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@GB, I’m posting this Ep 3 Open Thread early in the event that I’m not back in town by Friday next week. Take care!
Schedule of the rewatch for “365: Repeat the Year”:
Episode 3 on 21 Sept 2024
Episode 4 on 28 Sept 2024
Episode 5 on 5 Oct 2024
Episode 6 on 12 Oct 2024
Episode 7 on 19 Oct 2024
Episode 8 on 26 Oct 2024
Episode 9 on 2 Nov 2024
Episode 10 on 9 Nov 2024
Episode 11 on 16 Nov 2024
Episode 12 on 23 Nov 2024
The usual time:
7:00am PST
10:00am EST
10:00am Caracas
3:00pm London
4:00pm in Paris
5:00pm Athens
10:00pm Singapore
Enjoy the rewatch!
Thanks and safe travels @pkml3! I trust that you’ve beaten Covid and that there are no lingering effects from that tiresome virus.
From not being sure I would like this drama, I am now thoroughly engaged. The only reason I did not continue watching after last Saturday was because I knew it would confuse me. I might watch the next episode befor Saturday though.
I should be there on Saturday but we are celebrating my husband’s and daughter’s birthdays on the 20th in the evening. My daughter was born on my husband’s fortieth birthday. (Makes it easier to remember how old they each are, as I grow older). It is the first time we are celebrating together in about 6 years since my daughter has ben abroad.
All to say I am planning to be there for this upcoming watch party but there is no guarantee!
@MM, we hope to see you then, and may your husband and daughter have a great birthday celebration! 🙂
@WE, some of the instrumental tracks of 365 reminded me of the BGM of another drama, Money Flower (same key, instruments, similar tense mood). I wondered if the same composer wrote music for both dramas. I searched online and found out that it was the same composer!
Have you watched Money Flower? If you are in a mood for a well-executed revenge drama with stellar acting, I recommend it. I even did a piano cover of one of the tracks.
Compare Terminally Ill from 365: Repeat The Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22oaA0yUss4&list=OLAK5uy_ljYnw1Zos2yjjhXAXpetiGvXBQavndEHQ&index=32
to Death Star from Money Flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhirMjYFj8
Composer’s name is Park Se Joon
@SnowFlower: good ear! Making search about musicians is a hell, but I was lucky on this one. Indeed, Park Se-Joon is in the team of musician of 365.
Money Flower is on my endless list of dramas to watch. 😉
Hi @WE, we start in 1 minute!
We start NOW!!! There’s a nice long recap of the previous episodes to begin with.
Hi GB
Great to see you @WE! The starting recap is so long…
Yeah, I’m in the recap.
As I rewatched the whole drama last month, it’s enough fresh in my memory.
In this show I find that Heong Ju hardly does any police work that he’s been assigned. He seems to be only investigating Resetters’ issues. He did not even know that his team had gone out to the crime scene.
Down the stairs, the dead wife.
Hm, she was a reseter, isn’t it?
I find it strange that despite watching it again and again, I don’t retain what’s happening for “365”.
When I see this part, I cannot understand how come the killer knew the victim, Seo Yeon Soo, at this stage to know how to find her and kill her. I cannot figure out how at this early stage the killer already was on the scene of the Resetters.
Hi @WE and @MM
Hm. I don’t have a recap. Viki has 24 episodes instead of 12 and the start of this is a video of the runner’s shoes as he runs up a stone stairway. A recap might have been nice as I am a few episodes further along and my memories of who died when are starting to get confused…
@GB, yeah, but script-wize, would we like to waste time on trivial police cop? 😉
@WE, yes Seo Yeon Soo was a Resetter. She wanted to get out of her marriage and chose to reset.
Hi @GB!
Hi @SD, are so you have to watch Episodes 5 and 6.
Yes, I have that problem with this show. I’m trying to keep track of dies when. So far 3 resetters and 1 outsider have died.
@WE, just something HJ’s colleagues should complain about more. But then he seems to be clairvoyant now in bringing in criminals without investigation.
@GB, I have the answer.
SPOILER for other people.
At this time, the killer was just doing is normal killer job, not tracking reseters on purpose. It was part of the fate reproduced each loop when the killer was alive.
@SD, so the group of survivors are trying to make sense of what’s happening and scaring themselves silly LOL.
Hi SD.
@GB, yeah, so he doesn’t need to work a lot, he brings criminal on a silver plate. Free pass for coming late at work. ^^
@WE, however, the ones who get killed were mostly resetters … so were they chosen for the reset because they were killed by the same person?
I forgot to ask.
Did you watch the serie of movies “Final Destination” ?
SPOILER
@GB, yes, Lee Shing chose them all because they were on the killer list. So, Lee Shin just look real events of people killed and says herself: nice, let’s use those people for an experiment about fate.
@WE, you mean the series of movies Final Destination, then 2 and 3 etc? No. but I just read the brief synopses. So people escape death but then get chased by death after that?
I was finishing up the episode N NOW AM ON ROUND 2.
When you mention the killer is this because you know there is one from watching to the end? I have been thinking it is a series of circumstance thT get strung together without there necessarily being one killer.
