I gave up trying to make sense of the back and forth in the story timeline. All the events that have unfolded,…
The events are linear in either timelines. You can very easily see in which timeline you're in at any given time because they're using upper and lower black ribbons on the screen/image on the past timeline (even in the recap sequences).
The goal of the past timeline is rather clear, I'd say - the event that left KHJ where he is and what IK is trying to make sense of.
The present timeline... well, I am hoping for a happy ending, myself.
so it's likely that the master mind is a local (be it the police, rangers, townfolk, conservationists, etc). because…
i also wonder if there is some connection amongst the victims.
Most of them were poachers/tresspassers in forbidden areas of the mountain. There were a few who were killed opportunistically - they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (like Sgt. Kim, Hyun-jo's friend.)
It's unclear why the female ranger was targeted, unless it was to punish her former poacher grandfather or because she might have a clue about the potato bombs.
I don't think the 2018 timeline will be ending so soon. It's still late 2018 in the past timeline but from ep1,…
The incident might have happened in the late winter in 2019 or the beginning of 2020, since now it's summer/the start of summer, judging by their clothes and the fact that cold comes sooner in the mountains than in the plains.
But now KHJ is the killer's next target, and it's coming... and then it stared snowing :( Probably there will be a few more incidents/rescues in the winter, but the big thing is coming.
We saw someone took the book before police came. This mastermind posibly also hide away all that probiotics yogurt.So…
I think she more than suspects her former (and current) colleagues, so she chooses to trust the rookie only, because she couldn't have been involved.
If she trusted them, she wouldn't have gone straight for Dae Jin's files and unreported evidence (like the yellow ribbons in the bag, which he's been having on him in the past timeline). I think she has doubts or maybe even certainties, but no proof yet and that's what she's hunting for in the present.
It already started snowing on the mountain, in the past timeline T_T
So, Se-wook is one of the killers, but the main killer got rid of him pretty fast. Well, good riddance.
It looks more and more like Dae Jin is either the killer, or in the know somehow. He was in the forest when Se-wook died, he had a bunch of yellow ribbons in his hands (though they looked pretty battered up, so he might have been removing them... what if he was actually placing them, though?)
It looks like there'll be some romance in the next part, which I'm not actually that much against, if it doesn't take over the plot completely.
The soundtrack also began growing on me, too... I am going to see this through to the end :D
EDIT: So am I imagining things, or did the drone catch an image of KHJ on the mountain top?...
He's back so soon?! (Not that I'm complaining, but I thought they had to do at least 20 months of military service). He's a great actor, so good to see him back! I hope it's a good drama, he really has to be a lead in more dramas!
Edit: I see he went in as an active duty Army soldier, they're required to do 18 months, so that does compute. Yay!! That means there was no medical problem or whatever for him to be discharged before the mandatory period (like with Choi Jin Hyuk). I'd very much like to see WDH in an action story :)
The moon bears are all that was lacking in my life today, thank you for that!!As for the drama...
Hyun-Jo is trapped in one of the 28 worlds that super-impose on Mt. Jiri, and he can influence our world somehow. It was SO cool how the rookie could finally see him!! And the man they rescued due to Hyun-Jo's warning also saw him clearly. That world where he is / the ghost realm is so sad, all the trees are down, and it's all a wasteland...
I have high hopes they manage to wake him up, his fingers moved... but why was there a bruise? Was it caused by the rookie passing through his ghostly presence?!
The presumptive killer - Se Wook, if I'm reading the character chart correctly - is definitely not acting alone. He placed the bombs, and the poisoned yoghurt too, maybe, but the one with the glove isn't him, I don't think. My bet is on the one who's telling YK about the ghosts on Jiri. Why would he care unless he's taunting her?
Re: the poacher losing his life. It doesn't bother me much, except for his kids being left orphans. Other species have the right to survive along us, I don't care about his fines for breaking the law. Don't get into the kitchen if you can't handle the burns.
That brings me back to the people in danger - so far, most if not all of them seem to be poachers and/or illegally trespassing (except for the soldiers). I wonder what the man they rescued was actually doing on the trails... unless him taking a yoghurt bottle that didn't belong to him is considered worthy of punishment by the deranged killer(s).
I’m on Ep 2. I thought Hyun Jo was still in a coma in the hospital. Am I missing something?
I'm not sure yet (haven't gone back to check) but when they change the timeline (which they do indicate in the beginning of the flashback), the screen ratio aspect also changes - like, it goes from the usual 4:3 to the 16:9 aspect, with black upper and lower edges. So you know you're still in the flashback timeline as long as these two black edges are still there.
So yeah, in current time, JH is in a coma and YK is in a wheelchair.
the theory that ML is the protagonist and his ghost is the antagonist is also don't match, because ML's ghost…
Hyun-Jo's spirit/ghost (if that's what it is, maybe it's an older ghost who just took up HJ's appeareance) only (apparently) appeared after HJ fell into coma.
The person/thing who killed Sgt. Kim is definitely the same one who poisoned the yoghurt drinks and maybe the same who ties those yellow ribbons to lure people to their deaths.
Strangely, it seems he/it is always leading them to same mountain ledge - or is it just me thinking it's the same narrow mountain ledge? Does it have anything to do with the man/spirit?...
First a blood sacrifice on the mountain (Sgt. Kim), then Hyun-Jo destroyed the mound of stones, Hyun-Jo himself left some of his blood on those stones, now he's seeing people dying on the mountain...
And in the present day, Yi Kang too knows how to decypher messages left in stone mounds. Does that mean she somehow got parts of the gift too? And how come it's related to Hyun-Jo?
