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Youths Over Flowers in Africa: Episode 7 (Final)

girlfriday: So the final “director’s cut” episode starts out with a brief recap of the trip thus far, along with a caption apology from the PD for the mistakes made (in reference to wearing robes in the restaurant and the swimming pool scene at the hotel).

javabeans: I know it’s just a formality, but it’s a good thing they acknowledged it — I think it was weird they didn’t apologize in last week’s episode, actually, but in any case the thing was a tempest in a teapot and it’s pretty much over now.

girlfriday: Yeah in variety it’s best to acknowledge it right away with an apology in the next episode, and the whole thing blows over. I’ve seen them do it enough times on Infinity Challenge to know that it’s just a regular part of variety shows and the expectation from the audience.

javabeans: Looking back at these clips of all their adventures, particularly last week’s rafting and bungee-jumping, I think the boys did fun activities that gave us a lot of things to look at, but things that don’t really recap well — you can spend five minutes watching a lot of exciting-looking footage, but it turns into “they raft on the river and almost capsize a few times.”

girlfriday: Yeah they had a lot of fun doing the cool things; I just wish there had been more of a narrative in the way the episodes were put together.

javabeans: We open on everyone’s arrival at a smallish building in Seoul, where on the rooftop the crew has put together a mock campground. I wonder what building that is. Wouldn’t it be funny if it were the agency’s or something?

girlfriday: It looks like the roof of a restaurant or something, which is odd, but then, so is camping on a roof in the middle of the city.

javabeans: Kyung-pyo arrives thirty minutes early and looks around first, while Jae-hong heads up to the roof with his trusty pot. He hasn’t eaten yet, because the crew told him they’d be eating here. You mean, Jae-hong would be cooking here.

girlfriday: At least this time he’ll have more tools than a tiny butter knife from the airplane? Bo-gum arrives next with a handheld camera, and he says it’s been a month since their trip.

javabeans: It’s so funny to see him bound out of his van shooting the camera crew that’s shooting him.

girlfriday: They’re all awkward again, as if it’s the first day.

javabeans: I know, I was just thinking out strange it is that Bo-gum is speaking super-formally to his hyungs, like they’re his parents’ generation, although his demeanor is warm and huggy. It’s at odds with the honorifics.

girlfriday: It gets a little more comfortable when Joon-yeol arrives, because he talks more freely and asks everyone questions. Bo-gum says he’d like it if they got kidnapped again today, and Kyung-pyo says he’d fail his college courses for sure if that happened a second time.

javabeans: The PD asks what his grades are like, and Jae-hong asks back, “Do you think they’d be any good?”

girlfriday: The hyungs advise him to just go to army first, if his grades are crap anyway. They’re all hungry, so they start cooking right away and Jae-hong says the menu will be meat and fried rice.

javabeans: Joon-yeol and Bo-gum start frying the vegetables, and somehow it starts to get away from them the more they just pile things in that pan, but I suppose fried rice is a forgiving dish?

girlfriday: It’s looking pretty weird. Their first mistake was leaving Joon-yeol alone at the start. But halfway through, Jae-hong just goes to his pot, takes out his African MSG powder, and sprinkles a whole bunch into the pan.

javabeans: While they’re cooking, Kyung-pyo says that Bo-gum actually paid his parents a visit while he was busy filming, just to introduce himself and say hello, and by luck his visit happened to come the morning after Kyung-pyo’s parents had been saying they were sad he didn’t have time to come by more. That’s such a Bo-gum thing to do, isn’t it? It’s kind of an old-fashioned or formal gesture, but he does it like it’s natural, since he’s so so so polite.

girlfriday: Aw, that’s so sweet. It’s extra cute because they played stepbrothers in Answer Me and had the cutest bromance. I would never expect anyone to do that for me in this day and age, but Bo-gum really does seem that thoughtful in his regular life.

javabeans: Yeah, like he does it because he wants to, rather than because it’ll win him brownie points. (Of course, it totally does win him brownie points, but that’s besides the point.) The boys start eating the meat happily, and then take one bite of the fried rice and grimace. Haha, it’s uncooked!

girlfriday: Gack, those are definitely not happy faces. It must be pretty bad, ‘cause fried rice isn’t that hard. I mean, if *I* can make it…

javabeans: They offer it to a staffer, who eats its sloooowly and then laughs, “It’s the worst.”

