Wow. I didn't expect this episode gonna feature Chohee's story... let alone for drama to connect her to Ryeon's past life as well as taking the JoongRyeon conflict a bit higher. And whoa, thing are getting pretty intense. And it was interesting to see now; after the revelaion of Joonggil's past in drama, to see that Ryeon's actions towards the people who spread false rumors about Chohee mirrored the things that Joonggil once did in the past. To an extent. While I could understand Joonggil's intervention was a bit harsh to Ryeon, I have to say that it was a bit too rash for him. And I guess it's safe to say that only Joonggil would be able to fix things now. That said, there's a new character now. Ha Daesu. Though from the description, it sounded like Ha Daesu might be based on Yeomra... but is still not Yeomra. Not sure how to feel about this not!Yeomra.
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Finally the Windflower arc, though I wonder if this arc would be a 2-parter just like Western Sky. Have to say that with all the tease we used to get, as well as the preview from the last episode, I do wonder how would the drama made changes to the original Windflower arc as to pair Ryeon and Joonggil together. So I guess this was how drama did it, aside from the circumstances that led to Ryeon killing herself... the rest mostly followed webtoon. Though with the new plot about the Qing invasion, I wonder if any of it would end up becoming Joonggil's origins in webtoon. Anyway, instead of a death of a son it was a dear servant who died. I have to say that it was pretty upsetting to assume that the returning women were defiled just because they have been kidnapped and taken out of Joseon. And rather than be happy that the women had returned home, the villagers treated the women like dirt. I'm angered at the villagers and the soldiers that spread false rumors about Ryeon but I was even more angered at Joonggil's mom. Ryeon risked her life to save her MIL and ended up captured in the process, yet the MIL didn't even try to do the same for Ryeon. So easy to believe rumors rather that listen to the truth. How despicable !
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Never thought I'd be seeing the Spring episode, since Boyun was important in this arc in webtoon and drama didn't have her character. But lo! Boyun appeared in this episode and as much as her character details in webtoon had been changed in drama (as in how she used to be in the RM team prior to being transferred to the Escort team) drama still retain parts of the original Spring plot from webtoon. Seeing how she used to save the girls and stopped some from killing themselves, I guess that explain why she use to be in the RM team in the webtoon. And as much as Junwoong's family background was changed in drama as well, I guess this was the previous life that was mentioned in webtoon on how he used to serve the country in the past life thus the reason in his current life he ended up being born with a silver spoon.Interesting.
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All my tears~~ So besides the whole Sales Team thing, the scene at the shop as well as the dream sequence, things unfolded the way it did go in webtoon. As much as I'm aware of the overall plotline... this still hits hard. Since the sequence that lead to Yuhwa's acceptance over her loss occured differently, I thought we won't get to see the child form of Honeybee's soul... but then there's that epilogue. I really like how the drama tries to have Joonggil appear in each episodes even briefly for the ones he didn't originally appear. We don't get a teaser for episode 13, so whether or not we get Windflower next is still uncertain. But dang... to think that both of Joonggil and Ryeon's records were locked, made me wonder what kinda twist the drama will give us next.
