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Usual time travel like back in the future, the traveler's body and mind travel in the past and he might meet the past version of himself that he should not encounter or interact with. No mixing.

Here only the mind of the traveler goes back in the past. Not to avoid himself but instead to take control of his own body. This is where the cheating is. Because nodody around him knows the truth and they treat him like he is 20 when he is 38. What he does has impact on their life and they react according to their wrong understanding of him and not to the real him. They would buy a birthday cake for him for his 21st anniversay but no, He i s 39.

Yes he is cheating because in his life, 38 yo Kim Hee Woo lost his parents and lived a life without them but now, he can enjoy their presence again lying to them about who he really is. He is liar. He lives a life determined by his 38yo self. Unknowingly from others. That's cheating.

As for his opponent Cho Tae Seob, he goes after him with all the knowledge, memories, resentment, anger... he gathered from his prosecutor life to fight someone who is not the villain he used to fight and has not done the wrong the guy he used to fight did.

It is like " I am coming after you for the bad deeds you did in my prosecutor life but that you have not done in this life yet. " This is a questionable logic because it implies that people are necessarily either good or bad people. Why he doesn't turn into a priest and make the villain change to a good person?

That's my opinion. You can have yours. Don't worry, I will not lmao at it. I care to respect other people's opinion.

If someone who comes back from the future in the past, the past is still his own future. So technically he doesn't get a second chance. I agree it is quite new and different as a concept but if someone knows beforehand and can adjust his moves in relation with his enemy, parents, friends, people and events he already knows exits .. . That remove the danger and it is anticlimatic. I would be pleased if the story turned into something not expected like a fly in the ointment and it drives unexpected consequences. Maybe I'll check this again after it ended airing. Have fun!

I cannot anticipate on what will happen but the concept, the set up and events so far are anticlimatic for me so I can hardly keep watching. I'd rather stop. I'll check the final reviews and give it another chance maybe. You guys have fun watching it.

Well you just confirmed time travel is used here as an advantage so it is cheating... but it is two different timeline and two diffferent Cho Tae Sub.

Yes I will probably try Song Joong Ki next drama.

But that Cho Tae Seob he wants to take down is not the Cho Tae Seob who had him killed. So this cannot be a second chance. If we put ourselves in his shoes, he is not back in the time to beat Cho Tae Seob but to fight another Cho Tae Seob using his knowledge of the first Cho Tae Seob. First Cho Tae Seob his son lived. This one, his son died. That's different circumstances and different persons.

What I was expecting? That the original Cho Tae Seob could be punished after a new fight. I think it would have been better if they resurrected him in the body of a different person but same time and space with the original Cho Tae Seob.

Maybe they will pull a stunt that would place the story back to the original Cho Tae Seob mixing time space but I barely see how they can do it...

I think if someone looses a race against an opponent and later, he can face the same opponent in a new race to defeat him, that's a second chance he gets to win an dprove he is better. If he looses a race against an opponent and he is sent back to run again the same race in the younger body he had at the beginning of this race, this is not a second chance. This is cheating. Because he has an advantage of knowing his opponent and circumstances when his opponent never knew anything beforehand.

The result is even if he wins, he does not beat the opponent of the first instance of the race. That opponent and the tryrants and willains with him got away with it.

Also the better relationships he forms are not between his 20y self and his counterparts, It is better relationships between his 38yo self and people from 18 years ago compared to where he stands.

He is a 38 old person sent into his former body of 20 and what he does is based on his 38 years old consciousness and memories and experiences of life. So he is 38yo KHW. He is loving his parents with his 38yo consciousness. Of course his parents are still his parents but they think he is 20 and that's not true.

It is like you have a 38yo person in the body of a 20yo person and you do not suspect the truth and you think that person is genuine but no, that person is lying to you. Is this how people love people? By lying to them about who they really are? I'd rather have him tell the truth to his parents and they think he is a lunatic. At least he would have a clear conscience with himself.

