pcharlotte787

re-watching episodes helps clear confusion because sometimes you might miss something important later on. In my case, the drama always get better when I re-watch it and I can also devote time to other elements aside from the story, like the characters' emotions and music

It sure is. I just love, love, love this drama. So sad there is just one more episode left.

same here, i don't want it to end. this has been a precious experience and amazing adventure for me

try to re-watch the episodes. after I did, I became a fan

it helps a lot to re-watch episodes. I have been re-watching them every I time I get

the only thing i hate is injustice. that is why i have been defending the show like crazy because i am seeing injustice against what i see as a masterpiece. I have been a movie buff since elementary school days and this show is a gem that has been treated horribly by the press. If you look back at my posts and read them without thinking I was mad, you will see I have either just been trying to defend the show or trying to explain some elements that may be confusing. I might have gotten impatient when I encountered slurs, but I always try to avoid hurling slurs back. If I used the term "hater", that would have been when I was appalled at how others hated this show. I joined this comment section so I could rhapsodize about it with others who love it and was shocked when I instead had to defend it from people who made me feel like it was a crime to like it

so i guess this is why it is called "eternal". they are in a time loop. I wonder if this is the time the loop ends

spinning lies and fantasies were among the slurs you hurled at me. All this time all I did was to try to clarify our conversations

I re-read all the comments I wrote in this thread. I don't see anyplace where I might have advised you to re-watch episode 4 for the blackmail remark. In fact, let me repeat:
Me: "Re-watch episode 9"
You: Watches episode 4 and blackens me after watching the wrong episode
Me: "Re-watch episode 9, not 4, as I told you, after LG and LL talked over the phone for the first time"

I did not say she went to the prison to blackmail him. The point that was relevant to our conversation was that she wiretapped him to have something to threaten or blackmail him for should she need to which was what happened.

try to re-watch the episodes. it helped me understand the drama much better

the cool thing is how he controlled the possible effects of his encounters with Tae-eul so that she still grows up to be the Tae-eul he knows

Butterfy effect results in large differences in later state. That's why i called it "controlled" because the changes he effected did not result in large differences, e.g. Tae-eul growing up to be other than a cop, mostly just new memories and possibly "softening" of Tae-eul, the lack of which he complained about in episode 2. Even his meeting with Lady Noh would most probably not effect a large difference in what happens next because Lady Noh would keep it a secret. I think the only large difference he wants to effect is preventing what happened to Tae-eul at the hands of Luna and to have a "sweeter" love story with Tae-eul. I would like to see this new love story unfold. I wonder if she will have him imprisoned :)

i'm hoping Luna will end up with Shin-jae :)

did it totally disappear? Lee Lim's half of the flute was shown to have totally disappeared and I assume it was because the Lee Lim who had it died. But LG's half was not shown to have totally disappeared

LG is just planting the memories and making sure baby LG and TE will have a happy ending. It will still be the grown-up baby LG who will meet TE 25 years later. Question is, what will happen to the time-travelling LG afterwards? Oh, maybe he and the grownup baby LG will merge together someday

i agree, the references to Alice in Wonderland are not empty. In fact, I feel like KES meant to make us all Alice in Wonderland, embarking on this adventure :)

I meant personal attacks hurled at me in this thread, like spinning lies and fantasies, a lost cause, a sheep that sees the cliff and willingly jumps down, etc. I agree, this is getting ridiculous

I'm not the one bandying about all sorts of slurs.

Check the flow of our conversation. How did we start talking about the blackmail? You kept harping about my so-called fantasies so I attempted to make you see that the writer did leave us with ideas on the characters' personalities. I used Seo-ryeong as example. Here's a more complete flow of our conversation, at the risk of being repetitive:

Me: "... She was there to get something to blackmail him for. What sort of a person wants to blackmail another? She uses her ex-husband, also at the point of blackmail."
You: "When the hell did she blackmail her husband?"
Me: "Re-watch episode 9"
You: Watches episode 4 and blackens me after watching the wrong episode
Me: "Re-watch episode 9, not 4, as I told you, after LG and LL talked over the phone for the first time"

This is the excerpt in Episode 9 that is relevant to our conversation:
Seo-ryeong to her ex-husband: "I still have the files from wiretapping you. Guyeon tunnel project seems to be the fishiest".

What can we deduct from this? Seo-ryeong wiretapped her ex-husband for information she can threaten/blackmail him for.

This answered your question, which actually distorted what I said earlier a bit. Note I said, "She uses her ex-husband, also at the point of blackmail" and you asked, "When the hell did she blackmail her husband?" But I decided not to be picky about your choice of words and just answered the question that should have been asked had you understood what I meant; the question should have been, "Where does it show that she used her husband at the point of blackmail?"

If you were not so quick to judge me as having fantasies and many other slurs, you might have understood what I meant. You did not even need to write the whole transcript of Seo-ryeong's conversation because only those two sentences were important.

This is actually analogous to a lot of viewers' stance on TKEM. Perhaps if they just tried to understand it instead of being quick to judge it, they might have gotten it.

Cool "controlled" butterfly effects in episode 14. Sooo good, goosebumps every time a new memory is planted. Hats off, Kim Eun Sook!

The personal attacks are getting ridiculous, so let me leave my favorite quote from the former British Prime Minister:

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” -- Margaret Thatcher