Park Bo Gum ❤ Girl's Day Hyeri aka REPLY 1988 TAEK x DEOKSUN

[Yesin Lee]

Hi just want to know is there a mention in the drama of Lee Mi Yeon liking Taek?

[miri13]

I finally got to watch it!  HOORAY!  Our faith was rewarded!  I wished there was a more elaborate confession but I will take this.  I love how happy both of them are when they see each other.  I also loved how Taek always looked at DS at DR's restaurant.  What a great pick me up for a crazy day now at work.  People are wondering why I have a silly smile on my face.

[eunha28]

2 hours ago, Kdorama_addict said:

ANYONE !!!!

i am curious.... for now, of course we are HAPPY..

but is it true that there's that damn 1% chance of other result??

because the more I read.. the more I become skeptic... lol

I haven't watch the whole ep 19. just the cuts and read people's comments...

 I get your worry, I would say that we need not to worry about the 1% anymore , cause if the dialogue from the future husband-Taek and DS is talking about the kiss then hands down the husband is Taek, there was no other kiss that happen and as a writer and director this would make no since to add in the last ep of it to be someone else or to do a cut scene how they did from future to 1994 just to show the viewers what really happen.  If we look at it from this perspective no matter what it would still be Taek for DS. When bora spoke of the 1% she stated that she bet the 1% change that its not only him who showed up , but 1% that he would hear about it... Now lets take this and look at DS and Taekie.  Why did DS hook her co-worker with Taek assistant. Cause there was a 1% percent change for her too ..  The same as 1% percent  in revise Bora  used a friend to hook her up that worked in the same hospital. DS hooked her friend up that worked closed to Taek..  

[Yesin Lee]

On 1/14/2016 at 0:47 PM, hafunohane said:

Hi guys, I remember before R1988 airs, there are several news article about how the concept that Shin PD's going for is inspired by a popular MBC series called "Three Families Under One Roof." (You can read about this on Wikipedia here, and on our frequented news sites such as here, here, and here.) This got me thinking:

-WHY IT WON'T BE THREE FAMILIES UNDER ONE ROOF IF DS MARRIES JH:

- Technically, they're already under one roof now. But we know that there are only 2 families there, The Sungs and The Kims. How do we turn it into 3 families?? Here's how:

Option 1. JB marries MO and MO moves there. Ok, sure. There would be some merits in this if only we are shown what MO's family looks like. So far, we've only heard mentions about her strict dad, nothing else. How would this strict dad live with them, when he's got that mansion of a house?? And how can MO move with JB, JH-DS, and the rest of the Kims and Sungs to that house? Is there even enough room for her? It makes more sense for JB to move to MO's house or live elsewhere with her, because SHE is the great fortune for JB. 

Option 2. NL marries someone and they live together. So far in 1994, we see no signs of NL having a GF. Plus, when the girl marries, she enters into the Sung's family, so it's still technically just 2 families. If the girl NL marries is his 1988 girlfriend, we also know she is an orphan. There is no way her only family member aka her older sister will come to live with them. Plus we have no story whatsoever about this girl's family, same like MO's case in Option 1.

- If we do not take the concept literally, it will still be 2 families only, no matter what. 

Say, DS marries JH and live separately. That's two families (or just one, technically). Also, we already know that BR and her husband do not live together with DS in 2015, so we cannot count SW's family as the third. 

And alas,

- WHY IT WILL BE THREE FAMILIES UNDER ONE ROOF IF WHEN DS MARRIES TK:

If DS marries TK (we know she did), there will be 3 families alright. 

In ep 6, Sungdaddy had a convo with Papabear about trading TK for his very own children. "How about a three for one exchange?" We know how badly Sungdaddy wants TK to be his son in law. LOL. 

In ep 18, Sungdaddy has once again hinted at this. He told DS not to come back from TK's house that night. Also, when SW told DS to stay after the gang celebrated TK's birthday, DS said this: "you want to ruin my chances for marriage?" Why suddenly talk about marriage, DS? SW was just telling you to sleep over. 

