Updated 9/8/2023. All episodes were released today. When analyzing an episode, please make sure you begin your post with the episode number. This way people who aren’t ready for spoilers can skip it. 🙂 Thanks!
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The thread is open.
This is a remake of the Taiwanese drama “Some Day or One Day” (2019). That drama was mentioned by some of you here:
Here, too.
https://bitchesoverdramas.com/ 2020/02/28/the-king-lee-minhos-trailer-is-out/
And here.
https://bitchesoverdramas.com/ 2021/01/21/bitch-talk-should-we-watch-these-in-february-2021/
Lastly, here, because of Ahn HyoSeop.
https://bitchesoverdramas.com/ 2022/03/27/business-proposal-eps-9-10-open-thread/
Some of you might want to binge-watch that Tdrama for contrast and comparison. That’s why I’m posting this thread four days in advance of its premiere on Friday, Sept 8 so you can look for it on your streaming sites.
But background knowledge isn’t required for commenting on this thread. If I join you on this drama, I’ll rely on the kindness of other Bitches to fill me in on the details from the original drama when necessary. Thanks. 🙂
Enjoy the show!
Thank you! ☺️
I do remember liking this drama with Girlfriend @Phoenix. We love the main OST. It’s this one.
https://youtu.be/-Km_NObPF5E?si=pt4Q3LXDirltxnfA
CTO.
Thanks @pkml3!
I confess I recall only vaguely… but I just ran through very quickly Episode 1 and felt again the great loss, the longing, the sad feeling of missing a beloved.
I’m reminded that this is not just a time jump back and forth tale but a body swap and different identities tale in another time. Looks like a very quick rewatch is in order!!! 😬😮😲😵💫🫨🫤☺️
Heh! I’ve remembered enough so that I’ll all excited about watching this version of the Show. It was a very interesting concept on time travel.
I like the original Taiwanese drama, so I am curious about the Korean remake.
I will not make it to finish the Taiwanese version but it looks like a really good story with lots of good reviews. I really want to watch that version first before this one, so I will lag behind everyone.
@agdr03, I love the OST! Gonna put in my playlist right away.
The ML acted in this movie called “My Love” that I love. It is not a fairytale ending but I loved the ending because it made me cry because of the warmth of their friendship and all that they went through. (there’s an unofficial whole movie I leave you to find on YT)
Ok that sounded weird but after having watched the Korean version first (called “On your wedding day”), I found this a way better version.
I digress…but while we wait for the drama tomorrow, this the 2 songs made into an MV became an unofficial song for this movie.
12 episodes dropped at a go! 😱😱 Gonna check out the first episode tonight
😂😂 So they did it that way then? I’ve to change the title of this thread then to just an open thread with a warning for spoilers.
@grace Woo Hoo! I’m going to be so busy watching!!! LOL.
@pkml3, dear me… yes. Or maybe just 4 episodes per thread? And just 3 threads?
Ok. Three Eps per thread. Will create them later this afternoon. On my broomstick now heading for work. 🧙♀️
Heh @pkml3, thanks, have a safe flight and may nothing get entangled in your hair *maniacal laughter*. 🧙♀️🧹🤪
Wow! I’m used to 4 episodes dropping but all episodes? Ok! Let’s! 😂
Thanks @grace!
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Dear @GB, @agdr03, @SnowFlower, @PackMule3 and Oh Amazing @Grace, Will start Episode 1. They really throwed all at once!!! XD XD XD XD XD
EP1 SPOILER
14:38 Ella es tapada’e mollejón [Aprox. Translation: She is a very dense blockhead]. I am the first to recognize how important money is, but also is quality time. If she has to go, she has to go… but please be more civil and spend your time with your beloved wisely. Quality time.
EP1 SPOILER
Little Flashback at around 23:00. That is how memory works. The retrospection suddenly pulls you away from the task at hand.
EP1 SPOILER
He knows her to the last detail. It makes her loss even worse as a companionship with that quality is really hard to find.
