The thread is now open.
@Growing_Beautifully, @WEnchanteur, @Cleopatra, @Welmaris, @Janey, @Fern, @FGB4877, @Carolina and salteddust are rewatching Ep 6.
14:00 UTC
10:00 am EST
07:00 am PST
10:00 pm Singapore, Philippines
09:00 pm Indonesia
05:00 pm Greece
04:00 pm Paris
10:00 am Caracas
Note: @Growing_Beautifully says you’ll take a break the following Saturday 16 April (Holy Saturday) and resume the rewatch on 23 April 30 April.
Enjoy the rewatch.
It’s great to have the thread up and ready!! Hugs and thanks @pkml3! 🤗
For this show, I’m really watching it like a first time re-watcher… with barely a recall of what happens next. Instead I enjoy reading the enriching explanations and guesses of our ‘resident’ rewatchers. Thanks to all of you @WEnchanteur, @Cleopatra, @Welmaris, @Janey, @Fern, @FGB4877, @Carolina and @Salteddust plus whoever else drops by to leave us a note!
My apologies, I forgot to include the weekend of Cleo’s Easter!!!
@pkml3, please change the break to 2 weeks, to include 23 April 2022. We’ll come back on the 30 April instead to watch Episode 7.
👍 Done!
Great! Thanks @pkml3! 😃
Hello all. I will be visiting my eldest son over the weekend so will not get to watch with you. I could not keep myself from watching episode 6, but unlike @WEnchanteur I am quite capable of giving away important plot details. I attempted a poem after our long discussions about time; I was going to call it ‘Ode to W’, but I have not managed to even get close to the proper form. Plus it got away from me and became something else. You will recognize the allusion at the end.
Yet words must find me, else I drift, blown, uncaught,
a thousand crystals of winter, sparkling yet,
without thread of words, that thin skein; nothing holds.
I have let others thread those needles, others make that skein,
that cloth, those clothes, that frame, that person, that life.
Down to my core, what is the I that is I?
Random glints of suns on high plains wheat fields,
that fair blue of sky-require some observer
with water-informed eyes to be seen.
I am near the end of my structured life,
of days that begin at eight and then at nine,
informing and informed by one another,
that great muddle of humanity.
Perhaps my unraveling will not be severe?
Without the observer, the being, observed,
will still be? With still fewer words.
I will not yet drift into wind blown winter light.
Some knotted line will hold; or a watch tick.
Some knotted line will hold.
This is the “slow episode of the drama”, where the characters have to digest the previous events, often with sadness. My first impression was that I was in a hurry for things to get exciting again. After rewatching the episode, however, the scenes are interesting, and some of them particularly captivating. For what supposed to be a “slow and boring episode”… it’s as usual, an amazing one! No fillers or useless scenes. No calm scenes that run endlessly with no purpose.
In addition to a major scene, some very strong bits of scenes. And a lot of revelations about the concept, how it work about a lot of things. I guess many questions to answer and say what rules happen here. I prepare myself, I have a whole potential list of things that anyone would like to know more about.
Highlight (personnal choices, except the “toilet” scene that’s an absolute must).
– The shot on the double envelope. It lasts one or two seconds, but it strikes for the rest of the episode.
– The conversation with Yeon-Joo about fairy tales. It’s goosebumps! Great idea to have thought of this, even if it seems obvious with a concept like W. Not so obvious to do that, it surprised me the first time… I was thinking… Wow! This drama continue to be so great at each dialog!
– Soon after, Yeon-Joo’s voice-over when she’s doing the dishes. Superb and sad, with for the first time the heroine’s song (Please say something, even though it is a lie). One of my two favorites song of the drama, with the last one (we will get it far later, episode 14). Also in my top song of any drama. 😉
I don’t give the full song (you can find it easely) but this VoD with the singer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs77onZDGVs
– Finally, the key scene of the episode in the toilet, which will re-launch the excitement and the dinginess. One of the most profound scenes of the drama. I’ll do an analysis later, with the script. This is the kind of idea that is beyond the individual creative power of a writer. And the director helped enrich the meaning. But even with the two together, we can see even further.
At the very end (and at the beginning of the next episode), what I interpret as a plot-hole about a visual detail. Hard to say why, the script is not clear and could have said to do the opposite, and then someone misunderstood (the famous “prop” guy). Or maybe my translation is not good enough to know. I’ll talk about it with an excerpt from the script.
@Salteddust,
I am not good enough in English to understand all this poem because it is a very literary style, but I still congratulate you about this creation. I also make a lot of mistakes when I translate my texts into English.
If you have interest in writing and W, I could make you a proposal that you can’t refuse later. ahaha! But I will probably wait the end of W rewatch, as it’s about the season 2 screenplay. 😉
HI Everyone!
Thanks for post @pm3. I have to catch up since I missed last week and will probably miss a few more. I’ll read you all later.
I am not around the next few weeks and not sure If i’ll be able to log on. Glad a break is coming.
Enjoy the show!
Thanks @salteddust for your poetic reflection on ‘W’. It got me thinking.
What it raised in my mind is the continuous thread/line of drawing and dialogue that defines the ‘person’ of Kang Chul, without which he would not exist. However, while at one time, it is because there are manhwa readers/fans supporting his character, that keeps KC in existence, a time came when he gained awareness and self-direction, so that he continues to be ‘alive’ regardless of whether there are readers/observers or not. He continues, as long as the continuous thread of his creation leads unbroken to his creator or his will to live remains firm.
In some way, that is not too different from us ‘real’ people. Our home, history, connections, experiences make us who we are and we can trace back the thread of our lives. When we were unable, our parents, our teachers, … helped to weave parts of the skein of life for us, and we took over to build ourselves and then to do the same for our children. It is an unbroken thread.
I will miss this weekend again! We will be intransit for college tours, daughter will make decisions on her transfer soon. I’m so behind but I’m on vacation next week so hoping for time to catch up. Will join you when we are back from Easter! Cheers and take care.
See you another week @Janey! All the best to your daughter on her school transfer. 🙂
@salteddust, I’m so excited we have a poet in our midst! You’ve given us a treat, as @snow-flower has done in the past composing music inspired by Kdramas we’re watching. I love how BoD denizens have a multitude of talents they’re willing to share.
Ack! It is already almost 2am my time, and I have only five hours until our next watch party starts. I’d better grab some ZZZs.
Kalo mesimeri from my timeline! It is a sunny day here in Athens!
I just saw that many of our regulars won’t be able to be online! I do hope you will come back and read us! Have fun whatever you are doing!
@Saltedust what a lovely poem! Thank you for telling us.
Pop pop pop!
Hello Janey, Welmaris, GB, Carolina.
Hi Cleo too!
Hey @WE!
Hi @Cleo and pop pop to you too @WE! I hope you saw that we’ll be taking a 2-week break and coming back on 30 April.
