Though last night’s episode ended unhappily, I think Song-ah didn’t do anything wrong. She told Dong-yoon how she felt now, how she felt then. She was being compassionate toward his feelings.
And Joon-young should be able to have the same kind of conversation with Jung-kyung. “Yes, I did love you from afar, but now it’s over.” He can acknowledge that there was something there, and let go more compassionately.
So, I agree that what Song-ah did was right – but the thing is, it was going to hurt Min-sung no matter what. I think she basically wanted to tell Dong-yoon to keep to himself so that Min-sung never found out about either of their feelings.
But I kind of disagree that Joon-young should do the same with Jung-kyung – at least right now. It’s clear that Jung-kyung is manipulative and he seems pretty aware of this. I think if he gave her this information right now, he’s afraid she may use it against him, or to hurt Song-ah. I also think that Joon-young was never actually in love with Jung-kyung, but rather he just loves her, as a friend, maybe as more than that, but not on the romantic scale it takes to be in love with someone. (Does that make sense?) I think he still loves her, just like Song-ah will still love Dong-yoon in her own way. These are both people who had meaningful impacts on their lives and I don’t think they are willing to lose them over past feelings. It’s just that with the mix of emotions here it is hard to untangle the complicated relationships between love and friendship.
I felt like Hyeon-ho grew up tonight. When he said goodbye, don’t come back, he stopped being the boy she took for granted all these years and became a man she couldn’t have. Really fine acting.
I was so happy for him! It’s ironic that JK is the one who broke the relationship but I feel like she’s the one out of the trio that’s most stuck in the past now. Joon Young and Hyeon Ho are both working their way forward. It’s still early stages for the guys but they’ve at least gone a few steps forward. Brilliant acting with how Hyeon Ho couldn’t meet her eyes the whole time btw.
I was cheering for him! I’m so proud of him that he said that to her (even though he broke down after going into his room) not like how he acted when she broke up with him.
I feel like it was pretty natural that he broke down in his room afterwards. I was just happy that he stood his ground in front of her, said what he had to say (especially in rebuttal of her comment about how he did nothing even after she told him she was having second thoughts), and then told her to never come back. I thought that was brave.
How cute was Min’s chat with his mom? Chicken sex, blackberry jam, lots of laughter. So down to earth and warm. Such a contrast to her former MIL. Seeing Eun-joo smile behind her hand, so encouraging.
Meanwhile, how cute is it that Mom wants to go hiking with her daughters! I hope she does get to go before the end, and I hope SS gets to hike with her. (Unfamiliar Family, ep 13)
Wait, what? Nooo!! If that ring came from the ring box in the prev. scene, I will give up on you, Unfamiliar Fam. She wouldn’t just show up wearing that in front of someone else, right? That hurts.
Unfamiliar Family – ep 13- ending — SPOILERS AHEAD — I’ve rewatched that scene about five times, and I just don’t get it. It’s obvious that the ring got his attention, and that she was nervous about his reaction. I hope the show is toying with us here, and that the ring on her finger has nothing to do with the ring box we just saw. I hope this is a ring that for some reason connects EH to CH in the past, and that she’s wearing it in this conspicuous way because she’s too shy to say how she feels. Otherwise, if she’s wearing someone else’s ring (just doesn’t make sense) or any old ring to pretend that she’s dating seriously (not believable at this point), I’ll be so disappointed in her, and in the writer(s) who made her do it.
I was swooning over ChanHyuk finally confessing and not as worried about EunHee’s response and then they throw us this ring!!! WTH writers!!! I really hope it is a fake out… idk how… like you said the options are not very plausible… but they BETTER make it a fake out.
My little theory about why we have come so far with pyscho ex-boyfriend: because he set up this incident in HK’s office in order to discredit him the way he discredited Keanu. * more below
I’m sure he called DH so that she would witness the event and he probably called the reporter as well. His malicious plan will all be seeming to fall in place, but Keanu is going to come to the rescue and do for HK what he didn’t do for himself. And they both will be vindicated, and JH will be locked up. Finally. And then Keanu can move in with AY and our OTP can enjoy a quiet meal together. Right?
IDK if I want JJH to be locked up. I just want him to stop what he’s doing, admit to fabricating the story he made re Keanu, leave Hae-hyeong and Do-hee alone, and get some effing help.
Locking JJH up won’t help him. He needs to get some VERY serious therapy and help.
And we need Keanu and AY to get together – but only after she gets over her hate of psychiatrists…..
Even mentally ill people like JH know when they are committing a crime. He has committed quite a few crimes to get what he wants. Therapy may help but it can’t give him a conscience or empathy if he has none. So I do think he needs to be convicted and committed. Otherwise how will he stop hurting other people?
