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Noo, once a week format!

This is funny. I'll enjoy watching this.

Also, they're "training" and exposing new talents. About time. I've already seen Gyuri twice before. I'm glad to see her again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm watching this. But this is the hardest story I've encountered that used the Kishōtenketsu method. So far, it.does look like they're using Kishōtenketsu.

Mad Concrete has too many "dumb" moments for my taste. Hahaha.

Climax is too slow and melodrama. I'll end up skipping only which I don't like to do. Hehehe.

At least that's what I remember. I think I also had too high of an expectation, they marketed it in a way that aligns with my tastes but it failed to deliver that. While probably in the middle they will, but it's hard to watch if the show didn't catch you early on.

I forgot to mention: I hope this is the last time we will see that ghost silhouette method. It's for ghosts, not brains transferred to a different body. There are methods meant exclusively for certain things because that's the effect and message it brings.

It's already an advance storytelling, then they reinvented the wheel. 😂

As of E04.

1. The director's style of storytelling is unconventional and very confusing.

a. The time jumps are too large within the same time period (present to present and past to past).
b. The flow between different time jumps lacks telltale signs of when it ms happening, 6 months before or after? 3 months before 6 months? 2 months after 3 months?

2. It's like reading a half chapter and then another half chapter and thenyet another half chapter. And each of those half chapters are from the vantage point of different characters.

I can't even decide who is the 1FL, 2FL, the 1ML, and the 2ML. They are all given equal weight and importance. In creative writing, this is highly discouraged because it confuses the reader. It also signals that the author is an amateur. So, I don't know why the scriptwriter decided to use this complicated method. Clearly, if someone likes me who can quickly grasped complex stories is having a hard time, it means the writer failed or they targeted a very niche audience who far better than me. 😂

Then again, she also wrote Durian's Affair which I put on hold and I have no idea when I'll continue it.

3. The older brother actor.

I like actors who are flexible. I usualny see him acting macho, rarely as a soft "girly" guy. LOL. That's what my first gf's colleague saw in me hence he didn't believe I'm her bf then until we had a pationate kiss in front of him. 🤣🤪 I was too soft and "girly" like the actor's character here. ROFL.

4. Why are they chatty? Am I watching a novel? What happened to "show don't tell" golden rule in creative writing? 😅😆

It feels like I'm watching old P-dramas. Always sitting, standing, eating, and chat chat chat.

Let's get on with the plot, the mother's insanity! Hahaha. Show us how insane she is already! 😜🤪

Oh, and the 12–14 hours you mentioned, including weekends, that was already an improvement. There are more bills filed that will further reduce it and align it with other Asian countries like the Philippines. Even in the Kpop industry, new laws were recently passed to align with Filipino and Japanese Kpop idol because both the Philippines and Japan have very strict laws when it comes to child labour (underage) especially if they work abroad.

For example, UNIS have 2 Filipino citizens and 2 Japanese nationals. F&F Entertainment is obligated to follow the requirements for those foreign Kpop idols. Like Elisia, F&F is mandated to give her time for her studies, and if she so much have one failing subject, she'll have less time for work-related activities and F&F can't do anything about it.

A recent South Korean law was passed to ensure foreign talents employed in South Korean Kpop industry meets their respective laws instead of purely Korean laws only. In fact, even the Korean talunts benefited from it. They now have a strict weekly number of work hours.

So, it is changing. But Kdrama and news rarely, if ever, talk about it. They always want the old "bad" systems to be at the front of Kdrama and news.

Actually, the mandatory dinner after work you mentioned is exaggerated. 😁 I've worked with Koreans from South Korea for more than 20 years, the culture you explained is a 20th Century stereotype that Kdrama writers can't grow up from. The situation is way far better than they're depicting.

Of course, it is not perfect and there are still major issues, but comparing the current situation with Kdrama depictions, it's stereotypical already because things improved for the last ten years.

One could say there are still companies with obsolete cultures (especially old companies), which is true in many countries, not just in South Korea.


There are still many improvements needed but mandatory dinner is no longer mandatory.

Oh, work-life balance is actually a huge thing in South Korea for the last 10 years, and it is through it that many changes happened and are happening.

Exactly!

A very mature and objective analysis.

