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so here's the new clip with a translation
https://x.com/junyoungies/status/2105443814915850564?s=20

careful, if you say this people will call you a jeongyo hater

oh i saw that detail about the nakwon arcade too and i love it so much! almost every other location is fictional but that one truly exists, their "paradise" is real where they can be together and play music freely

i read a comment that said jeongyo's house is a metaphor for his heart. at first pio comes a bit hesitant before ringing the bell and asking to come in, then after that he shows up randomly and even enters without permission and by the end of ep10, jeongyo comes home and pio is already there waiting for him and i find this beautiful

i've been imagining it like that too, them sharing a look that speaks louder than words and then they just hug but this thought just occured to me because this show loves its parallels

do you guys think jeongyo will be the one to ask for The Hug?

there is an innocence to their initial bond that is forever lost now but i do believe it is still strong enough to be mended. there will be scars but the love is enduring

absolutely 👏

thank you for sharing this beautiful analysis. it's nice to have such clarity and level-headed reading in this era of growing media illiteracy. i personally would have loved to have jeongyo's pov but it became apparent that pio's emotional journey is the focal point here and i respect that. the writer knows what story they want to tell and it's only fair to let them just do that

sorry but this is nonsense

i believe jeongyo's emotions are running rampant right now and whatever plan he had is not going as well as expected. your confusion is probably also his because he's not feeling any satisfaction from this and so he looks more hesitant and less sure about what to do. his relationship with and feelings for pio are too complex and he is in turmoil

yes we should be getting a preview clip from ep11 in a few hours (wednesday night to thursday morning depending on your timezone)

thank you for putting it so simply. there are also people disappointed with jeongyo and his revenge plan, as they expected him to become an evil mastermind with elaborate mindgames to bring everyone down. but i don't think that's the lens the show is aiming to explore its characters from. at heart it's still about music and tormented artists and their emotional and psychological journey

i agree with everything you said. i've seen het couples being shipped for much less than this and i've seen platonic man-woman relationships being perceived as romantic in the fandom and no one says a single word about it (thinking of shimok and yeo-jin from secret forest here). here both the acting and directing are intentional in the way the relationship is portrayed and while we can't exactly put a label on it, i know what it is NOT and it's definitely not brotherly. it would be weird if they did all that while they knew all along they'd be brothers or blood-related. i also agree that such a twist is not shocking per se, what i mean is that it's too makjang and doesn't suit the tone of the show. i'm ok with no revelation at all, like what matters more is not who the fathers are but that these boys grew up fatherless and it's part of what shaped them and their life experience. i feel the same about jeongyo's mother death, at first i thought they'd do something with it (like pio's mother being involved) but now i see it as simply a tragic event in jeongyo's life that affected him deeply with nothing more to it. this is not a crime drama after all, it's a deep character study of human emotions and psychology.

how about we respect the environment and the actors instead of producing this slop?

right? asking for such a twist just for the sake of shock is kinda insulting to the beautifully thoughtful writing and nuanced characters portrayal. why would everyone involved in this drama put so much effort in conveying a meaningful story and all its subtleties only to pull that on us? it would be both disappointing and weird

maybe they went to europe and adopted a kid to raise together 😏

have you guys seen the cute bts footage from the highschool arc tvn released? it's like they saw us suffering and said here have this as a form of therapy lol

we don't have enough time left in the drama for this type of twist imo. at this point we can accept that it was a traumatic unfortunate event in jeongyo's life that deeply marked him

pio will not die, mark my words