Hey @GB Unnie,
Of course I saw! 😀
@GB, maybe it’s better to not makes a rewatch the 2 next weeks so? We are so few.
@WE,
CAtholic Easter is next Sunday and then Greek Orthodox is following with its Easter. It is better not to do rewatches. Hence the 2 weeks hiatus…
Looks like it’s time… NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, @WE, our original plan was to take a break for Easter. It so happens that this is also a busy period for others. So we will take the 2 week break.
It’s time to start! Will you be watching at normal speed or pausing the video in between?
@Cleo, great, no rewatch so, I’ll do things out of my home. 😉
@WE,
As everyone will! @GB Unnie!
@WEnchanteur, @GB, @Cleopatra, hello! Time to start. Unfortunately, I tossed and turned for hours and never slept a wink. I’m now lacking the mental capacity to watch and comment at the moment. Let me try once more to catch some Zzzs before tackling this episode. I’ll read your comments and watch it myself in a few hours. Have fun. Sorry to miss the party!
@GB, if you wan’t to pause sometimes, just say it. Me, it doesn’t matter.
I ended the “previously in”… episode start now.
Have a good rest @Welmaris! I took a short nap but I’m still sleepy!!
We got a little revision with more information from all the past episodes.
Kang Chul shoots Jakkanim Oh Sung-Moo who was provoking him.
It’s really like Soo-Bong assist to the death of his own father.
@Welmaris,
Rest and we can chat later on!
KC shoots to miss the vital organs? If he didn’t, he’d have killed SM.
Soo Bong is so funny. Just the sound of the gun shot and he thinks he is the one shot. LOL.
The drama contains some medical errors, but it was not in the script (I’ll publish a lot later).
@GB, yes. We get the very cool “shot” from Kang Chul (from a little high) when he say he could survive.
And the volontary miss (damn, a miss with a bullet still in the heart) will be told later in the episode.
So Crazy Dog will get a chance to do surgery on his fave manhwa writer.
LOL He does not want Yeon Joo to hang around to pressure him during surgery. She really ought not to be there.
From this episode… Yeon-Joo will suffer more and more… SJJ love to makes women suffer. And have problems with men.
Next scene… Soo-Bong just destroy Yeon-Joo mood. Quite a bad friend sometimes… Even the previous episode when he wan’t to end the manhwa. Poor Yeon-Joo.
Beautiful gaze from Yeon-Joo when the aunt and mom come.
Soo Bong is making the same mistake with the jakkanim.
He says that Kang Chul shouldn’t be saved, when he doesn’t even know that jakkanim not only tried to kill him on paper but in reality in W’s world.
Assumptions and more assumptions…
The prediction from Oh Sung-Moo turned true…
Suk-Bum pass his time to tease Yeon-Joo, but when it’s serious he’s a good friend.
@Cleo @WE, I don’t like that SB says it as if it’s YJ’s fault that her father got shot.
The manhwa bullet that is real.
KC leaves a note for YJ.
Publisher of the webtoon are worried about a new episode upload.
Yeon-Joo read the manhwa, powerfull background music.
W paranormal phenomena get crazy, can influence reality, because the manhwa start again when Kang Chul isn’t in a frozen world.
@WE, but YJ remembers what her father said and is verging on believing that she could be responsible for the shooting, since she kept saving the shooter when her father wanted him dead.
@GB Unnie,
So true. It was not YJ’s fault her father got shot. We have missing evidence for now, but it was jakkanim’s fault that the shooting scene came out this way. @WE
Kang Chul drop the gun on a garbage, exactly like the killer of his family… The script put flashback about that, not in the drama. But he understand now he’s like the killer and don’t deserve to live anymore.
@WE, yes the paranormal phenomenon logic really got me.
I didn’t like that the W world restarted without KC, that he was moving in reality and yet the W world could erupt into the publisher’s feed.
As usual, at these moments of distress or big decisions, KC walks in the rain.
Now we get the wonderfull… double enveloppe shot.
Wooooowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!! Just so great, damn script!!!
With the goosebump piano music!! W!!!!!!!!
@GB, the manhwa world don’t restart yet, as long as Kang Chul is outside. The rule about that: he needs to return into it at least once. It’s just the manwha, but in the real world instead.
Crazy powerfull shot… Yeon-Joo see “END”, original cliffhanger of the script.
Lee Jong Suk’s visuals as Kang Chul are amazing in that shot from the cafe while writing the letter to Yeon Joo, who suffers by herself and noone can understand why…
And then, there is the reverse logic… the manhwa character who tries to kill himself in the real world, in the real Han River, enters suspended animation, but cannot drown.
So I look for the explanation that can make sense of this and everything else. It seems like the writer changed login along the way to suit what the characters had to experience. And the gun just disappears as does the bullet. Again… the logic?
@GB, yes, the rain is in the script. It’s a kind of symbolism used in a lot of drama. With tears.
Here a new rule : when the manhwa end, any object from the manhwa but outside at the end vanishes. It also happens to images on CCTV. (I guess it’s like an object or artifact too).
@GB Unnie,
I agree with @WE on that one.
Here an illogism… How it would be a suicide as no gun was found next to Oh Sung-Moo?
Funny scene with suk-boom, Prof park ask “have you something to do this evening?”. “Yes”. “Ok let’s go to drink”. More funny than in the script where he say “no”.
@WE… the new rule. I became upset because new rules appeared to pop up at will.
Actually when SB decided that the story should be that SM tried to kill himself, it was so near to the truth, because that’s what he had been doing slowly by drinking himself to death, and killing KC as a substitute to killing himself.
Since Kang Chul decided to die, everything that came from W’s world cease do exist as well.
Irony in the scene with Publisher Park, more moved than Yeon-Joo. Very surprising scene. It’s like she convince herself she has to forget… too hard for her like situation.
@WE, yes I found it so irritating of Mad Dog to ask a busy person and then to drag him out for a drink anyway. Funny but annoying.
All these weeks, YJ has been sad and upset but she does not get dragged into the Han River yet. What was so special about that bathroom or that time that she gets dragged in… did she hate her blind date so much that she wished to be with KC?
@WE I was going to say the same thing. The words YJ says are to convince herself that it’s just a manhwa, not really to convince Editor. But she is NOT convinced of course.
@GB Unnie,
It was Kang Chul’s inner need not to be forgotten by her and yes, YJ was also sad and missed him, because he didn’t get his happy ending.
@GB, of course new rules appear, to makes the story exciting with new plot-twists. I look more if these rules are consistent. The “objects vanish at the end” is, as it’s used later again. And in a powerfull emotional way. I can rely on that, and use it myself in season 2. 😉
@Cleo, I agree that KC was still ‘thinking’ of YJ even in his suspended state and YJ has been thinking of him too and missing him… but why at THAT time, did she get dragged into the river? And it was like she was in the manhwa… but the river was the REAL river. Then she came out of it … again not explainable.