Yes he needs to be committed somewhere – I missed that very important point. Putting him in jail wouldn’t help – in an institution for criminally insane – yes!
Her heart skipped a beat.
His heart skipped a beat.
I held my breath….
And she walked it back.
Eun-hee and Chan-hyuk, who is going to get up the guts to confess?
Seriously!!! I’m hoping his sister does something to get these two together! Tho it seemed like he was gonna do something when he was expecting her in the office??
One moment, Oh My Baby makes me laugh out loud. The next moment, it’s tugging at my heartstrings. Laugh out loud…. Tugging at heartstrings…. Such a nice balance, I can’t get enough.
I\’m halfway thru Find Me in Your Memory and I have a bad feeling that the dramatic twist is going to be that TE is the stalker. He\’s the only male character who knew her before she became an actress.
I don’t want it to be him and I don’t think it makes sense with what we’ve seen of him so far. But maybe the drama is going to suggest that he loved Ha Jin quietly from afar until Jeong Hoon got involved. And then he couldn’t take it, because his father always disregarded and disrespected him while being obsessed with JH. He would have known to scare her with a motorcycle. He would have known about their relationships with Seo Yeon, her murder and her murderer. I have a bad feeling that one of them is going to see his motorcycle or helmet.
And he’s the most likely one to have given her an injection. Unless there is no stalker and it is TE’s father paying people to do stalkerish things to drive them apart, because of his obsession with JH.
My other little nit with this show: When JH knows a stalker is after his girlfriend, why does he never call the police? Why didn’t he call when it was SY, and why didn’t he call before leaving the newsroom to get to the signing event? Because the show needed that encounter to happen? But it just makes him look stupid and arrogant to try to get there and solve it on his own. Especially when the guy sent him live video feed. The cops could have caught him on the spot. But I guess that isn’t what the show wanted either.
I guess it came to mind when I saw the new drama Number of Cases will have a publisher character, which made me think about Romance Is a Bonus Book. And then I thought about the bookstore and books being quoted in I’ll Meet You When the Weather Is Fine…. And then A Poem a Day, though I didn’t watch it. And then remembered that Extraordinary You, Rookie Historian, and W all involved books of one kind or another. Even 365: Repeat the Year is taking quotations from a book as clues/sinister signals. I’m sure I’m forgetting other dramas with authors, publishers, or literary themes.
Yes2! Literature in dramas sound awesome. One reason I adored Perfume was the way literature was used throughout. The writer managed to integrate literature in it’s story and script despite not having any bookstore, library, author or book keeper role. It only had a bookworm who reads all the time.
A short PSA on something that has been bugging me lately: peek, peak, and pique. (Warning: Spoilers for Never Twice below.)
Peek: To take a quick look; to look at something that is supposed to stay secret. Ex: Bak-ha peeked at the invitations in Ms. Oh’s drawer. She took a quick peek, but oops, her loose button fell right in the drawer.
Peak: The top of a mountain; a high point comparable to the top of a mountain. Ex: My sympathy for Hae-ri peaked in ep. 1, then disappeared when she turned out to be a selfish brat. The storyline hit a peak when Hae-jun confessed to Bak-ha, but since there were 18 episodes to go, she had to reject him.
Pique: To attract interest. Ex. When Hae-jun saw Bak-ha walking down the street with a flat belly, his interest was piqued, because she looked nine months pregnant a few days earlier. His interest was piqued again when his mother locked Bak-ha in the gallery, then told the police she was a thief.
Does anyone else think they\’ve seen that waterfall from Catch the Ghost ep 16 before? Isn\’t that where Mama Fairy lost her wings in Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter?
No. 1 best thing about Catch the Ghost — the scenes between Ji Seok and Mom. The rest of the story fades into the background when they\’re together. They could be spliced into a completely…
different drama about people and their hardships, and their scenes would still be the highlight, so touching and authentic. Really memorable performances by Nam Gi-ae and Kim Sun-ho.
You mean compared to your mom, who lived pitifully and is at death’s door? Or compared to HM, who was brutally murdered after a pathetic life? Are you kidding me? You have a successful business, a loving son, and you’ve just been welcomed back by the guy you dumped, the guy with the biggest heart in the world. You know why you’re a loser, DB? Because you think of yourself as a loser. After everything that’s happened in this drama, hearing this line from you makes me think you don’t deserve all the good that you have in your life.
I never could like this show because of exactly this reason. Her constant self-pitying nearly drove me mad. GHJ has an irritating way of whining in all of her roles but I had never gotten this frustrated at her.
