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Actually I think a lot of k-drama male lead come off as if they are on the spectrum but high functioning. It's just the way of things. She takes it all the way outside to throw it away, but Taek sneaks up behind her and grabs the page out of her hand. Just when you get biased by your favorite actor and refuse to look at the bigger picture,then at the end you'd keep saying they messed up the ending,or it looks forced or that the writer did injustice to JH's character.
She admits to thinking terrible thoughts about just ending their print, but she held on because of their children, and says she was able to keep living for them. That scene with the four friends teasing him, and swearing and dancing together was just so heart-warming. We see their relationship progress over time, as Taek wakes up at the pan of dawn just to walk Deok-sun to the corner. JungHwan is killing me, urgh. ABBA dorz Na ahhh~ YOU DON'T KNOW OUR FEELINGS AS CHILBONG TEAM!!!. Really sad it's over. Bora's story should have been an epilogue or something. It's an annoying for us but also a civil reply 1988 izle for television broadcastbecause they keep the husband till the end. That is true, but I also I think most of them are used to typical Kdrama storylines which the main story is a couple love story and the main POV gets the girl or vice versa, with a solo lead who tries to sabotage the love of the first lead etc; also it has closure for all characters. Although I do have to admit I would've liked to see JH's future.
I've been saying this since Reply 1994. Also boarding at the house is the dark female student with the foul mouth, Jo Yoon Jin. Hopefully, I will have a son and during my pregnancy I will always watch your face hoping that he will look like you.
Park Bo-Gum - Annyeong Haseyo Park Bo-Gum. After watching the Love in the Moonlight episodes on YouTube, I've always wanted to see his face.
And whether we want it or not, the time has come for growing up, and moving on, and saying farewell. Download the latest version. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Bora winces when she sees rain and gets off the bus, but she hardly takes a step before Sun-woo is standing in front of her, umbrella overhead. No-eul recoils at the sight of Deok-sun putting on orange lipstick, and tells her to stop following celebrity trends. He reminded her about their movie date and she told him not to cancel on her like last time, and he went in for a hug. But Deok-sun spotted Jin-ju down the alley at the last minute and ducked, and Taek had to do an awkward air-hug-spin thing that cracks me up. Jin-ju looked at them suspiciously and Taek promised to tell her everything later. Jin-ju accepted that and went home, but not before commenting on the weird ugly lipstick that Deok-sun was wearing, ha. Bora comes home and says the exact same thing to Deok-sun the moment she sees her orange lips, and No-eul dies laughing. You HAVE TO remain neighbors! It would be too sad otherwise! Taek waits at the movie theater for his date, and when people start to recognize him, it turns into a mini fan-signing with autographs and pictures. Jung-bong painstakingly makes a mixtape for Mi-ok, and they make a date to meet at the street market tomorrow. Well now you jinxed it. Sure enough, Sun-woo is mid-kiss when he looks down the street and locks eyes with all three moms. Bora turns around too, and then everyone goes flailing. The scene is hilarious, but the aftermath is heavy, as the dads sit down for a drink with a long sigh and the moms each take to their sickbeds, either in shock, protest, or both. Deok-sun is surprised to hear marriage talk and asks Sun-woo if he intends to marry Bora, and he nods without hesitation. He makes sure that Mom is okay lately too, and she smiles to reassure him. Jung-bong takes Mi-ok out to eat street food at the market and holds her hand as they walk. It seems to sting her conscience though, and she stops. They walk hand-in-hand and he lifts her mood, and she tells him about Jung-bong giving up on law. They reminisce about what good kids Jung-bong and Jung-hwan were even when they were little. It still makes him teary-eyed to think of it, and he says that it still ranks as the happiest moment of his life. Mom remembers how hard it got at times, when Jung-bong was sick and they would run out of rice. She admits to thinking terrible thoughts about just ending their misery, but she held on because of their children, and says she was able to keep living for them. Mom is disappointed but Dad is pleased that he found something he wants to do, and approves wholeheartedly. Based on their reactions, I was waiting for some huge twist. Sun-woo cringes before telling her the full truth—that he and Bora have seen each other for six years. He leaves out the breakup, which is probably for the best. Well how can you argue with that? But when he gets down the street, he spots Sun-woo drinking by himself at the pojangmacha. Jung-hwan checks his watch and hesitates, knowing he has to be back to the base by morning. But when Sun-woo looks up, Jung-hwan is sitting beside him pouring a drink without a word. Mom and Dad just heave deep sighs. They scoff at the idea and say that Taek and Deok-sun hold hands all the time, and when they were little they used to go to the bathhouse together. He heard from Taek that they were dating and he thanks her sincerely, probably for taking such good care of Taek. Taek shows up behind her and wraps his arms around in her a backhug, and she tells him he did a good job before giving him a hug. When they reach their neighborhood, Deok-sun turns to him and asks him to deny the dating rumor