Hi @pkml3, thanks and I’m glad to see that you’ve found time to watch the episodes and even write your First Impressions.

You’re right about us viewers noticing many clues, hints, etc. The Ep 1 and 2 thread is all fired up and burning brightly.

I took down/transcribed the same notes as yourself (which I did not post) and posted lyrics of 2 of the songs in the Ep 1 & 2 thread.

On our thread:
Impressions of the reasons Mum didn’t want to tell Im Sol who saved her veered not only from saviours telling her to keep it a secret to him being dead.

His expression when on the phone she claimed to not know his name included disappointment that she had forgotten him and treated him only as a fan when he had loved her for so long (and likely been the one to save her).

His shadowed expression on the bridge when she thanked him for everything, and for being alive while she did not say what she thought (ie that he’d given her a reason for living) veered from him being disappointed that she had forgotten the phone call that kept her alive to his not wanting to live anymore.

Thanks for your notes, we’ll have even more fun conjecturing and adding to them!

I noted their perceived age gap too. However, I’m okay with it because 1) her body is indeed 19 years old as indicated by her ability to walk. She’s in school with him.
2) she did not choose to time travel. It happened without her will.
3) she has no mal-intentions. She never planned to fall in love with even a 34 year old SJ, forget a 19 year old teen. This can be felt when she says, “how do I do this? It’ll be hard to convince a 19 year old!” Or “He was so crazy about swimming back then”, or “will I have to keep doing this for 15 years?”
4) they are similar aged in original timeline. Thus, it would be natural for her to imagine him as an equal too. Especially given physically, she’s his age.

Note #3

I agree that it’s hard for people to accept that he choose to end his life. Although, I do not think it’s a murder. I do not think it’s a deliberate suicide either. It could be a consequence of him being unable to pay attention to a cocktail of pills and alcohol. He was ready to do anything to feel less pain and it went all wrong.

I would give them more episodes to shed a light on why SJ chose to live that way. And people do end up taking such dangerous paths. It would be good inquiry into HOW Sun Jae reached at such a dark mental space. Even though it might not be deliberate suicide, he was deeply unhappy and in severe depression.

There is a beautiful piece (by Guardian, UK) called “The mothers of ISIS”. It is an inquiry into why children born in developed countries, in non-islamic households choose to join the organisation. It is an inquiry that the mothers have made into why their sons might have strayed so grossly away from their paths.

It is heartbreaking and I cried while reading it. It’s unimaginable as a parent. “What mistakes did I make that you thought it was fit to kill people?” A mother asks.

Similarly, Sol has travelled to find out the WHY of Sun Jae’s dark mental space and try to keep him on the living side of the bridge the best she can.

She tries to avoid the reasons he might end up that way in T1. He liked swimming. Ok, let’s try to keep him at it. Let’s try to prevent injuries. He might have been lonely. Ok, let’s try to stick to him. Let’s try to protect him. – That’s the way her mindset works at the moment. She’s trying hard to make him smile in a pre-release of ep 3.

“A herculean task of trying to change the trajectory of his life” – the character description of Im Sol mentions. It’d be lovely to see the series of reasons of the WHY. Because only when she knows the why, can she change it.

🍪🍪☕ Thank you so much, @packmule3. As Arihsi said so eloquently, Im Sol has a herculean task ahead of her to change Sun Jae’s life. Perhaps 3 chances, as you suggested. 🙌

I liked that back in 2008 she had a sunny yellow umbrella and his was sky blue. But after his concert his umbrella was black, his car was black, he was dressed all in black.

I too thought that he gave her phone number to the radio host, even if the show perhaps called at random normally. These sorts of talk shows sometimes seem to be ad-libbed, but they are often heavily scripted. His reactions showed that he knew about her compared to everyone else – pity he didn’t know about the consolation gifts in advance.

It’s a funny juxtaposition that in her returned state in T1.1 (@GB’s designations in open thread) she is an older person in a young person’s body, but when they meet on the bridge after the concert (T2), he seems to be much older although we know they are the same age physically. She’s wearing a silly headband like teens do and fangirls over him a bit; he crouches down to speak to her.

I did laugh at his misinterpretation of her 2008 suggestions that he not cross the bridge and the ‘Let’s live together!’ His reaction was a panicky jump into a taxi and dash across that same bridge leaving her bemused that there were taxis crossing to the underworld.

Kalimera @Packmule3!

