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It's a genre not "romantic love".

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The constant confusion about "Romance as a genre".

The word "Romance" simply means "Rome" or "from Rome" or by "Romans".

- Languages that evolved from Roman/Latin are called "Romance Languages".
- Literature written in Romance Languages are called "Romance" genre.
- The "Romantic Era", or "Romanticism", was a European period where Europeans were looking back at the time period of the emergence of Romance (as a genre) literature, using it to counter rationalism. Meaning, it's all about individualism, nature, emotions, individualism.

In other words:
1. "Romance Languages" doesn't mean those languages are "romantic love".
2. "Romance as a genre" doesn't mean it is mandatory to have "romantic love". Based on the origin of this genre up to the present time, this genre is about taking on a heartfelt mission to save someone or change something. Being chilvaric—and chivalric doesn't mean rescuing a damsel in distress.
3. "Romantic Era" doesn't mean Europeans were all lovey-dovey touchy-feely romantically involved. Nor does "Romanticism" mean being or espousing being romantically involved.

So, yes, this work qualifies as "Romance" as a genre.

I hope that makes it clearer and less confusing.

And the natural reaction in that scene was to stay away from those flying fireworks. Instead, he tailed them closer and closer. 🤷🏽

LOL, I don't want him to be my doctor if he doesn't know safety first and prioritization. 🤣

That was a very weak story for obvious second suspect.

1. He didn't kill anyone until the last episode. He is clean as far as homicide and attempted homicide is concerned throughout the series.
2. He simply pave the way, quietly, for the real suspect to do his misplaced revenge.
3. If he wasn't caught in the video of the influencers, he wouldn't even resort to killing the kids. He just want to cover-up his stupidity in accidentally killing his "contact".

Which brings us back to the main suspect. His revenge is misplaced. But, as I've said previously, none of it would've happened if he practiced "safety first" and knew that his priority is the safety of his pregnant wife instead of acting a hero because of errant kids. Like what his pregnant wife said, "leave them be".

So, no matter which angle we look at this, it was his fault and he's blaming the world for it. Then he ran away by killing himself. He's no coward, he was pathetic.

As for police squad leader, we don't need his story. It could've ended with E07 perfectly fine. Because of that, I'm giving it a 7 because E07 is the perfect ending.

As of E08, last episode.

For a doctor, he isn't practicing safety first. And for someone driving for his pregnant wife, the more he should've known his priorities.

1. The moment they encountered those kids, the should've stopped.
2. He should've listened to his wife.
3. The moment he saw his wife reacting badly, he should've stopped.

We can let go when he suddenly did a U-turn which caused their SUV to flip, he was panicking for his pregnant wife. Fine. He's excused for that.

However, taking revenge and by murdering kids for his mistake in driving? There's a loose bolt in his head. And we go back to the first three points earlier, if he stopped, none of it would've happened. Just the first point alone, forget the second and third points.

Because he thinks being a hero is far more important than his pregnant wife and her safety, everything spiraled out of control. Yes, the kids were wrong, but you can't blame them for your own mistakes.

As of E06.

You don't need to spoon feed app updates. Do they need to show that the characters are taking a bath daily, sleeping, relieving themselves every so often daily, commuting, and all those mundane things?

The golden rule in creative writing is: Don't include anything that doesn't add to the plot. Just because they don't know who created the app and they didn't show a scene related to that, does it mean the app was never updated.

Remember, the app was part of a very elaborate trap by the developer himself. Obviously, he constantly updated it.

Now we need a Do Rami spin-off. Come on Netflix. We want to watch what made Do Rami viral world-wide. 😝

You can stop.

All your complaints were answered in the episodes you have yet to watch.

This is what you call creating drama and friction. It is standard creative writing format. If you're complaining already by the intro episodes, then it means it is working very well, or to put it another way, you're the target market. 😁

The 《Notting Hill》 of Korea.

Yep. Most especially parallel world/isekai and time travel, it's one of the hardest to do in scifi and at the same time, it opens up a lot of possibilities a writer can easily get lost into. 😆

Indeed, Loki series was crazy. I don't know.how wild the original comics were, but the TV, I had to rewatch a few episodes to grasp the intricacies. And then I'm, "Wow, that idea is actually logically sound".

What I'm waiting here is for the chefs/bakers to rate each other's work.

Attitude and honesty are very important because that's how customers can trust them.

3/3

In addition, Team Hangover, now that's truly Korean and unique.

Mixing meals in bread is nothing new. Having meals as stuff or filling of breads is not new either. We've had those breads here in the Philippines since pre-Colonial era. It's a centuries old idea, and I have no doubt thousands of years old in other cultures. But a hangover pastry? That's something I definitely want to try.

In fact, that 1 point difference with Team Cloud was perfect. And speaking of Team Cloud, I also definitely want to tray theirs as well, but Team Hangover is my priority.

2/3

For example, shrimp bread? I've tasted one here in the Philippines back in 2010, give or take 2 years earlier or later. However, shrimp cake? Now that's new to me. I much prefer for shrimp cake to have won because at least she has more chances that her claim as "nothing like it before" is correct. Shrimp bread? Nope, sorry, it's not novel. I wouldn't pick it even if it's more affordable.

Interestingly, the two female judges voted for the shrimp cake, while the 5 male judges voted for the ordinary and nothing new shrimp bread. I am NOT saying that they were sexist, but as a guy, I understand why all 5 male judges picked the ordinary shrimp bread—mindset. Most men will definitely pick the bread more than the cake.

If the female baker also created a shrimp bread, she would've won with a perfect score.

Second point.

Did they even wash out in-between tasting?

Because the male baker was correct, if you have similar ingredients, the one that is stronger will kill a taster's taste buds. The other work will indeed taste less, even bland. Every chef and baker with experience knows that.

The male baker was even torn. He wanted to give her a fair chance because he knew his own work is stronger in taste. But he realized that it still is a competition. He did not intentionally made his work stronger, it just happened that way. So, as far as conscience is concerned, he's clean. Not his fault.

For me, the shrimp cake should've been chosen.

Sometimes you have to remind yourself that the South Korean culture was largely isolated culturally for centuries, and it was only during the last 20 years that they started adopting foreign cultures. There were products that are either common or the idea was already tried in other cultures that the way they describe it was as if it's actually totally new.

Then again, nothing is new under the sun. Almost everything we think we invented or discovered today are in reality either a reimagined version only or a re-discovery. There hundreds of cultures around the world today and throughout time, and often we're looking at something from our own lenses, our own vantage point.

1/3

Amen to that! It's a very good film to watch.

Yep.

There really were no multiple timelines, there ever was only one. 😁

1. Her first vision, where the 2ML was successful, that was the switched reality.
2. Her vision of the 1ML that she thought was "modified"/"changed", that was actually the fixed future. It was not the pre-switch reality.
3. When she was stabbed by the short sword, all her involvements with humans that resulted in a negative fate, were reset.

It was all a single timeline.

Extra: Her "sponsor god" was only teaching her to be careful how she change things. While their bead only counts direct involvements, there are chain reactions throughout time and space that are not reflected in their beads.

If you were confused about the "timelines".

And of course, this is assuming that they licensed it for OTT release and someone was interested to pay for it.