absolutely baffled with the overall concept of this film. how on earth is it easier to 3D print humans and install…
As per what was revealed, an asteroid hitting was totally unexpected.
The company, under the purview of the UN, was already quietly experimenting on the next evolution of humans. There were already spaceships around the world that they are using to move equipment and personnel to the space labs.
So, no, it is not easy at all to do that than transport regular humans. It just so happen they were already ready for it. It was not part of the plan, it just is what's left.
Some things to consider: 1. The asteroid hit Antarctica 3 hours before the FL woke up. And it already flooded many countries in just 3 hours.
2. Spaceship technology is not at the level where it can just go back and forth to carry food and other things human survivors need in space.
3. With the world flood rising like every hour or two, it's practically impossible to transport goods to launchpads that will support a larger human population
4. You can't just transport humans to space. Many of them will die within a month because they're not built for it. Space technology in this story is pretty much at the same level as what we have. It is not Star Trek level.
5. You said procreate the old fashioned way in space. That's not going to happen. To this day, we haven't been able to fertilize a human egg in space. And even if the old fashioned way has a better rate, the baby will more likely form with deformitiesâthat is if it can even survive for 5 to 9 months.
Oh, and the mother will likely die during childbirth too.
This is assuming they have facilities for childbirth, nursing, and well, intense exercise to keep the mother in shape. Otherwise, the mother might die around her 4th month.
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What does this tell us?
1. The UN chose the option with the highest chance of restarting the human race.
2. What you suggested is actually a guaranteed path to human extinction. đ
So, no, there was nothing baffling to it and the plotâas you framed it to be 3D printing + emotion engine vs transporting humansâwas not ridiculous. You failed to consider far too many factors.
We don't even know if the there were any regular humans left running those space labs! There were only few of them and they all probably died already.
She left in a helicopter and was sent to space. On their way to the lab where she'll be working, the ship they…
Q: Is the child an AI or human? A: Human
However, they implanted some technology on the child's brain to record every single thing about his emotions.
This is why the FL was so distraught, they are going to kill a real human child to retrieve that embedded tech.
Q: Is the child in the spaceship AI or human? A: It is human too. But "newhuman" species. The body was created in a laboratory though, instead of the natural process.
It still grows as a human. Basically, what was hinted tells us that the company, under the UN purview, was able to create real human bodies, of any age.
How they achieved it is not important as that is not the focus of the story. Korean storytelling doesn't focus on such things in these type of stories, it's the Western world that focuses on it.
So, just take it or leave it.
Q: Is the mother AI or human? A: Human. The first half all happened in the real world. The Great Flood was real. It did destroy majority of the planet.
Q: Is the mother in the spaceship carrying her son, AI or human? A: Same answer as the one for her child in the spaceship. (See above.)
Q: Are all those spaceships in the ending a Mother and her child? How will it restart the human race? A: Probably not.
We can assume that some of them are father and daughter. Based on what was hinted
(a) In the Korean branch of the company, there were two subjects: son and daughter (b) There were two Korean mothers (c) The spaceships that flew were from around the world under the company control approved by the UN. Which means that there were other experiments everywhere.
To create a father emotioe engine, the remaining survivors probably gave the father emotion engine an exact objective and scenario but used a different subject. More likely another survivor, a father-daughter combination.
But since only the FL and her manager were able to perfect the emotioe engine, they followed the plan of the FL on how to virtually train the mother and father emotioe engines.
So, yes, there's a very high probability that some of those ships reterning to earth were father-daughter.
Lastly, there probably are regular human survivors. So there's that option too.
She left in a helicopter and was sent to space. On their way to the lab where she'll be working, the ship they…
As for the "time loop".
No, it wasn't a time loop. It was training the Mother emotional engine.
Have you noticed the numbers on her shirt kept increasing? That's the number of times they've run the simulation to teach the emotion engine what it means to have human emotions.
The simulation only ends once the Mother newhuman finds the newhuman son. That was the benchmark the FL set that signals the Mother emotion engine achieves full parity with real human emotioes.
