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Have put my thoughts in spoiler. 

@Thong Thin  @ktcjdrama let me add mine for the ep 4. It's in spoiler. 

My bro watched the first 4 eps of sisyphus and said the plot is similar to a famous scifi anime Stein's Gate. Anyone watches Anime here.. I do watch but I haven't this one. I may watch this one now.

9 minutes ago, ktcjdrama said:

And also, I never understand people who run upwards instead of downwards to find escape route. Unless of course your downwards escape route is clearly blocked.

Then they have to help Tae Sul. No body can help Tae Sul except Seo Hae. I was laughing that in such a big conference there were no guards to help the CEO..

Done with episode 3. Time travel concept is quantum transportation of data, in this case human beings. Very interesting. CGI was bad. Tbh the sliding down through building and zip lining was not required. It was a bit over the top imo. The simple things which stands out the most are poorly executed. When Tae Sul was shot, body guards from Q/T should have come to rescue him. They did rescue Eddy Kim but not Tae Sul LOL...Bong Seon is a body guard but he was clueless, seems like he did not go through his basic training. And again portraying detectives as bunch of idiots. 

CGI was good during download scene. We now know that a downloader has to download someone so that person can come back to past. Mystery is who is Seo Hae's downloader? Or is she has been downloaded at all? If not is she in preview mode.. that's why the glitch?

9 hours ago, Chocolate said:

These two pictures have the same background, but different situations.

What happened?!

Did Taesul choose the World instead of Seohae?

Did Seohae time travel to save the world before this happen?

Looks like we are gonna have God's gift 14 days kinda ending. Either one of them would perish or they both will forget everything and reset.

6 minutes ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

I am surprised by that because I was under the impression from the early trailers that this was marketed as a serious action adventure drama.

Same here. I also don't get any sense of seriousness. I mean they are trying to save the world but the color shading, background score makes certain scenes light hearted. As you said it's just 2 episodes, may be the upcoming episodes would answer our questions but at the same time I fear they are trying to make it look more complicated. CSW is my favorite actor and I trust his decision. Oppa fighting!!!

http://m.slist.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=228384

Found this while browsing twitter. Read it with Google translate. At the last the production crew said that "it will be much easier to interpret if the reasoning is based on the fact that Seo Hae and Tae Sul are in the continuous cycle of sisyphus ". 

That means one of my assumption was correct that the loop is already going on. We don't know what's the starting point of the loop. That is something to look forward in the upcoming episodes. 

Also in ep 1, I guess we saw Tae sul got a letter from a kid in elementary? school stating that she wants to marry him. I guess that she is Seo Hae. If it is then there are two Seo Hae's: one from future and the present one. I am curious how sisyphus will handle the concept..

I also think that the person who broke into Tae sul's penthouse is he himself. I mean his future self. On that basis if I have to make another assumption then the future Tae Sul want the events to happen the same way as it always had happened in earlier cycles so that the present Tae sul can become the way the future Tae Sul is..

17 minutes ago, abs-oluteM said:

I don't think it is  her first time travelling to the present. Or they could be multiple timelines (though that may spell disaster for the drama if not handled properly) . From what I understand , she dreamt about the wedding scene where she got shot and I suspect it was something that she has experienced before. This would match the logic that she keeps coming back to the present each time her mission failed & why she wrote what she did in her book. (She  seems to forget to remind herself though about not eating banana skins! LOL!) That 1st scene with her father, I believe , was because they had known what happened to her when she met Han Tae Sul . That's why he forbids her to meet him  ( but of course she wants to save him against her father's wishes)

Yes this is definitely not her first time. And the memory losing thing is also contradicting, if she lost her memory she should not have known the lottery ticket number. But again she checked the diary and then got to know that she should warn Tae Sul to not open the suitcase. 

As you said multi timeline looks cool but if not handled properly will lead to a disaster. Just because this is changed from scifi to mystery fantasy does not mean we will accept anything. Atleast i can't . I am not expecting them to follow any scientific accuracy but I hope they lay down their own rules and don't bend that. My main confusion is how Seo Hae got to know Tae Sul for the first time?? Did she meet him for the first time when she time traveled for the first time??? Or did both of them belong to same timeline and Tae Sul died and she kept traveling to past? Then that would mean there are atleast two Seo hae, one from future and the other one of the current timeline..  Or will it be like DARK where there is no ending and no beginning?

