ShortCircuit

OMG they almost already covered most of the webtoon TLed. I wonder how much of the novel that would be.

That being said - LOL, I love how confident and aggressive YeoWoon is (still being shy at times), and how flustered MyungHa is, LOL (considering he's the one who should know everything.) This is even cuter than the webtoon :D

And I really, really like MyungHa STILL being the mature one, while YeoWoon's definitely the younger, more fiery type LOL. I mean, cute, but hissing stray cat-attitude with everyone coming between him and TMH hahaha~

That WAS my point exactly. Transmigrating to a world WITH A SYSTEM works like that. And there are MANY such stories. Not that most of them make it into drama. It's not new, not scary, and definitely not written to terrify people. It just... is.

I've been reading such novels for ages and I'm no spring chicken. These stories aren't written for teens - or if they mainly are, then they're not restricted to just teens. The concept and "general rules" for transmigration stories are pretty known at this time, enough that they get put into their own genre/subgenre.

As to what a certain character would think/feel when placed into such a situation... This (and a lot of similar stories) won't dwelve on that, since it's just a device to set up the situation. What follows is what's important, and how to change the original (presumably unwanted) setting. And, strictly related to the characters in this drama, MyungHa is young enough to have been exposed to such stories, so it's not that great of a scare for him (he even proposed something like that from the beginning). Anyone who ever watched some isekai anime or read any transmigration story has, at one point or another, fantasised about what THEY would do when being placed in such a situation. (Because, again, there ARE rules). And it is, after all, make-belief, like all fantasy.

Ju JiHoon in anything, yes please.

Days since I haven't missed TTJ: zero.

How do you know that? How many chapters are out in SK? There are only about 32 of them TLed and so far it's just YeoWoon crushing hard on MyungHa who's planning to let him down gently. Is there a novel too?

Actually... this is a whole genre. Transmigration (including rebirth/time travel and going into a world with a system) webnovels / anime / dramas have been around for quite a while. It's a sub-genre of (urban/historical) fantasy, very popular and pretty well known even if you're not a teen.

I don't think it's all that well-known in SK, TBH, it's a genre you'd find more in Japan and China. But rare / unique / scary? Not at all. And it's been growing a lot recently in SK too. For example, right now there's the other transmigration drama that's getting a lot of attention in SK - Marry My Husband.

Other pretty well-known (and some pretty well-rated) transmigration stories: Someday or One Day, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Joy of Life, Life on Mars, Again My Life, W: Two Worlds, (ETA Reborn Rich too, come to think of it), and so on, and so forth...

And if China didn't frown on transmigration stories, we'd be drowning in this type of dramas, LOL.

I won't even begin to mention the anime series, there are way too many and I give them a large berth, LOL, even if I like the original - most/a lot of them are usually based on a novel or manga/manhwa...

The webtoon is also good!! I wonder how much they'll cover it in the series, looks like they've used about 10 chapters for the first two eps, and the webtoon is still running, so there will probably either be an original ending (if any) or they'll stop at an appropriate point...)

I really like the hint of mystery about the novel's author - don't tell me he's either 1. YeoWoon himself, trying to get a re-do with MyungHa, or 2. SangWon, because he's just troublesome like that!

Or else, why would MyungHa even forget who the author actually is, later on....?

Oh wow, wow, wow~ (good things need to be repeated three times, LOL).

This is great!! (Just on the first episode though). The OP/ED song is so cute, and the leads actually can act! (TBH I wasn't expecting a lot, since this is that rare, one-in-a-blue-moon BL kdrama they play with). I'm going to look up the webtoon immediately, this is cute as all that!!! :)

I'm declaring myself a fan of Tae MyungHa already, he's the perfect transmigrating chara who is wholesome and totally into it, let's gooooooo~~~

After KSW's suicide - which is basically the climax of the drama, TBH, it felt like the plot lost its goal and meandered. It's very possible someone falls into depression after such a traumatic event, but let's be serious, there are always signs, and it doesn't happen at lightspeed. And I also guess some (medically trained) people would also try to minimalise it and hide from such a diagnostic, but with someone as empathetic and intuitive as we're supposed to consider DaEun, it's kind of out of the blue, IMHO.

