no exercise at all, and you magically can get thinner. Just say you are using other unnatural methods to get rid of the extra weight, why do that in a show with so many teens watching, giving them the wrong idea. She even firmly denied getting shots to remove her double chin. I mean how stupid do you think we are?

I like YeEun to be honest. I just hope they stop mentioning her weight transformation, her disappeared chin, her love for food and her "diet", because it gives me the ick. They should focus on something else. She is quite funny without this physical appearance mocking bit. As for Choi Daniel, he is quite boring in my opinion, he hasn't improved one bit since his first appearance and he didn't even start well. I think having too much of Kim Ah-young would get on my nerves eventually. She isn't bad as a guest, but I don't want to see so much of her "fox" character. It gets dull at the end of each episode.

They won't risk coming off as deceitful. Not after that big scandal they had a few years ago. When they added Ye Eun as an official member, they said it just happened naturally, and they were not planning it beforehand. To come after that and install another new member would make people very angry that they weren't honest.
Another thing is Choi Daniel is busier than you think, just like Kang Hoon who barely even managed to finish his rental period, he doesn't have time to commit to such a long running variety show.
Take it easy, they said they came up with this idea (as per JongKook suggestion) because celebs are too busy to join full time. Ye Eun is a comedian, so this is the biggest project she can participate in, Running Man is every comedian's dream, even big names like Lee Kwang Kyu and Park Min Soo are eyeing it, but the production team is looking to have people who are too busy for them which is a brilliant idea because you would see big names like Hwang Jung Min or Lee Sung Min become members, people who barely have time to do one episode, instead of having small celebs who barely have something else to do.

I remember watching a doc or something about how easy it is to ship Korean kids to families in the US. I don't remember the reason, though. It could either be because they pay so much for Korean kids (in the form of bribes or services fees, but technically it is for buying or trafficking a baby), or because they think kids are better off in the US. There was a story about a guy who was kidnapped and sent to the US as an orphan even though his family was looking for him.
In this case, if they pretended not to know that they were druggies, then nobody is going to fault them.
Personally, I don't understand how come kids can be "legally" trafficked to another country where there is no way you can make sure they are ok, follow up on the families adopting them or prosecute them if something is wrong. In a rich country, this is not supposed to happen. The country should be responsible for that kid until they grow up even after adoption.

I don't think it's intended that way. It is problematic for the system to figure out if the previous work is an original work or if it's also a sequel, and it would be confusing to allow the users to control that. It's easy if it's just an original story and its sequel, but what if there was an original story, a sequel, then a prequel, or an original story and two prequels that are sequels of each other. It would make the listing more complicated than it should be.

No one is going to hurt if you mislabeled an original story as a prequel, you would be telling the users the chronological order as they can figure out the release order from the year entry. But what would be a problem if they mislabeled a sequel as original story or vice versa. These labels would be useless if that happened quite often.

Ask yourself this: Is the information about the chronological order clear to you or not? If so, then this is doing what it's intended to do. It is so easy to just check the year of release if you want to watch in the order of release. The chronological order is tough to figure out without knowing the story.

I don't think you need to, if you really had to, but you will be disappointed. You would be wasting a much better story and all the fun of the first part. Hitman 2 is not that funny without knowing the characters and their backstory.

This was difficult to watch. It was so boring and all over the place. It is so easy to make a movie about firefighters that makes people emotional, but I had a difficult time liking, relating or empathizing with any of the characters.

Now, imagine having your baby on the other side with a bunch of murderers. You are jumping twice as much. You would see me hanging off that "rope".

My problem is that they went for overly-dramatic instead of semi-realistic. These choices they made aren't realistic if you consider survival instinct or maternal instinct. Naturally, people don't choose to die or kill their offspring. Of course, people who are suffering form mental illness are an exception.

They had many options they could've gone with that do not involve either, but they chose the most dramatic option regardless of how unlikely a real person would make it.

My thoughts exactly.

If that baby turned out to be another Hitler. You might've not felt the same. LOL
The message is received but the execution is trash. That's all I'm saying. Not that there was no "meaningful" message. It just feels like too much unnecessary chaos for a very simple message that a 3-year-old can easily grasp.