for now. He says he did that for six years and refuses to do it anymore. She can barely wrap her head around the two Sungs asking to be married, let alone becoming double-in-laws with one family. Everyone files out of the house, which is exactly when Taek and Deok-sun walk through the gate together. Does it seem like our relationship would easily change? I love how the words just slay him. His eyes roam from her eyes to her lips, and he leans over to kiss her. In 2016, Deok-sun interviews that back then, being double-in-laws was a bigger concern than the surname problem. She says they dated for about two years before getting married, and it took a lot of convincing on her part to get Taek to hold off on telling the parents. She remembers how busy they were back then, and says they mostly had dates in alleys. We see their relationship progress over time, as Taek wakes up at the crack of dawn just to walk Deok-sun to the corner. Deok-sun runs out late at night just to see Taek when he comes home, and he takes her by the hand and asks for a spin around the block just to prolong their goodbye. Future Deok-sun says they shot their share of drama scenes too, and we see Taek burst into a noraebang with a stern face and get mad at Deok-sun for drinking and partying with her coworkers. But she gasps to read the page about that night when she confessed to Sun-woo, and rips it out. She takes it all the way outside to throw it away, but Taek sneaks up behind her and grabs the page out of her hand. But when Sun-woo comes home that night, Taek greets him with a violent punch in the back, hahaha. Husband is asked in his interview about the best thing about dating or being married, and he says that it was being able to quit his sleeping pills. He says he went off of them completely when he started dating Deok-sun. Those were so worrisome. He wonders if his wife even knows him at all, and in close-up we see a little scar on his forehead. We go back to 1978 when Taek first moved to the neighborhood and Deok-sun piggybacked him to school after he broke his arm. Then in 1979, they were wrestling in the street and Deok-sun slammed Taek to the ground so hard that he cracked his forehead open. Both of them cried, but after getting stitched up, Little Deok-sun had tucked him into bed. The teen parts, we were already there for; and then we catch up to them as young adults again, as Deok-sun opens a box with a golden turtle inside. She asks what it is, having expected something different when Taek mentioned he was proposing. Mom is slaving away in the kitchen and Dad is shining the new shoes that Bora bought for him, which he says fit perfectly. Ajusshi tells Sun-woo to be as easygoing as he can to maintain a happy home, and advises him to do his own laundry and cook his own food because Bora works too. Ajusshi wonders when Sun-woo grew up enough to get married, and he says that he and Mom trust him to live well. Augh, and I was doing so well with the not crying today! They both hold back their tears, and Ajusshi is speechless. Bora watches Dad shine his shoes for the millionth time on the day before the wedding, and Mom suddenly gets up in the middle of ironing because she forgot to buy Bora a teapot, and insists that it has to be bought right now. She comes out to find that Dad has made her lunch, and they sit there eating mostly in silence. Bora asks Dad if the shoes fit for the eleventy-billionth time, and he just repeatedly tells her to eat. The whole town and friends and family gather for the wedding. Jung-hwan rushes in just in time, and Dong-ryong presides over the event. Sun-woo enters first and his friends laugh to see him just grinning like a fool, and Mom already starts getting teary-eyed. Outside, Deok-sun makes sure that everything is in place before Bora and Dad walk down the aisle. Deok-sun whispers to Dad that his shoes are way too big awwww, why does that pinch my heart so? Dad walks Bora down the aisle and successfully hands her off to Sun-woo, and everyone claps. Taek says that Bora noona is beautiful, and turns to see Deok-sun crying all her makeup down her face. The families head out to say their farewells before Bora and Sun-woo leave for their honeymoon, and Bora hugs Mom one last time. Thank you for raising me. Bora and Sun-woo take off, and the family turns around and finds Dad suddenly gone. In the car, Bora bursts into tears again, and Sun-woo says he never knew she could cry this much. Lol, exactly alike to the very end. I know that putting side dishes on my rice means that you love me. My daughter, I love you. Why are you only a voice cameo? Bora asks Deok-sun if the interview team is bugging them a lot, and says they promised not to ask for follow-up sessions. Taek offers to make her some later and she turns that down right away, heh. They get thanked for doing the interviews, and they say it was fun to reminisce and talk about their youth and the old neighborhood. Last was her family, and by then their street was completely empty. Deok-sun stands in the middle of the street just looking around at the place where she grew up, and has to be called away before she leaves. Time flows, everything passes by, and ages. The reason that youth is beautiful is because of that. Where would we have gone? Just like any other day, they watch a movie and Dong-ryong farts under the covers. One by one the moms call them home for dinner, just like they did in the opening episode. The others are tiny children too as they each go home, and Deok-sun narrates that this the end of their story in Ssangmun-dong, 1988. I regret not having bid a final farewell to the surroundings of my youth that can never be brought back together again. Do you