Thanks @pkml3!

Hi @MM, I’m glad that our discussions on time travel have contributed to your viewing pleasure of other time-travel shows.

I’m also going back in time to Episode 6 here… because as we start Episode 7, we find that we are only just ending the theme of last week’s episode ie “City of the Blind(s)”.

I was thinking about how the prosecution team had become ‘blind’ over the Killer Kang case. Also the concept of another way to interpret the overall title ‘While You Were Sleeping’ of how although the prosecutors were physically awake, they were professionally asleep and let Lee Yu Beom trample on their ‘sure-win’ prosecution.

I felt that the title: “City of the Blind(s)” is a play on the HG Wells short story ‘The Country of the Blind.” From ChatGPT… “ The saying “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” gets challenged in the story because the sighted man is not treated as superior. He thought in his arrogance that he’d have the upper hand but found to his chagrin that the opposite was true. This was the case for the Prosection Team (sans JC).

ChatGPT again: “It’s a reflection on perception, normality, and human pride.” I felt that all this came up in Episodes 5-7.

The Pros Team had been blinded by their complacency and perception that the case was obvious and normal. In the normal way, with the confession by Kang and the obvious accident it was supposed to be 99% a sure-win for them. The pride/arrogance part was mostly Pros Shin being unhappy that as the sunbae she had to listen to hoobae JC. She was also too proud to admit that she was in the wrong as well for taking more care in the investigation, to go beyond what Pros Lee had reported.

Anyway, they had been blinded to the facts that pointed to the case not being normal after all. There had been abnormality in the lack of profuse bleeding if the victim had died in the accident, and the colour of blood had been wrong.

So we enter Ep 7 which is called “A Secret That Cannot Be Told”, however I call it the ‘Blame Game’ episode. Either the characters blame themselves or they blame others for the mistakes made since Episodes 5 and 6. LOL

Looking forward to tomorrow’s episode with you all!

I rewatched last night although I was dozing in parts.

I’ve lost track. Is it nine a m or ten a m on the east coast?

Hi All! I’m around but I have some ‘work’ of sorts to look through. I’ll be back soon!

@WE Congratulations on completing “W Four Worlds”!!! What a wonderful accomplishment! Your dedication and persistence are inspiring! Let us read it soon!

Hi here.

Hi @WE! A very stressful beginning of episode!!!

The run against time to save HJ and the cafe girl.

I am here

Hi @MM! I started 2 minutes earlier and am at the hospital with Woo Tak.

@WE, you’re getting me excited to read your work. Tidy it up and let us have it!!

Hi IF, MM, FF.

Ostrich legs are a good description😄

I like the little theme about heroism. Who’s the hero. It isnt such a big deal, between friends…

@GB. Yeah! I have 3 faithfull readers, a bit frustrated because it took long to end. I thank them because their support helped me to keep motivation, even if the core motivation just come from a story wanting to be told (and more precisely, brandishing a gun on my head “write me or…”.

So, now I prefer to say: “wait a bit: I’ll fix also early stuff, and add images to episodes missing it”. I’ll just doing the perfect stuff before, to make what was always my goal: make the reading as enjoyable as possible, with the feeling to watch it on TV. More easy to read than any screenplay or novel. I think kdrama audience want to watch a drama, not bother at reading fanfic stuff.

Hi @IB!

We come to the scene where JC is on the couch waiting to see the news with HJ reporting and about the Killer Kang case… but instead of being similar to his dream, it’s different. The person beside him is not Hong Joo but his brother.

A hark back to the scene last ep where he was hugging his brother, dreaming that he was having his head on HJ’s shoulder.

@WE, that’s true. I’d rather ‘watch’ than read.

@MM, I was amused by WT’s comment on feeling all weak when stabbed. It’s a meta on dramas with violence in it.

@FF, Yes, I do pause the drama too from time to time.

That’s why I started a couple of minutes earlier.

The actor playing joy is perfect for making this even funnier, About how he can only do two steps when the hero can do four.

Actor Kim Won Hae plays Choi. I like him most in this show. He’s been in so many shows playing the invaluable supporting roles.

Then, not “fast paced” but “every moment counts”, what is different from slow paced dramas with “fillers”, or feeling of fillers. I don’t say which ones, as it could create some useless arguments, but people who know me know. AHaHAHhaHAHhAHHA (diabolic laughing).

