Memories of the Alhambra.. Sometimes it’s too scary. Sometimes it’s sad. I don’t know how to describe my feeling but one thing I’m certain is that I feel Jin Woo. He must be in an indescribable pain.

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    Did you already watch the episode? I just want to discuss it so badly

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      Hi @nerdy i watched it. Want to discuss it too.

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        Did this ending felt weird to you too? I mean, it was too romantic for their current relationship.
        At the moment, I think we can all agree that Hee Joo is more invested in this relationship than Jin Woo (before the big run he didn’t even remember about her, and I believed him when he said that it was drugs speaking in him when he called Hee Joo).
        I think I am the only one who likes our female lead. I mean, she is mostly a doormat and a candy female lead, but she is literally what Jin Woo needs. I doubt he would have trusted someone who is more….loud than her.
        Also, storywise I like that Jin Woo got psychological issues, after his experience it would have been unrealistic if he were perfectly sane.
        We have zero progress about the game, I hope this changes and Emma would appear again.
        What about you? What did you think about the episode?

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          Me too. I want to discuss too~

          I’m not feeling it. I had doubts with ep 5. But ep 6 was all over the place with minimal plot progress and lingering shots. JW is now a drug addict addicted to sleeping pills. Not feeling the romance either. It feels shoved in. HJ is invested with JW. I dont know how JW feels. But i do see that JW is nearly always over the edge since Cha’s death.

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            I suspect Jin Woo was also drinking a lot, the wine bottle was empty. On a more optimistic side, I don’t think it would be a plot device for long, Jin Woo’s addiction would probably get cured when he gets back to Korea. The game is set in Granada. I was actually wondering why he didn’t left sooner but it seems like he was too physically weak for that.
            Actually, before the ending I didn’t take Hee Joo’s crush all that seriously, I think it has to do with the fact that the story is from Jin Woo’s perspective. From what she knows- he is charming, handsome, and helped her at the moment of need, he was the victim in his last two relationships, is fragile and feeds her hero complex (or whatever woman feel when they see the damaged guy…or what we felt while watching Just Between Lovers). I don’t think her feelings are all that right, but she has little experience or social life outside her jobs so it is understandable that she likes him.
            Jin Woo probably likes her at some degree? But not enough to give it much thought

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            @nerdy
            Hi both of you. My apologies for coming so late and you guys have already left the discussions here XD. I think JW drank a lot and took a lot of pills because sometimes, during this kind of time, people just don’t wanna be awake. I kinda understand that feeling. When you mind tricks you, you know that you’re being tricked but you just can’t do anything. And waking up, sometimes, are a more dreadful nightmare. So points to these particular things they put in the show. They make sense. And yes, I do agree that if the game is limited to Granada, JW should be fine, better in S Korea, thus does not have to take sleeping pills/consume alcohol like he did in Granada.

            For HJ, yes, I do agree that she cares very much for JW. He was a prince charming to her, who threw a ten billion won to her so easily. He helped her get out of her and her family poverty, and now somehow he’s almost deranged. She surely thinks that something has gone so wrong, and perhaps she thinks that it’s related to him buying that house from her. Seeing a person mentally collapsing in front of her eyes is surely something devastating. I feel her.

            But for JW, I think the portrayal of JW by HB is quite confusing here. I would’t expect him to develop any kind/degree of love interest in HJ in this period that the normality of his mental health is being questioned, and him being run after by an enemy- used to be closest friend dead person NPC. So I feel like the scene that he told his secretary to send HJ a very big banquet of red roses is quite out of his character.

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            @mmmmm
            I actually thought that roses were only a gratitude gift for a nice girl. Considering how much she cared about him it would have been weird if he didn’t give her anything, flowers or accecories seem like an obvious gift choices. Poor Hee Joo obviously misunderstood him or thought that their relationship was going somewhere.
            I am with you on saying that Jin Woo is not at the place where he can think about romantic relationships. He was touched by her kindness, but I think that’s it (at least now)

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            @nerdy
            I don’t know if it’s only me, a banquet of flowers/even roses is one thing, but a banquet of only red roses is quite another. I feel like a banquet of only red roses can only indicate romantic feeling. Perhaps other may think differently. 🙂

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          I think it would’ve been better if we started this discussion elsewhere because we don’t know if mmmmm has watched the episode and this is her post but now that we are already on it I’ll add my thoughts. I should’ve mentioned that in the previous comment, my fault. But yeah I think we will see progress in the next episode. What I guess is that the game progresses in Korea too now. Regarding the whole romantic connection, it’s off. They specially HJ have nothing really to force that romantic relationship. I don’t why she is in any way so attached to him when all he did was buy her house. But yes maybe her looking after him might incite some feelings in him. What surprised me more that time has certainly passed away and the family still didn’t care where Se Ju is. Also as we are in Korea next week, I hope they do show that they searched for him at least. Shifting a country without caring about him would be so absurd. Even if these 2 episodes were slower for me I think they were important to show the effects of the game but all that could still be shown in half an episode. Hoping for more progress next episode. Plus we are not a year apart yet right? Them coming back to Korea perhaps happens within the year right? The timeline has confused me for the first time.

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            Probably them going to Korea would be after a year.
            And Se-Joo. I absolutely forgot about him. I hope we get to find him sooner. He is probably the only one who can solve this mess with Jin Woo. And yes, it very weird that family cares that little about underage guy dissapearing for at least two week.

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            I’m not sure if this is correct, but it seems like some beanies suggest that the ep.1-ep.6 is within the two-three day period? Can that be possible?

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            I think they are saying that regarding the dialogue by JW, that I’ve met her only 2 days before–it was sth like this. I think it was used metaphorically. That a person that I’ve met merely a short period of time ago how can she fall for me. So that’s not just two days. Plus I think the now timeline in Korea is not the next year we were shown in last scenes of ep 2, it is perhaps a few months after ep 6.

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    I am sorry mmmmm, I think I ended up bombing your comment section.

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      No, it’s so fine. Don’t you worry about that :D!

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