girlfriday: Bo-gum starts adding red pepper paste to make it better, which seems okay. But THEN, Jae-hong adds a whole bunch of mayo. Agh.

javabeans: Eww, mayo? Maybe these boys did better when they had no ingredients, and just had to cook the one thing. Meat. With MSG. They all agree that everything they ate in Africa was good.

girlfriday: That’s probably because they were starving and that’s all they had. The PD asks what was most memorable about their trip, and they say Victoria Falls. Jae-hong mentions regretting not going on the quad-bike ride through the desert (that did look really fun), and we go back to watch footage of Jae-hong and Kyung-pyo hanging out on the beach that day, with camels and flamingos.

javabeans: That means they missed the sandboarding too, where Joon-yeol and Bo-gum got so sandy they were brushing it off each other with paintbrushes. Aw, I like the cute segment after the sandboarding when Joon-yeol poses for photos, and Bo-gum pretends to be his stylist, interrupting to fix his hair or demand better smiles.

girlfriday: It’s funny because he’s fixing every minor thing like they’re in a studio, except the wind is whipping through the desert, so there’s no way to make every hair fall in place. As they hang out, Joon-yeol asks Bo-gum what he does on his off-time, and Bo-gum says he mostly eats and sleeps, and likes to play the piano or watch movies. Joon-yeol says he mostly likes to wander about, which probably means he hangs out with friends.

javabeans: Bo-gum lights up when Joon-yeol suggests they go bike-riding together in Korea, and gah, it’s so cute how much he likes his hyung. I think Joon-yeol is his hero.

girlfriday: It’s so very cute.

javabeans: Back (to the future) on the rooftop, they open a bottle of Amarula, which they first tried in Africa, which they describe as a sweeter Bailey’s, or a caramel macchiato with milk and a hint of whiskey. In any case, Bo-gum has a sweet tooth and he super likes this drink; I feel like he got a taste for alcohol for the first time on the trip, from the brief glimpses we have of them when they were tipsy. Basically I think he got a taste for everything — it’s like an eye-opener experience for him.

girlfriday: He really does light up when he drinks this liquor, probably because it tastes like candy (mmm… where can I get my hands on some?). The PD mentions how rough the first day was for them, especially for Bo-gum, who missed his flight. We rewind to watch him wait and make a bunch of connecting flights, and every step of the way, flight attendants give him bags and bags of snacks and red pepper paste and all sorts of goodies.

javabeans: It’s kind of hilarious how much loot he was given randomly. But c’mon, he has that pretty face and that baby-like sweetness, I don’t blame them.

girlfriday: I love how jealous the hyungs are, especially Kyung-pyo, who rifles through the bags and wonders what Bo-gum did to get such special treatment.

javabeans: We get this whole montage that gets funnier the longer it goes on: “Hyung, eat this cookie from the flight attendant.” “Is this from the flight attendant too?” “HOW many flight attendants were there?” “Something’s fishy about those flight attendants.” “Do you suppose it’s because it was Bo-gummie?” At one point the hyungs just congratulate him.

girlfriday: “Is this from a flight attendant too? Don’t you think this counts as a [love] confession at this point?”

javabeans: Present-day Bo-gum thanks Kyung-pyo for buying him that dinner that day he was supposed to arrive — this special was shot after the show aired, so he’s seen the footage — and the hyungs reply that he sure was eating pasta and pizza deliciously at the airport while missing his flight, which he left out of the story back then. Haha.

girlfriday: Hee, well that’s just smart. You don’t want to arrive and be rubbing your delicious dinner in the hyungs’ faces. But seriously, Bo-gum eats a lot. Where does it all go? Meanwhile, the hyungs are at the airport wishing they could buy a drink, but all they have in their pockets is leftover spending money from their cast trip in Thailand.

javabeans: Poor Jae-hong, he loses the game of not-it (aka rock-scissors-paper) and the other guys are happy to sit it out while he tries to pay in bahts and gets denied and has to try to explain in broken English.

girlfriday: But then that leads to the better idea that they should just exchange their baht for dollars, and they proceed to act all stiff and awkward around the PDs, giving all sorts of fake excuses to try and sneak off to the currency exchange counter.

javabeans: Lol, are they lying because it technically doesn’t come from their budget? They wait at the currency counter and when a PD asks what they’re doing, they lie baldly, “We’re going to go to the restroom.”

