I know we were only semi-joking about the second couple being the real OTP but going by these recaps they're the ones with the believable romance and connection to the plot while our leads are basically frolicking like a bunch of narcissists.

Generally db is rated G so I'll resist any jokes about Oppa filling her hole...

Gahhhh. I have 8 or 4 more episodes to catch up! I can do this!

I could not get over all the screaming Jo Boa is doing. My ears are still ringing from her prolonged scream at naked roommate, and in these episodes there was much more screaming. They hit a water-filled pothole and the spray splashes the windshield and she screams and flails. The thunder rumbles outside, there is a flash of lightning and she screams and flails. She falls into a pool and REALLY screams and flails. Instead of feeling for her, I wonder a) how she managed to function in the real world until now (outside a safe room) and b) what thunder and lightning have to do with the car suicide plunge and c) why the rainstorm, where they cheerily biked amidst the droplets and then smooched under a bridge, did not seem to phase her at all.
But there I go again, trying to make sense of it all.

I do have a new theory, though: the writer has been drinking arsenic-laced water. Somebody check his knees, quick.

There are people still watching this drama?

These two episodes almost drove me over the edge.

I knew Dr. YJ was a screecher, but, boy, oh boy, she outdid herself this time. She shrieked at the start of Episode 23, and the screeching continued all the way to that bizarre fall in the pool. The fakest, most contrived stumble-and-fall scene ever. Oppa had to jump in and rescue her, and pull her up, screaming, of course. There was a miniscule second where she had to take a breath because she had screamed so much, and whoa, next second, she's recharged and screaming her lungs out. Again. She screeched in the car when he ran over a pothole. Screeched again in the thunderstorm when she spotted the bad guy. So. Much. Screaming.

The dating scenes almost did me in.

The good doctor , a grown woman, who has had a live-in relationship with her ex, acts like a bashful little Candy, hops off her bike, totters cutely to Oppa and kisses him oh-so-coyly on his cheek. Runs off shyly, leaps back on her bike and goes WHEEEEE - ing down the path. That's when I started screaming.

I had a bad feeling when Oppa woke up and smiled at the sun in his cleavage-baring green tee. True enough, it was a prelude to the forest walks. It was bad enough when she walked about alone, talking to the trees with an inane smile pasted on her face. Now, we have Oppa doing the same thing, except Oppa was talking in his head. They kept walking. And walking. And then they started cycling. And smiling. By the time they fell asleep, my mind was numb. Numb from disbelief at the aimlessness of the whole thing.

Don't even get me started on the supermarket shopping. The way she hopped on the trolley, and ran like a maniac to the samples, and the way they tossed stuff into the trolley, the cutesy voice, the eyelash batting...oh, man. I just...it was hard to watch. Again, who does this???? Who acts like this?

The kiss in the rain was good, though. Oppa's a great kisser. My heart fluttered, and I thought, This show could have been so much better. Then they go home, and Oppa is exercising madly to contain his raging hormones, while she's doing the same thing, bug eyes and all, in the next room. Wow. A grown adult couple, acting like a pair of horny teenagers. Just. Bizzare.

The pothole scene was...bizarre. And then Oppa proceeded to fill them up. I was like, what???? AND...next scene, she rides PAST them with a blissful smile on her face. I can't even.

Wildlife Count: All living.

1. Chipmunks. Three. The first in the trees. The second on the tree roots. The third on a patch of fallen leaves. May be siblings, or the same chipmunk in varying shots. Sex: Undetermined.

2. Butterfly. One. Black. Fluttering.

3. Dragonfly. One. White. Resting.

4. Fireflies. Ten. Bright yellow-orange. Glowing.

So, arsenic ... where does that lead us?

Well, arsenic leads me to the movie “Arsenic and Old Lace” which actually fits our story! A key plot element involves the baddies making holes in the ground and filling it to hide their evil deeds. A second key plot point is an old kdrama favorite, a birth secret.

Forest certainly has at least one mysterious hole that was filled...with something. The prosaic might point to the use of arsenic in semiconductor manufacturing which would fit the Hi-Tech part of the baddies’ corporate name. Assuming we aren’t prosaic, what else could it be? I think it May well be the mutant squirrels hiding their cache of land clams. Of course, it could be a hole the clams made to hide from the mutant squirrels and their ToD. Hmmm...either way, it’s clams in that hole!

So, the question begs itself - which of our characters has a birth secret? In the movie, the OTP are able to be together only because of the birth secret. Who is it in Forest? And what is the nature of the secret? Does it involve the OTP - the lovely forest warden and her handsome 119 rescuer and heir to the forestry company? Or are the secondary couple of the Screechy Doctor and the M&A wizard who looks like a hero? Could one (or Gasp both of them) be Clam Zombies? Oh, the waiting, the waiting!

Aaaarrrrrggghhhh!

For this week’s totally physically impossible event we see that Evil Big Corporation has workers show up at San-hyuk’s headquarters, use a rotating saw to cut a square hole in the building- 3 stories up at that-and then use a forklift to lift the wall and the safe out in order to steal it. My first thought was: No one was going to notice what was happening? Now let us get into the physical problems with this:

First, that safe was not palletized- how do you get the tungs of the forklift under it?

Second, and more to the point, the safe is also attached to the floor- and it is very heavy. Cutting the walls does not cut the floor, assuming that you get the tungs of the forklift under both safe and floor you are still talking about trying to rip it out of there- which means a huge amount of force that you simply cannot apply this way (instead you just end up pulling the tungs back out). Assuming that you can keep the tungs in place then when the floor give way there is a backlash as the energy is released and the forklift flips backwards with the wall and the safe- probably killing the workers but also hopelessly damaging the safe- it would be bent into an impossible shape and you can never get it open, assuming that the police would allow you to cart it off after arriving at the scene of this fatal accident.

I know that K-dramaland has cash problems these days but the controller who zeroed out the budget for technical consultants for this show should be fired.

The writers took a lot of time in these episode showing us our Official OTP being in love. And I just do not feel it. They gave us just a few minutes of Choi Chang and Bo-mi trying to make out- and getting caught by Choi Chang’s father: This was totally believable and funny. Choi Chang and Bo-mi may not be the Official OTP in this show but they are definitely the real OTP. As for Chang-choi’s father's opposition to Bo-mi I have to think that is really because of her job. If my son met a girl like Bo-mi you can just bet that I would be encouraging him to marry her before someone else does.