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There should be a date stamp on the pic, at the top line. But the first sonogram they showed had the date conveniently 'removed'. And only GA shown.

for the first time, I think I need to see this Ep, before reading your review, since it's going to be so emotional and surprising (?). I need happy surprises today.

Did they give a date stamp on the ultrasound pic? They've been fudging the timeline I bet to keep the show kind of up-to-date with the current date. (Haven't seen the Ep yet).

Excellent point, and I've been thinking about that too. SR/MY even won as a Best Couple @ KBS Awards, and the most we got was a peck on the cheek (Although I think part of this was Kim Seung Soo's discomfort with the role).

After watching the YouTube previews this morning, I'm beginning to wonder if theirs will be a "comfortable/supportive" relationship rather than romantic? We might not get a kiss until they sign their marriage registration.

The sad thing is, I think you've hit the nail on the head.

Now that you mention it, I had the same exact thing happen to me (photo-phobia) when I was initially fitted with contacts with too-tight of a curvature. Maybe that's it. It would also explain the excessive blinking.

I've often wondered about how Ms Yoon perceives her role and the lines she's given. It reminds me so much of what happened to Bae DaBin in her portrayal of another "MiRae" in Its Beautiful Now, where the character was marginalized throughout the series.

As far as Aunty/DH, I'm not sure big dong will let them be. I don't mind her ditzi-ness and she's been oppressed by her jerk of a brother all of her adult life it seems. I'd like to see her have some happiness.
DH & CR would be way too much of a cliche for me vis-a-vis MR's Dad marrying her adoptive mom. But it would screw big dong over hugely, so maybe? It would serve him right for keeping DH from Aunty.

Well, I'm at Ep 30 and am not dropping it. LOL.
I forgot to mention one scene when giving my .02 on high and low-lights for Ep 30, so I'll correct that while it's quiet here again between episodes:

The scene between TK and Uncle at the chicken store was really well done. In this brief scene (about 1.5 minutes long) TK confides to Uncle his inner fears and concerns about being a father to Real and seeks Uncle's guidance. One the one hand, it's rather funny that he's asking an childless bachelor for input on this, but then again, Uncle is the only one that knows the secret that he can go to. What makes this scene so memorable for me is how the writers are keeping his character so consistent: As part of the lie he must put on a bravado about being a husband and father for YD, but this man, who recoiled at the thought of marriage and parenthood at the beginning of the series is now tiptoeing there but getting the appropriate cold feet while doing so. He reaches out to who he can for advice on being a father(his brother in law, in episode 28) because the concept eludes him. I'm glad they are keeping him true to form, rather than having him unrealistically suddenly jumping in with both feet as we've see in other shows where characters turn a 180.

Uncle gives him his heartfelt advice and my other favorite part of this scene is that it sets us up for the next one where TK goes home and gathers the courage to hug YD and ask her to not move out and let him stay with her and Real so that he can try to be father. This is one of the most emotionally-laden scenes in the series yet, and her acceptance is accompanied not by the kiss we long for, but by the swelling soundtrack in the background. It ends as if it should have been the episode finale, yet oddly it's placed halfway thru this one (because of you-know-how they decided to end this Episode).

So, there you go. If not for the ending, this would have been a episode full of heart-warming scenes. Prepare yourself for 31, it's going to be a wild ride I think.

Is it just me, or does the little dong have something going with his eyes? Half the time he acts like there's something in his contacts and the other half he's squinting?

I'm not worried for him, MR will believe him, toss in a few "Oppa's" and all will be the same.

I am shipping Auntie & DH though...why not???? Loved her reaction when DH told SD he's her boyfriend. That was really cute.

God help us, we've been reduced to thinking about feet with this series......SIGH

My issue is that she left him without any means to contact her. It was deliberate on her part. If she had given him contact info (celfone, etc) and didn't ever answer, then OK, I guess "missing". But she didn't. So, there's that.
I will admit that the part about the baker lady & MR dad was cute, and I guess she knows about his background. So at least there is some movement there. That would be worth watching.

I watched it while waiting for the laundry. What I want to say won't be popular here....

I know this sounds crazy, but I feel so bad for SD. Watching his son waste the prime of his life like this would kill me too. And to see him be manipulated by his in-laws no less thru guilt would make me want to scream. I know SD's a dirtbag, but still, this resonates with me. KS is so blind to what is going on and he doesn't realize his scheming MIL isn't any better than this Dad.

And I'll admit, I also feel for HoRang, although I know it's not appreciated by most. She's been honest with him and the only person she's fooling is herself. So why does he keep hanging around the academy, knowing her feelings? Man, really???? Stay away from her if you are not interested. Dating HoRang > waiting for the woman who left you.

The kicker for me was his asking that the picture be included in the packaging. She is NOT missing!!! She ABANDONED YOU and left you with HER kid! She made that VERY clear! She is hiding from you, you dummy!

This show makes me SMH so much I'll wind up with scrambled brains. I want to tear my hair out, but I'm spending too much on Minoxidil as it is!!!

SD is despicable, but he's the only one willing to tell KS the unwashed truth repeatedly. It's the only thing I admire about him.

I don't' need to watch the show, the comments here are more entertaining and faster paced. LOL.

Seriously, though. If they had been honest and dropped the whole KS/MR/JD angle in the initial run up, and simply billed it as "A story of a single father struggling to raise his rebellious teenage daughter while still living with his in-laws" it would have been MUCH more honest and I would not have bothered to watch it. And in fact, the current promos on the show from KBS America are this way....no mention of MR or anything else for him.