girlfriday: They succeed in getting 92 dollars out of the exchange, which baffles me, because they totally ran out of money at the end of their trip!

javabeans: Remember that seafood and wine dinner they had on the beach, where they said they’d feast tonight and then skip meals later? And then that became truth?

girlfriday: Yeah that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Apparently the boys tried to con the PDs multiple times, and I wonder why we’re only seeing this now, because it would’ve been more entertaining with all of this included.

javabeans: Why would you save that for the after-show special?

girlfriday: I don’t know. At one point, the boys are told to look up their first hotel and make a reservation, and Joon-yeol tries to use his personal credit card to make the charge. He’d make a terrible criminal, because he starts stammering the second he does this.

javabeans: Also, they’re the opposite of smooth about it — when a VJ creeps behind him, he covers his phone screen and looks around shiftily.

girlfriday: A minute later he gets a text and the boys all start cracking up. Na PD finally walks over to see for himself, and demands that they get a shot of this: The text says he used the wrong password, so his credit card has been frozen for security purposes. Lol.

javabeans: Joon-yeol starts to explain to Na PD, “In the Laos trip, [Yoo] Yeon-seok sunbae-nim…” (…successfully conned Na PD by using Paypal to circumvent the payment process, is what he means). Na PD cuts in: “Don’t learn stuff like that! What’s with all you Answer Me kids?”

girlfriday: Hee. But now I think more of him for at least trying.

javabeans: That must have been why Joon-yeol had been frantically texting just before, and now I understand the text exchange with his manager that got leaked — he’d been begging for his card and wallet, but his manager ignored him.

girlfriday: Oh yeah, I remember seeing this text exchange in the news before the show aired.

javabeans: I’m confused as to why we’re seeing fun bits of episodes here, and not even cutting back to the after-trip scenes as a framing device. If we were cutting back and forth with comments to tie them together, I’d understand at least that these are fragments that didn’t fit in, but when you spend these huge chunks of time on trip stuff, it should have just been in the episode.

girlfriday: It would’ve made the earlier episodes better, so it’s definitely an odd choice.

javabeans: Do you think Na PD edited this episode, and someone else did the rest?

girlfriday: I honestly think someone else edited the whole show.

javabeans: In any case, while the boys are failing to con Na PD, we see Bo-gum make his way to the airport extremely early the next day, half-scared he’s going to miss his flight again. He laugh-sighs to read the gate number he misread yesterday, “I think I’m going to get airport trauma from this.”

girlfriday: It’s pretty comical how many times he reads the screen, second-guessing what the gate number means, as if it could mean something else. Then we cut back to the present-day rooftop camp, and Jae-hong mentions being sad about missing Cape Cross, where there’s a huge colony of seals that live on the beach, and also Deadvlei.

javabeans: It’s not that they didn’t have the chance to go — they thought they did get there, but only got as far as the entrance before leaving! Hahaha. They even got out at the parking lot and chatted with travelers there. They got their car stuck in the sand too, and had to push it out.

girlfriday: And after that, the PDs had interviewed Joon-yeol and asked how Deadvlei was and what he thought of it, and he was kind of half-sure he’d gone, and just started describing it in generic desert terms. He really is a terrible liar.

javabeans: Jae-hong says the show was the first time he’s seen/heard his own snoring (which was thunderous), and says he recently slept over at Kyung-pyo’s house, and Kyung-pyo gave him the bed and slept in the sleeping bag he’d bought in Namibia. I like that they seem like friends in real life. Kyung-pyo: “I still have [the bag] spread out at home!” Jae-hong, with a grimace: “His house is incredibly messy.”

girlfriday: At one point in the trip, they’re just in the car and they start playing a game of pinpointing each other’s nipples under their shirts (why is this a game?).

javabeans: The PD did bring it up by saying they played a lot of “strange games.”

girlfriday: They also ask the boys about their favorite meal, and they bring up the first night when they made ramyun. It looks questionable to begin with when they only cook the noodles, but then Jae-hong decides to add butter… my insides are curdling.

javabeans: Is that the meal where they were hungriest?

girlfriday: It’s the only explanation. There’s more food stuff, and then we get a really cool moment where they come across an elephant family just crossing the road in front of their car. Again I’m like, why didn’t we see this right away during the trip?

