Signal Episode 16 Thoughts
May. 9th, 2023 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaWhat kind of ending was that?! In any case I enjoyed this series. Even though it's been 7 years now I'm going to hold out hope for the second season this episode was clearly setting up.
+ Firstly, I am so glad that Jae-han ended the show alive because I had this growing worry over the course of the show that it was going to end with him dead. Yay for that. But second, what the hell?! I'm kind of mad at Jae-han (and his dad) for keeping Soo-hyun in the dark all this time! Did she continue to visit his dad during this disappearance as she did the previous? Jae-han had to know that he could trust her so this has to be about protecting her and that's just annoying. He's not wrong that the more people know the more likely it is to get out but still. Bad Jae-han.
+ I am very sad that we didn't once get all three mains together at the same time! Boo.
+ I love the idea that Jae-han is in contact with the future again. I was excited by Hae-young's theory and pleased it proved true. I assume the main thrust is about taking down Senator Jang. Personally I'd love for it to be Hae-young in the future again. How wild would that be!
+ I was very pleased that Soo-hyun remembered the previous timeline even though in the new one she never met Hae-young and that the two of them ended the series together again.
+ I loved the confusing back and forth over the text message and it's similarity to the walkie-talkie warning - a warning to keep them away so they don't repeat that mistake, or a warning they'd understand to mean come immediately. Fun.
+ Everything about Hae-young/Jae-han was absolutely wonderful. Hae-young's musing that even though he'd never met him before he "might meet his closest friend" gave me all the feels. Him then musing how Jae-han taught him that 'it will work out if you don't give up' made me aww. I loved his relief and smile when he didn't find an unclaimed body matching Jae-han.
Jae-han realising he couldn't get to the Senator in his time and thus 'sending' proof to the person he trusted most and making Hae-young his last hope was sweetly bittersweet, as was his last letter to Hae-young.
+ Jae-han's unwavering determination and unwillingness to ever give up resulting in actually finding the scarf was excellent. And then he found Bum-joo and got the evidence against the Senator and managed to escape the Senator's goons and stay hidden from him for 15 years. He's the best.
+ I love that Hae-young is very much on level with Jae-han. Him figuring out how Jae-han would try to communicate with him and then using that to track down where Jae-han had been was great.
+ I found it satisfying that Jae-han survived that night because he reached out to the other cops and called in backup - and they were there for him. After a full season of him, and Hae-young, being uncertain who they could trust, and being betrayed by others' corruption, it was nice to see Jae-han's team have his back and run in to the rescue.
Which makes it rather of frustrating that when he did track down Bum-joo he was back to working alone instead of bringing back-up. If he'd had a team with him it would have all gone differently. And yes going after the Senator is bigger stakes and he likely has other cops working for him but still.
+ One of my biggest disappointments is how the show missed such an obvious and perfect set up of Soo-hyun leading the other cops to save Jae-han. How very dare they? Of course it should have been her! Who else would he trust implicitly to be on his side? Who else deserves to swoop in like a hero to save him? After everything she went through and her staunch unwavering support of him. Plus not letting her be the kickass saving him after all the times spent being saved by him leaves a bit of a sexist sour taste in my mouth.
+ I also found it satisfying that Sun-woo's unconscious spasm is what caused there to be evidence of his murder and evidence leading Jae-han to the scarf and his exoneration.
+ Poor Chi-soo. I was really pulling for him to get himself out of the corruption mess he was in. Seeing him fight back against Jae-han's murder, and that he was the reason Jae-han even got away to the forest, made me hopeful and want so much for him to make a different choice. In the end he still pulled the gun on Jae-han but I'm still sad that he went down as a corrupted cop instead of redeeming himself. Still not living with the guilt of murdering Jae-han and no longer having to do corrupt stuff at Bum-joo's behest was probably a net positive in his life.
+ Jae-han waiting for his walkie-talkie to work again, waiting to talk to Hae-young, made me sad.
+ I found it strange that Hae-young didn't seem to remember the changes that affected his own life at first.
+ I got the whole time-loop situation wrong, it was a closed one instead of open, which honestly I'm slightly disappointed in lol.