NOT SPOILERS: BEWARE THERE IS A FINAL SHOT AFTER CREDITS!!! 🙂
Hi @FGB and everyone watching,
My first impressions of Ep 1 is that the colour is more washed out than expected for all timelines. It took me a second viewing to see if at a glance I could tell if I was watching 2019-2023 (does it say anywhere whether we are in 2019 like in the Taiwan adaptation or are in in 2023?), the previous year or 1998. There was a slight difference in lighting for the previous year and 20 years in the past. Transition between last year and current year was not so obvious.
The set up was good, including more elements of Jun Hee’s and Yeon Jun’s dating life. Yes, @FGB, seen from hindsight, it was a pity that Jun Hee placed more importance on getting on in her career. However in reality, she had a point. Many couples who marry without first saving and having a steady income do suffer problems with money problems that affect their marriage.
However we understand the extent of her regret. She did not realise that those times were the last few she would have with Yeon Jun, and she opted for her career. I assume it was because Yeon Jun flew to be with her that he died in the plane crash.
As before, I like the elements of great longing and of mystery. Someone is remembering her birthday and she cannot get to see that person’s face as yet.
Thanks @FGB for the heads-up on the epilogue. I’m wondering if the old car is going to play a role. It’s intermittent starting possibly reflects their relationship. 🙂
More later…
I have watched the original Taiwanese version’s 3 episodes before I started on the first episode of the Korean version. Listened to Avenue X review on it of the from 3 years ago (with some spoilers in there) and have a vague idea and premise of the plot story of this drama.
I am loving the Korean version one so far. That scene as they were riding the scooter to school along the cherry blossom trees 🌸…plus the BGM, it is so pretty!!
@FGB, on ML knowing her to the last detail. I wonder if he is too good to be true. He is so attentive, sometimes it seemed as if he is the clingy one and she the practical one.
*spoiler*
But with the hindsight of the story, I am understanding where he comes from and why he is so clingy.
Btw, in episode 1, there was a science lab lesson on reduction and oxidation.
I don’t quite like this part of chemistry, it makes me so confused! So I think this time story is also going to be like that, confusing me! 😛
“If a molecule receives oxygen, that is called oxidation.”
“When a molecule loses oxygen, that’s called reduction, right?”
“Then, if a molecule loses hydrogen, is that called oxidation or reduction?” (Oxidation)
That means if a molecule gains hydrogen, it is called reduction.
Another student comments in the background as they milled around to do the experiments,
“It’s hard to get oxidation reactions.”
I’m speculating that one of them is oxygen and the other, hydrogen. Then magnesium triggers the loss or gain. The molecule is the original setting/year they are in.
@FGB thanks for the heads up on the epilogue!! I would have totally missed it if I automatically chose to skip to next episode instead of clicking to watch the credits
@grace
Oh dear, your comment makes me feel that I have to rewatch most of “Someday or One Day” LOL. I did rewatch the first, 11th and 13th episodes to remember more but I am blessed with a bad memory so I could have watched and not been spoiled much LOL.
My understanding is that the ML, Yeon Jun is a different person from the 1998 guy, hence that he should be so clingy, I felt was just a Yeon Jun thing. He wanted to be engaged to Jun Hee… when she announced that she was going to be overseas for a year, he might have brought forward his engagement plans. He basically wanted to ‘hold on’ to her before she left. Is that your take on his clinginess too? Or were you thinking that the clingy Yeon Jun is 1998’s Si Heon?
@grace
Interesting thoughts on the analogy of chemical oxidation and reduction. I was never a science student and so am even more in the dark so pardon my so called attempt at chemical analogy below. However you are right about it being an analogy and a very fitting one. The eg. I found mentioned hydrogen instead of oxygen. It also names the compound rather than calls it a generic ‘molecule’ so my rough understanding …
Oxidation and Reduction with respect to Hydrogen Transfer:
Oxidation is the loss of hydrogen.
Reduction is the gain of hydrogen.
In what to me is a complicated chemical explanation about how ethanol can become ethanal, what I gather is that an oxidising agent is required to remove hydrogen from the ethanol. Say acid solution A is used as the oxidising agent … when hydrogen is removed the ethanol would have become ethanal.
