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I did try actually. There’s just no description or link to the interview on that post. And I don’t know Chinese.

But I can see various forums in Korean discussing his comment. So I’m going off their reaction.

And this article doesn’t say he never said those lame words: https://www.koreaboo.com/news/song-joong-ki-controversy-interview-information-surfaces/

So it appears he did make the comment that people are making fun of.

Chill, don’t be so pressed just because you’re in love with him lol. Celebrities can and do say dumb stupid shit all the fucking time. Including your favourites.

PS. I don’t care to know or judge what happened between his ex wife and him, though they had a very messy public divorce. So I’m not reacting to that part of the tweet in the above link.

lmao he must be feeling anxious about his lack of acting skills or his flower boy image

Except dude was at height of his career after his first marriage 🤪

lol what’s this all about? (I don’t keep up with celeb gossip)

Definitely a drama that deserved much more attention. And a spin off / sequel or something

It’s a bit low budget and got more of an OCN drama feel than tVN so that may be a factor in why it didn’t attract much views.

There was hacking involved, the smart care system wasn’t going to work….

She looks cute and healthy. I’ve only seen her in a couple episodes of You Are My Hero and she doesn’t strike me as one of those actors that are all scary skin and bones.

The webtoon was far from finished when the drama aired and the webtoon author had reportedly asked the drama to ‘not spoil the webtoon’ (which apparently they didn’t completely adhere to) so the drama was going to have to come with its own ending anyway I suppose. But in between that process the drama creative team and webtoon writer had a serious fallout which became a whole dragged mess where everyone from the audience, actors, production team, webtoon author were left unhappy.

Start with the drama. The movie was a passive aggressive project because things went south with the drama but as a movie itself it doesn’t really standalone. There’s too much material to cover for a 2 hour movie to make any sense for someone new.

You can always read the original webtoon too (which was completed long after the drama finished airing and that being incomplete I believe was probably a source of problem when the adaptations came out).

MDL hates it’s all actors or something.🤧

This isn’t an uncommon complaint. They don’t allow fans or users to submit nicer pictures either. But you can always try for your favourites, reading all their requirements and making the best argument you can when you make your submission.

Crazy how of none the scriptwriters haven’t got any new dramas out yet. I’d love for them to dabble in sci-fi again. Maybe build off of ideas in Circle.

Most kdramas these days are just adapting popular webtoons. I don’t have anything against webtoons but not all translate well into a live action format. And they have their shortcomings, like some plot points or characters feeling too cartoonish.

Besides I’d like for Korean screenwriters to exercise their creative writing skills and not just fall back on remakes or adaptations for easy money.

The new kid in Moving did gain weight for his role. Something like a whopping 30 kg which he dropped back. (Doesn’t sound healthy to manipulate your body like that). And Lee Sung Kyung gained something like 5kg or a bit more for Weightlifting Fairy. (this one is fine). (Edit: oh and Kim Sun Ah for Kim Sam Soon).

Can’t think of any others right now, there’s not often main characters in kdrama that are meant to be chubby.

But honestly in a day of special effects and really good make-up crews, I find it just wrong when actors supposedly gain or lose too much weight just for a role. Like if it really doesn’t fit, then just cast someone else that looks right naturally.

And under 40 kg for adult men and women is just… calling for an ambulance or casket ⚰️😐

Y’all I can’t believe I had to wait almost 7 years to see this dude act again after Circle. (One of my favourite character in that drama). 😶

It’s been (I don’t want to actually acknowledge how many🥲) so many years since this drama aired and I still think about some of its questions sometimes and wish for my own alien Gong Seung Yeon friend that can just whip up a cool device to replay my faded or forgotten memories on screen. Was (am) so jealous of kid Woo Jin lol. (Minus all the bad guys trying to steal the tech and using it to manipulate people’s memories. That’s a fucking nightmare).

