As requested by @miracle23, there will be a special viewing of Reply 1994, Episode 1 tomorrow, Saturday July 25.
Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines
Saturday, 25th July 2020, 9.30 pm (UTC+08:00)
Indonesia
Saturday, 25th July 2020, 8.30 pm (UTC+07:00)
Australia
Saturday, 25th July 2020, 11.30 pm (GMT+10)
The East Coast of the USA
Saturday, 25th July 2020, 9.30 am (EST)
The West Coast of USA
Saturday, 25th July 2020, 6.30 am (PST)
Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaiian time zones, you know what to do.
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How this works: We’ll watch the episode and comment along the way. I usually have my laptop and Ipad (or my “Kpad” because it’s reserved for kdrama viewing) on at the same time. While watching the episode on my Kpad, I type my comments and replies on my laptop.
It’s okay if you can’t promptly join us at the start of the Group Watch because it’ll take us hours to finish watching, commenting and posting, anyway. Just drop by anytime.
See you ladies and gens tomorrow!
Hi @pkml3. What fun! I’ve never watched it before. I am able to watch it and am amused that I can recognise quite a few faces in this 2013 show. I’ll pop in tonight to see if you’re online.
Are you still watching PBIO or any lighter fare?
A word of caution about The Love By Hypnotic – it degenerates into the usual filler and stuff that cannot be explained, plus the revenge and twisted second leads trope after Ep 12. However the build up to the romance is not bad, and for those who like lots of kisses and more than 1 bare male torso (+ 1 female shoulder) it certainly has a great deal to offer!!! LOL
Hello there… ep. 1 of r94.
Omo, hi lurkers 😈 ~ life must be so boring for you guys to be taking tab on our dos and don’ts and be tweeting about it nonstop. Yes, we are watching R94. Ain’t that a newsflash!!! 😏
Why are you so obsessed with us? 🥱🥱🥱 You know you will go mental if you keep doing this? Please pity yourself and just go play with your OWN mighty endgame #fact ship that is too big to be sunk by a mere canoe. /sarc 🧐
Currently watching R94 too! But I already in the 8th episode. Surely something interesting there 😁
Will be catching up with your discussion too, recalling from the 1st episode will be fun 😍
As I see @miracle23 here, I remember I haven’t been on tumblr for days, any updates there? 🙏🏻
@annp18, I sent you a message 🤣🤣🤣 I am not posting anything for a while😅. I will be sharing about one of the OST soon. It was a post by kangdongjoo. She wrote a discussion topic in reddit on it. I will be adding it into one of the homage post.😉
Dear all, parker and kangdongjoo have posted 2 topics for discussion. Feel free to drop by at reddit to share your thoughts. You can msg the mod by either using the using the chat bubble (apps) or click on the “message mods” button (desktop) and we will send an invite for you.😊
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Thanks!😊
Have fun with R1994! I’m caught up with family things today, but will watch if and when I can.
@packmule3, please could you post a thread for PBIO 11-12 if you haven’t already?
Oh! Thanks for the reminder! Will do.
See you later, annp18.
@miracle23 ah sorry, I haven’t open tumblr and reddit for a while.
Maybe tonight I’ll try seeing what’s going on there.
Can’t wait for the OST post, I’m sure it’ll be great 😍
Have fun ladies. I can’t stay up. Have a big Sunday tomorrow so I’m off to bed. If I remember right Chilbongie doesn’t appear till later. Trash and NaJung were not my favorite couple. I just couldn’t warm up to Trash at all. Even when he softened in later episodes and was less “dense” (or was he just pretending to be dense?). 😑
Same here, nrllee. Trash wouldn’t have been my choice for husband at all. Ugh.
But I’m going to ride it through because IJ can very well be my next least favorite hero, too. lol.
I want to see what characteristics bug me about these two guys. Their smugness?
