The thread is now open for the Healer rewatch of Episode 1
Let’s go!
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09:00pm Singapore, Philippines
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03:00pm Greece
12:00am Sydney (Sunday)
08:30pm India
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A brief word from @Growing_Beautifully:
If ever there was a show which united my catnips of traumatised children who survived loss and tragedy, with an organic, engaging romance, (where as a bonus, the guy ends up jealous of himself! (Heh….priceless this!), and with suave exploits that get away with everything shady without murder, it is Healer.
Although the portions given over to the resident ‘evil’ are nothing much to crow about, the simpler story of how the kids overcome the obstacles to their romance, gain family and get to fulfill their dreams is so delightful, that I can rewatch the sweet moments (and there are many of them!) quite endlessly. Add to that, the heft of Yoo Ji Tae, the antics of a winning Park Min Young and the great hacker who’s an ahjumma, made the show extra entertaining and I was totally sold.
I am soooo happy that BOD is doing a rewatch of this show. Many thanks to @pkml3 for offering us a chance to enjoy, moan and sigh together over the highlights of Healer. Thanks too, to this lovely community, for enthusiastically joining in to make the rewatch bigger and better. As @pkml3 always says, “Let’s enjoy the show!!”
1) Episode 1: For the intro to the characters and their dreams
2) Episode 2: For some cool Healer action
3) Episode 5: For the dynamics of relationships and a getaway
4) Episode 8: For the elevator rescue and you know what happens after that
5) Episode 9: For the telephone convo and makeover
6) Episode 10: For the rooftop convo
7) Episode 11: For the movie date
8) Episode 14: For Healer’s turn to be ‘rescued’ in his lair
9) Episode 20: For the finale
Gifs from yeo-rims’ tumblr
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The thread is open to all.
Please join @Growing_Beautifully, @Cleopatra, @Janey, @WEnchanteur, @Sayaris, @Fern, @OldAmericanLady, @nrllee, @Viva, and @Juriel. It’s like having a movie night with your family, film analysis with your professor, and fangirling session with your besties all combined.
@Table122000, I hope your Aunt is doing better. You really deserve a medal for being the family medical assistant!
Hah or as the Koreans say, Heol!! @pkml3, that gif almost had me do a spit-take. I was drinking and practically choked!! I think I’ll be that kid in pink. I liked her stance LOL. Thanks so much for the thread.
Yay!!! 23 and a half hours to go!!!
Yay! Healer is always a favourite.
Hello our busy Bee Queen @Packmule3!
Thank you for the thread!
I feel like it is a very busy period for you!
Sending love and positive vibes!
Also your favourite cookies!
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Tomorrow is the day for the first episode of Healer!
I am so excited!
My lovely @GB, see ya tomorrow!
Hello @Sandi!
Hi @Sandi and of course my sweet @Cleo, it’s so good to see you here.
Yup, with HP2, DAYS, Gumiho Roommate and a little bit of Mad for Each Other, it’s super busy. Plus real life has suddenly geared up with lots to do as well. However Healer will be for relaxing and healing, LOL. It’s such a nice show and I know exactly when I’m going to feel warm and fluttery, and when I’m going to want to strangle the bad guy, heh! Either way the feels can just be let go, and it’s such a relief!
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Let’s go!!! I love the power rangers (it has many versions). I used to watch it with the kids and we do pretend fights and action scenes. I’ll take the yellow costume pls.
Thanks @PM3 for opening your BoD platform to us ragtag team of kdrama watchers.
There’s @GB’s countdown… See you and @Cleo and @Sandi and the rest of the Healer gang tomorrow.
TGIF!! Cheers!
Haha, I’ll be the kid in the white sweatshirt in the 2nd gif. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a better, more tender romance in a drama.
I’m looking forward to rewatching Healer with all of you.
What a great idea to do a Healer rewatch! I won’t be able to rewatch the 1ep tomorrow but I’ll try to catch up. Healer is one of my alltime favourites although I didn’t watched it when it aired and only binged it for the first time after watching the sageuk Queen for seven days (which I love to pieces btw). I was following some posts about Queen, probably on Soompi forum to ease the waiting for another ep, and somebody just wrote one day: this is giving me Healer vibes. I was like: how is this even possible, the one is an action drama, the other is a sageuk but then I checked the cast and the pd. It was really fun to see the same faces in a modern setting. And that’s the story of how Healer bacame one of my favourites.
Hi @Fern, @Welmaris, @Linnea! Fellow Power Rewatcher Rangers LOL! See you in 13.5 hours time!!
Now that I finished Reply 1998 (loved it by the way!), will start watching Healer tonight. Hope I can join you all in some of these posts.
Thanks @Packmule3 for organizing these, it’s so much more fun to watch and discuss drama with others.
Hope to be with you tomorrow!!! =D
@FGB See you in 10.5 hours time!
Kalimera / Kalispera Everyony, regarding where you are!
I am here! Who else is here?
Where’s @GB? Is she still preparing her notes??
@Janey, wake up!!
I’m here @Cleo!!! My computer was being used for something else and it took sooooo long! LOL. I’m here now and getting myself together.
No notes this time @pkml3, I’m gonna watch and just ‘mouth off’ or ‘finger off (does that sound rude? LOL)’ my thoughts.
Kalimera @Packmule3! How all are well with you!
Kalispera @GB! I have found Healer on Netflix,
and the known Intro made me happy!
I’m here. @Janey and @Good Twin, are you also here representing Pacific Time? If so, good morning! And I hope the heat wave isn’t too oppressive in your areas. Here in the LA Basin, we’ve had temps in the high 90s a few days. Not as bad as it can get, but I’m still hunkering down in my air-conditioned house.
I too was going to comment on the intro @Cleo, the sound of OST ‘Highlight’ always raises my spirits and gets me excited LOL. I get visions of handsome derring-do with that tune.
Love the way the camera moved through the walls and hidden pathways of Healer’s lair.
Hey @Welmaris Kalimera to you too!
Great to see you @Welmaris. Good morning from a sultry, humid evening over here!
OK it’s time!!! Let’s go!!!!
Hi everybody!! <B
@GB, So very true!
Hey @WEnchanteur!
What a mess of a home. And those photos are so poignant.
Once commentor mistook what Jung Hoo said for something bad and stopped watching LOL. Poor kid has no company and talks to his virtual tennis opponent.
I’m here!!! Hello power rewatch rangers!
Hi @WE!!! You managed to come in for Ep 1?
Never believe Ahjumma who says work is easy money.
@GB,
I mean how Sabu found this place of all places to become their home?
Jung Hoo made this a home, before that was a mess!
Seriously? it is obviously that he talks to his virtual tennis opponent!
