Ooh, this show is really convincing me they're different from everyone else. For a TV series, they spent as much budget as needed just to produce the one of the best VR scenes in history.
Holy! That's the kind of presentation I want to attend; and stand on stage!
Great idea to whoever thought of that. I wonder when we are going to see it in real life?
I wish that last performance was real. I cried. It was so beautiful.
The scenes with the lead during the festival were wasted. The play and the repeat of the play in the car, those were the best. I had to stop myself from crying, perfect BGM too.
I actually want to watch the play live. And I miss school festivals. :grinning:
I love how they presented the (1) reaction against deaf people; and (2) a parent's concern for their beloved child.
It was a very good opening for episode 9.
Another thing. They paid attention to the difference between "hard of hearing" and "deaf"; and they did not use the word "mute".
The 복수 (revenge) mechanics is not fair. Why did they give all the privileges to the Pinkers (the winners of the 1-on-1 matches)?
The Pinkers:
1. Played a game to form their team members.
2. They picked the members for the Green teams.
3. They picked the concept.
4. They picked the songs.
If the Pinkers are so damn good, then they should still win even if the Greeners chose their own team members, then got to pick the members of the Pink teams, the concept, and the songs.
The "revenge" stage is to give the Greeners a chance.
It is not 복수 at all if the Pinkers chose everything for the Greeners.
At the end of the day, luck still played a big role.
Imagine if the first Pink team were composed of different members. They probably would pick different members for the Green Team they want to compete with. The concept and songs will more likely be different too. The first Green Team in this what-if would not have ended with members who can barely communicate with each other.
It is NOT revenge for the Greeners. This is the stage wherein the Winners have to prove they truly are winners, and losers will be losers.
It's all about luck. Not skills. Not talents. Let's be honest, if this was about skills and talents, then the team members would've been balanced.
The mechanics for this 복수 stage/phase is not a revenge at all because it is in favour of the Pinkers. The chance for a Green Team to win lies on the composition of the team they'll match with. If the Pink team fails to work together, the Green Team will win even if they don't give much effort.
Imagine if the first Pink Team failed. The winner would've been the first Green team. They lost not because they lacked skills and talents, they just got unlucky this round; and the Pink team won not because of skills and talents, rather they got lucky they had a good team captain; they almost failed during their practices if not for their team captain.
You may have the best team members, but if you don't have a good team captain, the team will still fail.
You see, it is exactly what Kim Se Jeong said in episode 1. She knows it because she came out of a similar competition and was a member of two groups. What she said is what's happening now.
I delayed watching ep679 because it's a farewell episode for Jeon So Min, but it is unavoidable as farewells are a part of our lives.
To Miss So Min, thank you for all the laughter you've given us through Running Man. We will definitely miss your unique comedy in the show. As you have said, it was a dream come true for you and congratulations, you did amazing for 7 years!
Keep looking forward as life still has a lot in store for you. Whatever the reason was why you have to bid farewell, remember always to be happy. Family, health, and happiness is a right of every human being.
So, keep running girl! And always wear your genuine smile.
Saranghae from the Philippines!
Episode 678 of Running Man was so very funny. This is the type of episode I miss from the team since Lee Kwang Soo left; natural and all laughter.
However, do not miss episode 679 because it is the farewell episode for Jeon So Min. This episode was filmed on Monday, 2023-10-30 and will air on Sunday evening of 2023-11-12.
See you next week, Miss So Min!
The topic of episode 02 is social anxiety and the ORIGINAL and medical meaning of “gaslighting”.
Again, like in episode 01, they explained both in a way that ordinary people would understand, dispelling misconceptions. The episode story was also done in a way to help the audience empathise with the characters and the people experiencing or have experienced (and now suffering) social anxiety and gaslighting. Not to mention, it makes us question ourselves that maybe, we are in denial and actually going through it as well.
Wow. This is actually very, very good! It shares enough information about mental illnesses, makes you have some basic and updated understanding, and doesn't focus on medicines, but more on how to deal and communicate with people. Yes, people, not “abnormals”.
Because that's how we should treat everyone, as people, as human beings. And I applaud them for that, and this is just episode 01.
A very good and enjoyable premiere episode.
Episode 01 was great. It showed the things that happen in real life that most people choose to ignore. The things that happen that people turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to, like those bystanders who just watched someone else's boy be bitten to death by an adult.
