Polo749

You know, this drama is actually really good, as long as you only watch HJP scenes and ignore everything else. SDM is still the character I loved at the beginning when she's with HJP. The worst thing about this love triangle is that now SDM is suffering for it almost as much as NDS. In order to keep the love triangle going they have to make her someone who overlooks an awful lot.

The thing is, I don't think I'm being optimistic. It just makes so much sense, in that I can explain everything the writer has done up to now if he's endgame. I can't explain anything if he isn't. At first I thought the writer was doing it by accident because like everyone else I assumed that the male lead would get the girl but then after episode 10 I became more and more sure that it was deliberate. I'll just be so surprised if it doesn't happen. I'll also be very disappointed. I've said that I've prepared myself for if it doesn't happen but I lied, I'm not at all prepared. That's why I say I'm not being optimistic. I've tried very hard to convince myself it won't happen because I'm not optimistic but I haven't been able to.

Thanks. :)

I've posted so many comments over the past few weeks about why I think he's endgame that I've got sick of myself commenting about it but so far nothing has negated the main theories and interpretations that I was basing my conclusion on. In fact, they've only been reaffirmed. The only ones that haven't panned out were ones that I wasn't banking on so it hasn't thrown me.

I know I could be wrong but I think Miji endgame is extremely likely. However, I also think it won't happen until the very end so I'm watching all four last episodes on the 6th. I'll be steering clear of this comment section from Saturday because I don't want spoilers. That's the only downside. I have actually enjoyed coming to this comment section to talk about the episodes. I'm usually here all week. Now I'm just trying to get as many 'HJP is endgame' comments in before Saturday.

Am I the only one left who still thinks HJP is endgame? I actually get more and more confident about it after every episode but others seem to lose confidence. My best guess at the moment is that she will choose NDS but then regret her choice and go to HJP.

Okay good. xD

Tell me you're being sarcastic.

I think the worst part is seeing SDM in love with such an unworthy man-child. Watching a person feeling never-endingly sorry for himself even though he's really not got that bad a life is so tiresome for most of the viewers that we really can't understand why she would be in love with him. If he were a better written character it would be a lot easier to swallow. He's just so clingy, has no backbone and blindly follows her while blindly hating HJP. Everything about his character revolves around her. He's not a properly fully formed person.

Like I said in my previous comment, I still think this is all building up to Miji and I don't mind the idea of putting off the endgame because she's in love with someone else but at least make it plausible. I feel like the writer has been lazy with him because he just serves to get in the way. The problem is, the lack of effort that has gone into him has undermined the whole point. It's not believable that she wouldn't have sincerely broken up with him by now. No, worse than that, the character himself isn't believable. Nor is it believable that she'll pine after this non-character for three years.

Of course I could be wrong about the endgame but then it makes even less sense why he's been so poorly handled. Maybe the writer thought we'd appreciate such a clingly, immature, self pitying mess of a male lead who exists only to serve the female lead and not to have a story of his own. I guess some people do since Dodal ship definitely exists.

Edit: It's not even that NDS is a bad person but SDM is so much more mature than him how can they have a connection? I just don't buy it and it's excruciating to watch.

I can’t take this anymore. I’m tired of waiting week to week for a drama I got bored of ages ago except for one character. If I can possibly control myself I’m going to wait to watch the last four episodes on the 6th. Then it can all be over in one day and in the meantime I can think about other things. Even a Miji endgame can’t redeem this drama anymore. It’s become unbelievably tiresome and infuriating. How can a drama be both so boring and so nerve-racking in equal measure?

In the event of a Miji endgame this drama will make sense to me but it will be far from redeemed. I seriously think that's what this is all building up to but it's been done so lazily and clumsily that it's become unbearable to watch the journey. Hence why so many people skip a bunch of scenes.

In the event of a Dodal endgame this drama will make no sense to me but I have such a low opinion of it already that I won't even be that disappointed. I'll mostly just be relieved to finally know.

I guess there's a small chance that the writer will redeem it in the last four episodes but I don't expect her to which is why I'm planning to wait. That way I can get through the last four episodes of pain quickly.

Yes it's come back with a vengeance.

Well it could be that it won't happen either way around. I'm not giving up hope until the very end.

The theory that HJP will propose and she'll say yes but then he'll let her go because he sees that she loves NDS, I feel like it'll be the other way around. I know I may be setting myself up to look completely delusional but I've already done that and then some so... I'm completely throwing caution to the wind. It's the only fun thing left to do with this drama.

I've prepared myself for being proven wrong but yes I still think HJP is endgame.

I feel obligated to keep coming here and give my opinions because I've been so invested up to now but 90% of this drama is boring me at this point and I just don't feel motivated to say much anymore. I'll just briefly list my thoughts.

1. SDM has become too docile. That being said, I did appreciate her scene with HJP when they ate noodles. The difference in attitude between her and the SST boys is striking.
2. SST boys know that HJP isn't helping them for their sake but they should also know they got lucky.
3. When SST won they didn't prove HJP wrong, they proved him right. It was by taking his advice that they got where they got to. HJP seemed to believe that they proved him wrong. His confidence has obviously taken a hit because of YS' brother. I actually really appreciated getting to see him more vulnerable.
4. I still think HJP is endgame. I'm going to keep saying that until it's absolutely proven beyond a doubt that he's not, even if I make a complete fool of myself. xD

I don't mind him being plan B in terms of the narrative. I actually think that would be really fitting and in keeping with the Sandbox metaphor. Things don't work out with NDS, then she falls for HJP who's already there waiting for her.

I just don't want him to be plan B in her mind, as in she still loves NDS more but chooses HJP because she can't be with NDS for some reason.

Just trying it out. xD

LOL Are you saying that because my comments are normally long or because you were expecting a more detailed theory?

Okay here's what I'm hoping will happen but I don't think it will because it would make us Miji fans too happy.

SDM lies to NDS that she prefers HJP so that he'll go to America.
HJP figures out a way to solve the problem so that SDM and NDS aren't separated.
SDM and NDS go to America.
Time jump.
SDM returns no longer in a relationship with NDS.
SDM develops feelings for HJP.
Miji endgame.

Yes he's the male lead, I'm not disputing that. I just don't think he'll end up with SDM. I think everything points to HJP. I've said before that while SDM and NDS are the main characters, HJP is the protagonist. That's unusual in Kdramas and will probably affect the ending.

My concern isn't that Miji won't be endgame. I think they will be. I'm just worried that it will be a bitter sweet ending and that she'll settle for HJP as plan B.

At the moment, I'm okay with her preferring and choosing NDS over HJP. So far, HJP has just been her mentor. I wouldn't expect her to feel more strongly for him than NDS. If things don't work out with NDS because life gets in the way and then she develops feelings for HJP, I'll be fine with that. What I don't want is A) things not to work out with NDS because she lies to him that she prefers HJP (it looks like that's what she'll do in tomorrow's episode) and B) for HJP to always be her second choice.

If things end with NDS, preferrably without any misunderstandings, then she develops feelings for HJP, that'll be a happy ending in my book.

If she ends up with HJP only because she can't be with NDS for some reason, that's a bitter sweet ending I don't want.