4 minutes ago, movingwheel said:

i did not understand quite a few like when shin hye had a dream of their marriage and she is coming from future??? thats why she said that he should not open the box? is it? secondly why the hell govt was keeping it away?? thirdly that secretary guy also seem to be crooked... this particular actor never played any straight role either.... i think i think he knows a lot of things...

I will list down the things that are confusing to me.:

1. In ep 1 the train scene where Seo Hae was relaxing at the top of a train and the drone vanished. How did she get away from that many people?
2. She has a diary with some already happened events, I assume this is not her first time traveling to past. She does not know how to eat banana, so whenever a person goes back in time he/she loses memory??????
3. The marriage scene.. was it Seo hae remembering or the scene came out of nowhere??
4. She was being shot and then we see the wound was bleeding. I don't know what happened.. Was it the same wound or she got hurt while fleeing from those control bureau guys?
5. I believe the body flickering thing will be explained. But if I have to take a guess then it could be since Seo Hae belongs to another timeline.. may be a wormhole kind of phenomenon takes place everytime one travels back to past and that wormhole might try to skew all the timelines. 

52 minutes ago, Chocolate said:

Because of the title "Sisyphus", I thought it would be like Edge of Tomorrow, whether the protagonists get killed and then wake up and try again until they find the solution to get past an event without dying. So when Seo Hae was killed during the "wedding", I thought when she woke up, it was another try. Tae Sul was shot in the interrogation room, then he woke up in his bed and his bodyguard/driver said he found him and brought him back - I thought he died, and woke up for another try. Not so sure now because of how the scenes just carried on

To be honest I am confused with many things. I am gonna keep watching till ep 6 to see where the plot is going. The scene transitions doesn't help at all. I am hoping they will explain these in upcoming episodes. The plot sure has potential but needs to be executed properly. 

4 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

have you guys watched the 1st eps yet?

Yep I watched it just now. Office work is killing me. I agree with everyone's views that the plane crashing was bad, it was laughable. Moreover the 3.5 minutes scene was not required. I believe he spoke to Eddy on phone for more than 3 minutes and still ended up with 1 minute left, god knows why? I know it's fantasy mystery genre but the copilot did not contact the destination airport for reporting the situation. 

I loved the brothers bond right from first scene. Tae sul's guilt for misbehaving with his brother and then regretting as he passed away.

Now some theory time.. I believe it's Seo hae's nth time going back to past. She had a diary with her with some events noted. She calls Tae Sul to ask him not to open the suitcase. I wonder why she does not know where the suitcase fell. Is it because each time the person go backs to past there is no guarantee where he/she will land? 

23 hours ago, im0202 said:

Ooh time travel... hoping this one will pan out much better than the other time travel drama I watched this year.

In any case, my expectations are high because CSW chose this project and he doesn’t do that many dramas. 

I think i am guessing the correct drama you didn't like. (Alice?) If it is that, I dropped it after watching 2 episodes, in a way it tried to copy some parts of another scifi series that I absolutely love and is one of the best scifi series in my opinion. 

Initially sisyphus was categorized as a scifi drama but later they changed it to fantasy-mystery. I am keeping my expectations low as I was highly disappointed with Alhambra. But nevertheless I will be watching it because of CSW.

@Chocolate I wonder if Sisyphus will be an amalgamation of different movies/dramas. As they have not tagged it as scifi, I won't rant about the scientific accuracies but I do hope the plot to be decent atleast.

Wohoo, I am new here. But I think I do know some of you guys. Nice to meet you all.

11 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

Is this a time slip drama? I wonder. Great trailer though -- very action-packed. But there's something about it that gives me a sci-fi vibe. Could be that big mama laser device..

As far as I know, JTBC has tagged this as fantasy mystery not a scifi. That being said I feel that the punishment which the Sisyphus got in Greek mythology to push the boulder up again and again will be represented as a time loop in this drama. In the trailer itself at around 1:14 minutes, the events happen backwards and both the leads say that they will do it this time. 

Well that's just my guess though..