We find that JC gives HJ advice about not crying over spilt milk and that advice came from the police ahjusshi who had worked with JC’s dad.

It’s such an irony that this ahjusshi who gave the good advice, did not really take it himself. IE, all his life he tried to make up for something that was not even his fault.

Pro Shin is such a thoroughly unpleasant character. She cries alone, has isolated herself and the the quote about how to make up for a mistake plays over her scene, being said to HJ by JC. Originating from Choi….

@WE I find I Hear Your Voice easier. lol

@WE, yes that’s the phrase that I am looking for EVERY MOMENT COUNTS!

The battle is on for the girl. Pretty boy WT seems altruistic from afar (poem). But silly jealous JC. She has already made her choice.

Ah. Now the girl could see SML almost naked. It continues to annoy JC with the maybe love triangle. But at this point, I don’t think we can trust a love triangle in this.

@WE, this is one rare show where the love triangle that should be is deflected by a corner of the triangle so that there isn’t a love triangle.

Ah now the almost kiss that wasn’t.

Is WT trying to match make JC and HJ? He seems to be interested in HJ too.

@IB, the penguin and HJ really do look alike in some ways LOL. The penguin only turned up once later did not think it too ubiquitous.

Now the kiss that really was… and we have the guy standing there in silent shock instead of the girl. LOL

@FF, I feel that WT knew from the start that he had no chance with HJ and so was the gentleman from the start in choosing not to pursue her. He’s of course sad to not get the girl, but he knows whom she really likes.

LOL JC’s reactions to the peck on the lips.

The definition of “AWKWARD”. In the car.
He can’t kiss her. A serious weirdness here.

BUT: soon after, she replicates.
With a surprise kiss before the door.
Pfewwwwwwwww.

@WE, what made Fashion King such a good watch? Can’t have been the love square?

Ive never understood why he wont spend the compensation money from Choi.

@IB Perhaps he did not really hold the policeman responsible for his dad’s death and did not want the compensation.

Here’s another funny scene with HJ making a fool of herself and refusing to be embarrassed.

@GB, Fashion king is subtility about (mostly) the female lead, with two men. And the “impossible to read” Shin Se Kyung did it wonderfully. It mays seem slow sometimes, but every scene has an impact. I loved this drama.

Back to our watching:
Hey, it’s the “a” cop. Was brother of the military killer. I can’t do anything about that. JC crying and arguing for nothing.
It’s the following of a flashback scene we got before, so we can say it’s “onion flashback” repercuted on more than one episode.

I was wondering if the replated reclaimed river was relatively new in 2016

@FF another funny scene with the totally different tones of voice used by JC and HJ in response to WT leaving HJ’s home.

He lets them drive him home and help with the packing away of food. They see that Cho Hee has returned to work.

The drama (and writet) makes everything so we think the technician is a mad man, and he can’t stand anymore that he has to “put the garbage outside”, and looks like a guy coming back to fix things it shouldn’t. Like in the movie with Jim Carrey “cable guy”.

@FF, I loved it. She’s not expressionless, she does it in a subtle way. She’s so disturbing, she made me feel the situation, but keeping to be “unsure”, just what was needed. There is many scenes when we see she’s not agree, and everything grows up inside her until the end. So, the ending was surprising, but looking back, makes lot of sens. Amazing actress.

@WE, maybe I am superficial. Can’t do any Shin Se Kyung drama.

@FF, I also don’t like to watch Shin Se Kyung. The sight of her rubs me the wrong way.

@FF, to be honest, she had bad luck sometimes, making crappy dramas like “blade man”, and even her acting into this wasn’t good. But as I watched more dramas with her, I like this actress. I know many people don’t like her, but I just compare her acting with the script, and she does it well.

Next, we get in the situation of the technician guy, “as if by chance” is a old friend of our SML cop guy. Then, I’ll need to rewatch what’s come next, because I ended my “rewatching before the rewatch” here.
There is a “secret” no idea what. But looks serious to be a cliffhanger with a mad makjang violin music. LOL.

@WE, the two men are roommate until a year ago.

Bye @GB.

Bye GB and WE.