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The thing that gave me hope that this might be a happy ending is Park Jin and Maidservant Kim's theoretical conversation about if you could only save one person and then concluding they have to save both because there is no other choice.

One of the things I’m surprisingly lovingly about the amnesia plot is that it has allowed Cho Yeong to be free to love Jang Uk unconditionally and openly. When she was Naksu/Mudeok, Yeong always held back her love. It was only in rare moments that she allowed herself to show or tell him that she loved him back. Now that Jang Uk is bearing the grief and guilt of what happened, this unencumbered Yeong is able to openly love him in a way that is helping him heal from his trauma. Hopefully, Uk will be healed enough by the time Yeong regains her memories that he will be emotionally ready to help her heal from her trauma. If they had reunited memories intact with their guilt at peak levels, I’m not sure they would be able to help each other. They would be happy to be together but torn apart by the guilt from their respective roles in what happened. This way they get to take turns caring for each other when they most need it to make their loving relationship even stronger.

The irony that Jin Hokyung is the true BLIND priestess who can't see what's right before her eyes. Before she couldn't see her daughter Buyeon was inside Mudeok, now she can't see her daughter Buyeon is not inside Cho Yeong.

Okay but Park Jin doesn't understand subtlety or prophecy at all; he didn't understand the real meaning of Master Seo's love poem either. He was wrong about almost everything he did to keep Jang Uk 'safe'. Do you really believe him now?

Master Seo was a King's Star-level mage which means he probably was invincible & immortal while he had the ice stone within him, like Jang Uk. However, he gave the ice stone to Jin Seolran to save her so he must have removed it from himself.

Jin Seolran didn't use the ice stone, dying shortly after, but the ice stone remained in the Jin vault for safe keeping. Master Seo started Songrim, trained Master Lee & died of old age which would mean removing the ice stone didn't kill him. Removing the ice stone just made Master Seo mortal again. If Jang Uk removed the ice stone to give to Cho Yeong, then he wouldn't die but would be able to be killed while trying to defend his love.

I'm not going to speculate if this will be a happy or sad ending because it feels like a coin toss at this point. But I don't think removing the ice stone will kill Jang Uk, it will just make him vulnerable. And what's a story without stakes.

Yeah, I can only watch so many of the same genre at the same time too. I was also watching The Law Cafe at the time which is why I ended up putting One Dollar Lawyer on hold after one episode. Though I will probably pick it up eventually. D.O is a great actor and he is fun to watch in Bad Prosecutor.

If you didn't like the first 2 episodes of Bad Prosecutor, the rest of the show is the same. It was alright but I wouldn't recommend.

I'm currently watching Cheer Up (which I liked so much I rewatched all the episodes during the Itaewon break), Love is for Suckers, and just finished Bad Prosecutor.

Well, there's still time. lol

World Cup schedule vs when Cheer Up is usually airing:
Mon (Nov 21) - World Cup will air 10pm KST
Tues (Nov 22) - World Cup will air 7pm & 10pm KST
Mon (Nov 28) - World Cup will air 7pm & 10pm KST

These are the only games that overlap with their primetime (7-11pm KST), all the other games are in the middle of their night through Dec 19. So it looks like we will only be one week without the show, and then it would return Tues (Nov 29).

[source: https://www.scheduleworld.co/football/2022-fifa-world-cup-schedule-in-korea-standard-time-kst]

Let Me Be Your Knight (Nov 2021 - Jan 2022) was his last drama and it sadly averaged 1.5% market share. I enjoyed it. I've like his acting too in the four things I've seen him in starting with Imitation.

Yes, Seo Hye Won is the fake Jin lady in AoS and she was the 'I have no chingu' cousin from Business Proposal. She's booked and busy and was also in Bloody Heart and Extraordinary Attorney Woo this year. I think her boy-crazy character in this show might fall in love with several men in her quest for a husband. I do really like the funeral team manager though, they would be cute. But I was kinda thinking that maybe she might end up with the police officer.

Yup, I'm pretty sure the doctor that was trying to help the homeless man they called the ambulance for is the ex-girlfriend so Dong Joo has now met her. This show has a ton of fated meetings.

The “Cheer Up” production team shared, “Bae In Hyuk’s deepened romance acting will maximize the affection index of the Do [Hae Yi] and [Park Jung] Woo couple. Bae In Hyuk’s serious display of affection for Han Ji Hyun and the excitement of a first love will melt viewers’ hearts and make your hearts flutter, so please look forward to it.”

Due to a baseball game, “Cheer Up” was cancelled on Monday, November 7. Episode 9 will air on November 8 at 10 p.m. KST instead.
[source: https://www.soompi.com/article/1553026wpp/bae-in-hyuk-sweetly-admires-han-ji-hyun-from-afar-in-cheer-up]

Korean baseball tournament aired instead. Ep 9 airs tomorrow.

Both shows have fun, humor, romance, and a little bit of danger and sadness. I 'm enjoying them both but Cheer Up is already halfway through and airs new episodes at the beginning of the week; so you could easily binge it right now to catch up before Monday. Then binge watch May I Help You to catch up before their episodes air next Wednesday.

Loved Lee Soo Hyuk in Doom At Your Service! Yes, he was so low-key funny and interesting in that show. Also, loved him in Tomorrow, where he really got to show a range of emotions. His deep yet subtly expressive voice adds to it all.

Oh, that Norway/Sweden mixup was probably intentional to show the character wants to look smart to others but failed.

They both have trauma they need to work through. Her main trauma is breaking up with her fiance twice which caused her to feel like she can't trust her own judgement, including what she now feels for him. His trauma is the death of the patient which is going to come out now.

Also, I'm intrigued by the timeline the show has set. There was a month she was engaged to show her everything wrong with her ex-fiance. Now a month with Jaehoon on the show her everything she was missing?

OMG Jae Wook and Jun Young in the same drama! YAS!

I think there might be a subversion of the fate predictions. In this episode, they introduced the 'crushes caught in the half moon will be together' superstition. After Yong Il's failed attempt to make it happen for him and Cho Hee, he dismisses it. While Hae Yi and Sun Ho do get caught in the half moon (and Jung Woo sees it), this superstition only has as much weight as the people involved give it. Like Yong Il, they can choose to dismiss it if doesn't align with what they want. Also, with the third prediction of a 'death', this is the perfect time to stop it from happening. In storytelling, there's often something that the main characters are trying to stop. They usually fail the first two times but succeed on their third try. So why not have them succeed in preventing someone from dying. It reminds me of the spirit stick dropping curse in Bring It On which this show is clearly paying homage to.