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I thought it was brilliantly simple. it's all one timeline. LG future is actually affected by LG past. if LG past goes away, so would LG future.

There was no diversion, LG made sure of that. Let's call the LG and TE in the first meeting LG1 and TE1, and the LG and TE in the second meeting LG2 and TE2. When LG1 reached LG2's age, they became one; same with TE1 and TE2

The LG in 2020 did have those memories. He thanked TE for being nice to him in Gwanghwamun. Before that TE was narrating to the audience, not to LG.

That was in episode 2. The mom of the boy is Ms Baek whom Lee Lim recruited to work for him. Lee Lim caused those 3 boys to be seriously injured by a truck. Ms Baek is the one usually tending to the doppelganger of Lee Gon's mom

well said :)

Koreaherald is one of the newspapers that republished the controversies after the production team apologized. i'm not surprised they are very critical of the show

do you mean the countries showing in the daily tally? those are just the countries where the show is in the top 10

:) please feel free to post questions :)

Sex Education was released in 2019, garnering 40M views in its first 4 weeks. Ozark was released in 2017, garnering 29M in its first 4 weeks. It appears that in 2020, so far, Ozark is being viewed more than Sex Education. There is nothing inconsistent about this. Note the number of views is for the first 4 weeks.

Nielsen and FlixPatrol both have their own inaccuracies and merits. The FlixPatrol numbers were for TKEM fans who are thinking there is something wrong with them that they like a show being thrashed in a comment section about it. I have read at least a couple of comments like this. This is to let fans know they are not weird, that the show is, in fact, loved globally.

Nielsen has gotten sophisticated with their polling methods :)

that's what I meant with a polling system, getting data from a sample set of a few individuals/households

that's what I mean with polling. it gets data from a sample set of a few individuals

Also I am not arguing that the show has bad ratings in SK. I am just showing that though the domestic ratings are bad, it is doing well internationally

I mentioned Wikipedia to explain the reason why FlixPatrol is considered unreliable. It has something to do with historical data which should not concern us, since our discussion is only using 2020 data. Regarding accuracy, any polling system also suffers from this. I am not familiar with TNmS, but I assume it is also a polling system like Nielsen? It will be noted that several polling systems predicted Hillary Clinton's win in the 2016 election. But, as with FlixPatrol, Nielsen and TNmS figures, inaccurate though they may be, are better than pulling figures from thin air. My point being that if Nielsen and TNmS ratings are going to be allowed in discussions, so should FlixPatrol figures be

i had asked Wikipedia about the unreliability of FlixPatrol one time and the reason they cited was because it does not have historical data. For example, right now, it does not anymore have 2019 data. In this case, though, since we are only discussing 2020 figures. this issue does not concern us. And as long as we cite the dates, the numbers would still be relevant even if these comments are read when 2020 data are not anymore available, e.g. in 2021. But FlixPatrol cannot be referenced in Wikipedia because when the historical data are dropped, the urls pointing to those historical data would encounter 'page not found' or similar error

yup, that's precisely the point. if Nielsen and TNmS ratings are being used, why can't FlixPatrol? They are all inaccurate.

Nielsen is a polling system which is inaccurate. It was just accepted because for advertiser who want to know which shows to advertise on, it was better than pulling numbers out of thin air. Look for articles about the inaccuracy of Nielsen ratings

The disclaimer was to clarify that the figures do not represent actual numbers of views or sales which is right. The numbers are rankings arrived at using the algorithm they noted. That's the nature of rankings - they change, but they are good indicators of how well a show is performing. For example, the ranking for June 9, which shows TKEM at #16 with 3547 points and Crash Landing at #31 with 1749 points does not mean that 3547 people viewed TKEM in 2020, and 1749 viewed Crash Landing. Those points were arrived at using some algorithm. But one thing it shows is that TKEM has ranked better than Crash Landing this year.

Defending this show is the opposite of ramming it down other people's throats. In fact, a lot of commenters have noted the amount of negative comments in this section, making it look like nobody likes this show when in fact those who like the show have probably just left or have gotten stymied from too much negativity encountered whenever they post something good about the show, or have just decided to focus on discussion threads where they would be free from sarcastic and antagonistic remarks