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I say bring on more WinterGarden aegyo. We need it, the show needs it. It's a delightful antidote to all the angst happening elsewhere. Besides happy Jeong-won means happy patients and plenty of initiatives for Daddy-Long-Legs and beyond.

Don't let the detractors get to you. Everyone has their preferences and honestly those of us who have rooted for them since last season should revel in all their scenes together because it's the payoff.

I didn't have problems either. I was fine with the legalese having watched legal dramas in the past but the pacing was what had me reeling at first. I know there are people who would disagree but I personally thought the show got better as it progressed.

I enjoyed the humour in Episode 13. It's a much needed injection after all the angst of the previous episodes. Hye-ri was great at showing all the likeable aspects of Lee Dam.
And of course Jae-jin and Hye Sun are downright adorable. In general Hye-sun is great with everyone.

It's good. Much more like S1. The first couple of episodes are a bit wobbly because they're trying to cover a fair bit of ground and set things up. There's also another serial killer arc like all the others. But it really starts to hit its stride at around Episode 4. They seem to be doing a lot better with the procedural side of things too. I like the island backdrop and Song Seung-ho as Derek Cho, the new male lead, is a credible addition to the team.
They do a bit of a recap of S2 and 3 at the start so you don't need to have seen them but there are big spoilers.

Yes definitely.

Humour is very subjective. We love it at our place. But we're also used to the writer's style.

Perhaps he watched the right movies and the right dramas.

Episodes 4 and 5 were especially good. I like what they did with the water side of things -- the abalone divers (that was interesting), the marina and the caves. Song Seung-heon's character is a really good fit and brings a lot of experience with LAPD to the cases.

Woo-yeo is his own worst enemy. Not Seon-woo, not the Mountain Spirit. This whole noble idiocy thing is causing more problems than doing any good. Dam is inadvertently made to feel like she's the one who has to prove her devotion. She's always second-guessing herself, walking on eggshells around him. It's not that I don't root for them but yeah, I wish he'd give her the respect as the woman he loves by telling her what the heck is going on. If he values her freedom than treat her like someone who has agency. Let her make that choice for herself whether or not to help him. It's not entirely up to him to fix the problem. That horse bolted a long time ago. And he's really making a muck of things.

He was slated to be a one-season only character.

I am surprised at the pushback at the aegyo as well. Jeong-won has always been a bit of a manchild. That's why he makes a good pediatric surgeon. The kid in him interacts well with the kids. It's true that he has got great insights to offer on people but he's an unworldly, child-like fellow.
The aegyo is not beyond the pale. It's very much in keeping with his personality and consistent with how he acted around her when he was trying to hide his feelings for her last season.

In all likelihood this is his first real dating relationship and hers too.

Yeah, me too.

For some reason I really miss Chi-hong and I feel his absence more and more acutely as the second season progresses. Especially when I see Su-bin or Seok-min. Or both. I feel that there's an empty seat in the room in need of being occupied. I really liked his dynamic with Song-hwa too.

I don't think it's that easy to move on from anybody. Even if he said he did, I wouldn't believe him and it wouldn't be true. The other thing is if he did move on at the drop of a hat, it would seem like he wasn't that serious about her anyway.
It's a Catch-22 situation. Damn if you do and damn if you don't. This is a balancing act for the writer who has to also demonstrate his sincerity. It's the same with Jae-jin and his women issues too. It's not that easy to move on.

I don't mind the red thread of destiny because its primary purpose is really to force Woo-yeo's hand. To help him find clarity about the benefits of being human and to hurry him along his quest particularly because he's dilly dallying. He doesn't want to do this or that... and yet he's right in the middle of a zero sum game. There's plenty at stake for him and that includes his soul. The Mountain Spirit is not his enemy. He is his own enemy.

The one I feel sorry for is Seon-woo because he is just the prop for the object lesson that the Mountain Spirit is giving in the overall scheme of things. Sure he was scumbag but now he's on a journey not to be one. He may have some kind of fate with Dam but it isn't romance.

As usual Jae-jin and Hye-sun are just adorable.

She's not stupid at all. She has her own kind of smarts.

This forum isn't just for people who like a drama. We're all just fans of Asian dramas here. None of us are professional critics.
Honestly I could do without the condescending attitude of some commenters who like the drama. I'm happy that many found something to like about the drama but assuming that people who didn't like it were too thick to get it is backhanded snobbery.

It's pretty obvious from Episode 1 of Season 1 that the priesthood was never Jeong-won's calling. Pediatric surgery is. It's just that the pain of losing the little kiddies got to him and the priesthood was an escape. But he needed a wake-up call of sorts to remind him what he's good at and Jang Gyeo-ul is that wake-up call.

I'm shocked too. It went from 9.4 to this in a week???