Thank you for your thoughts. After @Arihsi last night gave us the heads up on the Webtoon’s plot, I have been sad.

For Sun Jae, the whole situation is heartbreaking, a true tragedy I should say. I don’t want to write more, since our conversation is in the main thread.

Let us see how the chakkanim will change some parts of the Webtoon for the Drama.

@Cleo… Oh no ! Please don’t be sad. I’m 100% sure that the drama will do something different because the webtoon isn’t even complete. End of S1 can be considered a climax at best to entice people to continue reading.

What’s more…I’m sure the drama will reward SJ. More so because of the real life fandom of ML continuously lobbying for a happy ending for him. They are all over TvN 🤣

See the video I shared in above comment. It’s very comical and will surely make you smile 😁

@Arihsi,

It is not your fault obviously. It has nothing to do with you.

It is a cruel choice for the chakkanim to take that specific choice.

I find it utterly depressing for a human being to wait for a mirage of love alone and for so long. Even though, this can change in the proceeding Wetboon seasons with different timelines interventions and dimensions. It is cruel and heartbreaking. Hence, I am sad for Sun Jae and the fate his writernim chose for him, so far.

@Arihsi,

My thoughts has to do with being a writer myself or should we say writers are galaxies’ creators itself? I am channeling W: Two Words Apart here, but what what I am going to write down has been presented in several books and movies. Like “The Butterfly Effect” or “The Call”.

When you said that Im Sol was messing with the Universe’s Order, I would like to underline that would be a correct statement,

IF

Im Sol herself wanted to go back in time and she built a time machine to do so.

In this dramaverse, we have the oxymoron that she expressed really hard her wish to save Sun Jae and it actually came true.

So, if a divine power gave her access to go back and save Sun Jae, it also didn’t give her a manual where she was told that if you change something in the present timeline, you will have consequences, like in Twinkling Watermelon.
Obviously, Sol will learned that with the harsh way.

Still, WHO is that Divine Power who permitted Sol’s wish to go back in time and save Sun Jae in the first place?

We have a Divine Power that gave permission to a mere mortal being to act like a Saviour, but at the same time, Sol compromised the World’s order. See, what I am writing here?

For me, this world building doesn’t make sense. What is the meaning of all these?

That the physics laws are working? That Sol being determined to change Sun Jae’s end involuntarily changed Sun Jae’s present and future, by altering his life and making him miserable, because when she returned back to her present SJ had to deal with the Sol of the original timeline who was truly oblivious to what had happened before?

So, we have Sun Jae who is a character with a cruel fate. His cruel fate was chosen by some divine power who is unseen of course, but since this is a world of fiction, his creator is the chakkanim himself / herself.

So, archetypically Sol became a Nemesis to Sun Jae. This is not some kind of love that I would use for any of the characters I would write.

Hence, the reason I am writing these words to you. I cannot accept such kind of twisted love. Mostly because Sun Jae is stripped of his freedom of choice to change his own life, by staying true to a love (?) that is not there at all.

To summarize, the Divine Power in that dramaverse is cruel, by taking away the Freedom of Choice of the people he / she created and making them enter a cycle of timelines and plot twists that one person overpowers the other, while they are “trying to save one another”.

That’s my interpretation of the world the Webtoon chakkanim crafted. 🙂

Kalimesimeri, @Cleopatra. My thoughts are thus: I don’t think this will be a tragedy. Yes, fate in many dramas, literature and real life presents cruel twists. Sometimes if the twists can’t be resolved or the game not won, the result is a tragedy, but I think that we will have a satisfying ending here. I don’t say a universally perfect happy ending, but that there will be resolution.

Thank you so much for you’re impressions. Now I am really convinced.I need to rewatch these two episodes to note everything that has been discussed.

I am wondering if the number three stands for 3 iterations of Sunjae. We have two so far and two watches. I think there will be a third which is the one she will end up with, Hopefully.

Howdy everyone! 👋🏻

I’m happy to say that this is another line, hook and sinker drama for me. 😊 I was laughing in episode 2 especially with Otter, the dog and oh I’ve never smoked, smell my fingers. 😂

KHY is killing it here. She’s awesome. I’ve never watched her before. ☺️ I can totally relate to her being a fan. 😆 @Fern, 🤫

Thank you for your first impressions especially the timeline. 🍧🍧🍧 I think I’ll just sit on the sidelines and read what my classmates are saying. ☺️

I’m liking the songs already too. Looking forward to the next few weeks. 😃

Come to think of it, the drama gods have been good to us.