Five minutes to go. I’m here. With three monitors open, I feel like a federal agent of the Homeland Security.
i am ready
Let’s go!
hahaaha sorry for the delay pm3 … let’s go!
Where’s @agdr03? She’s usually my keyboard partner with rewatches?
The first minute is such a troll.
1. The coffee.
2. Chilbongie and Najung talking over the table like a married couple. He’s susshing her for calling her son an idiot since she’s a mother of three kids. “You should watch your language.”
3. She argues that he used to like and he replies that he’s been listening to it for 20 years. And he used to be innocent back then.
4. Then she continues to complain about her son and this time instead of calling her son “idiot,” she uses the word “idiot.”
5. Chilbongie just stares at her — he knows that his reproach was all in vain.
But when you really THINK about this… does a married couple rehash their marital problems when there’s company?
Nope.
They have all the time to talk about this in private. They discuss these issues when there’s nobody around. So, that’s one clue that Chilbongie isn’t the husband.
Ready.
Let’s roll, kanaya.
yup.. he’s ike Junhwan of R88 here
What the heck? I was watching Episode 6?!!!!
Sorry. Let me go to Episode 1.
haahaha lmao
the mom here sure does cook for a feast. lol
Nice view of the city. Seoul.
Why is she watching their wedding tape?
First clue that the husband: The guy isn’t from Seoul because she’s giving him directions over the phone.
But she’s a coffee drinker, like Songhwa.
oh my god, these two will end up killing each other!
yes and she likes a special kind of coffee with almond etc… so hubby and wifey will come from same town.
For my notes:
Wedding: 6/22/2002.
She was wearing this hideous tiara that’s about 1/3 of her face.
And chandeliers on her ears.
My reply 1994 on netflix is still stucked at the moment of chilbong’s heartbreak on episode 21 at the baseball field. 😭 Can’t move on tho 🥺 I’ll try to rewatch HAHAHAHAHA
come on busygabee you can do it! me x chilbong … tissue box prepared! haahaha
Hahahaha.
Same here. Mine got stuck at Episode 4? 5? When I realized that Chilbongie wasn’t going to be the husband.
That explains why when I clicked on Netflix, it immediately took me to the beginning of Episode 6. Because that’s where I should have continued on.
pwahahahaha.
@packmule3 He’s not her son, the highschool boy is her brother.
Oh! Is that the brother??!! Legit?? What?
See, I told you I didn’t finish this kdrama. I stopped when I realized that Chilbongie wasn’t the endgame.
Wow! You ladies have fun!
@nrllee, same here! I watched the whole thing not too long ago and I also couldn’t warm up with Trash. I also wasn’t a fan for some of his crazy behaviors.
But I did enjoy their friendship and family relationships
hahaha… packmule3 I stayed on because the friends are just crazy funny. kekeekek…
same Au0101 & nrllee, I saw the similarity of R97 couple here. they bicker like crazy. but things go 180 degree with r88 when taec is the quiet one.
Wow! You ladies have fun!
@nrllee, same here! I watched the whole thing not too long ago and I also wasn’t a fan for Trash nor some of his crazy behaviors.
But I did enjoy their friendship and family relationships
Okay.
Trash’s introduction to the audience = I immediately rejected him as a handsome guy. Why?
1. His sitting posture. Why is his foot displayed like that? Especially the sole of his foot. EEE-yeew.
2. The way they rough-house. Ugh. Not my type.
yes… it is too much… after that few ep of r97 and then this r94. No wonder I am still not liking that kind of loud/ rough-house. giving me migrain
ooohhh najung keeps chocolate in her drawer!
He just smacked her head. Nope.
and she pulled his hair.
3. Their argument.
I should have known that the whole point here was the transformation from siblings to lovers. And that was too high of a hurdle FOR ME growing up with brothers.
But I can see IJ and Songhwa’s bickering here. Ugh.
@packmule3 yes, it’s her brother 😃. Her mom got pregnant when she thought she was in menopause periode.
