Doom, and then a Happy End
The love story of Doom and this dying girl who stubbornly falls in love with him to avoid dying is heart gripping. When they meet in a kiss (It goes on for a long time, but I have speeded part of it up for you), Doom disappears.
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The rest of the kiss – speeded up considerably for gif convenience.
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At first it seems like if they love each other, he will disappear.
After the usual “Dead, but then not dead” of a supernatural love, the two can finally be together.
But beanies were astonished at the sudden lack of passion.
To be continued in comments 2 -4 with more gifs

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    Doom, and then a Happy End 2
    Though he’s the same, she does just not feel the urgency of being with him anymore. This was supposed to be a happy ending, but it feels oddly like a pitfall trap. Suddenly, there’s no ground, we are falling, but not in love.
    Notice how she doesn’t respond to his love here:
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    Now they can kiss without Doom being annihilated, but this is what happens:
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    I can’t but agree with him in this last gesture!
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    She gives him a late-night call, but only to interview him for the novel she’s writing about their story. Not to hear how he is feeling right now. Or what he’s wearing.

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    Doom, and then a Happy End 3
    Suddenly it’s all “no hanky-panky before marriage”, but also “no marriage”
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    One’s heart smarts for Doom, but he is now in the mortal world, where things – and love – can change. He can still have a happy ending.

    “In another part of town” as they say in the comics:
    Joo-ik and Hyun-kyu lived together and have a special, very close friendship, or at least that’s what Hyun-kyu thought.
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    This stopped, when Joo-ik finally got the girl he had tried for years to prize away from her mutual, but misunderstood, crush with Hyun-kyu.

    Now these two stories combine …

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    Doom, and then a Happy End 4

    Not everybody agrees with me, I know, but honestly; how is this not a meet-cute?
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    I think that this promises a Happy End after curtain fall.

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    Beanies were also astonished at the less-sudden lack of plot material…. which could have been a 10-episode drama instead.

    Yet, the first half to 2/3 of Doom At Your Service was oozing with feelings and interest ideas. It seems they, too, disappeared when Doom went. (actually even before he did)

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      THE KISS was amazing, as I recall, also when I saw it in context. And other things were surprising, or boring, or interesting … but when he came back and she seemed to be only politely admitting to being his girlfriend, that was a surprise, to say the least.
      But as I demonstrate, I can’t think but that Doom will get his happy end, still. Just not with her. She is more interested in her novel, and I even see this weird ending between him and her as a quib on what the … Sugar Prince? was the name? … said about fans expecting a guaranteed happy end.
      This is one happy end, which disappears into thin air, and another Happy End, that we didn’t expect at all.

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      TBH, I was imagining that instead of Doom stopping his eternal life, the Goddess would be allowed to take leave, while FL took over the post as the eternally dying Goddess – in that way she could be in a steady relationship with Doom and still never really die.
      I don’t remember how everything got fixed except “THe Goddess decided so”, but I was … amazed at the lack of passion from FL’s side in the end. But Doom saying hello to Hyun-kyu promised a new happy ever after – or at least for a good while. (And we know Hyun-kyu can hold on to a crush for at least a decade – they are both the loyal ones in the relationships they come from. It’ll be good! They deserve it!)

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    Nice work on the gifs! I recently finished watching this one. For me, the main plot was not as interesting as the sub-plot love triangle among the 2nd leads. Lee Soo-hyuk in particular was wonderful as one point of this triangle.

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    one of the BEST kiss scenes in Kdramas ever omg

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      True! And yet it wasn’t enough to keep me watching. Having Doom disappear right after was not the way to keep me engaged with the story. All that passion and then … pffffftt

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        I have a weird love/hate relationship with Doom – I don’t like how the “plot” unravelled at all and yet I’ve re-watched the show multiple times 🤡

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          I am pretty sure that that thing about readers demanding to know it would end well was more important than they let on. You might even get more interest out of imagining the Goddess as a kind of vain writer. I havent tried that idea in my head, but it might make sense. I mean being ruthless and scrapping Doom the moment they love each other.
          Buffy the Vampire slayer had something like Dooms disappearance, were the thing you really want will make you lose everything. The vampire Angel was cursed with having a soul and a conscience, and then on top on that, the moment he would ever be happy, he would lose that soul again. So the moment he and Buffy were really together, he became ice cold and evil. Cruel!

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      But she seemed to only really want one. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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