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In the end, the show is about family relationships, with a focus on broken families and the possible ways to achieve healing.
The world is not perfect. Parents argue, fight, get separated, and sadly get divorced; or a parent abandons their child. Whatever the reasons were of the adults, the most that is affected are their children. The world that turns into darkness are the world of the people adults brought into this harsh reality.
Suji and Uri showed us that this shouldn't be the case, and that we can achieve healing in one way or another. We may hate someone for what they did, but we shouldn't let that turn into bitterness. Suji and Uri taught us that forgiveness is a path that all of us can take, because the people who benefits the most from having a forgiving heart is no other than the person who learned to forgive. And that's where healing begins and we start seeing the light.
Which then leads to having a heart of gold to take care of other people going through hardships in life, like we did, and potentially adopt children who deserves to have beautiful world.
Yes, adopting will not change the world, but it will indeed change the person's world. You see, we were not born to change the entire world, rather we were born to change the world closest to us.
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The artistic connections you are missing by using the incorrect "Hyeri":
It's a play on words, and it is artistic. It is a disservice to the author's artistic creativity to rename the character as "Hyeri" and to use "Dear Hyeri". It, "Hyeri", is also completely disconnected from the author's work.
What happened?
If you think that was it…
Artistic license?
Because "Haeri" is hard to pronounce so they replaced it with an even harder "Hyeri"?
It doesn't makes any sense, right? Let's say both are equally hard to pronounce. If they'll use the "artistic license" reasoning, why did they not come up with "Dear Hailee"? You know, Haeri -> Haeli -> Hailee. Don't tell me "Hailee Steinfeld"'s name is harder to pronounce than "Haeri" and "Hyeri"!
Oh. Hey, if you haven't noticed it yet, the name of the character being "Haeri" adds a depth to the story and the character. Did you see the connection of her name being "Haeri" as explained earlier? It doesn't exist in "Hyeri".
I know who Haeri is, but who is Hyeri?
The nail:
Anyone knows what "Hyerythrotic Identity Disorder" is?
Now you know!
It was a hard watch but it's worth it!
I'm going to miss the entire cast.
I hope the our newbie writer, who also is a divorce attorney, will continue in this new career. She knows what she's doing. No dragging out of plots but at the same time, no plot was too short. She was able to struck a very good balance between the side arcs, the mid-arcs, and overall arcs, and ended it in a satisfying and inspiring way.
We rarely see that type of screenwriter these days.
How about making an adaptation of your webtoon "메리지레드" ("Marry Red")? And be sure you're the one who'll adapt it to the screen. You know your craft well and you understand what the audience want.
Goodbye Season 02! It was very fun, more creative, and more natural! Looking forward to Season 03!
Somewhere out there… in a parallel universe… “Peace Village” exists and a similar story happened which eventually led to the unification of the Korean peninsula.
Grassroots made it happen. Ordinary people created new relationships that crossed the DMZ. They showed the politicians of both the North and the South that no political ideology can separate them any longer.
I hope the lesson from this parallel universe “leaks” into our reality, and hopefully, the Korean War will end once and for all in our time. It has gone far too long, and families who were separated by the DMZ are passing on one after another. Don't let the day come when no one can remember the pain of the separation; of an eons-old dream of having one Korean flag, united and happy together.
P.S. There are only 8 episodes officially, not 12. ^_~
They're also learning how to leave room for a possible next season.
I like how the President and VP have a mid / long hairstyle. It's about time to give male characters more liberty in their hairstyles, instead of the usual clean cut. There are men who looks better with a mid/long hairstyle instead of a clean cut. W need to see more of it.
This show is one of the most confusing when it comes to the Cast list. Old and new cast list got mixed-up in practically every possible source, and there is lack of official complete cast list for this show. It's so hard to track and update the cast list.
