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E06 was overacting. 😅 They just created the scene for the sake of, "let's make them cry".

They're in their 20s, and here's what they did:
1. Cried and shouted while knowing there's someone with a gun
2. Cried and shouted while the watch the goons pour gas everywhere
3. Cried and shouted while everything burns around them
4. Stared at the goons with very piercing eyes that can kill a million soldiers — figuratively while everything is about to come crashing down on their heads

Oh wait. They didn't feel the heat?

Wait! He's freaking dead!

It takes time to pour gas in that building. And it takes time before things start to crash down. Yet the final scene, it was all about to crash on their heads.

So, let's see,they cried and shouted for 10 to 15 minutes?

And she stared at the goons for 5 minutes.

Finally, another 10 minutes before everything starts to finally give in because of the heat?

They were in the middle of all that fire and beat for 15 minutes?

30 minutes and they did what?

It's okay if they are in their early teens or younger. But in their 20s?

Wait! There's more!

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US?!"

Hellooooooooooo. You still don't know? Seriously? Like, you know, they see you as a product. A defective product. Your parents are evil people. You already know that.

Wait. We're not done! If you young adults fought to survive, you would've killed already. In an ambush like that where they're there to obviously kill you, you still refused to kill.

You are young adults. You were trained to fight. To shoot guns to kill. You wasted all that training. Act like any other person in their 20s fighting for their survival.

I guess your desire to live is zero.

At least that guy who held a knife died valiantly. He finally fought back. He finally stood his ground. He learned that the time for emotions and tears are over. It's fight or die.

Be like him.

Stand up. Fight for your lives. Kill or be killed.

> they are supposed to fight for justice

Ahh, no.

Being a lawyer does not mean you're supposed to fight for justice. I've told numerous times during formal education and assessments that I should take law and become a lawyer. The reason I did not is because I do not want to handle cases that I disagree with but will be forced to take or I'll lose my job or clients.

A lawyer's job is not to fight for justice. A lawyer's job is win the case of their client regardless if it aligns with their personal principles and social expectations or not.

If they're assigned to defend an undeniable criminal, their job is to ensure their client wins or gets the best out of it.

Secondly, their team is litigation.

The job of the litigation team is to file cases left and right. To sue. Again, it doesn't matter if it's for justice. If a client wants to sue someone even if it was clear the client was in the wrong, they still have to do it if the case was taken by the firm.

Third. The show is half office drama. For real. Every office always have a drama, especially when it comes to inter-department relationship. It is not unrealistic even in a law firm, especially when there's an @$$ in position or a member acting one because of their backer.

"Unprofessional"? Sure. I agree with that. But again, not standing up for what is right because arguing is unprofessionalism? Yet you want them to fight for justice? Shouldn't it start in their own house before they do it for others?

If they won't stand stand for the injustice inside their own law firm because it's unprofessionalism, what gives them the right to fight for justice for others?

It sounds like a gymnastics show. 😅😅

Ahh! It really is Gang NaEon! 😁

No pain. There are drugs, when taken excessively, can kill without pain. If I'm not mistaken, these drugs are also highly regulated and monitored.

If it helps, join the OpenSubtitles community and ask them about it. Someone might volunteer.

Those who submit opensubtitles are usually in it for experience and fun. So, if they know this show is worth their volunteer time, you might get a lot of human translors and subs.

But definitely not here in MDL.

I seriously doubt MDL users are fansubbers. Probably only 0.5% are. 🤪

Besides, fansubbing is two parts:
1. The translator
2. The timer/timing

Many can translate but few are willing. It's even fewer for timing the translations.

Subtitles that confuses English pronouns are machine translations.

Machine translations, even the Neural translator versions, can rarely get the correct English pronouns when translating from Asian languages, because majority of Asian languages use plural pronouns and gender-neutral pronouns, if any (some rarely use pronouns, you have to call by name or position).

Even AI-based translators, which is supposedly better than Neural translators, fails miserably in this aspect.

Unfortunately, fansubbers who use machine, neural, or AI translators, rarely bother correcting it even though it's obvious in many cases.

I don't know how they do timing these days. In the 90s and 00s, we manually watch and adjust the timing of subtitles. So, we know if the translation provided to us were incorrect or weird (especially the nuances), and we're free to adjust it if necessary, or consult back with the translators.

Maybe today even the timing it automated that's why they have no idea there were incorrect translations and weird parts, especially when it comes to nuances.
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Or, maybe their target audience is the West?

But that's weird because their highest Kdrama consumption comes from Asian countries. 🤔 And often, a Kdrama is topping in multiple Asian Netflix rankings weeks before it starts to chart in the West, in particular the US.

Esquire is a perfect English title, and it was explained in E01 how esquire is used in law firms in the West.

Netflix being d Netflix, they once again ruined a perfect title. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I mean, "Beyond the Bar" doesn't even trigger an emotional response and curiosity. Oh wait, it does! "Just Another Law Drama" or JALD for short. 🤣🤣🤣 If I wasn't interested in law, I wouldn't even bother to check.

But hey, that's just me.

P.s. To be clear, I'm referring to shows with a perfect title in English already provided and to shows with a perfect title in another language that only needs to be translated. But instead they give it a new title which often, not always, is so detached to the show's story or sets a different expectation which leads to disappointment.