Also, why else would BR kicked DS out of their house and told her to go to Taek's to study? BR knows that DS is comfortable there, in TK's space. Everybody knows DS has no problem spending time at TK's house since the dinosaur age. 

Now, when TK and DS marries... There will be 3 families, united: The Chois (TK-Papabear), The Sungs (BR-DS), and the other Sungs (SW-Mom-JJ).

- Here's the 3 families before marriage: 1. SW-JJ-Mom. 2.TK-Choi appa. 3. DS-BR.

- Shuffle this and we'll still get 3 families by marriage: 1. SW-BR. 2. TK-DS. 3. Choi appa- SW's mom.

Now, we know from the future scene that BR does not live with DS. So, let's say BR lives with SW while DS and hubby live on their own. It's still 3 families: The Sungs, connected to the Chois and the other Sungs aka SW's fam by marriage. Three Families Under One (Marriage) Roof indeed. 

#cannotwaitfortheweddingscene

I'm just reposting this @hafunohane

[nearsea]

Girlss hold your thoughts for a while, new post from  @packmule3.This is gonna be a long one.So happy reading!

 

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On the uses of humor.

To parody Jane Austen: It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any woman in poverty of a good wit MUST also be in want of a genius.

Fortunately, for fellow script-shippers, the writer of Reply 1988 has been endowed with a brilliant mind with an eye for the absurd. For me, humor is the most sublime form of intelligence. But the scriptwriter is handicapped by the simple fact that a MAJORITY of her audience will NOT get her humor 100% of the time. Understanding her “inside jokes” in particular can be very challenging.  Like the “wedding parodies” that I mentioned before, an inside joke implies a shared knowledge between two parties to which a third party is oblivious.  

So let me point out some of the inside jokes as I see them. 

1. Meta-joke:  When the grown-ups were waiting for Taek Choi to arrive at his celebration party, DS’ mom said “The star of the show always shows up last”. True that.  Many people realized too late that the Death Star -- or TaecStar – had been fully functional for a long while. They were caught off-guard because they weren’t paying attention to the script.

2. Story-within-the-story joke. While people were focused on dog/cat/mouse/bullfrog, the titles of the books mentioned in Episode 2 were largely ignored. They are meta.  This is evidence that the scriptwriter KNEW EXACTLY how this story would end even from the beginning. 

--“Officer and the Princess” for JH. He turned out to be at officer in the Air Force. The drivel about the hero’s chiseled chest is a reference to JH’s chest. It was much ado about nothing.  

--“Audition for Love” is for DR. DR loved DS, too. His hair-tugging is a classic sign of a guy wanting a girl’s attention for himself. Also, he was the one who brought up the topic of DS being cute. In Episode 14, when he said “How annoying [that DS liked TK more]! Do you hate me?” he was indirectly asking about his “chances”.  However, he’s learned to love her VICARIOUSLY, that is, he experienced “his” romance THROUGH Taec’s experience. He only “auditioned” for the show (literally, too); he wasn’t the star. DS called the book “weak” and is only about kissing, which could be taken a joke about DR’s porn obsession. 

--“Dangerous Roommate” is obviously for TK.  This was the book that DS hugged and begged to include sexy passages. lol.

The only person without a book is SW because he’s in love with her sister.

3. Meta joke on JH. In Episode 10, JH walked into the wall. Here is how Dramabeans described it:

 They head down the stairs and stop in their tracks when Jung-hwan comes out of her house looking awkward. He stammers that he had something to say to her, and pulls her aside for a chat. On the way up, he kind of gets trapped under the awning and can’t extract himself without looking uncool. It’s so awkward. I love it.

I agree, that was cute. However, it was actually a foreshadowing. He was walking into a *dead-end*. He’d be blocked. 

4. Another meta joke on JH. In Episode 16, JH was working on a math problem. Here’s how Dramabeans described it:

Dong-ryong is the only one who notices that Jung-hwan has been working on the same math problem for days now. He tells Jung-hwan to just move on already, but we know it’s not math that’s got him stumped.