And yes on ep.4 chilbong revealed his name: Sun Jun while making a call to his fr basketball player friend whom in the same team with SangMin. Meanwhile on ep.3 najung said her husband’s name is kim jae jun.
aigoo… yeah Shwa and IJ. But the thing is Shwa’s reactions on confession. That is the hint that she is in different situation than Najung
True. True. Their reactions are different.
I hope this writer doesn’t change tack to satisfy fangirls.
one thing for sure that najung girl will do anything to get what she want
Yes, pm3.. I am kinda worry on that part too. Because the main couple’s vibe from R88 is very different from R94 and R97
HAHAHAHA I was in denial with the clues back then. I just can’t accept the faith of our Yoon Seokiiiie 🥺 That’s why I’m investing in HP although the lovestory build up with SHwa is slow and I am hopiiiing 🤞
Najung is I hereby pronounce a crazy fangirl! lol
I understand why I didn’t like this Najung as the female lead.
picking her nose
shouting all the time
making a scene
and shouting OPPPAAAAAAAA.
And that’s why I like Songhwa in Hospital Playlist. To me, she’s the best female lead character that this writer has created.
busygabee, last time I watched I didn’t pay attention to clue hunting. kekeke… I mean Trash x Najung kinda already the answer as early as ep. 1? hahaha…
@packmule3 agree… Songhwa is the classy one ✨✨
Agree 200%! Shwa is the best FL Lee woo jung ever created! I hope they don’t bungle her character. She said she wrote PG so detailed as YYS. But that last minute choice is, urgh!
@miracle23 Mom cooking for a feast just like her in R97 🤣
This house is less loud than R97 tho, imo
Appa started to matchmaking since very first
Najung and Yeosu girl (Yoon Jin) is a diehard fangirl. Najung with Sangmin a basketball player, YoonJin with Taeji an idol
Samcheonpo aka Jungpal’s Appa is 20 y.o right now 🤣
Sinchon station !! Did you girls see this?
I’ve reached the phone conversation of the two moms.
I didn’t know who Leslie Chung was so did a quick google-search. Hong Kong guy on the chocolate ad.
https://www.todayonline.com/8days/sceneandheard/entertainment/leslie-cheungs-boyfriend-posts-new-photo-remember-late-star-17th
I guess this was a red herring.
I didn’t know who this Leslie Chung was so the gay reference went over my head. But if you were an Asian viewer, then this conversation just preconditioned you to think of the new boarder as gay.
Sinchon station? The one mentioned in the song in Hospital Playlist?
oh the samcheonpo guy, pm3? IJ teased shyeong on his hairstyle. It’s was leslie’s hairstyle.
There is another one who is suspected as gay. Not Samcheonpo.
Yes! Sinchon station is when Samcheonpo get lost while coming to the board house.
Yup, and I set aside that fact 😢 As I watched further, they gave chances to Chilbong tho
I read a lot that says Chilbong’s character is so empty aside of chasing Na Jung. But I loved Chilbong’s persistence. That 10,000 hours inspired meso much, until now 🥰
@miracle23… that station 😆.
@packmule3 Leslie Cheung always been mentioned in Shin PD’s project and also a movie called A better Tomorrow starred by Cho yun fat.
The movie mentioned on r88 and Prison Playbook.
Junwan’s hair style was like Leslie Cheung wanna be too on his college days just like Sheyong said of HP.
@busygabee, I don’t find his character empty. I think he is emotional. The last part that display that melo side of him is my fav. Myabe I am bias but I love that melo part kekeke
What the heck? This guy doesn’t look at all like Leslie Chung??!!
hahaha.
This reminds me of the scene in Hospital Playlist when IJ and Jwan, the two country bumpkins arrive in Seoul. IJ bought the hair tie. So this writer likes to show the differences between country mouse vs city mouse. And to highlight the country mouse’s first reaction to Seoul.