While this episode depicts physical child abuse, so there is evidence and all that. Don't be mistaken dear readers, there are a hundred ways of child abuse, especially from parents. Right from their HOMES where supposedly there should be love.
It saddens me deeply that the majority of comments and reactions I've read about the premiere episode failed to see this problem and instead focused on the actors and shipping and the entertainment value.
Episode 01 is loaded. But people missed it; or decided to ignore it because they can't accept it happens for real.
Depression is real. Kids who grew up with destroyed dreams because the people who should have supported them in the first place are the very ones who destroyed them.
How can you appreciate the rest of the story if you fail to understand and absorb the essence and message of Episode 01? Look at it deeper instead of focusing on the shallow things.
Wow. I totally did not expect Ian's revelation. And glad to see Ian back, my favourite character in the show.
Wow. What a very touching first episode.
I love his reply there, “I'm sad because I can play music, and they can't” instead of saying, “I'm sad because they can't hear (my) music”.
Huge difference in meaning, and speaks volume to the mindset of the character.
Oh my. The actress sure knows how to be that lovely and sweet girlfriend who is heads over heels on her guy.
Great acting. Perfect.
S02EP06 reaction.
A very good episode. It reminds us of the following:
1. Our actions can and will affect the people around us in ways we never thought of.
We should not judge other people, and condemn them, just because of what we saw and heard from the surface.
Regardless of our reasons, we are responsible for our actions because no one forced us.
The Spring Lady, while she has good intentions, she chose to threaten the suspect. She knew what kind of person he is, she should have considered asking him first if there is a problem.
Because she judged and threatened him, as a father who will do anything for his innocent daughter, he was placed further deep in the rat hole.
For the father, likewise, he should've had kept his cool and explained to her. When he went to her unit to commit his crime, and lied about turning himself in, the Spring Lady told him she did not report him because of his daughter.
That was a clear sign that there is a window for them two to talk and work it out.
We have to realise, no human being is pure evil. Even the baddest criminal in history have someone to protect (or using as a reason to take revenge). (We are NOT talking about rapists here, or sexual needs, or similar, like psychopaths.)
And, like it or not, if no one forced us, we have to take responsibility for our actions. Yes, it is understandable why the father started to steal underwear, they need the money, he needs to protect his daughter from the loan sharks. Yes, he had no choice, and it was the fastest route for him to keep the sharks at bay. However, it still is punishable by law.
Yes, maybe the father did ask other people for help and no one were willing. Not a single person. Not the government. No one. So, he had to do things he knew is against the law (be it civil or criminal). Still, he made a free will decision to do it, so he's responsible for his action.
Him killing his own daughter? Now that will never be justifiable, no matter where and how we look at it. If he wants to commit suicide, it's his free will. Hi could've had called the police and social services to their home, so once he's dead, someone will pick up her daughter instead of her living off the streets, or taken by the loan sharks.
Murdering your own children, or any innocent children for that matter, is the ultimate crime. Not even those criminals in deathrow will want to be in the same room as a child murderer, at least most of them won't.
Good lessons here.
I truly enjoyed this episode. Totally unexpected from Star Trek, especially from Strange New Worlds. 10 from me. Go watch it!
Wow! I so love this episode. I like time travels, but it's usually serious. This one is funny, I kept laughing and smiling. 10 from me!
I like how they turned the story into literal vampire + symbolic vampire.
The FL is a symbolic vampire. A type of vampire that sucks the love and fun around her and from other people. Focused only on making ends meet, nothing wrong there, but is dead inside. She thinks she is living her life, but the truth is, she's an “undead”.
Meanwhile, the ML, a literal vampire (or half-vampire in the present day), is a vampire who wants to become a human. Who wants to feel love. Who wants to know what it means to live as a human and enjoy life to its fullest.
Two opposites meet each other. Nothing in common with them. They should repel each other… instead, they slowly attract each other.
The real vampire is making the symbolic vampire realise what she is missing. And the symbolic vampire is only making the real vampire firm in his decision to become a human.
Why? The clue is the fact that he can see his reflection only in her eyes. Because that is not only literal, it is also symbolic. He can see himself in her. The kind of life the FL is living is the life the ML had before he fell in love.