Now… Yeon-Joo and Father dialogs, with the WOOOWWW… fairy tales ending theory. Goosebump! So Deep.
@GB,
My answer to that is that although he committed suicide he was teleported back to W’s world. Yeon Joo was teleported there because he missed her. So, Kang Chul dragged her in to the river in W’s world and she got out.
That’s why the jakkanim cannot change the end in the end of the chapter, but with YJ’s will work.
@GB, you are too early on schedule, will say a word about that when the scene comes. 😉
So SM has lost control totally. He can’t even erase the work of ‘W’. It’s in a world beyond him.
Sung-Moo “so it’s the end of W”.. ahahaha… (with the nostalgic music).
Then the so good voice over when Yeon-Joo wash the dishes and the song!
I always have a tear on this scene…
Things will get interesting…LMAO!
Yeon Joo isn’t hungry, but prof Park decide she have to go to the restaurant, ahaha, this guy as such nerve.
I like the music cues in the blind date. The music director really worked overtime.
So funny too.
Who? Me?
The face of Yeon-Joo, lol!
The blind date can see at once that YJ is beautiful LOL.
Strange… it’s in the conversation with her colleague about losing the lottery that she enters the water. I can’t find the connection.
I expected YJ to reach KC in the water with the finger of ‘god’ touching his finger, but no. *SIGH*
The blind date is not that bad, he also plays in the first episode of Abyss and they we have Ahn Hyo Seop. LOL.
LOL what a way to look in the middle of a date… dripping wet and needing date’s phone.
Now we have our poor SB with the new writer.
@GB,
She was saying that she won’t date, she will only work. I think at that time, it was like Kang Chul heard it and he was saying to her: “BUT you are dating me and I am here alone missing you…”
Hence,
The “the end” tab changed to “to be continued”.
What we don’t know yet is that W’s killer with no face, will terrorize jakkanim in his flight.
@GB, so the logic of the scene (Im early as it’s about details coming later).
1- After suicide, Kang Chul return to the world of W, in the W han river.
2- the antagonist of the manhwa (faceless killer) stop the end of the manhwa, as an equal power to decide the end with Kang Chul.
3- As soon as, Yeon-Joo go in the river of W. We could say Kang Chul have a last tought before death because the manhwa continue (unconscious maybe, as the unconscious will be used later in the drama).
4- Yeon-Joo sees “End” becomes “To be continued” on the smartphone. It’s a bit delayed in a short time, but we guess it’s simultaneous (the manhwa changed this at the moment when Yeon-Joo go in the river).
@Cleo so, was it because KC was able to drag YJ once again into his world, that the next episode got posted?
And now, how is it that No Face is on the real Han River bridge … he gets his own portal to come into the Real World? Just because YJ could get pulled in, No Face can come out?
Background “panic” music, makes thing exciting again.. AHHHHHHAAAA. Yeon-Joo say to soo-Bong she was in the river in W!!!!
@GB, about faceless killer on the bridge, for now, we don’t know what world is… we will get that later, episode 8! ahaha, you wan’t know all too fast. 🙂
@WE, the timing reverts in the manhwa world … when YJ decides to draw herself back into the ‘W’ world, she draws herself in prison and KC saved after just a while instead of after weeks.
@GB,
About the faceless killer we will get intel in the second part of the story, but at it seems he is one of the reasons that Kang must be alive.
On the other hand, it is also about Yeon Joo. They are both in love with each other.
Unlike in other shows, the differentiation of whether we are in ‘W’ or in the real world is not clear now. It becomes frustrating for the viewer to know and remember what is happening where and to explain the logic for oneself. Hence I get fed up. Too much happening, too fast, no explanations and worse, No Face will soon just keep getting stronger.
@GB, I don’t think Yeon-Joo draw herself, she just draw Kang Chul. She don’t need to do more as now she manhwa consider her as a true author. But with the addition of the trick about the boat and divers saving Kang Chul… Then she goes back in W, as soon as Kang Chul is saved.
@GB Unnie,
For me, when I saw that the faceless killer could kill those two, I realized it was in the real world.
The faceless killer was looking for the jakkanim who had made a deal with. We will learn about the deal in the second part of the story.
@Cleo, @WE it seems to be a vicious cycle. KC needs to be alive to give No Face a reason to exist and No Face needs to kill KC to fulfill his destiny, KC should die so that NF can disappear but he cannot.
But if KC is killed by NF then that will negate NF’s need to exist, and it will cause him to disappear.
@WE, I mentioned that she drew herself, because it’s hard to explain how she reappears in prison clothes, when all along, she would appear in her own clothes. Logic again.
@Cleo, I wanted to know if NF could kill people in the real world and what business he had being in the real world. What gives him the means to come to the real world at this stage.
@GB,
That is a spoiler. Do you want me to tell you?
At this point NF don’t know the rules of the manhwa. But even if he knew, he have no choice but fulfill his role, so kill Kang Chul. It doesn’t matter for him if he disapear after. Then it’s a “sad ending”, the antogonist win.
@Cleo spoiler to which part?
@GB, prison clothes is a plot-hole, I’ll publish the script later about that. Hard to say if it comes from the drama or the writer.
@GB,
Why the faceless killer does all that and gain strength…
@Cleo, no need for spoilers, thanks. I guess that I have to do the rewatch myself separately to be able to have some peace as I watch on Saturdays. Instead of enjoying the show I’m filled with unanswered questions. Spoils the rewatch.
Even you know Yeon-Joo draws is early on schedule. We know that only in the next episode. ahaha, you wan’t to know all the drama faster than light. 🙂
@WE, I confess that I did watch Ep 7 immediately after Ep 6… ie I did some homework, but it was not enough. I’m still dissatisfied.
@GB, it’s what are mysteries and keep it exciting, we get the things little by little, in episode 7, 8, 9, 12, or a bit everywhere. ^^
I think it’s worth it to better expose the drama explanation when the time comes, because it’s true it’s too fast at some points.
@WE I will admit something strange… in other shows, I will wait patiently for the revelations, and I will say that the shows are intriguing, that there are still mysteries to solve etc. But with this show, I do not feel the same. For some reason, I get irritated.
Even I can’t explain why. Maybe it’s like: I don’t like the feeling that writer is changing logic to string me along. More than once, the logic changes. I feel it’s unfair… trying to keep up but never will.
@WE and @Cleo, thanks for hanging out with me. See you in 3 weeks!
