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Anyway, just submitted a new one:

On his way home with a birthday cake in tow, a man’s routine drive turns into a nightmare when a massive tunnel suddenly collapses around him. Trapped deep underground with dwindling supplies and only his phone for contact, he becomes the centre of a tense national rescue effort.

As days stretch into uncertainty, the world above grapples with pressure, politics, and the fragile thread of hope. Tunnel is a gripping survival drama that blends raw human endurance with biting social insight—an intense, emotional ride that asks what it really takes to save a life.

The MDL synopsis is basically a SPOILER. It summarized the movie, there's no need to watch it.

Someone who watched it should write a real synopsis, not a summary, instead of copying from somewhere else.

Ahah! Definitely hard to find a good English title. 😅

So, the guardian Dollar broke disabled the protection of the shrine and let lose a parasite that was trapped by their ancestors.

That parasite has 7 forms or parts.

- One is known as knife and has attached itself to Pingting.
- The next one is probably occupying the giant clam.
- The third one is probably inside 2FL's uncle.

They probably need to restore the broken guardian. But as with many North-East Asian (CJK) stories, you don't just remake a guardian statue, there's a long process behind it. Cleansing. Finding the right materials. Prayers. And so on.

Then there's the mysterious message behind the god of water's statue that doesn't belong there, or at least not part of the village's traditions. Was it new? Or, was it from the ancient village that sealed the 7 ill omens when it first came and wreak havoc?

So, what they need to do is to find out how the ancient people caught, subdued, and sealed it.

As of E08.

The title "ill omen" is giving the impression that it's scary, gothic, dark, ghosts, horror, types. But the truth is, it is not at all. If you don't like those genres, don't worry, this show is scifi-fantasy. You'll enjoy it.

That's correct. For those interested in scifi most will stick and see it through.

It's like an MMORPG quest. Random people were given the same quest and had to pick one "role".

I think the Phoenix squad will need 7 total. But two were either dead already, or will die soon.

The first 2–4 episodes are crucial, you want to glue in your audience and have them give it a high rating earliy on and convince them to talk positively about it. But obviously they failed resulting in lower ratings and some dropping it.

Again, the story is good. It picks up by E05. The pacing increased further by E06.

Do not drop it.

Instead, what they did was to open the series 20(?) years earlier which took 3 episodes to solve, and then that was it. It was only meant to set the background of the story.

In other words, that old case was not important at all. They didn't have to spent 3 episodes for that side plot. This is why in other sceen adaptation of books, there are changes made because the novel sequence of events is not always the best option on screen.

Oh. Another way is to dedicate a portion, or half, of E01 to some future event. Then backtrack to how it all started. It gives the audience of a taste of what's to expect and make them ask questions. Then you go back to when it all started.

This method is also used often in novels, and has been tried in TV format for years with positive outcomes.

The first 4 episodes were dragging. They tried to set the foundation of the story but it took them 4×40 minutes. What they could've done was to move on to the plot based on the synopsis because that's what most people are expecting, and then go build each character and the history along the way. It's 32 episodes after all!

They need to remember that adapting a novel to the screen is different from, well, books. The way they did the first 4 episodes were as if one is reading the original source. That format is fine in book format but not on screen.

It starts to pick up by E05. In E06 it increased in pace.

The main plot is good. It's the execution that's falling short.

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Same!

Simple things like knowing what happened or knowing what you've disucssed repeatedly. Or, dropping trick leading questions.

For example, "Do you remember I told you about ____? Have you forgotten?" Then they'll act like they suddenly remembered and agree fith you. WHEN in reality, you never told anything about it.

These little things are how you can detect if someone is lying, twins or not.

And since she used to be bestfriends with Miji before she moved to being bestfriends with Mirae, she knows both of them too well.

Wow. That was a stereotypical gender view. Men and women are not one-dimensional. There are women who likes men like Hosu, and men like Hosu do exist since humanity existed.

It's only E06 of 12. So, no one knows. Ask again after 3 weeks.

Many, if not most, MDL commenters only see the surface and not the deep stuff; or see two-dimensional characters instead of seeing a beautiful person.

There were even comments that Mirae was selfish because she attempted suicide. Like, uhm, she did not commit suicide and "selfish" and "suicide" don't belong together.

That's true. But the way the story was written, they were leading the audiences to think of a hundred possible scenarios because they are twins. And one such was their love life. 😉

We actually got one thing sorted out about their love life only in E05 and E06. 😝 And it's only half of the series. They are more likely going to introduce new ones.

It's part of the charm. It's part of using "twins" as a literary device.

I'm not saying you shouldn't ask, just a fair warning that the way it was written was to take advantage of all the questions people have whenever "identical twins" are involved.

(Do they switch? Do they share lovers? Do they pretend they're the lover? Have twins ever loved the same person? What happens during work if they switched? How do they deal with their traumas and different experiences?)

It does matter knowing a person's real name especially if they applied for a job.

He may not remember her name Miji's name properly but the character that built up in his mind is not Miji but Mirae.

As he himself said so in the beginning when he tested Mirae-ji, he values trust the most. He will be affected if he learns that she's not the person in the resumé. He will probably even assume Mirae lied from the beginning by using Miji's name in her application, and Koreans being Koreans, they won't explain the reality and instead apologize and self-blame themselves and then leave and do a self-penance.

It will take him a while to sort his feelings about his broken trust. And for all we know, he actually knew her name is Miji and was just pretending he can't remember. Remember, his character is a happy-go-lucky guy but deep inside he takes his principles very seriously.

It wouldn't take him long to sort his feelings since the person he has been dealing with the entire time was Mirae. He just needs to overcome his trust issues. And he can only do it if someone will explain to him why they switched, and how it was actually Miji who originally applied, that Mirae didn't lie, they just took on their roles.

HOWEVER, this is IF he discovers it BEFORE the twins switches back. Which I think is not what they want to happen (it will be boring).

If he discovers it _after_ they switched back, he will be very confused and deeply hurt. Not only his trust was broken, but honesty, and most important of all, his heart and feelings. If Mirae hasn't shown interest in him before, he'll probably think it was a one-sided love, and just cut all connections with them.

He will be affected, one way or another. He's a human being after all. 😉 And again, Koreans don't explain things which leads to further misunderstandings.

It looks like the chairman will be forced to acknowledge the FL because her cooking is the type of taste she had when she was young, and haven't tasted since then. 🤣🤣🤣🤣