That is… just living for the sake of living.
Exactly what the FL is doing. Living for the sake of living.
Seeing himself in her, with the kind of life she is living, is only strengthening his resolve to become a human. He is done with being a vampire. He wants to find meaning. He wants to enjoy life to its fullest. Who cares if he dies? What is immortality if there is no meaning and purpose to it? He wants to love and be loved “until death do us part”.
And here's the FL, getting curious why a vampire wants to become a human. Why love is so important for this vampire. Because, for her, immortality is a gift, not a curse. For her, she can live a carefree life. She doesn't have to worry about paying bills, or what to eat tomorrow, or where to live next month. She can even make a fortune.
But… a vampire, with immortality and no worries in life, wants to become a human because of love? Knowing he will die as a human? Why indeed?
While for some the story is cliché, I enjoy stories that add symbolism or deeper meanings to each character, like as I've mentioned, the ML can see his reflection in the FL's eyes is both literal and symbolic. Or, how the FL is a symbolic vampire; and how the two of them are attracting each other instead of repelling.
Good job. Love it!
Series finale = a different kind of heart-wrenching ending. It was so painful.
I just watched the ending part twice now, and I still can't imagine myself willing to let go of all those memories. It is what made who we are today. It defined our life. The decisions and directions we took. The love and relationships that gave us strength to push on despite the hardships in life.
Memories are everything.
Without those memories, then you become a totally different person. And for those people who still have their memories of you intact, it will be very hard for them when they see you. They will have to treat you as a person who got into an accident and had memory loss.
Familiar with real-life stories where a person loss memories before they met their spouse/bf/gf? It's not the person that finds it hard, it is those who remembers. If they choose to tell you the memories you've lost, that's the only time it will be harder for the person. Like in those real-life cases where they're already married. But if you're just bf/gf, you can still end it and have a fresh start… if you want to.
Wow. I thought this is going to be a simple, fun, influencer story. But noooooo… it's more than that! Got me hooked… on to episode 2.
I love the topics on s02e05 of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds.
It talked about family, relationships, love (most especially a mother's love), being true to ourselves, and [our] humanity. But for this post, I want to talk about [our] “humanity”.
I'm a Star Trek #TheNextGeneration batch where #Spock was more of a side-character in the Star Trek universe. You know, he's half-vulcan half-human. However, there was always this lingering question: What made Spock the way he is? What made Spock pro-human? What made Spock, who lives by the vulcan expectations and yet very human at the same time?
Season 02 episode 05 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds answered that. This was the pivotal moment when Spock understood his humanity. For some reason it was familiar, maybe it was mentioned on a movie, or I've read from a novel, but seeing this episode gave a lot of impact on the character “Spock”.
Spock is no longer just a half-vulcan half-human character. Spock is no longer just an icon for me. Suddenly, Spock is alive, a figure. A person who is the embodiment of two conflicting worlds yet was able to harmonise the two and lived the way no one else can.
Almost everyone looked down on him for being half-half. There were people who ridiculed him, made fun of him, shunned him. And yet, he became a better person than everyone, all because of this pivotal moment in his life.
To the point that, in the future, his experiences pushed him to champion the welcoming of the romulans back into the vulcan fold, as equals. As well as, to understand who they really are as the same race: vulcans.
S02E05 is, for me, the best episode of this season, and more likely the entire series. I will always remember this episode.
The episode where:
1. Spock embraced his humanity.
2. Humanity shone brighter than the stars.
3. That despite the many flaws in being a human, that maybe we are indeed inferior than the other races, it is our humanity that makes us the better race in the universe.
#LiveLongAndProsper #Earthlings #Humans
Yu Jin's strategy for the morning mission was so perfect, to the point that she's a scary opponent in the game. I didn't even think of doing it that way. LOL. Well done, Yu Jin! Very good thinking!
That was the most romantic, and longest, honeymoon TV scene I've ever seen.
I paused after it because I want to keep it in my mind forever. I'll go to work for now and continue watching later. ^_^
If there is one thing that I really, really, super, duper, admire with the FL, is that, she is strict with her rule that her current life is who she currently is.
I'm thinking nothing good comes out of telling people that s/he was their friend/lover/sibling/child/parent. A very valid reason. However, there is no fear in her that points to that.