Love the Healer opening intro music! Just that alone brings back the feels.
Ah ha! The grandma in the picture is also the actress playing the grandma to Oh Im Boem in Sell Your Haunted House.
Hi Janey Rewatch Ranger!!
Here’s Jung Hoo being money minded, and up against the SS guys.
First dialogue with ajumma : a way to do exposition. We know he is a kind of not so legal agent, bringing stuff, etc. Short dialog.
Then, we get into action. So more exposition well hidden during action. We have an idea if it’s important because she say how many they are paid. Quite nice. 😉
Our favorite ahjumma and that dream of his!
It is better for us because we saw his JCW’s chest? LMAO!
He works for money to begin with… to buy his island. By the end of the show, his motives have changed.
Yes, I wonder how Sabo found that place too. They must have bought the entire building to have been able to hide themselves there so many years.
That’s some cool move to get the guy’s phone without him even knowing.
I still remember how he hacked that guys’ phone…
I am laughing seriously… Aigoo indeed!
Exactly @Welmaris. Love that music.
Yup @WE, it’s exposition but does not feel like it.
Healer client, we see this actor a lot in historical dramas. He look like a support actor, but he’s so good. If you watch the drama “Giant”, he make an outstanding performance in that.
Hey @Janey!
Come and look at Jung Hoo’s antics with us!
Clever simple intercut from train in tunnel with rolling trolley and Young Shin being shady LOL. From 1 shady activity to another.
The heatwave is awful, @Welmaris and @GoodTwin! It’s 100F + for us these couple of days. I was having migraine due to the heat.
@GB, yes I came, not late, not early, just like gandalf!! 🙂
I didn’t have time to ready more healer script because I had too much work. Anyway, it’s better to read it after rewatch because it need to know well the drama on screen before to read bad translation. Also, it need to remember the drama, so it’s possible to check difference, or how the script is well put on screen.
We learn so much just from the opening few minutes. Love the Ajumma cartoon and witch’s cackle that invades his screen. Then when we see her, she’s got the wild hair and her glasses are crooked on her face. We already know she’s going to be forceful. A hurricane didn’t hit her: she is the hurricane!
This may come across as “my dog ate my homework” but my Internet connection failed for a moment and the download of my streaming got destroyed u_uU . So I will start later than you.
@WE That actor plays supporting roles all over the place.
Here’s the OST with guitar Yeong Shin motif.
And all she gets for her playacting is just a photo of shoes LOL.
Annyeong Young Shin.
When I have first encountered her, I was wondering who she will be.
She was trying too hard for that gossip…
@GB,
THis is Yael Meyer’s When you hold me tight tune!
I love her Chief. He was also a Chief in Police in TKEM!
Ahjumma and her array of flip phones… sign of the times.
I like the camera shots at the train.
Oh no @FGB!!! Please do try and get the episode again. We’ll be hanging around here for another 70-90 minutes.
Here’s SS speaking of Healer and we only just find out that Yeong Shin has a thing for Healer herself. What a daring thing she did, grabbing that photo from the car! A warning to people with convertibles LOL.
@Welmaris,
Kim Mi-Kyung is amazing as the Hurricane! I have so much respect for her acting skills!
Ohh, I noticed a thing : there is small insert.
Title card (technological feel) with the name and goal of the FL.
Weird!! I wonder why it’s make like that ? I don’t remember healer got that. There should be other insert of this kind in theory, to make it consistent. Even if we don’t know where come from this tech writing.
Are there really glasses/sunglasses like that? Just a tap and they darken? Love all the tech in this show. It was supposed to be cutting edge back when Healer first broadcast. I wonder how much is now viable technology?
Yes, I’m feeling so hot over here too @Janey!
@Welmaris, love the way they pack in the info in Ep 1. We get the quick collages and the computer text appearing on screen to keep things moving fast.
@WEnchanteur,
Healer got one too. When he grapped that customer of his…
Oh ! Here is Kim Moon Ho!
Yeap!!! Healer brother get is tech title card too !! 🙂
@Welmaris : I watched only until ep 6, so I have no idea where come from Healer gadgets. He look a bit like batman or this kind of heroes. Secret identity, tech devices, high physical abilities, secret lair, and tech assistant. 😉
@WE, yes Moon Ho, Healer and Young Shin all had the ‘tech writing’ pop up on the screen for us viewers. They are the 3 main actors.
Moon Ho honours the man who immolated himself just to get attention on the unfairness/abuse.
The work of Moon Ho’s brother and their generation of friends who wanted to raise awareness of suppression of truth and call for freedom for the press, continues with Moon Ho.
When I first encountered Yoo Ji Tae was impressed by his articulation.
He is perfect, while he is saying his lines.
Just wanted to say that, if you want to notice it as well.
Those neat gadgets all came through Ahjumma, @WE.
I didn’t know Yoo Ji Tae at the time I watched this show, @Cleo. But I’ve paid attention to him since.
It’s action-comedy, tech part and hack are always a little over the top. I don’t think the hacker can control the train for example. Anyway I don’t really know, I won’t to check that. I accept the fantasy of the thing. 🙂
LOL it’s going to be the wrong door! Amazing what ahjumma can do from her end. Even if it’s the wrong side it’s amazing that she could hack the train’s controls. I was so stunned by this!
Love how Healer does everything while talking throughout. Even when he fights the guys.
@GB,
I didn’t either. I have seen him in Old Boy but I didn’t recall it at that time.
After I looked up at him, I found out that he is a theatrical actor and that he is a director and does experimenting theather. I am impressed by his dedication!
@Cleo – I’m a fan of Jo Ji Tae. He makes a great hyung. He was awesome in Mad Dog with Woo Do Hwan.
This dark tunnel fight scene and the coming train is sooooo stressful LOL.
I had to slow down and brighten my screen to see the action. The largest guy was such a struggle to get off him when he fell. Love the music during the fights. And Ahjumma’s voice doing the countdown LOL.
@WE,
I think that is possible. But they won’t admit that to the general public, right?
I have downloaded the first 11 minutes of the stream… here I GOOOOOOO!!! =D . @GB, @PM3, @WECh, @AGDR, @Cleo and dear Friend, happy to read you again!!!
Loved Yoo Ji Tae in The Good Wife.
Pity that Moon Ho didn’t manage to hire Healer. It was because Moon Shik was the one to hire Healer that in the end Healer was deliberately implicated as the killer of this poor client. Client should never have been killed. Healer had promised that he would save him, but Moon Shik was despicable.
@Janey,
I just added it to my list! I also like Woo Do Hwan!
@GB,
The fight scenes are the best in Healer!