hear me? There was an added layer of sadness in the usual nostalgia of the franchise, because this one really celebrated a bygone era and a simple way of life that no longer exists. I found myself wishing that no one would move away from Ssangmun-dong, and wanting desperately to see our three ajummas together again just to make me feel better. But nothing stays the same forever and the story was true to life in the end, and perhaps in order to say a proper goodbye to the neighborhood, our characters had to move on. I know they were all alive and well, but it felt like a mourning of their youth, and I found myself wishing we could just close the door and stay in that room forever. I was disappointed in a few things, namely the lack of Jung-hwan in the final episode. Would it have killed you to give him a send-off, a girl, a happy future, a freaking breadcrumb in the present day? It basically ensured that the gigantic Jung-hwan-shaped hole in my heart would be seared open FOREVER. Was that the goal? I wanted to see them actually tell their families about their relationship and get permission to marry, not just talk about it and skip past the hard part. It seemed weird to build that up and not show us in the end. I just wish there had been one last oomph of a conflict to make their love story land with more impact in the last episode, because despite driving the central mystery all series long, once they got together, their romance had little conflict to speak of. Despite that, what made Answer Me 1988 great was that it did more than tell the story of one romance; it was a love story about family, in every conceivable iteration: the love between husband and wife, parent and child, siblings, friends. And what it did brilliantly was weave each relationship in and out of the story, peeling back new layers each time. And just like in real life, we adjusted our understanding of each character the longer we knew them. I can read between the lines, of course, and certainly have no trouble guessing why a girl would fall in love with Taek. But we knew this. It will always be the fatal flaw of this franchise. A huge part of what made this season such a success was the lovely ensemble, full of actors who were riotously funny and could turn on a dime and make me cry like a baby. Taek and his dad stole a lot of my tears too though I probably cried more liters per minute because of Bora and her dad. At the end of the day she was still one of the weaker actors in the cast, but only because she was surrounded by astoundingly good people. And naturally, Ryu Joon-yeol and Park Bo-gum are the runaway stars of the series, and will probably start referring to eras in their lives as pre- Answer Me and post- Answer Me. They were nothing short of amazing, and at the end of the day I love that these two characters existed, more than caring about which of them got the girl. I came into this series with low expectations, knowing that the third time around with a familiar setup and story from the same writer-director team would inevitably fall short. But I was happy to discover that they came into this wanting for it to be an ode to family, and that they still had gripping, heartrending stories to tell about good, down-to-earth people. First of all I want to thank Girlfriday! Thank you for all the hard work and effort you had to put into making viewers like me always satisfied on the weekends. Thank you for following this show and sharing how you felt. You are seriously daebak! Keep up the fantastic work. I also want to thank all those who watched and kept up with Reply '88 with me, even if I don't know who you guys are or where you guys are from. Thank you for all the viewers of the world who laughed, cried, and got angry with me. It's a really wonderful feeling knowing that I'm not the only one obsessed with this show. And most of all, I want to thank all the people who put all their hard work on making this series as amazing as it truly was. Thank you for all the actors who made me fall in love with their characters, flaws and imperfections included. They made my heart beat fast when they needed to, and made the tears flow when they had to. I will honestly miss them so much and their little homes and narrow streets. I know many are mad at the writers, but I am really grateful for them. They made this show so realistic and raw that I felt like I was part of the show. Lastly, I want to thank all the staff who worked just as hard as everyone else. They barely get as much credit as the actors. So here I am, giving them what is due, a huge two thumbs up and a warming virtual hug. At the end of the day, no matter if we are teamjunghwan or teamtaek, I am so happy knowing that I was a part of this beautiful drama that broke boundaries and went beyond the limits. I don't even think there was a second lead or a main lead, because both Taek and Junghwan did such a good job that they both felt like the main leads to me. This is also one of those rare shows wherein friendship overcame and surpassed the love story. And the family, oh my god their families. They are such a bunch of imperfect personalities, that when put together make the perfect bunch. No matter where the love story went or the time that passed, the families always stayed the same, quirky, loud, but always full of love. The show may have ended, but I will always remember them. Maybe some day in the future, I'll suddenly remember them and I'll ask myself how I think they're doing and if they've changed at all. Nah, they're probably the same weirdos I fell in love with. Ever so grateful to you for the recap! This drama has touched my heart in so many ways that I've felt that I lived in Ssamundong