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The dates:
Episode 13 – 7 February 2026
Episode 14 – 14 February 2026
Episode 15 – 21 February 2026
Episode 16 – 28 February 2026
Episode 17 – 7 March 2026
Episode 18 – 14 March 2026
Break – 21 March 2026
Episode 19 – 28 March 2026
Episode 20 – 4 April 2026
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9.00am EST/Canada
10.00am Caracas
2.00pm in London
3.00pm in Paris
4.00pm in Athens
10.00pm in Singapore
Enjoy the show.
Thanks @pkml3!
I’m a bit under the weather. Let’s see if I’m up for the rewatch tomorrow!
Get well soon, @GB!
Thanks @pkml3!
Dear @GB, hope you feel better soon, if not [today].
RWotS needs fortitude. Maybe we should do something sillier next time, like Legend of the Blue Sea, which I never get around to watching.
Have a nice sweet day. Will stay tuned.
Hi @IB, I’ve gotten over the fever but I’m sleepy. I’ll hang around as long as I can. Generally, I’m sleepy at this time anyway 😂😆😅
Hi.
I’ll maybe comment a bit less today, as I didn’t have time to rewatch before the rewatch. So needs to focus more on the episode.
Hi @WE! I’ll be watching it again as well. I did a FFD and got the gist of it but not the details.
We start NOW!!!
It’s scary having NGM in close quarters in a tiny room.
Hi GB, Hi IF.
NGM dissolves into threats very easily.
Meanwhile JW is upset that his memories are fading faster than ever.
Hello, I am here today.
Hi @FF, we can do with more of us. I’ll be sleepy and @WE will be watching more than commenting.
Hi FF.
Guy-Man threatens them, their family, even worst than a mafia boss.
Detective Kwak is finally coming through for the good guys, because he has nothing else left to lose
HI @FF, @WE, @GB
Just got here, dog/snow/wind/soup, a complicated story starting at 9/.07
The only reaction from NGM is to find ways to threaten and intimidate.
Meanwhile he brings bad Prosecutor Hong on board.
Hi @GB @WE, I am kind of sleepy too. It is bedtime here. Rare to see NGM threatens without the smirk on his face. So the detective has decided to betray NGM?
He razes the table in a classy way, ending by a kick! It’s makjang but with funny variation. 🙂
Hi @IB, I feel I can write an anecdote about what happened to you with the clues you’ve left, all would be guesswork, of course.
@FF, When gyuman raised his hand….oooh. Why do you think he stopped? Was it that she stood up to him or because he isnt stupid?
Hi @IB, the bad prosecutor is retiring who is his replacement to collude with NGM?
@FF, I think they needed Det Kwak and a couple of others to come forward to have enough evidence to prove JW’s father was innocent.
@FF, It will be Tak; at least some ray of light.
@WE Using his foot to push things off the table was so inelegant!!!
@IB, I think he is reserving his strike for later.
I thought NGM’s sister was overseas… but she’s around again.
Another likely witness for the explosive light bulb is compromised.
@IB with those prosecutors, one never knows when they are on the side of justice or change and go for the money. The Nam’s have lots of money to spare.
The sister learns about the murder of Guy-Man.
There, a way to show how the protagonist is determined: even if it ruins his health, he has to fight rather than taking care of himself.
Another elevator scene — Moo Suk is not going away, now he is threatening DongHo. To which doughty DongHo says ‘back at you”.
Maybe foolhardily.
I am too fond of supporting characters — where was Seo Beom while his boss was menacing a woman in the back room? Outside biting his nails? He is not my favorite anymore.
@WE, they have to make it dramatic ie JW will have to attempt at all costs including the sacrifice of his health or worse, his memories to clear his father’s name.
I was wondering where the dramatic tension was to take us from 13 up to ep20. There it is. Subtle. JW’s race agaiinst time and his failing memories.
I made a 40h drama without an unexpected encounter into an elevator. Proof that I’m not a fully accomplished kdrama writer. 😀
Clichés sould be easy to use, as they are clichés, but in truth, I had many difficulties to use clichés. I still have a “cover someone sleepy” scene, and “accidental fall on someone, close to kiss”. Ahah.
WHy do I have a feeling the NGM will hire people to kill the detective in prison?
@IB too much risk, too much tension.
We are back in the light bulb trial. At least this one should work out in the innocent family’s favour. However stress because the witness has been bought.
Oh No, the man with the sick daughter is going to perjure himself in court. Not another crisis!
I also have a “I forbid you to forgive me”. Ah shit, it’s so smashing on the page. Sure, clichés are powerful.
@WE, as some drama said, not accomplishing it yet means you can anticipate succeeding. Of course you’ll continue writing your drama scripts. Fighting!
@FF, your feeling is probably not unfounded, but I do not think it happened so Kwak was safer in prison.
Hang on @WE… you mean you’re trying to cram in every possible cliche into the same script???? Just space them out over different stories.
The son of the factory owner in the audience at court gets the reaction shots that help us make sense of all the lawyer talk! nice and clean touch.
JW wisely decides to not question the perjuring witness since it will get him nowhere. Instead he submits good evidence.
Its a repeat, witness who lies.
@GB, no. I just wanted to use many kdramas clichés to get this unique feeling, but I failed. I have only a small numbers of them, a ridiculous small number in 40h screentime. I could use them only when by chance the story is on point at specific moments, but so rare. Then, it’s maybe the first time you’ll see a writer to complaint about not to be able to use clichés. 😂
At last some good guys win fair and square, despite Park DH’s buying the witness to perjure himself.
@FF good joke that Park DH is proud of JW for beating him in court.
The usual advice being: avoid clichés!! 🙂
@WE, actually use the tropes but not in a cliched way.