OTOH, they could have made this an interesting 60-episode drama and cut out all of this filler. But, dailys are 120 episodes, so it is, what it is. When you manage to make "Love in Your Eyes" more entertaining, you're doing something wrong.

(And no, I didn't post the negative review.)

BINGO!!!!!!

It's funny, I never thought of the truck in EOAT as a WTOD. But now that I think about it, it WAS white? That scene was so shocking to me and happened so fast (with the focus then switched to her reaction) that I never put 2+2 together. All I remember was shouting "SH**!!! when it happened.

I will be interested to hear your feelings when you get to the comparable scene in BML, and how that one plays out! And I understand about his being on his knees and maybe it's the smart play in the long run. But as a man, and seeing how he'd been treated and how his mother had been treated by that bunch for 20 years, I want the visceral satisfaction of TK ripping him a new one. He has a doctor's temperment...and the last thing you want is a hothead OB/GYN. But then and there, sometimes it's OK to get angry.

Yeah, I know, it just bugs me the way they laid it out, and yes, the lie is part of the structure of the story. But it has to be understood that by lying, they weakened their position - it's not 'no big deal' unless you cut all ties with your family and move elsewhere.

And I agree about them moving out. That place he found with our favorite realtor still fits the bill and it was between the 2 parents houses. I'm still hopeful that is an option. No matter what happens, InOk will still want to play a role in the baby's raising and they will need someone for daycare while they are both at work. She clearly WANTS to be a Grandma and it will be no big deal for Mr. Kim to shuttle her back and forth.

I'm trying to think of a way they could have done the lie with a twist: TK tells InOk the truth in secrecy, maybe during the ride home from the family dinner (not aired, so even we don't know about it). To everyone else, the plot proceeds as it had been, with YD's guilt intact but not expressed to TK by her. Then he can shock CS with the line to "talk to Mom, she knows". I want him to have the upper hand in that conversation and prevent that fiasco we saw with CS & YD, along with the dramatic moment when we learn that InOk knew all along. Plus we get the satisfying part where TK can cut the Chairman down to size. I REALLY want to see that.

Despite the spoilers you gave us weeks ago about this, actually seeing how they did it was too shocking. I figured it would all happen in the office bldg: she exits his office, grabs her belly, shrieks in pain and collapses in front of SJ and the secretaries. Right? Instead, we got THAT scene played out on a public street :-(
It reminded me of 2 other Kdrama shocking moments: 1) The pedestrian vs. car accident in Bravo My Life (wayyyy to realistic) and 2) The car vs. truck accident in Extraordinary Atty Woo (one of those OH SH!T moments).

Oh well, when your brain is empty, all sorts of thoughts bounce around in there....

Good detective work!

thank you!

And finally...

In past posts we’ve seen members dismiss the fact that they lied and just want them to move out on their own and break from the family. And that may yet happen, but it doesn’t quite fit their personalities and their societal norms. (Disclaimer – I’m the parent’s age, so there is probably some generational bias here)

Lies, by their nature tend to propagate and spread more and more lies to support the original lie, trapping the liar in the proverbial “web of lies”. We’ve seen this happen to our main leads. Their lie to their parents also carries its own weight of guilt which has been steadily crushing YD, especially in her relationship with InOk. The longer the lie lives on, the guilt on her increases, even in the most innocent of conversations (we saw it again in Ep29). She saw the move to the apartment as the escape from the lie without having to admit to it. TK, on the other hand, seems to essentially be immune to this guilt, probably because he’s so emotionally distant from anyone not named YeonDoo that he could care less.

But the problem with the lie is that strategically speaking, it puts them in a position of weakness, especially seen in the Chairman’s ultimatum in Ep 30. The Chairman uses his wife’s potential reaction to the lie as justification for his actions. Just imagine, if they had told InOk the truth at the beginning, and swore her to secrecy so that no one else would know, especially BongNim. Then, at the scene at the beginning of Ep30, when TK and CS go at it, all TK had to do is say “Mom knows. Talk to her. We will move out to appease your concerns”. Following this scenario, CS would have replied to the effect of ‘You told your Mother and not me? Why?” THEN, TK could have the option to really rip CS by exposing him as the disappointment-of-a-father he was. The Chairman would be stunned and TK would be dealing from a Position of Strength, instead of just saying “get lost” and forcing the Chairman to find the weakest link in the chain (YD) to achieve his goal. But TK couldn’t do any of that as he lacked the Moral High Ground because he was exposed as a liar.

For TK/YD to sit down with InOk at the beginning and tell the truth would have solved so much of this long ago. Yes, this would put some burden on InOk, but given the pain she’s had to see her son endure, it would be realistic to see her accept it (remember on the drive home from the family meeting, she told TK “that baby saved you!”) And yes, YD would be living with a lie to her Mom, but she’s already lied to her so much, would it matter? She’s used to dealing with that, as BongNim brings her own emotional instability to the equation as well.

Lying to your parents is never a good thing, especially with something this big. It just isn’t right, especially in their culture. Because it would leave any parent asking “Why would you lie to me about that? Do you not trust me?” and we saw words to that effect from CS when TK told him the rumor was true. The pain of hearing that would be difficult to accept for any parent as it makes you question your own upbringing of your children. And that pain would distract a parent from what the real issue was in the first place as far as what the lie was about.

That's it for the loose screws and nuts bouncing around in my head. Thanks for listening.