The only part I really, really didn't like was the young shaman (with no reflection in the water, yeeeck!) telling Hyun-Jo he would haunt the mountain after his death. I mean, let's leave the poor man alive, why don't we? I don't want to have an option of having to choose between Hyun-Jo's life and Yi Kang's legs...
Also, what the hell was that reaction? Is Aek homophobic?! The guy just tried his best to celebrate with him,…
So it definitely wasn't just me thinking back to that trope, LOL. I thought it might be I've read too much yaoi and that the show wouldn't make it seem they just might do that, but I guess the set up was obvious enough.
No, I know it's based on a novel (though to be honest, I wouldn't read that novel now even if there was not much relation between the drama and the novel except the name) and not a manga, I was just saying it definitely looked like they were fully prepared to use that manga trope LOL. I guess they decided against it because it would have become too rape-y, yeesh.
The first 5-6 episodes were so slow I mostly was considering dropping this, then I caught up with the last three eps so far, and the change is very obvious. I don't know what they did - did they fix the script to increase ratings, or tried to make it more dramatic, or what? But it definitely did not go well.
Not to mention that Japanese Oishii water or whatever it is - I'm getting sick of the commercials for it LOL. There was a whole scene between the secondary pairing LOL, just for that commercial. So bad :D
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The goal of the past timeline is rather clear, I'd say - the event that left KHJ where he is and what IK is trying to make sense of.
The present timeline... well, I am hoping for a happy ending, myself.
Show, don't tell me to be prepared for what may come while showing me KHJ. That's just cruel...
Most of them were poachers/tresspassers in forbidden areas of the mountain. There were a few who were killed opportunistically - they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (like Sgt. Kim, Hyun-jo's friend.)
It's unclear why the female ranger was targeted, unless it was to punish her former poacher grandfather or because she might have a clue about the potato bombs.
But now KHJ is the killer's next target, and it's coming... and then it stared snowing :( Probably there will be a few more incidents/rescues in the winter, but the big thing is coming.
If she trusted them, she wouldn't have gone straight for Dae Jin's files and unreported evidence (like the yellow ribbons in the bag, which he's been having on him in the past timeline). I think she has doubts or maybe even certainties, but no proof yet and that's what she's hunting for in the present.
It looks more and more like Dae Jin is either the killer, or in the know somehow. He was in the forest when Se-wook died, he had a bunch of yellow ribbons in his hands (though they looked pretty battered up, so he might have been removing them... what if he was actually placing them, though?)
It looks like there'll be some romance in the next part, which I'm not actually that much against, if it doesn't take over the plot completely.
The soundtrack also began growing on me, too... I am going to see this through to the end :D
EDIT: So am I imagining things, or did the drone catch an image of KHJ on the mountain top?...
The cinematography, the story, the cast, the OP and ED - beautiful!
The best episode ever - episode 6, hands down. I've no idea how this series isn't better known, but I am happy I got to watch it.
Still - does anyone have an idea of the long wall of text at the end of episode 8? That part got left untranslated for some reason.
Edit: I see he went in as an active duty Army soldier, they're required to do 18 months, so that does compute. Yay!! That means there was no medical problem or whatever for him to be discharged before the mandatory period (like with Choi Jin Hyuk). I'd very much like to see WDH in an action story :)
I have high hopes they manage to wake him up, his fingers moved... but why was there a bruise? Was it caused by the rookie passing through his ghostly presence?!
The presumptive killer - Se Wook, if I'm reading the character chart correctly - is definitely not acting alone. He placed the bombs, and the poisoned yoghurt too, maybe, but the one with the glove isn't him, I don't think. My bet is on the one who's telling YK about the ghosts on Jiri. Why would he care unless he's taunting her?
Re: the poacher losing his life. It doesn't bother me much, except for his kids being left orphans. Other species have the right to survive along us, I don't care about his fines for breaking the law. Don't get into the kitchen if you can't handle the burns.
That brings me back to the people in danger - so far, most if not all of them seem to be poachers and/or illegally trespassing (except for the soldiers). I wonder what the man they rescued was actually doing on the trails... unless him taking a yoghurt bottle that didn't belong to him is considered worthy of punishment by the deranged killer(s).
As for the drama...
So yeah, in current time, JH is in a coma and YK is in a wheelchair.
The person/thing who killed Sgt. Kim is definitely the same one who poisoned the yoghurt drinks and maybe the same who ties those yellow ribbons to lure people to their deaths.
Strangely, it seems he/it is always leading them to same mountain ledge - or is it just me thinking it's the same narrow mountain ledge? Does it have anything to do with the man/spirit?...
And in the present day, Yi Kang too knows how to decypher messages left in stone mounds. Does that mean she somehow got parts of the gift too? And how come it's related to Hyun-Jo?
The only part I really, really didn't like was the young shaman (with no reflection in the water, yeeeck!) telling Hyun-Jo he would haunt the mountain after his death. I mean, let's leave the poor man alive, why don't we? I don't want to have an option of having to choose between Hyun-Jo's life and Yi Kang's legs...
No, I know it's based on a novel (though to be honest, I wouldn't read that novel now even if there was not much relation between the drama and the novel except the name) and not a manga, I was just saying it definitely looked like they were fully prepared to use that manga trope LOL. I guess they decided against it because it would have become too rape-y, yeesh.
The first 5-6 episodes were so slow I mostly was considering dropping this, then I caught up with the last three eps so far, and the change is very obvious. I don't know what they did - did they fix the script to increase ratings, or tried to make it more dramatic, or what? But it definitely did not go well.
Not to mention that Japanese Oishii water or whatever it is - I'm getting sick of the commercials for it LOL. There was a whole scene between the secondary pairing LOL, just for that commercial. So bad :D