This is a foreshadowing, too. DR’s advice to him was: “Don’t you know the concept of “passing”? Just move on.” Take into consideration JH’s prophecy in Episode 11 that “he’ll be fine on his own”, and his words in Episode 18 to “move on”, he’s not as doomed and pathetic of a character as Chilbongie was in Reply 1994. He was making a conscious decision to let go, and if he was an actual person, and not simply a figment of the scriptwriter’s imagination, I’d respect and support his choice. 

5. DR’s trolls on DS: In Episode 14, DR and DS were talking on the steps. DS asked: “Why doesn’t anyone like me?” DR pretended to see somebody from a distance, going, “Oh! It’s Taek!” Look at how eager DS looked up to find TK.  That was a troll for both DS and the viewers got a good view of DS’ reaction. 

Shortly, they met up with TK. Here’s how Dramabeans described it:

…when Taek says he bought five pies so that they could each take one home, Dong-ryong says lovingly, “Let’s get married.” Taek turns him down, poor thing, but he holds Deok-sun back and asks her to come over for a little while.

This is a foreshadowing, too. TK rejected DR, but he grabbed hold of his choice of bride.

6. The casserole meta joke. As my local newspaper The Washington Post says, “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.” 

 

7. “Just kidding” joke. I believe that there’s a bit of truth behind every “just kidding” jokes. When DS ordered TK to “Take it off” and shocked him, I think, she was deliberately being provocative. Her deadpan delivery was meant to confuse him. 

8. Another confusing “Just kidding” joke. In Episode 2, when DS made aegyo to TK and joked about marrying her, she also left TK confused. Most people saw that as “babying” but the alternative view here is “flirting.  Finding an excuse for skinship, like touching a guy in a nonthreatening way, and getting his full attention by smiling widely at him as if he’s the center of the world can be considered Flirtation 101. Also, notice the change of topic here. With the first two guys, she was asking them about her APPEARANCE.  “How do I look?” It was about “Me” and she expected compliments. That’s why JH dismissed her with “I’m late. Pishs off!  In the case of TK, she shifted the focus TO HIM:  When did YOU get back from the tournament. [You] drink up. [You] hurry up and grow tall. So YOU can marry me.

See that? The dynamics are different.

9. A revealing “Just kidding” joke. In Episode 6, DS’ mom teased her about wanting TK as son-in-law, repeating her joke from Episode 2.  What was DS’ answer? She said "Should I seduce him then?" Lol. People who insist that DS treated TK as a brother don’t get this.  "Seduction" is NOT a word or an idea that enters a girl's mind who regards her childhood friend as a mere baby brother. Heck no! DS read those trashy novels in Episode 2 and she knew very well what SEDUCTION meant. ~~Dangerous Roommate, please give me lots of sexy scenes ~~~

When she joked about seducing TK, it meant she saw him as a man, not as a kid. Her joke also paralleled TK’s words to his friends: I don't think of her as a friend. I see her as a WOMAN. However, in TK’s case, he said it resolutely, firmly, whereas DS was joking with her mom. 

Noteworthy, too: DS became defensive when DS’ mom said that TK was into baduk anyway and he really wasn't into girls [meaning he leads as ascetic life, not that he’s gay.] She whined “Why what's wrong with me?!!”  I also consider that an odd response from a girl who only sees a guy platonically. Her response should have been to laugh it off and to not take personally. Compare DS’ sensitivity to SW’s mom who was also teased about marrying TK’s dad. Her answer was the natural one. She laughed away their teasing and said: all thing being equal, she’d rather not marry a bear. It’d be just the same as marrying NO ONE.  That’s the proper response DS should have given: a joke. 

10. “Just kidding” as a blunder. This playful banter about “Marrying Taec/Taking Responsibility of Taec” showed how joking can escalate into misunderstandings. At first she took the joking in stride, even exchanging some jokes of her own. She was feisty when DR said to TK needed a girl just like her to introduce him to hardship. SHE was fine being teased but when SW turned the focus on TK and asked him, “Hey! Do you like her, too? Because you’re grinning there” and an embarrassed TK tried to cover up his smiles by saying “annii” THAT was when the mood turned sour for DS. 