with AM1988 cast. The ending is bittersweet. It's bitter that it ended today and knowing I'll miss them so much. It's sweet because this has been an amazing drama and I love every bit of it yes I get frustrated at times and wished for some things but in the end I won't change anything. I didn't expect that last part in the ending. It was so sweet and sad at the same time that my tears just kept flowing even after it finally concluded. I know not everyone liked the finale, but I think it ended beautifully. For some people, please quit the hating just because JH wasn't the husband. I love his character but the show wasn't just about him. I totally feel the same way :. After I watched the series, it feels like I am part of the gang :. It feels like I am growing like how the main characters grew. I have realized a lot of things as I watched the drama and thankfully, I have learned a lot of lessons that certainly brought a lot of impact in my current life situation. I can't accept the fact that the drama is already finished. My fan gay heart is crying :. This is the best drama I've ever watched. This is a ride that I will never, ever forget. Could not agree with you more about what a great show this was. So sad the drama has come to an end. I cried a lot this last episode - and that was watching it raw and only being able to understand a fraction of the dialogue. I was so envious of the ajummas and the closeness they shared - how they loved each other's kids and families and only wanted what was best for each other. They never had ulterior motives for anything they said or did. It was just a beautiful show in that regard. Really sad it's over. It's been such a gem! Although I do have to admit I would've liked to see JH's future. Thank you SO much to DB for the recaps. Thank you to the writer-nims. Thank you to the commenters on this site, regardless of which ship you were on, if any. Hope you can put aside your disappointment and just appreciate it for being the good drama it was and forgive its shortcomings they all have them, unfortunately. It's been a fun ride! Yes this show is very beautiful, it's really one of those rare ones that touches on family ties and friendship. The bittersweet ending really brought tears to my eyes. I'm so glad that Taek and Deok-sun got together, the guy has been in love with her forever for goodness sake, ever since they were kids! I can't imagine how broken-hearted he would be if she has chosen Jung-hwan instead, definitely 100x more Chilbonged than Chilbong. I don't think I can see that. Anyway, as sweet as they are together, the main thing about this show is not romance. It's really about the friendship and family, and for all of those, bravo show, bravo. Ummm does anyone else feel like they been victimized by the writer? I can accept that Taek is the husband but it's like with that decision Junghwan dropped off the face of the earth, mine as well have killed his character off. Same with Dongryong, his screen time was like 10 minutes max. I was still gutted after episode 19 and fell asleep thinking about Answer Me:1988 and ended up dreaming about. In my dream Junghwan confessed to Deoksun and got the girl, I'll just pretend that's how it really ended. HOW did Junghwan go from male lead to second male supporting character with no resolution ever. Overall a beautiful series about wonderful families and lasting love NOT romantic love but love for a true extended family the reaches beyond blood. I will try to not let it be tainted by the stumble at the ending; for this was a truly riveting show that did a great job filling up it's ridiculously long episodes. It's not about who gets the girl but how the story set up the resolution of the conflict of the main characters from the beginning. I understand the story was about family and friends, but the writers focused us in on DS as the central character and drove many plot points for each episode all the way to the end centered around her, her growth, her first love, who her husband is and etc. After all, go back and look at all of our conversations - it was about who DS was going to end up with, not who Bora was going to end up with. And as much as we can say the series is not really about that, it really was because that's how the writers directed us and that's what we focused on and invested ourselves emotionally. I think that's why the ending of a betrayal of a sort. They really mucked up the ending and made it incredibly boring to watch, at least for me. But I guess the writers didn't want to introduce any new actors this late in the game that didn't look anything like the much-loved original characters. Kind of like when they used Jerry Yan as the older version of the kid hero in the Taiwanese movie, Our Times, which just about ruined the future scenes for me. Good thing he was onscreen for just a couple of minutes at the end. But some closure for Answer Me 1988 regarding Jung Hwan and Dong Ryong would have been nice, huhu... I disagree that Junghwan went from male lead to second male lead, because his decision to give up on Deoksun is actually consistent with his character. From the start he has always been the hesitant boy who will put family, brother, and friends first. See, he even pursued his brother's dreams! He's not any less of a character than Taek, but Taek has always been the go-getter from the very beginning. I'm saying this not as TeamTaek because I would've been ok either way. That's what I like about this season too: it was not too polarizing because Junghwan genuinely cares for Taek and vice versa. Anyway, no male lead or second male lead for me because as girlfriday said, everyone carried the story. This is hands down my favorite