My goodness @MM, so many thoughts. I had a hard time trying to find and read all the comments. I realise I have failed to see some of them at times.

Yes, I feel it’s totally valid that one good reason for no concerts was the pandemic. It’s surprising that it’s not even mentioned in this show that was recently produced post-covid. Instead we have anti-fans blaming SJ for taking on acting gigs.

I once watched a show knowing that the ML actor in it had died prematurely, not because of suicide but out of the carelessness of organisers who had got him and other actors to do physically stressful activities for a reality show. I was not even a fan, but seeing that lovely looking actor on screen, (for the first time, actually), made me very sad. He was so young, so healthy-looking, such a fine figure of a man… but he had died of heart failure. It was a painful, sad watch for me.

How much more painful if I’d been a fan, or if it had been suicide.

I like your take on the Total Eclipse of the Heart. That is apt that his preoccupation with her eclipsed his ‘sun’. She’s so much smaller in stature but she had bowled him over running to him with her yellow umbrella, and sheltering him. I liked that she’d left her umbrella with him and given him the candies, in pre-compensation for a future bigger delivery. In the future, he had probably delivered himself in time to save her, a much bigger delivery indeed!

Multiple Im Sols
Now that I’ve tossed in the idea of multiple SJs (2?) because of multiple watches, I’ve also to maybe toss in the idea that it’s more likely IS who is the one in multiples. Why? Because we already see that T1 2009-2023 Im Sol does not remember or know of the time jump, whereas SJ does.

My timeline numbering was to differentiate the characters for ease of discussion. From what we see in just 2 episodes, T1 SJ continues on the natural trajectory to meet T2 IM and hence becomes T1.1 SJ. This is the same SJ who calls her in 2009 and sees her on the bridge in 2023. So it’s more likely that there’s only 1 SJ.

On the other hand, because T1 Im Sol bought his watch in 2023, she’s the owner of the watch. It becomes a T2 watch since it brings her back to 2008. So there are 2 iterations of Im Sol, one day apart. And there are 2 iterations of the watch that co-exist! This is a strange logic where the T1 Im Sol who fangirled Tae Sung is suddenly replaced by the T2 Im Sol who wants to save SJ. But the watch does not replace itself!!

The question now is what is happening to T1 Im Sol when T2 Im Sol replaces her?

(Again I go back to Someday or One Day and think how the replaced soul is trapped somewhere in the person, unable to make herself heard).

Are our minds reeling a bit or a lot? 😅🙃🤪🧐 Don’t we love it? 🤔🙄🤭

@GB yes reeling🥺

Yes, indeed @Fern! It’s great that so many friends are gathered here. There will be a generation of more interesting thoughts about this Show!

When Im Sol ran to Sun Jae after the swimming competition, I felt that he was already under stress – between trying to please his father, coach, team, and his own competitive nature vs his injury which was clearly still paining him. It reminded me of some parents I came across when my daughter was in track and field competitions. Another reason I felt this was the actor’s expression when IS clutched onto him and said she was sorry he had been suffering alone. He didn’t act surprised as though she were crazy, but rather as though here finally was someone who understood something about his interior feelings. Also ‘Finally she has noticed me, 😉.’ If her statement were far from true, I think he would have looked more disturbed or disbelieving. Just my own thoughts.

Later when he catches her with his swim uniform it’s clear that he thinks she is trying to mess him up or is somehow deluded. “Why do you need to protect me?” he asks. She can’t answer in a way that will get through to him. In his anger, AJ says her actions are abnormal and weird. But when he gets the phone call from his chingu that the other boys were going to mess with his stuff at the pool, he realises that she told the truth. He see both of their umbrellas in the stand outside their homes, so runs to catch up with her.

Well only 3 days until the next episode airs. I’ll have to wait to see if this becomes more evident or if it’s just my imagination.

Oh what another lovely thread – I tried to write lively but my phone corrected it. The phone knows!

Love all the analysis of “runner” in the title.

I m one of those who resisted the notion of a suicide because I don’t think a kdrama would deal with a suicide in this manner especially involving an idol given the very sad history in the industry. I posited two theories – murder or passing out over the ledge from too many drugs. From later comments from readers of the webtoon/novel – it sounds like it is the latter. Of course there is still the possibility that there is a bad actor either prescribing the medicine or swapping out the pills. We will see. Regardless mental health will be a big theme it seems.