If people noticed, the camera didn’t show us DS’ reaction to TK’s denial here. But the next thing we knew she was excusing herself to go to the bathroom. People naturally assumed that she was upset with DR who was mercilessly teasing her. But I believe that she was upset of TK’s ONE WORD. She misunderstood him. She thought his “no” = I don’t like her. 

That was a normal reaction. To her, after spending the whole day frolicking on the beach together and after spending time with him in China just a few days ago, his joking denial would be tantamount to a personal insult for her. 

This would explain why in the next episode, when they met up again and TK requested for coffee, water and warm water, she totally misread his “running errands” joke [he really wanted her to stay for a while with him and not leave] and accused him of USING her like a slave girl like they were back in China.

11. Absence of marriage jokes in connection with JH. For me, this was a giveaway that he wasn’t meant to be the OTP. Sure, DS’ girlfriends teased her about going out on a date with him, but her girlfriends’ judgment is impaired. None of DS’ family members saw JH as a possible contender. Considering how close these two families were and how JH’s dad doted on DS, the parents didn’t consider forming an obvious pairing between JH and DS. Also, in Episode 11, Bora indicated surprise that DS and JH have become closer. When DS replied that they’ve always been close, Bora just made a face. 

 

Even NE wondered why the heck would JH give his sister pink gloves. JH had to kick and chase him down the stairs so he’d give the present to DS… which is noteworthy. The Future Husband said that it took him 10 years before he could address NE informally. Taek’s natural diffidence and reserve, he wouldn’t joke around with NE like JH.  

12. Jwi gag. This scene with JH also warned me too that I might be wrong with my assumptions that JH is the OTP. Yes, he might be the leading man, but the scriptwriter might have other plans for him.  

You see, compared to the jwi incident with TK and DR, this did NOT at all advance his case as the Future Husband. It did not link his personality trait to him. What happened here was he had cramps, DS teased him. He told her to stop it; she didn’t. They both laughed. Fade-away shot.

In comparison, with TK’s jwi incident, DS chased after him and DR with the mice. They boys escaped by going back inside. Then, DR grabbed ahold of TK and told him to reconsider his affection for DS. Meaning, if he chose DS, he’d be consigned to a life of “torture”. TK reaffirmed his view that she’s cute. How does this connect with the Future Husband? Two ways: The Future Husband told the grown-up DS to be kind to him because he’s been understanding and tolerant of her. Where could he find a husband like him, he asked. Also, the Future Husband thought she was cute. 

13. Baduk vs Chinese checkers meta joke. In Episode 1, we see JH’s mother move a green piece on his checker board, and people naturally pounced on that and determined that green was JH was color. No. That isn’t the point there, unfortunately. 

The point here is comparison and contrast between Baduk and Chinese checkers. Both boys have these two different board games beside their beds. Baduk = TK and Chinese checkers = JH.  As a game of theory and strategy, Chinese checkers is grossly outmatched by Baduk.  Chinese checkers isn’t even Asian in origin. It’s a German-invented game. Why would the scriptwriter choose such a simplistic game to represent the first lead?  [If it were chess, then yes, I’d consider it an even match because I play chess, @shooastrid. Ha!]  Why would the director make the baduk tournament world so integral to plot, showing us news reports, educating us on its etiquette, etc., if the Chinese checkers guy was going to win the girl at the end? It doesn’t make sense; it’s absurd.

14. The future NoEul joke.  One style of this scriptwriter/director combo is to loop a conversation through time. It was splendidly done In Reply 1994. In that show, the audience see the heroine NJ cleaning up her house. She was looking for beloved stuffed toy. Her Trash Oppa interrupted her housecleaning to tell her that a package was coming and to leave it in his room. Later on, she discovered that he had bought a replacement for the stuffed toy that she had lost. Now, the audience is transported to the current time and they see NJ being asked to pick up a package at the concierge downstairs. It was for her “mystery” husband. 

Now, in this Reply 1988, the same thing happened. There was a loop in the conversation, a time-travel.