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Hehe... I'd never thought I'd be able to see the sequence of Junwoong dreaming that he was back home and being woken up by his family, to which it turned out that it was actually his team member instead. Since drama didn't really show that where the trio had been staying aside from their office (in webtoon, they've been living on the street before Yeomra gave them a trailer to sleep in). And I love that finally we're having people doing the running joke about Junwoong becoming permanent staff. That said, I still can't get used to the drama version on Junwoong's family. Since in webtoon he was actually the youngest and he had his parents and two older sisters instead of a mom and a young sister. But I guess having them meet up like this was a way for him to keep in touch with his family. We're getting the Dog episode earlier than the original order. But with the dog being so cute I can't actually complain about seeing it sooner www. I guess the earlier scene about Junwoong working for a bit at the editing department was to prepare for this episode. Since having us see the flashback clip for Kong was a way to practically speed up the back story of Hun and Kong's childhood memories up to the present time. And it makes me wonder if the cast really act with a real dog or there's also CGI involved because if it's a real dog, dangit the dog is really well trained. The episode was more or less the same as the original aside from some changes. I had so much feels! And yeay, we're finally getting the Western Sea episode! And it looked like both Breath and Western Sky plotline going to be combined together in the next episode. But of course drama would do this since the two arc were connected. Gonna look forward to how drama would deal with both of the stories ❤❤
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I think of all the episodes we see so far, this one probably the least dramatic. Not saying that the theme wasn't good--issue about body image and stuff was important too--vut it felt a bit dull. So this was the Miss Korea arc... though I wonder if the episode also jad mixed in elelements from other arcs. And since drama change Junwoong's family background in drama, a few other plot details also had changed. But it's still interesting how Ryeon start to entrust Junwoong more to deal with things by himself.
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What a great Veteran episode. I only managed to just skim the original webtoon arc since the English version hadn't reached this part yet so I'm glad I at least was able to see the episode properly in drama. Drama made some changes on the scene where Mr Lee returned from war but I suppose that's a good thing. I'm not sure that I could deal with the episode if that part happened the same way as in the webtoon. Really great cider near the end. Though I can't help feeling that some of Joonggil's lines were given to Ryeon, but hey, Joonggil still had some good scenes regardless so I'm happy. I really love all the JoongRyeon scenes we're getting.
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So that's the conclusion of Fallen Flower, which end up happening slightly different than in the webtoon but still retained most of the plot details. I like how drama explains the reason how the memory world started breaking apart, in which we're reminded as to why Guryeon gave her warning earlier. Initially I'm not sure how ro feel about the drama pushing the plot to having Eunbi and Hyewon meeting again as adult, but now it felt right. Because in the webtoon there was a scene that mention how the victims will continue being haunted by the trauma while the bullies forget, and I feel that drama had given more weight to that scene by having the plot be more layered than in the original. That said, it looked like the next episode will be on the Forest of Memory. And I thought it felt familiar that Junwoong's friend was also called Jaesu.
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I went and read up the original webtoon in preparation for this drama, just so I can get familiar with the setting. I have to say that this drama start up really good. So far I like the parts that they retained from the webtoon and parts they changed for the drama. They kinda reduced a lot of scenes where Ryunggu constantly pick his nose and added an extra quirk to him. I guess cos it can't be too good to have the actor constantly doing that onscreen. I like how we got to see more of Joonggil compared to how he was introduced in the webtoon and I noticed how the drama simplified some of the character background details and also changed some, especially regarding Junwoong's family. So far the episodes were looking good; they aged up Eunbi while also retaining her original story. I guess, that's in relation to some of the recent bullying scandals. So far so good, I like how they added the bit about the key of memory which wasn't in the original. Since I already knew about the Director/CEO and how she looked like in drama, I'm not really surprised about the older looking Jade Empress. I also like how the drama kept Guryeon's pink hair and eyeshadow look alongside Joonggil's suave persona. But it's kinda a pity that drama appear to not have the COO aka Yeomra in the story. Cos I really like him. Yeomra's a pretty funny guy in the webtoon. XD
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"Uncle, is a good person in a perplexing way."I have to say that this was an interesting way for Geuru to describe Sanggu. But it fit him anyway. Since Sanggu was indeed a good guy who tend to not really be too honest about his true feelings. As we could see from his past relationship with Sucheol. Having a glimpse of how Sanggu's relationship with Sucheol started, it was really heartwrenching to see how things lead up to the present. And we already see how he had reacted before with Kim Insu, so now we get to truly understand why he felt strongly about it in relation to Sucheol. As in, even when Sucheol's condition didn't seem to be improving, it was hard for him to have to let him go. In which, for him to finally find out the whole truth that Sucheol had hidden from him much more painful.