That is not unrealistic. Writers wouldn't write something they haven't experienced for themselves, or witnessed for themselves. You just haven't met someone or haven't experienced it yourself, which makes you "lucky" but it doesn't mean you should invalidate it as "ridiculous tropes".

The bottomline is that they're too young to identify the real problems they're facing and thus in finding the right solutions. Their conclusion was "we started drifting apart because our situation is leading us to opposite directions".

But once you're an adult, with more experiences, you learn that the real problems were each of you are not flexible, had a fantasy view of what a relationship should be, and each of you putting yourself in the center (aka, me me and me).

This is coming from first-hand experience. Their story having a relationship while at school and breaking up as young adults were very similar to my first gf (I was also her first bf). But it took us 11 years after break up to finally fully close our story. For our on-screen couple, they still have a chance to SHINE after 10 years.

They get a happy ending while my first gf and I had a sad ending. 😁

See my explanation here: https://kisskh.at/777992-shining#comment-25446912

It was painful to watch because not only I was able to relate to it and thus predicted the flow and everything else, but also because I knew why that happened and the correct solution to it.

My first love and I (I was also her first) also had to break up after 3 years of relationship. We thought it was because we were drifting apart, have less time, arguing, and we can't reconcile our differences and new life. However, for the next 11 years, we realized we were wrong.

It wasn't because of our differences and new lives and all that, it was because we were too young and still immature and lacks insight and experiences. The real problems were we weren't willing to be flexible, we had this fantasy of what a relationship looks like, and it was all about me me and me (ie each of you is the center instead of no one being in the center).

That's exactly what happened to them. They had this fantastical image of what a relationship is and their new situations no longer align to that. They came to the conclusion that it's time to go their separate ways. They were not capable of analyzing things properly. They didn't have to break up, they just need to wake up.

A relationship isn't all about bells and whistles, it is also about flexibility and understanding. No one is at the center. The only center is the gravity that is pulling you together, and that is love and relationship. You both made that decision and that was your gravitational force. Just like how the Sun is the center of gravity that is pulling the planets together.

In the end, in our case, we simply finally fully closed our story after 11 years since our break up. Unfortunately for us, it is too late to be together.

But for our couple in this story, they still have a chance to SHINE.

E03 was very relatable.

Different models of story structure in creative writing:

- Three-act Structure (most common in Western works)
- Four-act Structure (me: best for live-action)
- Five Elements Plot (me: best for novels)
- KiShōTenKetsu (most common in CJK works)

This show seems to be using Kishōtenketsu, so I'm expecting low ratings in Western-users dominated sites like MDL. We'll see if Kishōtenketsu will work for this story.

Also posted in the forums: https://kisskh.at/discussions/789540-doctor-sin/149606-timelines-explained-spoilers

a. As of E02, Momo hasn't appeared in Past 2.0.
b. Past 2.0 is primarily about BaRa and her crush.
c. Part 1.0 is also primarily about BaRa and her crush, with Momo and Dr. Shin's budding love as close secondary.
d. Present is where Momo, her mother, and Dr. Shin comes to the front, while BaRa and her crush becomes secondary.

I suspect that they will all converge and some weird connections will surface or unexpected relationships created.

If you are confused with the timelines, it basically boils down to:

1. Present time. In E01, this was 6 months after the diving accident of Momo. Of course the present time is moving forward.

2. Past 1.0 is 6 months before Momo's accident.

3. Past 2.0 is 9 years (I can't remember exactly) ago.

There's more below.

Is Gang NaEon really in this show?

Momo's black dress in E01 was super awesome for her. She also nailed how to carry it well without looking like a 50-year old melodrama mother. 😆 Perfection!

In any case, the question of the synopsis is something you'll learn to answer once you're #Forever28, and that answer is actually very simple: the "soul" or the consciousness, not the body.

But for those who hasn't reached #Forever28, they haven't realized that yet. Though there are a few Forever28s who are avoiding this by saying it only happens in fiction. 😅

Sure, in our age and time, it only happens in fiction. But there is an enlightenment that comes from realizing that you're in love with the soul/consciousness and not the body.

So, let's see how the writer will play this philosophical plot. And I hope the director pulls this well, otherwise, it'll be a waste.