In Episode 14, when TK brought a banana to DS’ house and NE joined them, the noona and dongaeng shared a conversation:
DS: How is it possible that you're getting older than our dad?
NE: It's okay. A face like mine becomes younger later on.
TK said nothing but he smiled at DS as she wiped her brother’s dry skin. 

Fastforward to the future, in Episode 8, when NE visits DS and her husband, this topic of aging is echoed: 
DS: How is that you look younger by the day? [addressing NE]
HUSBAND: [defending NE] He finally looks his age, that's all. It took me ten years to speak informally to this punk.

 

See the connection? Of all the guys, TK was the only one who knew of NE’s joke about his age, because he was there when they had a conversation that his face would sooner or later catch up to his age.

There’s also the ginseng. The Future NoEul passed by their apartment because DS was giving him ginseng. Back in 1989, DS shared a banana. What’s the connection? Ginseng is expensive, and older people value it because of its anti-aging properties. Bananas was expensive, too, at that time. But they were reserved for children like Jinjjo and NoEul because they were nutritious.  

Contrary to popular consensus, I didn’t invent these details. They were written by the scriptwriter. 
15. the Chocolate Parody.  Take a look again at Episode 16. Like in the Wedding Parodies, there were two things happening at the same time. On the surface, we see DS and DR talking on the bus about how competitive TK was. But there was actually another story unfolding surreptitiously here.  DR said that TK won because he was competitive; he didn’t like to be number two. But there was another boy in the neighborhood who was also competitive: Jong Bung.

This is the answer to the chocolate mystery. “Kim Jong Bung and Choi Tae. Something famous linked these two.” 

As DR narrated the events of the Galaga video game rivalry to DS, the incidental things that were present during that fateful day months ago were being displayed in front of our eyes. First there was the chocolate that DS was eating. 
Then, the 3 backpacks from the students. 
Then, the hotdog that JB was eating at the arcade. 
Finally, there was the jacket that was worn by TK.

You see what’s going on?  JB and TK are "infamously linked" in time not only because of the game GALAGA but also because of the GHANA chocolate. [Check out the word play there too, lol].  

DS did intend to give the chocolate to TK but the chocolate ended up with JB. 

I bet JB learned to write that love letter to Mi-Ok using her chocolate. JB was getting information from DS anyway about MO's preferences, so why not learn from DS how to write a love letter. lol. Hmmmm....I wonder if DS wrote a line as cheesy as JB's "Vienna is the capital city of Austria, but the capital city of my heart is you."  Or if THIS line was actually hers to begin with and JB merely copied it. Curiouser and curiouser. 

JB’s motive for getting the chocolate was implied but not stated: he lost to TK. 

Check out Episode 17, when all four of the gang were on the bus. JB had handed a chocolate bar to DS to give to MO. None of the boys there even did a double-take at the sight of the chocolate. They’ve never received a chocolate from DS. 

Edited to add: And if you listen to the ending segment of Episode 18, at 1:41: 18: you’ll hear DR recounting a story about JB found something in his pocket. “You know, back then, JB didn’t know it was in his pocket.”  With this scriptwriter, seemingly irrelevant tidbits like this one, may become important to the resolution of the chocolate mystery.  

Now, people asked me how could have DS confused SW’s jacket as belonging to TK? Or why didn’t DS stop and get TK’s jacket on their way out? 

The answer there is “I DON’T KNOW”. lol. Really. Literally. 

If you go back to Episode 1, the Adult DS already laid the foundation for her defense. She was going to excuse her mental lapse regarding the chocolate by pleading diminished capacity. She had inhaled the most carbon monoxide so she was poisoned and couldn’t think properly. “Diminished Capacity”

To repeat my Jane Austen parody: It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any woman in poverty of a good wit MUST also be in want of a genius.
Edited to add:  This means “Witless girl DS need genius guy TK.”

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Correction: This is actually a re-post.The original one got deleted on the main thread.So posted again,in case any one missed this..=]].

 

Edited January 15, 2016 by nearsea

[mariichii]

1 hour ago, nearsea said:

Guys take over the main thread.Pour your hearts out.Seriously those doubtful posts need to go...They're still hoping for something better for the finale.=/ [I'm still humble and grounded as ever though lol.Just these posters..smh.]

