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Whoa! Spoiler alert!

Do we know if a Season 3 is planned?

I mean, he can have the interest, as long as he doesn’t impose it.
He is a bit dumb, though. Many people don’t trust government agents. That’s not the issue, per se. It’s that he is so patronizing to his sister that he thinks he knows better than she does. And that his jealousy clouds his ability to see how the prince treats her with so much care. And that, even if you don’t trust government, why would just believe what some guy whom you don’t know, at all, without verifying anything? Again, his jealousy is clouding his judgement. I think the writers are trying to present him as a hick. That’s fine, I guess, but he’s rash and patronizing.

This drama is such a sweet surprise.

Totally engaging. Fast paced. It’s over before you know it. And leaves you wanting more. Or imagining your own story of what’s next.

Fantastic ensemble acting. Every single character occupied their space and interacted with the other characters so well.

I enjoyed the mix of gritty realism with the somewhat comic like monsters and scenarios. It felt like it came from a manga or Webtoon,, in a good, entertaining way, while giving characters who were so compelling that you’re attached before you know it,

It’s a ride. Enjoy it!

Liu Yu Ning really steals the show. His is the best written character and he performs it so well. LeYan is second best character in terms of development and their pairing is fantastic.

I suppose it could be interpreted that way. But, he shot himself in the head. I thought he was just having last thoughts before heading into the light.

Well executed makjang farce with anti-hero theme. Great ensemble comedy. Wonderful acting jobs. A theme we don’t hear often enough: if the infrastructure of a society will not embrace and provide justice, there will be those who will rise up to righteously mete out what they can.

I think we are agreeing on that. I was trying to work out if there was a plausible explanation for how Sigma would have sent the nuclear missile back in time, if there had been no war originally. But, I can’t make that plausible. In the original timeline, he’s a down and out artist who has no money and no social power. How would he have gotten into the position to send a nuclear warhead back in time, if the society hadn’t been completely upended by a nuclear war? So, yes, there had to be a war in the first place, for the story to exist. Yet, if there had been, that war was launched when the uploader had only existed for one day and Sigma was a nobody. So, what caused it? If I’m traveling back in time, I’d be looking at international politics and how to change that dynamic.

On your comment about US/UN, etc. The US is the one who has turned S Korea into a nuclear state. And, if you look at the history, the US was just fine bombing every city on the Korean Peninsula during the not-Korean War. (It was really a war between Russia and the US.) we leveled the entire peninsula. No one has seen that magnitude of destruction before or since. (Well, maybe Syria, now, which were also involved in.) The UN has never stopped a US military incursion. It can’t. We have overwhelming military might and we just ignore any objections. And we’ve spent decades demonizing N Korea, specifically so we have can claim justification for going back in and doing what we did in the 50s. Koreans have experienced it and it’s the thing which frightens them the most. The US has been adept at using this fear to turn N Korea into the bogeyman that S Korea needs us to protect them from. N Korea has never launched a first strike. Never. But, the history of what has happened on the peninsula makes the war scenario depicted here fit the S Korean storytelling norm.

But was there a war in the original timeline? If not, how did he go from lowly artist who can’t make a buck to man with enough power and resources to send a nuclear mission back in time and force a war that never occurred in the first place?

If there wasn’t a war, in the original timeline, how come Future Seo Hae doesn’t know that?

I watched the last scene several times. And, whoops, did mean to put the spoiler tag on. My bad.

I don’t understand why anyone thinks Tae Sul is alive in the final airplane scene. He shot himself and died. All future trajectories were erased with action. We see everything reset to a concrete present, with no war. The future is now unknown, as people move forward. He didn’t leave them the uploader, so here couldn’t be more time travel after that.

Tae Sul is basically Sisyphus, who finally realizes that the only way to finally stop pushing the boulder uphill is to take himself out of the equation.

None of this explains, though, why the original war had anything to do with him or Sigma. In all the scenarios the uploader isn’t even created until the day before the war. So, how could it have been the catalyst? Sigma didn’t exist in the original timeline.

So, if you’re going back to prevent a war from killing 50mil people, shouldn’t there have been some research into what the original cause was? Time machine or not, something caused the launch of a nuclear conflict on the Korean Peninsula. That seems more important to figure out than whether HTS creates the uploader.

Though, I will note that if we assume that everyone was lying about who set off the first nuclear missile, there may be a link between Sigma and the war.

If we assume that the uploader was created without a war happening, but that, somehow, Sigma got enough power to send that nuclear missile back in time....

But, I don’t see how the loser artist dude would have achieved enough success to be capable of that. (I saw someone suggest that he ends being the one to develop the uploader, but that makes no sense. All the most brilliant scientists couldn’t do it with without Tae Sul. So, I’m tossing that theory aside,) So, we’re back to needing to figure out how the original war started.

Because, really, the existence of time travel wasn’t the core problem. It was the death of 50mil people.

How did the first war happen? That is the biggest plot hole in the story. Because the original war happened without Sigma. It had nothing to do with him. So, getting rid of him doesn’t change that.

It’s also not clear that it had anything to do with the time machine. Seems like the thing was invented days before the war.

If I were going back to figure out how to stop the war, I’d want to know the original cause. Yet, not once does anybody bring that up.

I also found it eye-rolling that they blamed nuclear disaster on N Korea.

While I completely get the anger over Chinese appropriation of Korean culture, I'll never understand the worship of monarchs. And to be upset that some historical monarch is not represented the way you think is historically correct in a fantasy fiction?

Why are people so enamored with authoritarian figures? No matter how relatively "progressive" you think that person may have been (and, let's be honest, history is documented and passed down by those in power, with a vested interested in presenting their ruling in the best possible light), he was still an authoritarian ruler. He didn't represent egalitarianism. He still followed the concept that his family should be in the seat of power.

Also, its one thing if the drama is presented at all, as though its factual. But, hello! Zombies and vampires. I don't think anyone would mistake this for a history lesson.

And to ruin the career of people over it. wow.

Though, I will say, that having Chinese sponsors influence the production and bring an overly Chinese representation to a Korean period piece is utterly offensive. Utterly. I hope no other Korean production company makes this mistake.

Still.... it.is.fiction. And it promised to be one of the more interesting stories to come out of S Korean TVland in a while. So. Sad.

I won't sign the Netflix petition, though, out of respect. I'm not a S Korean citizen and its their capitalist and nationalist history that they're speaking to. I'll leave that to them. I can just be sad.

Highlight of Sunshine of My Life.

Wow. That’s fascinating. Without that reference her character makes no sense. I wish they’d figured out a better solution if they were going to completely remove the context.

Do we know that he actually got married? Or just that his mom tried to force a marriage? Maybe it didn’t get past the parents forcing an engagement?

It may be her real voice, it it’s dubbed and you can tell. There is a weird cadence to all the voices. No sentence just flows. They have these pauses which make it feel unnatural.

Also, the dialogue is poorly written. They also often sound like they explaining to the audience rather than having a real conversation.

Go Ahead is an exception. Definitely worth the watch. Some very interesting storytelling of a sort of blended family made out of trauma and tragedy, how they coped, bonded, loved and healed.