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+ I was really surprised, and honestly a tiny bit disappointed, that Ji Ah being the reincarnation of Ah Eum was revealed so soon. Not that I thought there was any chance she wasn't but I was sure the truth would have been dragged out much longer, and I kind of feel like it should have been? It would have been nice if Ji Ah and Yeon's current relationship and feelings for each other had had a little more time to build before they reached this point. Yeon crossing a hell to save Ji Ah and her weeping over his body after he does were great but also would have hit better if it had happened after a couple more episodes of the two of them falling in love. Ji Ah being flirty with Yeon was cute, Ji Ah breaking down at him maybe dying - eh. It felt too quick.
+ Yeon shushing Taluipa (her expression lol) and getting all nervous when Ji Ah called to invite him to dinner was very cute.
+ I'm side-eyeing the show slightly over Ji Ah's helpless panic with the ghost children, needing to be saved and then ending the episode crying. I think all the pieces are fine on their own, I guess, but if she starts crying all the time or being randomly helpless I am not going to be happy!
+ The ghost kids were creepy and I thought the episode did well in showing Ji Ah's growing terror but at the same time I didn't buy how helpless she was. She's very smart and has to know at least some basics on ghosts from research for her show. That she had no plan on dealing with the ghosts but just ran in terror, that she hid in a building (they're ghosts!) and then ran up to the roof - nah, not buying it. At the very least you'd think she'd go to the store to try and replicate the talisman Yeon made for her.
+ I felt for Rang during the flashback even though he had just killed off a village. Between his overwhelming relief and joy at seeing Yeon alive, the weirdly childish way he talked about killing the humans, the way he didn't seem to comprehend what Yeon was saying re: his sentence and then the betrayal when Yeon attacked him my heart hurt for him.
+ Yeon really seems far too unregretful considering how damaging his choices were for Rang. He was sad but really seems to lack any sense of person responsibility. I feel like he doesn't really understand Rang's point of view.
+ It seems very unlikely that Yeon conveniently missed all of Rang's vital organs or that he'd leave him lying there alive if he actually meant for Rang to be dead. He purposefully didn't kill him.
+ "I learned that a male with a big inferiority complex is like a time bomb." LOL. I love Ji Ah. I love that she says she is afraid of Rang and then immediately follows it with this. She's not wrong!
+ I find it really strange that Yeon didn't think to go check out the well that the shaman tried to sacrifice Ji Ah to the night before. Ji Ah too, but especially Yeon. There is a very obvious path of clues laid out in front of him - one of them quite literally a path! They could have had him find nothing but he should have at least gone there to check and it really bothers me that he didn't.
+ Hyun Eui-ong's recounting of his 'courtship' with Taluipa was certainly very mythological sounding which I guess is appropriate but at the same time hard yikes.
+ I was really surprised, and honestly a tiny bit disappointed, that Ji Ah being the reincarnation of Ah Eum was revealed so soon. Not that I thought there was any chance she wasn't but I was sure the truth would have been dragged out much longer, and I kind of feel like it should have been? It would have been nice if Ji Ah and Yeon's current relationship and feelings for each other had had a little more time to build before they reached this point. Yeon crossing a hell to save Ji Ah and her weeping over his body after he does were great but also would have hit better if it had happened after a couple more episodes of the two of them falling in love. Ji Ah being flirty with Yeon was cute, Ji Ah breaking down at him maybe dying - eh. It felt too quick.
+ Yeon shushing Taluipa (her expression lol) and getting all nervous when Ji Ah called to invite him to dinner was very cute.
+ I'm side-eyeing the show slightly over Ji Ah's helpless panic with the ghost children, needing to be saved and then ending the episode crying. I think all the pieces are fine on their own, I guess, but if she starts crying all the time or being randomly helpless I am not going to be happy!
+ The ghost kids were creepy and I thought the episode did well in showing Ji Ah's growing terror but at the same time I didn't buy how helpless she was. She's very smart and has to know at least some basics on ghosts from research for her show. That she had no plan on dealing with the ghosts but just ran in terror, that she hid in a building (they're ghosts!) and then ran up to the roof - nah, not buying it. At the very least you'd think she'd go to the store to try and replicate the talisman Yeon made for her.
+ I felt for Rang during the flashback even though he had just killed off a village. Between his overwhelming relief and joy at seeing Yeon alive, the weirdly childish way he talked about killing the humans, the way he didn't seem to comprehend what Yeon was saying re: his sentence and then the betrayal when Yeon attacked him my heart hurt for him.
+ Yeon really seems far too unregretful considering how damaging his choices were for Rang. He was sad but really seems to lack any sense of person responsibility. I feel like he doesn't really understand Rang's point of view.
+ It seems very unlikely that Yeon conveniently missed all of Rang's vital organs or that he'd leave him lying there alive if he actually meant for Rang to be dead. He purposefully didn't kill him.
+ "I learned that a male with a big inferiority complex is like a time bomb." LOL. I love Ji Ah. I love that she says she is afraid of Rang and then immediately follows it with this. She's not wrong!
+ I find it really strange that Yeon didn't think to go check out the well that the shaman tried to sacrifice Ji Ah to the night before. Ji Ah too, but especially Yeon. There is a very obvious path of clues laid out in front of him - one of them quite literally a path! They could have had him find nothing but he should have at least gone there to check and it really bothers me that he didn't.
+ Hyun Eui-ong's recounting of his 'courtship' with Taluipa was certainly very mythological sounding which I guess is appropriate but at the same time hard yikes.