@GB, just relax and appreciate the scenes for what they are. The logic don’t really change, it stick to the manhwa phenomena way of unfolding. And it will be explained. Any time there is a real plot-hole, I mention it. I can also say if it comes from the script or the drama, most of the time (but not always). 😉
@GB and @We,
We are going to enjoy watching this. I have stopped my rewatch at episode 14…
@Cleo and @WE, I will have to watch ahead or I’ll be angry instead of relaxed while watching this. LOL.
Have fun chingus! See you in the other threads..
See you later, need some time to prepare script excerpts and comments.
@GB Unnie,
If you want to rewatch it and talk with me, please do.
I have stop my rewatch for now but I remember what happens next! @WE
Yeon-Joo returns to W. In the prison visiting room. So far, it’s logical, Yeon-Joo always reappears at the place where she first disappeared from W. There are also geographical matches. In episode 2, Yeon-Joo is next to the cafe, disappears, and reappears at the same place but in W, an appliance store. Some circumstances force her to appear at a different place from the original one. Such as episode 1 when she is caught by Kang Chul and arrives on the roof of the hotel. However, she returns to her original place afterwards (Oh Sung-Moo’s office). The geographical concordance is not absolute about the destination, some other scenes show it, but there is often a logical link (disappearing in a car, appearing in another one, appearing at the place where someone summons her).
We can also observe a constant, not really a rule, but something that always happens: no matter what the circumstances of a transit, a character always keeps the clothes and objects they had on them in the other world. Episode 2, Yeon-Joo returns with the dress bought by Kang Chul (thanks to which Soo-Bong believes her, episode 3). Kang Chul leaves W with a gun. Yeon-Joo arrives in W with her doctor’s outfit (episode 2), etc.
However, when Yeon-Joo comes back to the visiting room cell… magically, she doesn’t have the clothes she had in the real world, but she comes back in a prisoner’s outfit. That’s why I take this as a plot hole. Even though with a narrative based concept, this could exist in the W universe. This is too much the opposite of the usual process.
In the script below, you can see that it’s not clear at all about what the screenwriter is indicating. Possible mistranslation on the “(It’s a different outfit from the front one)”. And then “Yeon Joo is sitting on the cold floor of the detention center’s visitation room in the same outfit she was before.
I can’t tell if the scriptwriter means that Yeon-Joo has the same outfit she had in the last scene before in the real world (scene #41). Or if the writer means that she has a prisoner’s outfit (the “before” meaning the scene where she disappeared from the visiting room). It seems logical that if the scriptwriter insists here, she rather means that Yeon-Joo is not wearing a prisoner’s outfit, and that she is wearing a city outfit. If I want to avoid a plot-hole, this is the reason why I would insist. But this was misunderstood in the production line of the drama. Perhaps!
However, even with a bad translation, the screenplay has a flaw here. And so like Tip, I remember: it is better to describe explicitly than to refer to a previous description. We should have said “Yeon-Joo has the same 4205 prisoner outfit as before”, or else say “Yeon-Joo is not in the prisoner outfit and has the same clothes when in scene #41”.
_________________________________________________
#42. Detention Center Visiting Room (Dawn)
in complete darkness.
In the silence, the sound of footsteps is heard from afar, and a faint light is somewhere…
Yeon Joo falls asleep with the ball on the floor and sees Yeon Joo.
When the sound of footsteps passing through the cold floor came so close, I flinched.
The sound seemed to be moving away again… and then coming back quickly.
Then a strong light illuminates Yeon Joo’s face…!
Yeon Joo wakes up in the light and raises her head without opening her eyes properly.
(It’s a different outfit from the front one)
I don’t know where this is or who’s shooting, but someone looking at me with a flashlight on, suddenly blowing a whistle
YEON JOO – (??!)
POLICE2 – Here it is!!!!
YEON JOO – (What???)
POLICE2 – (blows a whistle) Here’s the fugitive!!! here!!
YEON JOO – (Wake up)
POLICE2 – Raise your hand!! (pulls out gun and shouts)
YEON JOO – (frustrated and raised hands in the ice)
Immediately, the siren rings loudly, and the fluorescent lights in the hallway of the meeting room come on one after another.
Under the bright fluorescent lights, I can only see the surroundings… A familiar place.
A police officer pointing a gun at Yeon Joo outside the meeting room glass wall.
Yeon Joo is sitting on the cold floor of the detention center’s visitation room in the same outfit she was before.
POLICE2 – Don’t move!! Don’t even move!!
YEON JOO – (…???!!)
The scene of diving into the Han River from W, while Yeon-Joo is in the restaurant’s bathroom. An iconic scene! The heroine arrives directly in the end scene of the manhwa, but at the precise moment when it becomes “to be continued”. This scene has a phantasmagorical side, and we don’t know anymore if it really happens, or if it is an illusion.
Some differences between the drama and the script:
In the drama, Yeon-Joo drops her smartphone and loses it in the river. Pretty logical, she can’t swim with it in her hand. And it makes it easier to understand the next scene: she needs to use someone else’s smartphone. Otherwise, it forces the understanding that her smartphone doesn’t work anymore because it’s wet (unnecessary time).
In the drama, Yeon-Joo reaches out to Kang Chul, and we have a “God reaches out to its creature” type of picture. Very appropriate in this case. The director chose to exploit this theme several times, even though it was never used in the script.
In the drama, when Yeon-Joo returns and looks at herself in the mirror. The director added a second small mirror. And this gives the whole psychological dimension of the scene. The fact of having several facets of the same mind. Strangely, the scriptwriter doesn’t talk at all about the deep psychological implication for Yeon-Joo, although she does so in the essential scenes. Instead, she insists on this point, when Yeon-Joo looks at herself in the mirror: “Yeon Joo sees herself dripping through the mirror. This is real… What I’m seeing now isn’t an illusion, it’s the real Kang Chul…!”
Yet the scene has much deeper implications. The director helped reveal them, and I’m doing the full explanation now. Even if this was not the intention of the writer, it does not take away the genius of the scene…
Before that Yeon-Joo acts strangely, as if she has forgotten Kang Chul. (the discussion in the tea room with the publisher Park). She even wants to go on blind dates. We have the impression that the sentimental story of the drama goes to oblivion! In fact, she loses herself in superficial things, trying to escape her disappointment with irony and even cynicism. Except that intervenes… this scene of diving in the river.
When Yeon-Joo looks at herself in the mirror at the end (meaning of the scriptwriter: it was real, I was in the river, it was really Kang Chul), the small mirror adds (meaning of the director: Kang Chul the man I tried to forget, but I still desire rather than another).
The scene by its symbolic dimension is entirely that: the revelation of the deep and unconscious desire of the heroine. And as it is a universal symbolism, it is possible to create this without knowing it. In deep psychology: consciousness is symbolized by the surface of the ocean. A surface that is subject to storms and currents. And below the surface is the unconscious. So here we have a heroine who dives into her unconscious to reveal what her true desire is. What makes the scene great is that it is both a real scene, and at the same time the kind of scene that only happens in a dream (the kind of deep dream that contains this kind of psychological meaning, with various symbolism).
