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iariaI liked the episode even though there were a bunch of things that didn't entirely work for me.
+ "You got me this outfit as a gift. And this face is my gift for you." - Gon. LOL! I love him so much.
The meeting between Gon/Tae-eul in 2016 was great. I loved him taking the hair-tie he's been carrying around and putting it on her wrist when she didn't have one. I loved him telling her that he likes it when she ties her hair back. I loved him confessing that he knew it was coming "but the moment that you don't recognise me still makes me sad." I liked him asking her to try to be friendlier next time they met. I loved him telling her - "whenever I'm with you I forget to keep count.", as always she is his weakness.
Overall I continue to adore this couple. The actors have done a great job selling their longing for each other.
+ The 1994 meeting between Gon and young Tae-eul was really cute. I loved that she clocked him as a kidnapper, heh.
+ I am amused that I had a few issues with the pacing of Gon/Tae-eul's relationship in the beginning and now at the end I find myself in the same place. I loved the twist of Tae-eul hugging Gon this time around but found myself thinking that they needed to have future!Gon visit past!Tae-eul a little more to make that hug believable. Because once when she was a child for a minute and then once four years ago for five minutes isn't enough for me to buy this big of a change. I do think that there is a good chance there were more visits from Gon because Tae-eul specifically mentions that his coat has many buttons which would be rather nonsensical unless perhaps there was another visit where he mentioned the diamonds button debacle.
I'm really interested in how this new version of reality played out differently. Gon only made a couple small changes (and Luna was predestined) but those were enough to change how Tae-eul saw him from the beginning. She hugged him. She's seen him unchanging throughout her life and thus there is no way her world could be flat. She must have believed him from the beginning. Would that belief change other things?
Finally I'd love to see that new version of the scene from Gon's point of view. To find Tae-eul only to have her seemingly know him and then hug him before he had the chance to do it himself was clearly a huge shock. He didn't even hug her back!
+ It really bothers me that Gon left Yeong behind with one order - protect Tae-eul - and then Yeong disappears for the episode, completely ignoring that order. WTF!? That is not Yeong. His entire purpose in life is Gon, and that would include protecting his heart. At the very least he does what Gon orders. Yeong refusing to let Tae-eul in to see unconscious Gon made sense even if it felt harsh. Yeong refusing Gon's order to protect her - knowing that Luna is out there and tried to kill Gon and is specifically targeting Tae-eul makes no sense! Honestly I was expecting him to have been following her all day from a distance (seen it before) and he'd show up at the end saving her from Luna. But nope, no show. It's actually kind of infuriating. There is no way Yeong would disregard something so important like this. No. I don't buy it. I am offended on Yeong's behalf that it would be written that way. This might be the biggest issue I've ever had with this show.
They did have that scene where Gon tells episode one Yeong to find Jung-hye but we saw Yeong doing that in the previous few episodes (which neatly explains what he was doing this whole time in Korea) but is not a viable reason for him not to be acting bodyguard to Tae-eul.
+ I'm bummed that Yeong didn't end up going with Gon into the past. I was so sure he was! It just made sense. The pieces were all there. Yeong always goes with Gon, following him into any battlefield. Yeong being a better fighter than Gon + how many men Lim had there that night. Ok-nam's surety that Gon and Yeong's relationship was fated. Boo. (Especially since it's not like he was doing anything in the present! SO annoyed.) Also did Gon not even consider taking Yeong and trying to save his father/prevent what happened all together?
+ Tae-eul confronting Luna (in a dark alley!) by herself was deeply foolish. Luna had already poisoned Gon and threatened to kill her! Yet Tae-eul instigates their confrontation, doesn't actually say anything to Luna (ceding control of their interaction to her) and then doesn't react when Luna rushes her. We know she's a fighter! We've seen over and over that she knows how to fight and take care of herself! I don't understand why the scene was written that way. If they wanted to have Luna stab Tae-eul there were so many ways they could have done it without making Tae-eul look dumb. Have Luna sneak up on Tae-eul, or pull out a gun and shoot her instead, or make it an actual fight. Why would she underestimate Luna so badly? I also was left wondering where Eun-sup was and why Tae-eul didn't have him as backup since he was the one who called her in? Both Unbreakable Swords failed hard this episode.