The juxtaposition of the work conditions and personal goals of the three leads is done so well. Gripping because of the action. The last: “…to find that child.” We have our plot hook.
Lolol Healer… yoohoo… are you there? LOL Ahjumma.
The most unprepossessing evil secretary in the world.
Both Secretary and MS are actually crazy in their own way, serving the Elder. They sold their souls to Elder.
Director Kim actor is one of the two main actor from Sandglass (1995). Main actor also in Eye of dawn (I didn’t watched yet), drama from 1991 (or 1993?).
Hey @FGB! Good to see you here with us!
@GB, I don’t like Moon Shik even to the slightest…
He is so delusioned and rotten to his core!
@Welmaris Yes the evil and plots were not the compelling feature but the child, the children’s trauma and their progress as adults. I always felt so much for the kids, even for Moon Ho who was so conflicted by his tiresome brother.
Yay @FGB! Glad your “homework” is restored and you can join us.
@Cleo – I hope you’ll enjoy Mad Dog. WDH’s acting was great here.
@GB – ahjumma’s countdown for the train during the fight scene! And the big heavy guy on top of healer…. Oh no. Of course he will survive this. Hahaha!
@Cleo : it need the system to be connected. For example, with metro rames of Paris, it’s not possible. But since some years there is new rames. And maybe it’s possible in these ones. I think I could ask to a machinist one day. 😉
@Cleo, Yes I grew to dislike MS after trying to give him a chance. I didn’t even like MS when he was ‘young’.
Here’s MH with Min Jae and the endless continuation of the fight to air the uncomfortable truth versus the broadcast station’s interests. MH really got her into trouble by doing as he pleased live and on air!
Oh, the resto boss : he was the baking boss in king of baking. Exactly the same kind of role !!
@JAney, Hopefully!
@WE Of course it is the system to be connected. In S.Korea everything seems to be connected.
Here is Kang Min-Jae and I really like her! She is a strong woman!
The way she is dealng with Mun-Ho…(Our Aunt in DAYS)
It is established that Healer has a reputation, and is sought. Rivals, fangirl want to get to him. His job target is assured, “I’m Healer. I will save your life okay?” Healer’s name alone is currency…
Now we get to see Young Shin with Dad. Love this scene. It shows their lovely relationship, full of trust and love. Love her opposite of aegyo with that scrunchie face and intro of future cabbage head husband LOL.
There was a bookending of this actually by the end of the show.
We get so much interesting exposition of Healer and Young Shin’s loves/hero worship. Now we know that she’s also crazy about Moon Ho. Her inspiration to be a journalist/reporter.
@GB,
I didn’t give him any chance. I didn’t like him from the beginning and after he did to Sabu, I couldn’t even see his scenes!
A…Chi Soo, Young Shin’s dad is amazing! LMAO!
Are they making kimchi?
Oh it’s the aunt from DAYS! She is very pretty. Thanks for the reference @Cleo!
@Welmaris – ah, that’s why even the tabloid folks are interested in Healer.
Yes Auntie in DAYS. I forgot I saw her here.
Love the Young Shin music and how upbeat it is compared to her terrible childhood. She is so resilient.
Again more exposition with voice over but it’s acceptable.
Now for her the story from another point of view. We get to see that the girl in the photo is now this elegant lady… and we can guess that she’s connected to both the young people because of how she’s introduced with a cut directly from YS’s photos to the old photo of the 5 friends.
Amazing that the young actors really look like they could have aged and look like the older actors. Very good casting.
FL, here a voice over. Funny because in a way, it’s like when the character think in a novel. But added with her sticking photos. Then at the last line, she nod yes to ponctuate the line in the voice over. I just say that because it’s a way we can get often in kdrama, they don’t have fear to put some voice over, even when it’s not the narrative mode of the story.
You are welcome @Janey!
I am glad I can recognize those I have seen. In the beginning everyone was unknown for me.
Here is Young Shin’s mom who was in Sisyphus…
The FL is as subtle as Wiley E. Coyote u_uU . She is adorable, though…
@Cleo yes they are making kimchi. Such a big tub of it!!!
It’s Ji An’s birthday and while kimchi is being made with YS, a remembrance birthday is going on sadly at MS’s home.
MH has such a love-hate relationship with brother.
We see that MH is looking for someone. And he comes home to a dark and lonely home too. Healer is alone and MH is alone…
MH should have been the one to hire Healer. Such a pity. But then we wouldn’t have gotten our story.
Ah ah Moon Ho get his voice over too. Quite short. Then he speak on the phone. He drink whysky… open the luguage with healer tapes. And… Voice over again. 🙂
I was sure it was a two part voice over. I feel it at first voice over.
Leading to Biiiiigggg flashback. Not even flashback, rather childhodd phase.
@WE yes the voice overs are most useful because we get so much out of them.
Here’s the long backstory that you dislike. Min Joo = freedom. I didn’t know that when I first watched and didn’t know what they were fighting for.
Good transition to the back story by the way. From Moon Ho the adult to MH the child.
@GB,
I have to try this, but not in that big tub though! LOL!
Yes, I know. MH is alone indeed. He lives robotically.
You are right about that MS did a lot of damage to everyone and to his little brother. MH is so haunted by the past.
I don’t really like these scenes. It’s a bit long and noisy.
It’s weird because there is action, but I don’t stick to it. I can’ feel the danger, because of the song.
Protect the elder. Three words, and we have another plot hook. The introduction of elements at play and what is at stake is spare and gripping. Excellent writing!
The photo : something weird I didn’t remember.
The boy is moon-ho, it’s not healer ?!!
I had my notes.
Backstory: Underground radio broadcast from the back of a truck. Criticising the media and the government (President Chun Doo Hwan) behaviour towards the media. About 2,000 journalists were kicked out. Clamping down on the Press.
That was supposed to be what it was about.
And MH as the kid was alread able to take a reasonably good photo of the friends … people who most were killed/destroyed by Elder and MS. So sad.
@WE
The boy is Mun Ho. He was there while the 5 were radio broadcasting in troubled times. They didn’t have democracy back then.
So sad that MH’s dream is not to dream.
MH : “My time is stuck in the past. That’s why there is no tomorrow for me. If I find that child, perhaps a tomorrow might come for me.”
@Cleo, yes, I get the point about the journalist and at this time it was one of the 2 dictatorship.
But I missed the point at first watch : I was thinking the boy was healer. And now, I don’t understand the relation of Moon Ho and Healer. Im confused.
Healer’s dad had a wide smile. I really liked that picture…
Right now it seems the healer may be the self-sacrifizing reporter. Still at 19:17 minutes.
@WE The boy is Moon Ho. Healer is too young. He was not born yet.