I believe there is nothing really warm and genuine with people when you lie to them about who you really are. Because of this, the character fails to excite me. When his teachers ask questions and he gives the right answers everyone around is impressed and think he is a genius. But he is not a genius. He just lived 18 years more than them and he even knows the words of his teacher by heart.

The fact that the guy goes back to the past in his younger body to use more years and experience in another life to modify things of a new life making people believe he is doing better ... is it kind of a scam and cheating. Makes him not endearing to me and very alone in his schemes as no one knows who he really is as his connections to others are based on lies. People praise his better relationship with his parents. But that's cheating. He is not their 20 years old son. He is their 30 years old son. And they don't know it. Where is the honest relationship? It's a lie. So how is this bettter?

I guess this is not for me so I wil drop this. Have fun people who are following it.

I am really struggling with the concept.

lol. I thought exactly the same thing that it could be him falling down and seeing all this in front of his eyes only...

I don't think he is the same person. The young KHW who awoke that morning, his memory and consciousness have been replaced. It was not a memory dump in addition but substitution. He is 30 something KHW in a younger body.

All the changes he provoked belong to a second timeline where everything will be different: parents alive, son of CTS dead, new friends... and CTS here is not the one who had him killed.

But I hope it is more than that

I agree they are very well assorted together.

A lot of weird characters but their weirdness is endearing. The pace is slow but ok. It is different. Curious about it.

Strangely I liked 365 Repeat the year. I thought the story was smart using several time travels and including different characters each time to create several layers of past. I also liked the romantic touch in the ending.

I'll keep watching this one too. My watching list is thin as I dropped a few kdramas lately. Hope this April, the new dramas will be more interesting.

FoE is a masterpiece so I doubt it can reach that level. I really enjoyed Lawless Lawyer. It is a very consistent and entertaining story with many good characters. If this one is as good, I would be happy too.

I dropped The Devil Judge. Despite Ji Sung, I could not adhere to the concept for some reason. Also dropped "Memories of the Alhambra". I thought all that virtual reality thing was quite convoluted.

I understand the concept here: to replace a student's consciousness, memories, knowledge, competencies, skills, maturity by the ones of a 30 years old version of himself who was a prosecutor... Now he has 10 plus years , He can do more things and it is fun to see him do these things. But the enemy of Prosecutor KHW is not the enemy of Student KHW.

I hope next episodes show that it is more complex than living again the events of your past life in your past body to do things differently.

So Prosecutor KHW30s is dead and his consciousness, memories, competencies, maturity, skills... are sent back in his former self : Student KHW20s to fight differently a different CTS.

I imagine KHW20s wakes up, eats ramen, goes school, goes to his part time job and then, his consicousness, memories, competences, skills ... are replaced and the KHW20s' body is now inhabited by KHW30s who do not remembers his body ate ramen that morning and what he did at school that day because these are KHW30s' memories from 10 years ago which probably vanished... But he has knowledge of all dangers ahead.

I guess we all wish we knew the obstacles of our life beforehand but that would probably make it less savoury. I think this is what triggers me the most in this drama. Is there a merit to give a good answer that you learnt from another life?

But I will keep watching. Maybe it is not that simple.

Not many but at least two as I understand it...

I remember we had some good discussions and agreed from time to time . Here I am skeptical... Need to see more.

If the death never happens then how can he be sent back by the lady in red , 10 years earlier? I am not sure this holds.

Because if he is dead as a prosecutor and his mind came back to his student body, this makes him a cheater. All these kids were beaten by an adult in a student's body. And all these ladies are not dealing with a student but a 30 something years old prosecutor. How they will react when they know this? I am very curious to know...

Also it means he did not live one life but two. One as a prosecutor who was killed and another as someone who will try to catch a villain who is not the one who had him killed but another dimension's or another life's version of the guy who had him killed.

That's make things clearer.