@WE, Okay, that’s vaguely what I gathered… I just can’t recall when Lee Shin said she chose dead people, but I don’t think she said she chose them who were killed by the same person.
@MM, there might have been a series of strange circumstances as well. There were people who did not reset but who died too.
Had a good celebration of husband and daughter’s birthday?
@MM what minute in the episode are you at now? I’m at timestamp 18:25.
@GB, yes, they are good movie.
First one is a more serious, but after, there is some funny playing about how the deaths happen.
I’ve read a bit the first one screenplay and was surprised about how the start seems long and a bit confusing on paper, but cristal clear and well paced on screen.
Does the cop go to bring in the writer becuase he knows it will happen anyway and it would be better it it is him?
I’m at 19:50
@WE, I should watch those movies. Writing is more difficult than showing what one wants to say.
Hi MM.
I advice you to binge-watch the whole drama if not done. More easy when we comment. Beware, there was lot of spoiler on this thread until now.
@MM, no HJ brought in Ga Yeon because he’s an honest cop.
@WE, I may have to take that advice about binge-watching as well. I am a few episodes ahead, enough to have Lee Shin’s ‘slightly’ macabre mindset revealed, but not much further on. Also it has been a packed week so I have forgotten a log.
@gb Yes lots of fun! good food etc.. Daughter grew up a lot in 6 years. THANK GOODNESS!
only 5 MInUTES in BUT SPEEd WATCHING sINCE i JUST WATCHED IT.
Heheheh! HJ has so much contact with Ga Hyeon that his colleagues think they are dating.
What I like about this show is that there is no need for romance, and they don’t force in a romance.
@SD, no matter how I watch this series, I keep forgetting too. The other thing is that I am tired when I watch and keep falling asleep!!! I missed a lot.
Now he could catch the culcript for car accident, with a final flashback of the scene. It’s the kind of scene with multiple revelations, and each flashback add a new information. héhéhéhé. Nice writing technique.
But after, they don’t know who is the killer of the wife. Just now our manhwa drawer is not a suspect anymore, thanks to many people testimony.
@MM I’m at 27 minutes.
@WE yes it’s fortunate that ‘Maru’ is well known and people can recognise her and give her an alibi.
HJ is so funny, sneaking around his workplace to listen to everything.
@GB, about forgetting the drama.
It’s a critic I made in a previous thread: I find this drama is a bit indistinct about sets and scenes. So, even when the plot progress, we feel like to be in the same continuum. A bit hard to explain.
It’s why I don’t rate the drama higher. It’s not up to the best ones like MOTA. In MOTA you can localize big scenes, in different place. I mean each moment is more distinct and has a strong identity.
This Show is good but something about it that’s a bit unfair to viewers is that things are deliberately hidden so that we go on with insufficient knowledge. Like we don’t know at first who’s watching everyone and reporting to Lee Shin, or what they saw in Jae Young’s phone that got the worried about who would die next.
2GB yES but it felt like he was jumping the gun rather than seeing how things developed.
Good scene with plastic surgeon, thinking he is murdered then that he suicided then he scares us all by suddenly sitting up.
well done scene rousing our suspicions about gamerboy.
@WE, that’s an interesting observation. So this show lacks scene distinction… several scenes merge into a blur after a while.
I’m at the point where Cha shows HJ the photo in the phone showing the order of seating and that looks like the order of people dying. Cha is understandably scared.
Oh, a bit weird here: the gamer kill NPC but they are all still. Not accurate in a video game.
@MM Yes there is a lot of misdirection in this Show, over and over again.
@GB, yes, episodes identity and scene distinction. I observed that in my own writing. I have only few reccurent places, like Oh’s house or Mira’s appartement, but else, places are various. Action shows emblematic catchy scenes with unique elements.
After a while I could observe each of my episode has a strong identity, and you can’t confuse it with another episode.
@WE and @GB, I wonder if the lack of scene distinction was deliberate. It matches the continuous loop, infinity symbol and the continuous resets that Lee Shin has been on. Everything would be blurred if you were the one repeating — is this the same as last time or different —
As an example of drama with low episode distinction: Dong Yi. All happens in the palace, and I had to make a pause half-way because it seems repeatitive, even when plots are differents. The drama is still good, but now I don’t remember a lot. While I have more memory of Empress Ki, using different times and sets, natural landscapes. Specific scenes with identity.
@SD. I think it’s more related to budget.
See here, we have reccurent places:
– Xian institute
– Police station
– FL appartement
– 365 café
Everything else happens in common places, often dark streets. The park offers something a bit different and is welcome.
It’s difficult to pay for a set, just for one wonderful scene. Yet they did it once, in first episode during the limousine scene. And it’s partly why I remember so well this great scene.
@WE I had never that about distinctness of scenes before you mentioned it previously. Good to be aware of how this might hinder or enhance viewing and memory of the drama.
Ah @WE, I see what you mean. I remember the gates to the Xian episode and the interior, very distinctive, and remember the interior of the cafe as well; but I would not be able to place where I was in the drama based on seeing an image of the interior of the Xian episode or of the cafe. Whereas the limousine scene, is beautifully shot and the colors are arresting and the symbolism is all there and then the climax — the limousine goes over the cliff. Impossible to forget.
