The thread is open.
6.00am PST
9.00am EST/Canada
10.00am Caracas
2.00pm in London
3.00pm in Paris
4.00pm in Athens
10.00pm in Singapore
It’s hard to believe that this is the last Saturday of the year.
Enjoy the rewatch!
The thread is open.
6.00am PST
9.00am EST/Canada
10.00am Caracas
2.00pm in London
3.00pm in Paris
4.00pm in Athens
10.00pm in Singapore
It’s hard to believe that this is the last Saturday of the year.
Enjoy the rewatch!
My bad, @GB. I’ve been on vacation mode this whole week.
@pm3, aaah thanks! just in time. 😉
Thanks @pkml3! I’m glad you checked your emails in time. We might have used the older thread instead.
I’ve been on sleep mode today… been up since 2.47am. Had to bring my daughter to the airport by 6.00am. My usual schedule is all messed up.
I still wish people a Happy Christmas but they wish me a Happy New Year. 2024 is coming too soon.
Hi @WE! I’ve had something of a long nap in order to stay awake tonight. I like Episode 3 for the revelations of the time jump and the unexpected, suggestive ending.
Hi Everyone, we start around NOW!!!
Greetings! Joining in today as we wind down 2023. ⏳⌛️
@GB, hi!
Hi @LL, I can’t believe that we are almost at the last day of the year!!!
Hi LL.
I started, credits.
And 2012, fire the stick.
Should burn entirely this time?
This is effective use of split screens again with 2 time lines going on concurrently.
@WE, it’s fortunate for SW that the incense did not burn all the way down. One thing is that he can only have control over when he starts the time jump but not when it stops.
Yep, split screen.
I don’t remember there are in W. I need to check.
But with this director, I can imagine.
We get to see the young Park Hyung Shik as teenage Sun Woo. Think this is the first time I saw PHS.
Why the stick didn’t fully burn?
(apart the fact it would end the drama, lol)
@WE Yup, the drama had to make sure the stick didn’t fully burn up in the first 3 episodes or we wouldn’t have gotten the rest of the story.
There was a gust of wind?
But we didn’t see it, just the stick on the ground.
Hello everyone, I am in.
@WE, we saw the make-up assistant take the make-up box. The movement of the box (caused some wind) made the stick sway. It stopped burning when it fell.
Hi @FF! Glad you can make it. We’re at 10 minutes into the show now.
Fortunately for SW, he has his friend to vouch for him so that he knows he’s not crazy or that the brain tumour is acting up and giving him delusions.
We find that the memories become formed in their minds in the present, when it was only a few minutes previously that adult SW had made the changes in the past, of 20 years ago.
Hi FF.
Now he have a proof it’s time travel because he gets a memory from himself.
And doesn’t burn again the stick.
How the memories are kept for other people.
I’m not sure. I was thinking it’s because they touch a stick. But could be just when they get a proof that time travel exist.
Teenage SW never gets to tell his brother about the weird phone call from himself in the future.
Hi @GB, yeah I will watch at my pace only a few minutes behind you. No worries.
Surprised Sun Woo lit incense so close to his need to anchor in 10 minutes, especially after the upheaval his previous day’s broadcast caused.
@WE, it’s because he really changed things by appearing in the past that the memories capture his presence in the past. It was such good logical sense, I was blown away by this and liked this show for it.
Also for the fact that the things he did had repercussions on the future-present.
Flashback. Now he understand the words of this brother.
@GB, sure it’s more exciting than the drama where heroine goes in Joseon episode one, and come back present in the last episode. 🙂
@LL, yes, me too… he was careless.
Min Young now sees Sun Woo has arrived in Nepal.
“I pity you, so I’ll take you back”.
Good teasing messages.
@WE, which show had a heroine going into Joseon in Ep 1 that you’re referring to?
@WE, MY was trying to fulfill SW’s last wishes to be silly and brighten his last days for him.
Hi @WE.
Now Sun Woo realized that he time travelled but he thought of lighting the incense again without knowing how to come back to present time or rather without control of his return? So impulsive yet so unlike his personality.
Director have lot of fun.
Not only split screen, but sliding ones.
SW is calling the incense stick a time machine. The backstory tells us what his brother had been doing before he died. He wanted to get the incense sticks to change his present.
@GB, tons of shows, with hero, heroine.
