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apparently that's what they did before and they just modified/refined them a bit and they got away with it so far

kinda lame these previews for the end of episode 5 both for tastefully yours and second shot at love. they used fake/imagined memories where in fact some scenes didn't even happen because they were just dreams. that's kinda sad to resort to such directing

Manufactured drama. Why did she go to Japan too see that chef? I don't think that chef would like to be seen like that in the first place, that's for close relatives to be around him, not for an ex. employee, there was not even scenes showing they were close to begin with, he yelled at her, that's it. She took the blame because she wanted, nobody pressured her, why is she blaming her ex? He could have said something afterwards that's right but that doesn't change the fact that she did it on her own will. Why did he cut her off afterwards? No reason given. That's why i say it's manufactured drama, it doesn't make sense at all. And then the writers make this ML run like a puppy to Japan after her, while she continue to act indiferent. Then FL one minute acts cold to her ex, next minute laughs with him having a good time while ML watches them, what is the guy even suppose to understand from this? That's confusing as hell. I'd just want to leave if i was him. Writers just made this ML look insecure and pitiful around her ex. Wish they focused more on comedy with the other two working at the restaurant than with this poor written love triangle.

I don't understand this ex boyfriend/colleague subplot. It looks like she took the fall for him then he stayed at the restaurant and cut her off entirely? Something doesn't add up. She looked swayed when she saw him and she seems to still have feeling for him. Anyways, I don't like this out of nowhere ex bf. appearance trope just to stir some drama between the leads who began to have something going between them. Great dramatic timing, what can I say. Then she goes to Japan with him after telling him to never meet again. Ok? They even made ML follow like a puppy after her, so romantic! Wish they gave Chun Seung and Myeong Suk more screen time than this sub plot. Chun Seung had some really funny scenes.

Defenetely, Mi Rae will work at the farm and meet Se Jin and Mi Ji will interact with Ho Su who's also working in Seoul. Mi Rae will get to understand how Mi Ji was looked down because not seen as succesful as her, and how she felt beeing constantly compared to her. And Mi Jin will understand how exhausting and hard her sister life was working an office job in a big corporation and beeing mistreated. Writing wise, they had to make the mother not figure out from the beggining that they swapped places for the plot to go on, but i find it a bit hard to belive a mother would not pick that up right away. Interesting plot idea, a bit predicatable but hope there's more depth to it. Even if it's predictable if it's well executed this could get to be one of the best dramas of 2025.

First episode spoilers ahead.

Right after Mi Rae told the story to her sister about her workplace struggles it instanlty clicked to me. They'll defenetely switch places! Even when Mi Ji was on the bus on her way home i was waiting, any moment now she'll get off the bus. It was even said at the beggining that the only persons that could tell them apart was their father and grandmother. So partially i belived this somehow will work out, even though i find it unlikely story wise that their mother would not pick it right away that they switched places and Mi Rae is actually Mi Ji, even if they look exactly the same a mother should quickly pick changes in personality and even voice timber. Curious as well how Mi Ji will manage at the workplace considering she doesn't have any office experience. Another thing that cought my attention is that it looked like Mi Ji will work at the farm and meet Se Jin there, but the classic kdrama childhoold connection trope showed that Mi Jin was interacting more with Ho Su, so i would had been surprised if something was to develop between Mi Jin and Se Jin. But after i got the comfirmation they will switch places it made sense which the pairs that will interact and develop further were. Looking forward about how this will develop but i'm enjoying the characters and the plot idea so far.

what the fat? 💀

Donald? I guess they have english names in the webtoon? But when did he got that strong? Was he training muscle when he didn't solve math problems? We didn't get screen time with him training at all, he was just hella strong or progressed alot lately. He surprised Hu Min when they fought, i don't think he expected to lose to him when he was the one that trained him.

I have so many questions:
1. Why are they so resiliant to punches? they get a little lip blood or a patch and the next day they like new, like they wolverine it up 💀
2. Where the adults at, what teachers parents be doing this show, they be full NPC mode. phones be mass missing, iphone gone extinct no fuzz about it, that's serious business. What about the parents? They do nothing about their kids always get home beaten up like their cosplaying punching bags on a daily basis. You have to make abstraction adults exists this show and highschoolers rule the world for it to make sense.
3. Why did the last episode group fight scene ended when they thought Baku lost to Baek Jin? Like that was suppose to settle it? Why did they have to gang fight in the first place if the bosses could have settled it themselves? Why did they have to 2v1 Baek Jin, he was already severely worn out and hurt when Si Eun came (much worn out than Si Eun) They just glazed Baek Jin aura. I know, they had to make it interesting, as an OP ''one-punch man'' Hu Min would had been too convinient/easy and they had to give the season 1 ML hero Si Eun screen time to the end boss fight but i thought Hu Min could solo Baek Jin as he taught him how to fight and they made him look like that OP guy who solo'ed the union before and had no match. Also why nobody intervene when Hu Min got up and sucker punched Baek Jin after he already lost to him and was dead beat laying on the ground? It's not like the Union was lost and had all their men fainted on the ground, they just stopped fighting when they thought Baek Jin won, but i did expect for them to intervene when it was no longer a fair 1v1.

