Really the End?

[chi8]

I was totally surprised when I tuned in Friday night for more of WML and found something else instead. Was there some announcement last Saturday? Did it say "The End" and I missed it?

My consternation arises from my impression that there wasn't really an end. Grandma was up on the table singing and dancing--too much soju--at their End of Year party, and that was it? Every good story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end, and if this was the end it was administered with a meat axe. We were promised something like 132 episodes at the beginning, and there was nothing like that. Granted, as someone has pointed out elsewhere, there were some episodes omitted here and there (that explains, I guess, the lack of continuity sometimes from the end of one episode and the beginning of the next), but there still should have been another 30 or so to go.

I'd like our friends in Korea to pitch in here--was there anything after the End of Year party?

I am getting a little fed up with Ch. 28. First we get a non-historical drama to replace Yi Soon Shin, and then they show about the third episode of the replacement without English subtitles and then they amputate the last quarter of WML. Why should I continue to watch such ham-handedness.

[Soju]

Where did you get 132 eps from? According to Korean Wiz, there were only 84 eps, and that's as many as was shown the first time it was aired here. Yeah, we did miss a couple of eps this time around, and had to suffer through the "Dirty Tape Head" period, but we essentially saw the whole thing.

And, if you look at the beginning of ep 84, it doesn't say "Episode 84", it says "final Episode".

[TheBo]

Chi8, at the end of Ep 84, they did spell out, "The End"--it was rather tiny, but it was there. Also, I can't agree with your "meat-axe" comment. All of the sons were married, Grandma had handed off the household to Jiyeun, who was pregnant at last, as was Goeun, younger aunt was on her way to a marriage completely to her liking, Younger Grandpa and his wife had decided what to do with their lives and finances and daughter, all of the sons were married and knew what their future plans were, 3d-floor grandma had a friend in the family (Mr Tak's mother) for built-in entertainment in her final years, and the boys' father and Jiyeun's mother looked to be starting a beautiful friendship. Even earlier in the series, elder aunt finally married her true love and Goeun's parents had come to be at peace with his impending death and their guilt over what happened in Goeun's first marriage. At the vet clinic, the guy with the alcoholic wife had reconciled and his wife was on the wagon, and the two assistants were getting married, and even at the party, their one huge problem (the watch) was about to be resolved by (of all people) Sang-sik. What more did you want, LOL?

No, seriously--what were you looking for to happen?

Bo

[Lucy]

Bo, you made me think of this. Isn't it cute that one of the very first things we saw in the show, probably in the 3rd episode, was a bit about that watch--when Hana was talking to her friend and saying she was going to take the expensive watch that the boy gave to his former girlfriend? and that it turned out to be one of the last things we saw, in the form of Sangsik unloading it once and for all on Jumi? The show could have been called "Where's My Watch?," and that would have kept us all watching to find out what the heck the title meant.

[TheBo]

Hah! That's true! Actually, when I saw that, I could not for the life of me remember where the watch had come from in the first place. That's even funnier, now that I have the info.

Aigu. I miss everyone now. Even that silly Sang-sik-ah.

Bo