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If they don't win Best Couple award at this year's KBS Awards show, it will be a travesty.

Yes, and to his credit, TK realizes this now, and gives her the space and approaches her slowly with this. He does not come on strong (he knows she'll run away) and wants her to accept him on her own terms.

His character is really, really written well.

I think this is an excellent question, that deserves to be discussed.

I have always felt that her “armor“ is actually layer upon layer of scar tissue from all the hurt she has had to endure in her life. Being used repeatedly by her family must have taken its toll on her, either from the uncle, who stole her father’s insurance money to her niece, constantly bugging her to buy things for her. We saw some of it in her hurt feelings when she was going to move out of the house and felt that no one barely even noticed at first. Thus as you said, she keeps her heart well protected behind a layer of armor, so she cannot get hurt again like JH did to her at the beginning of the series.

SJAF EP 27 = .218

I nearly dropped my iphone when he hugged her belly

I'm running behind with the show, and haven't seen 27/28 yet as things are a mess here. But, I watched the unsubbed YouTube clips that KBS posts here in the early morning (west coast USA time). Normally they are hard to piece together (and posted out of sequence sometimes). But the one with TK talking into the FetusFone and then hugging her belly made me GULP and well up. The clip ended there. If she didn't kiss him then............well I have some thoughts on their first kiss, will save that for Kissing Monday.

.297= 29.7% of screen time. she had about 20 mins of airtime
Go back to bed!

SJAF EP 26=.297
I skipped episode 27 tonight. I will watch it Sunday night when they air episode 26 on KBS America.
have a good night!

Thank you again! I finally got my PC reconnected here in the office (I think...we'll see when I try to print something). Things are still a mess here, and the house stinks of 'new carpet smell' but I'll carve out some time this afternoon to watch without dread this time!

Thank you, corrected!

SJAF EP 25 =.13

Thank you both, I've been binging 3 Bold Siblings the last couple of days (at least the best parts) and would simply like to find something that is consistently good, which 3BS and IBN weren't .

Unfortunately, I'll be offline for a while as I'm getting the carpet replaced here tomorrow and Saturday and have to disconnect everything today so they can move out the furniture in my home office. I did download the MDL app on my ipad so I'll try that tonight while doing the SJAF for the last 2 eps. Cheers!

Regarding Lunkera's post below (didn't want to hijack his thread):

With all the negativity I've heard about YLAG, I'm not inclined to watch either. I'd rather not get invested in something like that - I've already wasted almost 60 episodes of my time in Apple of My Eye before I pulled the plug and don't want to go down that route on a weekender.

Which is OK, as I'd like to see one of the 3 past recommended dramas instead. Which is a better romantic + fun drama?
-Five Enough
-Once Again
- My Father is Strange

Thanks for your input everyone!

Since this is KISSING MONDAY, Just for laughs, I went back to the prior 2 weekenders to see when the first meaningful kisses were:

Its Beautiful Now - Ep 18 Yoon Jae & HaeJun (oldest couple and the best kissing scene ever)
Ep 23 - Hyun Jae & MiRae (beautifully filmed at sunset on the beach)

Three Bold Siblings - Ep 15 Sang Jun &Tae Ju (inside restaurant and unusually steamy); Ep 18 Dr Kim & Hyun Jung (my favorite of that series)

So by weekender standards we're behind the curve. And again, in Ep 20 there was another prime opportunity when they embraced outside the tea house....plus had they kissed Evil Inc would have seen THAT.

SIGH

I know, but it took her a while to embrace him back, and she does this all the time. Like, why pause?

Yeah, they know by now it's what we're waiting for. They're teasing us now.

I'd be happy if YD would hug him back when he hugs her. Too many times she just stands there with her arms limp at her sides. Drives me nuts.

BT, I'll say this much: I get a real feeling SJ is up to something. Kim JunHa, be careful: Don't trust Jang SeJin. She has her own agenda.

Well, 26 wasn't a great episode, but was a damn sight better than it's predecessor. Mixed Bag, it was:

HIGHLIGHTS:
- YD restraining TK from going after JH when he said "the baby should have been mine". I really wanted TK to deck him.....sorry, but YEAH.
- The whole TK/Granny scene. It sounded weird on paper, but it was REALLY funny. I'm glad someone on the writing team still has a sense of humor (when he started the countdown I couldn't help but LOL. The breakfast after was great too, with TK turning the screws to her.
- Their talk afterwards. Although not happy, at least she now understands his feelings.
- YD to the rescue at the tea house, thanks to SeJin of all people. What is she REALLY up to?
- Their talk (again) after the tea house. She can't understand that he's so burnt by the family that doing something distasteful is not a big deal since he doesn't care anyways and is why he has kept his distance. But when she starts crying.....man she's good at it and it's tough to watch.
- They're sleeping together again. YAYYYY

LOWLIGHTS:
- No pharmacist or Uncle
- Evil Inc and their dopey plotting.
- That eyelash-missing dirtbag JH. I frickin hate that guy
- The odd look SJ gave the chairman when he told her she would keep her job.
- YM's boss is going after DW!!! No way lady!
- What the heck is Hee doing??? She leaves a $20/hr part time job to be a janitor? And what is she planning? Is she not a good person after all?
- Sperm donors are hard to find? Sperm Banks exist but don't do much?? HUH??? Hey you two, come to the USA to get pregnant....there's sperm everywhere. Well, I don't mean it that way, but you know what I mean. ;-)

A custody battle would be a nightmare. The whole DNA test scenario is disturbing enough. I'm thinking that if he's still in the picture, even after they reunite, once the baby is born he'll pressure the family to get the DNA tested, Jinja's Avengers or not.
That's why I liked my proposal to have the test done and it comes back as TK's baby and end the show RIGHT THERE. Then we ask ourselves: was it faked? Could he really be the dad? But it doesn't matter, as it's simply a big F-U to that clown.....Real will stay with TK/YD. Let the audience figure it out for themselves (plus, it sets us up for Season 2).

Usually I do the SJAF the second time around as I need to use the stopwatch and not pay as close attention to the show. So it'll be a few days, but you're right, this may be a record episode.