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This last episode is really incredible. Was rhere anything to dislike?I really love how everything was wrapped up. Like how Dogi taking up his revenge against Oh Chulyoung ended up taking a different path. Like Dogi deciding to continue his revenge by being kind and Oh Chulyoung ended yp being punish by his own actions instead. I like how everything went full circle as to how Sungchul realizing how his vengeance ended up destroying his life and that the true revenge would be to live a better life compared to the criminals that hurt them. "Don't let evil conquer you, let good conquer evil". This motto kept appearing throughout the series and I'm happy to see how in the end... all the good guys ended up being able to follow what those words reminded them about. And I like how the conclusion in Hana and Dogi's relationship was written and how Hana chose in the en in order to do what she felt is the right thing to do. And I like how the final scene implied that the Rainbow Taxi didn't actually came to an end. Which could lead to a continuation. Perhaps? How knows? Regardless, I really love Jehoon and Esom's performance troughout the show. Hana and Dogi really shined till the end and their journey truly become memorable. It makes you want to see more of them and how their paths could go on further. I have to say that this drama truly is such a healing journey. And I love the random cameos. Like I didn't expect that Do Joongeun to appear in this drama as a new deputy chief prosecutor.
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I had to give it to Park Jaebum for all the Song Joongki fanservice in this episode. He really do know what to do to make people watching this drama happy.That aside, I'm again very amused at how perfectly timed all of the little plot elements that was shown in this episode. Like how the arrival of the Italian coach was first hinted early on through a news report, and then we see Vincenzo used that to his advantage. And also how we first got to see the painting of Liberty in the flashback at the gallery, and at the end of the episode we see a parody of the Liberty painting. Seriously that was a stroke of genius.
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This episode opens with a court scene and ends with another court scene. I have to say that the framing of the episode was pretty neat.We get to see how with Vincenzo's guidance, they managed to somehow delay the first hearing to prevent the case to be closed prematurely by the Babel people and see how the Jipuragi said gained another victory. But then, not all went smooth sailing for the team as the Babel side also kept on attacking.I have to say the comedy in this episode was pretty good. Like who would've thought to use a hornet attack to delay a court proceeding? Also, I have to hand it with continuous misunderstanding by Mr Ahn regarding Vincenzo's behaviour. In which our resident NIS agent unknowingly helped him to keep his true identity as a consigliere away from the enemy. I'm also amused at the fact the writer made Mr Ahn sorta a crybaby. Like Kim Hae-il also shared that similar trait lol.That aside,Junwoo finally revealed his true identity to Han and Choi, so I guess Vincenzo's attempt to try draw him out in the open was starting to bear fruit. All in all, a fun episode!
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OmG this episode.... trying so hard to keep a straight face over the unexpected fanservice and the funny attacks.And it's amazing that as much as Vincenzo did start to show more of himself to Cha-young, he still manages to avoid revealing the fact that he was consigliere to a mafia family. And the build upon this episode was really good as we finally get to see more of Vincenzo's ability as an advisor to the mafia and why the late head of the Cassano family trusted him more than his own son.It's a nice prelude to what battle would come next. And it's nice also to see that the people from the Geumga Plaza had started to have more respect towards Vincenzo. Seriously the end scene was top class 👍👍👍👌👌👌
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Suspicion and distrust continued between Joowon and Dongsik as both tried to feel each other out. We get to see more on Dongsik's side as one may start to wonder whether or not he was really innocent, like... would it really be possible for someone like Dongsik who seemed to care a lot about people with mental disabilities as well as someone who had suffered a lot in the past 20 year could commit such heinous crimes.And yet with the cliffhanger at the end, that bit really catch you off guard. Is Dongsik really was the culprit? But this early in the game, I had to wonder if the reveal that we see was just a red herring. As in it's still too soon to fully conclude the case yet.That aside, it makes one wonder if there was something else beyond this serial murder case that we yet to find out. Because of all these other people who were trying so hard to cover up the case, it makes one wonder if there is some big secret that was hidden.
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