OMG — I was wondering why we cut to the Salvation Army Christmas collection. And why she’s complaining about receiving pencils from Santa. Do camellias bloom in winter? Because the background music is The First Noel. Gah! It’s going to be a Christmas miracle ending. Who could have believed it!
That Salvation Army cut made no sense whatsoever! In fact, I think the editing of both ep 19 and 20 were off. They were probably running out of time to do it properly.
I think it was their way of doing a time jump and the execution was not that great. So Mom was in the hospital fall which lead into winter and then it was Spring when Yong-sik was talking about their wedding.
Also, DB and Yong sik did not age either which, was kinda dumb for the production to at least try to age them up a bit. Yong-sik would be what 40 or 42 at that time. I few winkles and a gray in the temple would have sufficed.
I hate what the writer has done to Ma-ri. In what should have been a triumphant episode about identifying the Subway Ghost, instead we have vicious Ma-ri humiliating YR by exposing the fact that she left her autistic sister — and why? To get revenge for YR actually finding the Ghost’s lair with WH. Does she care that the case is being solved? No, because she didn’t solve it personally. I love this actress and I hate this part for her. Ma-ri is simply detestable. And what was that pat on the head from Mom — was it sincere or sarcastic? I honestly couldn’t tell.
Why else am I mad? Poor struggling JS is suspended for three months because he didn’t know he was being deceived. Shouldn’t YR get at least equal punishment? Shouldn’t she actually get fired? If finding the Ghost’s lair was extenuating circumstances, why don’t those circumstances apply to JS too????
Why else? Because instead of making us glad that we’re closing in on the Subway Ghost, an evil serial killer, we instead are being coaxed to feel sympathy for poor Curly Grasshopper, because if someone taps a pen or he doesn’t take his meds, he turns into a clever and calculating killer. And was he the jogger, too? I have to go back and look. Come on, show, give us a villain we can hate, not one we’ll have to cry over because his meds just didn’t do the job right. Too pathetic!!!
This is why I stopped watching after ep 4. YR is causing too much damage with no consequence and they made JS a idiot because having a crush only does that.
Ma-ri making the case personal has been rubbing me the wrong way – and her incredibly petty behavior today made me so angry. It doesn’t matter that she had a valid reason for ignoring Yu-ryung at first because of video of her abandoning Yu-jin – a superior should never ever humiliate a subordinate on such a personal level like that in front of her team. That is such bad leadership, not least because it diverts attention from the work at hand which is stopping a freaking murderer. Not to mention she is antagonizing the family of a victim – a family member who has lived with guilt and no news of her sister for two years. Even if what Yu-ryung did was wrong, and it was, that is no reason to belittle and humiliate her. There is no reason to do that to anyone ever.
I get why Ji-seok was suspended; I disagree with it, but I understand why he was given the harsher punishment. As a supervisor he could have done a better job. But it’s 100% not his fault he was deceived, but he also clearly had not trained his rookie properly to realize the gravity of her actions, and that is on him. Does the punishment fit the crime? No. But it is fair to punish him harshly. If we are making comparisons it makes less sense that Ma-ri isn’t called out for her treatment of Yu-ryung. If I saw a team captain behaving the way she did I would discipline them and move them out of leadership until they can learn to actually lead.
Also, I half think curly grasshopper is a red herring. There’s too much show left for it to be that easy. (Also, he wasn’t the jogger.) Unless the show wants to fill in more of his story before the end, I can see it being a distraction. I’m more inclined to believe it is someone related to the grasshoppers – perhaps curly’s sibling?
Ok so I agree with you regarding MaRi wholeheartedly. I wish the writer had written her better! The rest @SnarkyJellyFish has said it really well. One thing that I would like to add is that I don’t think we are supposed to feel sorry for the criminal. I think the meds were their to add a little more depth and story to his character than to make us feel sorry for him!
I think the part that annoys me the most about how Ma-ri is written is not only is it bad, it is also lazy, especially given that we know how personal her work it’s to her. To have her act petty because of her ex as opposed to delving into the deeper questions of the pressure she has to perform well and prove herself on her own merits is a waste of potential and the writers chance to create another interesting female character. I’m not saying Ma-ri needs to like Yu-ryung or even get along with her, but basically making it about a boy is just dumb given there are so many other things they have already put in place to work with.
Subway Ghost’s mother — “My son has a broken heart” — did such an obvious double take when she saw YR that there isn’t any doubt that she’s seen YJ. I think she’s probably taking care of YJ for her son. For some reason, he must have taken pity on her and let her live. Ghost’s Mom seems to know that he is the Subway Ghost serial murderer. Is there really a mother out there who would make excuses for her son and let him keep murdering innocent people, just because he has a broken heart? The show seems to be hinting that Ghost’s Mom is going to use JS’s Mom as security to keep her son from being caught. Not looking forward to that.