javabeans: Because Na PD decided to step back and let a hoobae take the reins and clearly he can never sleep again, because he can’t step away for one goddamned moment before everything goes down the drain. Also, I love elephants. They’re so beautiful and wise. I would have appreciated a better background song than “MMMBop.”

girlfriday: What, you don’t see the deeper meaning behind that song?

javabeans: If you can find one, you’re clearly high or drunk. No judgment. Just sayin’.

girlfriday: In my defense, you are drinking just as much as I am right now.

javabeans: In my defense, I know better than to defend the merits of Hanson.

girlfriday: Is that what I was doing? Well clearly, I’m drunk then. I blame you. Meanwhile, the PDs bring up all the great footage that the boys got on the trip with their own cameras and whatnot, and we get a montage of what they captured along the way.

javabeans: Then there’s a scene from when Bo-gum was still on his own, trying to figure out if he needed to buy extra data and feeling worried because the explanation was given in English and he didn’t fully understand. In the end, someone (a traveler?) gives him the translation, and when Bo-gum thanks him profusely for the help, he says, “I’m your fan.” HAHAHA. Where would Bo-gum have been without all the extra love? Certainly hungrier and with less data.

girlfriday: It’s just lucky that he’s so beloved.

javabeans: Though not difficult to see why. Most of the time in variety I leave with a stronger impression of what I already felt — I thought Jung Woo was goofy and extroverted, for instance, and the trip just confirmed that. But with Bo-gum, I feel like I’m seeing way more than I ever thought I would see, and can’t believe he’s that nice and baby-like.

girlfriday: He’s like a mini Joo-won. Raised by Seung-gi’s parents. I like when Kyung-pyo talks about his favorite part of the trip being just sleeping with other people around and sharing that day’s tiredness together, because he lives alone and feels loneliest when he comes home from a long day and has no one to share that with.

javabeans: They show him becoming more open as the trip went on, and I wonder if the trip helped him on a personal level. I did feel he was the most closed-off of the four, and sometimes that was disappointing, because I really enjoy him as a comic actor and wanted to like him more than I did. But I can see how he had more of a wall throughout the show.

girlfriday: Yeah I felt the least connected to him of all the guys, and thought that was strange when as an actor, he’s so emotionally open and approachable.

javabeans: He says that one thing that changed for him was the feeling that you should live in the moment — he says he tends to be lazy and figures that he can do things later, but now feels that there are things that pass you by that you can’t get back. It’s a sentiment shared by the others as we close the show on more scenes of their trip and thoughts on how special it was.

girlfriday: And that’s a wrap on another season of Youths Over Flowers!

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I felt the same loss of Na PD's touch and it became more apparent as the episodes went by. The show seemed more like an extended montage of the trip poorly stringed together rather than having a cohesive and compelling narrative :/ But this particular episode did bring the laughs and the heart and I'm thankful for that. Only wished it were the same for the previous episodes. Thanks for the recap!

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if I'm not mistaken, Na PD said on their press conference that the one who do the editing is his hoobae, Lee Jin Joo PD.. so I guess that explains the loss of Na PD's touch.

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Thanks for the recap!!

I agree that the Africa version is lacking in narrative & conflict(?). The only thing I remember was during Park Bo Gum's accident & Joon-Yeol talking about his parent with Bo Gum.

But the highlight of Africa season is the bromance between them, the Answer Me cast.

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And I always like it when Na PD is on the screen.. (but yeah, I tend to compare this with GOF & TMAD where you can see him bickering with the cast)

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Bogum is like an endangered species. These guys are so close with each other I love it!

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Hahahaha~ So true!

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Yes guys like him remain in limited quantity. Get yours before they run out!

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Why do I feel so cheated T_T

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Thank you so much for the recaps
I always enjoy Na PD trip show

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I haven't watched this episode, but from this recap, seems like it's a good wrap-up.

I personally loved YOF in Africa, maybe more than the other YOFs. Okay, I loved Iceland too because I am Ha-neul's fan, but it didn't give me a sense of attachment like Africa with the AM1988 boys. Yes, the show itself lacks...something...I'm not really sure. Maybe a compelling narrative, like what everybody's been saying. But still, I didn't mind watching Bogum and his hyungs driving around doing nothing but singing, dancing & sleeping LOL I guess I love them too much haha

What I found interesting in this installment is that the boys were kidnapped with no previous clue whatsoever that they would be in this show, and going to Africa of all places. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Iceland guys were told beforehand about them being cast in YOF, so at least they were mentally prepared. They just didn't know when they will start filming and where. I'm not sure about Peru & Laos.
So it was interesting watching them adapt from being completely blind into the show to completely enjoying themselves in the end.