Once this step is taken, Yeon-Joo goes crazy! She is ready to do anything to save Kang Chul. She can put aside all the painful things that happened before. And even put into perspective the fact that her father was shot by Kang Chul. She is driven by a deep strength that nothing can stop. She has gone from having uncertain feelings to a certainty, he is the man she loves!
_________________________________________________
#26. Restaurant toilet (evening)
Yeon Joo, coming in with a cell phone
SUK BUM – (E) Hello.
YEON JOO – (Baro) It’s a bummer,
SUK BUM – (E) It’s crazy, isn’t it? I knew that
YEON JOO – But there is something that suddenly comes to mind. Starting from this blind date today, the will to run forward is just burning. Yeah, I’ve been living this way too far
SUK BUM – (E) That’s right, you’re just like the filial piety Shim Chung.
YEON JOO – I’ll run until Quang wins the lottery. Hey, you have a quota too,
It’s a blind date once a week for the next month.
SUK BUM – (E) Hey, what have you left? How do you treat four people a month? On days..
At this time, the sound of Suk Bum suddenly hums and I can’t hear it very well…
With a distorted sound like the sound you hear under water…
YEON JOO – (…?) Hello? Why is the sound.. (But it seems like there is a sound of waves crashing, then suddenly water splashes on Yeon Joo’s face, and she closes her eyes in surprise)
_________________________________________________
#27. In the river (night)
In the dark night river.
With the sound… Yeon Joo sinks with air bubbles from the top of the screen.
Yeon Joo, holding the phone in hand, feeling cramped and waking up…
Realizing that he fell into the water out of the blue, …!!!!
Yeon Joo, terrified and writhing, trying to climb up, but in no time…
Pushed by the waves, writhing and turning… !!!!
Yeon Joo, suddenly the gesture disappears… seeing something…
Kang Chul floating in the water, seeing clearly even in the dark.
An unforgettable ending scene that kept me awake every night.
Yeon Joo, right there.
Yeon Joo, …!!!! I was rushing to go there, but I couldn’t reach it, I was pushed by the waves, and I was moving away from Kang Chul… The moment I thought I couldn’t stand it anymore,
_________________________________________________
#28. Restaurant toilet (evening)
If you fall out of Yeon Joo’s surprised eyes…
Water dripping from the ends of my hair… Panting out of breath…
When the camera is gone, Yeon Joo, completely wet, is standing in the same spot she was talking on the phone in front of the mirror. With a wet cell phone in hand.
Yeon Joo sees herself dripping through the mirror.
This is real… What I’m seeing now isn’t an illusion, it’s the real Kang Chul…!
In the drama, Yeon-Joo does something really stupid, that even a not very competent doctor would not do… She shakes her father!!! Done this way to add some dramatization by the director, but really not good at all. It wasn’t in the script!
And even a few scenes later, Yeon-Joo performs CPR massage in the drama. While it’s also not correct if a projectile is in the heart. In the script, she uses a defibrillator instead.
_________________________________________________
#45. Sung Moo’s Living Room (Night)
In the eyes of Yeon Joo… the bloody floor… Sung Moo is lying in the middle…
Paramedics surround and give first aid… Police 2 is watching the situation and talking on the radio…
Soo Bong is crying with blood all over his body. ‘Teacher!! Teacher!!! Ugh teacher..!!’ he said..
YEON JOO – Dad…
POLICE1 – (follows in) Oh, are you a daughter?
YEON JOO – Dad..!! (Slow running)
_________________________________________________
#48. In the ambulance (night)
Sung Moo, covered in blood, is lying down and Paramedic 1 is talking on the phone.
Sung Moo, some conscious gasping. A monitor device and an oxygen mask on.. Yeon Joo, hemostasis at the bleeding site.. Blood is splattered everywhere.. Paramedic 2 checks blood pressure and puts in fluid..
PARAMEDIC1 – Arrived at 23:13 (on the phone) and at the time of discovery, the patient had a gunshot wound to the chest and was conscious. My guardian’s daughter is a doctor at Myungsae Hospital, so she is being transferred to Myungse Hospital.
YEON JOO – (with hemostasis in the meantime) Dad, hold on! It’s all here! Just be patient..!
SUNG MOO – (Only the eyes looking at Yeon Joo)
YEON JOO – (Trying to reassure you) It’s okay, it’s not a big deal, don’t be afraid I’m a doctor.
SUNG MOO – (eyes closed and unconscious)
YEON JOO – (…!!)
PARAMEDIC2 – (watching blood pressure drop) No pulse, no blood pressure reading! It’s V-Pip (VF ventricular fibrillation) on the ECG (ECG) monitor!
YEON JOO – No no no…! (While turning on the defibrillator next to you) Do a heart massage! How many hospitals are left?!
PARAMEDIC1 – 2 more kilos to go
PARAMEDIC2 – (He has a heart attack)
YEON JOO – (charging up the paddle) Get out of the way!! (Pushing Paramedic 2 and shocking him with paddles on his chest and side)
SUNG MOO – (Body bouncing up and down… still unconscious)
YEON JOO – (Raising the charge) Please.. Please.. Please..!! (Shock again)
This montage is absent in the episode (every minute must be gained to manage to put the first 9 episodes in 8 instead). The scene as written in the script is interesting. SJJ indicates the meaning to be conveyed: Kang Chul understands that he is like the killer of his family… Strong enough to drive him to suicide later.
_________________________________________________
#64. Alleyway (Night)
A dark residential street not far from Sung Moo’s house.
There’s a pile of garbage on one side…
Kang Chul, walking with his head down, throws his pistol into a pile of garbage and stops suddenly while walking. Turning his head… looking at the pistol he threw away…
Then he realizes what he is doing now.
{REMINISCENCE MONTAGE – Short Intersecting}
C#1. Kang Chul’s living room (Scene 1 in 4)
A man in black silhouette shooting Kang Chul’s family.
C#2. Sung Moo’s Living Room (Night)
Seeing himself shooting Sung Moo
C#3. Alleyway (1 episode 5 scenes C#13)
A criminal disappears after throwing a pistol in a pile of garbage
C#4. Alleyway (Night)
A while ago, he threw his pistol in the garbage heap and left.
C#5. Kang Chul’s Living Room (Ep 5, Scene 43 C#4)
Kang Chul finds the bodies of his family and runs away.
C#6. Sung Moo’s Living Room (Night)
Yeon Joo runs to the bloody Sung Moo.
Kang Chul realizes that he has become the killer he wanted to catch.
With the sound of thunder… the rain pours down again, falling on Kang Chul’s face…
The double envelope + The cliffhanger of episode 6 in the script.
