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The stakes, the stakes...

The episode starts where the where ended – but I have read the novel by now till page 180 (of 599) which presented those “dreams” way earlier in the narrative. Wa thinks they are glimpses of “past” timelines that got reversed (by someone else). In the show, we so far have no explanation for them.Upon awaking, Wa asks Vivi if she has ever have visions of her own future, and Vivi dispels Wa’s worries by claiming she did, showing her some drawings of it. Then, Vivi's 16th birthday comes up – and Vivi want to go to a fan meeting for Johnny Kim. The tickets are expensive, but Vivi says she got it covered by her drawing job, she just needs her permission. This conversation is interrupted by Four picking up Wav or a date. Both Wa and Four invite Vivi to join them; it turns out that they are going to a shopping mall. This is an unusual experience for Wa and Vivi being poor, they stop at a clothing store that caught Vivi’s interest. Four ends up buying some clothes for them, which embarrasses Wa. They spend the rest of the day visiting the arcade and taking snapshots in a photo booth. Upon their return, Four reveals that she overheard the previous fan meeting ticket discussion – and bought the ticket as a birthday gift for her. Now, Wa has no choice but to give Vivi permission to go. Then, Four invites Wa to her grandmother’s on Saturday – she says she probably won’t remember her afterwards, but wants to present to her her “special one” anyway. We fast-forward to Saturday, which is also the day of the fan meeting. Wa has this nagging feeling that something will go wrong but lets Vivi go anyway. Then, she has to get ready herself – and Four does her makeup, which almost turns into sex again. But Four get interrupted by a phone call an has to do an errand for college quickly, leaving a severly flustered Jattawa. 😊Later, they arrive at Four’s Grandma’s house. She is friendly and seems lucid at first, but is stuck in the past, recalling an old dispute between Four and his father like it was yesterday. Then, her stepmother and stepbrother appear – Four thought they wouldn’t be here as well. This is going to be an awkward family dinner. Grandma urges Four to learn the ropes as the future head of the family company, but her stepmom say the next CEO will be her own son Film (which Grandma can’t seem to remember). Four insinuates that he is not his father’s son, that Wa claims that the Grandma has evidence to that effect. Stepmom reaction to that suggests that she herself already found and destroyed the DNA test results, so Wa reverses this part of the conversation, but tells Four of her suspicions afterwards. Four promises to find another way to prove that Film in not her father’s son – but her stepmom is eavesdropping on this conversation. Then, Jattawa has so go pick up her present for Vivi – a Johnny Kim photobook from the store. She leaves Four to stay with her Grandma. Meanwhile, Vivi and her friend have collected the meet-and-greet ticket badges; another visitor wants to get such a badge as well, but he only has a standard ticket and is thus refused. He eyes the girls with obvious envy and will surely cause a problem soon. Meanwhile, Jattawa has returned home having picked up the present. She sees her sister’s sketchbook lying around and takes a quick glance – and soon realizes that there are no sketches that show Vivi past this date. She remembers her “dream”, and runs to the fan meeting, quickly telling Four where she’s gone. Vivi, at the meeting, gets a vision of someone assaulting her in the dark. Just as Jattawa arrives, she is assaulted by the guy from earlier who’s strangling her trying to get her VIP ticket. Before Wa can interfere, Four assaults the would-be robber with a swift kick, thus diffusing the situation. Wa is furious that Vivi didn’t tell her she didn’t see her future past this day, but Vivi say she knows that her sister will always have her back, and that she can aways reverse time to hep her. Wa relents and just gives her a hug. Vivi then get another vision, or her unpacking the present – making it her first vision of her future past that date, Wa is relieved. At this point I knew exactly how this would turn out – Vivi would get assaulted again, probably at home, propably before she turns 16 (as the present is already at home) and this time, the reversal for the day would either already used up, or ten minutes would not be enough. But first, Wa and Four “resume” their date by eating Thai BBQ under the stars, with some playful banter that causes Wa to quickly panic, earning her the nickname “little bunny” in the process. 😊 Meanwhile, Vivi and her friend had a great time at the fan meeting – but she can’t sleep over at her friend’s as previously planned; the mother will instead drop her off at the condo. So, she’ll be at home tonight, after all… Wa and Four are also on their way home, Vivi has already arrived and looks at her present. She hears a noise and thinks her sister is back home, but the apartment is dark. Vivi looks around – and get assaulted just as it looked is her vision. Just as Jattawa and Four park the car, the assaulter can be seen leaving though the parking lot, so when Wa comes to her door, a bloody puddle can be seen outside. Wa quickly opens the door, but Vivi is lying on the ground stabbed to death – just as the clock turns midnidght. Wa reverses time to the maximum of ten minutes, and let Four drop her off in front of the building saving some time. As she reaches their hallway, there is no puddle of blood outside – but Vivi inside is just as dead as before. A devastated Jattawa cradles her dead sister and wants to go back in time again but can’t, just as Four arrives on the scene.As I’ve seen the pilot for the show, I know that there must be some way to reverse this death. From said pilot, the main question’s remaining are:1. How will Wa (or someone else) get to reverse time?2. Why does Vivi always seem to die if Wa and Four get together?3. Who wanted to kill Vivi, anyway?Apart from that there’s also the inheritance issue for Four to solve – and there’s only two episodes left. I’ll be watching. 😊