Moon lovers, doctor Jin, Rooftop prince (well, it’s people of joseon going into present). But you get the concept. Ep1, travel. Last ep, travel. No more.
Sun Woo read his brother’s note book and found that “he” left 9 incense behind. I wonder who is “he”.
Quite classic now with SJJ.
We see him looking for the refuge but don’t know why. Then, Flashback about the story of 9 sticks and where they are.
Now much tension… he has only 10 minutes to retrieve incense sticks that he only heard about but has no proof exists. He cannot even see the guest house in his present but he fortunately is in the right spot to appear on the grounds (luckily not buried in the foundation!!) of the guesthouse of the past.
At 15 minutes with split screen old SW looks at 1992 notebook while young SW writes in notebook. Thanks to these rewatches ive learned that this technique is especially effective in time travel dramas. Later on in this episode we see a triple screen and sequential screens like a reel.
@FF, we are never told how his brother found that man sho told him about the incense sticks.
The sliding screens are fun to watch. It is like those PPt presentations where the presenter transit to the next slide by sliding the slide sideways, apple books too slide sideways to move the page.
The scene of the incense retrieval is the most exciting in a long time! He catches the incense just in time and brings it back to his current time line. He didn’t even know for sure that the sticks were in the container.
Now the suspens scene where he takes the sticks.
It looks like a bit useless, as we guess he will succed. But I was thinking it still needs some tension and show the hero determination to find them at any cost.
It ends with him catching the stick in full flight. Remember QIHM? We get the same catch in flight about the talisman.
@WE, ah, I didn’t recall it until you mentioned the full flight catching of the time travel talismans and landing in the ‘right’ time.
Seems like MY is playing along in Ep 3 what SW proposed in Ep 1. She’s determined to grant him his last wishes.
The scene where Sun Woo walks on the bridge to the lodge, his image changes to the brother and then back to Sun Woo effective tells me that he is retracing his brother’s path.
@FF, yes this production is good for Show, not Tell. I’ve been watching shows that do more exposition than showing, so I appreciate this.
She goes into his room.
So it will be a bed scene?
The netlix version is messed up, they removed any picture of “bodyguard”, to prevent copyright issues maybe. What’s weird, the drama didn’t have the problem when it aired in SK.
I am watching episode 3. But I started late and probably won’t comment until after I have finished this episode. I still have a house full of adult children Who are still snoozing away but maybe up soon.
There we go. He finds a way to make her cry.
That jerk!
Still, kiss her right after. Shame!!! 😀 😀
@WE, the honeymoon scene, SW speaks as if he will live for 3 years instead of 6 months. He has hope that he’ll change his future by going back into the past. He does not commit to receiving chemotherapy.
Hi @MM, sure, no problem. We’ll read you if you comment later!
The writer has a masochistic past with men. 😀
The screen only shows half of Sun Woo’s face at the side of the screen when he is calculating the amount of time he has to time travel. Adds to the stress of watching him. His guide (Sherpa) will panic when he finds Sun Woo missing.
SW came prepared with a closable lamp for the incense stick, so that it would not be blown out too soon.
@GB, I thought SW is quite smart and detailed when he brought the incense in the lamp.
@WE, did SJJ say she had that kind of past with men? All the heroines do cry in her show… but not just because the ML was nasty.
Sun Woo is being irritating again. Don’t make your love one cry please.
@GB, I say that for joking, but yes heroine suffer often because the ML.
While the ML suffer more because his personal problems.
@FF, both SW and MY demonstrated their reporter skills. He figured out what his brother was trying to do and prepared well with that lamp. MY figured out how to find SW by asking the care rental company. A bit of investigative reporting? 🙂
@WE, well that’s true … happened in W, in MOTA, Queen and I…. the FL suffers because of the ML’s actions. It’s always the male protagonist who is getting things done and the FL tags along with what he’s up to… supporting him, etc, and suffering.
I’ve to go. Goodbye everyone!
@GB, yeah but the car rental company gives out their client’s information so easily.
Goodbye @WE and everyone! I need to sleep … been living on nervous energy most of the day without much sleep. See you next week!!
Bye @WE, @GB and everyone else.
I also appreciated this Episode for how the narrative gave us so much information without exposition.
I looked up the bodyguard To see if I could figure out why they are Alluding to this show. No insights.
Sorry guys. I overslept and missed this watch for the second week in a row. I will catch up and promise 🙂 to be there next week.