I’m on a #kdrama pilgrimage today, visiting the noodle shop from Nevertheless and most importantly, the railway crossing from #MyMister, a leading character in the show. This is a super cute and trendy area with upscale cafés and restaurants side by side with very old and tiny houses and businesses.

@EllenInEdmonton Hmm, I should pick Nevertheless back up. Just looked like it was going places that hurt last time

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I really liked Nevertheless and I recently rewatched it. It approaches relationships a lot differently than most k-dramas. More realistic, in my opinion. And the Art School environment was interesting.
@EllenInEdmonton Yes, only 1.5 eps in but that's the vibe I'm getting. Also why it is a bit scary as it's unpredictable. Quite high, but fragile, tension already.
@joakimfors
Agreed. A lot of folks have pointed out that you are only inside her head for the show. Personally, I find his character super interesting. And attractive, obviously. Song Kang has taken on a pretty wide range of characters in his work and he nails them all. It was amazing that Sweet Home (especially season 2) was just appallingly bad but any scene that included him just glowed. Excited for his military service to be completed.
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@EllenInEdmonton @joakimfors I enjoyed the Japanese version of Nevertheless, too.
@JillsJoy @EllenInEdmonton @joakimfors I liked the Japanese version for the styling; scenery, clothes etc was all amazing. Story wise the #kdrama wins for me. I liked how rounded the characters were, and eg. how the ML always asked for consent etc while everyone was messing up just like you do at that age.

@mel @JillsJoy @EllenInEdmonton Even though there is tension it's still very relaxed and free from the most formulaic stuff. Nice. Nabi is just stuck in her own preconceptions/trauma/societal expectations.

I'm actually a bit more interested in the Sol/Ji Wan ship as that is a lot more complicated/sensitive.

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Nabi falling asleep while camping… just accept that you're 2ML bro.  

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Rolling up in the PPL Maserati you just received as you do. Turning up the pressure. Awkward bro roadtrip to the fairs.  

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Everything and everyone blowing up now.  

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BTW Bit Na (Hye Ji) looks like STAYC Yoon

Sol/Ji Wan 😭 화이팅

… aaand 🦋 cliffhanger

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IJBOL, said Bit Na looks like STAYC Yoon and now she’s in a bar where ASAP is playing in the background   

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Seol Ah always causing trouble. At least JiSol is on the right track.

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Bit Na is a riot. The desperation.  

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… well that's one ship hoisting sails. A few more to go. Some people better hurry t f up to get their stuff in order, only 1 ep to go.

… starting to recognize this city wall.

… yellow umbrella time?!

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YES! ☔

Well… ok then.  

Writer-nims causing trouble again. Suspect ep 10 is going to be complicated.

… haven't seen Mr White Truck yet either.  

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Yes, Jae Eon, you should have listened to Gyu Hyeon and stopped playing.

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Hmm, is JiSol confirmed sailing too?

… and Bit Na is D E D HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Confirmed, JiSol is the cutest… BitHyeon not far behind. Needed those couples to hold the angst team at bay.  

A bit curious if KPam and KJim in the KOffice are going anywhere too.

The sculpture got hit by the ghost of the white truck.

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Seems like Mr Noodle is back in the friend zone. KPam&KJim are basically married, just that no one has told them yet.

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Well, everything is sailing.

Would have liked the ending resolved just a tiny bit differently. Felt the later part of the drama was carried by the other couples.

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@joakimfors Yes. I'm not fond of the #Kdrama custom of waiting until the last 5 minutes of the final episode to put couples back together. It isn't very satisfying. But I loved their teamwork completing her final project.

@EllenInEdmonton Yeah, it's quite lazy. A lot of the time preceded by some unnecessarily dramatic trivial misunderstanding just to stretch the episodes.

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Pinging in @mel as I understood they have thoughts on the complete show

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Aaaanywhooo, after having slept on this and digested it a bit my crazy wild delulu theory is that the real main leads are Sol and Ji Wan. Nabi and Jae Eon are just a really elaborate cover to get past the censors/prejudice. 1/n

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@EllenInEdmonton @mel

They went wild and free with the initial decoy mains to make room for the more "controversial" actual main couple. When the audience has been lulled into a false sense of security in the first half the fake mains get a generic storyline and the actual story can develop beautifully.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.  2/2 (?)

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@EllenInEdmonton @mel IJBOL, reading the intertubes it seems like I'm far from the only one with the same observations. Damn, this* ship has a huge fanclub.  

*) SolJiwan

@joakimfors @EllenInEdmonton Ha! My main point was that a lot of peeps say that the main OTP relationship is toxic, where to me it seems like something that happens a lot nowadays, eg. a fear of labeling what you have, trying to be poly (which is different than one-sided wanting to be 'free' as in this one) and other experimenting, and where the ML here at least is very open about what he wants and she can stop it anytime. (All newer to Korea than EU of course!)
@mel @EllenInEdmonton Agreed. Though I don't know about the open/poly stuff. It was perhaps implied but more as a misdirection than confirmed. I didn't find it toxic, just frustrating but in an understandable way. At least in the first half. Where it fell apart was when they abandoned the somewhat unique story line of the main couple and did the love tringle with childhood friend trope. I felt the writers had enough setup to explore the insecurities and hangups of the mains as is
@joakimfors @EllenInEdmonton 💯 yes! However, the tension while playing that game on the field trip was worth bringing in an old flame, hahaha
@mel @EllenInEdmonton Haha, yes, that whole setup was really explosive. At least we got a JiSol confession (setup) out of it.
@mel @EllenInEdmonton It's OK to throw in a 2ML to spice things up if it's done well but dragging it out is just frustrating.
@joakimfors @EllenInEdmonton yes, it was. Just like the first half of the finale was grrrrr....

@mel @EllenInEdmonton Yeah, they coould perhaps have dumped the 2ML after the field trip and done a longer, not so catastrophically forced, mishap to allow the to work things out more naturally… like the start of the show.

But by then my focus was on the two other couples… guess I'm more frustrated that the mains stole screen time from them 😅

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@mel @EllenInEdmonton … actually. During the filed trip it was Do Yeon (nephew?) who brought most of the spice