The Mother newhuman took 13,499 times to achieve a perfect copy of emotions a human mother would have.
After that, she was downloaded into a newhuman body and made to look like the original FL.
She left in a helicopter and was sent to space. On their way to the lab where she'll be working, the ship they were in got it by debris from another ship that was destroyed by an asteroid shower.
She got hit.
She told the project manager to use her as the subjec for the Mother emotion engine. Which is exactly what she planned when she whispered to her adopted son during the rooftop scene. Her dying played well for her plans because then no one can refuse her as the subject.
So, they plugged her in and downloaded her lifetime of memories and passed away. She probably passed away before they were able to download her entire memories because the test subject took 13,499 times before she finally remembered the important memories.
Oh, yes, the original died because they didn't have the equipment to operate on her. Even if we assume she survived, she won't be the one returning to Earth regardless, it's the new mother who will return. That's what the program was about.
Korean productions have this quiet strength when it comes to sci-fi and apocalyptic stories: they never forget the people. While many films in the genre get lost in scale, destruction, and technical realism, Koreans guarantee the human factor is front and center. An apocalypse is not just about cities falling apartâit is about humans breaking and adapting. When everything collapses, it is humanity that bears the weight.
«The Great Flood» («ëíì») does not miss that point. It leans into the often overlooked human factor, which means it may disappoint anyone expecting a shallow, effects-driven spectacle. But for those familiar with Korean storytellingâand for anyone who value character over chaosâthis film delivers. At its core is a deeply human story, a simple yet powerful focus on the bond between a mother and her child.
Kim Da-mi (êčë€ëŻž) was perfect for the role. She has never limited herself into a single type of role, and that range shows here. The experience she has built over time allows her to embody the character fully, moving through fear, resolve, tenderness, and desperation with ease. It is the kind of performance that allows the audience to sit with the character rather than merely watch her.
It is understandable that YJS was just trying to make the variety show more fun and challenging. But remember…
Oh, and before some loser tells me to shut up because I'm supposedly watching Whenever Possible from illegal streaming sites, I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm a paid subscriber of Viu Philippines. I watch Whenever Possible legally.
I'm sorry but YJS set them up to fail in the basketball game when he chose who goes out instead of the Whenever…
It is understandable that YJS was just trying to make the variety show more fun and challenging. But remember that the rule and tradition is for the Whenever Friend to choose, not the hosts, not the Whenever Guests. You can put forward your suggestions and argument, but the Whenever Friend has the final say.
Now, if the student did choose YJS, well, the editing team made it look like YJS made the decision for the Whenever Friend. YeJin volunteered, and she was the logical choice, so why would the Whenever Friend choose to replace YJS?
It isn't about YeJin haven't made a point at that time, it wasn't about her, and she herself was aware of it that she immediately volunteered. No one's going to fault YeJin for it, that's just the reality, there are things we can't do that others can't. So, if it was to save YeJin's face, it was totally unnecessary.
I'm really sorry about this, but I was very disappointed. The Whenever Friend's chance to increase their odds of winning was sabotaged as per the scenes included in the final cut.
Remember, the show is about the Whenever Friends, not the Whenever Guests. And the Whenever Guests not doing well is part of the show's charm, it shows the public that celebrities are humans, tooâwhich many seems to have forgotten. This is in fact their chance to prove that they're like every other human, with shortcomings and all. Let the Whenever Guests be themselves, and let the Whenever Friends create memories the way everyone before them did.
I'm sorry but YJS set them up to fail in the basketball game when he chose who goes out instead of the Whenever Friend. The guest would've picked YeJin as the most logical choice.
The rule is the Whenever Friend is the one who'll pick.
No offense, but that was very unfair. He decreased their chances of winning. Even YeJin volunteered because she understood what's at stake and the situation. It was like YJS didn't want them to win.
If the Whenever Friend chose YJS, then it was on them. But YJS insisted he goes out, so it was his decision as the host and not by the Whenever Friend.