Healer should never ignore Ahjumma’s calls. She always gets him when he eats anyway. We see Jung Hoo’s dream and hear Young Shin’s dream. And we get to hear the signature love song, “Eternal Love”.
Commentors say it’s too cheesy but I love to walk to it’s beat!!
A bit like a rule : the 2 main lead have to meet before the episode 1 ending. 🙂
@WE
Mun Ho was the boy that took care both of Healer and Ji Ah as children.
There parents where friends and Mun Ho loved Myung Hee.
Myung Hee is Ji Ah / Young Shin’s daughter.
Healer is the son of the photographer with the wide smile in the past picture.
Oh healer dad is on the photo ?
But if Moon Ho is his brother, so it’s the same dad.
Moon Ho dad… I don’t remember who he is… It’s president Kim ?!
Myung Hee is Ji Ah / Young Shin’s MOM! *correction*
@GB, I love this song too!
1980’s car chase! How the iconic picture was taken by young MH. 5 friends and an impressionable kid. The focus on the middle 3 friends foreshadows the conflict. A love triangle amongst friends.
Moon Ho is Moon Shik’s brother. No connection with Healer.
Damn it, I found a way to get lost in this drama about all this family and friends stuff. I need a plan !
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Did it finish already? LMAO!
@WE Among the 5 friends, Gil Han and the lady, Myung Hee got married and had Young Shin. Gil Han was killed and Myung Hee became lame and Young Shin was lost.
One of the 5 friends, Moon Shik married Myung Hee after this.
Of the 5 friends one more was Seo Joon Seok, who would become Healer’s dad. He also died.
The remaining 1 of the friends was Ki Young Jae, who took young Jung Hoo under his wing. Young Jae was the first Healer. He taught Jung Hoo the ropes and passed the Healer job to him. So Jung Hoo is the 2nd Healer but no one knew this except Ahjumma.
Hi FGB at which minute are you now? Have you finished the train tunnel fight scene yet?
Thank you @GB for writing this!
I was going to add a plan for @We but you got me!
@GB, thanks. I’m still lost, but I will just watch next episodes… Anyway, I will see what people do. Hey!! ^^
@WE – yes we get a “meet cute” of OTP in ep1 based on kdrama rule. Only in Start Up, it didn’t happen. Hence the confused fans with SL syndrome.
@Cleo … LOL poor @WE. I too had a hard time with that photo and the relationship of the characters at first. I still have to look at the characters list to get them straight. We hardly hear the names of the 5 friends so it’s hard to link them correctly.
@Janey, you have a point there. Start Up had the wrong pair meeting up and so angry fans LOL. Here show makes sure that the first guy to get a hold of Young Shin (literally) is Healer. Not Moon Ho or someone else.
Poor Healer got Whaled!!! XD
Circling around the child plot point. We have a dead child (per death ceremony), a disabled mother, and a non-present father (per photo and conversation). Current husband (newspaper mogul) of disabled mother was in old photo with her and non-present father. TV reporter is younger brother of current husband. Current husband is the one who commissioned Healer. The tangle between major players is presented. Who’s still missing from the tangle? The young female entertainment reporter who idolizes Healer, Moon, and (I believe) the disabled woman married to the newspaper mogul. Chances are she’ll be pulled into the tangle sooner than later.
@GB,
AsianWiki doesn’t make that easy for us. We don’t see the actors and their names in order to make the connetions.
So true!
Plot twist! Newspaper mogul had hired Healer, and his younger brother, TV reporter Moon, had hired Double S Guards to retrieve mystery article. Working cross purposes. Who’s the good guy?
Start-Up, haha! They don’t meet, but we see the ML during the last scene of episode 1. As soon as, I was sure he was the ML by the way. I don’t know why people was so much confused with that. It was so obvious. Just the fact the episode wait the last moment to show him. It’s like a red alert. hey hey hey look, it’s him!!!
The sad irony is that MS had at first joined in the fight for free press and democracy. But he sold out his principles for Myung Hee who would never have agreed to it, had she known that her family had been sacrificed. Or maybe he never had those principles but just went along with the group.
Back to Young Shin bringing home her future husband to dad… when she introduces Healer that she speaks to her dad about now, she really is introducing her future husband. Such a good bookending at the end of show.
I struggled to make the connection also of the 5 friends to their future selves when I first watched it. I had to plug through and make links from other episodes. I didn’t use any google references then. LOL. The OTP is connected in more ways and a deeper history because of their parents’ past.
@Welmaris, you just make me think when I watched the first episode, I did it without my brain. There was too much things unknow. Reporter moon hire Double S guard. But later they kidnap a woman. And why Moon have a link with healer. And all people from 1980 I can’t link with today , and president Kim, etc et c cetcetc…… T__T
@Welmaris, that was the great conflict for Moon Ho… he wanted to be the good guy, but he never felt that he was, because he’d been brought up by his brother, and felt that he was like MS when he kept silence over his suspicions. MH always suspected that MS was behind the disappearance of Ji An.
To assuage his guilt, he got Healer to hunt down possible young women of the right age who might have been Ji An and to get their hair etc for DNA testing.
That rewatch went so fast! E1 down, 8 more to go!
@GB…. who is MS ? It’s president Kim ?
@WE, I guess you have to get past Episode 6 to Episode 10 maybe, to see more how the characters are linked. If you follow Moon Ho’s story, I think it becomes clearer, because he has a clear objective. Everything he did was to right a past wrong and to restore matters to the way they should have been if not for the crimes of the past.
Yes @WE, MS is Kim Moon Shik, the President of a broadcasting company. Not the same company that Moon Ho works in. MH did not want to join MS’s company but both of them were in the News industry. MS was manipulating news to serve Elder and cronies.
MH did not want to have anything to do with that.
@Janey IKR? I’ve gotten used to shows that are more than an hour long so that 58 minutes for Healer flew by so fast!
Where are you now @FGB? Finished Moon Ho on the news?
Oh ok, and Moon Shik is not his father, he is his brother.
So Moon Ho isn’t healer brother. Moon SHik was on the photo ?
And Myung Hee too ?
1980 and 1992, key dates in Moon’s life. Flashback to November 1980 with the guerilla radio broadcast. It is made clear they’re bucking the establishment to air their show, discussing topics that are forbidden. Freedom of the press is being repressed in this era, per broadcast discussion. “Our dear President Jeon Doo Hwan” was a former Army general, and served as President of South Korea 1980-88, but was the unofficial leader of SK Dec 1970 – September 1980 as a military strongman, with the official president just a puppet. SK’s leadership had been thrown into turmoil with the assassination of President Park Chung Hee on 25 Oct 1979. Chun used the fragile situation to first move up in power in the military, but arresting rivals without authorization, then moved into the Blue House, becoming the de facto civilian leader of SK. Then by May 1980 he’d imposed martial law on all of SK, starting a military dictatorship.