I like that the time travel forces one to really sit back and analyze what is happening. I’m still confused if he fell in love with IM 1.0 or IM 2.0 like in Some Day Or One Day.

Thank you @packmule3 for another great read!

@Good Twin… Ooooo… Pill swap ! An interesting proposition. They give multiple un-missable shots of alcohol+pills so I’m certain that they are the cause. But a pill swap could mean a non-violent murder. It also makes it possible that the incessant door bell is Im Sol trying to prevent him from falling over.

She could also get EMTs in advance. There is a famous thriller by the name “Marker” from Robin Cook. No time travel there but the hero discovers JUST IN TIME why they were unable to revive previous victims with defibrillators (the shock thingy to restart the heart). With his knowledge , he takes a different route to save the heroine and succeeds.

Thus, if Im Sol knows why he passed out and on what pills he overdosed, she can either arrive in time to stop him or arrive with EMTs and they can make better decisions which eventually lead to his survival. Can I kdrama go this why ? Hee hee. Who knows. But definitely it will be Im Sol’s knowledge of events (which the watch wants her to have) that will be pivotal.

She will most likely succeed. Because if she doesn’t, the whole drama will be pointless, isn’t it ? The whole drama is the story of how she’d eventually succeed in preventing his death.

@Arihsi, I feel that you are on the right track. He looked very happy to be part of the boy band in 2009. By 2022 he looked drained by years of stress.

Another gap in the performance times for Eclipse, besides Covid, could have been military enlistment, since all are in their 30s in 2002.

I’m just thinking about some rl groups who all join at the same time (eg The Rose), but in others, each member joins when they can no longer delay enlistment. EXO for example. They started enlistment in May 2019 and the youngest member enlisted last September, so won’t be free until December 2025 (2 years because he’s a social service worker). Of course, if SJ had a very bad shoulder injury, it’s possible that he was exempted from active military service and could have been directed to do other jobs by his company, acting, modeling, whatever. We’ll see if this was the case. –Just possibilities running through my brain.

As to murder, suicide or death by misadventure – I don’t know. Sometimes severely depressed people just do careless things. Their actions don’t follow logic except for their wish to make things feel better for themselves. So he might have combined drugs and alcohol heedlessly without actually meaning to take his own life.

Something I noticed on rewatch is that he has 3 small scars on his left shoulder.I believe. It is mentioned that he has already had surgery for his shoulder And should not be swimming competitively For a period of time… Why on earth his coach is letting him compete is beyond me.

@Good twin Does your phone know just the way those watches know?😁

@Packmule I am thinking that the scene where he is running beside the bus is a metaphor for the Two of them traveling in parallel and in different time lines.

About the color yellow. It is the color of hope. Perhaps SJ Was already feeling some despair when she bounded into his life in a haze of yellow. She was.
Wearing a muted yellow scarf when they encounter each other on the bridge in 2022.

Something I am confused about. Has to do with the call from the radio station.

What does SJ know About her health at that point. If he is T2 SJ Then he would not know about her being in a wheelchair because that is T1 IS.

@monmor a beautiful observation about the colour and associated emotions.

My child has a book on emotions called “The colour monster”. It’s almost a standard textbook for preschool children.

In that book, Yellow 🟡 represents happiness like you mentioned. How beautiful that IS the yellow…

Blue 🔵 represents sadness. When SJ first meets IS on a rainy day, she carries a yellow umbrella but he wears a blue cap. He also carries a blue umbrella. Blue tears are depicted falling into a deep blue lake in the book. Much like how our ML swims. And at the time he dies, he’s wearing a blue shirt.

Undisclosed pains as you note @monmor ? In preview of ep 3, he is sobbing in the locker room.

The colour black ⚫ in the book indicates fear and pain. He wears black after the concert. He wears the same when he goes to see her one last time.

Personally, I can’t equate SJ’s umbrella shade of blue with sadness because it is so vivid, like a blue sky. I thought it matched well with her sunny yellow umbrella. 🌅 (I think I must be a Blue-o-phile.)

But I do understand the usefulness of a book like your daughter’s for preschool children, to help them express their emotions when they may not yet have acquired the vocabulary. A school I worked for had things like emoticons for children to indicate to the teacher how they were feeling and it was useful for most children in the early years groups and for some older children who had less verbal ability.

@monmor, yes to the comments about IS failing to notice someone like SJ in high school. Even if they were in separate school buildings, there would have been a lot of talk about someone so good looking. His height alone would have made him seem remarkable and he was a sports star as well – so he was a triple threat as far as standing out from the crowd.