Instead, it seems that she is keeping her past lives to herself, simply because she just wants to be who she currently is. Not the previous life, but the “now” life.
That is hard, especially in the rare cases wherein she is reincarnated too close to her previous life, like right now in her 19th life.
You obviously want to reconnect with the people you love in your previous life. But, you know deep inside that if you do, they wouldn't see you as you are now, rather, they will see you as your previous life. Which is… well… not you anymore, no matter how many emotions and good memories you might have had.
The FL is strict to the point that she ended up having hallucinations of reconnecting with her previous life mother and sister.
She only bent her own rule in her 19th life when she was a kid because of her dire situation. If she did not, she probably would've died again, or her 19th life ended up as her worst to date.
I don't think I will be able to hold myself the way s/he can if I were in her shoes. Knowing that much, I will not hold myself back to just performing as the “genius kid”, I will work my way around different aspects of society and use my knowledge to manipulate people, circumstances, and everything.
To the point that, in my next life, I already have a system to prove my next life, thus taking over the system I created with my next life. Eventually building my own empire. (For example, I'm the only one who knows 100 passwords.)
I wonder how long the FL can keep herself in check. I'm more interested in how she's going to handle her situation than any other part of the story.
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1. For someone who isn't interested in people and strangers, he sure has big ears for relationship updates. LMAO!
Yep. Get mad at him! He deserves it! All people like him don't deserve our love!
Here in the Philippines, we call it “hugot”. It literally means “pull”, but in this context, it translates to something like “deep source about something”. And this is what the Assembywoman was going through, the death of her son.
Let's be honest with ourselves here, it is NEVER right for children to die before their parents. Every religion believes that. Even those who don't believe in religion agrees.
That is the “hugot” of the Assemblywoman. It wasn't so much about neglect that is bothering her, it is because her only child died before her. She is just using their neglect and the budget as a way to channel all of it.
She was even willing to sacrifice her right foot because her “hugot” is so intense. Who wouldn't? Your child died before you. That will never ever be right.
So, again, it is very easy to hate her, but we have to understand where she is coming from.
> She experienced the worst thing any decent human being should never experience. <
And that brings us to:
They finally revealed why he is acting the way he acted. He had a very bad experience already. I don't think it has to do with his son (Season 2), it was probably something worse, where he was directly involved or someone he respected, or his junior.
Something happened in the past, they got sued to the ends of the earth, and someone who doesn't deserve to be sued probably lost their license and later committed suicide.
It probably changed Daddy Cha. He vowed to never let it happen again. So, today, we are seeing this version of him that even his daughter has never seen. He will protect the hospital and he will protect the doctors.
He did not even care about what Woo Jin did with his son. He did not even care about what Woo Jin to his senior. He judged Woo Jin based on his skills as a doctor, period.
That tells us that Daddy Cha is a reasonable person, and doesn't get himself involved in stupid politics like in Season 01 and Season 02.
We go back to what I already said before, Daddy Cha is the polar opposite of Master Kim. They have the same values and principles at the end of the day, they just differ on how they approach it, how they make decisions, and how they want to achieve their goals.
They are like the North and South Poles. One is moving counter-clockwise, the other clockwise. Polar opposites. But have the same goal and purpose in life.
Turn-off all the cameras! Hahahaha. A very hilarious episode.
Stop confessing! ROFL!!!!
Season 04 Episode 11 of Fringe featured the meeting of the two Agent Astrid Farnsworth, one an autistic and the other neurotypical.
This episode aired on 2012-02-04 and entitled “Making Angels”.
The autistic Agent Astrid Farnsworth came from the “Amber World” (the parallel world), and the NT Astrid is from the “Prime World” (our world basically).
The character is, I would say “basic” as far as portrayal of an autistic person. Some would say it's a stereotype. But I like her nonetheless because it was not exaggerated, and the focus was not on her autism instead it was about her many skills.
And in this episode, we saw through her that autistic people are humans too. That we have our own struggles, we do cry and feel emotions (contrary to the claims that we lack it), and we just want to live like everyone else.
The autistic Astrid was introduced in season 2 (2009–2010). The actress, Jasika Nicole, was praised for her performance of both the neurotypical and the autistic Agent Astrid.
How about you, what do you think of her character? How was the performance (specifically with autistic Astrid)?
