@GB,
I’m opening this thread so it’s easier for us to compile the voiceovers and note the progression. Please me your subs if they’re vastly different from the Viki’s sub for comparison. Thanks.
pm3
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Episode 1: Youth, how beautiful (translation from Hitv)
YeongRye’s voiceover at the beginning of the episode:
YeongRye: And that’s how our story begins. We were young, but our lives were exhausting and threadbare. But because we had each other, we shone ever so brightly. The you and me of those radiant days. And…
JaePil’s voiceover at the end of the episode:
JaePil: Back then, there was a thirst inside us that we couldn’t bear unless we ran. Not even knowing what it was we wanted, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to stop. It was like driving with no brakes. And at the end of that road, I met you. And that is how this story begins.
Episode 2: Whatever we become, let’s meet again//Where will we meet again, and what will have become of us?
None.
Episode 3. Fate (translation from Viki) or What kind of fate?
YeongRye’s voiceover at the beginning of the episode.
YeongRye: Jong Hui. Sometimes I regret that day. What if we hadn’t gone to the meeting that day? If three coincidences happen, they call it fate. What if I hadn’t held on to my trembling heart, believing that perhaps this person might be my destiny? If fate’s arrow had ultimately left a scar on me that day, and if I had realized that it would cast me into an unexpected storm, then how might things have unfolded?
YeongRye’s 1st voiceover while at the hospital: (Thanks, @GB)
YeongRye: Jung Hui, it was three times. Not just once or twice.
YeongRye’s 2nd voiceover at the hospital, after returning his cap: (Thanks, @GB)
YeongRye: After bumping into him by chance three separate times, I figured it had to be fate. I guess I wanted to believe it might be destiny. After all, I’ve always dreamed of a love that’s meant to be.
YeongRye’s 3rd voiceover in the parking lot, end of the episode.
YeongRye: If I hadn’t urged him to speak first. If I had handed him the medicine that held my feelings. Would our story have been a bit different? Do you think so Jong Hui? My one and only friend?
Another version of this 3rd voiceover. Source: kisskh. (Thanks, @GB)
YeongRye: If only I hadn’t insisted he go first that day … If only I had handed him the medicine that carried my feelings for him first. Would our story have turned out a little differently? Do you think it would, Jung Hui, my dearest friend?
Episode 4. One step behind
None.
Episode 5. A bad day
(translation from Viki)
JongHui’s voiceover at the beginning of the episode.
JongHui: YeongRye, you know how we have those days? When I woke up in the morning, my favorite Yong Pil’s “Red Dragonfly” was playing on the radio. When I went to the cafeteria, my absolute favorite seasoned bitter lettuce was served as a side dish. And someone left a bunch of change in the public phone booth. The sunlight was warm, and the breeze felt nice. You couldn’t help but hum a tune. A day that seemed like it would be a lucky day.
YeongRye’s voiceover at the end of the episode. She was addressing JaePil.
YeongRye: Though the words of my heart today may not reach you, but I’ll let my heart speak like this and now I truly intend to end this unrequited love. Goodbye, my first heart flutter. Farewell, my first love.
Episode 6. Timing (Thanks, @GB)
YeongRye’s voiceover at the beginning of the episode.
YeongRye: Jun Hui, that day I realized life really is just one moment of timing after another.
She continues:
Yeong Rye: The start of a misfortune that struck without reason. By a single, split-second choice, the victim of that misfortune could change. In the midst of countless such moments, where on earth was our fate truly headed?
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Work in progress.
Thanks for this thread @pkml3. I don’t believe the subs for the voiceovers are sufficiently different, hence I did not post any voiceovers yet. I still have to check on the other episodes if I’ve the time.
However I did transcribe the Episode 6 voiceover.
EPISODE 6 – TIMING
Yeong Rye ‘s Voiceover as the ‘Open-door Departure Accident’ is about to be reported ie before any of the Bus Conductors knew about it:
“Jun Hui, that day I realised life really is just one moment of timing after another.”
Meanwhile back at the dorm, JH is looking at the Giant Gym towel with the date 21 May 1982 on it. She puts two-and-two together, recalling that Sang Cheol had said ruefully ‘Do you think YR really likes me?’ And ‘You call yourselves best friends. You don’t seem to know your own friend very well.’ JH is very still as she starts to understand what YR has been doing with regards to JP.
