I swear that this is obviously a fake chicken nugget ends up being a plot point in the final episode… But I’m not ready to do any deep intellectualizing of this drama 😅
I’m so glad I’m not the only repulsed by the brain-like meatball. No wonder I dropped it. If I’m gonna root for a chicken nugget, it better be darn cute.
I’m going to post this somewhere more public too, but…did you ever have one of those movies in high school that was a cult-classic for its lines and (if we had had them then) memes?
That’s Chicken Nugget. I keep remembering scenes and lines and smiling, and I know exactly which gestures and facial expressions I’d gif if I had the time and the community who cared to laugh with me.
@attiton I’d name some of said cult classics but then I’d date myself in a big way. Ok, maybe even admitting we had numerous, quotable cult classics is probably dating me 😜
Maybe I’m thinking of this drama, https://mydramalist.com/7327-who-are-you-2013
No idea why I thought it had Jang Nara. Ironically it has So Yi-hyun, Jang Nara’s costar in My Happy Ending.
Unless of course this head drama with Jang Nara and Taecyeon does exist
Yes it’s “who are you” and it was the first time I saw Kim jea wook, he was playing as FL descead husband who was also a cop, and teacyeon saw him and start talking to him. I remember 1 of the victims that he saw was Moon Gayuong. I really liked this drama back then, but I stopped watching it around ep 6 to 8, I don’t know why
he is such a cool wind among all the (supposed) mayhem in this drama… esp hus english spontaneous English here and there.. real fun..
though i am loving this drama for not being too serious just my kind of fun n comedy
In this sequel to Marry My Husband, the Truck of Doom travels back in time and gets its revenge against script writers that forced it into poor narrative twists…
Explain what?
That this woman is not his fiancee?
What is going on here?
Why is she outraged that somebody he isn’t engaged to anymore wants to speak with him?
Yes, I already shortly commented on my fanwall that I wasn’t happy with the episode.
I don’t know the original novel / webtoon, but the drama should have taken more liberty at this point.
Internal monologue:
Does he… not know what the word means?
Should I define misogyny for him?
It is possible he doesn’t know what it means.
Or does he know but just not realise he is one?
Should I give him examples of…
You know, “gynaecologist”? That’s like, a doctor who specializes in ladies’ parts, and and that’s because gyn… women-something.
And the Miso … in this case, it does not mean “lovely soup”, so I get how that can be confusing. It actually has a Greek origin, (not to confuse with latin minus makes part of e.g. “misunderstanding” or North Europian misse meaning “bad” ) , so, from Greek origin and the verb misein , “to hate”.
So, misogyny means “to hate women”, and misogynist is someone who does that. Usually used about people who subscribe to women having less full human, individual value than men, – and among that kind of misogynist there are a good deal who sincerely believe that is not hateful towards women.
Oh, DIsclaimer! I am imagining the answer to the question, I am not doing this to ‘splain all of you guys till your ears bleed. I was just trying to be funny.
I have two episodes of Numbers left to watch and I know some have \”enjoyed\” my breathtaking watch of this classic psychological thriller involving accountants and their high-speed car chases, murders and falling file boxes of doom.
Nonetheless, having attempted the penultimate episode of the show, my eyes have rolled back so far into my head that I can no longer see.
Maybe I inhaled methanol dust. Maybe I came too close to the singularity causing the temporal anomaly in the office\’s elevators.
Hopefully it\’s just temporary and I can resume normal programming soon.
I\’m terribly worried about *checks notes* this evil accountant taking over the entire Korean economy and causing another International Monetary crisis.
Truly when a private equity fund uses an accounting firm they can DO ANYTHING.
I found it helpful to think of the final episodes as a condensed two-hour movie version of the rest of the series. That makes it denser than a black hole, sucking all sense and reason inward, never to appear again (in the show, at least).
I do seem to recall significant FF-ing. After Choi Jin-hyuk in that orange sweater drinking PPL for something, I sort of lost the ability to remember anything else.
At least, that’s all I can recall now anyway thanks to Elinor.