Aw, now it's over. I guess it's time to really move on from the Ssangmundong gang, huh? :( I'll definitely miss them... looking forward to their next projects, including Na PD's! Oh, and thanks for the recaps!

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Peru guys was older so they knew beforehand that they're going. But not that day. They even knew who they were going with. They thought they're going next week or tomorrow I think.
Laos boys didn't knew they were going. Exactky like Namibian boys they were tricked that they had cf and interview and bammm...your flight is like 3 hours from now.
But Laos is close so they practically didn't as suffered as Namibian boys which spent at least 4 days for the flight only (including transit time ).
Iceland boys knew they're casted just they didn't knew with whom and when.
And yes Namibian boys didn't knew everything and Africa is the farthest and they practically didn't knew anything about it which should make this journey interesting but the editing fail to show us

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Haha the rooftop camp reminded me of the last time I was in Korea. I decided to visit Seoul for a weekend (I was living in a different part of the country that summer) and I booked a room in a hostel somewhere in Hongdae that boasted a great view of the city. Anyway so I get there, and the owner ahjussi says he'll show me to my room, so I follow him up the stairs... and up more stairs.... and up more stairs... and through a door onto the roof of the building, where there are about half a dozen single person tents set up.

Um, but yeah. I agree that this installment of YOF felt a little off and... loose, I guess? Compared to the other seasons.. but I think, maybe because these guys are just so much fun to watch, it was still enjoyable. :)

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Whatever flaws this season of YOF might have had (not that I personally liked it any less than other seasons), I think what matters the most is that for the four boys it was a really meaningful trip (cementing their friendships & giving them experiences that at least some of them never dared to imagine).

Maybe it didn't translate into the same viewer satisfaction or ratings and maybe Na PD would have edited it better, but the boys seemed to have gotten a lot out of it, and I can be happy for them just for that.

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Aww, so this is really the end. Whether the show was lacking the Na PD's touch or the variety factor, I still love it from the beginning to the end. Rather than being entertained by the boys' humor or antics, I like it even more that they shine the most when they are together and they become even more reliable, grateful, and caring after this trip.

But in essence, Bogum fell in love with Junghwan and that's the most precious thing ╮(╯▽╰)╭ .

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when i think of bo gum throughout this season of youths over flowers, i think of lee seung gi's guest appearance on the producers with cha tae hyun and gong hyo jin. bo gum really must be part of the exclusive extremely nice celebrity club with lsg and mc yoo (among others) and competes to see which among them can donate the most money (when angry if i remember correctly).

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Lee seunggi and Yoo jaesuk is nice, but not naive.
Bogum is naive..sorry to say that.

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thank you for recapping this GF&JB!
you guys said exactly what I was thinking when I watch the show: why don't they include those scenes on the episode?! and I also really agree about Go Kyung Pyo. I dont dislike him, but I don't like him either (does that even make sense?) I mean, even after watching 7 episodes of him in it I really still don't have a picture of what kind of person he really is?
anddd omg Bogum is such a hyung-babo. so adorable! looove seeing his scenes with Junyeol. maybe because Junyeol is super hyung-like and Bogum is such a baby and them together is just SO cute.

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we just dont know what must feel with Kyungpyo, because he didnt let us know what we should feel. he closed himself, and choose open it only with Jaehong i think.
Junyeol know him, but not on personnal level..just hang out friends (or learning together friends) and Bogum know him as work collague..so yeah..even to friends that he know for years he didnt let them know how he feel.

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I may be in the minority for having Noonas Over Flowers as my fave, haha. But I love these guys so much I could watch them keep on doing what they did these last 6-7 eps. I can see how peeps might find it boring. About half the footage was in a car or in the hotel. It could have been better with more of Na PD's hand.

In any case, love these guys.

(And, ahhhhhhjh!!!! RJY is wearing a Seattle Mariners cap XD)

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Also... everything PBG does makes me love him more. Seriously.

