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Actually, I think we need reality on a tv show. Especially when everybody looks to them as inspiration for their lives. It's also time for Korean fiction to start thinking in women and considering women as more than little princesses in distress. So having a love story where guy considers her his equal was amazing. And they only had a difference of 6 years. Like they said on the drama, life doesn't end when the marriage is finished. She had a second chance in life to be happy, why should her not be? Yes, she had a child. And that's child would grow up and go to her own life. Before everything else, she was a woman, and after that a mother.

I felt the same. For instance, it was nice to watch a couple growing together ad without unnecessary angst. Not everything in life needs to be fully dramatic. And people need to watch more healthy and adult relationships (which doesn't mean they can't be goofy and have fun together. Actually, and like they have said in the drama, the best person to be with is your best friend and the one you have fun with, even when cleaning the house.

I didn't feel like that. I think the directors created a show that was a window to their lives, but that didn't showed us everything. For example, there's the scene were she is so tired of working on the small publisher that she is basically cleaning the floor of the house, it is clear she has been working there for a while even if we haven't seen much from there. So I imagine her calling her daughter at night or in the morning, or at her lunch break.

Ah ah I even felt a but voyeuristic that moment! ;)

Actually, it isn't. I've seen the Taiwanese version, the Korean version and I just finished this one. After watching all of them I can say I like the Taiwanese and I've watched it 2 times already (the second one because I watched for first time so long ago I had to catch up to watch the sequel). Even so, I would cut out some of the crying scenes, her silliness was a bit overloaded and tiring sometimes but the couple had chemistry together. The korean version was the one I dislike the most and is one of my least favorite kdramas ever. I don't have any really nice to say about it. This one had a lot of sweetness and good moments, the guy doesn't look like a robot and the only thing lacking was properly romantic scenes. Not because they didn't exist, but because the characters were a bit stiff on that moments, and it became anti-climax every time we should feel excited for them.

I knew she wouldn't end up with him, but I guess I was just expecting something different... like Wook being killed by the 3rd brother and she closing that chapter and moving on a few years later and being happy with So (even if I didn't like him in the end ah ah ). I understand where we came from and why he was like that , whoever I think I'm a bit tired of that "bad boy, golden heart" formula you mentioned. It's like they can do whatever they want because they always have excuses for it and we just need to go deeper and find the real person inside. Nevertheless, since this was a historical drama I understand why he had to be and act like he did.

I believe he is Ma Rin's father. And when he and So Joon met in the future and he is really upset with So Joon and says to him they shouldn´t ever have meet, I think it's because he is disappointed and mad at him for disappearing, which means So Joon and Ma Rin didn't have a baby (and his plan failed), so his daughter still has the chance to die and he can't avoid it anymore. Now, I don't get what the man is doing with the Director and what comes from here.

I thought about it since both of them should have been on the train that had the accident. But I don't think so because of that day she followed on the train and he time traveled and she stayed in Present.

He started to marry her to save them both and he isn´t in love with her, he is trying to create a perfect marriage to help them change their futures. But in the end he cares for her and she is growing on him even without he noticing it. That's the beautiful part here ;)

Hi Soo SolsPerfection. I think of it as pushed when the authors use the same formula as always do disintegrate some kind of love triangle.

Do you know when in stories where there are 2 guys the female lead could choose, and to make the choice obvious to the readers or viewers, they change the character of one of them to justify why she ended up with the other? To me, that was the case here. I know this is a remake so they couldn´t change much but the abrupt transformation of Wook was, in some way, just a method to take him out of scene and create space for So to be the hero.

I've read some comments about the chinese version and they say all of their characters where better explored and understood there. I didn't watch the chinese version but from what I've read, all the connections and developments made more sense there. There was something lacking here and it really annoyed me and didn't allow me to like this drama as much I wanted.

I guess It didn't help I couldn't stand So's character either. He started to grew on me during the time where he waited for her and had patience to let her learn how to like him in the process, but the time he got to be King I was really sick of his character to the point that when Soo decides to leave the palace, I just wanted to clap and give her a tumbs up. Of course it just means Lee Joon Gi did a great job portraying the 4th prince and I still think of So as a complex man, much because of his acting.

Oh boy, I'm on episode eleven and enjoying all the palace policies and so on but getting totally mad with this pushed romance between So and Soon.

He is not marrying her because he is in love, he is marrying her to save both and change their futures. Of course he cares for her but not on a level to be passionate about it. And pretending so much is not easy ;) But I believe he will fall in love as the time goes by.

I thought the same :)

I think is trying to keep alive but is also trying to protect her. Of course he isn't in love with her but that's not him just "using" her. I also a theory that the old time traveler is Ma Rin father and he already knows about their future together, that's why he gave him that suggestion. And he keeps track of their life on his apartment and that's why he doesn´t allow Yoo So Joon to go inside.

I get a bit of feeling this is like the a Korean approach of something similar to the Time Travel's Wife, but with its original structure and content. With that said, from the previews I watched I wasn't expecting something so "serious" but I I'm enjoying it quite much. From the first two episodes we can get the idea of a time puzzle which we only got a few pieces from for now, but that will fit all together on the bigger scheme as the show goes by.

I finished it last night and I can´t agree more with you. I felt all the aspects you referred as well. Probably the last two episodes were a bit low place and I had the impression she was filling the time with that final plot just because they two more episodes and nothing special to add since their lives were pretty much resolver by them. Nevertheless the author could give the right flow and make it work beautifully until the end.

I thought about the same and I think it's something he said when they were talking at thr couch. He was able to come back because She called him on the first day of snow, exactly how it was written in the contract. It Stiller doesn't make much sense but it's better than nothing.

Well I don't believe people are all black and white. In flashbacks we saw the original family was happy. And you know, there are many people without scrupulous and very manipulative capable to change and create big influences in the minds of others. Probably we felt in love and we had a few glints of how she did it. Like when HJJ was sick and the stepmother said he was asleep and he didn't had any reason to suspect her so he believed on her. I think he probably don't even knows what happened to his previous wife. She disappeared in Spain, probably was chased by some guys hired by the awful woman and run away to protect his son. And I guess she wouldn't get rid of the kid because he was young or something like that but then realized she couldn't put strings on him and started provoking him resulting on his escape.

It's has some cheesy scenes but I'm having fun watching it. And besides some family problems, I don't think his characters are alike here.

To be honest that's the only part of the plot I'm not enjoying. Even if the father had discovered he wasn't his real son, the man raised him, for God sake. He should like him a bit, and trying to bring the other son close doesn't need to be a synonymous of getting rid of the other, even when money is at sake. And someone who is protecting a father, even knowing it isn't is own, just because he rejects him somehow, would not want to see him dead and just give up.