Yeong Rye’s Voiceover continues: “The start of a misfortune that struck without reason. By a single, split-second choice, the victim of that misfortune could change. In the midst of countless such moments, where on earth was our fate truly headed?”
YR speaks of the misfortune of the accident, however her words can of course be applied to other circumstances. We can apply them to JH’s split-second choice with regards to what YR may have felt for or still be feeling for JP, and with regards to her own decision on which person mattered more to herself. The ‘victim’ would change depending on her choice.
Later we can apply it again to her fight or flight reaction, and to YR’s decision on what should be done to protect her.
In dramas it’s made to appear that circumstances drive characters to make certain decisions, but both in dramaland and in real life, there usually is more than 1 choice. So it’s true, even if we don’t believe in fate, that we cannot tell what the end result will be.
Great points, @GB!
I’ll double-post this in the newly opened Ep 6 thread so I can answer you there.
Hi @pkml3, I found the Voiceover of Yeong Rye in Episode 3 – FATE. The big difference is that she does not call JH her one and only friend, but her dearest friend. That makes more sense, I guess. We were saying that she has other friends, so JH is not her ‘one and only’ friend.
Hospital scene where YR’s Mum has just had surgery
YR sits beside her mum’s bed, holding JP’s cap in her hands, after he’d put it on her head to let her cry without embarrassment.
Voiceover of YR: “Jung Hui, it was three times. Not just once or twice.” (She is referring to meeting JP by chance)
She exits the room to give the cap back to JP who’s in the corridor. He asks after her mum and says it’s a relief that she’s okay.
Voiceover continues: “After bumping into him by chance three separate times, I figured it had to be fate. I guess I wanted to believe it might be destiny. After all, I’ve always dreamed of a love that’s meant to be.”
JP and YR sit one seat apart. He’s drinking from a canned drink that she gave him as a thank you. She also verbally thanks him for his help that day.
She puts her hand into her pocket where the ointment she had meant to give him is, but still does not give it to him. He asks about Jung Hui, and gets up to leave soon after.
YR runs out after him and both of them want to say something at the same time. He asked her to speak first but she insisted that he speak first.
Voiceover continues: “If only I hadn’t insisted he go first that day … If only I had handed him the medicine that carried my feelings for him first.”
JP gets paper and pen from the car as his driver waits. Then he gives YR his telephone number to pass to Jung Hui.
The song. “Close to You” starts to play in YR’s head. (I wonder why though. It wasn’t that the telephone number was for her but for Jung Hui. Why get all sentimental with that song NOW???)
Voiceover continues: “Would our story have turned out a little differently? Do you think it would, Jung Hui, my dearest friend.”
If I were a friend of YR’s, I’d say ‘No! It would not have made a difference. Stop taking random coincidences as a sign of destiny! JP is obviously not interested in you because he probably hung around the hospital to avoid going for his father’s event and to build up courage to finally pass his telephone number to JH through you. He did not do it out of any particular regard for you!!!’
From the Voiceover above, we know what the ointment meant to YR, and why she had such a hard time giving it to JP.
In Episode 4, YR’s mum opens up the ointment to apply on YR’s chapped hands but that upsets YR very much. Once again someone had taken the ‘thing’ that “carried her feelings” and was misusing it.
The first time had been the Giant Boxing Gym towel, used by Hae Ja as a foot towel, and YR had also over-reacted. She’d pulled the towel away and Hae Jan had landed on her butt.
So in the same way, she snatched that ointment from her mum’s hand. I guess she wanted to just hold on to that ointment forever, without ever opening it, just because she’d originally meant it to be given to JP with her heart *eyeroll*.
I suppose she could never bring herself to give it to him because if he’d rejected it, it meant for certain, he was rejecting her heart. But the dull sop never even knew the significance of that ointment, let alone that it existed in her pocket LOL. So she should never have assigned that ointment all that weight. Well, maybe we were just as foolish in our youths?
Lol. I do remember that scene when here precious Giant hand towel was used as a food towel by Hae Ja (whoops. Was it the one that got amputated?? Oh dear.)
I wasn’t that foolish, @GB. Or maybe I should say that I wasn’t that sentimental back then. I was comfortable hanging out with the opposite sex, so by 19 (the ages of the characters in this story), I could separate the boys from men.
That’s why it’s fun to watch this kdrama, @GB. I get to scold and lecture the characters, esp. the female leads.
