I have a talk to attend this evening, will join if I get home in time. Hope to see you all.

HI GB and FF

OOF Nearly missed the time — looking up from a frying egg its 900!

I am at 11ep of rwots

Hi, IF.
It hits hard, isn’t it ?
I wasn’t remembering it was so harsh all the way.

@WE, I was telling @MM that I deliberately watched in such a way as to not become an emotional wreck. I read reviews that gave me fair warning.

Hi @MM, are you home with icepacks on our knee now? So you can join us for a while?

I am.
Waiting for my daughter to surface from the basement.So we can do word games before we go out.

So yes I will be here briefly.

And ..haein steals the show! That is what I meant by a memory of imbalance GB.

@IB, sorry… I don’t get the reference to memory imbalance.

However I like this scene where being colour blind does not mean seeing less always but being able to differentiate shades even at night.

His testimony held so much more weight. It all rested on those umbrellas.

Hi MM!

@GB, being hit by the drama truck and become an emotional wreck is precisely the goal, LOL !! You spoil your experience. 😀

Hello IB GB WE

Oh yes the umbrellas!

@WE, my aim of watching a Party show is to have a fun time discussing the show and not be weeping 😭😩😫😖😣 in front of the screen. 😆😇🤪

Worse, to be so angry or sad that I cannot write/type coherently!!!

@IB… ah the memory imbalance! You felt it was a 2 male lead drama because Park Hae In appeared so much. Well there are 3 main actors in this drama. But the weightage still is heavier for Jong Suk.

Love the scene in the bathroom where yb tries to reassure himself ‘it will be allright’. Best dramas have the best villains, like peter lorre in m, we need to recognize them as. Both evil and pathetic/worthy os pathos if only momentarily.

@WE When I rewatched the first six episodes last week , I kept thinking about your comment about it being a show that makes one want to rAGesmash the TV. vERY APT!

@IB Snake Lee had his chance to make a fresh decision but refused. His washing his hands until they bled tells us he is destroying himself.

The sentimental music as Mr Choi picks up the fallen autumn leaf!!!

I wonder what was the point of smashing into Mr Choi… just to take revenge or thumb his nose at Mr Choi’s advice? Since he’s going down, he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb?

Hi @FF! You made it! I’m at 22 minutes now.

MR Choi: “Blame yourself for a short time but remember for a long time.” Were these also the words HJ wrote in a note to JC when they were kids?

Beautiful.slowly choi’s voiceover…remembers his dream but we see the leaf not the dream, then his younger self in the bed, then back to se JC, then suddenly movement of the car very fast. Camera takes us out, then in, then to dramatic moment.

No one can rival LJS for still being lovely when ugly-crying.

@WE, yes that was a ‘bloody’ mess of crying LOL.

Mr Choi chose to look forJC, knowing that the end would be like that.

@GB, LJS cries with an intensity close of what I need. Of course, I would prefer even more dramatic. LOL.

@WE, you’ll need sound together with those screenshots to be dramatic. The sound of his crying hits the heart.

Actually same things can be said about Yoo Seung Ho crying. He cries beautifully and wrings the heart (I refuse to let it wring mine … there’s so much wringing to go through!!!)

Ohhhh an adorable white and black cat. Meeeoowww!

@GB, the problem is I need tons of screenshots with LJS crying because he gets a lot of problem in Ws2 and at one point he cries half of the time. 🙁

So, Lee was a bit crazy to do what he did.
He could maybe escape some problems, but he put himself his head into a bigger shit with this murder by car.

FF maybe yb hit choi with his car because he was so horrifying delulu that he thought that like in other dramas, the corrupt create enough chaos so that the rats escape…or something like that. Such a relief here that we aren’t in that kind of nightmare.

Lee has nothing better to do that poisoning JC mind with random past affairs. This guy is such a nuisance.

Wow even in the interrogation room yb making a try at relative truth, relative justice.

You’re just bad, hyung.

Ah. This scene is good.
JC tells his truth to Lee.
Lee has to swallow all of that, knowing it’s the truth.
Well, again, no redemption arc for the villain.

Great music for courtroom plus in this part, strings.

Too cute parallel of both boys in bed being woken by our now cheerful rational fl. One looking so romantic and one so unshaven.

Robin!!!

It’s so nice that people who are unrelated take such good care of each other. HJ and JC give Woo Tak books and Mum takes care of Woo Tak’s meals.

JC’s yelp is so cute after being pinched by HJ.

The wrap-ups framed by hj’s notes of dream phrases on her window.

Will she/they keep dreaming so intensely?

Hurray the best wedding ever!

Yes guys why did the shakes stop?

Is it this ‘pass kindness forward’ sequence which explains that?

I like how Soo Yoon returns and reprises the scene of HJ picking up the scarf of Hyang Mi by picking up the necktie.

Oh dear back to the ‘poop’ talk between the girls as if they never were apart for over a year.

@IB Yes, something like that… those whose lives were touched by JC turn up at the end.

Yes, it was such a similar necktie whipping as HJ’s scarf whipping Hyang Mi.

WE, that great cat is always in the home neighborhood on a dividing wall. She gives a sign of a nice breathing space coming up or maybe just past?

What a good romance.

@FF, funny how HJ never let go of that ‘poop’. Heheheh!

Last thought, we are about to start a real father’s and sons structure in RWotS. This one used siblings as an underlying structure…much harder to carry off.

But the idea of illusions and dreams best interpreted in company was a perfect match to it

It ends on a flashback. Not sure about that.
It’s to say he’s close to recognize her as child.
Then, not sure he follow her on purpose on the bench.

We already have the new thread for Episode 1 of R:WotS up.

@WE will have to tell us what you liked so much about that show besides how it brings in all the feels.

@WE, you did a great job for the IHYV script. Can’t use the same ‘commands’ with Grok AI?

@GB, but she is older isn’t she?

Re the ‘rewatch for the rewatch’timing. I think I found a good recipe for me today.
I watched just this episode alone yesterday. The intervening sleep seems to have made thought and feeling knit together more usefully.

Will try for RWotS: watch it all for the wash cycle of anger and tears (poor monmori really bent her ear on the vp rape trial a day back!!,), do pre watch for single eps leaving a day of brain rest.

Bye @WE and the rest. See you next week.

@IB, yes that’s a good plan. I’m just trying to get the whole sweep of R:WotS down first then will take more time episode by episode.

I was prewarned about the emotional upheaval it would cause and so took precautions LOL.