Based on the hint on why she was late and how she got there, she was already pushing her focus and worry too much, everything else was sidelined.

It does happen to everyone when ie that mental state. Even us autistics who usually have the most rigid "checks" can experience that.

So, yes, that was a perfect scene to depict how important it was for her and how much she acknowledged her mistake. Indirectly, it painted the picture that she is a person who:

1. thinks a lot
2. can easily give an extreme focus on something
3. acknowledges her mistake if she did make a mistake

Which, if you watched the rest of the episode, and episode 02, has proven exactly those qualities hinted during her tuck-in mishap and being late.

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Ooh, I love that!

It does make it that AH1 is capable of ranking 1st but she prefers to have meaningful human relationships than defining the world as a competiton.

That opens up a lot of deeper implications and topics. Sweet!

In many fiction, it's often explored that for a race to achieve the next technological leap without intervention from an advanced race, they have to remove their emotions so they can focus on intelligence and logic. After that, society must encourage competition (instead of wars) because it pushes the boundaries.

But in this show, and as you've explained, it's exploring how we can be highly intelligent, wise, and logical, without sacrificing emotions and meaningful relationships. That there's no need to make society promoti competition because we'll push the boundaries regardless.

I definitely love that. A different take on how humanity can reach its next evolution.

Actually, we are saying the same thing just using different approaches.

This is what I'm saying, and I'm going to use your approach:

The protagonists here are the 1FL and 2FL. This is their story. Everyone else are secondary characters.

Almost every Korean drama were set up pairing male and female characters, and many even tagged as "romance" when there aren't any. So it's easy to assume that it is a story about the 1FL and 1ML, or there's some "romance genre" in it. They do this because that's how they can get many to watch it.

This show is the same. It was made to appear to be about the 1FL and 1ML, but if you understood the story in the end, you'll realize it is about the 1FL and 2FL. It even ended with the 2FL being touched by a butterfly, and then there was a bonus scene where the 1FL gave a butterfly to a possessed man. The 1ML? LOL, sidelined. He was even standing at the sides doing nothing in the scene where the three shamans were praying.

There were even Korean drama in the past where the 1FL and 1ML didn't end up together, instead the 1FL ended up with the 2ML. Clearly, by your approach, the main characters were the 1FL and 1ML but once the story is over, you'll realize they never were.

It's the same in Head over Heels. By your approach, the main characters are the 1FL and 2FL because this is their story, so by your analysis, the protagonists are the 1FL and 2FL. So, who's the antagonist then? BongSu.

And that's what I'm pointing out. You can't, or rather, should avoid defining the characters by whatever binary classifications you prefer to use. They are all just characters, all important. Head over Heels doesn't fit any binary approach. But again, if you really want to use one, the best option is "protagonist vs antagonist" where the 1FL and 2FL are the protagonists because this is their story.

I asked nicely and you replied with "If you didn't get it first..it's fine..ignore". I could've pointed it all out in my first reply but I did not because I might have misunderstood. But that reply? I wasn't born yesterday.

Just to be sure I understood it correctly—and if I did I would've apologized—I asked neurotypicals and they said the same. They even explained that your comment and reply were an underhanded and indirect way of accusing someone while ensuring if you're wrong, you can easily claim "I haven't said anything that is accusatory.."

> And this is the only time I will reply.So suit yourself.

Sure. Typical.

Next time, if you don't know the person, keep your comments to yourself. Better yet, if they're asking nicely to avoid misunderstanding, reply properly.

Your replies were rude and demeaning. If you clarified it, as expected of any civil human being, this could've ended better. I'll even apologise, if I'm wrong then I'm wrong. But we wouldn't know that anymore, would we? After all you did say, "And this is the only time I will reply.So suit yourself."

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What for? And what does it have to do with the review?

Final episode

My pleasure. 🙇🏽

Ooh! That's a very good one! Yes, they didn't mention the baby's name, and in many beliefs, human souls already have a name before our parents gave us one.

I know what an antagonist and protagonist are. 😅

The show is not about classifying people as good or evil, or protagonist or antagonist. This isn't a superhero vs supervillain type of story.

If not, what is it? It is a story about a family. An imperfect family. A mother who had to make a harsh decision knowing that her daughter, in her grief, might take the darker route—which she did.

The characters in this story are not black and white. Of they are, then every single one of them were either dumb or stupid for not killing the 2FL.

But they are not. Why? Because they understood that the 2FL isn't evil. That the 2FL is not a supervillain or an antagonist.

She simply is a lost soul who trapped herself in her past. She is redeemable and that's what they did, they redeemed her.

If we are going to say that the 2FL is an antrgonist, then the 1FL is an antagonist too, after all, she is being in opposition to the 2FL. And in the 2FL's story, she is the protagonist, the heroine.

These two-dimensional labels is always biased. A character or person's stance depends on which lens we are viewing a story or a case.

There are stories where we can apply this black and white approach, and that's because the story was clearly written that way.

However, Head over Heels isn't that type of story. It is colourful. It is rich. It is deep. 😉

Ooh, yes! I remember it now that you mentioned it.