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The match-up should be interesting. Both SYiM19L and KiL are premiering on Netflix on the same day.
Let’s enjoy the show!
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The thread is open.
The match-up should be interesting. Both SYiM19L and KiL are premiering on Netflix on the same day.
Let’s enjoy the show!
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Thanks for the early thread @pkml3. I’ll start this and see how it goes.
Safe travels!
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Looking forward to this show!
I watched the first episodes of both KtL and SYiM19L and found the latter more intriguing.
Thanks for the heads-up, @Snow Flower. I downloaded both from Netflix to watch today…after I watch Dr Romance 3 season finale.
Too many things happening today as it’s also Father’s Day. 🙂
For us in Venezuela Father’s Day is tommorrow. It is celebrated on the second Sunday of June, while Mother’s Day is the third Sunday of May… so no one gets a day of from work XD XD XD XD .
See You in my 19th Life has an intriguing premise. Hope the people involved live up to it.
Hi Everyone! Yes, it’s Father’s Day! Same @FGB. Same Sundays for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Kids are buying back lunch for the parent (for a change!)
Happy Father’s Day to all dads/granddads reading this blog!
Oh yes! 😀 . Happy Father’s Day for our readers and our Forumites’ husbands and male family members!!!
Hope it doesn’t drop quality. Congratulations to the two child actresses. The older one (18th) gave me the creeps in a good way as she gave the mature and mysterious old soul vibe with a hint of softness. An uncanny mix yet that girl made it work. The pint-sized one (19th) was adorable yet funny as the old soul trying to survive her childhood and doing her best to keep her levelheadness.
I see it devolving into a more traditional rom-com with a quirky element to it… cannot imagine both writers and directors living up to this premise’s potential (yet I see a lot of the cast being capable – would like to be proven wrong) but so far I like it.
BTW @PkMl3, have a good travel!!! 😀
Hi @FGB,
I too hope Show can maintain its quality.
I suppose it’s very hard to avoid comparing this show with the other one that began on the same date. They both have their male lead interested in a particular hotel! They both have the female lead working under them.
’19th Life’ has a meatier start than ‘King (of) the Land,’ but already FL’s obsession gives me pause. She proposes to the big boss, to date him, within a job interview!
I trust that there’ll be a lot more to this tale, besides her attempts to be with Se Ha and possibly to help him restore the hotel.
It was interesting that Show bothered to give us snippets of her previous life… even a brief glance at the 10th century(!) in her explanation on how she knows Arabic! While I’d like this to continue, I rather guess that we only get those flashback scenes in the first episode or so.
What is good about the premise, is that because she can remember, (unlike other reincarnation tales where there are no memories), she will avoid past mistakes. I do hope there’ll be a clue about how she might reach her ‘Nirvana’ and be able to stop being reborn.
I had to suspend my disbelief about the 12-year old heroine having a crush on an 8-9 year old child in her 18th life. The relationship looked more like a friendship and deep understanding. But I found it strange that the heroine shows a romantic interest in her childhood friend at their very first meeting as adults.
Kalimera @Packmule3!
Have a safe travel!
It is nice to see familiar “avatars”! Anneyong to all!
As for the show! I really enjoyed the first two episodes. The heroine is an “old soul” that has incorporated every previous life in her new one. So, she behaves, acts like a mature person when she remembers what happened in her previous one. Not an easy burden for a 9 years old.
I enjoyed her brazen act. She knows what she wants and she actually went for it.
P.S. Hey there @FGB! I do hope you are okay! IT’s been a while since we last talked!
@Cleo
You’re right, it’s so funny seeing Ji Eum as an old soul/mature elder and best of all, as the Samchoon/Uncle, LOL of the snack shop ahjumma Kim Ae Gyeong. I really like this relationship where JE behaves as the older samchoon to Ae Gyeong who’s in her fifties. JE gets to just be herself at least with one person who knows and accepts her in her 19th life.
I like that she has a regard for the 2 youngsters she had been accompanying before. I guess Se Ha’s mother chose that he should have playmates/companions before she died. I’d like JE to go back to being close friends with Cho Won. We have to wait to find out why SH is not willing to establish contact with Cho Won, but I believe she’ll be the one to do the landscaping of his hotel grounds.
The fly in the ointment of the 3 childhood friends is the presence of the irritating Li Ji Seok, the head-hunter who is also interested in Cho Won. I don’t like how he keeps trying to grab hold of people to stop them from getting away from him, and applaud heartily that JE can flamenco dance her way to stop his harrassment.
It’s good in Ep 2 that at least Se Ha remembers JE as a 9-year old. It seems even when so young, JE had helped the 18? year old SH and even proposed marriage to him. She’s so insistent that her current life is to meet SH and stick by him, so her brazen obsession is explained.
The car accident that affects SH’s hearing has given him a phobia of loud noises, car horns blaring and the backseat of a car. It’s a happy coincidence that JE is on the spot to help him. His other struggle is that the people under him have no confidence in his leadership. It will be nice to see JE helping him to excel, with her experience of 18 past lives.