In any case, if anyone's wondering, apparently sometime in September 2023 it was made public that the original cast list were replaced, and that did not make major news so the old cast list remained to this day, to the surprise of many that none of the old cast are in this show. (Even the number of episodes and airing schedule are chaotic.)
The current cast list as listed in TMDB is so far the most accurate one as far as English database / list is concerned. We're updating it as we find additional information.
Feel free to reply to this comment, or leave information on TMDB, so we can work on it. Leave links for your sources, preferably ones that are reputable in South Korea, as most non-Korean and English sources currently have the old information (other than MDL, I've been submitting corrections there as well and they're gracious enough to approve it).
If you want the part where the titular character is “The Brave”, watch around E61/E71 onwards. You can watch E01 to maybe E10/E20.
But definitely skip E11/21 to E60.
Save yourself from a major deep dive into a bottomless pit of negative emotions, like anger, hatred, bitterness, and more anger, hatred, and bitterness.
We still have no idea if they can actually end this show on a high note. Currently, it looks impossible already… we're in the bottomless pit of everything negative. It's going to take a major turn around, like, ALL the evil characters going to prison, not die but prison. Beyond that, there's no redemption from the bottomless pit.
Note. This show is also on break to give way to the official broadcast of the Paris 2024 Olympics in South Korea.
S01 E61 will air on 2024-08-12. I already updated the TMDb entry and it should reflect on TraktTV after 24 hours, unless a premium user clicks the “Refresh Data” link.
Just a friendly note, E90 will air on 2024-08-12 at its usual timeslot 20:30 KST. This announcement was posted on E89 at mark 28:21.
This is also due to the network being an official partner of the Paris 2024 Olympics in South Korea, and this show's slot was temporarily assigned for the Olympics.
I already updated the TMDb entry for the show and should reflect on TraktTV after 24 hours, unless a premium user clicks the "Refresh Data" link.
If you are wondering why S01 E06 is still not available, it was because the show's timeslot in the network station it is airing is currently occupied by official Olympics Paris 2024 broadcast.
The show will resume on 2024-08-16.
I already made the adjustments on TMDB which should reflect here on TraktTV after 24 hours, or if a premium user clicks the “Refresh Data” link.
I love how they don't drag the plots in Good Partner (굿파트너). Screenwriters should learn from a real-life (divorce) attorney / newbie screenwriter on how to create a top-notch TV series.
It wasn't an easy watch. It's dark. The “friends” “connection” is also disturbing in a way that you do not know who your friends are and thus who you can actually trust. As human beings, connections are important, and the deeper it is, the harder it becomes to see them break one-by-one. The betrayal can become too much.
However, they did well in the finale episode. They beautifully weaved that “friends” “connection” back to the light where it should be. They showed that friendships are real, and it breaks when money and greed gets the best of us. But, if we can get over it, a friendship that was broken can be restored and it's deeper than it originally was because of what you all have to go through.
Building long-lasting relationships really is complex and complicated. The only way to truly permanently glue that friendship and relationship is when it breaks and you fight. This is where most relationships, even between partners/spouses fail, how can you all get back up?
Yet, as this show demonstrated what it actually is in real life, once you get back up and reconcile your differences, that is when true friendship, true relationship, a true family-ness, begins, and it can never be broken again (well… maybe if one chose to break it there's nothing that can be done about it).
A good example are the soldiers who've faced wars. They are so tight-knit, you can never break them. The reason is the same, they went through the most grueling things a human being can ever face… death, killing, justice, mental/psychological/philosophical challenges, and many more. They understand each other in ways most people will never understand. It “connects” them.
Morals of the story:
1. Choose wisely who you surround yourself with; most especially who you call “friends”.
2. When everything comes crashing down with your relationships, aim to reconcile. It will truly “connect” you in ways no one can imagine (unless they went through something similar).
It's far better to watch the worst adaptation of Meteor Garden / 花より男子 (Hana Yori Dango) / Boys Over Flowers, than to watch Hierarchy. Or, just watch Pyramid Game.
