@Pm3. Woo! Just in time, thanks.
I propose you to watch this drama, if you have time.
Because you could be interested by… THE SCREENPLAY !!!
Yep, the real one, not a transcript.
Translated thanks to Grok3 AI. It did it x10 better than dedicated translation softs.

LINK to the 18 episodes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17enIbpi5KOMNiyh48PaKj7kfELo-5fG_/view?usp=sharing

I’ll maybe upload a new version later. I need to check again episodes 5 to 9.
I’ve redone episodes 1-4, I don’t know if there are lot of changes compared to the previous version. It’s just I updated to a better protocol for AI, so I translated them again.

@GB, I don’t take this drama as a legal one, but good feeling one. Yet, it’s true there are regular courtroom scenes. What makes them exceptional is the telepathic power. I liked a lot the court scenes in my first watch. They have suspens, twists, etc. Probably a legal expert could say they are not realistics? I vaguely remember they cite laws used. What I find incredible because the writer needs to be more expert than expected. Or maybe get advice from a legal expert when building the script.

Court cases do something I don’t like however, is the “procedural” feeling. But I don’t remember the legal cases are in the mode “one episode = one case”. It’s more messy and blurry. Mixed with personnal lifes of protagonists (one case is SH friend, another the killer of the drama, another SH himself). Add to that the rivalry of HS and Do-Yeon. Really I don’t feel boredom into this. Some cases deeply impact the philosophy of some characters. I remember a case about Kwan Woo. It’s really something like “I was wrong during all my life”. It then has an impact how he behaves after that.

@MM It’s 8.36 my time now so we’ll start the party in less than 1.5 hours time… if that’s any help! Your time should be 12 hours behind mine so 10am?

@WE, Yes, those are the reasons I like the trials in this Show. I guess @pkml3 is a legal expert herself and cannot bear to see the lack of realism.

The tension and suspense was very well done for each case.

Back here. Hi MM & GB.

I could read half episode 2 script.
Woo! So good to get korean pro-screenplay with enough good translation. When I’ll have time, I’ll redo translation of W or other kdramas.

I am at eighteen minutes. So much fun after reading this script- The scenes are so well done.

I am hoping not to lag so far behind today.

Hi @FF, we missed you last week!

Hi @GB, I fell asleep while waiting for the party to start last week. 😀 I really like this drama, I have watched up to episode 10. It is still so good after so many years.

Hi @SD.

3 minutes Mother and congratulatory flyers and signs-This would be embarrasssing for many daughters. mom says she is proud. HS views it in monetary terms. well done scenes with sparring between mother and daughter.

SB laughs hysterically about the interviewer’s name. Meanwhile her name means nose ( contrast with her calling the bullied girt double nose.)

11 minutes Such great energy when HS is running to thecourthouse. He even kisses the motor cyclist’s helmut.

Jjang means “super”, the whole expression Jjang-byun makes “super-attorney”. 🙂

313:50 Hilarious exchange about her wallet. She deflects from her embarrassment, as she did with her embarrassment about her mother’s way of congratulating her. On top of her embarrassment about the wallet now GW embarrases her again with his comments about her beauty. Lawyer Jjang(perfect) he calls her. Then she embarrasses herself about her neww boss’ denture, which falls to the ground in front of her. 17 minutes She is asked by YC to apologize-seems like a very difficult challenge for her. I only get the significance of the coffee cups now after reading the script-that hers is from a cheap coffee store. When she lickss her thumb defiantly it lookd like an obscene gesture.

Dare I say the che*istr* is really good. So many scenes between different characters are strong.

Haughty Hye Sung always refusing to apologize. Soo Ha feeling excited when he found Hye Sung, preparing his opening line when he meets her.

HS says herself the doomed sentence: “say you made it and apologize”. And it will come back in her face later, as it’s exactly a situation she had to go througth in her past. Somehow, she lost herself with time.

Are you all reading the script? But I can’t open the file from @WE’s link.

I just love how our 2 male protagonists start with idealism. SH imagines HS to be a good attorney who would fight for the underdog. Kwan Woo thinks all poor defendants are truthful and have a good reason for the crimes they committed.

But then they face a total opposite in reality.

I guess HS cynicism is because of how her mother raised her as well as because of the bad experience of being falsely accused and being expelled from school. She’s arrogant and does not seem to be warm or people-oriented at all.

She does not even look at SH who saves her from falling in the bus!

