Signal Episodes 5 - 7 Thoughts
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iariaWow, the unintended consequences here were painful.
+ It's like this world is determined to hurt Jae-han as much as possible, poor guy. I thought Won-kyung would be the great tragedy in his life but the show had to one-up it.
+ Jae-han taking Eun-ji in for four years after putting her father away for theft is such a wonderful thing to do and very Jae-han, and I loved the little family group it created between the three afterwards. We didn't get to see near enough of them but what we did was very lovely. The love both men had for Eun-ji, the friendship between them even if behind it was still the tension of cop/criminal. The alley confrontation was super painful because it so obviously hurt all of them. Jae-han having all his worst fears confirmed and agonising over it, Kyung-tae hurt that Jae-han doesn't believe him, Eun-ji's hurt and despair that her beloved uncle wouldn't believe her dad or her and was going to take her dad away again.
+ I feel so bad for Eun-ji and Kyung-tae whose lives were completely ruined for such a selfish stupid reason. Like Jae-han I want to go back to where the burglary case is unsolved and Eun-ji survived. I can't help but wonder what Eun-ji's life was like in the pre-call reality. What did she become? Did she have kids? Were she and Jae-han still close? Did the three of them have family dinners? Did she know Soo-hyun?
+ I was kind of hoping that Jae-han and Kyung-tae would talk during their car ride and Jae-han would conclude that he believed him and promising that he'd help him and them actually having made up and reach an understanding before everything went to hell.
+ After Soo-hyun was killed I was desperately hoping for an additional new layer of time fuckery such as Hae-young contacting Jae-han the day after the events and being able to head it all off.
+ I like the similarities being drawn between Hae-young and Jae-han, especially how both fight against the corrupt hierarchies in not just the police but also how that intersects with politics/business and classism and the frustrating realities that money often equals rightness, and the anger and despair it causes in them and yet how they keep fighting. I feel like Hae-young in a world without his brother's death would have been a lot more earnest and trusting like Jae-han was in the beginning. Of course the negative side of this is how neither of them plays the politics game, how neither is willing to duck down and ignore injustice and are vocal about their disdain for those that do, or try and compel it.
+ I love how Hae-young keeps inspiring Jae-han to keep fighting.
+ Soo-hyun's death was a shock. I never believed though that there was a chance that she was permanently dead, see: time travel. I thought the consequences in 2015 afterwards were well played.
+ Soo-hyun's crush was cute especially in contrast to her current demeanour. Loved the scene of her bring him his preferred drink and then putting the happy face sticker on his lucky walkie-talkie.
+ It wasn't smart but Jae-han not only not backing down to Kim Bum-ja, his new captain, but also getting in his face about him being a lackey and then assuring him he 'will absolutely run out of control' was very satisfying to watch.
+ I can't entirely blame Kyung-tae for aiming his rage at Yeo-jin's father but at the same time I don't blame Yeo-jin's father. Hae-young is right that Kyung-tae would have done the same thing, most people would. He chose his daughter to live over a stranger. And he wasn't even being entirely selfish he helped others out of the wreckage while waiting for help. Hae-young wasn't wrong also that Kyung-tae was directing his anger at the wrong people. If he had to kill someone it should have absolutely been Se-kyu instead of contributing to the entire tragedy of this whole situation. Poor Yeo-jin and her family, yet ore collateral damage.
+ The bridge collapse situation was weird. It felt like it only happened after the call but even more than the burglary situation how makes no sense. How could that little of a change cause a bridge collapse when there wasn't before? We're not talking about a large time period here. Perhaps the collapse always happened but previously it was simply completely unconnected to Jae-han or any case so it wasn't brought up?
+ An issue: in the pre-call timeline the case was unsolved. Except Se-kyu set off events by naming Kyung-tae as the thief during the routine interview with the police. Wouldn't that have happened basically the same in the original timeline? How did what they changed cause that?
+ I'm having two issues with the background cops. 1) I can't believe that all the police are always willing to toe the line. At the very least there has to be a bunch who silently agree with Jae-han and it'd be nice to see hints of that. 2) I know the number of women in the Japanese police are low but it would be nice to see a couple more in 2015.