I have no memory of this, maybe it hasn’t happened yet? Maybe I just zoned it out. Maybe I ff’d through it? Maybe it never happened, see ref relativistic anomalies.
I think it’s coming up…you won’t miss or forget it. Think of it as a reason to keep inhaling that poisonous dust and moving forward. There are kisses that seem sort of like, uh, not? I do think I recall a SLEDGEHAMMER? There are unforseen and unforseeable twists…화이팅!!
Potential plot threads never borne out:
– He has CC cameras trained on every employee and a remote controller for the elevator so he can always jump in right before – or right after – his target does.
– He cloned himself so he could be in every elevator at all times.
– He literally lives in the elevator. Don’t look too closely in the corners.
I have another theory. There’s a scene early in the where Han Seung-jo is reminiscing about his time with Joyce Jang and he misses New Year’s Eve and she turns back the clock and declares its actually midnight.
This, combined with the Escher stairs of the office suggests an alternative reading. That time is relative and subjective and therefore the accounting firm is a black hole warping spacetime around it. Thus Han Je-gyun as the nexus point of the anomaly can be both in the elevator and not in the elevator simultaneously. In fact, he is always in the elevator despite never being in the elevator at all.
This makes more sense than all of my proposals in the sense that it makes less sense than any of them. And let’s not even talk about how bendy gravity gets when it comes to structural engineering (because I don’t know if you’re there yet or not, or are both there and not there).
I agree that the set designer was the only person clued into the theme of this show.
Gravity is so bendy and Han Je-gyun such a powerful gravitational force that he alone is responsible when all buildings collapse, despite just being the accountant.
I guess this is what they mean when they say the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword. Numbers brings the roof down. Literally.
Here are my Numbers gifs–including the first gif I ever made! It is terrible (you can recognize it because I made it again…better). I made it on demand for @elinor. So, I guess you could say she “started it.”
Ha. I think all the albums I made before my infamous, “Tae-min from LYOL in the shower” image got me marked as someone who posts explicit content, got taken down. Weekenders are SEXY HOT. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I’ve remade the album…it’ll ask you to confirm that you won’t find someone throwing a wad of paper at a subordinate erotic. I promise, unless you DO find that erotic, well actually–there’s some ogling of a younger man by an older man in an elevator. It’s pretty erotic.
OK. New tactic. YOU DO need to be over 18 to see the images in my Numbers album!
I was disappointed at the lack of erotic images, although I did only just watch the elevator ogling the other day and it was… um, yes. Taken out as a gif, it is even more amazing.
I am over 18, this is now confirmed. I know it will be a surprise.
What the hell is this place?
Some kind of weird harem pool?
Why are people standing in it, not swimming? Why are there beds?
Why is she wearing a nightgown?
So. Many. Questions. Numbers
They were practically a supporting character in See You in My 19th Life. King the Land, Park’s Marriage Contract, Twinkling Watermelon, and The Kidnapping Day all had memorable pools and pool scenes, although in the latter two their interactions with the other characters were significantly affected by being empty.
Former competitive and life-long recreational swimmer here. 🤭 I love pools – in dramas as well as in real life.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I probably would have dropped 19th Life if it didn’t have such pretty pools. I feel sorry for Koreans apparently being required to swim fully clothed once they’ve reached adulthood, though.
I remember this being the hotel where she was staying at. I’m guessing this is the “VIP pool area” complete with outdoor daybeds for lounging (except they’re not outdoors here). She’s in loungewear and I have no idea what the people in the pool are doing. My question is, in the first picture, what is the person on the far left doing? Snacking? I can’t tell.
So basically the firm is depicted visually as a trap where every path out loops back around and leads back in, a self-referencing loop you can’t escape from. The most famous Escher image being a depiction of different relative gravity wells.
The script for this show might be terrible but the set designer knows their shit.
So the evil accounting firm is engaged in a little somethin’ somethin’ shady and has liquidated the construction site that our orphaned hero’s adoptive father Saint Ahjusshi works at.
