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<< Extra-spoiler in extra comment. >>

Anyway:
A magical wind wooshes past, the comic pages flip about, instead of a rooftop with human + cat you see a rooftop with two humans for a moment. Either it just flips a page further, or the implication is that "cat becomes human".

Scarf falls down, (I guess due to rushed filming pointlessly hits the floor instead of being caught), cue to human form of ML. Note ML is not aged at all despite the time skip implying he should be *substantially* older, so either again poor film-making or a clear sign that pinocchio has become a real boy for good.

So all these obstacles that seem inserted just to make a webtoon last longer aren't in there?

Nope.

Yes, he becomes a regular boring human.

It doesn't have a sad ending or anything. It's just "concluded in 3 minutes" like many other shows.

https://mydramalist.com/62337-you-are-my-glory is perfect if you are annoyed by shows just ending and not telling you 'what happens after'.

If they had just cut the first seconds it wouldn't make such a jarring appearance each time...

There's a lot of problems: https://mydramalist.com/5200-that-winter-the-wind-blows#comment-1716185

Fairly decent watch, with the second episode / half being better than the first.

"visiting Korean students" (in EP16)

That video is deleted now, but it's from 00:56:16 in the first part of the other special (The Summoning).

In that scene to me it looks like like sadness & fear of being recognised (as real or fake, both!).

You can't be shown any love/happiness because the production team wants the viewers to be confused as to whether she is the real FL, someone else wearing a fake face, or a straight-up cloned monster from the human experiments department.

In general, I don't think the show did anything to give her character complex emotions, or even to show her back story.
She has a 'scary' father, but we never find out why - he looks tame and nice in his few moments of screentime.
Her father (with the whole family, if there is one?) is suddenly snatched up and locked up for inhumane treatment / drug experiments, but we never find out why.

The story only really covers what happens to the ML (and skips quite a bit of that too, like him coming to SK, jailtime, etc) and her past feels like something the writers never really bother to flesh out, which might in return mean that her emotions have to be as ambiguous as possible in case the writing team suddenly does a 180 in a later episode.


-Well, still not enough to get me on Team Quack ;)

Very spoilery:

They are timeskip-separated for a few months for arbitrary political reasons.
FL can't just be welcomed in SK as an evil NK person, thus she must sit around in exile. For no good reason, ML does not join her there, so that in the end we have a (short) scene of them reuniting.

You watched Legend of the Blue Sea, the ML's future job there is about as ??? as that given to the ML of Doctor Stranger.

My experience is that watching a show with great expectation always leads to focusing on its flaws and ultimately finding it quite underwhelming.

P.S.: For me Kim Go Eun delivered the best performance among the cast. ^o^

Would you have a list of those plot holes?
I think I mostly found it unexplained who 'produces' fateful accidents to endanger FL (neither of the two actual deities make sense?).

Otherwise there was the silly manner in which some story things occur, from pointlessly triggering insecurities early on to a death scene near the very end where that death itself seemed extremely avoidable.

Why wouldn't someone in that position lap up any attention, be particularly needy, and thus suffer even more from a push/pull relationship? Why should they be demure or unemotional?

The two phases of it did not add anything for me, only really gave Na Ji Na screentime to do second couple things.

Used Substital to use alternate subtitles on Netflix and noticed the following obvious content cuts:

ep1: missing less than ten seconds of FL's brother & friends playing League of Legends (with some character dialogue).
ep8: missing an entire long scene with conversation between the leads, product placement, and the FL sort of singing.

First time I got "second second lead syndrome".
Please send help.

So the SK prime minister's objective is to gain political power, escaping all of his chains. Why he needs NK help for that doesn't really get explained (considering all the other wild acts he's capable of), but I'll let that slide.

Ostensibly NK would receive some financial aid from the SK schemers, but is that really all they want, and what makes them think SK's PM will keep up his end of the bargain?

In the episode where the prime minister's right hand holds a gun at the FL's head, I got the impression that the NK agents had some plan of their own to accomplish that ran contrary to the SK scheme. However, nothing like that was ever revealed, or my translation missed it?

Outside of those first two episodes, every second she is on the screen Jin Se Yeon looks like someone forces her to be there against her will. I kept wondering if she hated LJS after something that happened early on or if she was being blackmailed or...

I saw many comments that complained about a drop in quality in the second half, but I could not empathize with that view at all. I agree with you that the quality drop is precisely after the setup episodes.