However, ethanal can be reduced back to ethanol by adding hydrogen. The reducing agent is not the same as the oxidising agent. Maybe call it sodium solution B.
The different chemical compounds ethanol and ethanal look the same but have different chemical structure and properties.
As we watch we can try and figure out if:
the end result after oxidising ie Ethanal = Han Jun Hee
then is the result after reduction ie Ethanol = Kwon Min Ju
And then we ask what is the oxidising agent?
What about the reducing agent?
Are these agents one and the same?
Of course we’ll be wondering where Koo Yeon Jun/Nam Si Heon come into all this. LOL.
Are we confused yet?
EPISODE 2
I’m taking the show’s current time to be 2023 (and not 2019), because of the new smartphones and technology in use.
Jun Hee’s friend and colleague, Seo Na Eun, calculated that if Jun Hee and Yeon Jun had been together in 1998, they’d only have been 11 years old. So the people in the old photo were definitely not Jun Hee and Yeon Jun. That means So Jun Hee is about 36 years old in 2023, and if the people in the photo were 18 years old and still alive, they’d be 43 years old in 2023. (Did I get the maths right?)
It warms my heart that Yeon Jun befriended Min Ju, and before that, In Kyu, and that basically he continued to be generous and sincere in his regard.
I felt like shaking In Kyu for being so clueless that his friend was trying his best to give him opportunities to get to know the girl he liked. However, he was surprising quick in the uptake to figure out that Min Ju liked Yeon Jun instead of him.
At this stage the oxidising agent seems to be perhaps a combination of several things:
1) the cracked cassette tape player from 1998 playing the song, ‘Tears’ by Seo Ji Won.
2)The message written in it by Min Ju to Si Heon which is suitably significant since it speaks of transport/movement: “I hope this music transports you to your happiest moment.”
3) a devout wish by Jun Hee to see Yeon Jun at least once.
Hahaha…I’m confused!
At some point I don’t try to understand this but I just know that there is a taking away and an adding on happening. Also, there is an accelerator aka trigger that gets this going more easily.
I’m going to catch up on old episodes before I watch more of the new. I’m savouring the slowness of A Time Called You. Not speeding it up as I usually would do.
Enjoy yourself @grace! I’m going to make a simple chicken stew, then I’ll be back to watch another episode!
EPISODES 3 and 4
I’m quite entertained. I can’t recall if I found “Someday or One Day” funny from time to time, but I found myself laughing unexpectedly.
I like how the Show adds on mystery upon mystery and does it with such confidence that we know it’s going to pay off when we stay with it until the end.
I’m on Episode 6 of Someday or One day, and will start episode 2 throughout Sunday. Got lots of things going on tomorrow. So I won’t get any chance for watching more beyond episode 2.
Just saying that I love the details the Korean version has.
– The jewellery box is so pretty and heartfelt, that secret compartment for the ring, so special!
– the peonies that he gives her will be a theme isn’t it? It looks like the flower on the jewellery box
– the painting of the girl running through the rows of trees
I started to watch this and got surprised that all eps dropped! My initial comments will be a bit superficial. First, music plays a big part of this drama and so far, I’m not feeling the OST. Compared to Someday One Day, the songs have more pull and memorable, even the time-machine trigger song (tbh, at some point that song became annoying to me but it’s served its purpose – you know it’s happening when it plays).
The kdrama version is pretty – the cherry blossoms as they rode their motorbikes, I wonder if it’s CGI or the real thing really looks like that. The aesthetics and color may be better than the Tdrama.
Last item: hairstyles – it can get confusing sometimes. 1998 ML has bangs, when 2023 ML time travels to the past, she ties her hair to a half pony. This is similar to how they did it in the Tdrama also.
@grace since you’re watching the Taiwanese and Korean version side by side, so to speak, then you will remember better.
Did SOOD give the ML a job as a carpenter and an artist? The beautiful jewellery box only appears in ATCY, I believe. I don’t recall the ML painting or making anything.
@Janey,… I also was comparing the 2 shows, but I try not to do it over much and take ATCY on its own merits while I do check on SOOD to see if the main details were/are about the same.