@MM, me too, I never thought about that. I just noticed it after a time while proofreading my episodes with visuals. Then, I started to notice that in dramas. It’s a discovery I made just by chance.
There are many details we don’t notice but are important. For example, an error I made: introduce too many characters during a short time. You can compare how dramas do that. When you take two dramas with similar thematic (high-society), The Penthouse could introduce characters with perfection, even when they are numerous, while an excellent drama like Sky Castle did it badly during episode 1. There are also clever dramas which don’t introduce all characters in episode 1 and let time to audience to catch them over time.
cute scene where the cop and writer are agreeing to be partners and the dog eems to be agreeing.
@SD, exactly. In limo scene, not only the set is unknow, but there is also what is catchy in the scene. For sure, it’s a very distinctive scene with a strong visual unique identity.
Like a coward, Lee Shin cut off the call.
Ahahaha! But now FL sees something scary: they were all on spying, by someone working for Lee Shin!
It ends on double cliffhanger (almost triple with the revelation).
Someone threatening FL. ML assaulted by someone unknow. There is also the guy in the car? I missed that, who is it?
The guy in the car was totally unrelated to the immediately previous scenes. We are left dangling at this ending and won’t know what’s happening until Ep 4.
I am at the scene where GH and Lee Shin meet at the bottom of the stairs where Seo Yeon Soo fell to her death. It is the first time Lee Shin mentions ‘Fate’ and this time around I recall that we spent quite a bit of time discussing fate vs. karma in our rewatch of Queen In Hyun’s Man. It made me want to go back to the episode where Kim Boong Do describes the difference to Choi Hee Jin.
@GB, well, it was a full impact quadruple cliffhanger. Oooooshhhhh!!!!!
Lee Shin was supposed to be wanting to give them another chance to live, but it seems that she’s playing ‘god’ in how she’s manipulating some things
@GB, well, someone wanting to offer you a reset for free. It sounded like a pact of Faust.
@we i MAY NOT BE ABLE TO STOP HERE today!
Waching the drama now ahead by too much will be confusing because I will not remember what has already happenned and what happens past the current rewatch episode. Sequencing of events in my mind will be totally off.
@WE, I guess it’s because she knows that they would have died that she’s kind of indifferent to their plight now.
Question: how would she know that they died since they did the reset only in Jan 2020 to return to 2019. In order to know this, she would have had to been in 2020 beyond Jan 2020. But her reset only takes her back 365 days. They were all still alive in Jan 2020, so she could not have known that they died?
Anyone know the connection the show is making to Roy Orbison’s (I think) song
@MM since it’s still early afternoon for you, you can continue to watch the next episode. I’m falling asleep!!
@MM, maybe @WE or @Snow Flower can answer you about the song. When does it play? What timestamp?
I guess I’ll have to ask my question again… going to sleep now.
Bye @MM and everyone!!
@MM is that the song at the very beginning? As the jogger is running up the stone steps?
yes I think it might also be at the beginning of some or all episodes.
Thenk you @GB and everyone for another great rewatch.
I have been wondering when the cop will get himself in too deep and begin to look guilty of something himself and that may be coming up.
@GB, answer to your question: SPOILER
When the drama start, all characters are alive. Why? Because Lee Shin changed the past in this loop, so they can live, and so, they can enter the new loop. But before, she lived in another loop where they all die. It’s why she knows their fate.
Another thing. It seems to me that for all the resetters their morals are a little off. GH just yanks the lock off the door and enters Bae Jung Tae’s residence to get a closer look at the photo she sees lying on the floor. I wonder if she would have done that before or if the knowledge that they all share this common twisting of time, of the ‘true’ version of reality gives tacit permission to disobey common societal norms, at least in their minds. Or, if all of them were slightly or more than slightly likely to be that way in the beginning. Perhaps not the security guard, although honestly I do not remember now, but the Gamer and GH with her heavy handed drawings of gory death, the lax HJ prior to reset, SYS who gravely injured GH but did not report it, the scammer stock broker, and of course GJT. And then Lee Shin who has reset so many times she is like a mini god, but one without morals; an amoral god who wants to play and ‘see what happens’
@GB, SPOILER
I complete my comment:
I give number to loops but we know there are even more before. So Loop 1 here could be several loops before or even many loops where she observes the same events.
– Loop 1. Lee Shin live a loop where they all die. She discover why after X loops.
– Loop 2. She changes the past at the beggining of this loop. So they survive, Drama starts and she can propose them to reset at then end of the loop.
– Loop 3. It’s the loop we are watching in the drama.
@MM, I think the Roy Orbison song is played again in a later episode. It is connected to the killer.
I have to go now. Have a good week everybody!
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@WE Maybe the bigger picture is more important than the sequencing of events.So I may continue watching a head. When all episodes are fresh then it is difficult to go back and unknow what one has just watched.
Hello Snowflower,
We seem to have some interests in common -music and historical references.
Are you on MDL? I am but I have a different handle there.