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He is the personified Principal Skinner meme, tbh.

https://imgflip.com/i/7sw57i

Worse even, this was briefly after TK patiently listened to his sob story or rather several regarding his wife and looming divorce (averted by timeskip magic) and consoled him/showed his support in different (small) ways.

I always saw HW as shaky, fair weather friend that when being slightly pushed is gonna throw TK under the bus to save himself. Because he never spoke up when TK was getting yelled at or similar by the ghoulish fam. He may have made some wishy wishy remarks in supposed support, but in all these years he had never committed to more, never really spoken up for TK the way weeping willow did. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

As for our marathon champ YD, i have a hard time seeing her NOT bolt and run as soon she has the slightest opportunity to get away from TK, tbh.I just don't see it, sorry. At the very most it will be circumstances forcing her to stay longer than a minute in a room with TK without taking the escape route she has been feverishly mapped out already. Like her bestie 🤮 hee being in the hospital for example, hence why we get TK taking care of Haneul probs. Beyond that? Naaaah she will feel too guilty to face him and thus will turn tail as soon as possible again, you know, FOR HIS OWN GOOD hahahahah 😒

I actually have no idea how the writers are gonna salvage her character bc it has been deconstructed and stomped on by them and not in a fun way, more like in a baaaaaadly written way that makes you hate the character.

Yeaaah. It is just between the A& B JH leads AJH is miles ahead with his microexpression game. His very expressive eyes help a ton here of course, while BJH seems way more comfortable with big emotions aka crying screaming etc.. the subtle expressions of hers often do not land and remain unclear/hard to read, imo.

i was thinking about that too, also as he later did take off his own ring. :( As i said in my summary i hope the team grouphugged him after the shot, bc no one did so for TK, ever (the full year) I am not crying you are... okay i am crying 😢 😆

operative word is "tried" here, tho, right? 😂 (Because i have rarely seen a bigger creep in a kdrama)

I see, thanks. And yes let him be a trailblazer.... into hell 😂

Exactly. Due to it being a total stalemate situation writing-wise, there is not much wiggle room anymore regarding this creep. If he is proven to be the dna giver, he will relentlessly hunt and stalk YD like this 🚩 did with her family already, just way more extreme in order to make her "give in/do as he says" and collect her and the kid like prized pets. He is honestly getting more worrisome and skincrawling with each eps than the other way around, yikes.

Hence it is either him dying in a spur of redemption or the prior unfavorable but now very amusing (just imagine the smugness being wiped out of his face when the dna test comes back a glorious zero) if unlikely makjang macguffin with TK being the bio dad after all. There is no in between anymore thanks to the writers being idiots.

(Oh another as unlikely way maybe would be if the leads had registered their marriage off-screen after all, but i press b for doubt here hehe. )

hahaaha, i knooooow it is very unlikely sher, but lemme run with it after all. Besides do we really insist on/expect logic in the plot after last weekend's episodes? 😂 So just handwave and wing it, a lot can happen at this point under the guise of makjang haha. I mean we never expected IO to turn into a year long howler dictator monkey too but... here we are lol

AJH really acted and cried his heart out, i hope he gets awarded for it later on.

i think the writers ditched the sperm donation storyline bc netizens were so against it.

Possible. Like... they would not need to go into detail here even bc then it would fall apart. Just show a scene, after test coming back as a glorious zero, with very tipsy YD going into the wrong room, or something. Idk. The implication is enough the leads can hash out details later then, when the dna test comes back a whooping 99,9% probability lol. Watch them scramble details together and failing, haha..

I doubt it will happen bc it is so out there, but hey you never know by now 😁

well the writer did make it very confusing at times with them talking as if they are truly married and YD put into the fam register even, then on other times you have them go good thing we did not register it haha and TK saying he faked the marriage with YD to get out of eternal delulu demon hell to his momzilla, so at this point, who the fuck knows? It is unlikely tho, alas. But they have done more unhinged things by now so why not lol? Would make a good plot twist after all, like the drunk leads wrong hotel room scenario haha

hmm i can't remember exactly but i think they were pretty close by with their rooms. TK agreed to help YD to disperse her ready for murder fam from finding her cheating ex. But i cant remember if this was his room or he pretended it to be his room atm. hmm.

Either way, this is why i want this crazy plot twist to actually happen now for the hilarity of seeing fuckboi losing it, literally. And then having each repeat test coming back the same 0% probability as well 😂

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Oh yeah, indeed. I am much already better now than i was in the morning tho, so dw hehe

i know, friendo, i did HATE it, but seeing all this bullshit happening in the past two episodes with tk's legal paternity out of the question due to weeping willow's run away olympics and creepy stalker having all the cards in hand due to that, i really have warmed up to knetz' favorite crack theory now. (They have been pushing since they saw them both in the same hotel after all and still are) Or maybe i just having lost it now, at last, who knows 😂 As for the reasons why, i already wrote it here in this thread and on twitter too, if you are curious.

https://twitter.com/sundogsnrainbow/status/1680985980826796034

Baring that, i would gladly take that option 2 of him dying while saving YD or something, bc i do not see any other way to get rid of this unrecyclable toxic trash anymore after eps 34. Writers have mightily fucked up here, imo. Total paint in corner situation, bc JH has now all the legal possibilities to make the leads' especially weeping willow's life to hell for life otherwise. Literally hunting and stalking her every day until she is worn down enough, always with the looming threat to take away Haneul if she "does not do as he says and lives with him." Unless of course the inevitable dna test comes surprise surprise back with a 0% probability of paternity 😂 Or you know death by plot as redemption.

Question is only do people die heroically or even pathetically in family dramas? It seems rather violence averse to me outside of hairpulling... but then again i have only watched the very tame Five Enough and half of once again so far, hence i would not know haha

btw, knetz still is pushing that theory (and they might be heard maybe since we are getting the tired old dna test scene soonish) 😁

https://twitter.com/MPD626/status/1680999100832161793

This is why i think by now this whole knetz crack theory of wrong hotel room, drunk leads to make TK the bio dad isn't as improbable anymore as before, lol. Not when she runs into the man she ghosted for a year during an apartment hunt in all of seoul xD.

Anyway i really liked your changes but my problem is rather that i have trouble imagining BJH being able to pull this off acting wise and all the turmoil you described so perfectly here is falling flat instead 🙃

Honestly? That would require Howler Monkey to think further than and beyond her own self. Impossible. It is all about herself, 24/7

not really it is a crack theory knetz immediately came up with when it was shown they both live in the same hotel and have ever since ran with it. Plus a flu-ridden TK was once fending off yd's fam from finding trashman, so he went "sorry wrong door i have a room close by/one above i see, (or similar) when JH ended up opening the door due to the ruckus when the mom/brother was gone again.