Oh Sunny

I don't think he had any intention to kill Wookyung. That was all a lie. If he did, he would not have lead the cops to the location. He wanted to die, that's it.

If it turns out she indeed has DID, I still hope her hidden personality's involvement with Red Cry is just being somehow aware of them, rather than being the killer. I'm just so tired of the media so often painting people with DID as violent.

Points of note that still haven't been properly addressed, but clearly exist in the story for some reason:
- Soo Young's violent tendencies
- Woo Kyung's sister's condition

I can't believe the drama is only barely past the halfway mark, so much has happened already!

I really can't get behind this whole "Bok Soo is a hero for kicking down the glass" sentiment, that was such a reckless thing to do.

And apparently no one in this school has any crisis management skills. Everyone just bangs at the door and yells. I don't know how they have survived in a building full of stressed out teens for so long...

Lee Hyuk's heart is gonna break when he finds out the truth about Woobin lol

I'm only responding to the comment that the male lead's life is irreversibly ruined now. It's not.

And the other part is just my observation about the theme this drama is exploring. All the three main characters in this drama show one common trait: they blame their past/surroundings for misfortunes in their lives. Some of them will grow out of it. Some will not.

Not everyone here is taking sides, please stop assuming that.

Don't be so dramatic. There's many ways people can still change their lives at 27, 37, 47, whatever. And in the end this is exactly what this drama is going to be about - that you can move on and change your life regardless of bad events in your past. Leaving behind the victim mentality and stopping blaming others is step one.

1. I just mean you can dislike any character for whatever reasons you have for disliking them. Of course you have a reason, whether it's your values or whatever. You don't just flip a coin to decide if you like a character or not. That's all I mean: it's fine to dislike characters when you have a reason to.

2. What I said was in relation to what I read the original comment was talking about. Female characters get judged by different standards. It is not overt misogyny but the background bias society conditions people to. This is not specific to comments in this drama, but mdl overall, the asian drama fandom overall. You say people don't do that, but that's not what I have witnessed.

Anyway, let's just move on. I did not intend to make you feel like you or anyone else here was being attacked.

It is of course fine to dislike any character that goes against your personal set of values etc., but the Asian drama community at large is still very much judging female characters much more harshly. It's not as simple as "being against misogyny". All of us learn biased attitudes from the society around us without even realising it, and it takes conscious effort and being honest to oneself to unlearn those biases.

This is not directed at you or anyone else in particular, but people at whole, myself included. I've been very unfair towards some characters in the past because of my biases. I can acknowledge that. Everyone is biased. That's just human. But it's also human to learn to be better.

I'm sorry for this soapbox derailment for the drama discussion. But sometimes these things need to be said. And what are stories all about if not people learning to be people... *puts away philosopher's hat*

This drama just keeps getting better with each episode.

Right! Men get to be messed up and grow for the better but women are supposed to be always good and pure from the start? It's almost 2019, let's grow out of this kind of thinking, please.

The child is you. Are you scared yet? :p

Forget even first page, I ditch a book if it does not manage to make me interested in the very first paragraph. Writing beginnings that hook the audience is storytelling 101, come on.

Yes, it's precisely because she was so awful, it makes it all the more powerful when she admits to her faults. If she had been just slightly disagreeable, it would have made this story bland and trite.

Teens especially need to see stories about no matter how awful you have been, you still have a chance to grow to be a good person. But you have to start by admitting you were wrong. And Shi Eun does. It takes her a while, but she gets there.

Yes.

exactly that

End of episode 6: I'm literally laughing myself sore. That was one impressive haircut!

Yes, very good point. From her point of view she does not really have alternatives, letting the sixth prince become crown prince would be like handing the nation to the queen on a silver platter.

I don't see the princess "using" NQ being any different that what any other royalty in these kinds of dramas do. They find people who have promise and they use those people to their advantage, that is how you play the game of thrones.

I can definitely agree that her quest to put her bro on the throne is a bad, bad choice, but even so she seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of hate, which makes me wonder why.

So far, one of the highest quality cdramas I've ever watched.
It can be a bit difficult to get into at first because there are so many characters and factions, but make it through the first 5 episodes, and it all slowly starts to make more sense.