MadelineMaureen

I just started watching on Sunday and am completely caught up. It was so good.

In the first few episodes you meet the character of her paternal cousin Jiang Jing Rui, he carries around his pet turtle everywhere he goes. He doesn't carry the turtles around in the later episodes as he is more focused on helping his cousin by then.

The revenge and love slow burn are cooking. The tension is keeping it going. The actors are doing an amazing job. As there are a lot of cat and mouse games happening as well as both of them being willing pawns on each other's chess boards. Having the slow building of trust between them is worth it to me personally.
As she was literally killed by the one she loved the most in the world, her husband, I'd say it's a good thing the romance is more a of a slow burn with the Duke. As it just wouldn't make sense for her to fall in love before getting over her previous trauma. The Duke has always been intrigued by her since he saw her in the market in the capital before her "death".

he would have gone into another inferno if he went back to where he started. they wouldn't have put out the fire at the auditorium by the time he would have gone back.

yeah that's what I meant by them being closer in age or the same age. she was 17 or 18 when the fire happened he was around 23 when his daughter was born. so they've aged the same amount of years give or take.

The manner legs to make him shorter...😆🤗

Their son is more powerful than the other family members. If he knows what a person or object looks like he can summon it to him through time and space. So FL asks him to find someone for her. She first says that she lost it 5 years ago, then corrects herself and says 18. This is to make sure that ML is able to save FL's teenage self first.

So the moment that she starts to fall from the school building their son has already summoned him to the "present", which is five years in the future of ML's original starting point, saving him from both fires. It was seconds for him but 5 years for everyone else. Now ML and FL are much closer in age to one another...if not the same age.

The ML's body was never recovered from any of the fires because his son always pulled him to the future. Just like the FL always survived the fire because the ML saved her. Both father and son's powers work in a linear manor. Aka they aren't starting new timelines or really changing the past...they have already done the thing and that is how it always was.

We truly aren't. We just know more things. have more money and realize that shame/embarrassment in something that brings you joy is wasted energy.

Their son pulls things from the past, like his ball. The ball went missing and he was upset and cried....but the ball went missing because future him summoned it from his present. Aka he'll never know if it was because he summoned the item that it went missing or if the item was simply lost.

It would be interesting to revisit the actors/character in a few years. I always wonder why netflix doesn't do time jumps with their shows that come out years apart.

It's a fated person situation. There weren't a lot of records from the family history that had this level of connection. It had happened before, but it wasn't an every person gets to meet their special someone type of deal.

I think if he had shown back up at his starting point it would have been on top of the fallen wall. but he would have found himself in yet ANOTHER fire soooo... his son summing him from 18 years ago was the best outcome for everyone.

they went missing because he summoned them...😆Boy is going to play himself so hard..."damn you future me....I still needed that"

Why on god's green Earth are they making the ML a swimmer also? The whole charm of the OG show was that each person was so different and good at their own thing. The SML is supposed to be an almost Olympic level swimmer in high school, and the ML ties him in a race...I'm sorry, what?
And the FL is still giving annoyed little sister not "I'm so in love with you, it's obvious to everyone" vibes.

I think what a lot of people see as her acting like a teenager isn't taking into account that she had a medical/emotional trauma at 18. This type of thing tends to stunt a person a bit. (personal experience, I'm also the same age as the character so I bit of insight)

She wouldn't have the same adult experiences that her peers were able to have simply by how inaccessible Korea is. She wouldn't be able to get into most social places like bars or clubs. She wouldn't have been able to start college with her peers either after having to stay in the hospital for almost a year. So she would have been roughly 2 years behind all of her classmates. Being in a wheelchair made it so most people disregarded her completely. Interactions with guys...not going to happen.(seriously wanting a show about people with mobile disabilities being able to find love in SK, not just someone with a bionic arm)
This was the main reason her immaturity never bothered me. Since Sun Jae saved her from herself in 2009 she decided to have a positive outlook on things. Also, if you all of a sudden had two working legs again after 15 years...hell yeah I'm going full ham. Being young again...yup, sup bitches I'm back. She had a good balance of innocents and maturity imo.

I was born in 1990 and started consuming Korean media around 2009....to say this was a love letter to my generation is an understatement. It's why I wrote an unhinged timeline breakdown with context to a lot of things that people would miss if they are younger or newer to Korean media/culture.

But if the wanted to do a second part or a season 2...a lot of people would want that kid dead...so potential. I just don't think they executed season 1 well enough to get a season 2 though.

3. Honestly it grossed me out. The bigger issue I had was with so many people casually passing around an underage hidden camera video...not once was it brought up that they were minors when referring to the video...they would have been about 16. Only like 2 characters were like "why the hell would you use that?!" They at the very least addressed the grooming of the male student by the teacher...not as much as they should have, but small victories. They could have shown him being lonely and her preying on him, but they shot it in a way that almost made it feel like HE was the instigator. Extremely weird take in the year 2024. With the actors being so close in age it wasn't visually showing how freaking creepy that character age difference is. Mind you I'll watch a Japanese black comedy about a student teacher "relationship" and not bat an eye.

Jae-i's younger half brother. AKA the CP producer...so no real loss.

What was with the Michael Bay music video style directing/cinematography? I just feel like the best way to describe this show is, flash over substance. To describe the majority of the characters, in the words of Lady Jenevia when she described Colins Bridgerton, 'no thoughts head empty'.