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On the one hand, you can say they are keeping him true to character - a weak person he's always been. On the other, you can argue that THIS is the time he should have waken up, or at least shown some growth as a man over the series. take your pick, Iguess.

They look for certain genetic markers, so yeah, it goes beyond blood type. This is why its more difficult to find matches for marrow transplants

It's funny, in the KBS America subs, her name is translated to 'weeds'.

The pure speculation is the only reason I still watch.

Unless he is her Sugar-Daddy, it would make sense he was JD's dad. They broke up over her getting pregnant, and he later hooked up with her and told her to come to the USA and leave the kid behind. He bequeathed his assets to SJ for eventual distribution to JD. If she hadn't started liquidating all the assets, this would make a lot of sense. But she is cashing everything out, so I dunno. But maybe it does if he didn't want anything to do with a kid of his. too many unknowns.

This is EXACTLY what is bugging me. JinJu would be the obvious choice, given Canada's proximity to the USA where she lived. And even IF they tried her and it failed, I can't believed JinJu wouldn't have told her husband what is going on. And if SJ wanted JD for whatever reason (transplant donor, guilty mom, etc) it would have made more sense for her to support KS to hook up with MR, to get on his good side for granting joint custody rights. She should not be trying to alienate him. We STILL don't know what is really going on yet. And how long has this all been going on? She got her passport in April. How long is she going to be able to survive without a donation?

I went back and re-watched that scene. The dr says "we haven't found any donor....who's a match for you yet." Unless it's a translation/subbing error, it would seem they are talking about SJ herself.

ughhh

Sheesh. They continue to charge along into I-have-no-idea-what.

-I liked YJ standing up to SJ. Good for you! I almost felt like Sher wrote her lines in that scene!

-I also found it interesting that she never bothered to call her sister in Canada. Hmmmm
-And of course, he won't move out. That was a pipe dream for all of us. I guess SJ told JD to resist everything and that MR was the fault of everything. I know she's a kid, and her mom is brain-washing her, but she can't even keep an open mind??? With everything MR has done for her?
-It still pisses me off that the Ok family is being kept in the dark. WTF??? For God's sake, KS, tell your kid, FINE, YOU STAY HERE, I'LL MOVE OUT. How spineless is this guy??????
-It was hard to see such a disheartened DH walk away. How will he earn enough to be a homeowner to get his woman? HDF to the rescue?
- HR knows something is going on.....JD-Day will be this Friday!!!

And the end-scene. So, she comes to SK in hopes of finding a better donor-match. OK, makes sense. They make it seem like it never occurred to her that a family member is the obvious choice? That seemed to me to be a VERY odd conversation with her Dr. The family is always the first choice w. bone-marrow/stem cells. I'm not sure who the better match is? Per google, it's a sibling, but in Dramaland?????
We still don't have all the pieces in this puzzle.

10000%!!!!

Woah! Rating dropped back to 7.5!

More unanswered questions:
Is KS CR's son? What is KS future role at HDF? Will DH reunite with his mobster friends to get enough money quickly to buy a house for Aunty Ding (in other words, will his history repeat itself)? Will the truth be exposed about the phony suicide? Who was James Kim?

They should have renamed this show "LOOSE ENDS"because that's what they'll leave us with.

No way! REALLY? Are we going down this road, AGAIN, right after TLIYE did it too?????

Loelha, I think the difference for me is that TRHC makes me angry and this one just frustrates me.
TRHC, for whatever reason, deliberately took a left-turn and changed the entire story of the back 1/3 of the show. Whether this was planned all along or not, who knows? But they took characters we'd grown to love and changed them so much, and put them in stupid situations, all the while promoting the villians. Speaking for myself, I feel betrayed.

AOME, on the other hand, is simply ineptly done. It's hard to believe they kept KS the same sorry excuse of a man, the whole show. He's your ML, for goodness sake! We knew all along that SJ would come back, it was the whole point of the drama - how would KS & MR marry and unite after she showed up? But for them to run out of time in a 121 episode drama is INSANE. Like Sher says, we wasted 40+ episodes - I don't begrudge the JH/MR storyline, but it should have been minimized, because the bottom-line is that nothing of note happened during all those months we watched the show. There was ample time to include all these story arcs and still give us 2 - 3 episodes of what their married life would have been like and a timeskip into the future. Now, if they try to do that, it will so unbelievable that we'd just end up shaking our heads.

KS does not deserve to be rewarded with MR. I hope they don't do it, but they will. He should be stuck with that conniving SJ , who'll run his life as she sees fit until she finds a new toy to play with and dumps him again. To me, that is the most believable and fitting ending for this show. For him to be stuck being a caregiver to a now-elderly MIL and ungrateful college-student daughter who he rarely sees.

Both of these shows leave me feeling "what could have been" but for different reasons.

EDIT - I just read the comments below and haven't seen today's previews! YIKES.

I normally do the same. I wait about 5 or 6 episodes before testing the waters. The opening episodes of weekenders always seem confusing and disjointed to me because I don't understand the characters. I went against my habits with TRHC and started watching this from Ep 1. But even waiting wouldn't have helped us with this one, Fullybaked. Because it was great until the late 20s, more than half-way thru. We were tricked and trapped.

Out of morbid curiosity, I watched a couple of the final episodes of YLAG, as supposedly their 'happy ending' episode was so good.
What struck me, if I understand this right, is that the main villianess was punished by killing her unborn child (miscarriage). Which seems to have really pissed off the remaining fans - "how is killing an innocent baby a fair thing to do"?

So I wonder, will SJ's punishment be seeing her father die? Another innocent death laid at her feet because of her uncaring behavior and the stress she caused her father? Would they go YLAG-style here too?

Thank you, Kathryn & Rivervale!

Sher, you're a masochist.

It's Monday and I'm dragging myself back to the PC after another Lost Weekend of TRHC.

And he likes hard liquor. I doubt she's ever had anything stronger than Soju or beer. A beer at a convenience store patio is a nice casual outing. I guess he's not a beer drinker, though.