@WE, yes that’s right. Moon Shik is the elder brother who drove the truck with little Moon Ho next to him. They seem to have no parents. MS brought up his brother. He had a junkyard business which became the HQ of the 5 friends.
It was a very big jump from a junkyard owner to become a news mogul and very influential. That was because he ended up working for Elder.
@WE – MS is the media mogul who is the older brother of MH. In the 1980’s part, he was the driver of the truck and his younger brother tagged along. The brothers at present have a rough relationship due to their value differences on the role of the press (truth/justice vs fake news/cover-up).
Kyung Hee is the girl In The photo. The one on her left eventually became her husband who died. On her right is MS who became her 2nd husband but he has always been in love with her.
Thanks, It should be enough for watching what coming next.
I’ve to go. Bye bye everyone !!! 😉
@Janey, yes MS had always been in love with Myung Hee, and that was a greedy love … and the cause of his downfall. It ruined his soul although outwardly he became successful and the envy of others.
Her photo at 39:20 of the late Oriana Fallaci. Those are crazy good goals.
Sorry… should be Myung Hee.
Too much to unpack for first ep. 😉
Thanks for the rewatch y’all. Now I’m going to catch up on DAYS and be dazed. I was not happy with ep10. I’m crazed! Here we go again.
Bye @WE!
@FGB, yes Young Shin had great goals. Her goals didn’t change as much as Jung Hoo’s did, by the end of the series.
Moon Ho’s goals came to fruition. I was so happy for him that in the end, he could accept love for himself which he’d felt he did not deserve before. I never ‘got it’ when I first watched the show… but now on thinking back… Moon Ho’s story too is quite painful.
@Janey, I was rewatching DAYS too … Ep 10-12. It’s not an easy show to get the flow of!!!
@FGB,
Yes to Oriana Fallaci. You should look her story.
She was in love with the greek Alekos Panagoulis who was killed back 1976 in a car accident. If you read history though, you will know that Alekos fought againt the greek junta 1967-1974…Just similarities in different countries.
Will you convey these words when you see her? That we are so desperately like this looking for her.
Hey you punk! Where are you, doing exactly what?! Are you even aware how desperately we’re looking for you? Huh?!
Min Ju (can be a girl’s name, or can mean “democracy”)
Min Ju
Where are you?
These guerrilla broadcasters are risking their freedom and lives to fight for freedom of the press and democracy during a period of martial law in South Korea’s history. But the mention of the desperate search for “her” foreshadows Moon’s dogged search for “that child.”
Wow @Cleo, I didn’t look up Oriana Fallaci. Thanks for the info. So a lot more parallels than was obvious at first viewing!!! YS hero worshipped a person who was also involved with someone fighting for democracy, just as her parents had once tried to do.
The people who came after Myung Hee and the child Ji An, … we never knew if they had anything to do with Elder or if they were attacked by the government, do we?
Thanks @FGB and @Cleo – I will look into Oriana Fallaci. I was wondering who that lady in the poster is. I assumed she was Christian Amanpour although she does not look sexy like that. LOL!
@Welmaris Yes! Such a good foreshadowing/parallel story telling going on. I was just too obscure to me for ages. It’s only now when I look back that so much of the great writing and how the scenes were planned becomes slowly more evident.
The child being memorialized in the death anniversary ceremony by her mother is a girl named Ji An. She liked sweets best, and chicken second best. Her father, also dead (…are you there with our Ji An, right?) was named Gil Han. He was also one of the five guerilla broadcasters, along with her mother and the mother’s current husband. Moon was the one who took the picture of the five. He was a child at the time, and accompanied the group despite his young age.
Gals and guys, this is such a great rewatch with you because we are reading each other and responding to each other while we watch. It’s not easy doing it this way so I thank you all heartily for rewatching, reading and commenting at the same time.
@GB and @Janey,
Oriana Fallaci was an author and journalist. She was very known in Italy.
Her book “Letter a un bambino mai nato” / Letter to a Baby Never Born is legendary.
Thank you all for this great rewatch!
I am glad we discussed all these issues! @GB you said it all!
See you all around!
Although MH’s story is sad, I admire that he has kept his idealism and the advocacy of the 5 friends, probably influenced his values when he used to join them as a kid. And to have his brother turn against those values is painful hence the current conflict between them. Maybe MS was part of the 5 because of his crush/love of Myung Hee but he was not really an activist then.
@Welmaris, little Moon Ho had no choice but to tag along (poor young chap fell asleep in the truck) because there was no one to baby sit him. The only one we see who had a care for him was Myung Hee, who was the opposite of his rather cold brother. No wonder he loved her so much … a kind of almost mum substitute.
Even Moon Shik says that without children of his own, MH was like a ‘child’ to him and he wanted to interfere in MH’s life, and set him up on the same path with Elder. We never hear MH’s response to this but we see that he takes off on his own by buying over Someday News.
It was a brave move to shake off his brother and to protect Young Shin at the same time, while taking on Elder in the only way he knew how.
@Janey, I feel that you are right. MH followed in the footsteps of the friends but couldn’t follow his own brother who betrayed them and what they stood up for. His conflict and guilt was tremendous.
Yes, I feel that MS was not really as idealistic as the others. He was reluctant in the scenes that we see him with them. He was mostly mooning over Myung Hee. Later he was pulled in as the driver again, because he drove and had the car, but not because of his ideals, and got involved in the deaths of his friends from that time.
What a lovely and sad way to introduce the characters, especially the oldest generation. The husband of the womanin wheelchairs seems fishy. This is a Mafalda strip:
https://stryptor.herokuapp.com/mafalda/10-062
https://i.imgur.com/wVoAhRr.jpg
Man 1 to man 2: To change the world… Jah!, youthful dreams.
Man 2: When I was a teen I had those strange ideas too…
Mafalda to her friends: Beware boys!!!, it seems that if you don’t hurry up to change the world, the world changes you!
Moon has hired Healer to find the missing child, who we learn is a girl. Healer’s email address is Healer@moebius.com. A Moebius Strip is “a surface with only one side (when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and only one boundary curve.” “If its full length were crawled by an ant, the ant would return to its starting point having traversed both sides of the paper without ever crossing an edge.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip
This will be our story, with Healer at the core of it: twisting and circling back to the beginning.