Also, in Episode 5, since YR’s love confession was just all in her head, she never really told JP that they had first met in the alley when he rescued her. I wonder if JP will ever remember that moment. I’m guessing never. Lol. Just shows how much impression she really made on him.
@GB, I think the song started playing in YR’s head when he handed her his phone number to give to JungHui because of the segment —
It dawned on her that her bestie could like him, too. And if her bestie did, then it was a sure win-win situation as JaePil already demonstrated interest in her, too.
I guess that’s why — in her imaginary confession — she was hung up on being the “first” to meet JaePil but JaePil didn’t give her a chance; he only saw her bestie from the start.
@pkm3, yes Hae Ja is the one whose lower leg got amputated. After that awful event, she actually turns out to be quite reasonable. She did not blame anyone for her misfortune, and she admitted that she’d been a bully and was grateful that despite that, the girls did not hold it against her. In fact, they had all taken a stand to secure the compensation for her, as well as to protect themselves.
I was actually pleased to see that by 1989, they had newer buses that did not require any bus conductor to risk life and limb. While some may rue the day that automation took away more jobs, I’d say those were jobs well worth the losing.
At least automating the coin collection (and later card payments) did away with attempts to skive off paying the fares. I was aghast that YR felt it incumbent upon her to run after the kid who would not pay, risking being beaten up by him, and all for a few tokens/cents.
JP was fortunately nearby and ready to fight to help the girl, but it was just another good deed along the way, and nothing, least of all who the girl was or what she looked like, stood out for him.
@pkml3, I do notice in kdramas that the ‘being first’ thing in ‘love’ seems to mean a person is entitled to be the chosen one. It’s similar to calling dibs, if one can prove one was first to have seen and liked the other person.
Perhaps that’s why Jung Hui did the noble idiot thing. When she found the Giant Gym towel in YR’s locker, she saw the date and realised that YR had liked JP long before she did. YR could have called dibs on JP but didn’t in order to let JH get Close to him. So yeah, that song could have worked out that way too, in YR’s mind.
As for JP, his voiceover says that their story only began in the cinema when he kept both girls quiet. He probably saw them both as a set, thinking he was seeing YR for the first time. And it was only after the skating rink when JH had been having fun on the ice that JP saw JH, and later in the boxing ring that he heard her shouting to stop the fight, that he got seriously interested in her.
@GB wrote:
I don’t know what to make of that moment when JP encountered them in the cinema. Visually, the close-up shot made it appear like he stared longer at YeongRye than JH so his “…and at the end of that road, I met you” seemed to be addressed to YeongRye.
However, after that moment, when the camera backed out and took a wide shot, he turned his head to look at JH and stood standing like that.
He also talked about driving without brakes. Well, YeongRye did take the bus and drove away, but it was to save JH. Of the two of them, JH was the “runner.” That’s how she ended up working at the bus company. She was running away from abuse. She was about to run away when her Violent Brother arrived. And she ran again (though she was following YeongRye’s order) after the stabbing incident. JH didn’t also have “brakes” on her, too.
I thought JP just turned to looked at JH at the cinema because she kicked him and thought he might be a pervert.
But I agree, YR was mesmerised/besotted to JP when he rescued her at the alley. He was her prince that left the Giant towel. 😄
I haven’t finished episode 2 but I’m on it. ☺️
PS. Hubby will never carry any bag of mine unless it’s supermarket/house thingy bags. 🙄😂
Heh @agdr03, our un-carried bags saga continues!
@GB , I’m pretty sure my son carries his girlfriend’s bag sometimes. 😄
@GB,
I cleaned up the voiceovers and removed the context or explanation of the events that led up to the voiceover.
When I did that, the tone of the voiceovers is more manifest. It sounds like YeongRye is composing a letter to JH, instead of speaking to her directly.
Then, in Episode 3, it sounds like YeongRye is regretting that she created unnecessary “detours” for JH and JP. If she had been more assertive and given him the medicine, he would have kindly refused it. Then, and only then, would she have ceased harboring illusion and hope of “winning” him. She’d consider his refusal as a clear and indisputable sign that they weren’t fated.
Given YeongRye’s issues with her mom, she felt that she was overlooked and never given a chance by JP because she stood in the shadow of JH. She reminds me of an understudy in a theater, waiting for the original performer to get sick so she can take over the role.
@pkml3, here’s the other version of what Yeong Rye says in her Voiceover to Jae Pil after the clouds rained on their picnic.
