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Thanks @pkml3!
Ah the end of the series has sneaked up on me! Most of our questions have been answered. All we need now is a happy ending with healing… I thought the show was supposed to be going that way, before it veered unexpectedly into a pseudo-thriller. 🤪
Kalimera Everyone!
Thank you @Packmule3! Hello @GB Unnie! 😀
I think that we are going to have a happy ending with healing too! Let us enjoy the show!
Seriously!??? 😳😑😭
Yeah.
Seriously.
I only scoped out the ending to determine whether I’m going to watch this tonight or not. Glad I did. 😞
@Packmule3,
I should have realized it earlier, but I am kinda tired.
It is a shocker…
*sighs*
Oh dear. Doesn’t sound good. 😞
I’ll watch this afternoon after morning appointments.
I’ll give you a dartboard 🎯 and give you three guesses as to who Dong Jo’s last client will be. I’m sure you’ll hit bullseye on the first try.
Far out. 🙁 I’m glad it’s ending then.
Thank you.
@agdr03, @pkml3, @Cleo
After reading you, I will not watch until both episodes are subbed and I can just binge the last 2 together, to get it over and done with.
Anyway today I’m going to be out. Might as well save my energy and angst for spending it all at one shot, instead of leaving the emotions long drawn out.
Annyeong…
I just wandered a bit on twitter and as it seems we are going to cry buckets tonight…😥
Hi @Cleo, I expect that I’ll be soaking many tissues tomorrow. Not only with tears over this finale, but also because I’m blowing my nose a lot. LOL.
Unnie,
My eyes got watery from a scene of almost 1:31 minutes.
Oh, I do hope you will be feeling better soon. Are you using any nasal spray?
@Cleo, thanks for your concern. I’ll be fine. I try to avoid over-doing the medications, especially since this is probably just the common cold. 🙂
I simply cannot stop crying… 😭
The wrap of the story is beautiful!
More tomorrow…
Episode 15 and 16
Well that ending definitely cleared my sinuses! LOL. It seems we did not get enough backstory of our hero, Baek Dal Shik in this series. It’s only at the end that we find out that he not only brought up Dong Joo on his own but was guardian and caregiver to Fr Michael, his brother-in-law. He’s the one who’s rightly feted and praised for a life of selfless giving. The amount of kimchi he wanted to make, in order to give away, demonstrates his generous heart.
I was glad to see the resolution where DJ and TH each returned to ‘their rightful places’, doing what would give them most happiness, while contributing to the good of all. I laughed at the ending quip “Are you alive” (from TH) “Are you dead?” (from DJ) “How may I help you?” (from both of them).
Show has dealt with death in a most straightforward manner, as the natural journey into the afterlife, and lessened the negative aura around it, upholding at the same time, the respectable and to be respected job of the funeral director, whose help both the living and the dead would need for a comfortable send off.
Notwithstanding the warm ending, I am still aware that we never were given a good explanation for why TH suddenly turned against and abhorred Chung Ha, the woman he was so intent on marrying just the day of his brother’s accident. Chung Ha never got closure from TH, but she made her own closure by taking charge of herself and her own happiness. It was good to see her making her farewell and returning the stethoscope to TH. From that point on, we knew it was a matter of time before TH returned to work at the hospital, as he ought.
I felt that the sudden twist into thriller, disrupted the flow. It caught us flat-footed, startling us, and that was not quite the feeling most viewers would want when watching a healing show concerned with death.
I like that the Catholic aspects of the show were respectfully depicted, although drinks and beer are never to be dispensed inside a confessional! I felt that more might have been made of the Christian aspects, since so often a religious note entered the scenes. It would have been an even better ending if TH could bring himself to forgive HA in prison. I thought it would have been nice if forgiveness and spiritual healing could have been portrayed in this show, since we even had a good priest on the team, but show stopped short, voting instead to end HA off in self-punishment, by staying alive to be sorry for his crimes.
However, it’s nice to see another heartwarming show where the good in people is highlighted, rather than only their weaknesses or evil. A nice show to remind us to consider what miracles we may be experiencing in just being alive, and receiving the gifts of life, of help or support that we take for granted. This is not one of those shows that I’d ever want to rewatch, but it was good while it lasted.
I’ll say goodbye now to TH and DJ before it becomes hectic tomorrow with the whole clan Christmas lunch.
I shouldn’t have watched it while eating breakfast this morning because I looked like those lady in a drama where they eat and cry at the same time. 😂
There was so much hints that DJ’s dad will be the last one to go. So sad but I did like the connections of everyone of those 21 people.
I really wish we can have this final goodbye before going to our last destination.
It had a good start but yeah it was a shock to get that twist.
I thought the final scene at the pedestrian crossing was a bit boring mainly because I didn’t even get a last kiss but it gave that feeling of people walking/moving with their lives and intersecting with some of them while they walk this earth and one day you get the question of are you alive? Are you dead?
Anneyong Ladies!
I am glad that you watched it and wrote your thoughts.
I liked the story, the jakkanim knew where she wanted to go, even though it changed the genre a bit shockingly. Still, it was a solid good story that I enjoyed really really very much. The ending and their backstory was pretty beautiful said.
The jakkanim wanted to give us a beautiful and hopeful message. Sometimes awful things happen but at the same time miracles happen as well. It was not Dong Joo’s fault that her mother died. It was an accident, but some people saved her in utero and for that Stella / Dong Joo is a living miracle.
“Are you alive? Are you dead? May I help you?”
In short, carpe diem or seize the day and try your best in a world that everything goes so fast and sometimes we don’t seem to understand or notice the pain of others. Empathy, goodness and emotional intelligence can make our lives better, if you also have someone to talk to / lean to, etc.
It was a good story to end the year in a positive way. Lots of things to ponder about!
I got Amazon Prime a week or so ago primarily to watch this drama. I ended up dropping it after the episode where the orphan mom is murdered two days before giving birth because I thought they were needlessly piling on the tragedy. I ended up reading recaps, intending to watch the last two episodes. But then I found out what happened in the last episode, and I decided to not watch any more of it (except to zip through them to see the part about the fire). Why make this poor woman an orphan when she had already lost her mom?
However–I’m curious about one thing. In reading the recaps, it seemed that most of the 21 people were all connected because they helped rescue people from the fire 25 years ago, including her mom. If this is true, it seems almost like a Final Destination twist, that they were punished for being Good Samaritans. Only a few of them seemed elderly at the time of their deaths–so they seemed to die before their time, even if it’s 25 years after the fire.
What, then, is the message here? That the baby they ultimately rescued that day would have to escort them between life and death, as her obligation to them? Over a period of many years as a funeral home director this might work and even seem heart-warming. But having them all die within a period of a few weeks just seems far-fetched and heartless, especially when the pregnant woman died before giving birth. (What was her connection to the fire?)