My comments were not going through during the show last week. So I will repost here a post I left after the watch.

My take away is just how good this director is.

@SD I also particularly noted the scene beside the car where the brothers are talking on the phone in split screen. The way the brother huddles against the carcommunicates his despair and pitifulness.

@LL @GB I am not a fan of this actress which maybe why? I forgot all the great kisses.

Because this story is not linear. It is even more confusing sometimes in rewatch. Because I am not sure if a scene has already happened or if I only know about it from previous watches.

So much is going on in the time frame of about an hour while he is in twenty twelve and his brother is out for dinner with his wife and friends , culminating in the scene where sun woo almost kills his brother in anger.

The psy reference was sly. Marks the transition between twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. We can see it playing on the screens in the control room. This was the beginning of the worldwide k pop phenomena.

Spoiler below

We can see in this episode several small moments that herald her remembering her former life. Tears in her eyes when sun woo in bed it’s lovingly looking at her, Saying her last name Joo several times in the car And I think there was another time.

I look forward to tomorrow and remembering what the twist was thatGB Was referring to.

Thanks @pkml3! You’re very early with this post this week???

It feels as if you’re like us over here and are prepping for the Chinese New Year (many things are closed already and things were done/sent out earlier before people took leave).

Tonight the family reunion celebrations take place and most shops will be closed. Nothing much will be open until maybe Sunday or Monday. It feels like you’re also going to be on leave, so you’ve posted this thread early! LOL.

Hi All, I’m here! We start in 1 minute!!

Hi @WE! We can start NOW!!!

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Hi there @MM! Jump right in!

Funeral of the horrid father of our Park Sun Woo. And the guilty parties meet with great nervousness.

@WE, it was supposed to be an accident but they really behave like they committed murder. What they are afraid of is being found out that they hid the fact that they were present.

Hi @MM. Dr. Choi looking a bit discombobulated to find out there is a potential witness. JW’s hands tremble. Even here he is afraid of Dr. Choe.

We find that Choi JC is smart enough, and strangely willing to believe in time travel, if he can put together the things SW’s mum told him and guess that SW’s ability to get the video recordings and be recognised by his mother, meant he was able to meet his mother as an adult, 20 years in the past.

LOL @WE, we need proof that he killed others with bad medicine. Later we will see if he’s able and willing to kill.

@SD, I’m at the point where SW is still treating his niece like his lover… poor girl is the one who is discombobulated!!!

The FL starts to be confused. Had I already said that? I think she has a huch for her dear oncle since a long time. 🙂

I enjoyed the acting of the villain character when you see it dawning on him That here is an opportunity. This may have been in the last episode. hIs facial expression was overacted and it was very amusing

@SD, it’s complicated time travel stuff to write. There is a trigger event in the past. So the person in present wait a variable time (same time than between the time travel and the triggered event). Then FLllluussshhh, all consequences of the trigger comes into place at once, a new life rewritten.

The pure logic (hard sf) would be the change is immediate, but as a high-concept, it’s simpler, and not able to trigger so good emotional scenes than 9.

Damn scene. The poor girl goes into forced mariage because of the cringe initiative of the “maybe-boyfriend”. 😀

@WE that irritating doctor boyfriend of Min Yeong’s is too much in a rush to pin her down in the relationship.

Poor YH. He is so put upon. He has the earliest complete memories of both the past as it was before all the time change and the time changes. And he has to cover for SW constantly (and poorly, Min Young is very good at sussing out the lies).

@WE, I kind of like this time travel travel concept, both for the emotional scenes as you mention, but also as an underlying psychological tension, internal to the characters who realize what is going on, to have to hold all these different times in their minds. I realized later in this show that for each character, as they are aging sequentially, the memories are also sequential even when the changes are extreme as they were for YH and SW. But still an interesting idea.

What a farewell phone call that was of SW giving his brother his last will and advice. Touching.

And from a distraught Young Hoon we jump to the past when a happy-go-lucky YH comes to SW’s house to find out that tragedy has struck SW.

Split screen in the present and in the past Young Hoon runs to Sun Woo.

@MM the other actor with obvious facial expressions could be actor Lee Yi Kyung (the young Young Hoon) (and now the horrid husband in Marry My Husband).

I like the way the scene with the young brothers. The actor playing JW does such a good job at displaying his grief at the pain he has caused his younger brother, who believes if he had only gotten there earlier he could have saved his father. JW knows this is not true and his legs start to give out under him. So well done by both actors. Then, quick scene change to the modern day brother signing his resignation letter and hiding it when Min Young pops into his office.

Scene transition: the friend cries in present.
Jump to past: he cries here too.

@WE I love the ending of this episode!!! Best twist EVER!

@GB, it’s close to the level of mariage proposal in MMH. LOL. On the phone. Crazy dude. SJJ has great sens of irony too.

The phone calls between SW and YH are so important … like in Queen In Hyun’s Man!

Such great irony! We we find that the young Yong Hoon goes to SW’s room in 1992 only to find the very thing that can save the young and future Sun Woo, even while in 2012, YH watches SW die!!! But then YH recalls the phone call!

Lot of slllurrrrpp the blood.

@MM, I guess Jung Woo is resigning because his brother knows he had something to do with his father’s death and it will be found out. He is also a drug addict and can’t keep up appearances much longer.

The hero needed Alien Surgeon to survive. 😀

It’s painful to say he’s dead, but she force him to repeat, lol. THen…
sshhshwwlllrlrlrrhppphllppppp moment.

90° shot when he runs in the hospital, ‘coz it’s…
MIND BLOWING !!!!!

Well I’ve finished being mind blown! Bye everyone! See you next week!

@GB I just finished it now. It is the episode that most stands out in my mind When I think about the this drama. The emotional engagement is strong and I really felt the strength of their Friendship.

The juxtaposition of events in twenty twelve and nineteen ninety two was so well done. A seamless narrative covering two timelines.

I had always assumed the brother did not remember the past lives. But in this episode I wondered if he has remembered Other timelines?

About the boyfriend, I think he is mostly there As a plot device for future episodes.

spoiler for future episodes.

I don’t think I had previously thought about how many times he dies in this drama but this is just the first. I think there are at least two more close calls if not actual deaths.

@SD Regarding time travel concepts. I did not understand what you were saying about. As a character ages the memories being sequential or something like that.

I also noted your comment about.
Who remembers the time lines And who does Not. I did not grasp your example of sunwoo not remembering he was operated on.

@MM, The interesting logic about when the memories of 20 years ago kicks in is that although it happened in the past, the 2012 people don’t know it yet, until their time in 2012 hits the exact time of an event 20 years before.

So if Young Hoon found out what glioblastoma was at 2am on 10 May 1992, the memory only comes in at 2am on 10 May in 2012. It’s a strange concept because one would think everything that happened could be remembered in 2012 at any time.

As for the other concept of who remembers what …
Sun Woo managed to avoid the glioblastoma and hence never had the surgery. For his part, it never happened, therefore he cannot ‘remember’ it or that he had died in the 2012 Timeline 1.0. YH being the one who was not affected but who had been aware from early on, becomes the only one who recalls the ‘end’ of 2012 Timeline 1.0.

@MM I’m glad if I was of help and I hope I was accurate in the interpretation of the logic. We have to watch another 11 episodes to see if the logic holds true.

I actually cannot remember the rest of the Show and have to rewatch before the rewatch so that I won’t be dumbfounded all over again! 😉

My pleasure @SD! I hope I was saying what you meant… or rather that our understanding of the logic aligned. 🙂