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Looks like the "bed" scene is sparking a lot of conversation elsewhere. Hahaha... They looked awkward and uncomfortable with each other, the kind of look you give when there's some negative tension to resolve after a quarrel or a difficult decision to make. I get the feeling they will break up, cos they came together very early in the show. I reckon as he gets more popular, the very korean thing about celebrity "dating scandals" will come up, and perhaps for her sake (so that she does not get hate from his fans), he will suggest a breakup. Though it seems more likely, personality-wise, she will ask for it, giving that as the reason. Meanwhile, I hope that lousy talent management director gets his just desserts somehow. I reckon too Minjae should have all that bad accounts and conning kept away somewhere as evidence against Taesu. Afterall, didn't she say she had a lot of dirt on him? Meanwhile, Hye-hyo and family... they continue to annoy me. His sister too. And that lousy ex-girlfriend. It's hard to think of her as the baddie though. She was such a girl-next-door cop in Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life, together with Hae-na (they made a reference to that in the show... hahaha...)

Read comments on some blog post about the show, and the impression I'm getting is that there seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction about the chemistry (or lack thereof) between PBG and PSD. I'm not quite sure what I think about that yet though - I think they seem very sweet, but I can't say I feel any palpable attraction between them. And what's with that scene where Hyejun sits awkwardly on Jeongha's bed, with her seemingly equally awkward with him?

I’ve been meaning to contribute to the ongoing discussion for a few weeks now - it just never happened (because everything else did - life. hahaha...) Some very many disparate thoughts, but first off — I love sci-fi, especially anything that has to do with time travel and the multiverse. In fact, I’ve been binge watching Star Trek: Voyager episodes (just because•nostalgia•Star Trek), and my favourite episodes all have to do with space-time fluctuations and anomalies. So, yay Alice for that. And this also seems to be the season for such shows in Kdramaland - Alice, Train, King Eternal Monarch. So far, King Eternal Monarch dealt with it very badly; Train did a good job but the ending was somewhat unsatisfactory for me. So are there high hopes for Alice — Yes. Because Joo Won too. But I have to say, now that we’re running towards the finishing line, I’m admittedly starting to fall asleep each time I start on a new episode. It’s getting draggy. I get it - there are murders that seem unsolvable, but I’m not seeing any actual detective work going on; there are strange people popping up which can’t seem to be tracked - but no one in the police force seems to have caught on to who they are yet and no one’s bothered to do a fingerprint ID yet; people are getting shot at with funny looking bullets being uncovered, but that doesn’t yet seem one bit surprising or suspicious to anyone but Jingyeom. Is he the only one in the force who’s working? And what of all the earlier time traveller crimes? No one’s trying to string them together for a solution yet? So nevermind that there are all these bizarre things supposedly happening but no real investigation is going on. The only thing they seem to be trying to put forward is a (very uncomfortable) suggestion that there could be a “thing” of romantic interest between Jingyeom and 2020Taeyi. No. Sorry, not buying it. 2020Taeyi - quit making googly eyes at Jingyeom. I know she’s not his mother as such - both she and 2050Taeyo were present in 2010 - but the DNA would be the same. But really, are 2050Taeyi and 2020Taeyi not the same person? While the show tries to present to us a multiverse perspective, thus avoiding time paradoxes, the story is essentially existing in the same world along the same spacetime continuum. Minhyuk and his colleagues are simply moving along the same continuum - the one that Jingyeom is in. While the mother who killed her past self might have moved across a parallel universe, I’m not so sure if any other characters have. It could well be possible then that all the Taeyis are one and the same person - 2020Taeyi is the original Taeyi who discovered time travel sans Jingyeom. She travels into the future, and influences the set up of Alice perhaps. Her 2050self eventually falls in love with Minhyuk and continues to work with Alice, but someone in that future also knows of the disasters and sends back the book of prophecy to 1992LittleTaeyi’s father, setting in motion a different history for 2020Taehyi... Who knows? Maybe a future older Taeyi is “the Teacher” who’s trying to stop herself from stopping herself... Time paradoxes be damned.

