Eps 29 to 32 [END]

[Knov1]

Warning: Post contains spoilers!

Hae Kyung is rushed to the hospital. Surgery goes well. Do Hee waits by Hae Kyung's bedside for him to wake up. He has some fractured ribs but is otherwise fine. Jae Hyuk's father visits him in the hospital. They both disown the other. Jae Hyuk plans to go to a hospital and get treated with homeless doctor. Homeless doctor tells Ah Young about his past with Jae Hyuk. He also breaks up with her. No Eul quits the 2NBox show. Do Hee has a nightmare about Hae Kyung not waking up and rushes to him. Hae Kyung tells her it's the trauma from the accident. Despite being hesitant to do so, Do Hee finally introduces Hae Kyung to her mom. Her mom isn't thrilled to know she's dating someone that knows all of Do Hee's past history. Do Hee isn't worried about that. She just wants to be with Hae Kyung. No Eul and Geon Woo go into business together. Forward 1 year. Jae Hyuk leaves the hospital. No Eul asks him to work with her and Geon Woo. Hae Kyung and Do Hee have dinner with homeless doctor. Do Hee secretly invites Ah Young. Hae Kyung and Do Hee leave when Ah Young gets there. Hae Kyung meets with Do Hee's mom to discuss why Do Hee is so hesitant to get married. Hae Kyung proposes to Do Hee but she wants it to be special. Homeless doctor and Ah Young get back together and get married. Hae Kyung and Do Hee have dinner together. The end.

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Hae Kyung and Do Hee had their moments but, their relationship, like the rest of the series was Meh to me at the end. I was mostly disinterested in what was happening in these episodes. Forwarding a year is just a way to rush to the finish line and drop whatever issues were left instead of addressing them. I hope you all enjoyed the series a lot more than I did. I'll post my final thoughts in the coming days.

[ajk]

Hour 15 had about ten minutes of meaningful material in it. And it felt like wrap-up material too, with an hour still left. The rest of it was just stretching and padding and killing time. So many scenes were like Who cares, Who cares, Who cares.

After ending hour 14 with the biggest, scariest event of the whole series, we spent the first seven minutes of hour 15 rattling around inside Ex’s head rather than getting on with what happened. Ugh! On and on and on. It felt like we had skipped an episode or something was mis-posted. Way too much content about Ex in the episode. We did finally meet his father, which was some of the meaningful ten minutes...but this should have happened a long time ago if the writers wanted us to have any sort of sympathy for Ex (which we might have had because his dad obviously is a total jerk).

And still he’s not wearing socks. What can you even say any more.

We did get one answer: Ex fell against a light pole and hit his head, which is how he got knocked out. So award a point or two for continuity.

Two fractured ribs is all that was wrong with Doc? After he shattered the windshield and crashed to the pavement? And nothing else? What was the surgery for? This sounds very odd. Fractured ribs aren’t usually repaired surgically, are they? And no damage to his legs? Isn’t that where the car struck him first? So many holes in this. Please give us one version of what happened to him and make it plausible and stick to it. This is like the sloppiness in the first few hours.

Boss Lady: “I knew what was going on between you guys, and I let you do it anyway to make money. So I’m the one to blame.” Correct! But she doesn’t seem too ashamed about it, does she.

Wait, why did Homeless Guy just dump Boss Lady? It came out of nowhere and didn’t make any sense. Another attempt to create filler.

Dohee has a bad dream and runs across town to get a hug from Doc. A bad dream. Seriously? And Doc uses this to make his move again...he thinks he’s going to boink her with fractured ribs. That’s how he wants their first time to be, with him barely able to move? Geez Doc, if you thought the dog-breath stare of disappointment about the kiss was bad....woof woof woof. You dummy!

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Hour 16 wasn’t terrible but it was just more random filler stuff, bits and pieces. There’s no doubt at all from these two hours that a shorter script was written and then a lot of only marginally relevant stuff was tacked onto the end, and now that I think about it the beginning too.

You know what, Dohee’s mom looks amazing for someone her age.

Doc: “I could tell her I erased all of my memory.” Byeung-jin: “Why not go to Harry Potter and ask him to erase all of your memory? You’re a psychiatrist, for goodness sake.” Maybe Byeung-jin should be the one doing the counseling! That was hilarious and completely true.

Okay there is was again. Boss Lady had an open beverage can and took a sip from it, and it was totally obvious there was nothing in the can. Stop it stop it stop it.

Ah of course, the weird time-jump epilogue. So it’s a year later, and Doc and Dohee still aren't married or living together or even engaged?  I was shocked at that.  And what kind of committed couple gives each other high fives in public?  Maybe it's good they're not married--they're too perky to want to see them breeding.

“Are you proposing to me with a lunchbox?” Good grief. Maybe it’s supposed to be charming how clueless Doc keeps showing he is, but you just want to smack him.

How could Dohee not remember the food truck place? We all remembered it.

I will say, the final scene was very nice. Kind of figured it might be a proposal but this worked well, just a nice quiet end with the two of them together and obviously they’re together for life now. Well done.

[Knov1]

After watching the final scene again, Hae Kyung might have proposed there in an indirect way. It sounds like a proposal but not entirely sure. It reminded me of the way Jeong In (Han Ji Min) proposed to In Ho (Jung Hae In) in One Spring Night. She told him to change the photo on his night stand to one that included her.