So he shows up at the site to find the thugs that seem to turn up at these things that in Korea are, like, legal or something?? (Why does nobody call the police about masked men beating up people?). Anyway they’re beating up the old guys who seem to be the only people who work at this construction firm idk maybe it’s bankrupt because all its employees are retirement age.
So he joins in and starts whacking away before THE ACCOUNTANT shows up and villain monologues all, “The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword”, son but this kid is just like a teenager who works in the canteen. Why is he talking to him about this? Why is he handing the papers to this unrelated child?
“See, I have the paperwork here, you… random teenage person, so now back off with your coordinated protest that has nothing to do with you”.
It’s such Lead Character nonsense and L’s acting is so bad that at this point I’m basically laughing uproariously. It’s so unintentionally funny.
“I WILL BE AN OBSTACLE” he declares histrionically and I’m on the floor over here.
I know this is a 12 episode drama but they’ve now dealt with about two hours of backstory in a grand total of *checks notes* 20 minutes and it’s as thin and headscratching as you imagine it to be.
Why did… oh you know what, it doesn’t matter.
L is ensconced in an accounting firm without an accounting degree like this is some truly cut-rate version of Suits. Boy I’m glad getting a job at a top accounting firm in three weeks without a degree is so easy, why are Koreans complaining about the job market? It’s a steal!
The reason this is a PMO is that it of course deeply relates to Perfect Marriage Revenge, which I enjoyed a great deal but didn’t love like everyone else did.
Oh! Interesting.
It would be cool if we got another post for unpopular opinions this year.
PS. I have a couple PMOs of PMR too:
1. I couldn’t understand the motivation for the revenge. It was just a “bad life choices have bad consequences” situation.
2. I didn’t like Sung Hoon’s acting in the 30min of the show I watched. *hides*
All other issues aside, the show’s treatment of female characters was so terrible that it alone would fill an essay, if I could be bothered writing one. Which I can’t. This piece of nonsense isn’t worth it. Save me from male writers, this is what I came to kdrama to get away from.
Yes! I loved the overall premise of deaths game but the execution fell so incredibly short. And the treatment of female characters – ugh. I feel like I’m watching Japanese shounen yet again.
LT, I think majority watched it for the cast and if there was one smart move that was done by whoever wanted to adapt/produce the webtoon into a drama was zeroing in on this set of exceptional actors who are not just pretty faces.
The acting was amazing, truly just a succession of Korea’s best (at least best male) actors. At least they allowed a woman one good part, but of course she was a mother.
Of course, Kim Mi Kyung is nation’s mother, so even if they butcher her part (given what we have seen with writing, they might have done more blunders than wonders), she would have patched it up her immense talent and loads of “mom character” experience.
If I’m not mistaken, it’s a Japanese wood-burning method called “Shou Sugi Ban” , wherein the piece of wood is charred (using whatever method and to however dark you want, as long as it doesn’t turn to ash) so that the detail of the wood grain is more visible and emphasized
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Is it important that this isn’t a chicken nugget?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
March 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Also, this is a fail on the CGI, this does not look like Dakgangjeong but like a raw brain with seeds on it. No wonder nobody eats her.
Seon-ha
March 15, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I swear that this is obviously a fake chicken nugget ends up being a plot point in the final episode… But I’m not ready to do any deep intellectualizing of this drama 😅
indyfan
March 16, 2024 at 12:07 AM
I’m so glad I’m not the only repulsed by the brain-like meatball. No wonder I dropped it. If I’m gonna root for a chicken nugget, it better be darn cute.
Seon-ha
March 16, 2024 at 3:59 AM
It is cute compared to the alternatives. I’m telling you…it’s a plot point.
indyfan
March 16, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Ooh. I am torn. I will put it on my watchlist. Your comments have been tempting me.
Seon-ha
March 16, 2024 at 5:11 AM
I’m going to post this somewhere more public too, but…did you ever have one of those movies in high school that was a cult-classic for its lines and (if we had had them then) memes?
