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She is officially a member now, they practically introduced her as a member in the latest episode. Have you not watched it yet?
I agree with you that she has been great and she fits really well, but saying she revived the show is a harsh exaggeration, the show wasn't dead. It's ranked at the top of Korean shows and is still doing well overseas.

I knew they would be too hasty to go through with the renting concept. I didn't want another permanent member. I liked giving guests time to shine by letting them get comfortable for a few episodes. But for what it's worth, I like Ye Eun. She's been fun to watch, and I don't mind seeing more of her.

Ji Ye Eun is officially a Running Man member.

It must be, because they kept saying "They must find it with their will" (This is a literal translation). I watched it on Disney+ so I trusted the subtitles, but maybe it was bad because it's not in English. I actually ignored the high school girl's ending thinking it was a plot hole, because I thought how come the mother knew which light to get, and how come she didn't just bring it earlier? because she kept asking her daughter to bring a light every iteration so that her daughter can find her light, if she could just bring it, why not do it from the start. She had strong will to get her daughter back to the real world from the beginning.

Maybe it's the subtitles, but I thought it was someone's own will, so I thought if they can tell them to make them willing to go to the real world, why not just tell them. But I'll go with you explanation since it makes sense that this is the distinction between the light shop owner and the bus driver.

You are focusing on the wrong thing. It's not just the people who the bus driver talked to, the only alive people who knew are the high school girl, the boyfriend and the detective. The rest were either dead, or never found out. The dog follower, the high school boy, the other nameless person. Yes, I didn't count them to make sure that they qualify as "most", and I'm now aware (and forgive me if I'm wrong again because my memory is not that great) that it's 50% of them. 50% of the people he told, and 50% of the total didn't need an explanation or a cause to suddenly find their light except that somebody told them. This is why I'm confused about the reason why those who knew never told them, except for the bus driver.

So, it wasn't as sophisticated as I thought then? XD
I got that idea watching the finale, because I remembered that Hyewon went to the shop and a light flickered, but I forgot when she died, before or after the flickering. I thought it was before because it flickered when she got close to it, so I assumed it was her light.

I agree with you that it would have been tedious to watch if someone found the light a long time before someone else, but the process of finding it is the thing I'm not satisfied with. The bus driver told most of them to go to the light shop, and they found their light as soon as they went there, no explanation was needed for most of them. If you can just tell someone that they need a light to go back, why didn't the shop owner tell them, why didn't their dead loved ones just tell them? If that invalidates their free well, then the bus driver telling them should've invalidated their free well too.

I believe they were in the list of names the couple were picking their fetus's name out of. They showed a flashback in an earlier episode where the couple were picking the name, but I don't remember if these are the same names mentioned in that episode.

Loved the sneak peak about the time stopper.

I didn't like that they suddenly all found the light shop. If it was that easy, why didn't they find it sooner? I know that some of them willingly stayed either because they wanted to save their loved one or to stay with them, but I thought they should've gradually left, not all of them at the same time. I have to say though that I found the lesbians' story more complex than the other. It is very emotional that one of them stayed even though she found her light just to save the other, and the other one broke her light because she thought this is the only world where she can be with her loved one together. Kim Hyun Min's story is the definition of misery. Not only he left his loved one, but he has to continue his life in either world he choose being miserable, it is sad that he has no good choice whatsoever. It was easy to predict that the shop owner's daughter was one of the residents as soon as they told his story. I'm not saying that the ending was really bad, but I felt it was both rushed and dragged at the same time. Everyone left at the same time but they took their time leaving.

I loved it, but I thought the ending was underwhelming. I liked the Moving crossover though.

I didn't find it thrilling. It was mostly annoying. Great acting, but the directing is bad in my opinion, and I didn't like the parallel storytelling of the past and the present. It took away from the excitement, and all was left was waiting for the story to end. If you are a fan of thriller movies, you've probably seen this same story done better, but again those, like me, who like watching thrillers never expect an original story.

I thought I've missed it. This show is a guilty pleasure of mine. I wish they would fix some of the flaws of season 1, but I'll watch it eitherway.

Yes, he is returning next week.

How is this not more popular? Great casting, decent story, and good action.

No, It's creepy and intense but nothing gory or graphic.

I know there are Somali pirates, but I assumed you meant an airplane hijacking, because I've rarely seen a drama where people use ships for transportation, it's usually done in Hollywood movies, like Captain Phillips.
P.S. The majority of Somalis are Muslims, and Arabic is one of their languages, so there is that too.

Oh, I was thinking when I was writing "Not unless they were pirates", but brushed it off because I thought no one does pirates anymore.

I haven't seen this yet but to be fair, hijackers in fictional media are usually Arabs or Muslims, so having black hijackers isn't stereotypical at all. It is kind of an original thing. LOL