Perfect… except for the title. LOL. It is a a tragic love story between two adults. It's not a story about the Missing Crown Prince, in the first place he was only missing for like 6 episodes.
The focus of the story, and entire emotional impact, is about the Queen Mother and her ex-betrothed turned affair. And they executed it well and touched the emotions of most, if not all, of its audience. They are the real “main” characters, not the Crown Prince and his lover.
That was why they focused on the flowers and the ice cream!!! I knew there was something odd about those scenes! What most assumed to be fillers, are actually not. A good writer will never create a scene that has nothing to do with anything.
The ML bringing back flowers and ice cream from the present to the past was a clue to what their first child's power is… the reverse of her father's. His power is to bring something from the past to the present.
It also completes the theme that the FL's past is the ML's future and the ML's future is the FL's past. Her past is what will save the ML's family and his life. And the ML's future is what will save the FL in the past.
That is their child.
Their union saved both the ML and the FL.
Their child represents the FL's past. That past is the fire, not her past when she was in high school, but her past when the ML disappeared. Meanwhile, their son also represents the ML's future. That future is the time jump. It was the only way for him to survive Ina's school fire.
At the same time, their child's power will not exist if the ML did not learn how to control and evolve his own power. And it was only possible because of the FL. Because of it, he passed down a “reverse” version of his power to their son.
It deeply pains me that the mother and daughter, searching and longing for each other, have found each other but are not aware of it.
Mom: Where are you my dear daughter? I miss you so much! My traitor friend, your father's mistress, stole you from me!
Daughter: Where are you mom?!! Did you really abandon me?! Why are you not looking for me?! Are you really dead???!!!!!!
Fate: I already brought you together, and you can't recognise each other? I'm giving you a deadline…
Awwww… what a Lovely story. I'm going to miss the cast, the acting, and the plot.
From a time travel perspective (instead of just pure romance), “Lovely Runner” is about a couple who is trying to defy time by finding ways to change the “fixed time”.
In time travel, the “fixed time” trope is about an event that must happen at all cost because it is a very pivotal moment in history. If it doesn't happen, literally everything will change and once it changes, it will be impossible to fix it… possibly unraveling time and destroying all existence.
In this story, Sunjae dying is a “fixed moment”. He needs to die no matter what, because the future depends on him dying, otherwise, there won't any future. So, “time” itself is naturally fixing things, ensuring that Sunjae will die no matter what the time traveler tries.
Sol fixing her legs is not a “fixed moment”. While time tried to ensure it happens again, for three times at that, time eventually adjusted to a version where she can walk fine. Those three “opportunities” where she would've lost her legs, eventually superseded that one timeline where she did.
Unfortunately, for Sunjae, no matter how many attempts they do, him dying is integral to something. That something will happen in the future, maybe a new law was passed giving more protection to celebrities; or a new law was passed criminalising keyboard warriors. Whatever it will be, that's beyond the story.
However, there is hope. While Sunjae's death is vital to ensure the continued existence of the universe, there is one factor that can change that “fixed moment”. Love.
In many cultures, both historically and present, “love” is the ultimate power that can make even the impossible possible. “Lovely Runner” is showing us that. Their love for each other transcends all times/timelines. No matter what, they will always find each other, and love each other, and die for each other.
This was also demonstrated with Sol's brother and bestie. Though her bestie and brother did not get together in the original timeline, they had a spark, the spark just did not flame (think starting a campfire). When Sol started to change things, and even without doing anything related to his brother and her bestie, the two eventually got a chance to flame that spark. Thus, every succeeding time travel by Sol, she didn't have to do anything, in fact, she even tried to separate them, but they still got married.
The way I see it, this is what Sunjae and Sol needs to prove:
Well… we'll find out next week in the finale episodes.