I was very disappointed by that. The poor kids should be compensated.
The funny thing is, the more some people complain, the more new audiences it is gaining. They're just making everyone curious and see for themselves so they can decide independently.
Their objective in destryoing this show is doing the opposite. đ
As is often said in marketing, "bad publicity is good marketing".
Not really. The Philippines is well-known to having the highest consumption of Korean stuff, and this show is…
See! It's popular elsewhere too!
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I think this just proves that MDL is US-centric. I mean, even the issues commonly complained about are often found or heard from a USA perspective, since the many social issues they have there are usually not big issues elsewhere, especially in Pacific-Asia.
I mean, you'll rarely see Pacific-Asians complaining and making a big issue of things like disabilities and LGBTQ being included in TV shows or movies. In the US, they call it "woke" and complain too much.
LOL. In Pacific-Asia being "woke" is being awake about the corruption in the government and lies of big corporations, not about social issues. So much disconnect. And if one has social issues, we go to the streets to rally, not complain about a fictional show or movie including it.
Yeah, same. I thought they were doing very well with a complex issue, but then they resolved it in such a convenient…
They did not guilt trip the mother other than the defense attorney. The chairman did not, no one else did. Not even the writers. That scene was there to develop the character of that defense attorney they keep on meeting in courts.
The mother's rare appearance is itself a sign that the plot isn't questioning her decision to have an abortion because the plot is about the kid's interpretation of his life.
Even his own mother disagreed with his view. She cried not because she regretted her decision to abort him, no, she cried because she realized how grave her son's misunderstanding is and how she was sending the wrong messages to him.
In fact, the entire case was about that interpretation of the kid, her decision to abort was very minor to it.
If her decision to abort was truly as simple as "unwanted pregnancy" she would've pursued it no matter what. There are a lot of ways to get a failed pregnancy. Bet she clearly did not. She also did not give up. Her heart just isn't truly into it, she made that choice based on logical conclusions: 1. She can't imagine the life she can give her child 2. She knew she will never leave the child in an adoption center the way her mother did to her
She loves her child even during her early pregnancy. Just what all mothers do.
Her decision to abort was not the one in question, and not once did they show or hint that she regretted itâbecause there was nothing to regretâbut it was all about the view of her son, and how she unknowingly sent the wrong signals to him.
She loves him so much that in pained her to finally realized she made her son conclude things such as,."it would've been better if he was not born so his mom won't go through pain and hardship". No mother, not even a father, will agree to such a conclusion. Even those parents who show outwardly that they supposedly hate their kids, they're lying to their teeth. In private, they are silently crying why they're hating their kids when the truth is they love them so much.
That ms what the chairman figured out when the kid talked to him and when he realized he was the Go player he was playing with. He acknowledged the kid's intelligence but also realized that because he still is a kid, he still can not process the complexities of life.
In the end,the kid also realized he misunderstood his mother. He realized his mother never hated him. He realized that his mother is actually happy she gave birth to him. And he realized his mother could've left him in an orphanage if she wanted to.
Now, as for the chairman still standing on his beliefs, that was expected. If he changed his stance, then he is a total fake. It was because he stood firm that the Pro Bono team, especially the ML and FL, understood that he was genuine with his offer.
Why? Because the ML challenged his beliefs and tried to frame it as the indirect reason why the hospital under his group refused to give the mother an abortion.
If he changed his belief, then it means he's doing it just to save his face. But because he stood firm and offered a hand, it showed that he is a reasonable person and he truly had no hand with the decision of.the hospital. That it was clear he never sanctioned anything about what the ML was trying to paint.
Even his statement was genuine. He wants to prove to the kid that his life is precious. He never said nor imply that his mother made a wrong decision to have an abortion. He respects abortion, he was only campaining to choose life, that's all. He'll adopt them as his family, and no doubt as heir, even though the kid has proven he has a contrasting view.
The chairman simply realized that the case isn't about abortion, the case is about a little kid who concluded that his life is not worth it. Which, again, even his own mother deeply disagreed with.
poor kid, the mother is so ignorant. are those tears or dollar signs flashing in her eyes?
