Thank you so much for the hug and good wishes. 🤍 The exam went well.

Thank youuu. It went well, thank God.

I suppose people take Sol's actions as her taking away SJ's agency by one-sidedly deciding he MUST live despite his supposed decision to off himself - but that's it, SUPPOSED. Not only his "jump" allegedly happened when he was mentally unwell and potentially not fully sober due to meds on top of that, but so far we don't even know for sure if he INDEED jumped himself or his death was a result of something else entirely. I'm personally 200% sure it was anything BUT a conscious well-thought suicide, so there's simply no need for me to drown in all those moral dilemmas about suicide prevention. And even he were to do that to himself for real, I'd still be in the "let her try" camp - I mean, it's not like she would make his eventual fate WORSE with her crazy antics, that'd be quite hard to beat!

It's hard to follow the trio ex-president, PM and ex-son-in-law/father, they all seem to expect different wish from Ja-Yoo (her death, her compagny) but still kinda work together...

Clearly, Shin-Gu didn't do it alone but who from the trio helped him?

The cancer research seems shady, at least the protocol.

Chae-Woon's time of reaction in the last scene was quite disapointing. And he was shot after saying everything will be ok... Fortunately, he looks good in suit.

I don't mind adaptations because it's not like I necessarily know a drama is adaptation at first or at all but I agree that it would be nice if original works were mixed in more.

I wonder what was the last original drama I've seen.

In Man-Shik we trust !!

Thanks, @solstices for you cogent recap. I'm sure your speculation at the end is correct, and that the villainous trio's attempts to acquire the company will have some connection with the prime minister illness.

I also appreciated the deepening relationship between the leads. I thought gradually making the FL more sympathetic, while not entirely revealing what she was up to, was well done, and Joo Ji-hoon's character became an even more charismatic in these 2 episodes, even though I'm not entirely sure how much he's willing to work with the villains for his own purposes.

As it happens, I have a little insight on organ regeneration and the growing of "organoids" in culture, because of relatives in the biotech industry working with exactly this process. Forgive me if everyone already knows this, but just as with cultured meat, in real life the promise far exceeds what can be produced. With cultured meat, its the problem of scaling up production; with growing organs its the problem of inducing the cells in culture to create blood vessels, nerve cells, etc. -- actually advancing beyond a small chunk of tissue. The other trouble is reproducibility--even if using stem cells from the possible patient, you can't necessarily guarantee the tissue will develop in a way to match the stem-cell donor.

But also, just as with cultured meat, there's nothing unethical about this kind of research or product per se unless researchers refuse to credit the stem cell donor and then try to profit off the mini-organ they are able to grow with those cells.

Obviously in real life, the willingness to experiment on the wife, (which was doing what--withdraw some of her cells and try to grow an organ?), especially if it was just with her husband's knowledge and not hers, was unethical. But I'll be interested to see what additional ethical dilemma the show tries to create with the process of organ generation, while Joo Ji-hoon battles the bad guys on the street!

What does an idol version of RM look like or even mean? Haha

oh, that's a good one!

To be fair, she had what, 14 years to make peace with her disability? That's a lot of time. While SJ's "unfortunate event" is not only more drastic in consequences, but also much more recent from her perspective - first time she literally time-travelled MINUTES after knowing of his demise. It's like a fresh bleeding wound and an old painful scar - which one would bother you more?