An update you guys deserve.

@attiton: The remote died a horrible death by drowning. It was manslaughter. I was secretly counting on rice, but realised I was running out of rice too. LOL

I dashed to the mall (thankfully this nice old man has a shop full of remote controls of any brand thinkable) 10 minutes from my place and bought a replacement. What would I do without precious internet friends like yoooouuu?

@indyfan @parkchuna unfortch I am not from Korea, but I have an android TV which loads my Amazon Prime.

I have a computer, and also do have a phone, but I wanna soak up all the cuteness and follow every heart beat of the show via my 55 inch TV. Cos if I can 55 inches of Heartbeat, 13 inches and 5 inches of Heartbeat just don’t cut it anymore lol.

Half an hour more before my new remote finds its purpose in life!

Uh oh…had to enter my pin. It’s going dark…

Oh my gosh Taec on a 55inch screen 😍 @pikpokpikpok ok go raise those amazon stats! I’ll be hiding from the wall till i catch up.

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OH THANK HEAVENS you got a new one. I too use 6 inches of remote to summon 55 inches of Taec (and Yeom Hye-ran, Junho, Kim So-hyun, and Park Sung-hoon, among others). They require big-screen appreciation in a way that some mere demi-gods of drama do not. The 5-inch experience is reserved for rewatches on my deeply horrible bus commute.

@parkchuna I have just returned from it and can’t wait to have you on the wall after you have watched it!

@elinor I HAD TO. I cannot believe how my first thought when I saw my remote control diving in the deep was… “HOW AM I GONNA WATCH HEARTBEAT TONIGHT??”

You totally get me when you eloquently said big-screen appreciation of Taec. I promise I am not a snob and I *CAN* make do with smaller screens, but it wouldn’t do him justice.

My 5-inch comes in handy when I can scroll through the gifs and short clips to revisit the heart-melting parts… I hear it helps with manifesting sweet dreams.

That’s right. You are always the star of your own kdrama! (It helps to have OST music playing at all times 😁)

nooooooo that’s so wrong! Thanks for the vote of confidence, I wish you the best in negotiating for your fair share of remote time!

I had that feeling initially too! The fact they were so open but now they have secrets didn’t sit well with me, but their monologues or dialogues with others showed they are doing it to protect each other in their own ways and… they went on to act on things that match their intention – WH wanna make sure IH isn’t alone, and chose to avoid her because he has chosen to sacrifice himself so he would never hurt her (this would counter DS’s insistence that he was hiding it from the start and it was a ruse all along). If she had doubts from her convo with DS, it seemed like the truth didn’t matter to her, and she wanna help him regardless.

But I like that his actions would show that her resolve is a worthy one. Like it would make some sense where she would arrive at the conclusion… not like another show I just wasted time watching, where everything falls in place nicely even when it isn’t logical at times.

At this point, the things they are hiding would cause worry or pain to the other, and the matters involved would actually each other how much they wanna protect each other, and further proved their feelings are genuine.

I don’t know how to explain the nuances (someday I hope to achieve the eloquence of you peeps), but there was a moment when IH was in her room and when she chose to hide when there are so many things going on, cos she knows how important the house is to him and wouldn’t want him to cede it to HW and she gonna find a way, and something she said changed my perspective on it in a snap of moment. I am not sure if it made sense to me, or my glasses are too tinted at the moment.