+ The Senator sending in an entire gang of black suited men to find Jae-han made me roll my eyes. Oh, yes that's subtle!
+ Firstly, I am so glad that Jae-han ended the show alive because I had this growing worry over the course of the show that it was going to end with him dead. Yay for that. But second, what the hell?! I'm kind of mad at Jae-han (and his dad) for keeping Soo-hyun in the dark all this time! Did she continue to visit his dad during this disappearance as she did the previous? Jae-han had to know that he could trust her so this has to be about protecting her and that's just annoying. He's not wrong that the more people know the more likely it is to get out but still. Bad Jae-han.
+ I am very sad that we didn't once get all three mains together at the same time! Boo.
+ I love the idea that Jae-han is in contact with the future again. I was excited by Hae-young's theory and pleased it proved true. I assume the main thrust is about taking down Senator Jang. Personally I'd love for it to be Hae-young in the future again. How wild would that be!
+ I was very pleased that Soo-hyun remembered the previous timeline even though in the new one she never met Hae-young and that the two of them ended the series together again.
+ I loved the confusing back and forth over the text message and it's similarity to the walkie-talkie warning - a warning to keep them away so they don't repeat that mistake, or a warning they'd understand to mean come immediately. Fun.
+ Everything about Hae-young/Jae-han was absolutely wonderful. Hae-young's musing that even though he'd never met him before he "might meet his closest friend" gave me all the feels. Him then musing how Jae-han taught him that 'it will work out if you don't give up' made me aww. I loved his relief and smile when he didn't find an unclaimed body matching Jae-han.
Jae-han realising he couldn't get to the Senator in his time and thus 'sending' proof to the person he trusted most and making Hae-young his last hope was sweetly bittersweet, as was his last letter to Hae-young.
+ Jae-han's unwavering determination and unwillingness to ever give up resulting in actually finding the scarf was excellent. And then he found Bum-joo and got the evidence against the Senator and managed to escape the Senator's goons and stay hidden from him for 15 years. He's the best.
+ I love that Hae-young is very much on level with Jae-han. Him figuring out how Jae-han would try to communicate with him and then using that to track down where Jae-han had been was great.
+ I found it satisfying that Jae-han survived that night because he reached out to the other cops and called in backup - and they were there for him. After a full season of him, and Hae-young, being uncertain who they could trust, and being betrayed by others' corruption, it was nice to see Jae-han's team have his back and run in to the rescue.
Which makes it rather of frustrating that when he did track down Bum-joo he was back to working alone instead of bringing back-up. If he'd had a team with him it would have all gone differently. And yes going after the Senator is bigger stakes and he likely has other cops working for him but still.
+ One of my biggest disappointments is how the show missed such an obvious and perfect set up of Soo-hyun leading the other cops to save Jae-han. How very dare they? Of course it should have been her! Who else would he trust implicitly to be on his side? Who else deserves to swoop in like a hero to save him? After everything she went through and her staunch unwavering support of him. Plus not letting her be the kickass saving him after all the times spent being saved by him leaves a bit of a sexist sour taste in my mouth.
+ I also found it satisfying that Sun-woo's unconscious spasm is what caused there to be evidence of his murder and evidence leading Jae-han to the scarf and his exoneration.
+ Poor Chi-soo. I was really pulling for him to get himself out of the corruption mess he was in. Seeing him fight back against Jae-han's murder, and that he was the reason Jae-han even got away to the forest, made me hopeful and want so much for him to make a different choice. In the end he still pulled the gun on Jae-han but I'm still sad that he went down as a corrupted cop instead of redeeming himself. Still not living with the guilt of murdering Jae-han and no longer having to do corrupt stuff at Bum-joo's behest was probably a net positive in his life.
+ Jae-han waiting for his walkie-talkie to work again, waiting to talk to Hae-young, made me sad.
+ I found it strange that Hae-young didn't seem to remember the changes that affected his own life at first.
+ I got the whole time-loop situation wrong, it was a closed one instead of open, which honestly I'm slightly disappointed in lol.
+ The Senator sending in an entire gang of black suited men to find Jae-han made me roll my eyes. Oh, yes that's subtle!