In scene #68, we get details about the emotions Yeon-Joo is feeling, and shot indications on her face. The kind of thing I see regularly in the script at important moments. And it explains why the kdramas have better emotions without doubt, because it is possible in the screenplay…
“The sentence {Ending appropriate to the context}, close-up… Yeon Joo, ….!! For a moment, my heart is pounding.”
Also for Kang Chul, scene #69…
“Kang Chul, who thinks that it was difficult to turn around and turn around to become like this in the end. Instead of tears, the rain runs down my cheeks… 10 years ago, I was angry and resentful, but now I think it is the right conclusion. ”
The transitions are done in the same way in the drama. The script is quite rich here. And finally, a very strong cliffhanger in scene #71. Even translated in the middle of the episode, we feel this power.
_________________________________________________
#68. Resident Sleeping Room (Breakfast)
A card with the words {Oh Yeon Joo} clearly written on it turns into a close-up cartoon cut.
Yeon Joo watching the cut through the monitor.
I stare blankly at the invisible card I send to myself.
At this point, you hear the door open.
NURSE KIM – (Carefully, paying attention to Sung Moo’s work) Teacher Oh.
YEON JOO – …… (Can’t hear)
NURSE KIM – Teacher Oh.
YEON JOO – (? Turning around and waking up in surprise) Why, Dad..
NURSE KIM – No, that’s not it
YEON JOO – (Short sigh of relief)
NURSE KIM – (approaching) I should have given it to you earlier, but I didn’t know you were here.
(holding out a small envelope of cards) Someone tell me to deliver it.
YEON JOO – ….?!
The cover of the card that says {Oh Yeon Joo}.
This is the card sent by Kang Chul, who was just watching the cartoon.
YEON JOO – (Face)
NURSE KIM – I’ll put it here (putting it on the desk as Yeon Joo looks at the card)
YEON JOO – (only) Who is this…
NURSE KIM – I don’t know. Because you came when I wasn’t there. (going out)
YEON JOO – …….
Yeon Joo, looking at the card on the monitor again… Then looking at the card on the desk…
Yeon Joo, an ordinary card sold at a convenience store when pulled out with trembling hands.
When you open the card… there is a message from Kang Chul that begins with {I can’t leave without saying something to you…}.
Yeon Joo’s gaze, who was reading it in a hurry, stopped at one sentence at the end.
The sentence {Ending appropriate to the context}, close-up…
Yeon Joo, ….!! For a moment, my heart is pounding.
Yeon Joo, who was looking at the card, suddenly turned her gaze and scrolled down the monitor.
The panoramic view of the Hangang Bridge suddenly unfolds… Yeon Joo, expression.
_________________________________________________
#69. Hangang Bridge (Night)
A live-action night view of the Hangang Bridge unfolds with Dissolve…
Even the passing cars are quiet at night.
Kang Chul standing over the railing in the rain.
All you have to do is release the two hands holding the railing and it’s all over.
. (Same atmosphere as C#11 in episode 2 2 scenes)
Kang Chul, who thinks that it was difficult to turn around and turn around to become like this in the end.
Instead of tears, the rain runs down my cheeks…
10 years ago, I was angry and resentful, but now I think it is the right conclusion.
Hand holding the railing, let go without hesitation.
Body leaning and framed out…
KANG CHUL – (E) To the main character who became a murderer while trying to find a murderer
There’s no ending that makes more sense than this.
Kang Chul’s silhouette as it falls into the darkness.
with a plop..! There is a splash of water with a sound… I can’t see anything anymore.
_________________________________________________
#70. In the river (night)
. in the black river. Episode 2 36 scenes, no different from C#24.
Kang Chul’s body is floating in the dark.
Pushed by the waves and approached for a while… then it moved away again…
The last appearance of Kang Chul disappearing into the deep darkness…
As it turns into a cartoon cut…
_________________________________________________
#71. Resident Sleeping Room (Breakfast)
Yeon Joo’s gaze looking at the last cut… Slowly down…
The word {End} is clearly engraved under the ending cut.
Yeon Joo, the look on her face…
End of the 6th.
In the script, episode 7 starts with a process often used by the scriptwriter: the hook first, the explanations later. Instead of having the resolution of the previous cliffhanger directly, we see Yeon-Joo packing things in Oh Sung-Moo’s house. We don’t know what happened to Kang Chul. We also don’t know if Oh Sung-Moo is dead. And if the scene shows us Yeon-Joo doing such a cleaning, we are encouraged to think so! A good trap set by the scriptwriter. This was told in a linear way in the drama, because of the reorganization of scenes and episodes.
_________________________________________________
#5. Sung Moo’s yard (daytime)
Soo Bong rushes in and Yeon Joo comes out of the hallway with a book to throw away.
SOO BONG – (lower) Noona..!
YEON JOO – (wiping sweat) Have you already come to pick up your luggage? I haven’t sorted it all out yet.
SOO BONG – (Comes over quickly) Noona. I got a call from the police station.
YEON JOO – (Pause)
SOO BONG – A drowning body was found a few days ago.
YEON JOO – (…!)
SOO BONG – They say he’s been dead for about a month from the level of corruption.
It got caught in seaweed and has now been found.
YEON JOO – (Face)
SOO BONG – The time of death and the place of discovery are not far from the Hangang Bridge.. Impressionism..
YEON JOO – (Face)
SOO BONG – I think it’s probably Kang Chul.
YEON JOO – (….!!)
Moment bang…!! As the gunshots sounded like hallucinations in Yeon Joo’s ears…
FO – FI
*******************************
The “Bang” is the one of the shot fired by Kang Chul.
It’s rarely used in drama screenplay, but here we have “FO – FI” which is used to say “FADE OUT – FADE IN”, in a non-normative way.
This segues into an MONTAGE of 25 sub-scenes!!! I just copy-paste the first one:
_________________________________________________
#6. flashback montage
C#1. Sung Moo’s Living Room (Continued from Scene 39 of Episode 6)
Sung Moo collapses to the floor while sitting on a chair.
Kang Chul, then lowering the gun…
Kang Chul’s eyes bursting with sparks, then extinguished in an instant.
Blood begins to splatter on the floor.
Lying on the floor… Panting for breath, with the eyes of Sung Moo in disbelief. I see Kang Chul leaving…
FO – FI
*******************************
Technically, I don’t know why SJJ put this in a montage, as some of the sub-scenes are long. There’s everything up to this:
_________________________________________________
C#25. Sung Moo’s bathroom + Sung Moo’s living room (daytime)
Sung Moo, washing and changing clothes.
SUNG MOO – What are you saying?
YEON JOO – I can’t let go of my regrets. More because of the movie.
SUNG MOO – …..
YEON JOO – I cut it up and talked about it. I’m going to give up now.