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What was that final scene?!?!

The episode starts with the morning after, as Jattawa awakes in her bed next to a sleeping Four. Jattawa seems happy – her first time apparently went well. As Four starts to wake up she pretends to be asleep, Four quickly gets up collects her clothes and leaves the room. Wa gets up soon thereafter and make breakfast for her and her disappeared “friend” as Vivi returns to collect a few things for school – and to nonchalantly let her sister know that she saw in a vision that Four und Wa had sex last night. Wa is embarrassed, while Four next door apparently isn’t sure what happened last night cause she was so drunk. Later, Wa still wonders how she should react to Four when Khun and Top meet up with her and ask her out for lunch, they go to the cafeteria, but Wa is not really hungry, she is looking for Four. Meanhile, Khun want to take her with him this evening (to something having to do with the contest they’re both signed up for). But she declines the offer and leaves for the restroom – where she runs into Four who thanks her for taking her home last night; she claims she was so drunk she doesn’t remember anything. Wa invites her to the contest, but Four just acknowledges the invite. At home, Wa is preparing a magician’s routine for the contest, but keeps wondering why Four reacts so coldly, as she seemed pretty lucid last night; she is wondering if she did anything wrong or if Four didn’t like their sexy time. Her routine includes one use of her time-freeze ability – that seems like a waste for a function which can be used only once per day.The next day, Wa asks Khun and Top how she should react to Four’s apparent coldness after sex – without naming the participant, of course, but I’m pretty sure at least Khun knows who she is talking about. They both tell her not to bother with her anymore.The day of the contest is there, and Wa shows up in her unusal uniform (“I’m not winning anyway”) , leading Khun to get her a proper dress. While Wa is changing, Khun once again tells her he likes her – but this time, Wa doesn’t reverse this confession, but rather tells him that she wants them to be friends – nothing less, but also not more. He asks her if that is because she has feelings for Four, and she admits it. He then confesses to discouraging Four earlier by claiming Wa was interested in him; but Wa forgives him saying anyone can make mistakes. As he goes on stage, Wa keeps wondering why Four hasn’t talked to her about that. Then Jattawa peforms her routine but uses her time-freeze moment to look for Four in the audience. In the end, she blows the last part of the routine – a disappearing act – intentionally. Then, the audience gives out roses for their favorite act, and Wa doesn’t get any – until Four shows up, having seen the show after after all. She says she did not like the performance, but rather the performer. ❤After the show they, go home together with Wa explaining that Khun came clean and that he was lying to Four when he told her Wa was interested in him. Four admin that she was getting drunk because of the and that she really likes Wa. But Wa remains cautious, because she knows Four is interested in another person, namely the one she gave her messaging id to – but unbeknownst to her that also Wa, as the moon lamp she gave her recently is the one that carries the ID. Four comes clean that she wanted to give her the ID since they first met; she just didn’t know what to do with these feelings. But everything else she did – from providing a place to stay to gifting her the moon lamp - was all because she was attracted to her, in fact she admits to having dirty dreams about her. As they encounter shooting stars in the sky, Four asks Wa to be her girlfriend. Wa accepts by signing her name with her finger onto Four’s hand; they start making out again. As they return to their floor hand in hand, Four remarks that the CCTV is broken in this hallway so they can continue to make out. I wonder if that was more for benefit of us watchers to let us now the camera doesn’t work? The next day, Wa wakes up; whose bed is that. It looks different from both her own and Four’s, though at the side there’s the moon lamp – and a picture of Wa and Four?!? The living room looks also unfamiliar, and on the balcony there’s Four saying “I'm so sorry that I'm the reason Vivi's gone.” As Wan is saying what we all think: “What?”, we get the final shot of the episode, Vivi lying on the floor somewhere, apparently having been stabbed to death. That was a rollercoaster (accelerating while rolling down) of an episode – so much has happened. The show made clear that all previous problems between Four and Wa were thoroughly removed (from the previous issues of the show, there only remains the legal battle between Four and her family) – before hitting us out of left field with the final scene. I honestly don’t know what to make of the scene, was that a dream sequence, a flash forward, and where exactly did that scene between Four and Wa happen? Obviously, Four did at best indirectly cause Vivi’s death – I think the writers left this part intentionally vague so that we (at least those who like myself have not read the book) can fuzz over it all week and tune in again next Tuesday. Mission accomplished, I’d say!

