Eleison

Very interesting--thanks for sharing!

The cliff always makes an appearance at least once in a costume Cdrama, as does the white truck of doom in a melodramatic/action Kdrama. 😅

Yes, thanks for the helpful info! 👍

I mean no offense, but may I offer an unspoken MDL etiquette suggestion? When many of us post on MDL and get into long dialogues that last more than a few responses and which include a lot of text, we often try to put our posts as "spoilers" so they don't dominate the comment section and make it harder to read the thread (cause the spoiler comments take up less room) or we chat through Messages instead, which is a private chat feature. Just wondering if you and @DareDaniel would consider doing this for future conversations of this kind? It's not even too late to do it for this convo. 😉

I mean no offense, but may I offer an unspoken MDL etiquette suggestion? When many of us post on MDL and get into long dialogues that last more than a few responses and which include a lot of text, we often try to put our posts as "spoilers" so they don't dominate the comment section and make it harder to read the thread (cause the spoiler comments take up less room) or we chat through Messages instead, which is a private chat feature. Just wondering if you and @MetalBoxNuke would consider doing this for future conversations of this kind? It's not even too late to do it for this convo. 😉

You have to subscribe as well, yes? What are the other three platforms?

Ah, I've never heard of it until recently. Is it another platform that legally streams dramas like Viki?

Yes, that's what she seems to want people to think. But we find out in Episode 15 or 16 that it's actually fake.

I don't, sorry! Are there any other medical dramas you've seen successfully before?

Thank you! 😊

It seems like in this drama, though, it's implied she was born with it (thought it's a lie)?

Viki in the U.S. is behind on posting episodes compared to whatever most people on here are using, so I'm seeing things here before I get to watch them. I've been frustrated by the rubberbanding of their relationship, the constant two steps forward three steps back as far as trusting each other; I'm at 16, and since 13 it's been nice, but now I am worried about Episode 20. I'm afraid I'll get too angry to continue... There's a fine line between character arcs/growth and angst for the sake of angst...this drama has toed the line a few times and I won't be able to handle much more...

Is that how you feel about most medical dramas or just this one? I'm curious. My understanding is most medical dramas are pretty unrealistic to real life in a variety of ways. Is that your experience or are there some TV shows/dramas that nail "hospital realism"? I've heard the Pitt is pretty solid, but I think it'd be too realistic for me to enjoy. 😉

I think GYJ had great microexpressions, but that's just me.

The cancer patients are mostly old; the only young case had to do with a girl who went too long without a period and got endometrial cancer. They don't have many scenes where patients describe symptoms outside pregnancy. One emergency room case where they do, it ends up applying to an old lady rather than the young one being seen because the charts get mixed up. 😅 I have health anxiety, too, and I didn't find it too bad. Sometimes I skipped parts where they focused on the cancer patients, though, just because I felt like it. That said, if you're pregnant or about to become so, or doing anything with IVF, I wouldn't suggest it for right now. 😏 I'm not showing it to my pregnant sister even though she likes dramas; it would be too overwhelming.

Anyone know who the screenwriter is?

I was grateful for Wei Yan's redemption arc, though! Phew. I just hope he can stick to his guns and not get insecure again. 😬

I put the pieces together from a line in one of the earlier episodes a charscter casually threw out there. 😅

Wei Shao's nefarious cousin slipping out of the investigation without anyone suspecting her annoyed the heck out of me! Please, someone, find out she is a snake! 😭

I wasn't! 😅 I was kind of mad she wanted to quit again, rather than pay off the debt and keep working (didn't everyone/everything grow on her?); like having a bunch of money would make her life better! *smh* Fulfilling work (that provides financial stability) trumps having lots of money any day. 😉 (I know it was primarily for comedic affect, but it still kind of bothered me).

P.S. And wasn't the lottery amount 32 million won? The American equivalent of that is roughly $32,000, and that's poverty level where I live in California. 😅 No one can live on that, and she had 19 million of that had to go towards her debt. Maybe I read the ticket amount wrong, but that's what I saw.

True! It did improve, which is indeed rare for a Kdrama.