I honest to god can't gush enough about this show. If I could rate it higher than 10/10 I would. The casting, acting, characters, writing, directing, music, comedy, emotions, everything: perfection the whole way through. AND it nailed the ending. Sol and Sun-jae are just the most adorable ever (I love loser Sun-jae to pieces). Really sets the bar high for the rest of 2024!
They really stuck the landing with this finale which I'm so so so SO happy about! After an emotional start to the episode, I was on the couch literally kicking my feet in glee basically the entire rest of the time. So glad Sol and Sun-jae got a legit romcom episode of fluff and togetherness to wrap things up after everything they've been though. Couldn't have asked for anything more.
The shower scene. Mark's HANDS. Good lord :flushed:
Later in the episode and I'm yelling at the screen for Vee to just shout his explanation through the door. That door ain't soundproof, Vee thinks Mark is in there, and Mark can definitely hear him, so quit shouting "let me explain" and just EXPLAIN :grimacing: And/or text him? Something?
And then he finally gets a chance to talk to Mark and he just blows it like that? Like Vee, what are you DOING?! That's not an explanation! You haven't even TRIED to mention what actually happened and why!
I couldn't watch this episode all in one sitting, my heart just couldn't take it :sob::sob:
I'm heartbroken, poor Jeong-woo :disappointed: I didn't realize how heavy this show was going to get...
I did not expect this show to make me sob this hard :sob:
This show was ADORABLE. I loved it so much. For how short it was I wasn't expecting all the emotions I got watching this! Absolutely will rewatch.
(And now having just binge watched Lee Jae-bin being absolutely the most precious as Choco, I'm probably going to get whiplash when the next episode of Gray Shelter comes out)
Struggling to decide how to rate this; at time of writing this I decided to put it at an 8/10. Overall I did really enjoy it, the acting, the characters, the action, etc. But people aren't kidding when they say the last episode feels rushed, hoo boy. The ending wasn't terrible, but not satisfying by any means. I also devoured the first like 2/3 of the show, but lost steam after identities are revealed, etc — just felt like there was something missing from the remainder of the show after that tension was lost.
Absolutely loved this, the characters, the soundtrack, the emotion — it's so close to a 10/10.
(Spoilers below)
The main thing keeping it from a 10/10 for me is that I really didn't love the breakup and how that whole thing was handled; given what happened with Mhok's sister, I don't believe at all that pity was the reason he did what he did and I don't feel like that was explored enough (I also hate big time jumps and I can't believe that Day blocked his number?!). They made it out like it was all Mhok's fault and I feel like that does him dirty.
I also would have liked to have had more time to explore everything that happened in the last episode. It felt like Day finally got to a point where he'd fully accepted being blind and was happy, and then boom we jump from his mom finding out he got a donor to Day opening his eyes and being able to see again. Would have loved more time to actually see Day's reaction to finding out, whether he was afraid of the same thing happening as last time, etc.
But with all that aside, this is definitely going on my rewatch list (but next time I'll skip the end of episode 11 and the first like 1/2 of episode 12...).
I honestly really liked this. Short, but got me pretty emotional. I do wish we'd gotten to spend more time on Yoon Oh and his mom's relationship, though — for a short show like this, I would have liked more time with that and maybe a little bit less on Mario.
Also I've been watching a lot of Korean and Thai shows lately and hearing the two languages side by side like this for the first time was neat!
I'm not crying, you're crying :sob::sob: Yoon Oh leaving just as they were about to kiss got to me (edit: a day later and my heart still hurts).
I couldn't even tell you how many times I've watched the end of this episode at this point. It gives me butterflies every time. The music, the lighting and color, the camera work, the emotion, all just perfect.
What a weird choice of music for the fight scene at the end of the episode... I feel like it'd at least be easier for my ears to tune out the love ballad if the lyrics were in Korean and not English? (Edit: ok, a few episodes later the song's grown on me, but it was still a weird choice where they used it here)
Definitely getting sucked into the plot of this show more overall, though! Just what happened in the past?
THAT was the reason why Pat and Pran's parents have been such assholes for two decades?! Seriously?! :rolling_eyes:
Well dang, I didn't see THAT ending coming!
Travel all the way to Quebec, get Subway for lunch :thumbsup:
And wait, so Kim Shin is back from purgatory or wherever he was for 9 years, but he's still a goblin? Is he still immortal? 'Cause after god claiming that his punishment was over, that kinda still sounds like a punishment to me if he can't grow old with Eun-tak and Sunny (even if she's pretending to have forgotten)
Dude got told his punishment was over, then wandered around in purgatory completely alone for eternity? Then when he was finally summoned back no one (except grim reaper) remembers him? Sure sounds like punishment to me, idk
I'm finding myself skipping through Eun-tak's scenes (or playing them at faster speeds) in order to get to more scenes with the Grim Reaper and/or Sunny. I'm just not finding myself super invested in Euk-tak's character.