Are there still people who think WH is the Ghost? Even though he’s running around with Ma-ri trying to catch the Ghost while Choi Mi-ra is being assaulted?
On the other hand, what are the chances that Jogger Guy is the Ghost? Wasn’t it kind of strange that she let a witness like that get away without even writing down his name and contact info?
I’m disappointed in YR for passing up another series of opportunities to tell the truth to JS. He’s already shown that he’s not going to blame a full-time sole caregiver for melting down. I suppose she wants one more night of searching the tunnels with WH, so that they can get Major Crimes’ attention for her sister’s case. But for all her high regard for JS, she’s still recklessly endangering his job, even though she now knows that he has to support his mother.
One cute detail — last week, we saw just JS taking notes on YR’s mental subway map deductions. Today, everyone except MR were scribbling in their notebooks.
Kyung is happy at first that Dan-oh only has eyes for him and has forgotten Haru. He gives her his mother’s ring again and she accepts it happily. They plan their wedding. Dan-oh is confused about why Haru is sad around her. Even Do-wha can’t get through. But Kyung can’t forget that he killed Dan-oh in the last story, and he decides he doesn’t want to marry Dan-oh if she’s not aware. He triggers her memory, and all her feelings for Haru come back. Kyung acts like he’s going forward with their wedding anyway, but at the last minute he pulls a substitution the way Haru did at the party, and instead of Kyung and Dan-oh, it’s Haru and Dan-oh on stage at the right moment.
latebloomer
September 29, 2020 at 9:48 AM
Though last night’s episode ended unhappily, I think Song-ah didn’t do anything wrong. She told Dong-yoon how she felt now, how she felt then. She was being compassionate toward his feelings.
latebloomer
September 29, 2020 at 9:50 AM
And Joon-young should be able to have the same kind of conversation with Jung-kyung. “Yes, I did love you from afar, but now it’s over.” He can acknowledge that there was something there, and let go more compassionately.
SnarkyJellyfish
September 29, 2020 at 10:11 AM
So, I agree that what Song-ah did was right – but the thing is, it was going to hurt Min-sung no matter what. I think she basically wanted to tell Dong-yoon to keep to himself so that Min-sung never found out about either of their feelings.
But I kind of disagree that Joon-young should do the same with Jung-kyung – at least right now. It’s clear that Jung-kyung is manipulative and he seems pretty aware of this. I think if he gave her this information right now, he’s afraid she may use it against him, or to hurt Song-ah. I also think that Joon-young was never actually in love with Jung-kyung, but rather he just loves her, as a friend, maybe as more than that, but not on the romantic scale it takes to be in love with someone. (Does that make sense?) I think he still loves her, just like Song-ah will still love Dong-yoon in her own way. These are both people who had meaningful impacts on their lives and I don’t think they are willing to lose them over past feelings. It’s just that with the mix of emotions here it is hard to untangle the complicated relationships between love and friendship.
latebloomer
September 21, 2020 at 7:50 PM
I felt like Hyeon-ho grew up tonight. When he said goodbye, don’t come back, he stopped being the boy she took for granted all these years and became a man she couldn’t have. Really fine acting.
yongsital 🐧 ❄️
September 21, 2020 at 8:49 PM
I was so happy for him! It’s ironic that JK is the one who broke the relationship but I feel like she’s the one out of the trio that’s most stuck in the past now. Joon Young and Hyeon Ho are both working their way forward. It’s still early stages for the guys but they’ve at least gone a few steps forward. Brilliant acting with how Hyeon Ho couldn’t meet her eyes the whole time btw.
earthna
September 21, 2020 at 9:21 PM
I was cheering for him! I’m so proud of him that he said that to her (even though he broke down after going into his room) not like how he acted when she broke up with him.
Maq
September 22, 2020 at 8:21 AM
I feel like it was pretty natural that he broke down in his room afterwards. I was just happy that he stood his ground in front of her, said what he had to say (especially in rebuttal of her comment about how he did nothing even after she told him she was having second thoughts), and then told her to never come back. I thought that was brave.
letseatcookies
September 21, 2020 at 11:17 PM
Him trying to hold it all together though, man that acting was solid.
latebloomer
July 21, 2020 at 12:37 PM
How cute was Min’s chat with his mom? Chicken sex, blackberry jam, lots of laughter. So down to earth and warm. Such a contrast to her former MIL. Seeing Eun-joo smile behind her hand, so encouraging.
mindy
July 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM
Her smiling was everything! I already want an entire drama with this pairing!
