Anybody here following the Ghost Detective? How did it go? Or shouldn’t I ask? I’m going to be a good witch tonight so I won’t gripe on how banal the story became after Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving). That was when the writer dismayed me with that plot twist and the thriller deteriorated into nothing more than an […]
The Ghost Detective: The Infinite Monkey Theorem
Nice job, show! Even an infinite number of monkeys typing words at random for an infinite amount of time wouldn’t have been able to come up with this latest crap. No, I’m going to walk away from this week’s episodes. I’ve read enough comments to know that I’ll find the plot twist tiresome. It’s tiresome because […]
The Ghost Detective: Episode 7
Because I’m a superficial bitch (and proud of it!), let me begin with this inspiration. Ta-daa! Lee DaIl with glasses. He looked fine in this episode, but I think he would have been a serious contender to McDreamy had he been wearing specs. Okay, back to work now, packmule3! If we were to divide the […]
The Ghost Detective: Gil Chae Won
Is it okay to like this character, the pathologist and ex-shaman Gil Chae Won? It was funny when she was lying on the autopsy table with her white jacket covering her. She looked like a corpse with a white sheet on top so I squeaked (eek!) when she suddenly sat up. It was also ridiculous […]
The Ghost Detective: Five Years Ago…
Five years ago, Da-Il’s mother died. In her hallucination, Da-Il was angry with her for being a burden to him. “Mom. Since I was young, you’ve been a burden. Without you, I could’ve done a lot of things. If I was an orphan, it would’ve been easy to take care of myself. I wouldn’t have […]
The Ghost Detective: Episodes 5 and 6
In the words of Alice in Wonderland, this story is getting “curiouser and curiouser.” There are several things I would like to point out in these two episodes. 1. Her sister ex-BF, Gyeol. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was already dead, and he committed suicide, too. He was having a hard time, he said, […]
The Ghost Detective: Is Da-Il in a Coma?
No. As the plot stands right now, there is no indication that Lee Da-Il is in a coma. Some viewers, especially fangirls rooting for a Da-Il-YeoWool OTP, insist that Da-Il’s body is in a coma and being kept alive on life support just like the Woman in Red. They ignore the possibility that the unidentified […]
The Ghost Detective: Fetch, part 2
My good friend @staygold asked this: I was curious why the cola can stopped after hitting Da Il’s foot in the tunnel. Was it because it was twilight zone of a tunnel? Or because he is finally accepting that he is a ghost. I’m writing my response here so it’ll be easier to read by […]
The Ghost Detective: Fetch
Every time I hear YeoWool say “fetch” in Episode 4, this image from Mean Girls pops up in my head. “Fetch” here meant “Cool!” or “Awesome! or in Korean, “Daebak!” One of the girls was trying to make it into a popular word or buzzword, so she’d interject it in the conversation until the Queen […]
The Ghost Detective: The Ghostbusters
A poster in another kdrama forum I used to frequent asked if the title, “Ghost Detective” implied that Lee Da-Il is a ghost who is a detective. I replied that there were four ways of interpreting that title. I suggested that — There are four Ghost Detectives here. 1. Lee Da Il because he’s a ghost-apparition […]
The Ghost Detective: On the Suicide Theme
This post will be talking about suicide. If you are struggling with this issue, then this kdrama and my blog post on this episode may not be right for you. You may want to watch the show with a trusted and mature friend. Hugs! What I like most about this kdrama is that it treats […]
The Ghost Detective: Ep 3 and 4
Before I start talking about the suicide theme in another post, there are details in these episodes that are noteworthy. 1. The mystery of 1am. The time is important in the story. In Episode 2, when Lee DA IL pulled himself out of his muddy grave, his watch showed that it was almost 12:55am. In […]
The Ghost Detective: A Warning (No Spoilers)
After watching Episodes 3 and 4, I’m convinced that The Ghost Detective is not a simply ghost story but an allegory on suicide. I view the Woman in Red as a silent and invisible killer that suicide is. And at the end of Episode 4, we’re seeing a suicide cluster. Ever since that Hwayugi’s episode on […]
The Ghost Detective: Dead or Alive (Spoilers)
There seems to be a debate as to whether Lee Da Il (DI) is dead or comatose somewhere. He’s dead. 1. His “mentor/boss” Sang Seop (SS) couldn’t find his body was because it’s already been unearthed and sent to the morgue. He was the unidentified corpse beside the deceased bodies of the teacher Lee ChanMi […]