Most of the answers to these questions are ''for the plot'' but still can't stop myself from asking.

Hong Seok clearly says in episode 4 : ''I know that you dated me not because you had feelings for me, but because you missed Ram Woo.'' ; ''But i was serious about us, So i guess i wanted us to be okay together.'' It was ''explicitly'' stated, so you might have missed that part out. And she didn't help him get through the grief as they didn't even talk about Ram Woo, she didn't even ask him(Hong Seok) about how he's feeling, because he was hurting too. You said ''but when he disappeared, she felt like there was no reason to carry on anymore'' but why then after those years and not shortly after the shock and trauma she had after he was gone? She had even more reasons to live after repear ML apperead, because that should have made her think that there's some sort of continuity or other form of life after death, so they could also meet again, just like it was hinted out by the other repears that repear Park could have met his daughter again if he wasn't vanished forever, because he intervened about his sick daughter. This happens with repear Ram Woo as well, he intervene, he sacrifice himself so Jung Hee can continue to live on, so this actually ruins the chance they can meet again in the future for the cost of the poetic ending : ''he will live on in her memories as long as she will continue to live on as Jun Hee''. But Jung Hee doesn't even know about Ram Woo's sacrifice, that he again lost his second form of existence just that she can live on. If she knew that, that would break her again.

it wasn't explained, just that she had a painful loss as well and that could have something to do with it

I don't get why she still wanted to end her life after all the closure she got with the help of repear ML. She got closure with ML's mother, finding out that she doesn't resent her or blame her, with ML finding out as well that he doesn't resent her, more than that, he wants for her to live on and be happy. She still has her father and her sister to live for and her just ending herself for me that would be the ultimate disrespect for ML, like why did he even had to die for then? So she lives on after the incident, even dates ML's friend for awhile, then all of a sudden after all the years passed, we find out that she never moved on, she's still grieving, living in guilt and depressed. So ML shows up as the repear, helps her get closure and try to make her realise that nobody blames her and she should forgive herself and keep on living. With all that, she figures out that after all that time she still can't live on without him and tries to end herself, what were the repear's attemps for then, i've thought they were meaningful and she realised something. In episode 5 we find out that if a grim repear intervene about ''what's written on the roll'' he is vanished forever from existence, like the grim repear in the story they told when the repears we're sitting near the tree. They said his daughter lived but they don't know for how much long, hinting that her faith is bound to happen even though she was saved that time. So repear Park is vanished from existence and can never see his daughter again.So he had been able to see her again if he had let her faith taken place. So in the end ML shows up when she tries to jump and just like that he makes her reconsider and change her mind, did he do something different this time than the last time they talked in the episode? That's him intervining though. We could at least got some sort of happy or satisfactory ending if he didn't do that and we knew that he can live on in a way or another even as a repear. But how i understand it, is that he was sacrificed once again this time on his own will, so she can still live on, but for how long we don't know, because his sacrifice will be in vain if what's written on the roll is still bound to happen. How will she feel if she knew that he sacrificed again for her? Am i supposed to feel moved by his sacrifice and be happy that she lives on after all his attemps to convince her? Unsatisfying ending to this story for me, they just wanted to write a sad ''realistic'' ending but if you do that at least make it a worthy and meaningful sacrifice.

I liked the first 2 episodes, i saw potential, but soon after nothing made sense for me. I felt tricked about rooting in the beggining for one of the leads, thinking there is more to it and soon i'll understand them and their actions will make sense later on. But no, it didn't make any sense. She was so set on about not doing the surgery and how much she hated him just for him to say some magical words when they talked on the ship : ''i never hated you and i enjoyed so much working with you'' and that was her switch, all the buildup those episodes where she was dead set upon not doing the surgery just for her to be flipped . So in the second part i felt confused, what i was supposed to do now? Root for this ''emotional, heartwarming'' reconciliation between these 2 ''genius'' murderers; Was i suppose to be touched about their story and the murderers they were willing to do for each other? Because i wasn't. He didn't make sense to me, i didn't connect with his reasoning that ''He has to break her in order for her to be next level surgeon''. He risked his life and was ready to die for what? Just to prove something to her or make her next level surgeon? Because he failed, she still made it and proved him wrong. Was his plan to be martyred? He showed psychopathic and narcistic traits but i still didn't buy his character. I didn't understand her character as well, she wasn't the typical psychopath, she still showed emotions when she thought her dogs were dead. So why she killed so easily without remorse? In the end i felt like i wasted my time on something that wanted to be some complex and sophisticated psychological drama, which it wasn't. If i found something interesting about this drama is the somewhat original plot, but that's all to it.

my favorite drama of 2024 along Mr. Plankton.

