The thread is open.
I’m running behind because I had to finish the other weekend kdramas on my To Watch list, namely, “The Apartment Job” which satisfactorily concluded last week, and “A Bona Fide Killer” which is my new fave. Fingers crossed, I’ll catch up with y’all before Episode 11 comes out.
I figured the screenwriter wouldn’t throw us any curveballs in Episodes 8, 9, and 10, anyway. Just the usual angsty break-up, misunderstanding and/or noble idiocy trope before the reconciliation in the final episode.
Gifs from moonlightsdream’s tumblr:
Anybody here surprised by his remark? 😝 The thing is had it been any actor other than Yang Se-Jong, this confession would’ve made him look like he’s simping for her.
Let’s enjoy the show.
Note: the bridge in Episode 9 where GangUk brought YeoRi after their engagement party is Woryeonggyo Bridge. It’s located in Andong city, two hours by fast train from Seoul.
I cajoled my husband to sit with me in the pavilion and wait for the lights to turn on at sunset. The lights didn’t all activate simultaneously so we had to wait for the pavilion lamps to light up, then the lanterns on the posts, then the spotlights on the bridge. For me, this bridge represents waiting, like its legend.
I couldn’t convince my poor husband to ride the moon boat with me, but I did manage to get him to try the moon bread in the bakeshop across from the bridge.
If you want to learn more about the romantic backstory of Woryeonggyo bridge, here’s a short article:
https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=299234&lang=en
Hi @pkml3, thanks for the link on the bridge. I was thinking how the Koreans love to weave in romance wherever possible, even inspiring the building of a bridge, by somehow linking it to longing. The crescent-moon-shaped and multi-coloured boats are cute.
The last couple of episodes are about the living people… I kind of missed the ghosts. Even the ghost of JH that haunted YR seems to have gone on vacation.
More tidbits:
GangUk’s phone has 102❤️ for YeoRi.
10 is “yeol” in Korean when counting things (but it’s “sip” for money, dates, and addresses, etc.)
2 is “i” when referring to money, dates, and addresses (but it’s “dul” when counting things)
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Hi @pkml3, we’ve decided to take another break in the Pinocchio Party on the 17th October as I’ll be away and won’t be able to come online. Just thought we’d let you know so that you won’t wonder why that thread remains empty on that week. Thanks to my kind friends @WE and @IB!! 🥲🥹😊😇
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Got it, @GB. Thanks!
October 17.
@IB, well I finally watched the last 2 episodes of Spooky in Love.
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What I liked was the scene of the many ghosts who came to greet YR when she was in a coma. She finally was able to hold everyone’s hands.
There was karma, give and take/balance which was satisfying… the shaman lady whose mum made the pendant told YR and GU that there only way out of seeing ghosts was for someone to repay with a life, and most appropriately it was still Ji Hwan who kept his word to die instead of YR.
There was a satisfactory return of the pendant which corrected some cosmic imbalance and set everything back on the right path.
And for a change, together with karma, this series had the bad guys really paying for their crimes with either death or imprisonment. The crime-does-not-pay message came out more strongly in this series than many others where the bad guys were too easily forgiven.
For the first time that I’ve noticed, a drama shows the prosecution veering from corruption to the side of true justice. It was great to see that corrupt officials got taken down while the prosecution recognised the conscientious, incorruptible and honest to a fault GU’s abilities.
What was not so good … being a short series, a lot depended on coincidence to move the plot along quickly.
On the whole it was a pleasant series. There was much to laugh about and nothing scary. The romance was terribly sweet. I liked the under-stated background music and the many times the prosecution team had dinners together. The best part was the warm community of good, upright people who supported each other.
Kudos to the actors who made their characters believable or funny. I prefer Park Eun Bin, Yang Se Jong and even Ong Seong Wu in this series to the other times I’ve seen them.
While not on the level of a Park Hye Ryun series, this one took a simple story and told it consistently and quite well with likable and nuanced as well as ridiculous characters.