Woah, so much drama around this. And here I am, silently hoping they will fix their habit of wild cliffhangers leading to absolutely no follow up in next episode's openings.
We're only half way through the drama but the past few episodes feel a lot like finale episodes so I'm…
I'm nervous with 20 episodes dramas, too. But here a midpoint feels like just a setup for what is about to start. We still don't know what exactly is Song In plotting and how he wants to achieve it, and according to him, there are others behind him whom we never met. Not to mention he's also becoming interested in San (I didn't see that coming, I thought he and the girl pretending to be a herbalist are lovers, but he's just playing her...). There's plenty of power to gain and shuffle. Minister Eun is growing a spine. Won and San barely discovered their true identities and Rin has quite a road to make to become greedier and fight as an equal to the prince. Just please, let Dan stay the way she is.
If the showrunners want to have Won as an endgame, they will need all those episodes even more because for now I don't see San choosing him over Rin. Choosing anyone instead of leaving in fact.
On the other hand, the hoops they were jumping through for the last two weeks to avoid the simplest solution of a tribute problem were unbelievable. Marrying San and Rin would solve it for both their families and save us at least 6 episodes, leading straight to antagonising Won.
Can someone tell me who is Jihoon's mom and about Malsook, what is her relationship with Kwang Jae? Is she…
Yes. They were secretly dating, Bo Hee got pregnant, Hyun Jae found he's incurably sick, decided to disappear to not let people around him suffer seeing him dying and eventually died in 1994 without anyone knowing.
But it's not 'our' HJ. Remember the twin typhoon? It doubled HJ, made him split into two people. One travelled to 2017, the other stayed in his original timeline, dating BH and all. So technically HJ we were watching isn't JH's father because he time travelled before fathering him.
Can someone tell me who is Jihoon's mom and about Malsook, what is her relationship with Kwang Jae? Is she…
Ji Hoon is Bo Hee's son. It was revealed right at the beginning, when they were taking a family photograph.
Malsook is Lee Soon Tae's granddaughter. His daughter eloped with a man against LST wishes so he disowned her, but Malsook parents died in a car accident soon after and he took care of the kid. That's revealed further down the road and in one of the last episodes he has a vision in which he meets his daughter and they make up.
Kwang Jae is nobody's biological father, but he acts as a father to Ji Hoon. They all live together, because of past connection with their entertainment company. Lee Soon Tae was a boss, Bo Hee a star, Kwang Jae her road manager.
I hope I didn't mix it up, it's been a while since I saw it.
right now, i feel like Dong Cheol is going to end up trying to take revenge on everyone who made him go to the…
Do you think DC resents Sang Mi too? I wonder whether they've been staying in touch during his time in prison. She asked for his number, but I don't know if she got it in the end... From post-time skip scenes it doesn't seem she's in contact with anyone outside the cult.
Once in a blue moon we've got a true love triangle without an endgame set in stone and the show's getting so much flak for being exactly what it had promised. It's named The King in Love not The King Gets The Girl. The poster reflects a current situation very well.
So here's an idea. Why not enjoy the process instead of waiting to confirm an expected solution? Because the process itself is only getting more tangled and nuanced episode after episode, with pro-active, motivated characters playing their games and adjusting to others.
don't know why but I was laughing when Hoo Ye saw So Ah/Habaek hugging and he backed away into a dark corner,…
You're not! It's beyond frustrating. And it's not even like they're having a romantic moment, usually it's related to fixing Huye's problems which is in everyone best interest! It bothered me when he barged into her office (she wasn't even in danger at that point), but greenhouse scene topped it. Man, have a little trust. I guess I jst don't find a jealousy an attractive trait. Maybe it's more tolerable when used as a device, on an early stage when someone isn't aware of his feelings and being in such a situation makes him face it, but at this point - watching it make me freeze and hiss internally.
(With that being said, the development with staying silent in the car and making out later was kinda hot. Still felt like he was marking his ground, but.)
There was a PPL though, cult representatives were bribing policemen with these deer antler drinks. Or was it the other way around...? But it wasn't blatant.
Don't start me on music. That's exactly where skimping and lack of subtetly shows the most in dramas.
For science: wouldn't Docs be a better choice for climbing? They're heavier, but at least protect the ankle. It bugs ever since. The stylist was doing so well with Woo Seung outfits as if she actually had a real wardrobe and not a rack of disposable PPL apart from this detail.
We see things differently then. That's fine. By movie vibes I mean high production values + clear, consistently followed concept for the visuals + well structured plot imagined beforehand for the whole show, not improvised week by week and watered down to last longer, which still isn't something many dramas have because of low budgets, tight schedules and lack of tradition of doing high quality, inventful tv series.
I'd actually want for dramas not to mimick movies (although I often see 'movie-like' mentioned as a compliment), but going it's own route and using it's own potential by allowing themselves to not stick so much to tested and true formulas but play with them a little more. So not one long movie, but many short ones, each exploring some point of the whole story in a concise, closed form, layering episode after episode. But that's just me and that type of show-making is something we're yet to see here. Hopefully.
A long movie gives me throwback to NIF - one huge, 50 hours piece of television randomly cut into 1 hour chunks. Great on it's own, tiring to watch at once, frustrating to stop watching.
not so rare anymore, it's definitely a trend these days. This one is really visually coherent and true to promo materials (yay!), but many recent dramas already were, especially those with lesser focus on romcom. Whisper, Queen of Mystery, Stranger, now Falsify and School 2017 off the top of my head, to name a few. Not to mention more popular ones.