I agree that the OSTs didn’t grab me as much as the simple song in SOOD. I kept expecting to hear the SOOD song.
SOOD – I found the hairstyle/wig on Yu Xuan/Yun Ru really did not flatter her so much of the time. I know there were viewers who could not be convinced that the boys would have been attracted to her for her looks. At that time, she hardly spoke or even looked anyone in the eye, it was hard to imagine someone crushing on her.
It’s more convincing in ATCY, since although she’s made to look simpler and plainer, the FL is still sweet-looking both as Jun Hee and as Min Ju.
To some extent the scene transitions to past times is not immediately clear in ATCY. There is not enough or no change in lighting/colour… but yes the hair styles of the actors tell us when we are.
So far I found ATCY pretty close to the original, even in terms of flashbacks and when they are inserted.
Dear @GB and @Grace, so far I am still starting Episode 2.
Still EP 1:
For some reason after watching the car snippet at the end of the episode it made me remember “Grace no rireki” (you could check it out, dear @Grace). Cars can also be symbols. For me it was a comfort car with a long history with him that even if it had its idiosyncrasies it was still functional. That means that their relationship had also a strong and deep connection and her quirks just made him bond to her more as he found her comfortable and adorable.
Also he was a person that was easy to please. He didn’t ask for much in the material realm.
Now finally getting to EP 2:
After that first scene it made me realize that she was the cinderella of her own home. She maybe dreamed to have enough money to hire someone to do those chores. And thus she wanted to get a good savings in her account.
Where can I watch the Taiwanese version?, it is unsubbed on WatchAsian and Viki does not have it…
Hi @FGB, for the English Subbed Taiwanese version try if you can access
https://dramanice.la/drama/some-day-or-one-day-detail
The car struck me the same way after watching Grace no Rireki LOL. I was thinking that their relationship had difficulties like how the car sometimes would not start, but that ultimately it would roar back into life and get going. Also it represented what the FL could not let go of. She refused to let go of her hopes that ML would return, and she kept driving the car even when it was intermittently unable to start.
‘Someday or One Day’ – I read the Wikipedia article and the blurb for the book that came out based on the show.
Wiki says: “The screenwriters expressed in an interview that they like to challenge themselves with topics that others dare not write about. Although Someday Or One Day contains elements of romance, time travel, and mystery, the real subject is adolescent identity. Lin said that each of the three young protagonists has some special trait, but they are unable to take their traits seriously. She stated that the troubles of adolescents are easily overlooked by others who think they are too young to have real worries, but that the problem is very serious in reality. The importance of feelings and self-expression inspired the choices throughout the series. One notable episode illustrates the toll of grief and the writers state “If you can’t understand that kind of sadness as a screenwriter, you will never write a good script.” ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_or_One_Day
The book blurb is more shallow: “It is a story about love and also a story of looking for oneself. After reading the book, you will believe you are unique no matter who you are.” https://www.amazon.com/Someday-One-Chinese-Jian-Qifeng/dp/721309694X
I feel that Show also had a deeper message about the need to unselfishly, sacrificially, let go of the ‘wrong’ things one clings to, so that the right circumstances and the rights of others can be re-established. Ultimately the 3 main protagonists and even the side characters, were challenged to put others first.
Thanks for the link!!! 😀
Finished the second episode at midnight yesterday. The scenes where the FL speaks to her boyfriend about her grief only to realize she has been talking to an empty chair made me very sad. It was beautifully done.
@FGB, yes I will watch it! Would probably have to wait for this series and Destine with You to finish before I have time to induge in it. Looks like a drama I do not want to speed through.
Thanks @GB for the summary from the various sources. I love how the screenwriters took a story plot and seemed to make it better. These are the screenwriters worth following because they think deeply about their craft and make us reflect deeply about life too.
Will keep a look out on the deeper message you mentioned.
@Janey, @GB on the wig in SOOD, I also find her styling and image very unflattering in her 1998 year. Did they make her look more scrawny and bony? In ATCY, the 1998 her looked really similar to her 2023 her though….the time change is not as obvious.
