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Life on Mars

라이프 온 마스 ‧ Drama ‧ 2018

I love(d) this drama till the last few episodes. Is justifying suicide if you’re not okay in the present and prefer living in dream/imagination a good precedent? It was disturbing and depressing. Because I think a lot of people sometimes feel this way in real life. But instead of accepting reality and dealing with it, escaping in the name of following your heart is kinda sad and disappointing.

I loved the characters so much more than the story tbh. I think the show took too much liberty with the ambiguity and used it as a crutch and left everything to the viewer’s interpretation. Very convenient and lazy IMHO.

Now, on to my doubts/questions.

So did Han Tae Joo die/get stuck in limbo while in coma in the car accident in the beginning?

When it was shown he returned to 2018 and went back to 1988, was it waking up from coma and committing suicide OR was it a dream within a dream?

If you can only dream about faces you’ve already seen, (like his team’s faces he saw in the cold case file) how did he dream up Ahn Min Shik and Kim Hyun Seok’s faces? AMS face he couldn’t have seen because he was dead/or in coma before he came into scene. But how could he possibly know how KHS looked in 1988?

Why did Kim Hyun Seok warn Han Tae Joo to not trust Ahn Min Shik?

Why did Kim Min Seok become a serial killer? Did he learn the M.O. from his brother? What was the trauma he had regarding his sister? It was just glossed over and rushed.

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