That’s Chicken Nugget. I keep remembering scenes and lines and smiling, and I know exactly which gestures and facial expressions I’d gif if I had the time and the community who cared to laugh with me.
indyfan
March 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Sadly, no. You know of my peripatetic (and other things) childhood in the days before the Internet…
If you gif the future-classic moments, you know those who love the show will come. Do it!
zindigo
March 16, 2024 at 8:54 AM
@attiton I’d name some of said cult classics but then I’d date myself in a big way. Ok, maybe even admitting we had numerous, quotable cult classics is probably dating me 😜
mmmmm
March 16, 2024 at 12:33 PM
It looks like sauerkraut being made into small balls.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 23, 2024 at 12:01 AM
I know this, it’s a pocket universe.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 23, 2024 at 12:02 AM
The most beautiful phrase in the English language is cellar door
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 22, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I don\’t know what emotion I expected A Killer Paradox to elicit but it wasn\’t boredom.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 22, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Omo … that was … unexpected. 😭
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 22, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Maybe it’s a mood thing?
Anyway I need to rewatch episode 1 because I kept wandering away to do more interesting things.
Like laundry. And the dishes.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 22, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Hehe … try it when you’re feeling more murderous maybe. 🤔 Perhaps the drama might then just kill it … er, your desire to watch it.
Cecee
February 23, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Oh no! I thoroughly enjoyed it
korfan
February 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Same, unfortunately. I tried episode 1, but that was it.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 13, 2024 at 8:28 PM
QUESTION: All Beanies
Was there once a drama with Jang Nara and Taecyeon where she was a cop who could see ghosts? Or did I imagine the whole thing?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 13, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Maybe I’m thinking of this drama, https://mydramalist.com/7327-who-are-you-2013
No idea why I thought it had Jang Nara. Ironically it has So Yi-hyun, Jang Nara’s costar in My Happy Ending.
Unless of course this head drama with Jang Nara and Taecyeon does exist
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 15, 2024 at 5:40 AM
I love that drama. 🥰
No Jang Nara of course.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 13, 2024 at 10:05 PM
You have come to the right place for someone to identify some early drama not listed on their AsianWiki page!
Kurama
February 14, 2024 at 12:38 AM
I don’t think they acted together.
I don’t remember Jang Nara playing a cop who could see ghosts. She played a normal cop in Hello Monster or an exorcist in Sell Your Haunted House.
Ziziboice
February 14, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Yes it’s “who are you” and it was the first time I saw Kim jea wook, he was playing as FL descead husband who was also a cop, and teacyeon saw him and start talking to him. I remember 1 of the victims that he saw was Moon Gayuong. I really liked this drama back then, but I stopped watching it around ep 6 to 8, I don’t know why
Midnight
February 14, 2024 at 4:14 AM
That is Who Are You. Jang Nara wasn’t the FL.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Yes it is Who Are You. No idea why my brain remembered it had Jang Nara in it.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 9, 2024 at 11:17 PM
This character in Knight Flower makes me laugh every time. His subtle instinctive Westernisms are so well done.
I can excuse Knight Flower almost anything because it\’s genuinely funny.
DancingEmma
February 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
It is for sure a delight.
🧛♂️ 💔💔 but 👧💔💔💔💔
February 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
he is such a cool wind among all the (supposed) mayhem in this drama… esp hus english spontaneous English here and there.. real fun..
though i am loving this drama for not being too serious just my kind of fun n comedy
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
I was all set to dislike his character… intensely. But then … 😍
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Truck of Doom now taking out entire shows
R.I.P. Marry My Husband
Dorotka
February 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I will be there till the bitter end… but ToD certainly crushed my heart. What a shame.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
February 7, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Don’t blame ToD – he was minding his own business, on his way to his next job when he ran across these plot holes big enough to drive through.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 7, 2024 at 12:17 AM
I think ToD was hijacked and may be the biggest victim here
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
February 7, 2024 at 12:27 AM
But will he get to go back in time for a do-over? Is ToD capable of making better choices the next time round?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 7, 2024 at 12:35 AM
In this sequel to Marry My Husband, the Truck of Doom travels back in time and gets its revenge against script writers that forced it into poor narrative twists…
Cecee
February 7, 2024 at 3:49 AM
They sort of have something similar in the webtoon, but it’s a car of doom and it’s driven by Soo-min I think…
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 12, 2024 at 3:35 AM
ToD – now more powerful!? 💪
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 6, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Explain what?