Moebius was also a pen name of Jean Henri Gaston Giraud…a French artist, cartoonist, and writer…” “As Mœbius, he created a wide range of science-fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative, surreal, almost abstract style.” “Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science-fiction and fantasy films, such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, and The Abyss.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud
I think Healer (and Writernim) may be giving a nod to the fantasy and science fiction worlds this Moebius created with his art and writing.
Wow FGB! Powerful comment in that comic strip, and to the point and so appropriate for Moon Shik.
Very vaguely there was once an interview with the writer of Healer … I think he said something about how each generation had their goals but in the end people just had to do their best to live their lives and those goals might not be met. Something to that effect.
Possibly not much can change within a couple of generations, but people like MH might continue as best they can despite the corruption of the world.
Healer is such a slob when it comes to housekeeping! I suppose he’s the epitome of bachelorhood. And were the colorful socks he’s wearing knitted by Ajumma?
Because of the continuing juxtaposition of the young woman entertainment reporter’s story with exposition about the missing girl, there’s little doubt left that she’s the one Moon is searching for.
Thanks @Welmaris. Such a wealth of info. I only knew vaguely what a Mœbius strip was. It’s true, that show brings the youngsters back to their true roots, their beginnings.
Among shows, this is one of those that actually has no fantasy, but the gadgets and Ahjumma’s abilities are the stuff of sci-fi. Also, Healer’s ability to morph into different characters in each environment, does seem fantastical.
Dear @GB, the 20th century was really full of changes, generally for the better. But quoting Giuseppe Tomassi de Lampedusa in “The Leopard”,
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1132275-il-gattopardo
😉
“If you don’t give up, the dream comes true, and if you are fated, you will meet.” This may be what Chae Yeong Sin thinks to herself about her goals and finding her parents, but Writernim is speaking to us with a double meeting, because we know she’s just about to encounter Healer, one of her idols, for the first time. And Healer will draw her into the tangle of Moon, the newspaper mogul, the disabled and grieving mother, and the past-still-present lives of the five who were the guerilla broadcasters in 1980.
We’ve yet to find out why 1992 is a key year in Moon’s life.
@FGB thanks for the link to the quotations. Very sharp/incisive, maybe cynical but with truth.
…AAAaaaannnnnd we end with one of the best meet-cute FL lead falling into the arms of ML in all of Kdrama.
And what a way to make us want to dive right into the next episode! What happens? Will she realize it it her idol Healer who has caught her? This is addicting, and I’m not sure I can resist moving onto the next episode.
Now to read all your Posts!!! =D
@Welmaris, I feel it was simultaneously or both Jung Hoo and Moon Ho who would bring Young Shin into the ‘mess’ of the past because it was Moon Ho who was looking for her and Healer who was working for Moon Ho.
But in Episode 2, Healer sees something that makes him work for himself.
Moon Shik had said to Moon Ho “That’s because you too are on the same side as me. You and I, since that day in 1992 until now, we have been on the same side. You still can’t acknowledge that?” – I believe he is referring to the year that Gil Han and Joon Seok were killed, and when Myung Hee was chased and Ji An was lost. It when MS started hiding the truth, and Moon Ho started suspecting his brother. MS had been bribed with the promise that he’d get Myung Hee the best treatment after her accident, and the position in the news corporation. MH had been young then and kept quiet of course, so he felt that he’d been implicated in MS’s guilt.
LOL @Welmaris, you sound like you’re watching it for the first time. But I too felt compelled to keep watching even during my rewatch.
@FGB happy reading!!
Bye all! It’s been fun!
Typo correction to comment above: Chun Doo Hwan was de facto leader of South Korea starting in December 1979, not 1970.
@Cleopatra and @GB, Oriana Fallaci was truly great. The kind of reporter that interviewed dictators in their bunkers and kicked their asses in the interview *while in front of them*, much to their chagrin. Got shot several times as a war journalist.
The little bit of “letters for an unborn child” is truly terrible in a bloodboiling way. It showed all the injustices that she had to see and that she fought against her whole life.
One of her anecdotes after WW2 in a destroyed Italy as a little girl is that her mother went to work as a maid in a rich relative’s home. Her mother was abused and she was forced to sit down in a little chair for hours. One day she remembers that the rich woman called sweetly to her rich neighbors’ kids through her window, took an ornate candy box and proceeded to rain chocolate truffles on them.
Chocolates to ones that didn’t need them.
While she was pinned to a chair and her mother mistreated by someone her own blood.
She recalls that even as she wrote the book she couldn’t stomach chocolate even if she truly loved it.
That awful woman didn’t know that by raining disgrace on a little child she would generate one of the fiercests Journalists to ever walk the Earth.
So much to say about such a remarkable person…
It has been a pleasure, Bye!!! =D
@FGB – the idealism of youth in the Mafalda strip… there is some truth to it. I hope I still carry some flame of that in my older age, that we can still make a difference in our own little way.
@Welmaris – the möbius reference is apt as well. Thanks for calling attention to that. I was thinking of just an email address but it does add to the story arc of this drama. I admire the deliberateness of kdrama writers in putting these into the story.
And I have to Google Oriana Falacci!
Thanks for the additional insights!!! This is what I love about rewatch. See you again next week!!!
Look what I have come across:
Healer will be adapted on a Webtoon!
http://dlvr.it/S1qPS8
@Cleo – talk about a Healer revival thru a webtoon! And BoD is on the same trend. Cool! I have not tried reading webtoons yet.
@Janey,
True! We are in the trends!
It is interesting. I have started reading Yumi Cells and My Roommate is a Gumiho…
Mafalda was a truly remarkable comic here in Latin Amarica. It was generated in the 60’s by Quino in Argentina, and even if Guille (Mafalda’s baby brother) suckles his pacifier with extra gusto while seeing photos of Brigitte Bardot and the gana loves The Beatles (with the exception of Manolito) its message is as fresh as it was around 60 years ago 😉 .
One of my favorite songs of Tears for Fears – Advice for the young at heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtzFOgKcv8
But to answer your question directly, dear @Janey: you can ALWAYS make a difference. Also reversing Oriana Fallaci’s anecdote you never know how long a little act of kindness can travel. At your work, did your best to serve your Company while improving your Customers and your Co-workers lives?. And if you have children and you give your best to raise them as good people, then you have done your Lion’s share =D .
Quoting Saint Francis of Sales:
“We are seldom called to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary attention and enthusiasm.”
https://www.stfrancisroby.org/our-patron-saint
That’s a good sound trip to the 80’s. I’m always young at heart! Thanks @FGB.
Hi All, I’m not good at keeping group watches. So I’ll be following the c discussions while rewatching in my own time. I love this srama and the ahjumma best. I “discoverd” Yoo Gi-tae watching this and have enjoyed some of his other dramas. I had already become a fan of Ji Chang-wook and Park Min-young (her hair in this gave her an entirely different vibe playing against her stylish glamor looks and was entirely in character).