Hey, it's actually pretty cool. With short, 24 minutes episodes it follows scare-of-a-week format. Horror is cheap and full of jumpscares, but effective when watched at night. Cases are by no means original, on the contrary - they belong to the most basic repetitory you saw countless of times (a ghost summoned by saying her name thrice on a certain spot, ritual doll as a vehicle for a deceased's soul etc.). The twist is, it's approached in a relatively lowkey manner, without grand resolutions and life-threathening situations. It's not purely your usual ghostbuster procedural, but a variation on workplace drama showcasing a group of people who we never think much about. They don't have any sense of urgency, just find a VCR and explore the case as reporters. Maybe a mystery tag is missing, because there's some overarching story too. But it's early to tell.
Opening credits are so 90s and I love the whole setting of basement archive <3
So glad it's getting subbed.
WHATS UP WITH THESE SUPPORTING ROLES, HE'S TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THIS!!!!
right? came here to stalk the hell out of his pre-Save me filmography and there's nothing much to watch. Those aren't even supporting roles, just background.
Done catching up. Still no sight of Kang Ha Neul doing his cameo nor sound of Monster Xue's true voice (I hold an irrational hope he will speak up at some point). Mura and her 'go get her, tiger' made my day. Not that he has any chance but hey! From the preview it looks we're finally going somewhere and from handling of BR and HJ's characters so far I have a shred of hope we'll make it without a villain. If one of them turns full evil, it'll be disappointing.
/haha, finally! Almost 13 hrs wasn't a total waste of time. He speaks!
I wished they had cut out some unnecessary scenes and back-flashing in the previous episodes to develop what was…
The second issue you mention was explained. The husband switched places with a mental institution patient that looked like him and that we saw briefly when Eun Joo was hospitalised. That's why he cut his face, to have a scar like that guy. Awfully convenient to find a lookalike, yes, but not ass-pulled since it was planted early.
Sparing explanation on how two inmates befriended for the sake of having a plot twist was a choice, too. That impression was deliberate. If you watch closely, you'll notice their scenes are disjointed and left hanging. It's hinted they could find a common ground since what happened to the other inmate's sister was an accident (not unlikely since she was unstable too), they came to respect each other's strength through their two fights and most importantly that other woman was cheated too, so they could bond over it behind the scenes. Still imaginable.
As for the first point. I take it as deliberate too. Babysitter's motive was inconsequential, there was no grand, deeply based revenge scheme, but a petty, immature game that cost her life. She blamed Eun Joo for her family falling apart because it was convenient for her. There's nothing to explore about that backstory. Her father might or might not have a crush on EJ that she wasn't even aware of and doesn't recall after years.
If the showrunners want to have Won as an endgame, they will need all those episodes even more because for now I don't see San choosing him over Rin. Choosing anyone instead of leaving in fact.
On the other hand, the hoops they were jumping through for the last two weeks to avoid the simplest solution of a tribute problem were unbelievable. Marrying San and Rin would solve it for both their families and save us at least 6 episodes, leading straight to antagonising Won.
But it's not 'our' HJ. Remember the twin typhoon? It doubled HJ, made him split into two people. One travelled to 2017, the other stayed in his original timeline, dating BH and all. So technically HJ we were watching isn't JH's father because he time travelled before fathering him.
Malsook is Lee Soon Tae's granddaughter. His daughter eloped with a man against LST wishes so he disowned her, but Malsook parents died in a car accident soon after and he took care of the kid. That's revealed further down the road and in one of the last episodes he has a vision in which he meets his daughter and they make up.
Kwang Jae is nobody's biological father, but he acts as a father to Ji Hoon. They all live together, because of past connection with their entertainment company. Lee Soon Tae was a boss, Bo Hee a star, Kwang Jae her road manager.
I hope I didn't mix it up, it's been a while since I saw it.
So here's an idea. Why not enjoy the process instead of waiting to confirm an expected solution? Because the process itself is only getting more tangled and nuanced episode after episode, with pro-active, motivated characters playing their games and adjusting to others.
(With that being said, the development with staying silent in the car and making out later was kinda hot. Still felt like he was marking his ground, but.)
Don't start me on music. That's exactly where skimping and lack of subtetly shows the most in dramas.
I'd actually want for dramas not to mimick movies (although I often see 'movie-like' mentioned as a compliment), but going it's own route and using it's own potential by allowing themselves to not stick so much to tested and true formulas but play with them a little more. So not one long movie, but many short ones, each exploring some point of the whole story in a concise, closed form, layering episode after episode. But that's just me and that type of show-making is something we're yet to see here. Hopefully.
A long movie gives me throwback to NIF - one huge, 50 hours piece of television randomly cut into 1 hour chunks. Great on it's own, tiring to watch at once, frustrating to stop watching.
Opening credits are so 90s and I love the whole setting of basement archive <3
So glad it's getting subbed.
/haha, finally! Almost 13 hrs wasn't a total waste of time. He speaks!
Sparing explanation on how two inmates befriended for the sake of having a plot twist was a choice, too. That impression was deliberate. If you watch closely, you'll notice their scenes are disjointed and left hanging. It's hinted they could find a common ground since what happened to the other inmate's sister was an accident (not unlikely since she was unstable too), they came to respect each other's strength through their two fights and most importantly that other woman was cheated too, so they could bond over it behind the scenes. Still imaginable.
As for the first point. I take it as deliberate too. Babysitter's motive was inconsequential, there was no grand, deeply based revenge scheme, but a petty, immature game that cost her life. She blamed Eun Joo for her family falling apart because it was convenient for her. There's nothing to explore about that backstory. Her father might or might not have a crush on EJ that she wasn't even aware of and doesn't recall after years.