SUNG MOO – Well done.
Sung Moo, suddenly looking in the mirror.
Between the runs, the clear surgical scars on the chest are reflected in the mirror…
Sung Moo, looking at the mirror for a moment… Touching the surgical scars left behind like a stigma.
_________________________________________________
#7. Sung Moo’s Studio (Daytime)
5 in scene.
Back to the first scene.
Yeon Joo, organizing the materials in the studio.
I fold the photo frames and put them in a box, and when the doorbell rings, I turn around.
_________________________________________________
#8. Sung Moo’s yard (daytime)
in scene 6
Soo Bong rushes in and Yeon Joo comes out of the hallway with a book to throw away.
SOO BONG – (lower) Noona..!
YEON JOO – (wiping sweat) Have you already come to pick up your luggage? I haven’t sorted it all out yet.
SOO BONG – (Comes over quickly) Noona. I got a call from the police station.
YEON JOO – (Pause)
SOO BONG – They say he’s been dead for about a month from the level of corruption.
It got caught in seaweed and has now been found.
YEON JOO – (Face)
SOO BONG – The time of death and the place of discovery are not far from the Hangang Bridge.. Impressionism..
YEON JOO – (Face)
SOO BONG – I think it’s probably Kang Chul.
YEON JOO – (….!!)
*******************************
That means the police investigation, the surgery, and even the long scene where Yeon-Joo meets the publisher Park in a tea house!
The story then goes back to the scene where Soo-Bong talks about Kang Chul’s dead body. And this is exactly the same scene as #6. If this is not repeated, there is little chance that we remember where we started, and at what chronological point we are in the story.
Sung-Moo tells how he got his tablet back. We understand a little better what it was doing on a roof. Something I had trouble understanding in the drama the first time. The Montage was shortened in the drama:
_________________________________________________
#14. flashback montage
C#1. Sung Moo’s living room (daytime)
Sung Moo standing with a cane.
The detective puts Sung Moo’s LCD tablet on the desk and talks.
SUNG MOO – (E) He brought my tablet. I left it in a motel.
C#2. The motel room (3 episodes following scenes 23 and 28)
Cut by Sung Moo drawing Kang Chul being hit by a truck.
A cut from Kang Chul’s monologue {Who are you..?}.
Sung Moo, !!!! A cut that was completely frightened and dropped the pen.
A cut that throws the tablet on the floor in fear and madness.
Cut took out a fire extinguisher from the shoe cabinet and smashed the tablet.
C#3. motel hallway (night-morning)
Sung Moo throws the broken tablet outside and slams the door shut.
A janitor who passed by with a cleaning tool in the morning, doing something and picking up a tablet.
C#4. The motel rooftop (in episode 5, 37 scenes)
Kang Chul suddenly jumps to the floor and…
After that, a liquid crystal tablet placed by a cleaner in the middle of a pile of rubbish, a bright light was shot and immediately turned off.
The organization of the script is sometimes strange. Here for example, scene #19, it is the kitchen (but it is true that the living room is an open space).
At this moment: “Yeon Joo is standing at the sink washing the dishes for dinner.”
This is actually another scene, not the same one, because it’s about 15 minutes later. Oh Sung-Moo is no longer there, he has finished eating. Yeon-Joo is alone doing the dishes.
Next: #20. In the river (night)
I don’t understand why SJJ doesn’t incorporate this into the main scene instead, with a “FLASHBACK INSERT”, when she does it many times elsewhere in the script.
I appreciate the subjective “Every day is painful with the ending scene that never leaves my mind… “, we get the deeper reason for the state of mind. A useful indication for the actress, or director.
_________________________________________________
#19. Sung Moo’s living room (evening)
YEON JOO – (…!!)
SUNG MOO – So I quit.
YEON JOO – Why… why not…?
SUNG MOO – Well.. (Self-helping) He and I betrayed each other, so we’re completely out of line.
I feel it. I don’t think my drawings will work again.
YEON JOO – ….. (Looking down at the discouraged ticket guide) That’s right…
SUNG MOO – That’s the reason I can’t draw, and the reason I don’t draw is because of you.
YEON JOO – (Pause)
SUNG MOO – Do you know why you keep getting drawn in?
YEON JOO – No..
SUNG MOO – Now I know. At the end, I realized that I left a will to you.
You became the main character in the manga. Maybe… she’ll be the heroine.
YEON JOO – (…!)
SUNG MOO – So it should end here. you are a real person
you are my daughter your mother’s daughter isn’t it?
YEON JOO – ……
SUNG MOO – (As if waiting for an answer)
YEON JOO – …… (He bows his head) Yes.
SUNG MOO – For W, that’s just the end. (He picks up chopsticks again and eats rice)
YEON JOO – ……
Yeon Joo is standing at the sink washing the dishes for dinner. There is no Sung Moo.
The words I wanted to ask more still remain in my mind…
YEON JOO – (E) But… What is the end of…?
Did Yoon Soo Hee find the body and hold a funeral… or…
_________________________________________________
#20. In the river (night)
Episode 6 in the 70s. The body of Kang Chul floating in the deep darkness…
YEON JOO – (E) Are you still floating in the cold water?
Forever… Endless time alone alone…
_________________________________________________
#21. Sung Moo’s living room (evening)
Every day is painful with the ending scene that never leaves my mind…
Tears run down my cheeks.
I wiped my tears with my sleeve, let out a long sigh, and washed the dishes again.
FO – FI
Comedy scene with Professor Park, made better in the drama when Suk-Bum answer YES, he have something to do, but prof Park don’t care, and don’t even listen to the answer. Set in the 25 subscenes montage.
_________________________________________________
C#21. Prof Park Room (evening)
Prof Park, staring blankly at the monitor, Suk Bum comes in from work with papers.
SUK BUM – Professor.
PROF PARK – ……
SUK BUM – Sign me here… (handing out the paperwork)
PROF PARK – …… (signing) Do you have an appointment?
SUK BUM – No?
PROF PARK – Then let’s go have a drink. (gets up with paperwork)
SUK BUM – Alcohol?
PROF PARK – Oh, I feel… One cartoon just makes me feel like shit. (He picks up his suit and sighs and walks forward)
*******************************
The comedy scene with Professor Park and his “blind date” proposal.
The translation is very imperfect, but we see a lot of details indicating how the characters react.
The drama added an extra gag: we first see a handsome guy arrive, except that he hides the real Blind-Date, a much less handsome guy!
_________________________________________________
#25. Restaurant (dinner)
upscale restaurant.
Yeon Joo is puzzled and follows the waiter to Prof Park to the reserved seat.
YEON JOO – Professor, this is a bit strange. To suddenly go on a blind date without notice.
WAITER – (Guiding the seat)
PROF PARK – (sitting down) You’ve been squatting. Are there any pinch hitters who run after getting a notice?
