Hi Here!!

HI @WE, I hope to have okay Internet speed during the rewatch.

Let’s start NOW!!!

Short resume about how Cha made a journalist error, not checking the death-note.

@IB @WE… to make news of more impact? To get revenge on a bad reporter? What will HM do?

It’s strange that IH does not show up… HM can guess that something’s up.

IH finds the real death-note now?
It says cause of death is poisoning.
But.. agh damn, I don’t remember who is the dead-one. T T

The bus driver committed suicide after he was fired for taking 60cents. I forget why he stole. Is it a christmas story too?

This ep is a Christmas story about children and gifts and theft.

@WE, I just swallowed water incorrectly and got the hiccups!!!

So sweet… Grandpa won’t un-adopt Ha Myung. He’ll be his father no matter what.

Thanks both of you. Yeah, I remember this subplot now. A bit blurry, but I’ll manage.

@GB, try to cry now, it should be better with the hiccups, check if you could do a good drama actress. AHAH!

But poisoning? It’s a murder. Hum, who did this? I don’t think it’s Cha. Should rather be something related to a bad company, I don’t know what.

Beautiful egg in the face. I wonder how many takes the director had to do, so to get a so perfect result. 😀

Mmmh. Not poisoning but drugs. I’m confused.
So it’s the protestor guy who falsified the death-note?!

@WE, now HM metaphorically throws egg at the Bus Company owner… it was a forged death certificate.

And he ends up saving his enemy from being vilified. However it’s still enough to get Song CO into a losing position. He chose to be better than Song CO 13 years ago.

Yoo-Rae is still pretending to have this “oppa” out of nowhere (honestly, I’ve no idea if it’s true, just it feels a lie all the way), so she doesn’t seem seduced by DP, but is already seriously in love with.

Not exactly a mentor, but now the brother is in charge of “make the protagonist speak” in the drama. LOL.

@GB, it’s SOOOooOOOooo typical from PHR, “never be as bad as your opponent”, don’t become an animal!!

Yeah, Rich boy steals the messages. It’s like recurring themes accross PHR dramas, because I remember something like that in Start-Up about messages. Unknow sender, etc.

Note that it’s not negative criticism, I think it’s quite obvious that writers often dig the same holes.

Anyway, IH friend-zoned rich boy now. LOL.

Now IH does something sneaky… she grabs her mum’s old phone to investigate her mother.

Begins a sappy story about the santa-claus father.

LOL everyone is concerned about IH and no one thinks about Ruby except IH.

The Santa thief case is an interesting scene that brings in sub-plot of what Bum Jo’s mum is up to.

Rich boy (and mama’s boy!) isn’t ready to do a scoop about how his mother sell bags. 🙂

When drunk, DP gave (we suppose) the adress of grandpa instead of his lonely home.

Poor Ahn Chan Soo… ends up getting transferred.

It’s Christmas Eve… LOL if his wife finds out he’ll meet Jesus (in heaven?) on Christmas LOLOL.

@IB, yes so true about the many through lines.

The romance comes back up now after HM gets drunk… the button is still around IH’s neck. He thought he dreamt it because she had given the button back to him.

But later we’ll see that button or lack of it.

Some of my favorite things
ACS
“What, beg! I am a man!”
On his knees “Hi Honey, Merry Christmas —I am on my knees now”.

The traditional Sk jokes about digestion still functioning (I miss them nowadays). IA regains her appetite while on a date with BJ, excuses herself to go to the bathroom and blithely comments upon her relieved state when back at the table, in unknown earshot of her real BF.

Gyo Dong (the nice journalist chief) is however (we discover it now) quite rude about practise. He orders to enter without permission, and even to fake that cameras are shut down (but continue to film it all).

Such great info on beer snacks in the inset about minor theft. DP/HM steals the beer snacks from his outing with Ahn Chan Soo, to give to his family and when poor Ahn Chan Soo has to carry him home, gives his family’s address. So dried squid for Dad, “gingko”(?) nuts for grandpa, and mixed crunch for IA.

Poor Ahn Chan Soo, when the camera focuses on DP/HM’s feet dangling next to his during the piggyback carry, my first thought was that LJS is so long that his toes might drag on the ground.

The department store interview, not very ethical? To record without permission? But otherwise the salesperson wouldnt have cheerfully relayed the information about the expensive school bags being ‘graded’ with labels like pure KOrean beefsteak.

@IB, true… not ethical at all! They seem to justify that by the fact that the price is unfairly exorbitant and the cause of suicide and bullying in school.

@WE, I really like that the over-sized shirt makes a reappearance and now we see that 2 buttons are missing from it, while HM thinks that there was only the 1 button that he gave to IH. Never thought a plastic button could be such a romantic thing.

@WE, you mean grandpa was talking to IH’s father? About the shirt that used to belong to DP. Yes that’s the one DP took the button from and gave to IH as a lucky charm or something before her job interview.

@GB, I missed that, Damn IT !!! YES the missing button.
EvErYthInG nOw cOmEs to A mEaNInG !! ThE pUzzLe assembles ItSeLF!!

@WE, yes I believe it means IH stole the 2nd button from HM’s shirt for herself. But she wore it under her own clothes so he never knew that she had taken another one.

@IB, yes, that’s what I like about this show (and maybe PHR’s shows) the characters she creates have more story and life to them and are not mere plot devices. They stay on and are ‘useful’ to the plot later on. So much better than lots of other dramas where characters disappear once ‘used’.

