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I'm so glad it's preproduced. Ad pumped up. I need a breather.

Here's an example: http://d263ao8qih4miy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/goblin1-00238.jpg
It was used for past scenes in Goblin, for time travel parts in Tomorrow with You, and many more.

but that's the first drama I saw that! I'm behind with currently airing dramas tho. I connect widescreens with Goblin too, perhaps wrongly, but they were everywhere after that.

Woah, that was a brilliant premiere. It really is movie-level. The visuals are coherent, there's no continuity issues, music is thrilling, fitting and not overused, characters round and we're thrown right into middle of things to figure everything out for ourselves. It's co-produced by the same company Awl and Defendant were, so expect great things to come.
The main guy isn't just cold or emotionless, he's super efficient. He walks on the straightest line possible without excuses or hesitation.

/+ it seems now after Chicago Typewriter flickering flashbacks are a thing. We had a phase of widescreen retrospections, and now this. Not that I'm complaining.

Duh.
(But now when you said it I'm only more tempted. The brain doesn't hear 'no', only open it! open it!)

All those spoilers tags make me excited for this week episodes.

neither better nor worse, but it turns heavier towards the end. At what point are you? I bingewatched it and the episodic divisions are blurred. If you're at this point when they kept rewinding back of the last episode cliffhanger and spanning it over better part of the beginning of the next episode, then it'll pass soon. Excessive flashbacks stay though. It's a 6-8 hours material at best watered down to 10. I finished it with some fastforwarding and don't regret.

it's subbed on YT y'all!

I always give kdramas the benefit of the doubt that that's the message they're trying to send and not just a lazy writting and stacking up overprotectiveness, misunderstandings and angst to fill the middle episodes (it allows me to still enjoy dramas like Tomorrow With You). Sort of an anti-example.

will he disappear soon? he's listed so low here and from the comments it seems Yun Xun overtakes as a main antagonist.

girl, that's not how 'we took a picture this morning' looks like.. That's a psycho alert.

if you mean kid by day, I read they got rid of it.

I always preferred Bayan Khutugh over Tanashiri.

Right? It's such a cool topic, it deserves better. An opportunity to get lost within convoluted, multi-storey 'what's real and what's not' dream lost. But I did some googling and now I have an extra spur to finally give a shot to some other movies I've been putting away for later for years, so there's a flip side to this.
And agree on Yoochun scenes! I wasn't sure what to expect from a 'mysterious man', but refreshing he was.

nah, we upgraded to the jelly princess now (she reminds me of Kim Yoo Ri a little).
By the way, I can't figure out Yuwen Huai game, is he sincere to her /princess/ in his own way?

I know we're not liking Joo Man very much recently, but he grew on my this episode. I want more of his interactions with Aera. He was much more sensible than Soel Hee and her 'it's better for a woman to love less, go for a guy you barely care for' attitude and he seems to know Aera well. More shared screentime fro the main four, less second leads aka annoying rivals we all know are deadends and faciliators at best!

She's slowly but steadily becoming my tiny kdrama Christophen Walken-like crack. I enjoy her presence even in small, supportive parts and look forward for more of her.

In my opinion, they aren't that comparable. They start in different places, because the Reply 2006 part here is so short and the time skip so painfully long, we basically start in the middle of things. I've only seen R97 and 88 (because the other one seemed too similar to R97, I gave up on it). They're angstier and driven more on denial, self-deprivation and some kind of an unspoken pact between rivaling boys. This one is more similar to In Time with You but better (and perhaps How I Met Your Mother, but maybe it's just me), in a way that I keep thinking 'how exactly aren't you together since highschool, just date alreadyyy'.
With that being said, both R97 and R88 are definitely worth watching, even if only for their formal aspects. As you may know, they're famous for following 'who's the husband?' guessgame, they're mixing past and present. R88 is the heaviest one on family/community aspect, with main romance happening somewhere in the background. I don't want to spoil things, but both of them had many points that hit me really hard when I watched it.
And it doesn't matter where you start that much, they're separate stories (with an occasional cameo).

she's doing it much shorter than JW did. I haven't seen rants against him when he was pushing her away. For us it was a few eps only, for her years of unrequited crush and a cold refusal to get over. We know it won't last, she knows it, Mr Secretary knows it, it'll pass soon.

I still think it's one of better balanced recent romcoms with crime/law setting. Yeah, court scenes are a triumphant stares contest, but did anyone seriously expect a realistic procedural here? As for Bong Hee, I can't even begin to understand what people seem to have against her.
#overprotective fan mode on