I’m happy to see that Se Ha has a good friend in his secretary, Ha Do Yun. I hope Do Yun can withstand the pressure from the controlling father Mun Jung Hoon and the jealous, scheming step-mother Jang.
It’s interesting that SH felt he needed help and reached out to JE, but at the same time he did not want her to pick up his call.
I feel that SH likes to sit at the bottom of the swimming pool to feel the comfort of the water pressure all around him, like a baby feels safe in the womb. He’s a kid who needs a warm hug. He was grumpy but is a warm, sentimental person, judging by how he kept the green scarf and mourns for Yoon Ju Won (her 18th life persona). It’s a revelation to her, how the friends she had left behind, grieved for her still. Even Cho Won remembers her fondly as Ju Won.
From the preview, we know that the next episodes will be packed with more relationship building and revelations.
Unnie!
Briefly I can comment for now, that Yoon Cho Won is Yoon Ju Won’s sister. So, JE is watching both her sister and Se Ha being growing ups.
The fact that she reincarnated so early made her emotional when she discovered her grave. She realized that although she left her 18th life, her loved ones are still mourning for her and are hurting.
I can say that the pain must be unbearable for JE. Imagine if you were able to see your loved ones be in pain over your loss. At the same time, you cannot reveal to them that you are the person who remember as Ju Won, while you now have a new body and identity aka being Bak Ji Eun.
*To be Continued!
Dear @Cleo, Kalimera from my part of the World!!! 😀 I have missed you all a lot. Hope things are OK in Greece.
Dear @GB, at the end of the episode there was a montage of several deaths of loved ones in her past lives, so it is possible that those scenes will remain as an interesting explanatory staples during the show.
It was a lovely reflexion on mortality how she got to experience the departure of loved ones in her past lives but it was new to her to experience the people she left behind in her 18th life grieving her.
Hi @FGB, I’m glad you’ve decided to continue with another drama after “One Day Off”.
Yes, the montage was good. I believe the Show has put in quite a lot of effort to create the relevant scenes with different atmosphere, in different countries, times, in various situations, with different actors. The editors had to stitch the right scenes together to show us what memories she had. They were quite powerful although brief.
I felt for her when at one time she said that she prayed the life she was living would be her last. How tiring to re-start and re-do childhood, then adulthood, only to die but with no end in sight. This reminded me a bit of the FL in Hotel Del Luna who could not die and killed time by shopping, eating and dressing up. Or Goblin who died but came back to live on for 900 years hoping to find the bride who’d enable him to die.
So immortality which is much sought after by some, is often a curse to those who have it. And being mortal but reincarnating endlessly is no better.
@Cleo, oh yes, Cho Won is her sister…that’s why their family names are the same and their given names are similar. She’s so fond of her little sister, but now her sister is older than her. When she finds out that Cho Won likes SH, it will be hard for her to just pursue him without feeling bad for Cho Won.
So we see that although Ji Eum had a little sister in her 18th life, her main concern in her 19th life is for Se Ha who was hurt in the accident with her. She is fond of her sister, but not as attached to her as she is to Se Ha.
Next episodes we’ll find out what other problems emerge when people reincarnate too soon and re-visit the people of their previous lives. 🙂
Hey Unnie,
The fact that snack shop ahjumma Kim Ae Gyeong is calling her Samchoon / Uncle is cracking me up as well. She fully accepted the little girl as her Samchoon. She realized that what the kiddo was saying is true because JE repeated what her as the late uncle reincarnation (17th life) told her before he died. Those words did it.
I haven’t realized that Ju Won was a Chaebol as well. Only when we saw the little sister Cho Won I realized it as well. I have read on MDL that the little sister didn’t have a flower shop. Anyway, most likely she has to be involved with them somehow. We shall see how that will go.
The little girl who played the 19th reincarnation is pretty cool. She has something that draws you in. She definitely made an impression to the 18th Se Ha. I mean wouldn’t you remember a 9 years old that actually propose to you? LMAO!
Yes, SeHA as it seems suffers from hear loss in his right ear. That’s why he is wearing a hearing aid. He also suffers from panic attacks that most likely has to do with anxiety from the car collision with the truck. After watching “Reborn Rich” we do know that was not a mere accident, but someone paid the truck driver to kill the heir SeHa. As a result, he didn’t but Ju Won did die and maybe the driver.
In The current incident in episode 2, we witnessed what you pinpointed above. At the same time, he indeed has a car phobia because he is not sitting at a car’s back seats. Who could have blame him for not doing so?
I like the actor who plays Do Yun and hopefully he is loyal to SeHa than to his father and step mother. We shall see…
Water means emotion and the fact he is sitting like an embryo inside the pool resembles the womb and most importantly his mother’s embrace. It is like a solace to him. He was a kobuki / turtle after all in his previous life. Maybe in his previous life, Seha was the Crown Prince’s / Seja’s kobuki in AOS! LOL!
Kalo mesimeri / good afternoon from my part of the world @FGB!
We have missed you too! I do hope you are okay too! How is Caracas?
