Thank you!

You are right. I think there is no exit.

He seemed surprisingly calm when faced with the attack. I’d have thought that now that he knew it seemed possible to be actually hurt and killed in the game, he’d be more panicky >.< Instead of trying to log out, he went to call others to see if they could troubleshoot the moment! T.T

I wish there was a way to know if he had his lenses on or not. Or maybe yeah, actual and virtual reality do clash now that he didn’t even need lenses on?

At some point in Ep 3 the blood stains disappeared and appeared randomly. I always thought ‘if they are hurt its a game’, but now am not so sure anymore.
Did he logout or did he forget? Or is he not able to logout?

The fact that the ‘dead’ user in the game came back alive the second time was too creepy. But the body disappearing the second time made no sense.
And then he is back in the hotel. is it a bug? a glitch? or is death programmed differently in the game that no one understands death in the AR world?

I know right. I wonder if it’s supposed to be a character trait – Jin-woo generally seems rather unfazed by people and things. He remains calm when receiving a lashing by Hee-Joo, his ex-wife… It feels like his entire life at this point is focused on revenge and hurting his once best friend. So I wonder if that sole focus, not to mention his captivation with the world of AR in general, makes him a bit callous and disregarding of things. He seemed so focused on trying to understand the game, to the point of not being worried enough that he could be hurt by a supposedly dead character who turned up again… so much so that we didn’t even see him try to log out… 😢

Havent watch it but I see a sc showing both of them so I guess they intend to ride that ship all the way to the end.

A slice-of-life ending, for a slice-of-life drama. I suppose it’d have been too clichéd had the Big Bad Chairman Jo just miraculously been thoroughly beaten. I agree with you, the first 12 episodes or so were great. When the focus shifted from Pres Gu to Chairman Jo though… I guess Chairman Jo just seemed too evil. Heck, he looks like a cartoon characterization of evil. It felt like the plot was winding out someplace which I wasn’t sure I’d signed up for exactly.

I thought Lee Dong-wook’s acting was pretty good compared to in Goblin. Or perhaps it was just more enjoyable to get to see a fuller range of acting as opposed to a poker faces and lots of tears, perhaps. But yes! I think you’re referring to that scene where he let out a rant when he was caught? And started attacking Seon-woo? That was really really awesome. I think I enjoyed that scene the best, in the entire drama. The emotions were so raw and real, especially from Dep. Director Kim, Seon-woo, and Jin-woo.

I liked Seung-hyo and No-eul’s chemistry, and generally Jin-woo’s and that reporter’s. But it made me wonder whether that kind of chemistry/attraction is sustainable in the long-term. I guess it felt like Jin-woo and No-eul, and even Seon-woo, were so comfortable with each other and knew each other so well. Then again, despite that level of comfort, they still kept deep emotional truths from each other and chose to open up in those aspects to the others instead. In any case, it was interesting to see how Seung-hyo and Seo-hyun (the reporter) brought out different aspects in personality of No-eul and Jin-woo.

I liked your sum-up! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts ((: Agree with you too about how it compares with FoS.

xD thanks for giving me a space to rant lol. and also gather my thoughts to try and figure out why I felt disappointed.

so…..

1. Chief Kim. The mysterious figure who is supposed to be the Big Bad behind every Bad that occurred to Ahjumma, and Detective Crankypants’s ex-gf Seo Hyun-Soo. It turns out that he was this guy who was a father figure to Wan-Seung? :/// Like… for no reason at all??? In the scenes with the two of them, he was so warm and nice to Wan-Seung. I just don’t understand why they had to make him the bad guy. I guess it felt like they had to make up a bad guy somehow? But there wasn’t really any motivations given for why he was being mean and shady and trying to kill people.

2. Seo Hyun-Soo. Seriously. ))): This is the girl Detective Crankypants has been missing for 17 years of his life. The girl who vanished before his eyes, supposedly kidnapped and killed by some evil Big Bad. We finally find out that she was his love, and we finally get him realizing that it was her all along, and THEN SHOW DECIDES TO KILL HER?! They didn’t even get a chance to talk! About their lost past, about their feelings, about the years they spent longing and looking for each other. Oh-so-conveniently, she gets shot and dies. So we’ll never get to address and fully comprehend how Wan-Seung’s feelings for her are like, especially when compared to his for Ahjumma. Like, is he over her? Does he not have conflicting feelings when he developed feelings for Ahjumma? How is he going to get closure now, for a second time? It was all just so cruel.

But heck, we get a time slip, and it’s like he shrugs it all off like it’s not a terribly big deal to lose her again…

3. Which leads me to this. There is then no progression/resolution for Ahjumma and Detective Crankypants’ relationship. They just…….. resume, after a time skip, after he suffers two major events – one betrayal from a trusted father figure, and this time having the love of his life killed, for sure, again, and this time, before his very eyes, with him being drugged and unable to do anything about it – they just resumed their bickering and non-acknowledgment of their feelings for each other.

Whaaat?? I just.. can’t. ㅠ.ㅠ

4. Other things: Wan-Seung just felt so dumbed down this season. Also his brother randomly decides at the end of the final episode to join forces with Chief Kim or something. We just got a cryptic phone call and some furious staring at the screen.

)): I just felt so let down. I was waiting for the ring to turn up, so that Wan-Seung and Seol-ok could have like some honest and clear acknowledgement to each other about just like. Him buying a ring for her, for romantic reasons. I waited through all the cases and perverts running about the streets, just to get closure here but… :/ It no give me closure.

Sigh. >.< Thanks for letting me spoiler you and release my suppressed frustration, @zgs1994

All the pain from her unfulfilled longings is fueling her craziness… :/ Or maybe it’s pride?? Over losing to a “lowly servant girl”. She is scarily persistent though. And obsessed :/ It ain’t love at all.

Hmm I think it should be quite safe to watch. The end of Ep16 was the scariest part! xD Hehe so since you got through that, the rest should be quite tame.

To give you some details, there seems to be a shift in focus to Su Ho in these 2 eps. So there’s the challenge he faces with the village conservation project (mostly to try to show that Hae-ra can pull her weight in the relationship by becoming his support instead of always him being the Black Knight), and some rather dull moments in his attempt to pin down his father’s killer. The highlights are mainly how Sharon’s prayers are working; Su Ho is starting to see things, and she takes advantage of that to try to confuse him. I think those parts were very well done (; Or shall we say… Those were the only scarier parts xD The background music felt like ghost whisperings in those moments 💦

The pacing felt a little slower than usual, but it could be just because it’s almost nearing the end. And Hae-ra is being kinda left out of things… You know… being all innocent and “protected” from the truth. Overall though, these two eps are focused on the journey of Su Ho getting to the truth of his past life.

Hope this helps you somewhat!! (:

Haha, yup she did (: She got the Rookie Award, and also the Best Couple Award with Kwang Soo, for her role as one of the new cast members in Running Man. Both Yang Se Chan and herself joined Running Man this year as cast members.