The country mouse in HP is IJ.
The city mouse is JW.
Will she favor the country mouse again?????
pwahahahaha.
Yaaaas @miracle23 I love Chilbong so much that he is the first second lead that I cried with. It’s more heartbreaking than JungHwan’s 💔
hahaha yes! You see that. There is another country bumpkin pm3. This will be wanjeon IJ. hahahaah… and in here he kinda like najung a bit but didnt say anything cos he knew she only likes one guy. Stay tune for another guy.
The actors of Better Tomorrow Movie are Chow Yun Fat and Leslie Cheung.
Yes, I didn’t like the way that IJ would always put down or tease Sh-yeong in Hospital Playlist. (remember writing “mama’s boy” on his med garb?) I took it as a sign of insecurity. He had to put him down to feel superior about himself.
But then, I’m “judgy.” 🙂
Wait a minute!
This guy Sam Chung Po (the one who’s supposed to look like Leslie Chung), didn’t he play the father of JungHwan in Reply 1988, and the second brother of JW in Hospital Playlist??
lol. He’s just chubbier here.
YAAAAS @packmule3 HAHAHAH i was shocked too! I even searched the characters on google in disbelief
Yes pm3, he is 🤣
With no moustache and chubbier and that kinda hairstyle
Does the movie Better Tomorrow was the one on reply 1988’s introduction film which the squad watched together?
So Najung was really a basketball fan?? Not a baseball fan?
nope… basketball girl
okay…
at 23:13, Trash drinks milk straight from the milk carton.
Have we seen IJ or JW drink milk from a milk carton? 🙂
Not that I can remember. he drank expired milk pm3. aigoo!
Okay, that’s something I’ll have to watch out for in the next seasons.
Taek drank milk from the carton, too.
We don’t know Shwa’s origin yet right? Jwon and Shyeong are from seoul. If Shwa was from the countryside, then hahaha will the variation be city x country bumpkin?
First Pocky scene is here
Haven’t seen IJ or JW drink milk from milk carton
oh, pm3 Jwan is the only one buying milk drink, small packaging. But we never got to see how he drink it though.
My sense is Songhwa’s from the city, too, like JW and SH-yeong.
Remember her first meeting with IJ and JWan? She was polished like a Seoulite.
Trash is so slow with daily basis, just like Taek
@busygabee yes.. the movie which Deolsun and the gang watched in the 1st episode.
Yes, I think the variation now is to go with the seoul couple. Plus the setting is Jwon’s place i.e. Yulje. Although the hangout place is Shyeong’s.
The reason why Trash is called Trash (23:23). He doesn’t know fashion or taste. He doesn’t wash his shirt.
He doesn’t mind being thought of as a retard/idiot.
Nicknames are important to this writer, too.
In R88, Taec was known as the baduk god. In Hospital Playlist, it was established early on that JW was Buddha. (Hmph. I get it now. Given the way he gave his religion, he’s no Catholic priest-in-the-making.)
And IJ is darth vader.
Yoonjin mouth is just kekekeekke
Najung has a backpain, later it’ll explained that is something dislocated so she should wear a bracket. Any connectiom with SHwa herniated disc?
Jeongwon chose latte when junwan chose milk (was it strawberry flavour?) Seokhyong chose to buy ice americano at the convenient store.
All these guys (Taec, trash, PG) don’t bother with what people are calling them. Yes, pm3 he is just Buddha. No priest there.
that Darth vader is not really a nickname, right pm3? Did anyone ever called him that? It was just what he appeared as in ep. 1.
hahaha. Miracle23. I’m still bitter about that priesthood thing. 🙂 #foreverbitter
@kanaya i think it was chocolate milk junwan took from the cashier desk
@kanaya, yup Jwan is the milk guy either it is chocolate or strawberry. I think he took those two so far.