@MM unlike HS who is cynical and jaded already, without interest in her profession, KW is like an idealistic child.

Kwan Woo is simplistic to think that all those whom he defends are kind good soul. But he was a policeman before, why would he still be so naive?

@FF, ah yeah, maybe we got a logical hole about that. And even best, if you are cop, you becomes quickly able to detect liars, because you see so many of them.

@FF How could he have possibly survived as a policeman?

@WE we find out much later why KW wanted to become a lawyer. It was had something to do with the balding Lawyer Shin, with the dentures LOL.

@WE so we understand why SB always had admiration for SH.

Now is the weird part of how the lawyer does not even check the basic facts. His defendants mother died and the police who arrested her were female officers. What a fool he made of himself.

@FF, KW changes over time but it’s hard to fathom how he can be so socially inept or unaware as to not know he’s embarrassing HS in public.

Now the detail she was blonde before even more important. Now she wears the regular uniform of school, with natural brown hair.

HS had to be pushed out of the lift in order for her to meet Do Yeon again. She too never read her notes properly. Do Yeon’s name was on it but she did not know. She got kicked out of school because of DY and she had to be pushed out of the lift to meet her again.

@MM, SH is aboy in love with his ‘idol’. He’s idolised HS so much over the years that he cannot believe she’s the uncaring, unfeeling lawyer Sung Bin says she is.

AAhahah, he grabs her like a bag of potatoes.

I realized that Soo Ha has always spoke to Hye Sung in banmal, casual Korean between friends.

@GB She is his idol.

When she is speaking with her mother on the phone in her apartment and the light comes on because he has fixed it, the symbolism of his being the one to bring safety and light back into her life is apparent.

The scene between SH and Seung Bin at the subway is so well acted. I had to look up their ages. In 2013 both actors are very young, in their teens like the characters they portray.

@GB strangely Hye Song never ask Soo Ha why is he speaking to her in banmal. Usually speaking in banmal to someone who is older/elder is deemed rude in Korean culture. The older person will ask that the younger person speak in formal language.

SH gets hit with the reality of how the law is not as fair as he might have imagined it. It’s not the truth that wins in court but what wins determines the truth. What a blow to his idealism.

Last scene. Why is it so good. Now we can start to answer a bit to that, as we made the analys of first episode of Castaway Diva. It’s because of the resistance to the conclusion. In Castaway Diva, the male lead was like antagonist to female lead, and it’s why when they unite, it’s powerfull. We have same process here. HS didn’t want to plead innocent and was very resistant. And after maaaany scenes that erodes her wrong confidence… we finally get the final twist, she just look at Soo-Ha, asking questions in her mind, and he shakes head “yes”. By the way also a scene using the high-concept. Put the right BGM here, and we get a huge cliffhanger!!!

LOL the judges think that HS is nice but then she starts screeching and stomping as she goes around the turnstile door. Heheheh!

Now we come to the first trial where SH and HS communicate through their eyes and gestures.

@FF. Too little coffee for me today! I am off by a decade. They are in their twenties at the time of filming. Sorry.

@WE, I love the twist. All things pointed one way but with just 1 piece of information, HS turned everything around by pleading Sung Bin’s innocence. I loved how SH smiled at that and the shock on everyone else’s face.

@GB. Yep. Create the opposite direction first, with resistance. And at last moment, inversion!! And with that full powerfull emotion. Well, we just start to understand how writer Park Hye Rhin is so amazing about powerfull emotions in all of her dramas. Just one of my top 5 best korean screenwriter.

Dear All, I am going to zzzzzz but I will read the scripts for the next episode for next week. Thanks to @WE. See you all next week.

Bye @FF

Well , I actually managed to finish more or less with everyone else!

Thank you all and have a good week.

I do love the way that HS uses the revolving doors to think through her moral dilemmas. It gives a visual for ‘going round and round in her mind’, LOL.

@MM yes, HS seems to need an extra push to get her past her fears. When she was a teenager, it was Do Yeon daring her to go to court to testify as witness that got her going. She regretted it like crazy, but she did the right thing. As a result her life would always have 2 additional people coming around: SH and Killer Min.

After this meeting with SH, his presence and his challenges to her lack of care for self/home/others have an impact for the good.

@SD I love those revolving doors also. They play quite an important role too as we’ll see later on. We see the ‘wheels’ in her mind working.

Bye @WE, @SD, @MM. See you next week!