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It just gets worse after like half ;p

He does the typical "rich CEO drops everything to run through all of Seoul for his woman" thing for so many hours. Maybe you should have endured?

Ep 10 was so dreadful that I thought ep 11 was merely somewhat murky.

The contract drafted in one of the earlier episodes, for the FL to act as the ML's fake girlfriend so the ML's grandfather stops wasting the ML's oh so precious time with blind dates.

"That said, there was one side plot situation that had quite an impact on the characters and their behavior, but then was gone and never mentioned"

Which sub-plot is that?

The broadcast version goes like this:
00:57:15,090 --> 00:57:17,520
There's something that I'm
curious about.

00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,830
- What is it?
- When we were back in high school...

00:57:19,830 --> 00:57:22,380
why did you want to go on
that quiz show so badly?

00:57:22,420 --> 00:57:25,330
I've asked you a few times,
but you never...

00:57:28,390 --> 00:57:30,220
Because I liked you.

00:57:30,570 --> 00:57:33,760
Because I really liked you.



I think this version goes into more detail, like since when? (That's what I think based on Youtube's automatic voice to text feature, but I'd like input from someone with KR knowledge.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6a7zGwBQk
this take contains unused dialogue, the broadcast version (57:15 in SBS HDTV, 59:02 on DC BR) is far shorter.

If someone here is fluid in Korean, I'd like help with this scene for which there are no subtitles.
SPOILER LEVEL: ENDING, so be warned.

Super omega painful nails-through-brain breakup. It's FOUR HOURS.
There's some semi-breakups after, but they're not that forced and hurtful. After the first ends, you'll be too numb to take the others seriously.

The triangles involve glorified joke characters. The ML/FL do not have feelings for the monkeys.

8-9 minutes into Episode 6, Netflix tries much better than usually to approximate the Imperial March. B+ for effort.

Lately I don't know if I should watch shows on Netflix, the usually less censored TV broadcast, or something else.
In this case, like for While You Were Sleeping, there's a director's cut bluray with extended scenes in the actual episodes.
I chose a semi-random episode to compare: Episode 12.

On Netflix and I assume other licensed web sources, ~20 seconds of funny parody posters are missing (0:34:22 on web/Netflix, 0:34:35 on director's cut bluray, 0:34:11 on SBS TV). Shortly before, the Netflix version also has a background TV screen blurred out.
The director's cut bluray (or I guess DVD) release also has around 1 minute and 55 seconds of material not found in the TV/streaming versions, the bulk of it being the 1 minute and 25 seconds at 0:44:26.

In the DC BR extras of While You Were Sleeping, I kept seeing how Lee Jong Suk sweats monstrously after 30 seconds of filming (and how one of 2–3 staff girls swarms in to wipe his face, hold a fan at him, and fix individual hair strands).
In this drama, they just always make him do something physical before close-up shots so that it seems justified. I can't stop thinking & laughing about it.

Now that I finished watching this, I should also mention that of the >60 k-dramas I watched, this one seemed to have the most production mistakes (like things accidentally caught on camera) and continuity errors.

It's not clear whether the antagonist had any feelings for her or just used her for career advancement as an opportunist; that part of the story disappears entirely after a short while.

The SML shows the most innocent and helpful love triangle behaviour you could ever imagine.

None of the couples formed have people extensively warring over a partner or such.

There's multiple couples, but ML/FL take up the majority of the time (along with the sequential cases).

Throughout the entire show I kept thinking she's cloning Lee Hye Ri's "Reply 1988" FL. Otherwise nothing stuck out about her acting/performance, though.
(I haven't seen Bae Suzy in anything else, so I can't say anything about her range.)

People expecting a deep & meaningful or even thrilling plot seem to get disappointed.

I expected a light show with romance, comedy, and some fun to be had with super powers, and thanks to that it was much better than I expected/feared.

And like so often, he plays a second, different character later on... essentially, anyway.

To be fair Kim Won Hae is in *everything*, and he seems to know how to pick scripts.
His comedy role in this is sure among my top 2 or 3 performances I've seen by him.

https://unogs.com/title/81225148

HWT does it to himself because he wants to stop having a lie weighing down on him.
He's ultimately happy with the outcome (studying law), and that "heals" the ML's shaking hand.

I agree that Mr. Choi being the ML's forever-ever-after work romance would have been a more satisfying ending. I would have liked him formally inducted into the Dream Dragons as well.
As it is, the writer chose to give him a "repentance arc" where he spends his entire adult life living towards a really unnecessary death in the arms of the ML, merely for being one of many people who contributed to his brother literally exploding.

I thought the wedding was very "Reply"-like in that it's a pre-announced surprise reveal that some people will consider a surprise and some people will wonder why it's even there.

My S.O. insisted that it would be the younger colleague, saying that 'Prosecutor Lee kept flirting with her', and for me it was always perfectly clear that it would be the older colleague, with whom he had a special bond after meeting her and her child at the hospital.
Since we just communicated in terms of "ah, it's so obvious who he is dating, no point talking about it", we only noticed our opposite views during the actual wedding scene in the last episode.