Ah Sahm keeps making bad choices that come back to bite him in the ass :upside_down:
Hong the new Hop Wei guy cracks me up every time. And he's so damn cheerful. "We can work with crazy."
What a heartbreaking episode, what acting from Ra Mi-ran and Lee Do-hyun :sob:
"Depression is just like fickle weather. On some days, it seems there's no end to it, but on others, you feel nothing but endless optimism." How true that is.
I'm glad things worked out for all the characters, even Seung-jae who came back to join the psych unit as a full fledged nurse!
A feel-good fluffy rom-com with good chemistry between the two leads. Not an entirely memorable show for me, certainly nothing groundbreaking, but still an enjoyable watch. I also appreciated the actual communication between the lead couple! I've grown tired of shows with plot points that develop solely because characters don't just talk to each other to clear up misunderstandings.
Desperately waiting for Da-eul to dropkick her shitty deadbeat husband and his entire family to the curb and ride off into the sunset with her daughter
Chose to watch the movie edit of this instead of the series to not deal with skipping past credits every 20 minutes. Maybe if I rewatch, I'll try the series. SO glad I found this though! It warmed my heart so much. Jaeyoung and Sangwoo's actors absolutely sold their performances.
It's been about a day and a half since I finished this drama, and I feel like it's going to take me a bit to get over. I'd had spoilers for how things were going to end, but I'm actually grateful for that because even though I was prepared for heartbreak, it still punched me in the gut. It takes a lot for a movie/show to make me cry — I hardly ever do — but the last episode broke me with the culmination of the absolute tragedy that all of the characters experienced.
I admit I started this show for Lee Joon Gi after watching / becoming obsessed with Flower of Evil, and he absolutely did not disappoint. But all of the other characters grew on me as I watched, too, and I was heartbroken for all of them and how the pursuit of the throne ruined everything for everyone. So many of the brothers wanted its power, but even being king doesn't let you just be able to do what you want. I could write more but I'm having trouble putting it all into words. I just have a lot of feelings :sob:
Not to say this series is without issues. I could have done without the time jumps for sure, and would have liked slower pacing in general in the second half. Some of the music didn't really seem fitting (but some of it I really enjoyed). And leaving off without showing Ha Jin and So meeting in the present day is just cruel (I've seen the pictures of the deleted handkerchief scene).
All in all, though, I thought this was well worth the watch. I literally couldn't put it down, much to the detriment of my sleep schedule. Not sure if I'll have the emotional fortitude to rewatch it or watch the Chinese version, though.
Holy moly. Lot of things happened this episode. Seems the throne changes everyone. I don't know why anyone who's spent any amount of time in the palace would expect to be able to take the throne and just do whatever they want, though. Even So had seen the crazy politicking and games required to be king and actually stay king.
I have to wonder if things would've been different if Jung had taken the throne instead of So, since he seems like a genuinely decent guy... I feel like So and Soo could have left and ridden off into the sunset together (maybe overly optimistic of me, but whatever, I'm just sad :sob:)
Setting aside forcing the kiss on Soo at the end of the episode, I'm so sad for So. The first time Soo hid his scar for him he asked if he could trust her, and she promised him she wouldn't change first, but then she did :disappointed: And on one hand, I get Soo's reaction to the visions she's had, but on the other hand, it's not like she's actually seen first hand what comes to pass yet (unlike the astronomer who presumably in his childhood actually saw skyscrapers and planes in the present day) — so why is she so confident that her visions are actually correct and that So is Gwangjong?
Muscle atrophy? What's that? But boy howdy I wish Hee-seong had just died when his mom took him off the machine.
Also whyyyy did the lady working for the family say everything she knew?! And straight up threaten to expose everything?! What a catastrophically bad idea :grimacing:
On a different note, I'm still living for these emotional moments between Hyeon-su and Ji-won (and that one with Eun-ha) :sob::sob::sob:
Oh my god, my heart :sob: This was such an emotional episode. I've been so anticipating the moment when Ji-won revealed that she knew everything and Hyeon-su realized that she knew, and it didn't disappoint. And for him to realize that she still accepted and loved him for who he really was... :sob:
I continue to love Hyun-yi, my heart broke when she walked in and was blindsided like that. I hope she kicks ass next episode. Geun-soo has apparently become the actual worst. What are they doing with his character?!