No.
Here's a copy-paste of my reply in another thread.
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Let's talk about the show itself.
The mother chose abortion because: 1. She couldn't imagine what kind of life she could give her child 2. She didn't want to repeat the trauma of abandonment she experienced when her own mother left her in an adoption centre.
She did not choose abortion out of hatred or an intention to murder. She wasn't running away. She is a good person.
Years later, she cried in court while listening to her sonânot because she regretted considering abortion, but because she realised she had unintentionally sent him the wrong message, making him believe she hated him.
She never hated her son. She loved him deeply. She worked an honest, difficult job for him, just as she still loves the mother who never came back for her.
When abortion was no longer an option, she carried him to full term, gave birth, nursed him, and raised himâdespite his paralysis. If she truly didn't love him, she would have abandoned him after birth. She did not.
Her son, intelligent but still emotionally limited, misunderstood her actions. She didn't resent him for his disability. If anything, she was quietly thankful she kept him, because he became her lifeline against depression.
That is why she criedânot out of regret for her choice back then, but out of pain for being misunderstood by the person she loved most. Because she herself understood her mother's decision, but in her case as a mother, she finally understood she failed to send the right signals.
It feels like international audiences arenât appreciating this drama enough, so itâs really nice to see the…
Not really. The Philippines is well-known to having the highest consumption of Korean stuff, and this show is very popular and well accepted here.
What you see in MDL is not a representation of the International hallyu fanbase, far from it. For one, there are only a very handful few of us Filipinos here, and of those, still even fewer who are active in comments. đ
(I'm not saying there are no negative comments at all, but it isn't as bad as is visible here in MDL. And we're good in shutting them down in our own groups.)
Live and let live is a pretty good idea, up to a point. For example, you can think that stealing is wrong and…
Let's talk about the show itself.
The mother chose abortion because: 1. She couldn't imagine what kind of life she could give her child 2. She didn't want to repeat the trauma of abandonment she experienced when her own mother left her in an adoption centre.
She did not choose abortion out of hatred or an intention to murder. She wasn't running away. She is a good person.
Years later, she cried in court while listening to her sonânot because she regretted considering abortion, but because she realised she had unintentionally sent him the wrong message, making him believe she hated him.
She never hated her son. She loved him deeply. She worked an honest, difficult job for him, just as she still loves the mother who never came back for her.
When abortion was no longer an option, she carried him to full term, gave birth, nursed him, and raised himâdespite his paralysis. If she truly didn't love him, she would have abandoned him after birth. She did not.
Her son, intelligent but still emotionally limited, misunderstood her actions. She didn't resent him for his disability. If anything, she was quietly thankful she kept him, because he became her lifeline against depression.
That is why she criedânot out of regret for her choice back then, but out of pain for being misunderstood by the person she loved most. Because she herself understood her mother's decision, but in her case as a mother, she finally understood she failed to send the right signals.
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Aed most scifi are _soft_ scifi. If you want _hard_ scifi, that's usually found in novels. đ
How about you? Why can't you accept that there are people different from you?
The company, under the purview of the UN, was already quietly experimenting on the next evolution of humans. There were already spaceships around the world that they are using to move equipment and personnel to the space labs.
So, no, it is not easy at all to do that than transport regular humans. It just so happen they were already ready for it. It was not part of the plan, it just is what's left.
Some things to consider:
1. The asteroid hit Antarctica 3 hours before the FL woke up. And it already flooded many countries in just 3 hours.
2. Spaceship technology is not at the level where it can just go back and forth to carry food and other things human survivors need in space.
3. With the world flood rising like every hour or two, it's practically impossible to transport goods to launchpads that will support a larger human population
4. You can't just transport humans to space. Many of them will die within a month because they're not built for it. Space technology in this story is pretty much at the same level as what we have. It is not Star Trek level.
