What I like about this show is how the judges understand the difference between giving a reaction versus picking who they'll train.
Some of those who did not receive a mentor, I agree with the judges that they already have their identity and they are doing well. The judges are there to find a band that they can train, bands who need help. It just shows that the judges know what they are looking for instead of just picking because they don't want anyone to feel bad.
It's no different from the idol industry. There are many highly praised acts that actually doesn't have good vocals but they know how to entertain. They don't need to mentors anymore because they're doing well. Similarly, some of the bands are already doing well. If they still need a mentor, it's none of those judges present.
Upset by the verdict but not all trials get the perfect justice T_T There's some cases in real life that made…
As far as the episode is concerned, the verdict was fair. If it wasn't proven that they do love each other, he would have gotten a life sentence, instead he only received 2 years.
The judge balanced his decision. He acknowledged the daughter's capacity to love which her mother and her brainwashed allies are ignoring. You'll also notice how the judge kept reading his verdict despite the fact the daughter was crying … the judge perfectly understood the situation.
At the same time, while she is capable of loving, it was not easy to determine if she was fully in control of herself mentally at the moment they slept together. The judge also already suspected her mother coerced her to say a false statement to the police … but since that was not the topic of the case, he can not address it. Considering these, 2 years prison time + barred from joining any institution for disabled/disorder people.
My only feedback, that I find worth mentioning, is how adults treat children.
I've read a lot of news and listen to commentaries about the Korean education system and how children today are already thinking about passing the national exam instead of playing, as compared to a few decades ago. This episode is more about that, the current situation of the Korean education system and the culture it inadvertently molded in Korean society.
For that, I have nothing to say about it. It is their culture, it is their society, it is their education system. Yes, I do have an opinion about it, I agree with the message of Episode 9. But at the same time, I also do admire the education system they built. There are pros and cons to it.
Instead I'd like to say something about "adults".
Globally, we often hear from parents: "I am doing this for you", "I am doing this so you will have a better life", "I am always at work so you can have a very good education and get a high paying job or start your own company", right?
There is nothing wrong with that. Who wouldn't want their descendants to have a better life, especially in today's world when things just get harder and harder? No matter how "evil" one is, it pains us to see our descendants to not have a better life than what we had.
The problem is, it has become an excuse and a justification for the parents' absence in the life of their children. Children need their parents. If their children grow up "bad" because of "bad influence", parents' will blame their children. Your children grew up that way because you were/are always absent in their lives. They want to feel loved. So they searched for it and found it elsewhere … from other people … from their friends … worse, from drugs and vices.
And the process will repeat again once these kids have their own families.
The message of this episode about children no longer playing, it is also true in other nations and in other families. We have become so focused on the future that children are forced to understand the world around them instead of enjoying their lives and learning things their way.
These will be important memories when these children grow up. It will their silent source of happiness. It will shape them unconsciously. The experiences, lessons, and memories, we create as little kids will always be with us once we are adults. We often dismiss these are "useless" but it will define and mold us as adults.
You don't believe it to be so? Look into yourself. Barring psychological factors, what made you who you are as an adult? Was it not the entirety of your experiences, lessons, and memories when you were a little kid?
Two people were born and grew up in the slumps. One became a very successful businessman and the other not. What prompted for them to have different paths in life?
Two people were born in a wealthy family. One became a very good, and upright citizen who helps other less fortunate people; while the other grew up looking down on everyone who is not of their level. What were the factors which influenced them taking different paths in life?
More often than not: 1. The presence of their parents … and being wise parents at that. 2. Having good experiences, lessons, and memories when they were young.
Life only gets harder and harder. Should we not let children build up gather as many happy memories, positive experiences, and good lessons, while they can so they have a storehouse to pull from when needed?
I find it truly ironic that they filmed the episodes long before people started arguing about certain things.
1. Is Woo Young Woo "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome"?
In other communities, people have been arguing if Young Woo is "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome", many are claiming she's "classic autism", that she can not be "asperger's syndrome". Yet multiple times now, under the old classifications they want to use, she's clearly "asperger's syndrome".
In one such thread, I even said that it doesn't matter because it's all autism. Especially true under DSM-5 and ICD-11, it's all "autism spectrum". Secondly, for #ActuallyAutistics these classifications are offending yet they insist on doing it this way.
2. There are people who are "disgusted" about having a relationship with people who are different, have a disability or disorder.
But look, they filmed these episodes long before these toxic "normal" people started leaving their comments everywhere against such relationships and they are going to address it in episode 10.
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This just shows the level of discrimination, prejudice, stigma, about #ActuallyAutistics and the entire PWD community.
For them to be able to film these episodes before these threads and vile comments were left everywhere in relation to EAW, is proof that people like them exists to this very day.
It was a simple, nice, and feel-good ending. It's a good way to end this show after all the killings and the violence and the kidnapping and the pain.
There is also a very good message they left the audience: life is short to worry too much about the future, live your life by being healthy and happy, and say the things that matter to the people you love today, now, while you still can.
I think it's Yoon Ah. She's suspicious right at the beginning when she returned. She isn't acting like she used to in the previous challenges. Too quiet. Too reserved. She's always observing, calculating, listening, planning.
But only Bu-Yeon has direct contact with ice stone so I am not sure that Uk and Naksu inherit any. If Bu-yeon…
Uk was conceived when the soul of the former king was in the body of Jang Kang.
Since you need the ice stone to perform AoS, and when a shifter siphons energy they are using the power that came from the ice stone, there is a possibility that the king inadvertently also transferred a portion of the power of the ice stone (that came from the AoS).