That this woman is not his fiancee?
What is going on here?
Why is she outraged that somebody he isn’t engaged to anymore wants to speak with him?
Dorotka
February 6, 2024 at 1:56 PM
I wondered if there was (a) something lost in translation (b) Jiwon fell in PTSD
Because otherwise the scene made little sense.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
The whole episode is like that, it’s like they wanted to manufacture a drama that wasn’t there.
Dorotka
February 6, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Yes, I already shortly commented on my fanwall that I wasn’t happy with the episode.
I don’t know the original novel / webtoon, but the drama should have taken more liberty at this point.
Qingdao: likes scented candles
February 6, 2024 at 6:07 PM
BINGO! That scene was unimaginable.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 31, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Never a truer words was spoken
Like Flowers in Sand
owl 🦉 🫰
January 31, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Aww, he bares his soul.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 31, 2024 at 2:47 PM
IKR? I feel like I was in school just yesterday and not days (decades?) ago.
Snow Flower
February 1, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Ah, I will miss this character!
mmmmm
February 1, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Oh I’m not a strange one then!
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 30, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Forget all the satisfying things about this week, Marry My Husband was worth it for this look alone
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 30, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Internal monologue:
Does he… not know what the word means?
Should I define misogyny for him?
It is possible he doesn’t know what it means.
Or does he know but just not realise he is one?
Should I give him examples of…
One beat later… no.
bbstl 🧹
January 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
It was worth it for that.
My internal monologue: should I look up the Korean word?
No, just fire his ass!
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 2, 2024 at 4:17 AM
What would the world be if everyone knew the meaning of this word⁉️
DK-Drama 🫘A+ for Effort👩🏻🎨🪁🌱
February 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
You know, “gynaecologist”? That’s like, a doctor who specializes in ladies’ parts, and and that’s because gyn… women-something.
And the Miso … in this case, it does not mean “lovely soup”, so I get how that can be confusing. It actually has a Greek origin, (not to confuse with latin minus makes part of e.g. “misunderstanding” or North Europian misse meaning “bad” ) , so, from Greek origin and the verb misein , “to hate”.
So, misogyny means “to hate women”, and misogynist is someone who does that. Usually used about people who subscribe to women having less full human, individual value than men, – and among that kind of misogynist there are a good deal who sincerely believe that is not hateful towards women.
DK-Drama 🫘A+ for Effort👩🏻🎨🪁🌱
February 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Oh, DIsclaimer! I am imagining the answer to the question, I am not doing this to ‘splain all of you guys till your ears bleed. I was just trying to be funny.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I have two episodes of Numbers left to watch and I know some have \”enjoyed\” my breathtaking watch of this classic psychological thriller involving accountants and their high-speed car chases, murders and falling file boxes of doom.
Nonetheless, having attempted the penultimate episode of the show, my eyes have rolled back so far into my head that I can no longer see.
Maybe I inhaled methanol dust. Maybe I came too close to the singularity causing the temporal anomaly in the office\’s elevators.
Hopefully it\’s just temporary and I can resume normal programming soon.
I\’m terribly worried about *checks notes* this evil accountant taking over the entire Korean economy and causing another International Monetary crisis.
Truly when a private equity fund uses an accounting firm they can DO ANYTHING.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 28, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I found it helpful to think of the final episodes as a condensed two-hour movie version of the rest of the series. That makes it denser than a black hole, sucking all sense and reason inward, never to appear again (in the show, at least).
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 3:29 PM
*Nods wisely*
This explains the relativistic anomalies
Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I do seem to recall significant FF-ing. After Choi Jin-hyuk in that orange sweater drinking PPL for something, I sort of lost the ability to remember anything else.
At least, that’s all I can recall now anyway thanks to Elinor.
(https://www.dramabeans.com/members/Elinor/activity/1510581/)
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
I have no memory of this, maybe it hasn’t happened yet? Maybe I just zoned it out. Maybe I ff’d through it? Maybe it never happened, see ref relativistic anomalies.
Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I think it’s coming up…you won’t miss or forget it. Think of it as a reason to keep inhaling that poisonous dust and moving forward. There are kisses that seem sort of like, uh, not? I do think I recall a SLEDGEHAMMER? There are unforseen and unforseeable twists…화이팅!!
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Give me an hour or two and it’ll be Gin O’Clock and all things fall before that
zindigo
January 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM
I’m so glad I didn’t watch this because your posts and the subsequent beanie comments are clearly vastly more entertaining than the source material 😂
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM
How does this villain have the time to hang out in the elevators all day anyway? Where is he going? Where has been?
I’d just take the stairs
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Potential plot threads never borne out:
– He has CC cameras trained on every employee and a remote controller for the elevator so he can always jump in right before – or right after – his target does.
– He cloned himself so he could be in every elevator at all times.
– He literally lives in the elevator. Don’t look too closely in the corners.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 27, 2024 at 9:22 PM
I have another theory. There’s a scene early in the where Han Seung-jo is reminiscing about his time with Joyce Jang and he misses New Year’s Eve and she turns back the clock and declares its actually midnight.
This, combined with the Escher stairs of the office suggests an alternative reading. That time is relative and subjective and therefore the accounting firm is a black hole warping spacetime around it. Thus Han Je-gyun as the nexus point of the anomaly can be both in the elevator and not in the elevator simultaneously. In fact, he is always in the elevator despite never being in the elevator at all.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 9:30 PM
This makes more sense than all of my proposals in the sense that it makes less sense than any of them. And let’s not even talk about how bendy gravity gets when it comes to structural engineering (because I don’t know if you’re there yet or not, or are both there and not there).
I agree that the set designer was the only person clued into the theme of this show.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 27, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Gravity is so bendy and Han Je-gyun such a powerful gravitational force that he alone is responsible when all buildings collapse, despite just being the accountant.
I guess this is what they mean when they say the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword. Numbers brings the roof down. Literally.
Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Here are my Numbers gifs–including the first gif I ever made! It is terrible (you can recognize it because I made it again…better). I made it on demand for @elinor. So, I guess you could say she “started it.”
Anywho, many of these are in, or near, elevators.
https://imgur.com/a/2DOuzzH
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Oh that’s not working for me for some reason, it says the page doesn’t exist
Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Ha. I think all the albums I made before my infamous, “Tae-min from LYOL in the shower” image got me marked as someone who posts explicit content, got taken down. Weekenders are SEXY HOT. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I’ve remade the album…it’ll ask you to confirm that you won’t find someone throwing a wad of paper at a subordinate erotic. I promise, unless you DO find that erotic, well actually–there’s some ogling of a younger man by an older man in an elevator. It’s pretty erotic.
OK. New tactic. YOU DO need to be over 18 to see the images in my Numbers album!
https://imgur.com/a/x0miS2B
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I was disappointed at the lack of erotic images, although I did only just watch the elevator ogling the other day and it was… um, yes. Taken out as a gif, it is even more amazing.
I am over 18, this is now confirmed. I know it will be a surprise.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
What the hell is this place?
Some kind of weird harem pool?
Why are people standing in it, not swimming? Why are there beds?
Why is she wearing a nightgown?
So. Many. Questions.
Numbers
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM
There are indeed a Number of questions for each episode. 🤔 *ponders seriously*
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Fear not, NONE of them will be answered.
2023 was truly an epic drama year for swimming pools.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 27, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Oh I missed the Year of Swimming Pools.
What were the other epic pools?
