I prefer to watch shows where the main couple stays together in the end ... no matter how unrealistic.

But man, I wish that boy just stayed dead!

Not only was he a minor, he stayed hidden for 5 years, and then he laughs when the girl is slightly upset? And why is she not madder? Like “throw him down the cliff” mad??

I would have accepted any other ending. Even if she ended up with mama’s boy who she was engaged to at the beginning. Show could have made him move to Eunpo, grow up, and woo the girl. Whatever.

I have not been this upset and disappointed by a finale since Game of Thrones. I have no words.

I don't see the point in all of these smaller plotlines between episodes 15 to 16. Why couldn't they just be the cute dramas that they were in the beginning? This was going to be one of my all time favorite dramas if not for this...

I think I blacked out for most of this show. It started out cute, but silly, then transitioned into eye-rolly and snoozeworthy. Yet... for some reason I kept with it. Must've been LJW's visuals and the fun, plucky townsfolk. This ending almost seems par for the course considering all the main plot devices used. Just surprised Writer-nim couldn't figure out how to throw in some good, ol fashioned amnesia in there.

one of the weirdest K drama endings. So my thoughts, they really did kill him off and then because of the possible backlash.. the scrounged last minute to throw something together. This drama was really cute and steady until episode 13/14 then it got all weird and twisted.

This was a very bad ending, I was thrilled Joon was alive but how it was done was really messed up. I mean 5 years??!! Anyhow, I still love Lee Jae Wook so whatever..

I'm totally, totally speechless about the ending. What happened? Was the original writer kidnapped by aliens something? WTF?! 😵😵 That was one of the most horrible endings in all my drama-watching career.

This ending makes me grateful I never made it past episode 2

I felt cheated by the show..oh my precious 16 hrs 😭😭😭😭😭 I stayed even when the show keep throwing senseless makjang tropes, esp the last 4 eps. I have thought that maybe leaving a message about someone can overcome the sadness of losing a loved one in this pandemic era has been the writer's intention too but then it was thrown out of the galaxy in the last 5 mins of the show. The ending of CITT was frustrating, the ending of A Korean Odyssey was dumb but the ending of this drama surpassed the bitter aftertaste of those two. The cast have been doing well though, it was the writing that spoil it 😔

If we had not loved this drama so much, we wouldn't be so angry about the totally wrong, misfit, bogus ending.

I have been waiting for this recap! I'm glad that we are all on the same page with the W...T...F...This show was so fluffy and cute and then the underage storyline, and cancer. I understand that they had to deal with the underage part, but couldn't they have just sent him to college? WHY PRETEND HE WAS DEAD!? I mean, we had to watch the characters deal with his death, and move on with their lives and then he just showed up in the last 5 minutes...I was pissed. I can't believe that Joon would do that to ra-ra and certainly not miss the funeral of his BFF, Mr. Kim. I was excited to see Lee Jae-wook in his first leading role, but man oh man...did that ending suck.

i really wanted to rant but i have to keep my cool so as not to ruin my day....it is nov. 30 today and i still could not move on from that cruelest ending of all time......this is the only kdrama that has haunted me since it ended last thursday.......everytime i wake up in the morning since that "fateful day", i keep on wondering how rara survived the days and nights without jun by her side...and how jun was doing after his failure to appear at the christmas concert.....well, i've made up my own plot to help "heal" myself.....well, for a start,, i'd like to rationalize in favor of the scriptwriter and the director......it's the best i can do for them...script writing is no easy task....but if the writer has run out of ideas to end the story, he shoud have asked for an assistance from the viewers..or perhaps, read the comments here and other websites.....a filipino writer and director asked how the viewers would like to end the story and we had a superb ending of a filipino drama...that fit to the viewers liking.....well, this is kdrama and there is so much cliched endings and twists......so i leave it that way....going back to my "plot-to-heal-myself", i was already suspicious when jun had those nosebleeds....i don't think it was just for drama-effect....the writer must have introduced it during rara's failed wedding to warn us something serious was going to happen in future episodes....when blood dropped on jun's notebook while he was studying, that was a bad sign for me......it was a very tiny detail that must have gone unnoticed by the viewers until his parents had that cancer-reveal at the father's clinic.......fast-forward.......rara was at the airport to send-off jun for his study abroad....fast-forward again.....rara was calling jun and jun's whereabout-reveal ....jun was only in korea for his treatment....in fact he was in the same room where he was taken in when he failed to wake up after drinking that coffee...he was wearing the same purple pajama, same windows, same bed, same bedsheets.......he could not have gone abroad alone for his treatment...., well, i want to understand why jun lied to her again but confessed his illness to mr. kim...he has been so protective of her and he does not want to pain her with his ilness....it would have devastated her...to us viewers, it would have been more logical if he revealed it to her....but who can understand jun's feelings?....only jun himself.....when rara called jun up, it was still 3 or 4 months earlier.....so he must have been hopeful that he would be able to attend the christmas concert....came "christmas break'...and jun failed to arrive....that time then, things must have turned for the worse for him...and the attending doctor, or even his father, must have told him and his parents that they could no longer contain the cancer cells from spreading....i know of someone who has a familly member who had leukemia.....she described to me that it was excruciatingly painful...