@stroppyse I reckon, this being a "coming of age" drama, we will see HH mature. And, I reckon, it will be a positive growth sort of ending for all 3 key characters (I know Jinwoo was listed as one of the main characters in the wiki page, but he doesn't appear in the promo posters?). I'm not sure at this point how fairy tale like this drama will be - will all of them see success at the end of 16 episodes? For the sake of a realistic story, I hope not. Neither would I like characters to spill into bitterness. I like how HJ's mother put it - they need to make it on their own in order to defend their achievements. That said, I also think that connections and getting support is real too. You see the irony when HJ rejects the supposed help being offered but does all he can to help JH. So part of the journey, I reckon, is deciding where help can or should come from and whether that in itself sustains a future. In the meantime, I still dislike HH. At 26, you're not exactly young anymore - many of those interviewing for a position I'm hiring to fill are around that age. So he does come across as exceptionally naive because of privilege. But that is who he is. Let's see how he breaks out of that cocoon.

@stroppyse Yeah, I know what you mean about HH - none of it is really his fault, but you see, that's exactly what I dislike about him too. He's the boy who lives a life of privilege but doesn't know it. He's mummy's boy, but thinks he's gotten to where he is by his own talent, which actually pales against HJ's in reality. But he doesn't know any of that and instead thinks he's able to show all that "grace" to HJ by getting him on the photoshoot. Yet it's really HJ that's the one who's getting the international gigs. HH lacks self-awareness. And his mum makes the whole 'package of annoyance' complete. There's also something I'm wondering about the fashion industry there - if HJ is so highly sought after for the runway, why's he not better paid than he is after 7 years? Conned by that good-for-nothing agent for 7 years???

Just started watching this (because Park Bo Gum and Park So Dam). Am in the middle of Ep 2 and feel compelled to say - I already don’t like Hye-hyo. Pfft.

@mademoisellesia @Celebrianna @40somethingahjumma Just done watching episode 2. Some bit more insight into Jingyeom's personality. As he himself says, he doesn't treat everyone as a human. It's a likely indication that as with the bunnies and snipping off their ears when he was a child, if he has no relationship with a person/being, then there are none of those emotions (logical or otherwise) attached to them. That's why he could so readily shoot that fella twice without batting an eyelid. Fair to say that even if his prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, it doesn't mean it doesn't work. Just likely takes more effort, and his responses for most parts are learned (such as not to kill) than a reaction to an emotional stimulus. He strikes me as a cross between Data and a Vulcan (of Star Trek pop culture). What the time card does is a curious thing - I'm thinking it opens a portal of some sort? The one he activated was his mother's? Making the things around his home float about seemed like there was some attempt by the device to bend space and time. I too am liking this confrontation with his father and them being set up as adversaries, even if for a short while. I am expecting dad to become a partner instead once he finds out mum was murdered. And speaking of mum, I expect that Prof Physicist is mum. Just which time line is she from? Separately - do Uni profs in Korea really yell at their students like they're in middle school??

Finally watched episode 1. Gawsh, miss JW's acting. He's brilliant. Got a question though: For someone who supposedly had a low ability for feeling emotions - he's supposedly unable to empathise with others - how was it that he could feel such strong emotions of grief when his mother died?

Does anyone reckon, that of the recently returned actors (likes of Ji Changwook, Kim Soohyun, Joo Won), JCW's drama choices have been the most disappointing? Or are expectations of drama storytelling quality just getting to high? Drama fatigue? Nothing seems quite so riveting to watch these days (except perhaps the recently concluded "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" <-- that was a class entirely of its own, but apparently only to viewers outside of Korea? OsmanthusTea Niang Niang...

Feels like time travel, parallel worlds and all manner of quantum physics are quite the rage this season. I'm looking forward to this primarily cos (1) sci-fi (2) Joo Won. He's been away from the screens too long.

@abs-oluteMThankfully, the drama is not with colleagues - love them, bless their wonderful souls. All the same, it's been quite exciting. Irate parents always are I suppose.

2021... seems like too long a wait... Loved Season 1.

I've been meaning to participate more, but things keep happening at work. :P Should I be glad that work continues to be exciting? I feel like I could write a drama series from what's been going on.

My first post! So nice to see many familiar names and friends here. Am loving it already! 😃 Let the good times, begin!