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I'll take it.

I've been looking forward to this drama for over a year now, but I'll only watch it if it has a happy ending.

I'm still waiting for Yeo Jin Gu to reunite with Kim Yoo Jung. The only other actress I liked who he's been paired with is Han Jung Yeon.

LSG is actually why I'm here. :) I'll keep watching for him, but I'll brace myself for more of the same.

Why does the police officer who found the head react so pathetically? He literally jumps and throws it. I mean I know it's a head, but he must've suspected it would be, and shouldn't he have bigger balls? The kid's braver than the cop. Speaking of, why do they let the kid just crawl up to the bag and open it when it has his mother's head in it? Why is the investigator even allowed to be on this case when it appears he has a personal connection? I'm sorry for writing three rant comments, but the first episode is annoying me so much. I'm determined to stick with it though. I like the overall plot so far.

It's also an incredibly dumb premise that if you kill all psychopaths then you'll end war and crime. I'm sure someone pointed this out while it was airing, but it definitely isn't just psychopaths who commit crimes. Even serial killers aren't always psychopaths. If the writer was going to insist on having no subtlety she could've at least done her research. I realise I may be speaking too soon, and some of these points may be yet to come, but I'm still disappointed that the themes are so forced. These are just my initial thoughts. I'm hoping that venting my annoyances here will help me stick with the drama. Who knows, I may end up loving it by the end.

I'm 12 minutes into episode 1, and it's such pretentious nonsense that I'm having a hard time watching it. I hate it when writers prioritise the themes over the story in an unwise and arguably conceited attempt to make the story appear deep. The writer is forcing the themes on us from the start with blatantly manufactured crap rather than letting the themes emerge naturally from the plot. I just hope the plot takes over at some point.

I think you might've misunderstood my original comment. I understand that he told her about the jumping, and I understand that he told her to seek therapy, but he also tells MJ that he told her to kill herself. In the translation he actually did say both and contradicts himself. Hence the confusion on my part. I was trying to understand the contradiction by speculating that the translation might've been off.

Thank you. This does help clear things up a lot.

He couldn't have said both as those are two contradictory things. Either he told her to get therapy, or he told her to kill herself. Anyway, I re-watched and it's clear it's the former. I'm still confused though. The characters are acting like it was the latter.

To your second point about the metaphor yes, but what confused me is why the characters are acting like he encouraged her to kill herself. I thought at first that the translation might've been off/misleading, but I re-watched and it's very clear that he told her to get therapy.

Have I misunderstood MJ's reaction? She seemed angry/disappointed to me. Also, why did Gu offer to stop worshipping her unless he thinks he did something wrong? He seemed to be expecting her to be angry. About what? Advising his girlfriend to get therapy? I feel like I've missed something. Hopefully it will become a bit clearer tomorrow.

I've seen K-dramas refer to a character's girlfriend as 'your girl' a lot, so I'm pretty sure she was his girlfriend.

Actually the suicide thing has me confused. I'm wondering if it's a bad translation. The translation made it seem as though he told his girlfriend that she should get therapy instead of jumping, but given the way MJ reacted (she seemed angry and disappointed), and the dialogue between him and his old colleague, I think maybe he told her that jumping would be like getting therapy because two thirds of the way down she would feel better.

That is a horrible poster.

Edit: The poster has changed since I made this comment. I don't have any strong opinion about the new one, but weirdly I suddenly miss the old one. I guess it grew on me.

Only character I really cared about was the ML, so needless to say I'm a bit disappointed with the ending. Actually I'll backtrack slightly because I did like some of the other side characters, but they all got killed off early. I just didn't care much about Nam Ra and Soo Hyeuk. I didn't dislike them, but nor did they hold my attention. I really liked the best friend of the ML. I was so outraged with Na Yeon when she killed him, and even more outraged when the drama tried to get us to pity her. Why do dramas turn psychos into victims and victims into psychos? Writers just can't seem to get this the right way round. FL was also kind of uninteresting to me. I liked her BF. All the best characters got killed off in my opinion.

The fact that we were told in the beginning was the other part of my point. Imagine if we weren't given the heads up. People would've been utterly shocked. On some level the writer must've been aware that the ending would disappoint which is why she made it as clear as she could from the beginning. Why else spoil the ending? She must not have had a lot of confidence in it. It comes across to me as though she was trying to avoid a huge backlash by letting us know from the start. Of course the backlash came anyway because people couldn't help hoping it was all misdirect, but it would've been worse if there had been no warning.

I decided to just delete my comment because I could barely make sense of it myself. I think I've explained what I meant better in my replies. :)

Some of the comments are blaming people for being disappointed as though it's their fault for not seeing the genius of the ending. My point was that the drama attracted shippers because it's that kind of drama, and it made no sense to end the story with the main couple breaking up. I don't usually ship strongly, but that doesn't mean I don't root for the main couple to end up together. My main point was that this drama was a romantic comedy and should've ended like one. It's not the fault of the shippers but the fault of the writer that the ending didn't go down well.

I've rephrased my original comment because I think the way I worded it was confusing.

It keeps hitting me how much this writer dropped the ball. We could’ve all been talking about the beautiful penultimate episode set against the backdrop of 9/11 as the final test of the relationship for the main couple that she had spent most of the series building, but instead the writer just used it as a means to sabotage her own story. I have to say though I do like how the title mirrors the abbreviation given to the attacks on the world trade centre. I wonder if it was intentional.

The funny thing is that the breakup wasn't in itself a bad story. If the drama had started with them already a couple and the breakup had been stretched across the whole series then it could've worked. The episode where he goes to her house and they talk about their anniversary would've been a good start. The narrative from there to the end is great as long as you ignore everything before it. Equally, the narrative from the beginning to when they first get together is also great. It's putting the two together that's bewildering to me.

I've clarified what I meant about the writer being manipulative with limegreensoda. I think I didn't explain properly because a few people have slightly misunderstood what I was referring to.