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Why did they present child FL as a champion then, defending her sister? What was the point of that? "Checkov's knife" refers to another scriptwriting rule: If you show something in Act 1, it should make a reappearance in act 4.

Also, I'm not as frustrated as I may have led you to believe. Mostly I'm relieved to have made it all the way through episode 9 where the lies are finally unraveling and the healings can begin. But as good as the good stuff in this drama is (and it's the good stuff which has kept me along for the ride), this is in no way IMO a 10 (which is the assertion that started this whole thread.)

I guess you don't take things personally. You don't mind when the bank gives your mom a heart attack, chases you down darkened streets, kidnaps you, threatens to toss you out of a moving vehicle, or threatens to cut your organs out while you bleed to death and watch. You don't mind this at all.

Verbal exposition is another example of lazy scriptwriting. Not every viewer (including myself, in this example of the thugs mad about the cops) is gonna catch this. Good scriptwriters know the classic rule "show, don't tell."

Also, I never suggested ML rescue her. We saw from flashbacks that FL is supposed to be a fighter, so let's see her fight to defend herself. When the thug threatened to toss her out of the moving van, she shoulda coulda said, "let's go out together", opened the slide door, then grabbed him and tossed him over herself out onto the street, and under the tires of another car. Boom! Then she could strangle the driver with his seatbelt, causing a crash which defeats the other two thugs and walks away, like a hero.

When were the police alerted to the harassment? I missed that scene. Also, I counted 3 sharks, not 5.

It's great if you love gaslighting, lies, & deceit. Oh and what's better than brutal loan sharks getting generously rewarded with no repercussions to crimes like kidnapping and inflicting heart attacks?

As of ep 8 I can hardly believe I'm still watching this. Usually I drop a drama which leans so heavily on lies, white lies, gaslighting, & deceit. I consider it to be lazy scriptwriting. At least in this case the lies feed into the ML's family dysfunction, which is a slight step above. But enough already! This has been dragging on for far too long, and the production dares to present increasing emotional damage as entertainment.

Also, there is not anywhere nearly enough violence. The loan sharks should have been brutally beaten, not rewarded for their crimes & abuse. Now they get to live on and continue terrorizing other innocent families. Mr. Ma should have his face bashed in with his camera. And the ladies (ML's mother & his bastard sister) should be carrying tasers—their men deserve to be shocked into submission!

Definitely. Netflix originals always drop all episodes at once. It is only when Netflix partners with a domestic studio that episodes are released sequentially. In that case, they are typically released immediately after broadcast in their originating country. (Also—even when Netflix decides to include localized audio dubbing in various languages—they still release each episode immediately after broadcast in its original language but include localized subtitles. They then update the episodes days or weeks later with the localized audio dubbing, as it becomes available.)

I dunno. There is no gf in the webtoon. The gf is a replacement for a sister. There was a female alcohero who gets her powers from booze but is replaced by a dude. And there is a new female calorihero character who gets her powers from eating.

Both Pro Bono & Missing: Incomplete Life are TvN dramas licensed to Netflix.

Only humans can do it, and not monkeys, chimpanzees, nor Orangutans!

Each of those "revocations" (nationwide injunctions) have since been overruled, so my point stands.

Our Constitution divides our government into three separate but equal branches: the Legislative, the Judicial, and the Executive. The legislative and the judicial cannot override the executive. They can only cite constitutional violations. And this must be proven in the courts of law.

So far—even though in the short-term some District Judges have been successful in their attempts to impose nationwide injunctions upon Executive actions, these have been struck down after review by the Circuit Courts. There have been no exceptions.

I can respect that.

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As Sunshineeeeeeee said, it's only Netflix originals which get the immediate binge release. The OTT streamer must respect the domestic broadcast schedules of its local studio partners.

TBH, it is his detractors and not himself who call him "king". The President only claims to be favored by angels, above. And so far—considering how all his detractors many attempts to take him down have consistently failed—he may actually be correct!

I'm ready for a healing drama.

I'm glad that Lee Na Eun was exonerated. I hope she sees a return to her former status.

We sure are seeing a lot of K-projects dealing with actors' scandals lately!

The release of Knock Off was put on hold (& KOS2 filming cancelled mid-production) by Disney while Kim Soo Hyun's scandal works its way through the court system.

Second Signal (TvN's sequel to Signal) is currently in a crisis due to Jo Jin Woong's sudden retirement after past crimes from 30 years ago recently surfaced. That sequel had also completed filming back in August. Also SBS is in crisis mode due to this latest scandal. “War Against the Gangs" is narrated by JJW and he also appears as its presenter. WATG just began airing on SBS last week.

I think the SK studios are going to have to require background checks on actors (or something) moving forward.

So will it be released? Cancelled? Will they replace Jo Jin Woong with another actor and refill all his scenes? That would entail redoing a huge percentage of what is already in the can. The production must be in a huge crisis now!

Not so fast. Yes, his agency denied the sexual-assault portion of the allegations, but that was before this news article from 1994 resurfaced:

https://www.koreaboo.com/news/bone-chilling-report-jo-jin-woong-alleged-crimes-1994-resurfaces-online/

And now he has officially retired. Still, others are defending him (calling him a victim of the bully gangsters, a "bread shuttle".)

Should it be released as-is? If not, who should be cast as Lee Jae Han (replacing Jo Jin Woong)? Or is it preferable that Second Signal be canceled, instead?