@Janey, I love the songs in SOOD, but not a fan of the rock songs.(the one she listens from the cassette tape). WuBai the singer for the SOOD cassette tape song [Last Dance], is a very well known rock singer, so I have heard his songs here and there since I was a teen. “Miss You 3000” is my favourite, it has been floating around for 3 years now and I definitely heard it on the radio from my side of the world, the original is 77m views on YT! Love the “Someday or One Day”too. Maybe we haven’t heard the OSTs of the ATCY enough…
EP3
Maybe the tame friend is the culprit???. Seems like a red herring to me 😉 . The color palette from the late 90’s seems subdued compare to 2023. It makes me think that it is an imaginary realm indeed.
Just popping in to say that once I got into the story, I am really enjoying this version. My only quibble(s) would be the music. I think the Taiwanese version had a superior soundtrack with edgier more interesting songs. This is all mellow ballads. Some of the romantic dialogue from ML as a high schooler is a bit cheesy.
The FL had to talk to a ghost in Be Melodramatic as well! I think the SML carries this drama in the sense of if he wasn’t so good at playing the straight man none of this would work so well.
MJ being trapped in the basement/dungeon place is pretty dreadful while her body is basically a host. There are some ethics there that I can’t quite get my arms around. Since this is all being done involuntarily- I guess no one can be blamed …yet.
@grace @Good Twin
I notice that the ending credits song or instrumentals sound different at different episodes. So there should be a few more instrumental pieces. I agree that the songs are not quite that catchy. Maybe ‘Melody’ might become a bit of an earworm, but generally I find the songs more easy-listening sentimental music than OSTs to accompany the action. However since many scenes are the sentimental sort, I guess they accompany the sentiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCQRw8_743Y
This video gives us 8 songs. No instrumentals out yet.
= = =
The question of the ethics of body invasion and kicking the host soul/mind out. This is the only drama I remember seeing this version of time jump. It’s only in the past that the host gets trapped in some hidden dungeon of their minds. The person that comes in from the future seems to have no clue what they’ve done for the longest time.
I do wonder why the rightful host does not holler more… make themselves heard… make the current inhabitant soul/mind aware that they are not alone and that they should not be there. I suppose with Min Ju, she’s too often made to be or accepts her role as a doormat and hardly tries to assert herself beyond a couple of shouts. But still … to be trapped for weeks!!!
If I were Jun Hee, I’d get the heebie jeebies when I realise that I was being observed almost every moment by another person!!!
@FGB,
You’ll have to watch more to find out the culprit. It’s complicated.
Yes, there is something unreal about 1998… or maybe about 2023.
Now that I’ve watched enough, I realise what I’ve forgotten and why Yeon Jun was so clingy.
= = =
Back to the Chemistry Analogy
The oxidising agent seems to be the particular song played in a particular tape cassette player. When it is played, particularly in a moving vehicle but even at home or anywhere, and the listener falls asleep, they wake up in the body of the host of 1998.
So far the reducing agent ie what gets Jun Hee to return to her time and body in 2023, is someone waking her up from the sleep. It seems she cannot wake up on her own.
We are left to assume that every hour of sleep in 2023, might be several days in 1998.
We are also left wondering at this stage, if in the interim time when Jun Hee has been awakened in 2023, Min Ju gets to return to her body or not. If she does, her friends and family should feel the difference at once, but no one mentions that she goes back to her old quiet self.
Just finished Episode 1. We see 3 timelines (present day, flashbacks of Jun Hee and Yeon Jun right before his death, and the high school kids from 1998). It can be confusing, but if this drama follows the original, everything should make sense as the story progresses.
My only very minor complaint is that Ahn Hyo Seop and Kang Hoon have almost identical haircuts in the 1998 scenes.
@grace, @Good Twin, @FGB and everyone watching… I bothered at last to look up Seo Ji Won, the singer of the first song featured. I’m sad to find out that he died 27 years ago this year… so the number 27 for the Record Shop comes out already (it will also be mentioned later).
https://www.spotvnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=25393
More sadly, he committed suicide. Now we ask ourselves, the significance of this song and singer association for this drama…
@GB that is so sad and he was so young. I read another article about him and it sounds like his music has been significant and had a resurgence through the years. That it was 27 years ago is also interesting I think it is probably a coincidence but maybe not – perhaps when they were choosing songs this additional fact tipped the scales. I haven’t finished watching – I wonder if they ever discuss the musician as part of the plot.