Then - correct me if I'm wrong... there are at least about three instances when YuChan is starting to feel an episode coming on and he BREAKS the cycle with either his mental superpowers or meds?! Wow, I wish the drama had patented and sold this trick to all the people suffering from panic disorders, it sure would've helped them a whole lot.

For such a small community, there sure were a LOT of mental disorders of all kinds, all bad enough to practically disable a lot of people (I'm not even talking about the patients, who, obviously, would come from all over). DaEun's sudden-onset suicidal depression, YuChan's panic disorder, GoYun's OCD (of MULTIPLE kinds, well...), head nurse's schizophrenic sister, YeoHwan's EXTREME co-dependency issue (combined with HyeWon's avoidant personality), CheolWoo's over-eating habits, and so on, and so forth... the only basically normally functioning nurse there is good old ManCheon. I'd TOTALLY go there to get treated if I ever needed to...

(I mean, I get it, people are people... but some of them there are barely functioning on their own, dragged down with so many personal problems or taking on patients' problems. It's pretty scary, in the second half, anyway.)

And TBH, the whole changing of a profession for HyeWon is very jarring. So she never wanted to be a nurse... and they have her go become an entertainer on a cruise ship?! She has zero experience in the hospitality business (it's atrocious), zero info on what she's getting into (aside some hula-hula dances she witnesses from over-boozed people on shore leave), and ZERO intuition in what she's going to see. She's NOT going on a cruise, she's going to WORK on a cruise, and it's a completely different story that she doesn't even pretend to become informed on. I am VERY disappointed with the drama for writing such an unnecessary and totally whacko plot sideline. And obviously, the cherry on top, YeoHwan is A-fine with it because he's such a mop. Their whole plotline was so cringe (he has the total personality of a wet noodle, his whole identity is that he's fawning over her, who is perfect in all her stupidly unplanned personal decisions.)

None of the actual doctors have ANY family member that I can recall at this moment, they're all hanging in the air or have come from immaculate conceptions. There's nobody to meet when they go home (though we don't really see much of a home life with the exception of GoYun and YeoHwan - who apparently have no families to ever call them). Some of the nurses do - but obviously they all have to have some mental problem in some way or the other, but they deal with it because of reasons.

TBH, given the high rating, I was kind of expecting something way better. The first half was promising, but then it went all away. I'm beginning to have this really annoying feeling that ANYTHING having to do with mental health OR disability of any kind issues ALWAYS gets a too-high rating on MDL, like people are over-rating them for some misguided second-hand sympathy or hidden guilt reason. Not all the stories are actually THAT good, not all the charas and plots are actually rewarding for the watcher, in the end.

And this one, for me, started really interesting and then lost its way.

The first and second halves are completely disjointed. It's like the second half took the ball from the first one and played a completely different game, all on its own.

So - the good first. I still liked the clutzy chaebol and his one-sided love (that turned out to not be one-sided) til the end. I like how he's courageous enough to stand up to his father but also ready to flee for his life at the sight of a cockroach.

Also liked the final exposition. Nice touch. KTH made a cameo later on, because why? Oh well.

Now the bad.

Soooo... the little girl is afraid of the water, and keeps hiding her grandma's suit wherever just so she doesn't dive any more, and the drama writer decided it was the best of choices to make her MOTHER, too, dive, so that the little girl can now have double the nightmares, yay! Stupid.

Then, CYP goes to Switzerland for two years and then comes back to - STILL - fight out loud over whether it's going to snow in JEJU again?! Is he still in Jeju after going to WMO?! Why is he not in Seoul? Oh well.

The whole expo-here-expo-there was boring. So she had an expo. And oh, the villain got exposed - so conveniently. Let's just forget about the crying fests and helplessness and oh! how she just GAVE UP yet again when the first hint of trouble threatened the KMA expo. This was NOT the CSD we were shown in the first eps.

Also - they have one (ONE!) non-Korean and kind of darker-toned actor with a speaking part... and he HAD to be some Arabian-maybe Royalty? Because WHY? He worked fine as a temp worker in some unimportant shop in Jeju, too. Why did they have to escalate it?!

TBH, this stared off promising and ended up not so much. I watched the last 3-4 eps in 2x because I couldn't take it any more. But it did show some nice bits in the beginning, and I'll pass over the ending for that. Still. It could've been a lot, lot more.