That was probably why Jang Kang (while in the king's body) was so afraid of and panicked about after reading the king's message that he will sleep with his (Kang's) wife.
It was not only because the king is practically going to rape his wife but magic and AoS/ice stone too.
Again, just speculation.
Basically, in fantasy, what is possible in science is also possible in magic.
As it goes, "magic is science not yet understood" or "science is magic not yet understood". What it means is that magic and science are one and the same, just different approaches/understanding.
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Some of those who did not receive a mentor, I agree with the judges that they already have their identity and they are doing well. The judges are there to find a band that they can train, bands who need help. It just shows that the judges know what they are looking for instead of just picking because they don't want anyone to feel bad.
It's no different from the idol industry. There are many highly praised acts that actually doesn't have good vocals but they know how to entertain. They don't need to mentors anymore because they're doing well. Similarly, some of the bands are already doing well. If they still need a mentor, it's none of those judges present.
The judge balanced his decision. He acknowledged the daughter's capacity to love which her mother and her brainwashed allies are ignoring. You'll also notice how the judge kept reading his verdict despite the fact the daughter was crying … the judge perfectly understood the situation.
At the same time, while she is capable of loving, it was not easy to determine if she was fully in control of herself mentally at the moment they slept together. The judge also already suspected her mother coerced her to say a false statement to the police … but since that was not the topic of the case, he can not address it. Considering these, 2 years prison time + barred from joining any institution for disabled/disorder people.
Also, her favorite subject is whales.
I'll definitely watch the sequel if they decide to green lit it.
Nothing re: autism.
My only feedback, that I find worth mentioning, is how adults treat children.
I've read a lot of news and listen to commentaries about the Korean education system and how children today are already thinking about passing the national exam instead of playing, as compared to a few decades ago. This episode is more about that, the current situation of the Korean education system and the culture it inadvertently molded in Korean society.
For that, I have nothing to say about it. It is their culture, it is their society, it is their education system. Yes, I do have an opinion about it, I agree with the message of Episode 9. But at the same time, I also do admire the education system they built. There are pros and cons to it.
Instead I'd like to say something about "adults".
Globally, we often hear from parents: "I am doing this for you", "I am doing this so you will have a better life", "I am always at work so you can have a very good education and get a high paying job or start your own company", right?
There is nothing wrong with that. Who wouldn't want their descendants to have a better life, especially in today's world when things just get harder and harder? No matter how "evil" one is, it pains us to see our descendants to not have a better life than what we had.
The problem is, it has become an excuse and a justification for the parents' absence in the life of their children. Children need their parents. If their children grow up "bad" because of "bad influence", parents' will blame their children. Your children grew up that way because you were/are always absent in their lives. They want to feel loved. So they searched for it and found it elsewhere … from other people … from their friends … worse, from drugs and vices.
And the process will repeat again once these kids have their own families.
The message of this episode about children no longer playing, it is also true in other nations and in other families. We have become so focused on the future that children are forced to understand the world around them instead of enjoying their lives and learning things their way.
These will be important memories when these children grow up. It will their silent source of happiness. It will shape them unconsciously. The experiences, lessons, and memories, we create as little kids will always be with us once we are adults. We often dismiss these are "useless" but it will define and mold us as adults.
You don't believe it to be so? Look into yourself. Barring psychological factors, what made you who you are as an adult? Was it not the entirety of your experiences, lessons, and memories when you were a little kid?
Two people were born and grew up in the slumps. One became a very successful businessman and the other not. What prompted for them to have different paths in life?
Two people were born in a wealthy family. One became a very good, and upright citizen who helps other less fortunate people; while the other grew up looking down on everyone who is not of their level. What were the factors which influenced them taking different paths in life?
More often than not:
1. The presence of their parents … and being wise parents at that.
2. Having good experiences, lessons, and memories when they were young.
Life only gets harder and harder. Should we not let children build up gather as many happy memories, positive experiences, and good lessons, while they can so they have a storehouse to pull from when needed?
1. Is Woo Young Woo "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome"?
In other communities, people have been arguing if Young Woo is "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome", many are claiming she's "classic autism", that she can not be "asperger's syndrome". Yet multiple times now, under the old classifications they want to use, she's clearly "asperger's syndrome".
In one such thread, I even said that it doesn't matter because it's all autism. Especially true under DSM-5 and ICD-11, it's all "autism spectrum". Secondly, for #ActuallyAutistics these classifications are offending yet they insist on doing it this way.
2. There are people who are "disgusted" about having a relationship with people who are different, have a disability or disorder.
But look, they filmed these episodes long before these toxic "normal" people started leaving their comments everywhere against such relationships and they are going to address it in episode 10.
-------
This just shows the level of discrimination, prejudice, stigma, about #ActuallyAutistics and the entire PWD community.
For them to be able to film these episodes before these threads and vile comments were left everywhere in relation to EAW, is proof that people like them exists to this very day.
There is also a very good message they left the audience: life is short to worry too much about the future, live your life by being healthy and happy, and say the things that matter to the people you love today, now, while you still can.
Since you need the ice stone to perform AoS, and when a shifter siphons energy they are using the power that came from the ice stone, there is a possibility that the king inadvertently also transferred a portion of the power of the ice stone (that came from the AoS).
That was probably why Jang Kang (while in the king's body) was so afraid of and panicked about after reading the king's message that he will sleep with his (Kang's) wife.
It was not only because the king is practically going to rape his wife but magic and AoS/ice stone too.
Again, just speculation.
Basically, in fantasy, what is possible in science is also possible in magic.
As it goes, "magic is science not yet understood" or "science is magic not yet understood". What it means is that magic and science are one and the same, just different approaches/understanding.