@Good Twin
NOT REALLY A SPOILER
Much later on we hear the names of artistes/musicians… I thought I heard the names of mostly Western artistes… I should go back and take down their names. They had one thing in common …
So I believe, yes, the musicians were part of the plot as well.
@GoodTwin and @SnowFlower, it is a pleasure to read you!!! 😀
Personally I didn’t know this story until @GB recommended it to me. Since she had been recommending Dramas with the caliber of “One Day Off” and “Three Body” (which I will watch wonderfully slow) to check this story was a no brainer. It was funny because the Taiwanese original was unsubbed in WatchAsian and Viki didn’t carry it, so I couldn’t compare with the original. Thankfully DramaNice carries it.
Ended Episode 4.
Pure Teen Angst from the two boys, so far I don’t get what is happening on the mystery front. My guess is that Second Lead tried to save Female Lead and lost his hearing aid as an accident… or someone is trying to frame him. Female Lead’s bickering with the Male Lead was funny as she missed her lookalike boyfriend to the point of hallucination… but once she gets in front of him again she can barely stand him.
Maybe is that from a 36 year old office lady a 18 years old schoolboy is basically a puppy that talks?.
Maybe that is why this adaptation is called “A Time Called You”. The synchronicities needed for a couple to get attracted to each other needs to staggeringly pile up. A little ingredient off and you get relegated to the friendzone dump.
Hi @FGB, there are more than just a couple of things going on of course.
– How and why is Jun Hee in Min Ju’s body.
– Who is Si Heon who looks and has traits that are the same as Yeon Jun’s.
– Why is time traveling happening at all.
– As if all that’s not enough, there’s a criminal loose and Show is not revealing enough yet for us to make good guesses.
The Title is one of those multi-interpretation type phrases.
A Time Called You.
As in the case of naming: Someone is called ‘Time’ (as if Time is a name) or ‘Time’ is named ‘You’.
As in the case of an invitation: ‘Time’ (personified) has called someone in particular: there is a moment in time that is calling/inviting/pulling someone/some persons to come to that time for a reason.
Dear @GB, as much as I like the Idea of a Personal God, I am also aware that He is a Gentleman. He gives us His Love to us all, and one of the oh so Many Facets of that Love is our lifetimes and all the people living at the same time.
Will eventually develop more ideas in the next post 😉
I’m on episode 4 now and watching two versions is getting me a little confused :😵💫
So from now on, I will just focus on ATCY. Also, after watching 2 versions side by side I have found ATCY to follow SOOD quite closely with some minor changes, which I don’t think is big enough to change the story significantly.
(ie.In SOOD, When FL was going to the cafe with her friend, she spotted ML from the bus and chased him to the cafe. In ATCY, FL wakes up from her dream in her long bus journey and spots ML and chases him to the cafe.)
I like some of the additions in ATCY, especially how they deliberately puts in the classroom lessons to bring out some ideas in an obvious yet not obvious way.
This was in episode 3.
“There are two theories to social change. One is evolutionary, the other is cyclical.
In the evolutionary theory, society progresses in one direction. Civilizations continue to rise and fall. They rise and fall like this. Rise and fall.
Now again, the evolutionary theory is about progression and development, while the cyclical theory is about rise and fall. This is important. It’ll be in your next exam.”
Now how does this relate to our characters? During the lesson Siheon was on SiHeon was writing YeonJun’s name on the book.
When we think of time, it progresss in one direction. However, that lesson was inviting to think of time as cyclical. Then again, they defined it as rise and fall, not round and round. Which means, does it mean that someone dies for someone to be alive again? Will it be like that for future episodes?
(I’m not there at the story yet so I am withholding reading your analysis for future episodes at Thai point.)