+ It's like this world is determined to hurt Jae-han as much as possible, poor guy. I thought Won-kyung would be the great tragedy in his life but the show had to one-up it.
+ Jae-han taking Eun-ji in for four years after putting her father away for theft is such a wonderful thing to do and very Jae-han, and I loved the little family group it created between the three afterwards. We didn't get to see near enough of them but what we did was very lovely. The love both men had for Eun-ji, the friendship between them even if behind it was still the tension of cop/criminal. The alley confrontation was super painful because it so obviously hurt all of them. Jae-han having all his worst fears confirmed and agonising over it, Kyung-tae hurt that Jae-han doesn't believe him, Eun-ji's hurt and despair that her beloved uncle wouldn't believe her dad or her and was going to take her dad away again.
+ I feel so bad for Eun-ji and Kyung-tae whose lives were completely ruined for such a selfish stupid reason. Like Jae-han I want to go back to where the burglary case is unsolved and Eun-ji survived. I can't help but wonder what Eun-ji's life was like in the pre-call reality. What did she become? Did she have kids? Were she and Jae-han still close? Did the three of them have family dinners? Did she know Soo-hyun?
+ I was kind of hoping that Jae-han and Kyung-tae would talk during their car ride and Jae-han would conclude that he believed him and promising that he'd help him and them actually having made up and reach an understanding before everything went to hell.
+ After Soo-hyun was killed I was desperately hoping for an additional new layer of time fuckery such as Hae-young contacting Jae-han the day after the events and being able to head it all off.
+ I like the similarities being drawn between Hae-young and Jae-han, especially how both fight against the corrupt hierarchies in not just the police but also how that intersects with politics/business and classism and the frustrating realities that money often equals rightness, and the anger and despair it causes in them and yet how they keep fighting. I feel like Hae-young in a world without his brother's death would have been a lot more earnest and trusting like Jae-han was in the beginning. Of course the negative side of this is how neither of them plays the politics game, how neither is willing to duck down and ignore injustice and are vocal about their disdain for those that do, or try and compel it.
+ I love how Hae-young keeps inspiring Jae-han to keep fighting.
+ Soo-hyun's death was a shock. I never believed though that there was a chance that she was permanently dead, see: time travel. I thought the consequences in 2015 afterwards were well played.
+ Soo-hyun's crush was cute especially in contrast to her current demeanour. Loved the scene of her bring him his preferred drink and then putting the happy face sticker on his lucky walkie-talkie.
+ It wasn't smart but Jae-han not only not backing down to Kim Bum-ja, his new captain, but also getting in his face about him being a lackey and then assuring him he 'will absolutely run out of control' was very satisfying to watch.
+ I can't entirely blame Kyung-tae for aiming his rage at Yeo-jin's father but at the same time I don't blame Yeo-jin's father. Hae-young is right that Kyung-tae would have done the same thing, most people would. He chose his daughter to live over a stranger. And he wasn't even being entirely selfish he helped others out of the wreckage while waiting for help. Hae-young wasn't wrong also that Kyung-tae was directing his anger at the wrong people. If he had to kill someone it should have absolutely been Se-kyu instead of contributing to the entire tragedy of this whole situation. Poor Yeo-jin and her family, yet ore collateral damage.
+ The bridge collapse situation was weird. It felt like it only happened after the call but even more than the burglary situation how makes no sense. How could that little of a change cause a bridge collapse when there wasn't before? We're not talking about a large time period here. Perhaps the collapse always happened but previously it was simply completely unconnected to Jae-han or any case so it wasn't brought up?
+ An issue: in the pre-call timeline the case was unsolved. Except Se-kyu set off events by naming Kyung-tae as the thief during the routine interview with the police. Wouldn't that have happened basically the same in the original timeline? How did what they changed cause that?
+ I'm having two issues with the background cops. 1) I can't believe that all the police are always willing to toe the line. At the very least there has to be a bunch who silently agree with Jae-han and it'd be nice to see hints of that. 2) I know the number of women in the Japanese police are low but it would be nice to see a couple more in 2015.
