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Some from a certain religion so little tolerate OUR laws and way of life in Europe that they go murdering, beheading journalists, priests, teachers if they talk about secularism or a certain religion like it's okay to do in OUR countries. No blasphemy law but hey, certain people from a certain religion refuse to accept that and try to impose THEIR religious laws on OUR societies.

Christians, jews, buddhists don't go on murder spree if their religions are criticized, in Europe.

Don't stand Europe's laws? Don't come and live here. Don't stand South Korea's entertainment industry? Don't come on MDL and complain. Don't watch.

Jeez, always the same people complaining.

No.

That's the problem with time-travel. How to solve it. Because there are many theories about time travel.

I don't think 2021 ML was the same after the merging. When he was having a beer on a roof with his friend after it, he said that he didn't feel like the same person.

Other characters in the drama noticed that he was different. Saying good-morning to cleaners and colleagues at his job, being more thoughtful everyone around him.

Also, I think the 2022 ML had the advantage of meeting the 2021 FL in a cozy environment, their merged apartment and to deal mostly with their friends's marriage, making their collaboration even more intimate.

The 2021 ML still had his job, his career, so he was still like the 2022 ML of the first 2 episodes. He worked with the 2021 FL on their friends's marriage but also on other cases, not as personal as the first one.

I think the ending was suggested with the entropy increase/decrease theory which was discussed a few times: a life for a life.

What the writers of this drama missed, I think, was making it more obvious. The FL never discussed or thought about what would happen to the 2022 ML once the overlapping would stop. The 2022 ML seemed more open to his own ending. He was sad, in the last episodes, even while dating the FL. There were moments where it was obvious.

I noticed, while rewatching it, that around maybe episode 15? until the end, he was more of a background character. He was the FL's boyfriend and the one providing intel to the 2021 ML and FL. They were the ones working together, pushing the narrative that they were probably being the ones to end up together.

The 2021 ML got to meet her grand-mother. To rush to save her from that bad weather. To carry her while she couldn't walk.

I think that because he still had his high standing job, career and because in his eyes, the FL wasn't free since she was dating his future self, it took longer for him to soften towards the FL.

The merging apartment really was a cocoon which he didn't have access to. So he had this handicap. But with time, we know that he will become exactly who he was always meant to be once in love and dating the FL: like his other self, the future one.

Could it have been better written? I think so. Two more episodes of them growing closer in this new timeline would have helped too, but, well, we didn't get to see that.

Chinese time travel dramas are so incredibly tricky because of censorship, "Love in time" seems like a UFO in comparison to other modern time travel dramas, where the ending is concerned.

There should be a stick message on MDL to inform the newbies that TT being banned in China, dramas about time travel... won't be about TT because of censorship.

I am so used to that that I have accepted that there are two endings: the censorship ending, and the TRUE ending the writers wanted. I know which one makes more sense and is the true one after watching an entire drama. And I erase the other, calling it "censorship ending".

Well, if you don't mind spoilers... there kind of is. Between the FL, 2022 ML and 2021 ML. Both fall in love with her.

IMO, the ending made sense. The first timeline was wrong. Everything was wrong. The FL was in a coma. The one who caused the accident got away free because nobody witnessed the accident. He caused his sister's marriage to collapse and nobody knew. The second couple is divorced.

The ML lost his job. His boss was jealous of him and set him up.

That timeline was wrong. The goal of the time travel/overlapping appartments was to destroy that timeline (and therefore everybody in it), and create a new, fair timeline.

We saw that the leads couldn't live in each other's world. After 46 minutes, they are sent back to their respective present. So that's the logic of this universe. Therefore, the FL couldn't go to the future to live with 2022 ML and the 2022 ML couldn't go to the past to live with 2021 FL.

Plus... everytime something happens, 2022 ML's memory is updated. Making 2021 and 2022 MLs connected. Honestly, I could see the ending coming because of that.

When the future is changed, this wrong reality collapsed. The people vanished. Jurong never knew that she was dead in that other timeline. Her brother ends up in jail. The ML's boss loses it all and the ML keeps his job. The FL is safe. That's the better timeline.

But at the cost of the first wrong timeline. I suggested the merging of the two male leads because it was a logical solution for me. They were already connected. They loved the same woman. At least, this love and this first ML still lives in the ML and not just in the FL's heart and memories.

They both have the same memories of this incredible overlapping appartment because they have both lived it.

The ending could have been much worse. Like the 2022 ML disappearing forever and 2021 FL and 2021 ML forgetting the whole thing. Maybe meeting each other down the line and having this weird feeling of knowing each other. Been there, done that with other dramas.

At least here, the 2022 ML still lives on. His consciousness merging with his past self means that the 2021 ML has two timelines in his heart and mind and in both of them, he loved the FL. There's an entire episode with the FL grieving him, before slowly accepting,how lucky she was, in the end, to have known love and to still have that love if she only opened her heart.

So many timetravel dramas end up abruptly, or it wasn't time travel at all but a coma, a dream, here it's real time travel and we have an episode dealing with the aftermath.

I wish we had that with "Summit of our youth".

Yes. She remembered the coma life and rushed to see the ML. They end on on the same lift and they grab each other's hands, with a subtle smile to indicate that they remember. Without talking because if they talk about, well, everything that happened, then it wouldn't pass censorship.