Personally I think I’ve come to the conclusion now that while we have the ability to consciously forget a lot of things, it’s not an absolute blank slate. The past still happened. Our history still exists even if we’re not aware of it. And some bit of our soul, cells, subconscious does all the remembering for us. Shaping us even if we don’t understand it.

Even in this drama, the older twin’s memory was wiped clean and yet he still loved his missing brother deeply and desperately without his own memories there to support that feeling. And even without traumatic memories that fueled him to act as an amateur investigator as a kid, the older adult him became an actual detective (plus retained his fondness for baking).

So while we’re not quite the same person without our memories , we’re not wholly different either.

College Woo Jin’s idea was well-intentioned, removing traumatic memories for treatment. But it’s not a real long term solution. It’s the same thing as what our brain can do on its own- suppress trauma because it’s too shocking to handle. But you need to deal with it someday eventually. Face the scary memory and stop letting it have a hold on you. And then let time heal and let the memory fade away because it stops shaping your identity or personality.

I wish they’d do a spin off or something with this drama’s ideas. It has so much potential.

The real kicker was, finishing this drama back in 2017 and then not finding ANYTHING to watch his actor in. His character was the first to pique my interest in the 2037 part of the drama.

I’m glad he’s finally getting some attention with Marry My Husband. Took long enough to see him on a drama again.

That sounds like an interesting wild theory!

And now I’m personally headcanoning that Woo Jin was never cloned but inherited an alien mom’s genes. Just because that’s kinda badass and less bittersweet ending. Though I loved the drama’s clone concept too.

Hey, sorry to ask, but if you still care which plot twist disappointed you so much you gave up prematurely ?

(If it’s about Yeo Jin Go’s fate/character in 2037 then the drama does Not sacrifice it’s heartwarming story or intend to do so. They don’t have much screentime left to heavily debate the new development but they do address what’s important to them- the brothers’ wishes. It’s still heartfelt.

I think the mysterious alien origin of the FL was probably used as a plot device to easily set up the Smart Earth / Digital Memory plot.

Keeps the genre reasonably within sci fi and not venturing into magic/fantasy and the writer doesn’t need to add lengthy complicated explanations for how such a fantastical technology came about in our present or near future.

Plus it adds some drama for the characters (like the brother’s paranoia / trauma from aliens) and provides limitations for the bad guys (who are incapable of reverse engineering the coveted device).

I remember reading some suggestions after the last episode, that maybe the FL wasn’t quite an alien from another planet but a human clone from the future like the last episode Woo Jin that can’t age or ages far more slowly? I don’t think clone Woo Jin was in cyro sleep but more like medically induced coma? And he hadn’t aged a day, and also clone him was ‘born adult’ so there’s no evidence of him being able to age normally.

If I remember correctly, he WAS hooked up to the matrix. It’s why they needed him at all and went to the bother of first trying to treat him after the accident and then clone! him when his original body was giving up. And keeping his clone asleep so he doesn’t get up and run away. When clone Woo Jin does wake up in 2037, their system did start breaking down.

Edit: Plus I’m quite sure they were also relying on the ancient computer from Woo Jin’s childhood home as it knew how to answer to Byul’s cube.

Ah, thanks. I think it may have been a typo or some careless translation/language miscommunication error.

Just googling the actress once and seeing how she looks like in her past recent dramas tells you she didn’t HAVE enough weight to be able to lose 37 kg lol.

Sorry what’s the misinformation or misunderstanding here?

I am a naturally skinny girl due to genetics. And I am super offended by this unhealthy article.

My mom had once been this unhealthily underweight as an adult before she had me- overworked and not fed properly to counteract that load of responsibility. She regrets everything about that dark period of time in her life and it likely left some lasting consequences on her health that follow her to this day and some weaknesses probably passed on to me.

YOU and These kind of articles promote that it is Ethical, Reasonable, Doable, Acceptable, Just Okay, Perfectly Fine and GOOD to mess with your health and manipulate your body weight unnaturally to display “amazing dedicated woRk etHiC” for your job and that is OK to encourage, demand or expect a person to put a job above their health.