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.

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 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.

Wow! I’m used to 4 episodes dropping but all episodes? Ok! Let’s! 😂

Thanks @grace!

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

He knows her to the last detail. It makes her loss even worse as a companionship with that quality is really hard to find.

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…

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
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?

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.

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 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.

@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.

Where can I watch the Taiwanese version?, it is unsubbed on WatchAsian and Viki does not have it…

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.

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.

@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.

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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!!!

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.

@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.

@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.

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 😉

@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 @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. 🙂

@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.

@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.