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Were subbers fans of you know who and gave up after you know what happened? There hasn't been any updates in forever (and we are still few episodes to even reach this event yet!).


/subbing resumed, currently on 43

But how does it work? it seems to be a different phenomenon than parachutes (here embodied by the clumsy guy who writes poem-like news) and she seems to have no power behind her or money to go bribing her way anywhere (or does she?). Maybe there are more like replacable batches exploited in 2 years cycles, lured with the prospect of permanent position and desperate enough to follow foul orders? First replacing proper journalists, then used and thrown away.
Other employees treat them a bit like moles too.


/oh, I gett it now. they were replacements hired at time of the strike.

could someone explain what do they mean by 'mercenary' and why are mercenaries in disdain? I'm only familiar with the military sense and I see now it can be used as an adjective synonymous to 'calculated', by what does it mean here? I gather the girl (and some other people) were hired in some special process other than normal exam and that she's only hired for 2 years, with 6 months left and something shady happened with replacing other employees with those mercenaries recently, but details are fuzzy. Is this getting clearer later?
Are they outsourced or something?

Ep 1 question:

I get how the the child rapist drugged the milk and made the women fall asleep, but how did he got into the apartment? There's a lot of plot convenience handicap working here with the hospital and kidnapping situation (partly explicable by his connections and presumably money behind him), but how drugging them alone gets him through the door?

Oh, please. A station known for heavy thrillers and investigation dramas is tilting towards a romcom with a heroine still crushing on her childhood love after x years of separation and a cold being only knowing his job gradually warming up as he learns about humanity. Non-mainstream isn't exactly the first word that comes to mind.

sticking to one format would really be beneficial. I'm all in for longer pilots, but it has to stop somewhere and by ep 4 we've barely gone down to 1 hr 12 min. Anyone knows whether it aims to stay this way?

There are two edits of this drama. For example, the scene at the end of the episode 9 / beginning of 10, when Yool is brought at the banquet after the tournament and questioned by the king has two versions. In one the king goes straight from the first question to asking why did her company provide the embellishments for princes, in the other there's a long sequence of fortunetelling from the writing.
Are there more discrepancies? Anything of importance?

ok, I love the way night scenes are filmed, they give off the vibe of old mercury vapor streetlights.

In Secret Garden. I don't remember the name, he was a singer-songwriter wannabe or something.

I wouldn't call it out of question since one of former LJS's characters had the exact same twist.

So I watched the first episode and she had two or three short scenes. Her character is firm and kind, she does charity work at the eatery for homeless people and works at her grandma's small restaurant, but somehow she doesn't seem like one of those too good to be true, angelic kdrama heroines so far. Maybe there's more to her and there's a slim chance she may overtake as a love interest/ MC's sidekick. I'll go back to you if I watch more.

Ok, they are two people afterall. He's WT's HS friend apparently. My wrong, but my point still stands - WT isn't a brother of the soldier.

ame here. Notification failure seems to only be an issue with more complicated, multi-storey conversation, when several people are involved. It's not a first time it happens to me.

I think they are, but I may be wrong. I though he was a rookie officer who consoled baby-Jae Chan after the faked grades report cards case, then met him and Hong Ju at the funeral house, possibly was too ashamed because of his brother to stay as a cop, got declassed and now bumbles between low class jobs (like delivery). Not sure if the age matches, he shouldn't be much older than our Year of the Tiger Team.

(are notifications working properly for you?)

The point of this episode was precisely the opposite: to kill the fan theory that Woo Tak is directly related to the deserter by introducing deserter's real brother (who, lo and behold, knows Jae Chan from his childhood, when he worked at the police station). As far as we know, the only relation to Woo Tak is that he and the deserter's brother shared a flat not long ago.
I do agree though that for this show it's highly unlikely for an important character not to have a childhood connection :P We're yet to see it.

Could someone comment on how much screentime Kim Ye Won has and what's her role?

I believe it was said by either that hacker kid who lived in seclusion when he and Kim Woo Bin's character were discussing their back up plan or by the policeman, around that time when they faked the car crash at the parking lot to conceal that KWB was approached...? I searched for srt subtitles, but in the version I'm looking at right now it must have been phrased differently, so I can't find the exact spot. I vaguely remember they were talking about a secretive mean of contacting each other when needed (via an extra phone perhaps?). Reconnecting as in the legend seems to fit better than a reference to their oral skills. By the way, I like that image very much, I was thinking about something far more mundane.
I agree it's frustrating to miss the context. Sometimes I'm also clueless whether something is an English idiom or a part of the Asian culture I have no deeper understanding of. Huge part of it is probably lost in translation, as everything is flattened into simple English devoid of modes of speech, personal quirks and all those little references that are woven seamlessly. But it's good too. There's always more to see, and for every movie a rabbithole opens up.

I think it's both writing and the execution. I don't know about episode 2, but you're not alone feeling skeptical. I was fazed by that jump too, I even rewound it because I couldn't tell what were they aiming at. Was it a rope jump minus rope? Magic pair of leggings? It came really awkward.
I'm starting to think crime kdramas just aren't my thing. Their cheesiness only works for me in romcoms. I'm appalled how emotionally manipulative this one is from episode 1 (injured kid, MC's sob story etc.).
Next time, Woo Do Hwan.

hard to say how it'll go since it hasn't even hit the halfpoint yet. I like it very much so far, but I generally tend to enjoy Lee Jong Suk's dramas. It's dreamy and has a magic of older romcoms but with 2017 cinematography. It also has this 'worldbuilding in progress' quality W had, characters are constantly trying to figure out the rules and we're given new clues and hints, so it's never boring. Great pacing.

is it too early to start freaking out no one will pick subbing it up and it will end in the recently created limbo of dramas never to be subbed for no explicable reasons?