It's rare to get a kdrama these days without the usual kdrama tropes, cringe cliches and not lastly the forced/manufactured unatural or over the top drama. Mr. Plankton had such an original and unique vibe to it. Good writting, good acting, emotional story, good cinematography. My favorite drama of 2024 with The Atypical Family coming close second place. I could skip all the others drama of 2024 but not these.

I've enjoyed a decent good first half but after that it started to fell off for me. The action scenes were ridicolous and didn't make sense, especially last episodes, i think this show wanted to be everything: comedy, action, romance, mistery but it didn't excel at anything, other than the somewhat original story. Chairwoman was written to be unhinged but she ended up beeing cringe most of the time. Last episodes were poorly written and the resolve was unsatisfactory.

I don't see where this is going with the plot, some actions don't make sense. They keep trying to dig stuff on each other. He has already seen her near 2 dead bodies, and could had turn her in if he wanted to. He didn't try to blackmail her with the kills to try to get the surgery yet he closed her pharmacy to get her attention. And then she's digging stuff on him for what? To confirm her hunch or be on equal footing. But like i said he could had turn her in if he wanted in the first time he saw her near a body when they both were working at the hospital, not just now when he needs the surgery, but he didn't. Now let's say she confirms he did it with clear evidence and rubs it in his face, then what? Is her goal to prove he's a hypocrite or prove he's also a murderer like her, what's her goal with her obsession? And why is he hanging near those detectives investigating the nurse murderer, he already knows it was her, just to protect her because he needs her? Also she tries to get back at him with the award mini plot because she hates him so much, but in the last scenes of ep. 4 she says something like ''i could had do it for you if you asked me, i wouldn't let you get blood on your hands''. After all the stuff that happened it looks like she still idolize him. While i didn't felt bad for her first 2 victims showed, it would shift my perception of her if she would kill for him random people he hated. What i also noticed is that her first killing, the guy in the buss, she got off after him and followed him so the story she told deok hui that he followed her and was self defense was probably not true or there's more to it. And it looks like he'll kill detective Lee. While you could make a case for her, that the people she killed were not ''so good'' and still root for her, his murders seems out of selfishness and he hates the idea of getting caught by her, by contrast she didn't looked that affected when caught by him or revealing her true self.

I've kinda lost interest in the last episodes. They still tried to keep it engaging by making up drama out of thin air but it felt forced. So much emphasis was put on their background and story as teenagers, and how big of a secret and deal it was what happened then, but the resolve was disappointing. She was the only one still feeling bitter about it and he was ok with it after he found out. It doesn't make sense at all for them to not beeing over what happened 10 years ago when they were teenagers, and keep talking about that defining moment later on like its still a big part of their current life. But if they made such a big deal out of it, what was all of it for? So after she found out she told him he's ''just a kid'' and what can he do forh er only for her to realise half an episode later that she actually loves him and to rush to his place.. Even grandma had her redemption after all the evil stuff she said and done, like saying some words is going to make up for how she treated him through out most of his childhood and making a child belive his at fault for his parents death. This drama doesn't stand out for me, same ever repeating tropes and cliche : childhood connection, ''only worth of loving chaebols/elitists'', ML showcasing his social status and networth, rural area retreatments, evil chairman/woman.

The high rating of this show is really interesting. I've seen alot of shows rated 8 or little above 8 with good writting, cinematography, OSTs and storry. So i guess this show was ''cool'' and had the popular highschool setting , included alot of anime like fights so it got to be highly rated? This is what's popular these days so what can you do, i guess alot of teenagers watched this and thought it was super cool! I would not have a problem if it was a superhero movie from the start and marked as fantasy but it started as real life setting and it became more and more ridicolous with cartonish physics and anime style fights. You must either abandon all logic before starting this or tell yourself that the action is happening in an alternate universe to make sense of it, where kids rules the world, there is no media, smartphones, law or police forces. Not a single entity in the show is allowed that could distrurb the main focus of the show, that is the cartonish cool fights. So writers, take notes, if you want a 9+ rating show just include a highschool settings and alot of anime style fights, guess good writting is not needed anymore.

I would say it's not heavy politics. ML Dr. is supported by the Minister of Health so anytime he has a conflict with the hospital director or other higher ups he plays the ''minister got my back card''. So no politics just internal hospital management stuff, who are between ML and hospital director and other higher ups who doesn't like the ML either because of his character or because his trauma department(he is in charge of) draws alot of money and demands more funding.