5. You said procreate the old fashioned way in space. That's not going to happen. To this day, we haven't been able to fertilize a human egg in space. And even if the old fashioned way has a better rate, the baby will more likely form with deformitiesâthat is if it can even survive for 5 to 9 months.
Oh, and the mother will likely die during childbirth too.
This is assuming they have facilities for childbirth, nursing, and well, intense exercise to keep the mother in shape. Otherwise, the mother might die around her 4th month.
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What does this tell us?
1. The UN chose the option with the highest chance of restarting the human race.
2. What you suggested is actually a guaranteed path to human extinction. đ
So, no, there was nothing baffling to it and the plotâas you framed it to be 3D printing + emotion engine vs transporting humansâwas not ridiculous. You failed to consider far too many factors.
We don't even know if the there were any regular humans left running those space labs! There were only few of them and they all probably died already.
A: Human
However, they implanted some technology on the child's brain to record every single thing about his emotions.
This is why the FL was so distraught, they are going to kill a real human child to retrieve that embedded tech.
Q: Is the child in the spaceship AI or human?
A: It is human too. But "newhuman" species. The body was created in a laboratory though, instead of the natural process.
It still grows as a human. Basically, what was hinted tells us that the company, under the UN purview, was able to create real human bodies, of any age.
How they achieved it is not important as that is not the focus of the story. Korean storytelling doesn't focus on such things in these type of stories, it's the Western world that focuses on it.
So, just take it or leave it.
Q: Is the mother AI or human?
A: Human. The first half all happened in the real world. The Great Flood was real. It did destroy majority of the planet.
Q: Is the mother in the spaceship carrying her son, AI or human?
A: Same answer as the one for her child in the spaceship. (See above.)
Q: Are all those spaceships in the ending a Mother and her child? How will it restart the human race?
A: Probably not.
We can assume that some of them are father and daughter. Based on what was hinted
(a) In the Korean branch of the company, there were two subjects: son and daughter
(b) There were two Korean mothers
(c) The spaceships that flew were from around the world under the company control approved by the UN. Which means that there were other experiments everywhere.
To create a father emotioe engine, the remaining survivors probably gave the father emotion engine an exact objective and scenario but used a different subject. More likely another survivor, a father-daughter combination.
But since only the FL and her manager were able to perfect the emotioe engine, they followed the plan of the FL on how to virtually train the mother and father emotioe engines.
So, yes, there's a very high probability that some of those ships reterning to earth were father-daughter.
Lastly, there probably are regular human survivors. So there's that option too.
No, it wasn't a time loop. It was training the Mother emotional engine.
Have you noticed the numbers on her shirt kept increasing? That's the number of times they've run the simulation to teach the emotion engine what it means to have human emotions.
The simulation only ends once the Mother newhuman finds the newhuman son. That was the benchmark the FL set that signals the Mother emotion engine achieves full parity with real human emotioes.
The Mother newhuman took 13,499 times to achieve a perfect copy of emotions a human mother would have.
After that, she was downloaded into a newhuman body and made to look like the original FL.
She got hit.
She told the project manager to use her as the subjec for the Mother emotion engine. Which is exactly what she planned when she whispered to her adopted son during the rooftop scene. Her dying played well for her plans because then no one can refuse her as the subject.
So, they plugged her in and downloaded her lifetime of memories and passed away. She probably passed away before they were able to download her entire memories because the test subject took 13,499 times before she finally remembered the important memories.
Oh, yes, the original died because they didn't have the equipment to operate on her. Even if we assume she survived, she won't be the one returning to Earth regardless, it's the new mother who will return. That's what the program was about.
Korean productions have this quiet strength when it comes to sci-fi and apocalyptic stories: they never forget the people. While many films in the genre get lost in scale, destruction, and technical realism, Koreans guarantee the human factor is front and center. An apocalypse is not just about cities falling apartâit is about humans breaking and adapting. When everything collapses, it is humanity that bears the weight.
«The Great Flood» («ëíì») does not miss that point. It leans into the often overlooked human factor, which means it may disappoint anyone expecting a shallow, effects-driven spectacle. But for those familiar with Korean storytellingâand for anyone who value character over chaosâthis film delivers. At its core is a deeply human story, a simple yet powerful focus on the bond between a mother and her child.