Maq
July 21, 2020 at 5:50 PM
I haven’t watched this drama, but the phrase “chicken sex” is very, ummm, strange.
latebloomer
July 21, 2020 at 7:04 PM
It is an excellent drama, and his mom wants him to explain how to tell male chicks from female.
latebloomer
July 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM
Meanwhile, how cute is it that Mom wants to go hiking with her daughters! I hope she does get to go before the end, and I hope SS gets to hike with her. (Unfamiliar Family, ep 13)
latebloomer
July 13, 2020 at 2:39 PM
Wait, what? Nooo!! If that ring came from the ring box in the prev. scene, I will give up on you, Unfamiliar Fam. She wouldn’t just show up wearing that in front of someone else, right? That hurts.
latebloomer
July 13, 2020 at 6:40 PM
Unfamiliar Family – ep 13- ending — SPOILERS AHEAD — I’ve rewatched that scene about five times, and I just don’t get it. It’s obvious that the ring got his attention, and that she was nervous about his reaction. I hope the show is toying with us here, and that the ring on her finger has nothing to do with the ring box we just saw. I hope this is a ring that for some reason connects EH to CH in the past, and that she’s wearing it in this conspicuous way because she’s too shy to say how she feels. Otherwise, if she’s wearing someone else’s ring (just doesn’t make sense) or any old ring to pretend that she’s dating seriously (not believable at this point), I’ll be so disappointed in her, and in the writer(s) who made her do it.
acacia
July 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM
I was swooning over ChanHyuk finally confessing and not as worried about EunHee’s response and then they throw us this ring!!! WTH writers!!! I really hope it is a fake out… idk how… like you said the options are not very plausible… but they BETTER make it a fake out.
neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
July 14, 2020 at 3:11 AM
RIGHT??? It better be a red herring or I will throw tables!!!
latebloomer
July 6, 2020 at 4:38 PM
My little theory about why we have come so far with pyscho ex-boyfriend: because he set up this incident in HK’s office in order to discredit him the way he discredited Keanu. * more below
latebloomer
July 6, 2020 at 4:41 PM
I’m sure he called DH so that she would witness the event and he probably called the reporter as well. His malicious plan will all be seeming to fall in place, but Keanu is going to come to the rescue and do for HK what he didn’t do for himself. And they both will be vindicated, and JH will be locked up. Finally. And then Keanu can move in with AY and our OTP can enjoy a quiet meal together. Right?
Maq
July 6, 2020 at 5:41 PM
IDK if I want JJH to be locked up. I just want him to stop what he’s doing, admit to fabricating the story he made re Keanu, leave Hae-hyeong and Do-hee alone, and get some effing help.
stpauligurl
July 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM
Locking JJH up won’t help him. He needs to get some VERY serious therapy and help.
And we need Keanu and AY to get together – but only after she gets over her hate of psychiatrists…..
latebloomer
July 7, 2020 at 5:30 AM
Even mentally ill people like JH know when they are committing a crime. He has committed quite a few crimes to get what he wants. Therapy may help but it can’t give him a conscience or empathy if he has none. So I do think he needs to be convicted and committed. Otherwise how will he stop hurting other people?
stpauligurl
July 7, 2020 at 5:33 AM
Yes he needs to be committed somewhere – I missed that very important point. Putting him in jail wouldn’t help – in an institution for criminally insane – yes!
latebloomer
June 29, 2020 at 5:34 PM
Her heart skipped a beat.
His heart skipped a beat.
I held my breath….
And she walked it back.
Eun-hee and Chan-hyuk, who is going to get up the guts to confess?
_my.river_
June 29, 2020 at 7:03 PM
Seriously!!! I’m hoping his sister does something to get these two together! Tho it seemed like he was gonna do something when he was expecting her in the office??
latebloomer
June 4, 2020 at 8:24 PM
One moment, Oh My Baby makes me laugh out loud. The next moment, it’s tugging at my heartstrings. Laugh out loud…. Tugging at heartstrings…. Such a nice balance, I can’t get enough.
meowingme
June 5, 2020 at 12:04 AM
This drama should be called Oh My Feels; teared up, squeed, laughed, and when I checked it was only 11 mins into episode 7…
latebloomer
May 28, 2020 at 2:54 PM
Merry Christmas, shippers! Winter is here! Woo hoo!
latebloomer
May 19, 2020 at 6:32 PM
I forgot how much I love Mystery Queen!