Now I had better shut up or @packmule will send me to Shallow Island. 🏝️

@Arihsi, only 3 times?

@fern arihsi 😂

I noticed that she just comes up to his lovely guilty collar bone

Ladies and spl note @monmor

After evaluating multiple scenes, I’ve decided that BOTH his shoulders are hurt. I know this sounds crazy but they can’t be THIS inconsistent. The actor will remember which side he wore the brace, the make up artist will remember which side he/she made the scar marks and given he’s shirtless most of the times (spl note @Fern 😛), his co-actors will also remember the scar side and the side of shoulder that he held in pain. They can’t ALL forget!

His surgery side is left. Scars on left side. He clutches it in pain time stamp 32.39 minutes in Episode 2.

He will hurt it badly again eventually.

Time stamp 3.04 minutes here

https://youtu.be/aZ9I0t39Qqg?si=j0dQEh2PkdIMlHO3

However, in the swimming pool entry post time travel timestamp 7.34 minutes Ep 1

He shakes his right hand.

Anand in preview of Ep 3, he’s wearing a relatively lighter brace on RIGHT hand. It doesn’t look so damaged as left in above video.

When he cradles Im Sol on his remaining shoulder (can’t say good), he remarks, It’s a relief one of them (his shoulders) are still functional. It’s a very sweet moment.

Time stamp 0.59 here

https://youtu.be/hJW-rhN5qqA?si=baT-vPkvDC0ZZYfZ

Thus I rest my conclusion. None of his shoulders are really okay no matter how broad or handsome looking.

Dear @Arihsi, I trust you to review the data and submit. I’ll have a look, too. What I remember is the first time we see the brace in episode 1, he was facing us and putting it onto the shoulder on our right/his left. I am watching on Viki.

Medically an injury on one side sometimes contributes to or begins an injury on the opposite side because the patient is compensating with the less injured side.

I was thinking of you when I started reading an article from the Guardian newspaper nearly 2 weeks ago about brain activity at the time of death or near death. This made me think of what might be happening to IS when she is in the icy stream probably experiencing hypothermia. The article might be an interesting read if one isn’t convinced of time travel or teleportation, but might want a more scientific explanation of imagery reported from people who have recovered from near-death experiences. Clearly the research is theoretical and still ongoing.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAs%20she%20died%2C%20Patient%20One's,including%20heightened%20attention%20and%20memory.

I meant, please ignore it if you wish.

@ARIHSI Fern In the preview For episode 3 the brace crosses from 1 arm to the other.So it is on his right shoulder but it is supporting the left arm so indirectly supporting His left shoulder. I had to rewind a few times to see it clearly because it happened really quickly.

@nrllee a wonderful and very relevant point that wasn’t raised before and it’s a subject I did my thesis on.

Allow me to add my two cents please.

There is a concept in research on Depression called Resilience. It refers to one’s ability to mentally take on adverse experiences and emerge unscathed from them.

Resilience and frustration tolerance is what we see here from Im Sol. She looses her ability to walk, her dream, multiple rejections for a job, her grandma is senile, she has no partener annnd she couldn’t see her favourite idol perform, her phone broke and her wheelchair gave up in the middle of a bridge on a snowy day. She STILL enjoys his performance from outside. She still manages to compliment him and go on.

She took multiple major hits and still survived. SJ sure encouraged her on radio but it was I’m Sol’s resilience that saved her.

Now, there are known factors that affect this relience. Interestingly, lots of research to suggest that maternal seperation greatly affects offspring’s ability to take on hits later in life. So do major life events like loss of a partner/child, major illness, food insecurity, wars, divorce etc.

There is a certain genetic component to innate resilience. However, adverse childhood experiences along with maternal seperation are leading in affecting this ability. Again, @monmor where is his mother?

The next concept is of x hits. How much does it take to break one ? This will in turn depend on reliance. Im Sol has taken a LOT and not broken, yet. Sometimes, a hit can be the last straw on the camel’s back. Probably Sun Jae’s death for Im Sol here. But she’s incredibly resilient. The show establishes in Ep 1 itself that she’s suffered a lot and still manages to enjoy the sunshine.

Contd..

Thanks @Arihsi, you made the point very well indeed!

@nrllee, beautifully written. 💖

@Arihsi, yes, I have read a lot about Resilience whilst looking into depression related to adoption. You can imagine that there is a lot of work happening in that area. Good points.