YEON JOO – I have no intention of interfering.
PROF PARK – Don’t you have a lover? I checked everything, but they all said no girlfriends. But only you covered your head. So you were replaced. I know you’re lucky (And) Why are you sitting and standing like a distant person?
YEON JOO – (sitting without help)
PROF PARK – How long have you been on a blind date?
YEON JOO – (Thinking about) a blind date…? Well… it’s been over a month or so..
PROF PARK – (kicks tongue) This is… (and) Hey, your father must have put a lot of romance in your name before the manga ended because he was so pitiful for his daughter.
YEON JOO – (With those words) …… (Still still, I can’t be calm)
PROF PARK – Isn’t that right? Do you want me to be surrogate satisfaction?
YEON JOO – …… I guess so. (Smile only)
PROF PARK – Oh come on. (beckoning)
At the entrance, a young man in his late 30s greets him warmly and enters.
YEON JOO – (! Crazy)
PROF PARK – (Broken more) Are you handsome?
YEON JOO – Are you handsome?
PROF PARK – Look at your physique.
YEON JOO – You seem desperate for a diet.
PROF PARK – Sujae-ya, who graduated with 1st place at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. The original height, beauty, and brain can never go together. Which one of the three is number one?
YEON JOO – …. (whispering) There may be men who are number one in all three.
PROF PARK – Who? (do) me?
YEON JOO – (absurd)
BLIND DATE – Senior! (Come and say hello)
PROF PARK – Sit down. This is Oh Yeon Joo. Our thoracic surgery resident.
BLIND DATE – (Cheerful) Hello, I’m Park Ho-Young!
YEON JOO – (smiling uncontrollably) Hello.
BLIND DATE – Aww~ It’s been a while since I saw a beauty and my eyes opened. Hahahaha (I’m excited)
PROF PARK – You have low eyes, so I’d like to introduce you to you. I’m so humble kid.
BLIND DATE – Is it? Hahahaha~ (Laughing wildly and having fun with each other)
YEON JOO – (No thought. At this time, a text message comes from the cell phone)
With the voice of Suk Bum. {Hey. Is washing your hair a lottery or a bang?}
*******************************
The scene at the home of the cute and sentimental manhwa artist.
I use this character in season 2, which gets a name! Jang Soo-Bin.
The scene has been improved (or exaggerated) in the drama :
The artist sings like crazy instead of just listening to music.
She also does mimes using the cookies.
And Soo-Bong has to draw using the cookie as a canvas!
Many little comedy ideas depending on the set and the utensils on the set.
_________________________________________________
#31. Manga Artist Officetel (evening)
A beautiful studio decorated with lace and antique furniture, written by a woman in her 30s.
Pastel-toned pure cartoon posters of characters with big eyes are all over the place…
Tea sets and cookies are served as snacks.. Soft music is playing..
A female writer, a female student, and Soo Bong, a bearded man in a corner that doesn’t fit this atmosphere, are sitting and working. Come to Soo Bong with a coffee mug by a female writer
WOMAN AUTHOR – (Looking in) Soo Bong. I need to make my eyes a little bigger.
SOO BONG – (surprised) Make your eyes bigger? Then the eyes are more than half of the face.
WOMAN AUTHOR – (Laughs) You’re still not used to it. The eyes are half normal on the face.
SOO BONG – (Face)
At this time, the doorbell rings.
WOMAN AUTHOR – I’m leaving. Who are you (going to the front door)
SOO BONG – (whispering and muttering) How can you have only eyes on your face..
WOMAN AUTHOR – (opens the door, kindly) Who are you (flickers, wary voice changes) Who are you?
YEON JOO – (E) Park Soo Bong, are you here?
SOO BONG – (I turn around at that sound)
Yeon Joo, a drowning mouse, gasping for breath, pushes the artist in.
SOO BONG – (??!)
WOMAN AUTHOR – Who are you?
SOO BONG – (Eyes are getting dirty) Noona?! That tail…
YEON JOO – Look at me
SOO BONG – uh uh why are you like this? (taken away)
Dear Friends, I spent over 60 hours (from Friday around 5:30 pm CCS to Monday 7:35 am) without Internet service. Thankfully I have lots of scientific papers and good books to cope with.
Since it did happen for a whole day the weekend before, I hope this will not become habitual.
My dear @FGB, I was thinking that you might have been unable to connect. What a pity. Yes, I hope it’s not going to be a regular thing. The timing is suspicious… immediately after work on Friday and before work on Monday!!
It is fortunate that you were able to while away the hours with lots to read. I have to keep up some reading of ‘normal’ hardcopy books too, but I find it harder to do this after being spoilt by being able to get info quickly on the Internet!
Dear @GB, I just got connected again. Service failed from Friday April 8 around 5:30 pm and got for a little while around Monday April 11. Then failed again from then until today Tuesday April 19.
As I told you once referring to a Post from PackMule3 about “Crash Landing on You” and not demonizing North Koreans, I lost the opportunity to talk to you from the other side of the mirror. This is thankfully not North Korea but we share the same experience of being a former powerhouse fallen into disgrace due to ill-intended policies and being demonized elsewhere due to our citizenship.
Greetings from Caracas,
FGB4877
My Dear FGB, it’s good to hear from you. I did think that you might have had connection issues again, since it happened a couple of weekends already when we were doing the Rewatch. At least last weekend and this next one, you won’t be missing the party, (as you may have seen from @Welmaris’ reply to you on the other thread) since we are taking a 2 weekend break and will resume on 30 April 2022.
I hope you’ll get stable connection and can come online whenever you’re free.
I’m busier these days, and although I’d like to be here, I will probably have to be selective. A couple of shows I’d like to start but am afraid to and even airing ones that I’m watching but have no time to think about.
Anyway, whenever you can, please keep in touch. You know how to reach me. 🙂
I’m coming back to this thread after we’ve done our Episode 7 rewatch. I promised I’d read all these comments. It’s the least I can do after bailing from the Episode 6 rewatch because of lack of sleep.
I wonder if Kang Chul was surprised the bullet he shot from his gun caused a real wound in Writer Oh. He had previously witnessed that in his world a knife from his world couldn’t cause injury to a person pulled through the portal (Writer Oh). He also saw that in his world a bullet shot from a gun in his world didn’t cause injury to a person from a different world (YJ). I can understand his assuming that a bullet from his world shot from a gun from his world wouldn’t wound someone in the real world. Oops! He was proven wrong. Good thing he tried to aim carefully despite his flawed knowledge of Writer Oh’s anatomy.
@GB, I agree that it is difficult now for viewers to distinguish in which world some events are happening. I assume our confusion is intentional on the writer’s/director’s part. For now I’m making mental notes, then shrugging and assuming I’ll be shown more later.