Kim Da-mi (êčë€ëŻž) was perfect for the role. She has never limited herself into a single type of role, and that range shows here. The experience she has built over time allows her to embody the character fully, moving through fear, resolve, tenderness, and desperation with ease. It is the kind of performance that allows the audience to sit with the character rather than merely watch her.
9 out of 10 stars.
I hope the Koreans noticed it too and call them out. Or, a Korean translates our feedback.
It's really sad this happened.
Now, if the student did choose YJS, well, the editing team made it look like YJS made the decision for the Whenever Friend. YeJin volunteered, and she was the logical choice, so why would the Whenever Friend choose to replace YJS?
It isn't about YeJin haven't made a point at that time, it wasn't about her, and she herself was aware of it that she immediately volunteered. No one's going to fault YeJin for it, that's just the reality, there are things we can't do that others can't. So, if it was to save YeJin's face, it was totally unnecessary.
I'm really sorry about this, but I was very disappointed. The Whenever Friend's chance to increase their odds of winning was sabotaged as per the scenes included in the final cut.
Remember, the show is about the Whenever Friends, not the Whenever Guests. And the Whenever Guests not doing well is part of the show's charm, it shows the public that celebrities are humans, tooâwhich many seems to have forgotten. This is in fact their chance to prove that they're like every other human, with shortcomings and all. Let the Whenever Guests be themselves, and let the Whenever Friends create memories the way everyone before them did.
The rule is the Whenever Friend is the one who'll pick.
No offense, but that was very unfair. He decreased their chances of winning. Even YeJin volunteered because she understood what's at stake and the situation. It was like YJS didn't want them to win.
If the Whenever Friend chose YJS, then it was on them. But YJS insisted he goes out, so it was his decision as the host and not by the Whenever Friend.
I was very disappointed by that. The poor kids should be compensated.
Their objective in destryoing this show is doing the opposite. đ
As is often said in marketing, "bad publicity is good marketing".
Thank you for sharing! đđœ
I think this just proves that MDL is US-centric. I mean, even the issues commonly complained about are often found or heard from a USA perspective, since the many social issues they have there are usually not big issues elsewhere, especially in Pacific-Asia.
I mean, you'll rarely see Pacific-Asians complaining and making a big issue of things like disabilities and LGBTQ being included in TV shows or movies. In the US, they call it "woke" and complain too much.
LOL. In Pacific-Asia being "woke" is being awake about the corruption in the government and lies of big corporations, not about social issues. So much disconnect. And if one has social issues, we go to the streets to rally, not complain about a fictional show or movie including it.
The mother's rare appearance is itself a sign that the plot isn't questioning her decision to have an abortion because the plot is about the kid's interpretation of his life.
Even his own mother disagreed with his view. She cried not because she regretted her decision to abort him, no, she cried because she realized how grave her son's misunderstanding is and how she was sending the wrong messages to him.
In fact, the entire case was about that interpretation of the kid, her decision to abort was very minor to it.
If her decision to abort was truly as simple as "unwanted pregnancy" she would've pursued it no matter what. There are a lot of ways to get a failed pregnancy. Bet she clearly did not. She also did not give up. Her heart just isn't truly into it, she made that choice based on logical conclusions:
1. She can't imagine the life she can give her child
2. She knew she will never leave the child in an adoption center the way her mother did to her
She loves her child even during her early pregnancy. Just what all mothers do.
Her decision to abort was not the one in question, and not once did they show or hint that she regretted itâbecause there was nothing to regretâbut it was all about the view of her son, and how she unknowingly sent the wrong signals to him.
She loves him so much that in pained her to finally realized she made her son conclude things such as,."it would've been better if he was not born so his mom won't go through pain and hardship". No mother, not even a father, will agree to such a conclusion. Even those parents who show outwardly that they supposedly hate their kids, they're lying to their teeth. In private, they are silently crying why they're hating their kids when the truth is they love them so much.