Oh dear. JW is forgetting recent things already.
It is clear to me this time that sweater Dad is suggesting a quick murder will take care of JW. Oddly enough even gyu manm is revealed to be part of a newer generation — he suggests having insurance against damage claims (presumably when murder isnt possible).
Finally, JW won the case against Ilho Group and Dong Ho.
@WE
I like it when the characters themselves complain about the cliches. Showing themselves to be knowledgeable although fictional.
@GB, I can say I subvert one trope (or it’s even almost a cliché) in a funny way in Ep25. 🙂
But Tropes are ok, because it’s general, and even, it’s impossible to tell a story without tropes. On the other hand, clichés (more specific) are seen as something bad.
@IB yes, using and killing/getting rid of their ‘dogs’ is the Nam’s way of living. Despicable and sad.
Now our Seo Beom will no longer tell his Judge friend about NGM’s crime. But there will be a later time…
@IF, yeah, it means there is a part of “meta comedy” at this point. But it’s also risky, as it can break the immersion.
For the judge SukKyu, it is the dog who doesnt bark. Neither DongHo nor Seo Beom deny that the evidence of gyuman’s guilt exists.
The bad (ex) prosecutor has a solution to solve Il-Ho problems, but CUT. (we don’t know what)
@WE, I see what you mean.
NGM is thinking like a businessman, buying insurance lol but he stopped suggesting when the old man glanced at him. Still scared of his father despite taking over the helm of the company.
This time, Dong-Ho really did something to help Jin-Woo. But tic-tac, his time is counted in Il-Ho group, as Guy Man isn’t fooled. It could end badly for Hong-Do.
Out of the blue PDH finds the man involved in his father’s death with the Seogwang Group explosion cover up.
Oh Good! I didnt see this before — the chaebol daughter (now prosecutor) brushes off JW’s threat with her own, but as she walks away he recalls her to her professional self by appealing to her skills.
They cut a branch, to avoid general destruction. Clearly something used in reality for many cases. The write has a sharp eye about real affairs and corruption.
@FF @IB I want some of those beautiful coats that In Ah has!!!
@GB I wondered too. Was there something in the last episode which pointed to the huy. Or maybe it is the name of the business as DongHo walks up to it to see the man that would have recalled the case to us had we read it swiftly?
One thing I thought was cool, the camera shows tall elegant DongHo having to bend his head to enter this ‘low’ place. From a point of view somewhere around the bald guy’s knees. And when DongHo leaves as well.
So now both the bad guys and the good guys are aware that the old case of Seogwang explosion and the deaths of JW’s family and Park DH’s father are connected.
It’s time to raise the romance !!! It would be a pitty to have a drama with Park Min-Young without romance. It just seems impossible to me, or it would be such a waste. 🙂
@GB, coats are too hot for us here 😛
@IB, I noticed that Park Dong Ho had to bend his head to enter the office, I thought it must be a container office.
What a long flashback while JW is walking back from the meeting with gyuman and the revelation that DongHo was involved in his family’s destruction.
It puts us inside Jw’s head, and when he comes back to reality we think he has remembered the date!
But instead he has gone back to the earliest point we met him, going home to meet his dad.
@GB, yeah, GYu man tries to make Jin-Woo fight Dong-Ho. Also a classic strategy of bad guys, real ones or not.
NGM using a different tactic to hurt JW by revealing the Park Dong Ho’s father caused the death of JW’s family.
Roberta Flack song “what is the love” at the resto where she waits for Jin-Woo. But I wonder it this romantic rendez-vous will happen.
JW flashback followed by In Ah flash back.
@WE, we know that romance is far from the main focus in this show, it’s only on the side and briefly without any real development. What In Ah always had was affection for the younger boy, Jin Woo. He still calls her Noona when he forgets that he’s all grown up now.
A crisis, he forgot. Damn shit, this drama hits so hard, without even giving you the little moment of a romantic date in a resto. Writer torture both characters and audience. XXXXX!!
@FF, it’s a sad ending but In Ah needed to find out what was happening to JW. I guess she can support him better, now that she knows.
@WE, but it cannot happen if JW returns to his 15year old self. He isnt actually romantic material when in that state. Or is he? His hand hesitates to touch her back while she weeps on his shoulder.
Painful realization for In Ah on their date night.
@WE, it’s because of the torture which is quite relentless that I would not recommend this drama actually. However some people may enjoy the torture!!!
@FF @IB, as far as I can recall, they never did have a proper date.
@GB, it is a tragedy. Not in style lately. That old-style movie ‘high art’ vibe.
Okay, goodbye/goodnight to all! I’m going to sleep properly rather than fall off my chair! Thanks for a fun party!!
@IB, I believe I’ve lost the taste for tragedies … real life is difficult as it is!!
But some ambiguity must remain about his possible love for her, had he not lost his memory.
It is hard to be mature without memory of your experiences…interesting.
It is a little hard to make the legal triumph and the triumph of JW’s will balance the lack of romance.
I think an effort was made to make Park Min-Young take the ‘witness’ position and to continue the legal fight for justice. For me she wasnt given what would be something like a POV or narrator role, so it doesnt work.
Dear @GB, better to sleep in your bed than the chair.
Have a lovely week.
@GB, it makes me love the drama, pushing the dramatic as far as it could. 🙂
Then it was the cliffhanger scene, very emotional one.
On this, I have to leave to cook potatoes!!
Have a good week everybody.
ps. @GB,
When public affairs get so bad that it is better to laugh than to cry, enter a golden opportunity for comedy.
Dark and mildy malicious is my preference when things are at their worst.
But fluffy helps with sweet dreams.
Good night, @FF.
Happy potatoes, @WE.
See you in seven days if I dont freeze to death walking the dog.
Goodnight everyone!