This must be the drinkiest drama I've ever watched. Felt dizzy from just the sight of grown men and women binge-drinking themselves into an early grave.

The killer is the husband of the cheating woman (I keep forgetting his name). No police officers die.

Oh! I'd forgotten about this one. Anyone watched it - spoil me please - does this one actually have an ending, or is it wanting for another sequel? And most importantly - what DOES the 4th avatar DO?!

I think it's Unclean Realms because the Nie Clan founder was a butcher, and his sword was not the elegant, slim-looking sword of the other clans, but the broadsword. And then, there's the whole violent-rage berserker madness they put into their swords during cultivation (the thing that drives them all mad and that made NHS avoid it completely - because he, unlike all other Nie leaders, is SMART! :D) *take a moment to appreciate how smart NHS is* *also take a moment to appreciate BaXia, the best berserker broadsword in this drama, all hail!* :D

Wishing you a nice re-watch along with your mom :)

OMG your poor mom. Though I'll bet she's still going to sympathize with him (or at least understand where he was coming from) after the end, if you explain MengYao's backstory to her.

What does she think of Nie HuaiSang? Did he register on her radar yet? :D

We've had our disagreements about who's the best-looking one in this drama, LOL, you and I, and I still stand by my pick - WWX is the most handsome, bar none. I'll allow LWJ in second place, since I can't pick another MXTX chara here. And Jiang Cheng comes third despite the jawline, just because I like him as a guy who gets placed in the worst positions and made to pick a stand. *there there, JC, I got you, you silly pup*. - That means, your mom will get around to my POV, see if she doesn't :D

I thought June Hur is South Korean (though has lived a long while in Canada). So do her books still count as foreign?... (And A Crane Among Wolves isn't released yet).

I used to read a lot of TJK when he was writing mostly romantic BL (BOATK for example), but not so much since he branched out into LGBTQ-themed fantasy or YA. I might take a look, though going by the blurb, it's not really what I'm reading these days...

And - I might be alone in this - I do really have a bad spot against people running into high nobles ALWAYS. Why does none of these book - or drama - characters ever find a great ally that ISN'T the Crown Prince, or the Heir, or the King, or anyone of no or very small political importance? Why do those guys ALWAYS have to not only be noble and powerful but also extremely handsome to boot?! And how come they ALL end up falling for the heroine?! (And then obviously, if it's a HEA, they marry the heroine and never take a concubine or get another political wife). I know it's usually YA or fantasy, but it's pretty annoying. There are so many kings, emperors and high princes just waiting for the detective heroine to come in their sight and who have never ever before met another girl they'd liked, that they're already getting to the numbers of the counts, dukes and princes in Regency novels (which is to say, infinite). And then, why Joseon, of all things?! Not Joseon-with-the-dumb-hats again, please!

/okay, rant over, LOL. Don't take me seriously. Blue Monday's just passed and I'm not exempt.

I guess then that all romcoms are multiple-sided love stories, LOL, particularly when the leads are hot.

Nevermind, it's just a joke. Leave it as a love triangle, why not. Though, TBH... did you ever count how many men were in that waiting room? None had a chance with the FL, but they were there (some even had speaking parts, LOL). I guess we'd be going into love dodecahedrons even if the FL doesn't like them or not.

Edit wait, they'd be harem stories in that case, wouldn't they? We already have a term, OMG LOL. Rom-coms are scary :D

No. There's a busybody that the FL doesn't notice, and then there's the ML that she instantly falls for, and that ML is the only one who gets upset about the busybody, LOL.

Don't worry. She doesn't see the SML as a candidate, not for an second.

So, flying insects go through metamorphosis. Usually coming out of the pupa is just one final stage before they become adults, and then the insect can spread its wings and fly.

Them being just winged fairies, it might mean they have to ~reset~ or grow every once in a while, so that they - maybe - get bigger wings and powers. Maybe. It's not like the writer explained anything LOL. But SangHyuk's wings were the biggest and the others seemed to have considered him superior to them, somehow.

Anyway. You could just say they're being flying magic bugs and needing metamorphosis from time to time to become ever bigger bugs LOL.