Maybe there were scenes of them talking about their time in the coma. As I keep repeating, modern chinese dramas have 24 episodes. SOOY has 23. So I truly believe that there was a 24th episode which didn't pass censorship.

Maybe because the characters really discussed their time in a coma, and what to do from there, how to act with the people in their present lives based on what they know from their coma lives.

That kind of ending might have been too much for the censors.

But that's what I truly believe.

To each their own philosophy. I consider, with chinese time travel dramas, that there are two endings: the censorship ending and the ending the writers intended. With that in mind, I know which one I choose.

About the ending for SOOY, we weren't there in the censorship office to know which ending (or how many endings) the writers came up with which were refused. And for me, I don't blame the writers because there are 23 episodes instead of the traditional 24. I know what to believe.

Censorship ending due to time travel drama banned in China. Better stop at 33 minutes, that's the ending the writers and producers wanted. The last minutes were added to pass censorship.

Have you noticed something strange with this drama? I prefer modern light rom-com dramas. 99% of the time, they have 24 episodes. Here, it's 23. Considering how abrupt the ending was, my question is: "Was there a 24th episode, which didn't pass the censorship? One where the two leads reconnect, remember their coma dream life, take decisions about their jobs, and people in their lives?"

Maybe that was judged too dangerous in China. No changing the present because of time travel/coma travel/whatever dream stuff it was. I think that's why it ended with the two leads smiling at each other, holding hands, indicating that they remember but nothing more. Censorship.

I don't know about Kdramas for time travel. I have only watched "Queen In Huyn's man", and I loved it so much, I regularly rewatch it. It's real time travel.

Sometimes, with very successful, there are bonus scenes, but an entire episode? I doubt it.

In "A dream within a dream", she wakes up. Goes to work. See the ML. He doesn't remember her. Then there's a portal opening and the ML arrives.

Then we see the writer. All of this was a script she was writing. Even the actress waking up from the "dream"... was like a dream.

I guess the title gave it right from the beginning.

There was another time travel drama a few weeks ago. Or rather space communications between two eras. I said right from the start that it would be a coma/dream. Yep, the FL was in a coma, too.

In modern dramas, the one which WAS time travel was "Love in time", (the 2021 drama). Maybe because it was a remake of a taiwanese drama? We don't know how the contract was written, if the time travel ending was written in the contract when the chinese producers bought the rights, therefore censorship had less ... rights to oppose the time travel ending.

Maybe there are others but it's the one I remember the most.

With "Summit of our youth", there is something really strange. 99% of the time, modern dramas have...24 episodes. Here, there's 23. So, my question is... was there a 24th episode where the leads, after the lift scene, rekindle their love story, discuss their other life, whether it was a dream, a coma, traveling to a parallel universe? That would make more sense because the ending was abrupt. As if it was NOT the last episode.

New to chinese time-travel dramas?

I posted here at the beginning to NOT expect this to be a time travel drama because of censorship. And that it would end up being a dream, a coma, or the leads writing a novel, that kind of stuff.

That's just how it is. Writers have to find loopholes and add a few scenes in the end to make it look like it wasn't time travel. Like "The heart of a genius", it was even worse because there was litterally a 2 mn scene at the end explaining that the entire drama was a novel written by the FL.

Now, I know that there are two endings in those kinds of dramas:

- the one the writers wanted to write: it was really time travel. But censorhip opposes those kinds of dramas,

- the censorship ending: the one the writers are forced to write.

My advice? Knowing that, just ignore the "official censorship ending", because that's NOT the ending the writers wanted.

I think there was a 24th episode but that it didn't pass censorship. I mean, it's my theory, of course, but the drama has 23 episodes. Modern light dramas have 24 episodes. So where's the 24th?

Add to that that it ended very abruptly... it's like an episode is missing. Like after the lift scene where they hold hands, they go out, have a cafe, talk, remember their shared coma, and then decide that they are still together, still in love and will go on having a future together, like in their coma.

That's the only ending that makes sense, IMO. But censorship must have opposed this ending, because... ? not sure why. If it was a coma dream, then it wasn't time travel. I think it's not just a question of time travels dramas banned, there are other things which are banned in modern dramas which we don't really know of.

Like "Ski into love". A rom-com about skiing. So many episodes vanished, it was ridiculous, to the point where I felt completly disconnected from the story. What could be so dangerous about skiing, I ask you???

Same here, censors must have thought that a coma dream being real , discussed, explored, was a too dangerous option for "fragile minds".

It isn't and still the FL is dating a man who is older than her.

So... real space time communication or it was all a dream? a novel written by one of the characters? It's a chinese drama so I always expect some twisted ending because of censorship.

Never mind, I'll watch it.

I don't think so. But yeah, I'm sure that there was another episode but it didn't pass censorship.

My head canon is that once out of the elevator, they went to a cafe and started talking. Then they realize that they both lived the same coma dream and they spent 10 years together in that other life.

From there, they go on dating in the real world, knowing everything about each other already.

Because sorry but a drama with 23 episodes instead of the usual 24 and with such an abrupt ending? Yeah, no doubt there was another episode we'll never see.

I read that Doctor Who, or the Michael J. Fox trilogy are banned in China.