What makes reading BOD comments so satisfying is that our posters give us history lessons, cultural enrichment and all sorts of fun facts about our world. As an oldie(only chronologically), I remember reading articles by Oriana Fallaci. The post about her childhood was heartbreaking. That’s why this blog is so special. Please forgive me for being late, and thanks for all the joy.
Dear @Janey, then you chose the best part: to be Wise while also being Inspired =D
Dear @OldAmericanLady, it is a pleasure to read you!!! 😉 . Do not worry at coming late, you came and that is a gift!!! =) . And as you know this Blog even if it belongs to @Packmule3 is at the end of the day made by all our contributions. I love to read your perspectives since they come with the added weight of experience.
Hope to read you soon!!! =D
To FGB4877, Thank you so much for your very kind words. Means the world to me.
@OAL I heartily second @FGB. You’re most welcome to join us for the rewatch at any time you can. We’ll come back here to read you and any other latecomers. We benefit so much from ‘listening’ to each other, and I take it as a privilege that you offer us your wisdom and experience.
@FGB thank you so much for your warmth and thoughtfulness in all you say. You warm my heart. And thanks too for the very appropriate quotations that seem to fall from your fingers like a refreshing rain shower, LOL. I’ll call you the ‘king of quotes’.
Hello everyone And thank you for being so welcoming
I couldn’t reply yesterday but reading the thread today.
After watching Youth of May recently, revisiting this reminds me of a side of SKorean history that we barely know. That it wasn’t that long ago the country moved from being a dictatorship. The struggles of these young journalists to be heard and report on extraordinary levels of corruption. I had forgotten that side of Healer, remembering more the sweet romance of the children.
I didn’t know it was a web toon but thinking back, it makes total sense.
Anyway looking forward to the future episodes we are covering and watching JCW do what he does best.
Happy viewing and happy to be here
Hi @Sandi, glad you’re with us.
About the webtoon,… it’s the other way around. The Show exists first and only now they plan to make a webtoon adapted from the show, if I read the news right.
Here’s another article on the news: https://voi.id/en/lifestyle/59480/drama-korea-i-healer-i-bakal-diadaptasi-ke-versi-webtoon
This means that the show is considered so successful, it’s name can sell the webtoon, and not the other way around. Congrats to the writer and all the production crew.
Thank you for clarifying that. It is indeed a testament to the drama. And Healer would transfer beautifully to webtoon.
Kalispera everyone!
@OAM as @FGB and @GB said above, of course you are welcome! We are waiting for your insights!
Hi@Sandi, Thanks for reminding us that K Dramas help us non-!Orleans learn about Korean history. We are so used to being part of whatever nation we’re from and, even en,intended people can’t help being ethnocentric. So for me, K Dramas have sent me to Google, Wikipedia and thev,ocal Korea society to learn about customs, history, language, etiquette and so much more. @packmule3, @Wenchanteur, @Cleopatra and so many on this site have sent me in the right direction and have enriched my experience watching these dramas. This site also helps when it comes to subtitles. I’ve learned that wherever you get your content uses different sources for subtitles that sometimes changes the meaning of what we’re watching. And knowing the difference adds to our enjoyment. Also, there are literary, musical, dance mavens(a zyiddish word for people with deep knowledge) who help with the OSTs, 5he choreography, and any of the cultural content. For newbies to BOD, enjoy this site, follow the etiquette rules and you’ll find out it’s a gift that keeps on giving. And @Sandi, thanks for adding to all the good stuff we get here.
@Cleopatra, I recently read a biography of Queen Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff, who is a historian. I got a big kick out of finding out she was Greek! I love the ancient world, where there was lots of movement. And now I know why you are Cleopatra. Sending virtual stuffed grqpe leaves, taramouselata, kalamata olives,feta cheese, moussakah, grilled octopus, avgolemono soup, grilled fish(octopus-yum) and more feasting your way-maybe some ouzo and retsina.And thanks for the fun.
Hi @OAL! You’re right, this site is a gift that keeps on giving. The diversity of ideas and insights that make you think, learn, laugh, cry, Google, and be more aware and mindful of other cultures. How is NYC these days? Cali has started opening up. My family is proceeding with caution as we have below 12 Yr old who is not vaccinated yet.
@Sandi – Healer was also my first drama that showed some SK history (not sageuk) and tumultuous political times as backdrop. I will check out Youth of May. Hope we see you succeeding rewatches and Healer posts.
@Old American Lady, I was just recently thinking to myself that I’ve lately missed seeing your comments. Welcome! I’m glad you’re on this thread regardless of when you watch the Healer episodes. Since this is a rewatch for many of us, and all episodes are available now for viewing, timing isn’t as much an issue. We can, and have been, referencing more from the drama than just what was presented in Episode 1.
I couldn’t stop myself yesterday, and binged more episodes after our group watch ended. My husband was busy and away from the house all day, so why not? Some dramas I have to force myself to watch the last few episodes just to wrap them up, having invested so much time. With Healer, I want more, more, more!
I noticed one thing that hasn’t aged well with Healer. When Moon Ho takes over Someday, he’s physical with Young Shin in a way that wouldn’t be tolerated these days between a male employer and a female employee (nor should be even between two equal employees of the same gender). He gives her a finger flick on the forehead within minutes of announcing he’s the company’s new boss. In other scenes, he pulls her after him by grabbing the back of her head/neck. Perhaps Writernim and Directornim want us to see in this behavior what he may have done when he babysat her as a child, but these days even in that setting such power-lording physicality might be viewed as suspect. No, not cute, Drama!
When I watched Healer, toward the beginning of my Kdrama fandom, I knew little about the history of the Korean peninsula: that there had been a war, and that there was a DMZ…that was just about it. I have been tremendously enriched by viewing Kdramas, reading commentary that makes plot points and context clearer, doing research to broaden my understanding, trying to learn some of the Korean language, visiting South Korea myself, etc.
Both Healer and Reply 1988 are set during the difficult days during and shortly after the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan (1980-1988). He did peacefully transfer power to a new president in February 1988 (first peaceful transfer of power in South Korea’s history; “the first free and fair national elections of any sort held in the country in two decades”). But under his iron-fisted leadership 4,900 people were massacred in Gwangju over two days of pro-democracy demonstrations. Also, “Beginning in August 1980, citizens were subjected to organized violence under the name of social cleansing, which aimed at the elimination of social ills, such as violence, smuggling, drugs and deceptions. They were arrested without proper warrants and given ex parte rankings. Some 42,000 victims were enrolled in the Samchung re-education camp for ‘purificatory education’. More than 60,000 people were arrested in six months between August 1980 and January 1981, including many innocent citizens. They faced violence and hard labour in the re-education camp.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan)
Whether it was the five friends in 1980 that we see in Healer, or BoRa that we see in Reply 1988, these young activists knew that they put their lives on the line when they protested government policies.
