Thanks @pkml3! It’s getting even more interesting, I believe, with a twist.

Hi @Hana, hope to see you next week!

Hi @FF! Glad you can make it!

Yes we start NOW!!!

Hi @WE, Ep 6 is the sad one… with tragedy before it and in it.

@FF, the transmissions were definitely more than 1 minute long… so many pauses in between. Around 3-5 minutes each.

Hi @SD.

We find that first it was HY and now it’s JH who says they shouldn’t have tried to solve the cold cases because something would go wrong. People who should not have died could end up dying in 2015. Ep 6 is the prelude to another one of these situations.

So the question is… should they or shouldn’t they try to change the past so that the future cold cases will not exist?

The human, heavily charged emotional moments are wonderful in this show. The look on Oh’s face, on JH’s face…

What I’ve fully realised only with rewatching and rewatching, is that the past and the future can both change in this series. It’s not only the past changing the future but vice versa too.

@FF, that’s okay… I’ll stick to my more than 1 minute.

Now we have the strange case of the kidnapper leaving the mobile phone for the victim to use.

@FF, it’s not MY one minute. It’s the OFFICIAL one minute, estimated by the best expert about that: the hero of the drama, in an OFFICIAL line of dialogue. 😂

Stress inducing music!!! At least SH pays attention to the words of HY. She heard that Oh is meticulous and wouldn’t make mistakes, but the police need HY to do some profiling to tell them that they are on the wrong track.

Hey, something not related to the drama, but you could help me about that:
If EMPATHY were a color, what color it could be?

BUS Falls and crash. On a part of the bridge falling in water. Will it drown or not?

Mmmh, not sure: Eun-Ji is alive in present time?

@WE, I found the bridge fall and bus falling after it was very well recreated. The bridge didn’t seem to sink so the bus didn’t either.

Colour of empathy… mauve … not as hot as red or pink but not as cool as blue.

@WE, not everything changes. It’s because Eun Ji is still dead that this episode has this twist.

Really all the shit falls on ‘hero from the past”. Damn, I forgot his name now. Every week I forget. T T

@GB I also noticed that the broken section of the bridge didn’t sink. I thought that it is quite possible, but I am amazed at the speed the fireman and paramedics could reach the broken section so soon.

@FF, yes it didn’t occur to me about how fast the rescuers were on the broken part of the bridge.

I was watching this episode earlier and found several ironical things. Will post them at the end of today’s rewatch so that I won’t spoil it for those who are watching for the first time.

KH profiler skills are now usefull, he guess it’s death from fire, and not from cold.

And now the heroine dies.
Really a bad day in Signal.

@WE, this was one of the ironies I was thinking of … Oh’s daughter died of an explosion and because of fire … but he freezes the daughter of Shin in order to get Shin to reach the freezer truck and die a fiery death.

@FF, yes Soo Hyun died.

So quickly they are clearing Soo Hyun’s desk. Just one day later. Even the desk has to disappear.

@WE, yes, it’s a pity if time jump/warp shows don’t make use of their high concept well. Nine: 9 Times Time Travel used it differently but still the hero came back alive.

@GB what? Next week? That is too long a wait, I will continue to watch it tonight.

We see HY trying his best to put SH’s advice into practice. Even crusty Gye Chul takes pity on him and gives him the ‘missing’ file. I wonder if he kept a copy of it all this time and deliberately says someone threw it away… That’s what HY needed to find the common thread that linked the burglar to the cases.

@FF, yes, that’s what I did too. Couldn’t stop at Ep 6!!! Ep 7 onwards are less tragic until we come to nearly the end.

@SD, yeah, GB pointed that just before, but what striked me the first time I watched the drama is how intense it is on emotions. Thanks to lot of close up on characters face, and great background music.

@SD, exactly that is why I try to pre-watch before the re-watch otherwise I cannot make any comment.

@GB, I will look out for that.

I like the intercut of scenes so that when the culprit Han Sae Kyung says “It’s me!” to get the person inside his house to unlock the door for him… it also sounds like he’s admitting that he’s the criminal, in reply to the other scene that came just before.

Hi-5!!! @WE… you and I both pointed out the same “It’s me!” scene for the same reason!

@WE, what makes you think I’m not more crazy than you?

@WE @GB equally insane. haha

LOL @FF, @WE and I have been communicating too much on time travel shows until we are equally warped.

Speaking to @WE’s comment on empathy: you see a lot of it in this episode, but subtly. The way the lab tech guy pats HY on the back and the careful handling of HY at the scene of the freezer truck fire. Even the background extraneous interactions are well done in this drama. And the scene with the mother of SH grieving, crawling on the floor; she loses her slipper, so common in these dramas but just a side-note here, subtly placed for effect, showing her grief, her absolute breakdown.

Only thing I would say to the director is: make the guy have white hair, so we better get the idea he’s present time. It’s ok for this interrogation scene, but before, there were other scenes where it could help.

@SD, Yes I really respect this Show for it’s plot and great balance of intelligent investigating, smart criminals, action, reasonable time switches that bring about logical changes…. AND on top of that, the very good character development, the emotional beats, the development of person-to-person ties and getting us to be so invested in the well-being of our characters.

So now we see how the fingerprints ended up on the mailbox… and just because the brat was annoyed, he pointed the finger at the innocent Oh Kyung Tae. So much tragedy erupted from the brat’s crime and deliberate lie.

HY needs to give JH hope… he does not tell him that the brat is doing very well in 2015.

@WE, re: color for empathy. I originally thought blue. But then I thought ‘No, blue is associated with sorrow or depression or being pensive’; my next thought was yellow, maybe a pale yellow, to symbolize warmth.

@WE, I find that lots of viewers like badly produced shows, so I don’t go by whether I like or dislike. I’m like most viewers… I just watch and enjoy and so I like a show. It was an eye opener to me to see why others said the show that I liked was bad. It made me stop and rethink about what I was liking and whether it was really well made.

Turquoise, mauve, yellow.
My first thought was pink.
Damn, I don’t know what to choose.

@WE, pink and mauve are related. It’s a colour that has to be warmish but not too hot.

@GB, I like to read comments/reviews on MDL. Even bad comments about shows I love. There is bullshit, but also comments that make sens. I already said it, but I think audience feedback is even better than another screenwriter feedback.

@WE, yes, I like the reviews where the writer can back up what they say with the scenes in the show.

I was saying I wanted to post some IRONIES in this episode…
It was an Irony that HY had met Oh Kyung Tae in 2015, after a failed attempt at murder, had gotten info from him that helped to throw light on the burglaries, but then it changes history so that in the new timeline, Oh Kyung Tae succeeds in killing someone who never should have died.

It was an Irony that Oh ends up dying in prison himself before 2015, ‘after he had met HY in the earlier 2015 timeline’. I’m not sure what it was that changed that caused his death though.

Similarly it was an irony that JH had solved the burglary case because Oh had given info to HY, but then Oh still ended up in prison again, a few days after being released. By getting Oh freed from prison, JH had inadvertently gotten another person killed. In Ep 7 the reason Oh is in prison will have changed slightly.

Episode 6 is full of ironies and tragedies.

Have a good week too @WE!