No. I just called him Darth Vader. It wasn’t a nickname attributed to him in the story. If ever, there was a name for him, it’s “Dr. Romantic” but no, he had no nickname.
bwahaahaha… me too pm3! #foreverbitter I can’t believe she messed that up like that.
Are we into the 2nd ep? You are at which part pm3?
UJuu prepared a cookie and a glass of milk for Ikjun.
Jehyuk in PP drinks milk using a straw; the banana milk one.
The karaoke session of Trash and Najung’s dad reminded me of Hospital Playlist dorebang sessions.
Ewww… the handkerchief session.
How could I have forgotten about this? In Reply 1988, the lead girl also went bonkers when the smelly H.O.T. shirt was accidentally washed and ironed by her mom. The writer is making fun of the wacko fangirl’s attachment to sweat.
Somehow, I can’t see Songhwa in HP doing this. Maybe that Maggot, but not Songhwa.
The train announcer reminds me of IJ’s mimicking the train announcement. That’s too funny. He’s a wacko, too.
BTW, the fangirls waiting outside the boys’ lockerroom — that’s true even here in the US but not as an intense. My sons played football and basketball. It was a good thing they had girlfriends so they weren’t “harassed.”
R97 as well. Siwon’s mom washed Tony’s shirt and she went bonkers as well.
What if Shwa is a lowkey band fangirl? Like thunderaven suggested. She did scam the boys to be in the band and she seems to particularly like that Canon song.
lol. Here we go with the camera.
Najung has to take a picture of her crush, Sangmin oppa, because she borrowed the camera from her dad for a day.
Just like Deoksun brought her camera to the field trip and lost it.
And Songhwa. lol. I said her first crush couldn’t have been IJ, otherwise she would have followed him to that room/shed and taken his picture right away. But she arrived only after JW and SH entered the room.
hahaha She made sure she arrived there with her camera in tow!
@annp18, the back pain vs the herniated disc should have some relation. Does DS has any illness?
Incoming grossness. I dislike the idea that Trash was touching her underwear. My brothers would have just set down my clean laundry on the bed. But for Trash to play around with her underwear like that? Ugh. If I were Najung, those undies and bra would have felt dirty to wear. I find the idea of some guy touching my lingerie creepy.
Chilbong has herniated disk too as far as I can remember
Yass with the camera.
Agree… I can’t stand with what Trash did to najung’s undies.
I have to end here. Zoom call from my sons.
food comatose according to No Eul HAHAHAHA and she hurt his foot too
Ok! Thanks pm3!
@packmule3 thank you so much for your time today ✨✨
@busygabee was it something to do with his shoulder instead?
Hmmmm, yes he has severe illness on his shoulder because he’s a pitcher. But I just randomly remember that he said to Na Jung that he had herniated disk that’s why he keeps a waist supporter to lend to Na Jung
Yes, chilbong has that waist support. He lent it to najung. Also helped to massage her.
Trash later became a neurosurgeon. He accidentally asked for giving an advice Chilbong to do an operation for his herniated disk as soon as possible by Chilbong’s doctor team.
ahh… ok so we have neurosurgeon and herniated disc on shwa… hmmm
Netflix has many cuts on reply series due to copyright issues. I missed a lot on R94 especially some of Chilbong’s blurred TV interviews and music. 10mins difference on some episodes
I figure that would be the case @busygabee after @nrllee told about different music used. I am watching using downloaded version.
Same with Viki.
Viki mutes the songs, even the poems, and blurs whatever show is seen on tv (in scenes where the tv is running in the background) for copyright protection. 🙂
So does on Viu. They blur the tv show running, the comics, and the cassette tape covers.
Aww, I’m glad you ladies had fun on the rewatch. I couldn’t do this one because as much as I love Chilbongie, I can’t get into Trash either. 😱 I watched this series before R1988. I thought Chilbongie deserved Najung much better than Trash. 😁
@pm3, are we going to continue with ep 2 this week? 😊