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I am going to try and watch this show. But it's a kinda weird choice for this Saint Valentine's Day from Netflix. Are they trying to say something?

Oh, come on! I was hoping they were finishing filming, but they haven't even started yet.

To be honest, I don't understand such decisions about not releasing shows with problematic actors (e. g. Second Signal, Knock Off). Hundreds of professionals worked on those productions to make living, including dozens of actors, and their efforts are in vain because of one bad or allegedly bad person.

> His wife, Chu Sang A, once the nation’s most celebrated actress, is now regarded as past her prime after marriage.

This is just sad. But I guess it's relevant for South Korea and the current state of affair.

Characters of Ryeo Un and Sung Dong Il look like a father and a son here. I mean their eyes, cheekbones, hair. I am pretty sure it was unitentional, it's funny, but a bit distracting.

Why are ratings collapsing? That's shocking. Yes, the show is uneven. It's rushing, because the story should have been longer, sometimes one needs to suspend their disbelief, like in scenes in the fish market in Japan, and Jang Gun Yeong can't catch Baek Ki Tae for now, so they made the show a bit repetitive. But it's not like other K-dramas with better ratings didn't suffer from similar issues. It's definitely better than most of K-dramas having 8 and more here.

Of course, I know it. It neither contradicts, nor deny my commentary about the clown timeline at all. Actually it supports the comment.

I mean, duh... It's natural for a human being to wish having a couple and being a parent. What a clown timeline we are living at, when such a statement goes to news headlines!

2nd half of this year. They are filming season 2 now. They are supposed tol finish it in February or early March and, I guess, release it between August and December.

BIBI was arguably the best part of Gangnam B-side. I don't know why she doesn't get more roles. Even here it seems like a merely supporting role at best, like the main character's possible love interest or something,

Well, the story would have to continue in some way in part 2, and the audience needed a cliffhanger, so it was a bit predictable. I mean aybe not the specific situation, but the direction. Of course, the main "good guy" needed to lose, so he could endure and win in the next half of the show.

I don't remember any Netflix show having 20+ episodes, not just any K-drama. I still think they are going to divide the show into 2 or 3 parts, whether they are going to call them "seasons" or not. So maybe the postproduction team is going to finish at least the first part in April. I guess they finished to film those episodes months ago. And the final episodes will be released this autumn or even at the beginning of the next year. It would give enough time to work with them.

Hyper Knife?

But Jang Gun Yeong also was at the same war and he was wounded, they confirmed it earlier. I would like some scenes showing the same or maybe different war experience and how the similar circumstances made them so different.

By the way, when Gi Tae opened the hatch, I thought he would throw a few grenades there, because he thought it's a Vietkong's tunnel, and then they would show it was a shelter for a bunch of civilians, like, maybe kids. And that slaughter would make Gi Tae lose his humanity and turn him into a callous and ruthless killer we see in the show, like "there is no coming back for me after that, so I guess I can do whatever needs to be done."

I don't understand what happens to this drama. At first it was set for 2025. Then even the release date was set for September 2025. However it becomes 2026 and now it's almost 2027. Well, it's December, 2026, but they won't manage to show the entire drama this year.

Was it really shot last year? Has the filming finished?

Finally. That has been one of the most anticipated K-dramas for me. I hope it's a smart show exploring some interesting ideas and philosophical questions. It should be a pyramide: first, you try to explore ideas, second, you create universe, and characters for this exploration, third, they interact to each other, events happen and form a narrative, fourth and last, character have feelings from their interactions. Ideas -- the world and characters -- the narrative -- feelings. Not just feelings (and some narrative in the best case).

In some way it's just a trolley dilemma: you can either push the button, so the trolley either will change direction and crush one person. or do nothing and it will continue to move and crush a group of people. Are you ready to kill actively a human being, or let your inaction to kill a entire bunch of them? Add some extra circumstances, and it will be even more complcated.

Finally. That has been one of the most anticipated K-dramas for me. I hope it's a smart show exploring some interesting ideas and philosophical questions. It should be a pyramide: first, you try to explore ideas, second, you create universe, and characters for this exploration, third, they interact to each other, events happen and form a narrative, fourth and last, character have feelings from their interactions. Ideas -- the world and characters -- the narrative -- feelings. Not just feelings (and some narrative in the best case).

In some way it's just a trolley dilemma: you can either push the button, so the trolley either will change direction and crush one person. or do nothing and it will continue to move and crush a group of people. Are you ready to kill actively a human being, or let your inaction to kill a entire bunch of them? Add some extra circumstances, and it will be even more complcated.

Why would you even think about it? My first idea was about the trial and error method. Like with lab rats and guinea pigs.

> Yes, maybe it won't work, so they will die. Well, that's for the greater good, don't worry, it's fine.
> Oopsie, they really died. Okay, let's change the procedure in this way and find another test subject.
> Oh, it has finally worked. Well, I guess I don't need to kill anyone anymore, so that's good, isn't it?

What did happen to the perpetrators at the end of episode 14? Are they all dead? How did reporter Go explain all those deaths? Like, there was a criminal organization, they used to sell a scamming criminal franchise, now they are killed. Killed by whom? Or they destroyed bodies, so the entire hypothetical crime organization allegedly vanished.

I mean the prosiecutor may be a retiree, but at least the policeman was real, he was officially employed by the government, someone had to give him orders about his daily work, someone paid him the salary. Yes, he might have been corrupted, but he was real and official, and now he is either killed or vanished. Someone even attacked and burnt the police station. Did Go mention it had been him? It's destruction of the government property. So the investigation about the cop and the station is needed. Or were the cop and the station fake? Well, that's even more to investigate. Especially after it became the national news.

We have the boat and the crew, who can tell about a weird taxi visiting the island first time in history. Even Go is vulnerable. So the Raibow Taxi is under the spotlight. Why were they so cheerful?

I guess the drama has basically part 1 and part 2 they called "seasons," but it's not common seasons. Season 1 has only 6 episodes, yes. However season 2 also consisting of 6 episodes is being filmed now and set to be released this new year, this summer or autumn.