ShortCircuit

And they said the town is really really far (and the princess also got exiled to that region, right?), but Mr. Zhen got zipped around like lightning when he was needed LOL. (The mains left for that town because Jiang Si wanted to pay homage to their ancestors' shrine or something. Then Zhan ran out of time and went back to enlist, after his martial arts instructor randomly lost his wife in a half episode or something. They really should have decided what to cut and what to leave in before they started filming.)

Anyway, I'll just stick to following Long Dan (heheh, nice name, even if it's not what they intended with it) and leave it at that for now.

In Perfect Match, the mother of the gaggle of sisters is played by the Xu mother, LOL. I had a blast watching her again, and Xu Daddy is winning in this one, too. It's lovely recognising support charas because they play their parts so well :D

The NanWu spy who sold the aphrodisiac pill to the other Jiang daughter's husband, I forget her name. They caught him because he was being careless with the drugs, but he's part of the NanWu spy network and his people want to rescue him if it's possible.

It sadly is pretty forgettable when looking at the presumable main plot, the ones I'm rooting for are the brother and the ML's aide (he's stealing every scene he's in.) The story is kind of bland and the pace is all over the place.

Still, it's good enough to watch waiting for something better.

I am growing really disenchated with the editing and parts of the directing. There are some skips that make no sense and some scenes where all the actors, leads included, forget how to deliver their lines and mess up their expressions. And now we have random guest charas coming out of the woodwork to move the plot along with nothing to prepare the transitions from case to case.

It's like they're butchering the drama to make it fit the number of eps, and it suffers for it.

I wonder when this was actually filmed, 'cause 2023's WoL Jing Tian acted way better there.

Highschoolers are teenagers. EVERY little thing that happens around them has to be centered on them, and them only, and if it doesn't, that's a sign the universe is plotting against them.

I remember that age and I'm not proud, LOL. But then, nobody around me (of the same age) could say they were the best either. We were all in the wrong together. And the universe DID plot against us. A lot. Or at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I'd LOVE to be able to return to childhood though (not teen age). Being carefree and clueless like that never happened again after it passed. That is what life should be about.

If they're in their 40s, they're writing and directing stories about their grandparents or great-grandparents' generation (at the youngest, assuming the charas start at around 20 years of age). It's been 65 years since the 60s. That's at least three generations' time, and the charas are already adults at the beginning of the period.

I wonder if something so far back in time (that is not really all that far, since it's not Joseon anymore, nor set in war times, as per usual) would click with the young people of today. I guess we'll see, depending on how interesting they make the story.

He doesn't actually have to care about how he does in school, though, does he? And the bullying only bothers him - for himself, I mean - when it messes with his mission.

Obviously he can - and does - intervene in favour of the bullied kids, but then, he's an actual ADULT (which I'd like to see the FL acting as) and CAN disengage extremely easily. Already did too - skipped a day because he wanted to. If they kick him out of school there won't be any consequences for him, maybe make his mission a bit harder but that's it. A well-planned burglary would have ended the mission in a day or two anyway with no shenanigans in school. But then we wouldn't have had a drama either.

The kids in school don't have his options and have to plan for the long term.

Very old-fashioned (historical kdrama-level) elegance. Like keeping your little finger up when drinking from a cup or something.

That's why everybody's staring LOL, they can't believe he's behaving like he's from Joseon (he's freaking 31, LOL, the writer's playing with the watchers on this one, LOL) :D

My theory is that he was probably half-asleep in that car, as kids do, and half-listening to the adults speaking in it. He believed he was driving, then it was his father, then he was the passenger, then he was in the back next to a girl he almost remembered.

Given he was small enough to eventually forget his own name, I think his memories of the accident got mixed-up. And he was already having a second trauma-related amnesia episode anyway. Hypnosis isn't a 100% proven psychiatric tool to use for amnesia (except in movies or dramas), people who can get influenced can get influenced to imagine things that never happened, too, or twist things that did happen but not like that.

They also waited a second or two, they didn't want to plow through a whole crowd of people crossing the street, LOL. Just the one.

That's respecting safety when running a red light :D

The point isn't that there's a reason she chose the shares (twice, I might add). The point is that the shares are more important than him. And worth making him go through hell - he has to see her get wed with no warning whatsoever, on the day he wanted to propose to her. She got up from his bed in the morning, all loved-up, then went and dressed in white and married another guy. In front of the "love of her life".

That's the whole thing. Her grandfather even tested her later, offering her a way out of the marriage, if she wanted DongJoo, and she still picks the shares.

What good are those shares though? It's not even a controlling pack for DaeSan. What are they going to prove? Her stepfather most probably killed her bio father, or maybe just had a hand in it... how are a few shares in a huge conglomerate that is listed (otherwise the shares don't matter at all) and barely the same amount as all other family members... going to help her point the blame of her father's death to her stepfather? A few private detectives would have done a thousand times better than that.

She does a lot of very stupid things. She might not be a very bright character and so far, her only merit is that he's in love with her, blindly. That's about all there is to her.

I have hope there will be more, since we're not even halfway through the drama. But so far... the character does not impress.

... My mom was a kid at that time, and I am not a spring chicken myself either, LOL. Maybe it's addressed to the director or writer's respective parents' generation, then.

They were sleeping together for a year before the story starts, they're not siblings (not even step), because SK drama producers aren't that brave, LOL.

When is Tangerines supposed to take place (in time)? The synopsis says it's a tribute to our parents' youths, to which generation is this addressed to?! Because they look like they were dress shopping in the 50s or 60s, at most the beginning of the 70s, and that generation would be probably great-great-great grandpas and grandmas to today's youths.

Cliches are cliches for a reason. And he makes them all work.

Though by now I am all invested into HID's story, too. He might still surprise us all.

Have a seat next to me, we'll be sadists for this drama whenever SDJ is suffering :D

I'm not going to argue here, since it already happened... but why would it make it more significant not to know that the cliche appears in this ep? It wasn't clear who got hit, if anyone, and what the resolution of its appearence would be.

We don't even know why Sister Agnes is actually someone important, she was in - total - maybe 10 minutes in the whole drama, her real relationship to the ML isn't explained (yet), why would her demise be of more significance than shocking him into remembering his past by witnessing the accident (because he doesn't remember her anyway to care more than a living person getting smashed by a truck in front of him)? So far she's just a plot vehicle so her death doesn't impress much (except for the ML, for yet unrevealed reasons).

So yeah. It happened. If the scene - plot - characters - are engaging enough, I largely stay focused on the screen, though, not browse while watching, TBH, and I expect most other people do the same. So maybe getting a (not so unexpected) spoiler is not that important in the grand scheme of things, just sayin'.

Sorry for the long rant, LOL. These things (rants) also happen.

It's a drama so rich in cliches you know it would have come up. I was expecting it to be in his childhood, since he first lost his memory in a car accident, but here it came.

I guess we still might get the WToDTM in the childhood accident anyway because who's to stop them? *shrug*

I like the ED song, I wish they'd change it for something more battle-ready though, now that the revenge is on.