🤣 🫘Beansprout🌱 for sharing that moment so perfectly.

I will be watching from the sidelines! good luck!

Yeah, what was that scene, really?! The emotions are missing (where is the melancholy and the despair?) And does the ML actor have a different interpretation for the high-school doppelganger character? Because he's too moony-eyed to be the wannabe-gangsta with a dash of mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
Also, I'm really upset at a Main Character no longer having a hearing-aid. 💔

No, please no ... be good drama.

Noooooo! I hope it's amazing. However, if your expectations are really low then maybe this can only exceed your expectations. Remakes are always dangerous. Expectations have been set. Stick with the source material too close and it might be labeled as a failure for lack of creativity. Deviate from the source material too much and it will be a failure (ref See you in my 19th Life, or worse yet Avatar the last Airbender). It must be so hard as a writer - the pressure to come up with something better than a very well loved original.

I think it's hard for a remake to excite and please fans of the original when that original was nearly flawless. That's the case here, so I expect that most who watched the Taiwanese version are going to be disappointed with the kdrama version.

Personally, I'm trying very hard to see them as two separate entities because my weekends are currently void of any interesting shows and I want that to change.

The problem is, if it's too different it'll just annoy people but if it's a shot by shot remake then why bother? Just go watch the original, which was perfection.

Also I do not believe that Ahn Hyo-seop has the chops to come even close to Greg Hsu. Which is a shame because Jeon Yeo-bin's casting seems kind of perfect.

*which IS a very special drama.

I think his face was... longer? as Chan in “30 but 17”.

You are not the only one thinking that.
First off, AHS’s actual age is 28 (as 17 April) and looks great imho. So he was 23 when he portrayed (if memory serves) the 17 year old Chan in 30B17 (2018). He looked the part to me. By the time of BUSINESS PROPOSAL (2022) he was almost 27 and to me he looked age appropriate for his character. With his recent dramas, in the promo pics I am seeing, he is reverting to looking more like Chan.

O/T. I think perhaps we should ask his adopted mom, our
own @ally-le what she is feeding him. New beanies may not be aware but during the live airing of 30B17 back in 2018 Chan was adopting by Ally.
She has two other adopted (kdrama sons) around the same age as Chan. (They could all be ‘Irish triplets lol).
Any guesses who the other two are?

I know this sounds glib, but maybe Korean producers wanted to make it in their own language? That would be one reason to do a remake. Also, I never watched the original and may have never watched it, because I don’t watch a lot of Taiwanese dramas, and am happy to see a kdrama of a highly rated show. And with Ahn Hyo-seop, no less! I’ve been filling his career closely. So there’s that too. Anyway, definitely glad this show is here, even if it feels like it was made just for me.

I’m watching the first ep now.

The chemistry did click for me until into episode 4. I also didn’t like the first at least 2 episodes, because of all the mourning—hard to feel chemistry when everyone is crying over someone dying, I guess. I’m more interested in the time jumps now.

I haven’t seen the original, and I’m only up to episode 5 now, but I think it has to do with getting the niece back to her timeline. Is she still stuck in the middle world? I think JJ must have gotten stuck there too when the plane crash happened and saw her or something and somehow got out and met her uncle and has a plan to get her back. I’m still wondering why In-gyu’s hearing aid is at the scene of the crime. 😆