Where's the MT?

[Yesin Lee]

23 hours ago, mangachickava said:

MOD EDIT: Do Not Quote Images

notice what his name means in Kanji...

also credit @mellinadearfor the twitter picture, BUT CAPABLE PEOPLE PLEASE FIND THIS FAN PAGE THAT HAS FIGURED OUT ALL THE SYMBOLISM OF EACH EP AND TRANSLATE!!!

 

I'm reposting this it is a post by Baeki on dramabeans comment section.

Edited January 15, 2016 by LavelyShai

[otomame]

Hi guys! After today's episode I think it's finally safe to join this thread  I've been watching the drama by being focused on Deoksun and her feelings the whole time so when Deoksun was crushing on Sunwoo I was on the SWxDS ship () and then when she crushed on Junghwan I was on the JHxDS ship. But after episode 17&18 I was like "Wow, it would actually really make sense if she ends up with Taek because neither Sunwoo nor Junghwan gave her the love she was yearning for" and now episode 19 happened and I'm like OMG THIS IS THE CUTEST COUPLE EVER.

All the scenes between Deoksun and Taek today were SO freaking adorable, I was giggling like crazy the whole time.

By the way, we have had Junghwan's confession already but we still don't have a confession from both Deoksun and Taek so, yeah, we all know what's going to happen tomorrow. Deoksun can finally gain the confidence to confess her own feelings for the first time :')

[nearsea]

8 minutes ago, mariichii said:

Where's the MT?

Lol I meant the reply'88 main thread.

 

[Intimate]

I'm bad at keeping track of the timeline in this show. Does anyone know the dates of episode 19 and the end of 18?

[bluesteyes]

 

Look at this two. Cutest couple ever. Aaaah hyeri knows how to please us 

hyeri instagram update

[Jéssica De Freitas Maciel]

4 minutes ago, bluesteyes said:

 

Look at this two. Cutest couple ever. Aaaah hyeri knows how to please us 

hyeri instagram update

 

Hyeri can't take her eyes from him hehe, so cute.

[Yesin Lee]

Hyeri posted pix on her instagram! pls support our Taekiii and like this post! (go like it on instagram not here lols) Thanks 

 

 

[truffulatree]

I completely loved it. From the scenes I am able to watch. You guys were great. I enjoyed the thread quite a lot. I am happy of course that Taek and Deok Sun are endgame, mainly because I was a Najung x Chilbong shipper. I had all types of feels. Junghwan was great as well and is a very relatable character. I felt for him a lot in episode 17 I believe. More than Deok Son finding her love, I wanted them to keep on being friends. Lovely Drama, and awesomeness for Taek! 

 

I can say I did not get sad. Lol.

[ninaanin]

It seems that most people here were CB' shipper, is that so?

I, for my turn, I was Trash-NJ from the get go lol.

But I'm happy we can now share our commun joy .

BTW, I was lurking through the MT and I thought that now people would have accept Taek is the husband. But no, they are interpretating previews and so on!

I'm surprised, but it seems that people really don't see/hear what the writer is clearly showing and saying lol. How that is possible?

[nearsea]

After the kiss..when the future TK-DS  are talking in the background..Look at the 'Time' < 12 o'clock < the bell has rung.*Okay nope this is 6 P.M Lol.So we've still half way to go .

 

[mellinadear]

OK guys, I seriously need help. I have been abusing the replay button for the kiss scene. This is not normal at all.

HELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!

[Meliere]

BLESSED SHIP!

HOMEWARD WE SAIL!

YOU'VE WORKED HARD CHOI TAEK 9 DAN!! 

YOU'VE WORKED HARD WARM-HEARTED DEOKSUNIE!!!

YOU'VE WORKED HARD TAEK'S ROOM / TEAM CSI!!!