+ Oh, Luna. I was really hoping for better from her. Her compassion (kids, cats), disdain for Lim and connection to yo-yo kid all made me think that she would make a different choice. That she would move past her pain and jealousy and choose to be a better person. It was pretty chilling to see her go from laughing at Tae-eul's dad and Na-ri to her stabbing Tae-eul. And yet I do still feel for her.
+ Past Lim murdering his future self ā WTF!!! I did not see that coming! I am laughing so hard. It's honestly kind of delightful. Of course Lim is just that much of a self-absorbed asshole that he would kill himself (and not see it coming.) He was his own downfall. LOL forever. I guess he thought future him was actually a doppelganger? Does this mean that Lim is now dead and gone, and no longer a threat and if so what happened to his half of the flute?
Lim having to deal with himself - in all his arrogant megalomaniac bastard ways - was great. He had such contempt for himself, from both past and future versions. And past!Lim going crazy after the flute disintegrated and hacking at his alternate's dead body was rather yikes. Frankly that should have been his punishment, forced to spend eternity trapped with himself.
+ Ah, so this is closed loop time travel. Except also not. It's interesting that having gone in the past he can make changes that take effect concurrent to his true current time (fixed point?) when he makes them (ie. not retroactive) so people only remember those changes as he's making them. Him writing to Tae-eul in the phone booth "Wait for me a little longer. Iām almost there." and her watching it appear as he writes it was neat (also loved it as a ship moment.) So it all started as a closed loop but by interacting along the timeline instead of staying in the in-between Gon re-writes time. So not a branching timeline but re-writing the timeline. So if he went into the past again things could further diverge from what we watched while actually still being the same timeline. Because it's forever a closed loop. Hmm. It makes me really curious about what would happen if he'd made a massive change.
+ The whole flute controlling space and time, and Gon/Lim only being able to travel in time when they inadvertently used them at the same time makes sense to me. Lim's random revelation about Gon beforehand, not so much. It would have worked much better if we'd seen them sensing each other, racing to the entrance and only when he finds himself in the past does Lim understand the truth of that night. But whatever. Moving on.
+ "I also wanted to save myself and become whole." ā yo-yo kid is Manpasikjeok!!! That was a great reveal.
+ Gon hearing the flute, in the past as a child bringing him to the confrontation and then in the current time waking him from his hospital bed to return to the past, is interesting. Is it because he is the rightful king and owner of the flute?
+ Jeong/Gon were wonderful ignoring that one thing. "You come first." ā„. I loved him begging Gon to "please hang in there" and looking at his bloody hand. I loved his relief when Gon woke. I loved that Gon knew, without any condemnation, that "You were probably mean to Tae-eul", heh. I wish we'd seen some further Gon/Yeong in the past scenes.
+ I loved the detail of Tae-eul having the flowers Gon gave her hanging to dry in her bedroom.
+ I knew Seong-hoon was involved with Lim! I guess him being found at the palace shot was enough for Bu-yeong (and others) to suspect he had something to do with Lim, but perhaps he insisted they shot him and there was no proof either way. Despite Gon's earlier coldness towards Seong-hoon he seemed genuinely surprised to have confirmation of Seong-hoon's guilt which makes me think he took his attitude towards him from Bu-yeong.
+ Eun-sup got his own iron man mask aww. I like to think that Gon left it in the passenger seat of the new car.
+ I'm pleased that Gon had the sense to hide the flute instead of keeping it on him. Smart.
+ Seo-ryung coming up with a code to be sure of her mother's well being was smart and exactly why I like her. Her deciding that she wanted the flute, and it's powers, for herself makes complete sense.
+ Tae-eul's picture landing on the seeds she planted - from Lim's gate to Gon's gate - and dissolving to cause the flowers to grow was... weird. I do not get the logic here.
+ Lim having pictures throughout his space of the in-between is interesting. I wonder what his purpose with them was.
+ I was so confused by the pregnant doppelganger switch last episode but how this played out makes so much sense. Why have a random Korean woman who is likely to be discovered as a pawn when you can have the real person who feels genuinely loyalty to you?
