The Light In Your Eyes POST SCRIPT 2
Some ranty shitpost things from my stream of consciousness keep note live reaction:

1) In Howlโ€™s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Sophie Hatter, a 17 year old girl becomes an old woman, because of a curse. And did Sophie sit around and mope for two months when she got cursed by the witch of the waste? No, she did not.
She went out and tried to find a solution and she was badass about it and when there didn’t seem to be a simple or direct solution she sucked it up and continued on with life anyway because she’s not a limp dishrag. In this essay I will-
2) โ€œIt better be the best twist in the entire world because right now I’m questioning whether or not she should even get a second chanceโ€
3) It was not the best twist in the entire world
4) This director loves, and I mean, ABSOLUTELY LOVES shooting conversations through windows or the equivalent of. His technique is enjoyable at first but by episode ten it was starting to piss me off
5) This show would be 100 x better as a movie
6) Brother drinking his own pee is not even the grossest thing dream brother did in this show but it did make me think of an Australian Outback joke my dad used to tell me that I should tell you one time.
7) Never use and elevator in the event of a fire.
8) “yeah deaths a bitch love but it’s part of life that’s the whole pointโ€- Sic at some point during episode 8
9) NJH: has high melanin content and gorgeous honey skin
Joon Ha: is going to RUSSIA to see the northern lights (which are most common at the equinoxes), and it’s heading into winter in this show so there’ll be no sun
Old Hye Ja: dID He tAKE hIs sUNSCREen tO RUSSIA?!!! He mIGHT buRN cos hE has pALE sKIN
Me: Wtf
10) Mullet NJH is not a look
11) Fortunetellers are just as bad as hack prophecies and should be erased from Kdrama trope canon
12) I felt more during the Alzheimers sub plot in the CDrama โ€œWhen We Were Youngโ€ than at any point during this
13) I checked out of this show emotionally by episode 11
14) You know
If I’m being honest
I would’ve preferred a drama about a woman in the 70s who loses her husband tragically and becomes bitter toward her disabled child and who eventually gets Alzheimer’s and forgets everyone
Than have 10 episodes of distorted Alzheimer’s memories and 2 episodes of real story
Then! I might feel something
Just saying
15) who was Lady Chanel? Who was she in real life? Why was her story and her asshole son and suicide and relationship to Joon Ha important??? Why did we spend so long on that and why did I feel more in that entire subplot than in the last episode?
16) Why did we spend half an episode of the lady with the TARDIS/Mary Poppins skirt and her dead daughter instead of learning more about Joon Ha?
17) *Reasons sic can’t love this drama: it reminds her too much of high school and high school sucked.*
18) How is this 12 episodes and SOMEHOW still too long.

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    Totally with you on 5) and 14)
    Itโ€™s one drama where I think going in with spoilers would have made it more interesting and enjoyable. I didnโ€™t want to spoil it for you, but I too had similar reactions.

    I asked 15) in the recap discussion but never got an answer. ๐Ÿคท🏻โ€โ™€๏ธ

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      I doubt I would’ve watched it if I had known about the spoilers to be honest. Or well I might’ve but I might’ve dropped it from boredom.
      #15… Makes me wonder if they had other ideas for the direction of this show at some point.
      I did keep wondering if they had kept the time travel thing, if there was to be no going back and it was just gonna be her helping everyone live better and then die.

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