And yes, Im Sol may be inadvertently bringing some of Sun Jae’s problems out into the open with consequences that she didn’t imagine while trying to help. She keeps saying that he’s getting further away from her and that may be the case ultimately.

@Growing Beautifully, I agree with the couple being mutual saviours. The self-destructive thoughts on both sides reminds me a bit of Romeo and Juliet.

Hi @Fern, what a coincidence. Episode 11 of Queen of Tears had Hae In’s Secretary Na calling HI ‘Juliet’ (I guess because of social media comments that she’s dying while being in love). And there was a sweet Romeo doting on Juliet scene LOL.

So even Lovely Runner gives us thoughts of Romeo & Juliet at this same time. How quaint!

@arihsi I did not understand why the staff were blocking her sideways rather than in front of her. Thank you for the insight.

You probably noted that the aquatic center was named after this olympic swimmer.

I am really hoping that this drama will explore celebrity suicide During the episodes that will likely be in the future/present. The setup is so there that it will feel like they are avoiding the subject if it is not explored.

An article I read after a recent k.Pop suicide really drove home for me One of the reasons why this happens in korea. These idols are tasked with representing their country worldwide. It is like an extension of confucian loyalty to parents.

Because of korea’s history, Soft Diplomacy
Has become an important way of asserting the country’s position on the world stage. It has certainly worked As we can testify to.

Perhaps there is more depression in south korea. I think a more important factor probably is the lack of recognition And the shame in Admitting to it and getting treatment.

It is of note in this drama that he was getting treatment So I imagine his Manager would have known that.

@arihsi In the research you have studied is there evidence That parental expectations set high contribute to risk of suicide In offspring. Might be difficult to tease out from lack of parental support.

@nrlee I also appreciated your metaphor of the eclipse and how to survive dark times

Oh another point about where her money comes from. It looks like her brother has good job and lives with Them.

@Monmor lots and lots of data on suicide rates amongst youth and social factors/ race / ethnicity/cultural pressure. SK has one of the worst rates across the world. Their fertility rates are also the least across the world.

About where her money comes from, she works as a YouTube video editor. Her dream is to work as an actual movie editor but her disability is a big obstacle. In Ep 1, the employer liked her work but said, “this building has no lift.”. She can afford expensive Eclipse merchandise because she earns herself along with her brother and mother.

Thank you again for the write ups, BODers!!!

Here are my notes from rewatching. Pardon me if I may be saying something that was already mentioned by others.

Animated intro.
The watch showed initially 2024 (why 2024 when the present that was shown when SJ died was Jan 1, 2023… then does this mean there’s another time travel from 2024?) before doing a countdown to 2008. Assuming this is the first time slip, she went back to June 2008.

I did not realize she traveled almost a year back to the first scene with eclipse (July 22, 2009) and radio show. She kept saying June 2008 was before her accident but that’s a long time gap – either she was in a long coma or the accident that caused her disability happened in 2009. It may be different from the ep2 street crossing that SJ saved her from. There was a memory flashback when that happened. She was wearing a uniform, gash on her cheek (similar to how she looked in the hospital flashback). Note that on ep1 radio show call, she did not have a gash anymore.

Yellow is her favorite color. Her mom said to paint her toenails with her favorite color yellow.

There seems to be guilt on SJ’s face when she said “A gift? can you make me walk again? That’s what I want. If you can’t do that, why call me for nothing?” So that’s why he never contacted her after that? Maybe his dad was involved in the accident?

Javan HS yearbook 2009.

Basic instinct was overdue for a month so SJ started liking her then (May 2, 2008).

SJ POV end of ep2:
He also thought he was dreaming when she hugged him by the pool. She thought she was dreaming, too hence she was so bold in declaring her love to him.

Thanks for the tidbit on the Korean Olympic swimmer. 2008 was Olympic year so they were probably doing some hush-hush practice against other swimmers. Wow, that swimmer still looks so fit after all these years!

@janey I did not catch that 2024 reference. I wonder how that fits into the show.

There is a missing piece in our understanding of the radio exchange. If he is 1.1sj Then he would not know she had lost her ability to walk unless the time he rescued her At the end of episode two was not the time of the first accident And there is another Accident yet to happen. If he is s j one then that is even more confusing but I guess that could be the case. Then he would Likely no about her accident and perhaps have played a role in it. Maybe the s j’s we see In this scene and in the snowy scene on the bridge before he commits suicide are two different versions.