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Nah, who needs open talk when you can have a 20 minutes voiceover. Guessing from the preview, SH moping in his apartment looks like a good opportunity for it.

But free from what? He's far from restricting her. It's obvious she isn't leaving for good. The irony is, he was actively trying to express his feelings - until they both interrupted for no reason other than filling the finale. And it's not like she doesn't know about what he was trying to say. Jung Min is a fair point, but I think it's already passing and is more taxing on his relationship with his parents than his love life. He was already recovering at least since kimjang trip.
I just can't get on board with the strategy of opening someone's feelings by staying passive-aggressively silent and taking off. Although it seems to work for SH.

Ji Ho: marriage is a thing between adults, I won't be treating him like a child that needs guidance with his feelings and stuff.
Ji Ho: proceeds to leaving Se Hee in his room so he could rethink his behaviour.

That's what bothers me actually. The natural lifeness of events is warped to fit into finale Part 1 kdrama frame. There's no reason to suspend their conversation before the but and leave all the perspective changing details (true content of Room 19 drive, beaten drama director) for later. Things they're doing now don't match with their character & relationship development, but with a plot point of the consequences of not confessing on time.

How are you seeing it then?

I thought it'll make more sense after a good night sleep but I'm only more annoyed. All the other threads are closing up and even things that needed to be said to his parents were said, but can't the two of them just grab a banana and talk this through the end, without angst-stretching suspension? They seemed like a sensible people overall. It's not a time for See Hee to roll back to being overly considerate. And what's Jiho's problem this episode? I'm honestly asking because I had troubles following her reasoning. Did she freak out hearing of future children? Is she crushing on Lee Chung Ah? Why isn't she following her job opportunity but leaving for an unspecified period of time (ok, let's say attempted rape case is still in progress). Why does it all feel so unneccessary?

Frankly, I'm not even sure what's happening and whether they're breaking up for good or not. They took divorce, but 1. JH and ex-gf had a conversation that ended in stating that divorce isn't a sad ending, 2. JH put back Kitty's name tag before leaving. Their break up conversation was so going into the direction of breaking the fake relationship and starting a real one, but it was suspended before BUT. So So Hee didn't propose and now keeps bottling things up and JH is angry for him not speaking up/expressing his feelings openly. And they talk with every possible third party other than themselves. Maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like a step back.

so they decided to throw an Angsty Separation Trip To Find Self And Realise What's Missing. I gave them too much credit. As long as Ji Ho won't come back as a hippie it can still be saved.

Bland, safe-playing biopic desperately trying to be less boring by using non-linear narration. I doubt it has more than 20 minutes in total on calligraphy. If you like quiet, passive movies you can watch it on YT with built-in English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOj9RkUo3k .

maybe he's just long-lived and she reincarnated? I can't make much out of this synopsis.
But imagine this: time travel agent! Definitely a profession with prospects in dramaland these days.

not really, three couples get almost equal attention, just like in the poster. Both main leads have episodically other people pursuing them/past stories/etc, but it's minor and short-lived. When someone you'd expect to be meddlesome appears, it's soon cut (is it a spoiler?).

there must be a twist, it would be terribly boring to point all the canons at him so soon. But on the other hand, this show has weird tonal shifts and is written by otherwise unknown author, so who knows.
I'm torn between wanting Dong Ha to be truly evil (what he does so well) and giving him something different to play with for a change.

how old are they anyway? LJJ seems to be a rookie or close to it (so late 20s at lowest), but is SHS older? he's more independent and respected (surprise, surprise) and wasn't wearing a HS uniform at the end of ep 4. Minimum age for Supreme Court in SK is 40, but I'm not finding anything for normal judges in English. For reference, in my country the minimum age is 29, so I can pass them (and I'm long desensitised on Kids in Crazily Expensive Suits being CEOs, prosecutors, anchors and whatnot in dramaland). Wiki says it's common for them to start right after graduating from a 2 year extra program, so it fits, too.
/plus, isn't it a good thing to try to break the image of a judge being a middle aged man (or even older)?

does it get better? because so far there were two trucks of doom after a bus of kindergarteners and a SWAT team with bazookas sent for drug possession, and I haven't even reached cancer part. Does it stay this overdramatic?

it's on http://myasiantv.se/movie/snowy-road/watch/ in case you haven't seen it yet.

lmao, can they please stop doing this to their titles

it has a love triangle.

I really recommend watching/reading other versions, there's so much more to it than shown in the movies and it's much better explained, nicely woven into the narrative and gradually building up, coming in pair with character development and addind an extra dimension for everyone! I guess they just gave up on it here and only sketched it broadly to save time. In other versions, not only different approaches and strategies are shown, different skills developed, but entire new fields open up - for example, there's more attention to those reading poems aloud and one character decides to take that route. Not to mention relationships are so much richer.
I've never heard about karuta before finding Chihayafuru, but it really can sell you the passion for it.

On-screen, I feel he always plays the same goofy character and I couldn't match it with Hu Ge freshly after watching him in NIF, where he was completely opposite.

Thank you for your kind words! I know it's discouraging to start a long drama with no feedback whatsoever and I have mixed experience with how cdramas in particular deal with a long run. I want people to watch it so we could discuss it some day :)
I don't mind dubbing that much here. Lipsync was never downright bad (or focusing on reading subtitles succesfully distracts from it), voices didn't have that quality of being recorded in a small, padded booth and oddly mismatching actual spaces they should sound in, and the voice acting was phenomenal at points. Maybe I'm just easily pleased when there's a lot of low registers.
I could't get into Disguiser, it seemed too silly. Someone compared Hu Ge's persona there to Siwon and I can't unsee it. Maybe it gets better later. Pity, because I wanted more of NIF cast and relationships looked interesting.

*slighlty spoiler-ish perhaps*
As for Zhou Dong Yu... I liked the romance, although it's angsty and a bit on a back burner. She also the only character in need of character development, tragically unfit to be a spy. I imagine someone wanting a 'strong female character' could be frustrated with her, because she's simply not on par with everyone else and keeps making things worse instead of helping. It changes with time and it's not like her inaptitude didn't make sense in this story.
She's such a looker though. Whoever dressed her in those jade/nephrite shades here deserves a praise.

Nah. She said she wanted to end their contractual relationship and she doesn't choose her words randomly. I'll bet she just wants to come clear to their families and friends (those who still don't know) and do things in their normal pace instead, while the show trolls us with a cliche of pre-finale separation.