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 7:41 PM
So happy that Ha Kyung has someone to look out for her now.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 6:21 AM
I\’m halfway thru Find Me in Your Memory and I have a bad feeling that the dramatic twist is going to be that TE is the stalker. He\’s the only male character who knew her before she became an actress.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 6:29 AM
I don’t want it to be him and I don’t think it makes sense with what we’ve seen of him so far. But maybe the drama is going to suggest that he loved Ha Jin quietly from afar until Jeong Hoon got involved. And then he couldn’t take it, because his father always disregarded and disrespected him while being obsessed with JH. He would have known to scare her with a motorcycle. He would have known about their relationships with Seo Yeon, her murder and her murderer. I have a bad feeling that one of them is going to see his motorcycle or helmet.
WishfulToki
April 30, 2020 at 6:32 AM
This show made me paranoid. I suspect everyone and anyone, even Reporter Jo.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 6:32 AM
If I’m right, he has no intention to hurt either one of them, but he’s trying to scare them apart.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 6:51 AM
And he’s the only one who knew about that photo. Ugh, I hate this. I don’t want him to be a villain.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 7:02 AM
And he’s the most likely one to have given her an injection. Unless there is no stalker and it is TE’s father paying people to do stalkerish things to drive them apart, because of his obsession with JH.
thatstp
April 30, 2020 at 7:06 PM
His father is a piece of shit. Just a trash human being. Please tag me once you find out who the stalker is and about TE dad.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 7:29 PM
@thatstp, I’m caught up. I’m glad TE is a good guy. But yeah, his dad. Who wouldn’t he sacrifice to sell more books?
My new hunch: Chul is going to play a role in saving Ha Jin before the end.
latebloomer
April 30, 2020 at 8:08 PM
My other little nit with this show: When JH knows a stalker is after his girlfriend, why does he never call the police? Why didn’t he call when it was SY, and why didn’t he call before leaving the newsroom to get to the signing event? Because the show needed that encounter to happen? But it just makes him look stupid and arrogant to try to get there and solve it on his own. Especially when the guy sent him live video feed. The cops could have caught him on the spot. But I guess that isn’t what the show wanted either.
latebloomer
April 10, 2020 at 7:44 AM
Story idea for @missvictrix: the role of books in dramas.
missvictrix
April 10, 2020 at 10:37 AM
I like it!!
Bebe | Nessa❣️
April 10, 2020 at 11:55 AM
I’m going to stretch it a bit further and say they ‘role of literature in dramas’— not just books, but also poems, plays, short stories, etc.
latebloomer
April 10, 2020 at 12:09 PM
I guess it came to mind when I saw the new drama Number of Cases will have a publisher character, which made me think about Romance Is a Bonus Book. And then I thought about the bookstore and books being quoted in I’ll Meet You When the Weather Is Fine…. And then A Poem a Day, though I didn’t watch it. And then remembered that Extraordinary You, Rookie Historian, and W all involved books of one kind or another. Even 365: Repeat the Year is taking quotations from a book as clues/sinister signals. I’m sure I’m forgetting other dramas with authors, publishers, or literary themes.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
April 10, 2020 at 12:29 PM
😉😉😉
ALL DEM BOOKS ANS LITERARY WORKS hehe
latebloomer
April 10, 2020 at 12:43 PM
Oh, right, the second lead in Secretary Kim was an author, the FL’s favorite author, and there was an author event for him.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
April 10, 2020 at 12:53 PM
😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
Kairoskat 💐
April 10, 2020 at 2:09 PM
Yes2! Literature in dramas sound awesome. One reason I adored Perfume was the way literature was used throughout. The writer managed to integrate literature in it’s story and script despite not having any bookstore, library, author or book keeper role. It only had a bookworm who reads all the time.
earthna
April 10, 2020 at 6:51 PM
Yes, please!
latebloomer
January 15, 2020 at 5:02 AM
A short PSA on something that has been bugging me lately: peek, peak, and pique. (Warning: Spoilers for Never Twice below.)
Peek: To take a quick look; to look at something that is supposed to stay secret. Ex: Bak-ha peeked at the invitations in Ms. Oh’s drawer. She took a quick peek, but oops, her loose button fell right in the drawer.
Peak: The top of a mountain; a high point comparable to the top of a mountain. Ex: My sympathy for Hae-ri peaked in ep. 1, then disappeared when she turned out to be a selfish brat. The storyline hit a peak when Hae-jun confessed to Bak-ha, but since there were 18 episodes to go, she had to reject him.