And, I agree: all the cuts in this ep.... shouldn't have been cut and just been included. I mean, watching LSJ con the staff was fun... why not show us to begin with that these guys have watched and learned a bit from their predecessors, lol. XD

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among all youth over flowers series, this one is a little bit uninteresting to me. i dont know why. unlike the previous reply cast, despite of the adventurous african plain, this one feels more like picnic than backpacking which imo is less adventurous.
maybe because there is 4 people which too many. because i like the first youth series (peru+laos) more with 3 casts.
but grandpas and noonas are great with a lot casts so i dont really know why actually.

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maybe it was the editing but yeah this was the least...my favorite is the peru, and the grandpas, yay!!! when are they coming back?

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loved the peru - so insightful and the adorkable grandpas.

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Thanks a lot for the recaps.

I've been watching the episodes raw, so without the recaps I wouldn't have been able to understand what was going on most of the time.

I haven't seen any variety shows before the YoF franchise, but for me this was entertaining enough to watch raw (which may have a lot to do with my obsession with the Reply Series, especially 1997 and 1988)

Anyways, loved the friendship of these guys, and loved most of all RYL and PBG's relationship. They are like true brothers who love each other very much.

Regarding all the freebies PBG got from the stewardesses, I am surprised none of the guys teased him for having a thing with stewardesses since Deok Sun was one in R88. LOL

Also, I think PBG (much like Taek) is the quiet but deadly kind of guy. He seems shy and reserved, but has an intensity about him that along with his pretty face and kindness, is very appealing to a lot of women. He doesn't even have to try to have women tripping themselves to help him in any way ?

Thanks again !

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I hope Na PD wasn't sick. It seemed like it though: up until ep 2, there was the magic touch, and then amusing but no heart, and even the questions during the last wrap up were so bland and so expected - nothing sharp or insightful about the questions the writers/productions were asking the members. I would guess that Na PD did ep 1 and ep 2 and editing for the last episode, even if he wasn't there for the actual final filming of it.

Ah ~ Three Meals, Over Flowers - when will the next season be??!

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he was there. there was his photos with the cast (they wore the clothes in the final episode on the rooftop).

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Thanks much for the recaps.~ I totally love these guys and I enjoyed this trip with them. Wish them a good journey in their careers too. ^^

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Maybe NaPD got too busy with ShinSeoYugi. He really needs to take a break.

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The more I wonder how come Park Bo Gum knows how to kiss.

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About kyung pyo, i dont really see anything wrong with how he is, not many people can be open n carefree like others unless they r with close friends. I guess it shows he's a good actor for us to be surprised he is actually a reserved person.

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The problem w/ YoF Africa was it was more like a travel/sightseeing show than a "reality" show w/ a narrative and suspense.

Part of it was geography (too much travel from one place to another time, unlike say Laos) and part of it was the lack of suspense as to where they were going to stay the night and what the meals were going to be.

Also, really didn't have much interaction w/ the locals (such as going to the markets - since it was more of an "outdoorsy" trip) and while the guys were cool and had fun, there wasn't that driving, quirky personality such as Son Ho-jun during the Laos trip.

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I just finished watching the final episode. YoF Iceland and Africa were the only ones I watched of the Over Flowers series since I got cable not too long ago (although I read recaps of YoF Laos and NoF).

Unlike many of you, I love YoF Africa and I didn't even watch Answer Me 1988. Probably that's one advantage of not watching the previous shows. I couldn't compare.

Anyway, I love the show, and thanks for the recaps which I read afterward.

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I'm surprised that everyone liked the other Youth over Flowers travels better. I have only watched this one and part of the Iceland trip bc I was so dissapointed with it after having watched this one first that I could not continue.

The whole thing felt so natural and happy. You could tell that they really liked each other, and Namibia, and Victoria falls, and everything they cooked, and the alcohol, and every animal, and the fellow campers they depended on for survival... I did not expect them to be so happy and full of awe and natural and comfortable around each other, laughing and giggling and acting stupid, hugging and kissing and being considerate for each other, it made me feel warm and relaxed watching this.

In other reality travel shows I have seen celebrities being stingy about money, always bickering, obviously annoyed at each other bc somebody did something that somebody else did not like, or everyone just felt wronged bc they had the feeling that theey were deprived of something that they should have gotten, also everyone being very uncomfortable around everyone, or just plain despairing bc they fail at hotel booking or cooking.... There were also many things on this trip where they could have started blaming each other or complaining about each other but none of them did that, you could clearly see that none of them even looked sourly or strained trying not to start a fight. They were just... happy. And I was happy watching them :D

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Where can I watch episode 7? Please help

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