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 12:18 AM
They were practically a supporting character in See You in My 19th Life. King the Land, Park’s Marriage Contract, Twinkling Watermelon, and The Kidnapping Day all had memorable pools and pool scenes, although in the latter two their interactions with the other characters were significantly affected by being empty.
zindigo
January 27, 2024 at 10:24 AM
That is some high-level recall @elinor! I watched every one of those dramas but could only remember the first one with the swimming pool.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Former competitive and life-long recreational swimmer here. 🤭 I love pools – in dramas as well as in real life.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I probably would have dropped 19th Life if it didn’t have such pretty pools. I feel sorry for Koreans apparently being required to swim fully clothed once they’ve reached adulthood, though.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 29, 2024 at 8:48 AM
^^ Absolutely amazing memory.❤
korfan
January 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
I remember this being the hotel where she was staying at. I’m guessing this is the “VIP pool area” complete with outdoor daybeds for lounging (except they’re not outdoors here). She’s in loungewear and I have no idea what the people in the pool are doing. My question is, in the first picture, what is the person on the far left doing? Snacking? I can’t tell.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 27, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Oh she’s snacking, that’s the nepo-baby love interest who is at this pool for… no reason I could discern. But conveniently.
Cecee
January 29, 2024 at 3:51 AM
your local pervy swimming pool. Some pay to swim. Others pay to watch.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I can’t get over it. Everything about Numbers is so laughably terrible. Why is this one thing SO GOOD?
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I bet you wish you had watched in live now as the weecap and comments all felt the same as you and had the company to banter with.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
It would have been fun
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 2:51 PM
All jokes aside, this set is amazing
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
This set at first glance embodies the concept of recursion whereby things fold back on themselves and become self-referential.
It reminds me of the Doctor Who set from 1982’s Castrovalva where the Doctor becomes trapped in what he calls a recursive occlusion.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
This of course draws on classics like the Escher Stairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_(M._C._Escher)
korfan
January 27, 2024 at 12:04 AM
This is what came to mind when I saw those stairs in the show.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 3:06 PM
So basically the firm is depicted visually as a trap where every path out loops back around and leads back in, a self-referencing loop you can’t escape from. The most famous Escher image being a depiction of different relative gravity wells.
The script for this show might be terrible but the set designer knows their shit.
Beverly
January 26, 2024 at 4:16 PM
If this were a real office I can’t decide if it would feel claustrophobic or fun.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Well … they have the library / record room. 😅
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Due to popular demand, I started watching Numbers and this show is breathtaking. Absolutely breathtaking.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 2:37 PM
So the evil accounting firm is engaged in a little somethin’ somethin’ shady and has liquidated the construction site that our orphaned hero’s adoptive father Saint Ahjusshi works at.
So he shows up at the site to find the thugs that seem to turn up at these things that in Korea are, like, legal or something?? (Why does nobody call the police about masked men beating up people?). Anyway they’re beating up the old guys who seem to be the only people who work at this construction firm idk maybe it’s bankrupt because all its employees are retirement age.
So he joins in and starts whacking away before THE ACCOUNTANT shows up and villain monologues all, “The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword”, son but this kid is just like a teenager who works in the canteen. Why is he talking to him about this? Why is he handing the papers to this unrelated child?
“See, I have the paperwork here, you… random teenage person, so now back off with your coordinated protest that has nothing to do with you”.
It’s such Lead Character nonsense and L’s acting is so bad that at this point I’m basically laughing uproariously. It’s so unintentionally funny.
“I WILL BE AN OBSTACLE” he declares histrionically and I’m on the floor over here.
This is so so bad.
Elinor lives in the realm of the Impossible
January 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Whether it is intentionally or unintentionally funny is a central mystery of this show.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I know this is a 12 episode drama but they’ve now dealt with about two hours of backstory in a grand total of *checks notes* 20 minutes and it’s as thin and headscratching as you imagine it to be.
Why did… oh you know what, it doesn’t matter.
L is ensconced in an accounting firm without an accounting degree like this is some truly cut-rate version of Suits. Boy I’m glad getting a job at a top accounting firm in three weeks without a degree is so easy, why are Koreans complaining about the job market? It’s a steal!
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 22, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Park Min-young looks like she’s going to snap like a dry twig before a gentle breeze
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 22, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Yes, it is worrisome.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Today\’s PMO is on revenge time slip plotlines…
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 12:35 PM
What’s the point of getting revenge on people who don’t now what you’re getting revenge on them for?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
“Boy you’d really delight in the delicious karmic justice of this retribution if you’d actually done what you’re being punished for.”