Thank you @missvictrix all your work on DO DO. I will have a second post below with a request of you.

A few random thoughts now that DO DO has concluded (used in lieu of ended):
1. Might as well get this off my chest. The header pic used for the recaps has annoyed me almost from the beginning. Where is our Seung-gi in that pic? With all due respect to Mimi but please;
2. I loved the cast. Go Ara I first met in HWARANG. Not the most auspicious introduction. I was enjoying her performance in HAECHI when bad luck struck with an accident on set. Lee Jae-wook I first met this year in WEATHER. I thought he was terrific. As the first few episodes rolled along I thought those two made a great couple;
3. I thought writer-him had things in hand through episode 8. Even with the age reveal I gave her the benefit of the doubt. She lost me in episode 9 (I am probably in a minority here) when she made little Jae-Min into a child ‘noble idiot’. I thought the whole sequence was absurd;
4. The psycho stalker, the age reveal, the main plot lines then went off the rails;
5. On the plus side we got these lovely side stories: the haraboji back story—maybe some of the best scenes of our OTP, the Dr. Cha-Min-su bromance, the Seung-gi-Ha-young time capsule and confession of love and others;
6. I loved the epilogue to episode 15 (for me the best scene in the episode). That is the Jun-Seung-gi embrace scene. Let me give kudos to Yoon Jong-bin who played Seung-gi in DO DO. I am sure he will get a lot of positive notices from his work; and
7. The ending was a disaster in more ways than one. The more I think about it the death story can’t hold up. Too many people in Seoul would have have looked into it. I personally did not like that Ha-young and Seung-gi five years later were portrayed as a still bickering immature ‘married’ couple. I am starting to ramble so I will let it go.

I wish Lee Jae-wook, Go Ara and the rest of the cast good luck in the future.

@missvictrix,
You provided recaps for both BRAHMS AND DODO. I watched both dramas. At some time would you consider posting your thoughts comparing the two dramas, pluses and minuses?

I sat there surrounded by my tissues, drowning in my tears and staring at my laptop just going "what?" for like ten minutes after the show ended. What on God's green earth was that?????????????

I've never felt the need to comment before but this was unbelievably infuriating. This was my favorite show of the year and I can't believe they took everything I loved about the show and threw it in the trash LITERALLY in the last 5 minutes. He sat there laughing and they kiss and that's it?? I was even ok with all the weird plot lines starting episode 13 (I agree with everyone saying the writer hadn't planned the show past 12 episodes) but this...
Sigh.
Excuse me while I go eat my feelings and attempt to forget about episodes 13-16.

ridiculously bad endings like this have happened before... get used to it. sometimes it seems like the writer ran away at the last minute and the director just had to wing it to finish the series by the allotted broadcast slot that night....
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Last 20 minutes just me realized I had wasted LAST 15+Hours for this HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE disappointment.

That ending though, Oh My God, what kind of ending is that!
I will remember this drama as cute as it is, without the ending.
They first encounter is really cute and I love it but the ending ruin it.

Can't believe the writers/producers of this drama expect us to cheer while Jun cuts Ra Ra out of his life because he doesn't want to have her support him in his most difficult moments. What sort of relationship does it portend for their life together? And she just takes him back? It is so condescending to Ra Ra. Disgusting. The drama was fun and lighthearted until the writers/producers suddenly felt the need to create great buckets of bathos for us to wallow in. I can only guess that they ran out of inspiration around episode 12 and fell back on cliche after cliche.

I was taught that if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything all. I really reallly really really want to say lots of things about the last episode, but I am controlling myself. Finally, I found one, the only, nice thing I can say about this episode: they seemed to have paid more attention to getting the timeline around Jun's cancer (which I assume to be ALL-acute lymphocytic leukemia). Depending on your ALL, initial treatment could take upto 2 years to complete, and there is a high chance of relapse or recurrence. And it is unusual for ALL to return if there are still no signs of the disease within 5 years after treatment. So....the 5 year time skip at the end in the context of his disease makes sense. And I will be silent now.

I’m so mad at the writer! The ending is so fuxking horrible I want to punch someone in the face right now.

The frustration feeling with this ending is so real. I was devastated because of everything: illness, lies, time jump and Jun being totally "out of character". He was not capable of something like that.

Totally unbelievable, unsatisfying ending. I was angry when the show appeared to kill Jun off...and incredulous and even angrier at the ridiculous final scene.