REALLY, QoT? We didn’t already have enough childhood connections for you? 😂😂

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    It’s a fairy tale! Lean into it 🙂
    (I loved it. Now we just need to find they were next to each other in hospital as babies…Or that they have the same fairy godmother.)

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    Oh my, @vienibenmio, but the connections were there from the very beginning when Hae-in had the flashbacks as the wild boar was about to attack. And the clues (red shirts/mp3 player) were spread around as well.

    The key take-away (I hope you don’t consider it to be spoiler because Ep. 12 provided the final puzzle pieces): Hyun Woo rescued her and heard her name (Hae-in) as her mother frantically called for her. Hyun Woo sees her name tag (Hong Hae-in) when he helps her at the highschool. Bingo- he connected the dots and began to search for her. When Yang-gi asks “would you recognize her (the highschool girl), Hyun Woo says “right away.” Which he did the moment she started to kick the copier.

    I don’t usually like “destiny” stories – but primarily because they are contrived like “Destined with You” or even the latest “Midnight Studio”. Queen of Tears? It’s subtle and meaningful – he was born to love and protect her and it’s not because of any childhood connection, it simply IS. My gosh, that IS their story. Or, should I say, that’s the story I have watched from Episode 2 (boar attack flashbacks) and episode 1 and 2 Epilogues. As @mazarin suggests, it’s a fairy tale. Writer-nim may disappoint, but I don’t think Hyun Woo’s prayer scenes are going to be throw-away scenes either. 😊

    Now, if the writers give us some half-assed dying in his arms (the prayers, gosh darn it! the prayers!) or even worse, he dies in her arms. I’ll . . .riot. Hell hath no fury. . . .etc. etc.💕

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      I love Queen of Tears but nothing is subtil in this childhood connections. At least, Destined with You and Mignight Studio are fantasy dramas, so we expect this kind of things, and in DwY it was literally the theme.

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      I would have liked the story to be just as you described, knowing how much she will need her from now on with her disease ( a big possibility is that it will not be neither a miracle nor a death but a stop in the progression of the disease with the hope that there are new research that is promising and writernim will have her usual endings where the leads are together but separated, this time by her memory loss and he will be the one that would help her remember alas notebook). But if he remembered her name since the beach incident and searched for her after the high school one then he would have known that she was rich when they met at the company. And that would change the whole story.

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        I’ll have to rewatch to confirm, but I believe he said he searched everywhere AT the highschool, not realizing it was her last day. He didn’t say he kept searching for her after that – only that he would recognize her immediately if he saw her again – and he did, When she returned to Korea, she had been gone at least 10 years. At the Department store, she was working anonymously – none of the other employees knew who she was either. But he recognized her as the girl at the highschool.

        Alas, I’m also afraid of some sort of “notebook” ending which I consider manipulative and unimaginative. The drama is hitting on all cylinders with an unusual romance (marriage in crisis that doesn’t involve revenge); the two families, the irredeemable villains who will be punished appropriately (death, death) and a bit of thriller antics with the stock take-over and counter-attack. It just doesn’t need additional tragedy and I’ll knock my rating down if it does.

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          Right, this has been so much like a fairy tale in other respects that a downer ending, while maybe more realistic, wouldn’t really fit the rest of it. And it would be wildly unsatisfying.

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      It’s not gonna detract from my enjoyment of the drama, but it’s just way too coincidental. Him saving her from drowning was coincidental enough, but then years later they run into each other as teenagers and later he works for her family’s company, not knowing anything about how she’s connected to it? There are so many connections around the characters (Hae-in, Soo-cheol, Eun-sung, Dae-hye, etc) but at least that one is explained through the common link of the orphanage. It’s a bit like Crash Landing on You where they JUST happened to run into each other in Switzerland of all places.

      I dunno, I love “fated to love you” and that’s why I adore supernatural dramas with past life connections, but sometimes I think choosing to love someone is beautiful too, and I wish Kdramas would show more of that.

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        I’ve re-thought some of my original comment. I already noted that I don’t like “destiny” plots and one reason I gave up on Destined for You was because sometimes the viewer was supposed to believe in the magic and other times they were not. Too many plot holes in the cosmic logic. So, I am more than happy to forgo the “they are destined for each other” from birth or past lives.

        But back to “Queen of Tears” – I’m simply good with the thought that when he rescued her, some sort of connection/bond was created. She has never consciously recognized the connection, but sub-consciously she did as witness her flashback when the boar attacked. It’s a bit fairytale-ish, but from the beginning, their love story was described as “miraculous”. KSH said that “fantasy” is one element of the drama. So, miracle, fantasy, the power of faith and prayer – after all the tears shed thus far, viewer deserves a happy, not bittersweet ending.

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    Hahahaha. I don’t understand why FL-ML need to be connected too much. I prefered if eunsung saved her, so I can blame his delulu-ness on him having saviour complex 🙃. Also eunsung is delulu and egositical, it’s weird he would claim he saved FL when he didn’t. I’m starting to think writer forgot the plot a bit and shoved in another childhood connection for FL-ML 😅.

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