Thank you @hafunohane for being that awesome reluctant-captain-turned-true-believer; may you forever enjoy that #nightsword. Thank you@st4rdust for your fairy magic and infinite humor. Thank you @Phuong Tam Nguyen, our head detective and investigator. Thank you @gerimisore for beautiful art and such generosity of spirit. Thank you @packmule3 @shooastrid @liteulkwin @Jéssica De Freitas Maciel @mustardmaimai for your amazing analyses and posts. Thank you @minibunny for figuring out that 4:33 theory. Thank you @sarsu for defending our ship against trolls. Thank you @kilaalaa @syaiira for being our Korean-to-english interpreters. Thank you @rembrandtz_5e20 for reminding us of Taek's empathy. THERE ARE SOOO MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE HERE, omg. I feel drunk from all the girl bonding and loooove. Thank you ALL for such a lovely month spent.

I'm shaking with joy and relief guys ... shaking. Just shaking. How did we become so blessed? We basically traveled from resigned heartbreak (lol except for psychics @chickfactor @mellinadear @allegramente) to having all our wishes fulfilled. Best ship ever. Best show ever. TK-DS is LOVE. I will never, ever, ever forget Taek's room. 

 

[ninaanin]

There is a current debate on the main thread, but as I'm a coward (lol), I won't get involved there, but I will adress it here.

It goes about the fact that DS/TK or whatever loveline is weaker in 88 than in 97 and 94.

Well, I didn't whatched '97 (because in 2012 it was my first year watching kdrama and I wasn't still used of some kdramas maneirism lol. So, I was completely chocked an displeased with the main girl hiting badly the guy lol [now I'm more used to it and can close an eye lol]), I dropped afetr the first or second episode. So if the criteria to decide the better couple is the amount of hitting, for sure DS and TK are better than '97 couple lol.

I watched '94 loved it, loved the dinamic between trash and NJ and I still think they are a great couple. However I think it isn't fair to make comparison between Trash-NJ and Tk-DS because their dinamics are differents, but most of all their shows are completely different!

'97 is a love story drama, where family and friendship has very much to do with it.

'88 is a family drama, where friendship and love story has very much to do with it.

So, it is just obvious that in '88 love stories will be less developed, for the main thema is family (with parents-children issues, friendships issues, love issues, and individual issues). From the begining they said it will a different show, a family show. And we got an awesome show, with an awesome character, who is Taek (to me, with Bora, he is the most relatable character).

'94 is also an awesome show, with one big problem: CB arc, who was poorly written (and ended!).

As a Trash-NJ shipper I refuse to make comparison with DS-TK, I don't see where is the point, I don't see why we have to chose one, I think it is undeserving for both couple.

Last: Bravo to the author. If there is something great in this drama ('88) is the fact that she dared to show two main female lead who contraries the so rigid portraited of the femine morality in k dramas - both girls dated and/or fell in love before reaching their true love .

[kepogee]

Congratulations taek and deoksun shippers!

I was a neutral shipper because i was scarred so bad in reply 1994, and it is finally great to see a guy who goes after what he wants and get her in the end. But most importantly, what a great female lead. I relate so much to Sunny Sung Deoksun that I was cheering her on as she realised her feelings and was able to stand on her own.

She chose Taek, this was HER decision.

*Sure, people are telling DS that Taek likes her in ep19 however it is AFTER she decided for herself that she likes him. It's all hearsay to a girl until there is confirmation from the person himself. I know everyone went through this struggle too - the nagging uncertainty of the truth until the person you love confirms it for you.

I can talk how much I love sung deoksun but it is best reserved for the main thread. It is very gratifying to see that the boys didn't overshadow her. She was a character to be reckoned with and she developed so much in all facets of her life, looking back i've come to love her entirely all flaws and edges. 

I wish for more cute scenes in the finale tonight, but i will not be greedy.

This ship that I doubted so much but battled the odds and criticism and fulfilled the scriptwriters vision at the end. I am in awe.

(To my fellow cider shippers in 94, we did it!!!)

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*IMPORTANT EDIT DONE TO PROPERLY QUALIFY SENTENCE AND EXPRESS PROPER OPINION And defend Deoksun's feeling until the very end. Fight me, haters.

Edited January 16, 2016 by kepogee