@Janey, NYC is coming back. There are some crime problems, but nowhere near the problems of the pate 20th Century. Sporting events, museums, restaurants are all opening up if you’re vaccinated. I’m getting out a lot more and I 3ven hugged a friend. Hope all is looking up to all the BOD posters and our fearless,intrepid leader @pm3.
@Welmaris, military dictatorships are scary. 2e’ve seen more tyrants throughout history, no matter where one comes from, than enlightened, demicratic leaders. These dramas help us to understand the hardships and bravery from a visceral sense through our empathy with the characters.
I have reltives who fought in the Korean War. The US, in a way, kept those military dictatorships around as a lesser evil to what was happening in North Korea and China. And now, thanks to Korean democracy, I have Samsung devices, LG appliances and Choco Pies in my pantry, Soju in my refrigerator(it’s an acquired taste) and kdramas to binge! Hooray for democracy!
Rewatching Healer, I am reminded how brutal some of the conditions can be for actors filming in Korea in winter. Even during indoor scenes (probably on sets constructed in large warehouse-like buildings) you can see the actors’ breath as they talk because it is so cold.
@Welmaris, I have thought the same thing about working conditions for cast and crew in Korea. I also w o nd3r about whether they are being fed, especially on night shoots. It always seems like a huge deal when talent sends food trucks to actors on sets. We, in the US have health and safety standards at the federal and state level, but I think standards are different depending on the state where one works. I also wonder about Korean insurance regulations related to workplace accidents and medical coverage. I don’t think there c are labor unions either. Much seems to be under control of t he big studios and talent agencies that are sometimes one and the same. But what seems apparent is that cast and crew freezes in the winter and swelters in the summer, given those little hand he’d fans that we see in the behind the scenes clips. I also look for melting make up and sweaty wigs. These actors certainly suffer for their art.
Dear @OlaAmericanLady,
Kalimera from my part of the world! Thank you for your kind words!
Yes, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was indeed Greek. Ptolemy, her ancestor, was one of Alexandre the Great’s generals.
Thank you for the virtual hugs, I am sending back more virtual hugs!
Last I drank some ouzo after ages! So, I am going to say “Cheers” to you and we will definitely gonna eat all the yummies you have said! They are decicious!
Dear @Welmaris,
When I was watching Healer, I wasn’t aware of the troubled days S.Korea had.
Thank you for the history lessons. It hits a nerve, because Greece also had dictatorship back in 1967-1974 and some things you are writing above, happened over here too. People were arrested, tortured, went into exile in camps.
So, I feel somehow emotionally connected with all these, even though I haven’t read properly their History.
While I was doing my Theather and Cinema module, I read and learned a lot.
So, even though I prefer Theather, I respect cinema as well.
If anyone want to learn more about it, please check the movies by Theo Angelopoulos and Pantelis Voulgaris.
I have started watching them while I can to educate myself more. To understand how Art can give us information about History and what happened in the past.
@OAL,
Many Greeks fought in the Korean war as well and the Korean Ambassador in Athens did a ceremony recently with the living relatives of the deceased soldiers.
If I remember correctly only one of them is still alive.
I read recently that the actor Michael Caine fought as a soldier in the Korean war as well.
If you read the poem of Dionysios Solomos that became the National Anthem of Greece, you will find out that Greeks fought for Freedom. We have fought for Freedom several times over.
So the five friends singing about Freedom and asking where is she?
It is a known feeling maybe intergraded into our DNA.
Hear! Hear!
Beautifully said. Thank you for making me feel welcome too.
@Cleopatra, Thanks for adding to the new things I’m learning. When I was in high school I took an enrichment course where we read Agamemnon and where we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to study the Greek and Egyptian exhibits. There is so much to know about Greek culture from ancient history to the present that I’m happy that you share your knowledge with us.
Ever since we began our rewatch of Healer, then I binged more episodes, I’ve had “Eternal Love” looping through my brain. It’s a lovely song to have as an earworm. Although it was mostly written to reflect the relationship of the OTC, I also see it as an ode to the everlasting love between parent and child, and between true friends.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HIr8uSRGF14DHO1sckYx0?si=9199cbfe249f4af4
Dear @OAL,
I still believe that I am a novice of the Greek History and Civilization.
I have read much, but there are so many more to learn.
One of my favorite periods is that of the Minoans. I love Crete so very much.
I am glad that you like what I say. I am trying to share that knowledge.
It is one of my core beliefs that we should spread the word, not keep it only for us. What’s the point in that exactly?
@Cleopatra, We have a wonderful place to learn about different cultures and world views while enjoying kdramas. We speak to each other around the world. My take on that is learn from everyone.We’ve learned history, music,art, customs,recipes, kindness and so much more here. So here’s to learning.
Healer’s script, idea.
Unfortunately, I don’t have time to read it all, but I needed to see a detail and I read a few parts.
Episode 1, Scenes 17 and 18.
Even though the text is longer because of the machine translation, it’s very full. I feel relieved because my style is much more streamlined!
Here, the writer is almost indicating the direction. And to think that some people here say that writers shouldn’t do that because it’s the director’s job!
As I work hard on the screenplay, I have ideas to improve my scenes. Kind of like reflexes. And while reading these two scenes, I had this idea:
Scene 17, as we move through the labyrinth, we hear breath sounds and rales in voiceover. At first very quiet. The more we advance, the louder the sound of breaths and rales becomes. And we ignore what it is!!! It could be a guy in the middle of coitus for example. ^^
So, from the point of view of the spectator, we are hooked. We know we’re heading towards the person making that noise, and wonder what it is.
Scene 18: The huffing and puffing is clear!!! We know this is happening here! But first the camera shows other things in the room. Like the clothes on the sofa. ah ah!
Finally… SURPRISE! it’s a guy playing tennis with a virtual helmet. hey hey!
In scene 18, the writer introduces the hero’s breaths very late. Almost the moment we see him.
I already use this to smooth transitions in various scenes. However here it was better, because it is ambiguous. Rewatch the scene, and imagine the sounds ! (or do a sounds effects montage, ha ha)
Trust you @WE to focus on those sounds specifically!!!
Hi @pkml3, just dropping a line to ask if you’ve set up the Healer Rewatch thread to pop up by noon tomorrow?
Oh yes! The thread is ready. Hmmm… let me see why it didn’t upload on schedule.