Yeong Rye’s Voiceover: “My heart wants to say this to you today, even though it may never reach you. At least this once, I’m letting it have a voice. And now, I’m finally going to end this one-sided love. Goodbye, my first crush. Farewell, my first love.”
I liked that at the ‘goodbye’ part, she’s looking at him intently but with a smile on her face.
And so, it would likely have all gone well but for Jung Hui’s finding the Giant Gym towel. Even with the bus accident and then the Manager’s stabbing incident, JH if she had not broken off with JP, would likely have still been in contact with both JP and YR.
A moot point that is merely conjecture: if JH never knew that JP was YR’s first love whom she had carried a torch for even before JH herself had met him, I wonder how much less fiercely she might have defended YR from the Manager’s bullying (threatening with his back-scratcher).
Did JH’s guilt over YR’s giving up JP for her result in her over-compensating? Perhaps if she had not had those feelings of how unfair she had been towards YR on top of how unfair the Manager was at framing her, JH might have used words rather than action.
She, herself had admonished others who wanted to use violence, to use words instead, but now she herself, ironically, instead of using the pen to write words that could have the Manager disciplined, used it to stab him.
This is particularly ironic also because just before this, the press had wanted to use words and photos to expose the ‘truth’ about how the bus company treated its conductors, and it had worked. Unfortunately, JH had been too caught up in emotion when she had witnessed what the Manager was doing to YR, and struck him without thinking.
@pkml3,
A Letter sounds about right. I took the first Voiceovers ie including Jae Pil’s one and only Voiceover more as journal entries, because it sounded like they were saying to themselves… ‘that’s how our story began’. However the later voiceovers and the one by Jung Hui, sounded like letters since they were directly addressed to the other person by name.
Yes, this puts a different spin on the regret. I believe this is more it.
As I just wrote above on YR’s goodbye to JP, she’d have been fine letting him go with a proper goodbye. If she’d been more decisive in risking getting a direct refusal from him earlier, she’d have been able to throw away that ‘drat’ towel, and JH wouldn’t have made that foolish decision to break up.
Given YeongRye’s issues with her mom, she felt that she was overlooked and never given a chance by JP because she stood in the shadow of JH. She reminds me of an understudy in a theater, waiting for the original performer to get sick so she can take over the role. I pitied YR for feeling overlooked by the ones she valued, or feeling that her worth and effort were taken for granted. I’d say that she had cause where her mum was concerned, since mum still prized her eldest son more than her eldest daughter.
However, and again it’s ironic, in true DLL fashion, YR herself overlooks that Jeong Hyun, being her DLL, could also end up as her soulmate à la the book!
I was thinking how we have the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword” and how it means that “words, ideas, and writing can have more lasting power and influence than violence or physical force.”
But what if a person uses a pen like a sword??? LOL. Then it loses its greater mightiness and becomes just a weapon. (I was wondering if this held any metaphor).
Oops! I just looked at my 8.44pm comment and realised that I did not do the Blockquote properly. The last but 1 paragraph are your words, @pkml3 that I wanted to quote. Sorry!
And also I wanted to add to the 8.44pm post … the other irony is that it is YR who overlooks how it’s Jeong Hyun who never overlooks her!! With him, no one overshadowed YR. Since he is not her significant other, it was not something she valued yet.
And to think that the pen was a gift from YeongRye, too. The pen came full circle, didn’t it?
This reminds me…
A few years ago, I bought my son a bust of Julius Caesar with holes on the back. (Remember? Julius Caesar was stabbed with knives on the Ides of March.) The holes are meant to hold pencils and pens.
I thought it was such a witty gift. I was actually looking for a butcher’s block for me that’s carved like a Julius Caesar bust, but all I could find on the internet was a pen/pencil holder.
It looked like this:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51klviHFR-L._AC_SX679_.jpg
source: amazon.com
@pkml3 Witty yes, but personally I stay clear of stuff that has a face or looks like an animal or human being. I don’t like clothing with animals or people on them, any food like jellies or cake shaped like any creature of the animal kingdom (I can’t behead the creature and eat it!!!) and figures like busts of people, especially with pens or knives sticking out of them. The latter is macabre!
Where that pen that did the stabbing is concerned, it would likely end up being kept in the police store under weapons. I don’t think either of the girls would want to use that fountain pen again, or maybe any!