@WE, the reason I don’t mind considering Penthouse is that I already read the spoilers so I feel I’m not going in blind. I like spoilers, unlike most other viewers.

Anyway, if we decide on Penthouse, then I’ll make plans to watch it properly first before the rewatch.

Well, just in case, watch “The Penthouse”. Even if we don’t rewatch it, you’ll enjoy the ride, it’s so crazy, even trashy at times. Yet excellent planning. Made by the lady having more than 700 hours produced screenplay in her life. What could go wrong? Ahhahah! 😀

I’ve to go too, now. I wish you a good week!!

I’m working non stop on it (instead to watch kdramas, T T), currently on Ep10, so as a total workaholic, I just have to share that, out of pure enthusiasm. My GrokAI prompt to check Translation!! (I don’t report the project protocol for translation behind it). You can find something strange about “devastated”. Well, yeah, I couldn’t count how many times this word was in the translation, because I use “dévasté” in french many times, but also because lot of other english words could translate into that (in a wrong way). But, ahahaha, there is lot of devastation, for sure.

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English translation review.
Attached: the episode in French AND its English translation.
Work only from these two files provided in this session.

Goal.
Exhaustive review — not a filter that only keeps the worst errors.
The project’s translation protocol is the authority: it is the basis used to produce the translation. However, the instructions in this correction prompt take priority over the project protocol.

An English line must first be a real American English sentence, readable without stumbling. Accuracy is judged in English, in this context — not by how closely the line resembles the French.
– A look-alike word with a different meaning is a false friend: discard it; do not propose it.
– A calque that native US English does not say is not a correction, even if it matches the French word for word.
– Do not flag a line that is merely debatable; do flag a line that is inaccurate. If in doubt, flag it and say where the doubt is.
– If possible, I want the simplest translation for readers from any country whose first language is not English. Readers of my K-drama come from all over the world (truly every country), and most are not native-born Americans: they had to learn English. They may have a weak command of English, and I need to help them with wording that is easy to understand at a low English level.
– Sometimes the English script was improved and the French script was not updated. Take that into account: some differences may mean I need to correct the French. (Often added or deleted words, or “&”, because line length has to change for the HTML version.)

Method.
First pass: read both files together, line by line, from start to finish.
As soon as an inaccuracy appears, extract the phenomenon (false friend, calque, verb that is too generic, wrong tense, dead onomatopoeia, added word, etc.) and search for it throughout the file. Flag every occurrence. Never settle for one representative example: if a word or expression is wrong, you must report every place in the script where it is used.
Second pass: go back through the file only to close the patterns already found, then to hunt the same kind of phenomenon under other words.

What to look for on every line, with no fixed checklist:
– Do the FR and the EN say the same thing, to the same degree? (in the same visual order if possible)
– Is the English word the most accurate one for THIS context in US usage, or a more common neighbor that flattens the nuance, or a false friend that looks like the French while meaning something else?
– Is there a calque: French structure or wording copied in a way that is not said in US English?
– Has a specific verb been replaced by a catch-all verb?
– Has a French idiom been translated word for word instead of with a living English equivalent?
– Is a French onomatopoeia inaudible or absurd in English? If so, adapt it (this takes priority over the protocol). Fixed example already set: §§Couic!§ → §§Squeak!§.
– Does a more precise English word exist than the FR? If so, flag it separately so the FR can be corrected.
– Are punctuation, spaces, “…” and voice-over breaks (one sentence split into two consecutive blocks with “…”) treated as a single sentence?
– Are format elements (character codes, tones, IMG_, #, @@ @, §§ §, FLASHBACK, RECALL) left intact except where the protocol requires translation?

Rules already fixed by the project (apply them; do not expand them into lists):
– Use “devastated” only if the FR is “dévasté(e)”. For every pair of this type: do not collapse several French words onto the same convenient English word.
– Do not report “&” differences on their own.
– Do not invent meaning that is not in the FR.
– Do not flag what the protocol already allows (kept Korean terms, question wording left in the order of the tone, etc.).

Output format, for each faulty line, in script order:
– line number
– the French sentence: give the whole line, not only the faulty part.
– the current English translation: comment on why this translation does not work; explain the English nuances.
– three proposals, all in real US English; the first must be the one that best restores the intended meaning (never a calque or a false friend), or an English idiom (if the French was an idiom or a stylistic turn of phrase).
– EACH of the three proposals must be commented (nuance, register, tone, US usage, fidelity to the intent, difficulty level in English). This matters so I can evaluate and choose. I have little sense of common English terms and how they fit a context. Words are often misleading: two words can look similar in French/English and still mean different things. It is hard to judge what sounds exactly right in English for the meaning I give in French. SO, to sum up: a comment explaining why the original translation is inaccurate. Then a comment for each proposal explaining its nuances and the subtleties of the English.

IMPORTANT — high priority — STRICTLY MANDATORY: Every proposal must be commented, from the beginning to the end of the report.

@WE, your AI prompt boggled the mind… you want everything commented as well … that’s a whole lot of reading and re-reading you have to do constantly. No wonder you’re so busy!

I was vaguely entertained by the first episode of Penthouse. Let’s see if I can continue with it. I’m more busy now and end up working instead of drama-watching.