+ "You got me this outfit as a gift. And this face is my gift for you." - Gon. LOL! I love him so much.
The meeting between Gon/Tae-eul in 2016 was great. I loved him taking the hair-tie he's been carrying around and putting it on her wrist when she didn't have one. I loved him telling her that he likes it when she ties her hair back. I loved him confessing that he knew it was coming "but the moment that you don't recognise me still makes me sad." I liked him asking her to try to be friendlier next time they met. I loved him telling her - "whenever I'm with you I forget to keep count.", as always she is his weakness.
Overall I continue to adore this couple. The actors have done a great job selling their longing for each other.
+ The 1994 meeting between Gon and young Tae-eul was really cute. I loved that she clocked him as a kidnapper, heh.
+ I am amused that I had a few issues with the pacing of Gon/Tae-eul's relationship in the beginning and now at the end I find myself in the same place. I loved the twist of Tae-eul hugging Gon this time around but found myself thinking that they needed to have future!Gon visit past!Tae-eul a little more to make that hug believable. Because once when she was a child for a minute and then once four years ago for five minutes isn't enough for me to buy this big of a change. I do think that there is a good chance there were more visits from Gon because Tae-eul specifically mentions that his coat has many buttons which would be rather nonsensical unless perhaps there was another visit where he mentioned the diamonds button debacle.
I'm really interested in how this new version of reality played out differently. Gon only made a couple small changes (and Luna was predestined) but those were enough to change how Tae-eul saw him from the beginning. She hugged him. She's seen him unchanging throughout her life and thus there is no way her world could be flat. She must have believed him from the beginning. Would that belief change other things?
Finally I'd love to see that new version of the scene from Gon's point of view. To find Tae-eul only to have her seemingly know him and then hug him before he had the chance to do it himself was clearly a huge shock. He didn't even hug her back!
+ It really bothers me that Gon left Yeong behind with one order - protect Tae-eul - and then Yeong disappears for the episode, completely ignoring that order. WTF!? That is not Yeong. His entire purpose in life is Gon, and that would include protecting his heart. At the very least he does what Gon orders. Yeong refusing to let Tae-eul in to see unconscious Gon made sense even if it felt harsh. Yeong refusing Gon's order to protect her - knowing that Luna is out there and tried to kill Gon and is specifically targeting Tae-eul makes no sense! Honestly I was expecting him to have been following her all day from a distance (seen it before) and he'd show up at the end saving her from Luna. But nope, no show. It's actually kind of infuriating. There is no way Yeong would disregard something so important like this. No. I don't buy it. I am offended on Yeong's behalf that it would be written that way. This might be the biggest issue I've ever had with this show.
They did have that scene where Gon tells episode one Yeong to find Jung-hye but we saw Yeong doing that in the previous few episodes (which neatly explains what he was doing this whole time in Korea) but is not a viable reason for him not to be acting bodyguard to Tae-eul.
+ I'm bummed that Yeong didn't end up going with Gon into the past. I was so sure he was! It just made sense. The pieces were all there. Yeong always goes with Gon, following him into any battlefield. Yeong being a better fighter than Gon + how many men Lim had there that night. Ok-nam's surety that Gon and Yeong's relationship was fated. Boo. (Especially since it's not like he was doing anything in the present! SO annoyed.) Also did Gon not even consider taking Yeong and trying to save his father/prevent what happened all together?
+ Tae-eul confronting Luna (in a dark alley!) by herself was deeply foolish. Luna had already poisoned Gon and threatened to kill her! Yet Tae-eul instigates their confrontation, doesn't actually say anything to Luna (ceding control of their interaction to her) and then doesn't react when Luna rushes her. We know she's a fighter! We've seen over and over that she knows how to fight and take care of herself! I don't understand why the scene was written that way. If they wanted to have Luna stab Tae-eul there were so many ways they could have done it without making Tae-eul look dumb. Have Luna sneak up on Tae-eul, or pull out a gun and shoot her instead, or make it an actual fight. Why would she underestimate Luna so badly? I also was left wondering where Eun-sup was and why Tae-eul didn't have him as backup since he was the one who called her in? Both Unbreakable Swords failed hard this episode.