That ms what the chairman figured out when the kid talked to him and when he realized he was the Go player he was playing with. He acknowledged the kid's intelligence but also realized that because he still is a kid, he still can not process the complexities of life.
In the end,the kid also realized he misunderstood his mother. He realized his mother never hated him. He realized that his mother is actually happy she gave birth to him. And he realized his mother could've left him in an orphanage if she wanted to.
Now, as for the chairman still standing on his beliefs, that was expected. If he changed his stance, then he is a total fake. It was because he stood firm that the Pro Bono team, especially the ML and FL, understood that he was genuine with his offer.
Why? Because the ML challenged his beliefs and tried to frame it as the indirect reason why the hospital under his group refused to give the mother an abortion.
If he changed his belief, then it means he's doing it just to save his face. But because he stood firm and offered a hand, it showed that he is a reasonable person and he truly had no hand with the decision of.the hospital. That it was clear he never sanctioned anything about what the ML was trying to paint.
Even his statement was genuine. He wants to prove to the kid that his life is precious. He never said nor imply that his mother made a wrong decision to have an abortion. He respects abortion, he was only campaining to choose life, that's all. He'll adopt them as his family, and no doubt as heir, even though the kid has proven he has a contrasting view.
The chairman simply realized that the case isn't about abortion, the case is about a little kid who concluded that his life is not worth it. Which, again, even his own mother deeply disagreed with.
Here's a copy-paste of my reply in another thread.
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Let's talk about the show itself.
The mother chose abortion because:
1. She couldn't imagine what kind of life she could give her child
2. She didn't want to repeat the trauma of abandonment she experienced when her own mother left her in an adoption centre.
She did not choose abortion out of hatred or an intention to murder. She wasn't running away. She is a good person.
Years later, she cried in court while listening to her sonânot because she regretted considering abortion, but because she realised she had unintentionally sent him the wrong message, making him believe she hated him.
She never hated her son. She loved him deeply. She worked an honest, difficult job for him, just as she still loves the mother who never came back for her.
When abortion was no longer an option, she carried him to full term, gave birth, nursed him, and raised himâdespite his paralysis. If she truly didn't love him, she would have abandoned him after birth. She did not.
Her son, intelligent but still emotionally limited, misunderstood her actions. She didn't resent him for his disability. If anything, she was quietly thankful she kept him, because he became her lifeline against depression.
That is why she criedânot out of regret for her choice back then, but out of pain for being misunderstood by the person she loved most. Because she herself understood her mother's decision, but in her case as a mother, she finally understood she failed to send the right signals.
What you see in MDL is not a representation of the International hallyu fanbase, far from it. For one, there are only a very handful few of us Filipinos here, and of those, still even fewer who are active in comments. đ
(I'm not saying there are no negative comments at all, but it isn't as bad as is visible here in MDL. And we're good in shutting them down in our own groups.)
The mother chose abortion because:
1. She couldn't imagine what kind of life she could give her child
2. She didn't want to repeat the trauma of abandonment she experienced when her own mother left her in an adoption centre.
She did not choose abortion out of hatred or an intention to murder. She wasn't running away. She is a good person.
Years later, she cried in court while listening to her sonânot because she regretted considering abortion, but because she realised she had unintentionally sent him the wrong message, making him believe she hated him.
She never hated her son. She loved him deeply. She worked an honest, difficult job for him, just as she still loves the mother who never came back for her.
When abortion was no longer an option, she carried him to full term, gave birth, nursed him, and raised himâdespite his paralysis. If she truly didn't love him, she would have abandoned him after birth. She did not.
Her son, intelligent but still emotionally limited, misunderstood her actions. She didn't resent him for his disability. If anything, she was quietly thankful she kept him, because he became her lifeline against depression.
That is why she criedânot out of regret for her choice back then, but out of pain for being misunderstood by the person she loved most. Because she herself understood her mother's decision, but in her case as a mother, she finally understood she failed to send the right signals.