I like romantic and epic sageuks – oh and fusion sageuks too. I’ve watched and liked Dong Yi, The Flower in Prison (my very first Kdrama), Shine or Go Crazy, Dae Jang Geum, The Princess’ Man

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No I haven’t. That’s a good idea. I’ll try that, thank you!

Hiya. Sorry for the late reply. I don’t quite know how to explain it without seeming like I am rambling, but I don’t quite understand this show.

The hyung is a man with some level of developmental/learning disabilities, and his brother works as a psychiatric nursing assistant. Part of getting the hyung to live as independent a life as he can is giving him the tools to navigate the world – like figuring out his triggers and teaching him to avoid them/ devising ways to avoid them. We *know* hyung does not always act in a manner that’s socially appropriate, especially when he’s excited/has sensory overload. So a standard strategy for that would be having someone *with* him in those scenario (not standing somewhere afar off) – either to defuse/deescalare a situation that comes up/ to remind him to keep excitement in check. What’s his name works in psychiatry so by now, I expect him to KNOW this. So WHYYYYYYY would you take your brother out into a triggering scenario and then sit afar off? If the friend had done that fine, but I don’t expect a psychiatry nurse assistant to do this. It’s things like that which throw me off. It doesn’t make any sense. (It moves the plot along sure, but it’s not organic that way. 🤷🏾‍♀️)

Exactly. In fact, I don’t feel sorry for her. Right now I like her exactly as she is.

Having antisocial personality disorder isn’t the same thing as being a nasty person. So if that’s what they mean to portray, at least in this beginning episode, they’ve failed.

Are you from Ghana?

the novelty of a thousand+ year old person still behaving like a petulant child for four episodes grates quickly and IU doesn’t have the skill to make me want to wait it out. YJG is just there, out on a lurch like always. They need to start working on the back story Pronto.

Funnily enough, I started reaching Master’s Sun again, after starting this one. Still a gem (especially bc both leads were so well cast).

The whole setup is bogus.
(I wish michykdrama was still on here. She is an anesthesiologist and can explain better)

1. Anesthesiologists do not perform surgeries. Or diagnose illnesses (well certainly not the way Dr John and the Dr. Whats-her-name are doing). They also don’t deal with pain in the way the synopsis is suggesting. They keep people unconscious and without pain during surgery or manage ICUs (where many patients are kept under heavy sedation). Patients with chronic pain wouldn’t be seeing the anesthesiologist at the hospital – since their problems would most likely not be surgical, and most importantly, they’re awake and not needing to be in the ICU.

2. Anesthesiology is a surgical discipline (even though they aren’t surgeons), not a medical one. You wouldn’t hire an anesthesiologist to be acting as a GP/family/physician/diagnose simple ailments in a prison. That’s not their job or their area of expertise. Especially the way medicine residencies are run in America, Asia, and most of Europe. They simply wouldn’t be competent at it/allowed to do it, because they can’t.

3. Anesthesiologists DO NOT perform surgeries. They are required in surgeries, to keep the patient unconscious and free from pain. It can be very dramatic – they are the ones called upon to keep the patient alive when they begin to die on the surgical table, but NOT because of a bleed. A bleeding patient requires a surgeon to find and stop the cause of the bleeding. Not the anesthesiologist.

4. I’m not sure about the mystery surrounding Dr. whats-her-name and why she is so jittery around hospitals, but if her license has been suspended (which is what i suspect), then she shouldn’t be able to work anywhere, not even in a prison.

5. Her behavior around human error in medicine…..lol. No one can become a doctor who thinks or behaves like that. You simply can’t because you wouldn’t be able to work. And for someone who works in surgery/critical care…..its stupid, unrealistic, and will keep you from doing your job. You can’t think like that (I guess that’s why she’s having a hard time at her job). That’s just the first episode.

So yeah. I spent my time yelling at the screen in frustration. I don’t know if I can watch the second. But we are gonna give it a try because we love Ji Sung.

Arghh. Is it. Netflix is ruining dramas for us.
I dropped at 4. Might pick up once season 2 comes in September

He is young and looks young. I only watched ep 1, and I too think he is miscasted for the character description.

Worse, the PDs resume is also stellar (Signal, Misaeng, My Ahjussi). I dropped it to because I was too disappointed.

Maybe a PD with more experience in sageuks or action would have been better, like the Six Flying Dragons PD (who is currently directing Nokdu Flower, which is by far the superior show imho).

Then he/she should be even MORE ASHAMED to produce such subpar work when they’ve done so much better previously.

Even though it’s still early days yet, I find myself pretty disappointed at the show so far. This isn’t good storytelling.

Or that her parents, who supposedly loved her so much, wouldn’t come in for one last look at their precious child before the coffin was sealed. I just don’t get it. Unless they do things differently in South Korea.