@GB, then we should just do a break the 17th october.
It’s better like that. 😉

Hi @WE and @IB, that’s nice of you to want to have a break on 17th Oct. I don’t really think it’s necessary, but okay. If @pkml3 does not see our messages and the thread comes up we’ll just ignore it until the following week.

This is a poignant episode… finally the brothers meet but it’s not the happy reunion it should be.

Hi GB & IF

@GB, me too, because arent all three dead?

greaLJS reaction and voiceover. Lots of time gicen for t moment when Hyung puts his arm around DalPro in order to look at their reflection in the car window.

DP has to resort to following his brother and we hear his voiceover thoughts…his fears that his brother is involved in the disappearance of Moon Duk Soo.

What a test of his resolve on being a good reporter. The greatest temptation is laid before him.

@IB, I liked that reflection – an analogy … they looked alike and yet the image is slightly warped in the glass because things are not crystal clear and above board anymore between them.

Heh @WE. All dramas need lots of chance and coincidence to work!!!

SOOOO much irony this episode and the next couple. This Writer-nim if fantastic in setting up scenes for irony.

DP is supposed to be scolded by his superiors but gets lauded if he can find the suspect first and tell the breaking news… but it’s exactly when he does not want to break the news because it’s his brother who’s the suspect.

@WE, it seems as if DP played his bosses but he was actually dead serious.

Bathroom talk LOL. Even guys talk a lot in the toilet???

But the sad conversation between mother and daughter cuts the fun and games.

The mirror scene of mother and daughter reflections so far apart from each other juxtaposed against the brothers’ reflection in the car window scene where hyung had an arm around DP… such a contrast!!!

Car navigator girlfriend! This is the romance straight ahead episode, 8th in 20, so a little early but honestly this has been a romance for several eps.

The office politics and characters are very well-done but it is even hard to focus on them. They come at a natural pace, while the romance is made up of slow closeups with voiceovers or new musical background.

It’s funny though that DP’s boss really wants to receive DP’s thanks and hugs etc that he might have showered on him if not for what DP has started suspecting.

Next crazy scene, DP and IH. They exchange stuff to eat from each other’s bowls like true family. She takes the egg white and he takes the yoke.

IH thinks that DP had a girlfriend. It was his GPS LOLOL.

Hi @GB, another window for you — this time in harmony our OTP eating ramyeon at a convenience store and looking out at the snow.

Why is snow romantic?
I am partly from New England where it piles up in dirty salty heaps and ruins your shoes.
Not a romantic metaphor.

@IB I like the DP and IH dialogue. Now he knows exactly how she feels about her mother because he feels it about his brother.

It feels to her that he go into her heart to know all these things. She wants to be friendly family again but he knows he cannot. She says she can but hiccups.

Scenic kiss scene under the shiny light arches. True Kdrama romantic scene.

@IB we get the hand kiss then the real kiss. Before this there was the sandwich or bread kiss (in the dad’s imagination). So this show really created more than 1 inventive kiss scene all by itself!

@IF, no I think the real kiss is better with the fake one before. Think about a direct kiss right away, you remove a beat and suspens in the scene.

All you could do maybe, is to end on the fake kiss (if you want more slow burn).

Here we are at the visit of Dad and Grandpa to the MA Wa Ri, the police station. Just the right edge of cringe to begin with, which disappears.

Dad’s eyes light up at Beom Jo’s Mom. He calls her a badger, which is a little over the top in English.

I had forgotten that she rinses her hair in the toilet, unless that is another bit of misdirection.

Taps on the back “gwenchana”. I’m happy I could at least put this cliché in W2, because I had difficulties to put clichés into it. (well, I already said that).

@IB I was about to say the same thing about grandpa and dad coming – they are so proud of IH. Then they see the state of the room where IH has been sleeping.

LOL more misdirection with Bum Jo lying to grandpa and dad about who DP likes. Now Yoon Yu Rae is going to be super sensitive and difficult, then disappointed.

@WE so much set up for more irony and disappointment/pain etc. What great writing!

Lee Yoon Bi is very funny as she actually believes the lie that DalPo likes her. Yoo Yoo Rae isnt a likeable character to begin with but when you think about it the actress never puts a foot wrong.

Now we get people really falling down and IH cannot stop hiccupping. It goes against her conscience.

@WE, I’m feeling it too. The lack of good dramas with fine writing… and lots of irony like PHR’s style.

Well I’ll remind you on MDL if you need a reminder.

@WE the cold blooded mother knows her daughter well enough to send another team to get the report.

Now a surprise… the soft-spoken Captain scolds IH into understanding how and why she should have allowed people to fall… but I don’t think he really believes his own words. It’s to get her to stop hiccupping so that her mother won’t be cruel towards to her.

Song Cha Ok is the most cold-hearted of mothers. She used her daughter to bring up the ratings for MSC but now is ready to get rid of her because of her conscience.

@WE, well it seems that the news people don’t care about having a kind image.

Now the kind Captain pretends to praise IH loudly to impress Song Cha Ok but she misses the point again. he wants her to at least praise IH when she’s worthy of praise, because all she does is find fault with her.

@GB: the argument of captain is quite good: “if you don’t show the bad it does, it won’t prevent people enough and cause more accident”. I like this kind of arguments opposing each other with truth for both of them”.
Mainwhile the brother spy with angryness (now that he knows Dal Po is journalist too).

Yoo Rae is so ridiculous at pretending she doesn’t care about Dal Po. Ahah!

@WE, Yoo Rae is going to be soooo pissed off when she realises that she’s been wrong abou DP liking her. Beom Joo should have told her again later that it was not true!

Oh shit. Even the brother is a murderer, he does the very best moral move here. So excatruilinagtying (fukcing english word I’m unable to write, looool).
CLIFFHANGER on that.

@WE… you mean excruciating? Yes… it is. Sooo good the paradox that will crop up.

@IB, yes … the reporters 13 years earlier did not have to make the story as sensational as they did, or cast blame on the absent father and ruin a family.

What Song Cha Ok did then, she will repeat soon, to her detriment. However there was more to what she did then and soon to do than just make news for news sake.

Men and their hats — drunk guy sneaks back into his truck and runs away from the cops, but before he guns the engine he put his baseball cap firmly on his head. What? He cant drive without it?

Thank you for the party, GB and IF, see you soon !!

Bye @WE, see you in two more weeks!