But you didn’t.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The reason this is a PMO is that it of course deeply relates to Perfect Marriage Revenge, which I enjoyed a great deal but didn’t love like everyone else did.
tabong will tell DuDu couple that she loves them🍉
January 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
What does PMO stand for?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Patented Minority Opinion
tabong will tell DuDu couple that she loves them🍉
January 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Oh! Interesting.
It would be cool if we got another post for unpopular opinions this year.
PS. I have a couple PMOs of PMR too:
1. I couldn’t understand the motivation for the revenge. It was just a “bad life choices have bad consequences” situation.
2. I didn’t like Sung Hoon’s acting in the 30min of the show I watched. *hides*
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 19, 2024 at 12:37 PM
All of this could have been one post, I have no idea why I’m posting half-baked thought bubbles instead of a full comment. Oh well, nap time!
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I don\’t even know where to start on the stupid that is Death\’s Game so I suspect it\’s best not to.
But the acting! The acting!
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
This show is so bad that it almost seems like it took effort to make it this bad.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 12, 2024 at 4:55 PM
All other issues aside, the show’s treatment of female characters was so terrible that it alone would fill an essay, if I could be bothered writing one. Which I can’t. This piece of nonsense isn’t worth it. Save me from male writers, this is what I came to kdrama to get away from.
greenfields
January 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Yes! I loved the overall premise of deaths game but the execution fell so incredibly short. And the treatment of female characters – ugh. I feel like I’m watching Japanese shounen yet again.
emsel
January 12, 2024 at 10:19 PM
LT, I think majority watched it for the cast and if there was one smart move that was done by whoever wanted to adapt/produce the webtoon into a drama was zeroing in on this set of exceptional actors who are not just pretty faces.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 12, 2024 at 10:24 PM
The acting was amazing, truly just a succession of Korea’s best (at least best male) actors. At least they allowed a woman one good part, but of course she was a mother.
emsel
January 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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emsel
January 12, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Of course, Kim Mi Kyung is nation’s mother, so even if they butcher her part (given what we have seen with writing, they might have done more blunders than wonders), she would have patched it up her immense talent and loads of “mom character” experience.
Flix_Crusin
January 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Oof. Thank you for convincing me to take it off my least. Was’nt looking foword to sigining up with amazon prime anyway
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 5, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Charring Wood/ Chaeun Wood
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 4:26 AM
🤣
Seon-ha
January 5, 2024 at 6:09 AM
I’ve been staring at the picture of the actual wood for a while now. It’s mesmerizing what they’ve done there! Really beautiful patterning!!!
Bebe | Nessa❣️
January 5, 2024 at 11:14 AM
If I’m not mistaken, it’s a Japanese wood-burning method called “Shou Sugi Ban” , wherein the piece of wood is charred (using whatever method and to however dark you want, as long as it doesn’t turn to ash) so that the detail of the wood grain is more visible and emphasized
parkchuna ❤️🍉
January 5, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Good one! 😂
greenfields
January 5, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Clearly you do not intend to lay this to rest 😂😂😂
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 6, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Dare I say, that piece of wood is more expressive?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 4, 2024 at 7:25 PM
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 4, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Wood/ Cha Eun-wood
– The Society to Stop Defaming Rocks
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Aah … because the “d” is silent.
lapislazulii
January 5, 2024 at 12:03 AM
This is way too funny omg I’m going to cry 😂😂😂
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 12:11 AM
How come this googly eyed wood is so emotive. 🤔
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 5, 2024 at 1:06 AM
You’re right, it’s a bad example 😂
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Ottoke… I wasn’t able to find a single example of non-emotive wood… real or anime. 🤦♀️
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
It it time to form “The Society to Stop Defaming Wood” now?
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 1:38 AM
*Is it time …
mmmmm
January 5, 2024 at 9:12 AM
These are so cute and funny they put a smile on my face. 😊
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
January 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Anything to make you smile dear M! ❤
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 6, 2024 at 6:51 PM
That is Plank from the classic Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n Eddy. He was a bit of a prankster, well, according to Jonny.
emsel
January 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I feel old :'(