The most frustrating was the notion that Yuri can hang out with KH and SW only in the absence of MinJung! The show championed the idea of second wives and stepmoms being replaceable! Sigh! 😒

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    Hmmm.. Minjeong will always be Seo-woo’s mom. I didn’t see it as her being replaceable. She said so herself, she wants Ganghwa to do a goob job letting Yuri go. It would be super awkward for her to be there during the trip because that was Yuri’s place with her friends and to say goodbye to them.

    If anything, I thought the drama showed Minjeong being the mom for Seo-woo even though she didn’t give birth to her. Even Yuri acknowledged that fact. She even took out the books at the kindergarten that painted stepmoms as evil.

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      I think we are going to agree to disagree. I don’t believe in the whole “it’s Yuri’s place”. The show/writers spent all that time establishing a friendship between MinJung and Yuri so why would it be awkward for her to be around them. I’ve always been frustrated with how the show made it seem like Yuri or her family couldn’t be around MinJung. Maybe it’s a cultural thing but in this day and age behaving like MinJung doesn’t exist is what is awkward. Why is Yuri saying bye involve pretending that Yuri, KangHwa, and SeoWoo are a family unit without MinJung. If it had been one outing I can understand but essentially the way the show portrayed Yuri’s last few days is that MinJung just disappears. KangHwa was quick to take of his wedding ring too. The show could have been so much more if they had treated MinJung’s character with respect from the beginning. Yuri’s mom was the only one who showed any respect for MinJung. Every other character mostly behaved as if MinJung was a obstacle for 15 episodes and how because of her Yuri can’t take her place and live. In the 16th episode we learn that if Yuri stays then SeoWoo can’t stop seeing ghosts and that’s why Yuri can’t live! So why make MinJung the bad guy. Why make KangHwa and HyungJung say stuff like “you can take your place” as if MinJung was just holding Yuri’s place. It was so frustrating. Yuri’s place is Yuri’s place MinJung never took Yuri’s place and Yuri can never take MinJun’s place. Human beings are not replaceable. Argh! It was so frustrating.

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        I mean you have friends you just don’t mix together. The camping trip was for her to say goodbye to Hyunjeong.

        I also have a problem with the rules they set up for her coming back to.life because they didn’t stick to it and really, what’s the point when we got lied to anyway? I didn’t like what they did to Minjeong’s character either. It looked like they all just bullied her.

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          That’s what was frustrating. The drama was all over the place. HyungJung was supposedly MinJung’s friend too. Why did they spend like three episodes setting up that friendship? It was also frustrating that HyungJung never had any remorse towards MinJung. I know! I know! She said sorry but her sorry and for that matter Yuri’s apology were perfunctory at best.

          There were so many inconsistencies and so many mixed messages from the show. Reading comments on the last few episodes with folks talking about Yuri being the original wife & mother and MinJung should step aside. It was disappointing and more than a little distasteful. I had such hopes for this drama.

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            It seems like the writer got affected by comments because most naver comments want Yuri and Ganghwa together which doesn’t really make sense. Coz I mean, she’s dead. But yeah. I dont understand why people would want those to together and discard Minjung.

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    I was hoping by the end, they would’ve explained to Seo Woo that Yu Ri is her birth mom, but MJ will always be her mom too. And then they bring MJ to see Yu Ri’s family so that they can establish it’s perfectly fine for the family to be together even after she’s gone. The lot even have their goodbyes together.

    Instead we got Kang Hwa telling Seo Woo in her freaking sleep about the mom and Kang Hwa never fighting for MJ but they somehow still end up not divorcing. And all the other ghosts plotline was just abandoned and they went up in a jiffy despite having fought Midongdaek for years. *big sigh*

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      The way you laid out makes more sense to me. Essentially the show could have portrayed Yuri spending her 49days actually doing the things she came to do – protect SeoWoo, her her family and friends to move on, help the other ghosts. Instead we had 15 episodes of mostly “Sad KangHwa” and “the second wife is in Yuri’s place” and one episode to do all the things Yuri said she was there to do. They didn’t even show her father and sister learning about her leaving and they get to say goodbye in essentially one picnic!

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      The first paragraph is exactly what should have happened.

      I know many didn’t like the plotline with all of the other ghosts, but I did, and I don’t like how they had Yuri promise to grant them one wish and then dropped it like two episodes later.

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