Pique: To attract interest. Ex. When Hae-jun saw Bak-ha walking down the street with a flat belly, his interest was piqued, because she looked nine months pregnant a few days earlier. His interest was piqued again when his mother locked Bak-ha in the gallery, then told the police she was a thief.
bbstl 🧹
January 15, 2020 at 8:26 AM
Well done! So glad I took a peek at your post as it piques a peak interest of mine 😉
Also, lose and loose 😡
latebloomer
December 10, 2019 at 3:27 PM
Does anyone else think they\’ve seen that waterfall from Catch the Ghost ep 16 before? Isn\’t that where Mama Fairy lost her wings in Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter?
acacia
December 10, 2019 at 11:50 PM
I didnt watch that one but it also looks like Tale of Nokdu’s bathing waterfall/pool in the Widow’s Village!
latebloomer
December 9, 2019 at 6:37 PM
No. 1 best thing about Catch the Ghost — the scenes between Ji Seok and Mom. The rest of the story fades into the background when they\’re together. They could be spliced into a completely…
latebloomer
December 9, 2019 at 6:41 PM
different drama about people and their hardships, and their scenes would still be the highlight, so touching and authentic. Really memorable performances by Nam Gi-ae and Kim Sun-ho.
latebloomer
November 21, 2019 at 9:55 AM
camellia, ep 20, min 41 — I just want to scream. (More below)
latebloomer
November 21, 2019 at 9:58 AM
DB: “Why is life so cruel only to me?”
You mean compared to your mom, who lived pitifully and is at death’s door? Or compared to HM, who was brutally murdered after a pathetic life? Are you kidding me? You have a successful business, a loving son, and you’ve just been welcomed back by the guy you dumped, the guy with the biggest heart in the world. You know why you’re a loser, DB? Because you think of yourself as a loser. After everything that’s happened in this drama, hearing this line from you makes me think you don’t deserve all the good that you have in your life.
larelle79
November 21, 2019 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, I just sighed at all the self pitying. Even when she was with the doctor I wanted to slap her upside the head.
Midnight
November 24, 2019 at 2:38 AM
I never could like this show because of exactly this reason. Her constant self-pitying nearly drove me mad. GHJ has an irritating way of whining in all of her roles but I had never gotten this frustrated at her.
latebloomer
November 21, 2019 at 10:02 AM
OMG — I was wondering why we cut to the Salvation Army Christmas collection. And why she’s complaining about receiving pencils from Santa. Do camellias bloom in winter? Because the background music is The First Noel. Gah! It’s going to be a Christmas miracle ending. Who could have believed it!
Cloggie
November 21, 2019 at 10:18 AM
That Salvation Army cut made no sense whatsoever! In fact, I think the editing of both ep 19 and 20 were off. They were probably running out of time to do it properly.
larelle79
November 21, 2019 at 12:41 PM
I think it was their way of doing a time jump and the execution was not that great. So Mom was in the hospital fall which lead into winter and then it was Spring when Yong-sik was talking about their wedding.
Also, DB and Yong sik did not age either which, was kinda dumb for the production to at least try to age them up a bit. Yong-sik would be what 40 or 42 at that time. I few winkles and a gray in the temple would have sufficed.
latebloomer
November 19, 2019 at 3:37 PM
Catch the Ghost ep. 10 — I am so mad!!! More below:
latebloomer
November 19, 2019 at 3:45 PM
I hate what the writer has done to Ma-ri. In what should have been a triumphant episode about identifying the Subway Ghost, instead we have vicious Ma-ri humiliating YR by exposing the fact that she left her autistic sister — and why? To get revenge for YR actually finding the Ghost’s lair with WH. Does she care that the case is being solved? No, because she didn’t solve it personally. I love this actress and I hate this part for her. Ma-ri is simply detestable. And what was that pat on the head from Mom — was it sincere or sarcastic? I honestly couldn’t tell.
Why else am I mad? Poor struggling JS is suspended for three months because he didn’t know he was being deceived. Shouldn’t YR get at least equal punishment? Shouldn’t she actually get fired? If finding the Ghost’s lair was extenuating circumstances, why don’t those circumstances apply to JS too????
Why else? Because instead of making us glad that we’re closing in on the Subway Ghost, an evil serial killer, we instead are being coaxed to feel sympathy for poor Curly Grasshopper, because if someone taps a pen or he doesn’t take his meds, he turns into a clever and calculating killer. And was he the jogger, too? I have to go back and look. Come on, show, give us a villain we can hate, not one we’ll have to cry over because his meds just didn’t do the job right. Too pathetic!!!
Ugh!
larelle79
November 19, 2019 at 3:50 PM
This is why I stopped watching after ep 4. YR is causing too much damage with no consequence and they made JS a idiot because having a crush only does that.