^_^
I really like how they played the dementia plot device. There is a [fictional] theory that dementia, and a few others, are actually caused by multiple timelines. In this [fictional] theory, or trope, the cause of the dementia is either:
(1) the person has some sort of strong protection against timeline changes, so when they catch-up to the origin time of the time traveler, all those memories floods in and they get confused, and the brain goes on self-preservation mode by only remembering the stable years; and
(2) as a person grows older and our body functions get weaker, people start to access the experiences and memories of their counterparts in other timelines. Since they are technically the same person (i.e. just a split timeline), they are quantum-entangled. If all of their versions gets dementia at around the same time, the more they are quantum-entangled (aside: quantum entanglement is a real physics science). Thus the person seems to “know”.
Well done there.
This was a tribute to the original show and actors.
Special mention:
* Actors Lee Kye In and Song Kyung Chul, were also in the original. They appeared in the last episode of this show.
I hope they release a sequel.
They can do it multiple ways:
1. Another prequel set before the original “Chief Detective 1971”.
2. Remake the 1971 original.
3. A sequel of 1971, set sometime later.
4. A modern 2023/2024 version. Continue the story line of the present time. This time, focusing on Park's descendants, and telling us the other case stories through his grandson.
If they'll choose to do a 2023/2024 version next, then those past case stories can become the 3rd sequel/prequel. For example, it will tell the story of Park's son. Was he a detective as well? How much did he adore his father, the cow-thief detective? What were his achievements?
Doing that way will fill in the gap as to how original Park's grandson became a detective, which is his father (or son of original Park).
There are plenty of ways they can go about this. And I hope they will.
That was a very good, heartfelt series finale!
Wow. I love that house of the FL. It gives a very peaceful ambiance. Very natural, wooden, not too much on modern stuff. A very good balance for our soul.
Prime example of:
1. Useless English title.
2. Wrong marketing message.
The original Japanese and Korean titles are MORE ACCURATE. The English title «Goodbye Earth» sets the wrong expectations, which leads to disappointment from the audiences.
Secondly, they marketed it as sci-fi and apocalyptic when it has nothing to do with those other than as a literary device to set the stage for the story. It is a life and social story, nothing sci-fi, nothing “let's try to save the Earth and show world unity”.
They should've simply translated the original Japanese and Korean titles, which are the same. Whoever thought that it is appropriate to give it a different English title, did not even bother to watch the series or check the original source material.
Wrong marketing + Wrong title = setting the wrong expectations = massive disappointment for many.
Such a waste.
It's so sad that the final episode is this week.
This was a very fun show, and it was educational, too. I simply love it. They were natural, less on role-playing certain characters. I also love how in some episodes, they interacted with other campers, even if just briefly. They can expand on that if they'll make S02.
The editing was good as well. Focusing on the food, how it's cooked. Taking in the scenes and they presented it well from various points. If they'll make S02, they can also add board game activities, or its equivalent in Korean camping culture.
I hope to see the other SNSD members in S02 if ever they will make one. And yeah, I kept on saying S02 because this show deserves to have S02.
«Frankly Speaking» («비밀은 없어») is basically the K-drama reinterpretation of Jim Carrey's «Liar Liar». If you've watched the latter and enjoyed it, watch «Frankly Speaking», a Korean take on the same idea with an Asian romcom touch.
Well, I did say I'll give them a free 10 stars if I see at least one easter egg related to bugs, and 1 star if none.
I didn't see any so 1 star for Season 1. If they add one in Season 2, then they'll get a free 10 stars for it. :wink:
Come on. It's not Fallout if there are no bugs. I can think a lot of ways to insert those easter eggs without affecting the plot. You can even make some scenes and dialogues funny while at it
Now, before you cry about it, I rated each episode fairly.
As of this post, I just finished S01E01. There is still hope to see at least a single bug.
If I don't see one, I'm going to give it a 1 rating for failing to add a very funny easter egg for fans of the franchise. I mean, come on, can you call it Fallout without a single bug? :p