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Thank you note.

ucapan terima kasih kepada setiap orang yang berada dibalik drama series ini, berkat mereka akhirnya series "addicted heroin" season pertama selesai dengan benar. Setelah sebelumnya seriesnya berakhir dengan open ending di versi aslinya "china". Ini benar-benar luar biasa. Dulu saya sempat berfikir bahwa suatu saat remake thailand dari series ini akan ada, dan ternyata firasatku benar, tidak hanya remake ; ini bahkan menyelesaikan series originalnya, saya sangat senang. Impresi mengenai episode kali ini benar-benar penuh tekanan, drama dan romansa. Saya tidak tahu tentang apa season 2-nya sebab saya benar-benar tidak membaca novel aslinya sama sekali, saya benar-benar ingin menyelesaikan drama seriesnya terlebih dahulu sebelum membaca novelnya. Dari segi dialog mudah difahami ya, scenenya bagus banget ; tahukah kamu - bahwa sebenarnya ketika saya menonton scene-scene di series ini terkadang fikiran saya mengalami "overlay" dimana penggambaran versi thailand ini dibuat versi china-nya di dalam fikiran saya secara langsung dan tidak disengaja. Dari segi peran - hero dan pop benar-benar bisa memahami karakter aslinya Bai Luo Yin dan Gu Hai ; mereka benar-benar mirip. Saya menantikan season 2 nya!

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Work life, Adult Life!

I still think to myself how ridiculous it is that people bully and overwork others just because they are newbies and that's considered normal. Just as Jia Xu consoles Sang Zhi "it's like this for all of us in the begining". It shouldn't be! I know in this particular situation there is a reason for the treatment Sang Zhi is facing but it's still a reality for most people. Not to mention... Do these people have no time to start or finish work? How come the girl has to stay after everyone and still has to take work home to finish? What kind of work rule is that? What kind of mindset is that? I'm flipping tables!

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Suspense -> romances.

episode kali ini menurutku didominasi oleh ketegangan, beberapa plot twist dan romansa cinta. Namun, berbeda dari episode sebelumnya, episode kali ini punya vibes yang bagus di awal namun membosankan di akhir. Cerita dari series ini menurutku terlalu sederhana, walaupun punya romansa yang bagus dari aktor terkenal yang punya talenta terbaik ; tetap saja, bagi saya ini menjadi kekurangan. Sekarang, bahkan saya merasakan vibes "never let me go" di series ini. Penilaian saya mungkin berbeda dengan anda-anda sekalian, namun inilah pendapat saya. Saya fikir series ini akan lebih baik jika scenenya lebih dipadatkan dengan jumlah episode yang dikurangi agar alurnya bergerak lebih cepat, hal ini karena latar belakang series ini seperti yang dibilang oleh saya tadi terlalu "sederhana", memperbanyak scene mungkin akan membuatnya membosankan. Walaupun begitu, sebenarnya saya tidak menemukan filler di setiap episode series ini, saya rasa memang benar semuanya krusial, tapi jika bisa dilakukan ; saya berfikir untuk membuatnya lebih ringkas lagi. Akhirnya, saya akan tetap menonton kelanjutan series ini.

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