@GoodTwin, @GB
On kicking the body out. It helps for viewers to get a grasp of where the 1998 FL went to. It is closing that logic loop. Does it come to a closure in later episodes on this transition space? After all this moving in and out of time is involuntary.
@GB, yeah! the title A Time Called You can be read differently. So cool! Love that play on words.
Also why was Yeon Jun hesitant in picking up the phone and not telling her. What secret is he keeping. Do you mean that the YJ she saw is the 1998 guy that “died” in the accident and this YJ is the one from 1998.
Just thinking out loud but I guess later episodes will reveal that.
Somehow it would have been more exciting if they dropped the episodes bit by bit so we can stew on the story longer 😅
Hi bitches, This drama is so confusing to me. I can’t seem to make sense of it. Started it and watched the last episode. Will come back and watch it and read your comment – so I am able to understand. I usually don’t like time travel, but wanted to watch it because of the male lead.
Hi @grace, do I hear your inner (and outer) teacher speaking? 🧐🤓😆 Yes the social change theory was also something that seemed like an Easter Egg, but I was thinking just the Chemistry analogy was enough to blow minds LOL.
I agree that I’d have preferred if the episodes dropped maybe 2 or 4 at a time and not all 12 at once. I just noticed yesterday that ALL the Someday or One Day episodes have reappeared in Dramanice (again) as the top listed and first Show featured in their homepage. I didn’t recall that there were over 20 episodes!!! I think I had them as only 13 episodes but they look like the same show, without extras (not that I had time to watch more than bits and pieces). And each episode is also long … an hour or so each. So I’m puzzled.
You’ll have to watch slowly to enjoy the suspense. Who’s whom and why do they do the things they do. It becomes clear in the 2nd half to last third of the series. 🙂
Hi there @angelwingssf, I know how you feel. I felt that way more than once. Even upon rewatch, since I’d forgotten crucial stuff, I was puzzled all over again. Stuff gets cleared up slowly later.
At this stage we are slowly becoming aware that there is not only a time jump but a soul displacement going on, except that the FL is unaware of what she’s doing when she inadvertently jumped into Min Ju’s body.
If you watched the last episode, you should have got a hazy idea of what was happening but maybe you don’t quite know why.
@angelwingssf, that is the thing about time travel stories. It is painfully confusing, like the oxidation reduction thing for chemistry. I remember we had such long discussions here when we were watching “The King: Eternal Monarch”. That one was a parallel time travel thing. But because they didn’t explain certain things properly, there was so much confusion.
Oooo…I love time travel stories. (Think of “A Wrinkle in Time” & “When You Reach Me” for kid literature) I think a good time travel story is one without the plot holes because it is so easy to miss out something and be lazy and so leave out an explanation for how this or that happened.
Anyone watched “Love in Time” (also titled My Secret Roommate) from 2022? It’s a cdrama that deals with time travel but a very satisfying one, I wasn’t expecting the wrap up and I found it quite a smart one. I cried a lot in this drama though because they tried so hard to prevent the other better half from dying.
@GB, I think the 20 episode site is because they broke it up into 40min episodes. I originally watched that. It did get confusing as I was wondering if I was to watch 2 episodes to coincide with the 1 episode of ATCY. The other subbed site followed the 1hour per episode which coincides just nice with ATCY. So better to watch that version.
@Grace and @GrowingBeautifully – Thank you for your kind words and explanations. I did not watch the King and I either because of time travel too. Soul transfer/ time travel gives me a head rush. I will first read your comments and understand what you guys are talking about before spending any time on it. I saw the last episode and FF quite a bit and understood that once the items were burnt, they went back to their individual times and met after a few years and he recognized her in the end. I will have to rewatch and figure out from your explanations. So, keep the comments coming. I must have dozed off in Chem class – did not get anything with oxidation and reduction. Will go read about it.
@angelwingssf (Can I call you @angelws for short?)
You can probably put your questions down in the next thread for Ep 5-8 so that any explanations won’t be spoilers over here. I’m not promising that we’ll be able to explain anything though! But by Ep 11 and 12, you’ll probably have most of the answers yourself.
However if you need some encouragement to keep up with this time travel show, let us know!