I kinda feel that the whole concept of him acting his sickness is very insulting to the FL's profession. Considering the whole treatment process was only experimental, but then it turns out the treatment was for something that didn't actually exist... I dunno, I think I'd be beyond pissed if something similar happened to me.
On ep 6 and I just noticed, but when the two leads are messaging each other, the FL's real name is shown instead of her sister's who she is pretending to be. Being as smart as he supposedly is, how does ML not notice this?
In the end It wasn't FL besides Han Tae sul, he was hallucinating and he kept wanting to be with her even through…
that... is tragically more logical. but why would he even need pills in the first place? His brother "died" basically due to the Villain who no longer exists so he wouldn't have any reason to be on pills anymore...
My interpretation of the ending is kinda based off of the American TV show 12 Monkeys:
Because the entire timeline was paradoxical, it's impossible to know where it begins or ends.
The only reason ML became so successful so quickly is because the Villain made sure it happened. At the same time, it is the Villain himself who pushes his present day self to further despair by making the ML find him and eventually get him chased at gunpoint. In a way, he made himself become the Villain.
FL only travels back because a future version of her told her to via diary. This method of recording current iteration of events is also used by Villain in order to maintain the loop so it is also impossible to figure out beginning or end.
All in all, the timeline was already a complete mess.
At the end, ML almost won after taking out Villain and we saw FL about to disappear. But then his friend comes by and tries to do the exact same thing the Villain did and force ML to build the uploader which would once again bring the time loop back,
In other words, no matter what as long as ML was alive with the code in his head the time loop would never truly end. So by killing himself, he prevents the possibility of the Uploader to exist. and therefore prevents Villain from traveling to the past to make sure ML becomes the success he is. Without the Villain in the past, basically none of what has occurred could happen. So the timeline kinda just resets everything.
BUT, magically it spits out FL in this new corrected timeline (maybe to pay back. ML for his sacrifice?).
Yea... still doesn't make any sense whatsoever but it's the best I can think of.
Also, in the end the diary from Future Villain may have also been magically spit out in the new timeline. Present day Villain still seems to hate ML but he's no longer overwhelmingly obsessed and just acting it out in the mirror.
No idea what the writers were thinking, I hate these non-conclusive endings that simply leave viewers lost and confused.
Because the entire timeline was paradoxical, it's impossible to know where it begins or ends.
The only reason ML became so successful so quickly is because the Villain made sure it happened. At the same time, it is the Villain himself who pushes his present day self to further despair by making the ML find him and eventually get him chased at gunpoint. In a way, he made himself become the Villain.
FL only travels back because a future version of her told her to via diary. This method of recording current iteration of events is also used by Villain in order to maintain the loop so it is also impossible to figure out beginning or end.
All in all, the timeline was already a complete mess.
At the end, ML almost won after taking out Villain and we saw FL about to disappear. But then his friend comes by and tries to do the exact same thing the Villain did and force ML to build the uploader which would once again bring the time loop back,
In other words, no matter what as long as ML was alive with the code in his head the time loop would never truly end. So by killing himself, he prevents the possibility of the Uploader to exist. and therefore prevents Villain from traveling to the past to make sure ML becomes the success he is. Without the Villain in the past, basically none of what has occurred could happen. So the timeline kinda just resets everything.
BUT, magically it spits out FL in this new corrected timeline (maybe to pay back. ML for his sacrifice?).
Yea... still doesn't make any sense whatsoever but it's the best I can think of.
Also, in the end the diary from Future Villain may have also been magically spit out in the new timeline. Present day Villain still seems to hate ML but he's no longer overwhelmingly obsessed and just acting it out in the mirror.
No idea what the writers were thinking, I hate these non-conclusive endings that simply leave viewers lost and confused.