SnarkyJellyfish
November 19, 2019 at 10:15 PM
Ma-ri making the case personal has been rubbing me the wrong way – and her incredibly petty behavior today made me so angry. It doesn’t matter that she had a valid reason for ignoring Yu-ryung at first because of video of her abandoning Yu-jin – a superior should never ever humiliate a subordinate on such a personal level like that in front of her team. That is such bad leadership, not least because it diverts attention from the work at hand which is stopping a freaking murderer. Not to mention she is antagonizing the family of a victim – a family member who has lived with guilt and no news of her sister for two years. Even if what Yu-ryung did was wrong, and it was, that is no reason to belittle and humiliate her. There is no reason to do that to anyone ever.
I get why Ji-seok was suspended; I disagree with it, but I understand why he was given the harsher punishment. As a supervisor he could have done a better job. But it’s 100% not his fault he was deceived, but he also clearly had not trained his rookie properly to realize the gravity of her actions, and that is on him. Does the punishment fit the crime? No. But it is fair to punish him harshly. If we are making comparisons it makes less sense that Ma-ri isn’t called out for her treatment of Yu-ryung. If I saw a team captain behaving the way she did I would discipline them and move them out of leadership until they can learn to actually lead.
Also, I half think curly grasshopper is a red herring. There’s too much show left for it to be that easy. (Also, he wasn’t the jogger.) Unless the show wants to fill in more of his story before the end, I can see it being a distraction. I’m more inclined to believe it is someone related to the grasshoppers – perhaps curly’s sibling?
MeloMe
November 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM
Ok so I agree with you regarding MaRi wholeheartedly. I wish the writer had written her better! The rest @SnarkyJellyFish has said it really well. One thing that I would like to add is that I don’t think we are supposed to feel sorry for the criminal. I think the meds were their to add a little more depth and story to his character than to make us feel sorry for him!
SnarkyJellyfish
November 23, 2019 at 10:17 AM
I think the part that annoys me the most about how Ma-ri is written is not only is it bad, it is also lazy, especially given that we know how personal her work it’s to her. To have her act petty because of her ex as opposed to delving into the deeper questions of the pressure she has to perform well and prove herself on her own merits is a waste of potential and the writers chance to create another interesting female character. I’m not saying Ma-ri needs to like Yu-ryung or even get along with her, but basically making it about a boy is just dumb given there are so many other things they have already put in place to work with.
MeloMe
November 24, 2019 at 4:23 AM
I agree with you on so many levels. I’m really enjoying the show but the way Ma Ri has been written always puts me off!!
latebloomer
November 18, 2019 at 3:37 PM
Catch the Ghost ep. 9 — comment below (spoilers!)
latebloomer
November 18, 2019 at 3:49 PM
Subway Ghost’s mother — “My son has a broken heart” — did such an obvious double take when she saw YR that there isn’t any doubt that she’s seen YJ. I think she’s probably taking care of YJ for her son. For some reason, he must have taken pity on her and let her live. Ghost’s Mom seems to know that he is the Subway Ghost serial murderer. Is there really a mother out there who would make excuses for her son and let him keep murdering innocent people, just because he has a broken heart? The show seems to be hinting that Ghost’s Mom is going to use JS’s Mom as security to keep her son from being caught. Not looking forward to that.
Are there still people who think WH is the Ghost? Even though he’s running around with Ma-ri trying to catch the Ghost while Choi Mi-ra is being assaulted?
On the other hand, what are the chances that Jogger Guy is the Ghost? Wasn’t it kind of strange that she let a witness like that get away without even writing down his name and contact info?
I’m disappointed in YR for passing up another series of opportunities to tell the truth to JS. He’s already shown that he’s not going to blame a full-time sole caregiver for melting down. I suppose she wants one more night of searching the tunnels with WH, so that they can get Major Crimes’ attention for her sister’s case. But for all her high regard for JS, she’s still recklessly endangering his job, even though she now knows that he has to support his mother.
One cute detail — last week, we saw just JS taking notes on YR’s mental subway map deductions. Today, everyone except MR were scribbling in their notebooks.
latebloomer
November 14, 2019 at 7:44 PM
My storyboard for EY eps 15-16 below.
latebloomer
November 14, 2019 at 7:51 PM
Kyung is happy at first that Dan-oh only has eyes for him and has forgotten Haru. He gives her his mother’s ring again and she accepts it happily. They plan their wedding. Dan-oh is confused about why Haru is sad around her. Even Do-wha can’t get through. But Kyung can’t forget that he killed Dan-oh in the last story, and he decides he doesn’t want to marry Dan-oh if she’s not aware. He triggers her memory, and all her feelings for Haru come back. Kyung acts like he’s going forward with their wedding anyway, but at the last minute he pulls a substitution the way Haru did at the party, and instead of Kyung and Dan-oh, it’s Haru and Dan-oh on stage at the right moment.
greenfields
November 14, 2019 at 9:26 PM
😭😭😭
I’m going to hope against hope?