Yes, things are okay in Greece, as okay we can be with all the things – big or little – that are happening around us…
It is good seeing you in this thread! I do hope we will talk a bit more!
What we were shown is true, we mourn for those who leave from this world. We have those memories of being alive with them, that’s why. In her 19th life, Ji Eum learns that others are feeling pain because of her passing, that’s why she might be in pain as well. Her old and new life crossed paths. It is a new feeling for her.
@Cleo What a cute meta cross-over as a turtle in the previous life in another series LOL!
I mentioned in the ‘What are We Watching in June’ thread about some similarities between currently airing shows and that a couple of actors are acting together again. It gets hard to separate the shows when I want to comment, especially since they air on the same days and I watch them at the same time! 🤪 🤯 😱 🫢 🤭 😬
@GB Unnie,
LMAO indeed with the META references! Yes, there are so many at the same time, so just to be sure, we can open asianwiki or MDL, in order not be confused!
As for Seja in AoS aka Shin Seung-Ho, I still remember that he wanted to win the golden kobuki in the Netflix Games…LMAO! You can check on YT about the video!
So, yes for Seha to be Seja’s kobuki! LOL
I am seriously considering dropping King the Land, but will definitely continue watching See You In My 19th Life.
These first 2 episodes have been so good, can only hope the show continues with this tone
I agree, @Snowflower, that the first two episodes of 19th Life have been meatier than the first two episodes of King the Land. Looking at the backgrounds of the two shows’ directors and screenwriters, the ones connected to 19th Life appear to have a bit more experience.
@FGB4877, I’m happy to see you back commenting on BoD threads. I’ve missed you, and often wondered how you’re doing. I and my family are well. We’re staying occupied with helping to plan our younger daughter’s wedding in October. She is doing most of the work herself, but wants advice or assistance from time to time.
@Welmaris, I have missed you too. This place has such lovely people!. Happy to read that you are well and congrats to your daughter!!!.
I have been OK given the circumstances and have even started to produce a little bit of money by trading antiques. Have found new friends in those circles so I am hopeful for better times to come 😀
I really liked the first two episodes. I like the concept, the child actors are great, the flashbacks are well done–and the show is gorgeous to look at.
The color palette seems to be heavy on red and blue–the FL wears red and the ML wears blue frequently at the beginning (and in the opening credits).
Her flamenco gown in the 19th life and swimsuit in the 18th life are both red. Also when the FL meets her “niece” the niece is wearing a red apron. The school uniforms in the 18th life are dark red(burgundy) skirts/shorts/ties and pale blue vests.[However, before the FL in her 19th life sees the ML again she is first shown wearing a pale blue gown.]
I’m curious as to why this color palette was chosen, except maybe for contrast and to make the scenes pop. Of course blue brings to mind water, which seems to be the ML’s element. But if anyone has any theories about this, please let me know!
I am glad to see Ahn Bo Hyun as the male lead in this drama, so I can see more of his acting chops. I didn’t see him as a baddie in Itaewon Class as I didn’t watch that drama, but he did a great job in Yumi’s Cells 1 & 2. As Goo Woong he was loveable, naive, and infuriating because of his cluelessness. In 19th Life he plays a character that carries deep hurt, so is guarded, but I don’t get that same clueless vibe from him: kudos to Ahn Bo Hyun for bringing out different traits in the roles.
Boo! Hiss! I don’t like that Secretary Ha is spying on his friend and boss and reporting to Chairman Moon, Seo Ha’s father. I hope we find out he’s doing it in cooperation with Seo Ha, feeding Chairman Moon the information they need to control the situation. Chairman Moon seems of questionable morals, apparently having an affair with the woman who would become his second wife while his first wife was still alive. Did wife #2 have a hand in the death of wife #1? Seo Ha has painful memories of his mother’s lingering illness. Could she have been poisoned? Mention was also made of Seo Ha being sickly as a child. Was he also a victim? I could imagine that grasping wife#2 doing whatever necessary to secure her spot, and one for her ne’er-do-well son, next to a rich man. Did you see how gleefully she scooped up the envelope of money Secretary Ha refused to accept?
@Welmaris, I also thought of the possibility of Seo Ha’s mother being poisoned by the mistress. I am not familiar with the source material, so I don’t know if the story will go there.
Hey @SnowFlower,
On MDL I have found that on the Webtoon there was no evil mistress. So, if they go that route that is a change for the show. I don’t think SeoHa’s mother was poisoned, most likely she had cancer.
My earlier posted theory about the use of color—specifically red and blue to represent the FL and ML—hasn’t exactly panned out. What I finally realized is that colors represent the FL’s different lives. In her 17th life the uncle wears a white acrobat costume trimmed in blue. In her 18th, as a preteen, she wore a lot of red (contrasted with the younger ML’s mostly blue clothing). And in her 19th life, as an adult, she wears yellow and pastels (though as a girl she did wear a red flamenco dress, tying her back to her previous life). It’s a nice visual shorthand to keep all the (recent) past lives separate. (Now watch her wear red again as an adult!)