+ Oh, Luna. I was really hoping for better from her. Her compassion (kids, cats), disdain for Lim and connection to yo-yo kid all made me think that she would make a different choice. That she would move past her pain and jealousy and choose to be a better person. It was pretty chilling to see her go from laughing at Tae-eul's dad and Na-ri to her stabbing Tae-eul. And yet I do still feel for her.
+ Past Lim murdering his future self ā WTF!!! I did not see that coming! I am laughing so hard. It's honestly kind of delightful. Of course Lim is just that much of a self-absorbed asshole that he would kill himself (and not see it coming.) He was his own downfall. LOL forever. I guess he thought future him was actually a doppelganger? Does this mean that Lim is now dead and gone, and no longer a threat and if so what happened to his half of the flute?
Lim having to deal with himself - in all his arrogant megalomaniac bastard ways - was great. He had such contempt for himself, from both past and future versions. And past!Lim going crazy after the flute disintegrated and hacking at his alternate's dead body was rather yikes. Frankly that should have been his punishment, forced to spend eternity trapped with himself.
+ Ah, so this is closed loop time travel. Except also not. It's interesting that having gone in the past he can make changes that take effect concurrent to his true current time (fixed point?) when he makes them (ie. not retroactive) so people only remember those changes as he's making them. Him writing to Tae-eul in the phone booth "Wait for me a little longer. Iām almost there." and her watching it appear as he writes it was neat (also loved it as a ship moment.) So it all started as a closed loop but by interacting along the timeline instead of staying in the in-between Gon re-writes time. So not a branching timeline but re-writing the timeline. So if he went into the past again things could further diverge from what we watched while actually still being the same timeline. Because it's forever a closed loop. Hmm. It makes me really curious about what would happen if he'd made a massive change.
+ The whole flute controlling space and time, and Gon/Lim only being able to travel in time when they inadvertently used them at the same time makes sense to me. Lim's random revelation about Gon beforehand, not so much. It would have worked much better if we'd seen them sensing each other, racing to the entrance and only when he finds himself in the past does Lim understand the truth of that night. But whatever. Moving on.
+ "I also wanted to save myself and become whole." ā yo-yo kid is Manpasikjeok!!! That was a great reveal.
+ Gon hearing the flute, in the past as a child bringing him to the confrontation and then in the current time waking him from his hospital bed to return to the past, is interesting. Is it because he is the rightful king and owner of the flute?
+ Jeong/Gon were wonderful ignoring that one thing. "You come first." ā„. I loved him begging Gon to "please hang in there" and looking at his bloody hand. I loved his relief when Gon woke. I loved that Gon knew, without any condemnation, that "You were probably mean to Tae-eul", heh. I wish we'd seen some further Gon/Yeong in the past scenes.
+ I loved the detail of Tae-eul having the flowers Gon gave her hanging to dry in her bedroom.
+ I knew Seong-hoon was involved with Lim! I guess him being found at the palace shot was enough for Bu-yeong (and others) to suspect he had something to do with Lim, but perhaps he insisted they shot him and there was no proof either way. Despite Gon's earlier coldness towards Seong-hoon he seemed genuinely surprised to have confirmation of Seong-hoon's guilt which makes me think he took his attitude towards him from Bu-yeong.
+ Eun-sup got his own iron man mask aww. I like to think that Gon left it in the passenger seat of the new car.
+ I'm pleased that Gon had the sense to hide the flute instead of keeping it on him. Smart.
+ Seo-ryung coming up with a code to be sure of her mother's well being was smart and exactly why I like her. Her deciding that she wanted the flute, and it's powers, for herself makes complete sense.
+ Tae-eul's picture landing on the seeds she planted - from Lim's gate to Gon's gate - and dissolving to cause the flowers to grow was... weird. I do not get the logic here.
+ Lim having pictures throughout his space of the in-between is interesting. I wonder what his purpose with them was.
+ I was so confused by the pregnant doppelganger switch last episode but how this played out makes so much sense. Why have a random Korean woman who is likely to be discovered as a pawn when you can have the real person who feels genuinely loyalty to you?