Reply season! They spent over 60 minutes - almost the entire finale - on Bora! I thought DS was the main character! You can argue about the boys but DS was truly the main character and instead she is the girl on the side, next to the bride, who had about 20 minutes of screen time in the finale. I feel TOTALLY dissatisfied with that. I don't care if they allocated 15 minutes to the other five characters, Jong Bong, the mom's etc but Deok Sun was the main character! She deserved more than a drive by ending. They could have cut the wedding, Bora and her dad scene, JH's mom's menopause story and have had enough time for a solid satisfying ending of all of the characters, rather than just kind of oh, well youth flies by so catch it. Oh, our old neighborhood is demolished. Nope, don't know where all the neighbors ended up. The finale was very rushed, unsatisfying in every way and completely inconsistent with the solid story-telling and detail work up to ep 19. They just completely fell apart part-way through 19 and the finale. That's what I don't understand. It's not that I consider Jung-hwan the male lead, it's that much of the first part of the romance bit was focused on him and his crush on Deok-sun. We saw everything through his eyes, and even when Deok-sun was oblivious to how he felt you couldn't help but root for him. The only reason I ever thought he was the husband was because of how much time we spent watching him try to deal with his feelings. The husband hunting mystery was all secondary to me anyways, but what disappoints me is that narratively it doesn't make sense to me that Taek would be the husband. If we'd spent more time on Taek and watching his feelings grow and etc. As much as I love him and Deok-sun together, my heart broke for Jung-hwan in a way it didn't for Chilbongie. The fact that they decided to almost completely disregard his character in the final episode was what did me in though. As one of the show's most beloved characters, and someone who was so important to the story... I completely agree with you, Nads! Right from the start, a majority of the romance aside from Sunwoo and Bora revolved around Junghwan and Deokseon. Taek was barely involved until the last few episodes. Yes, he gave a chance to Junghwan, but does anyone notice how late he came into the love triangle?? It's quite frustrating when the writers do that. This is what I dislike about the Reply series. They center the romance on a certain character and take a complete 360 to the other guy. I question why I watch this sometimes... It's not that I didn't love Taek - but how could they have basically no Jung-hwan in the final episode. I still feel like my heart has been ripped out and they didn't do anything to help at all! I would have at least got over it better if there had been a hint of a new girl like there was in 1994. Gahh, I can't believe it's over. Thank you Girlfriday for your faithfulness to a show that could not have been easy to recap. I couldn't see how Taek could be endgame, but at the same time, I couldn't see how he could not be endgame. However, his actual relationship with Deok-seon wasn't a relationship. It was a smokescreen of gratuituous fan service followed by entirely one-sided angst. And Deok-seon latching onto him after her crush on Seon-woo went bust. Meanwhile, Taek's POV was never really established, nor was Deok-seon's. But they had the more organic love line--it was never shoved down our throats, the show actually took time to develop their dynamic and allow for some unforced, natural intimacy between them. In a show where literally every major relationship development has been treated like a plot twist, retconned Taek's dad is Seon-woo's mom's oppa! Even if it makes Jung-hwan's existence feel pretty pointless, and makes me question the entire point of the drama why do we need to see the roots of this marriage, considering it's just her faffing around for 16 episodes with silly crushes and then settling down? I have to agree with juniper. I think the problem is that the writers are trying to be original and cute with a plot device that they have used in 2 other drama series. But, you definitely throw people for a loop in a frustrating way if plot points and characters become gimicky and used for the sole purpose of throwing the audience off the scent of the ending. That's part of the reason why the ending was so dissatisfying for me: who cares about Bora! And why the emotional investment with JH if they were going to write him off so easily in ep 19. Actually, scratch that, JH started to disappear as a character from episode 15 or so. All in all - one of the worst and most unsatisfying ending ever. There's a lot of clues pointing to Taek since episode 1, so I don't think the writer change things up based on viewers' interest.. Unlike JH who was written with typical kdrama romantic hero, Taek's relationship with Deoksun has a different and natural built-up. It's not just BAM there you have it. Lurking on a lot of TeamTaek forums, the dots is actually connected. There's why there are lots of people who think TAek-DS as OTP. You can't see the point of connecting the dots because you never really try, and just assumed they never connected. It's a shame though, to view the writer of this drama as low as that. They even shoot SW-BR wedding nearing the finals, do you really think they have time to change the ending? I think this is because the final episode is a narrated from the point of view of Deokson Lee Mi Yeon and Taek Kim Joo-Huk. It is only natural to assume that in real life, the friends and families of Ssangmundong wouldn't have kept in touch as often as before, and now that they're all married the focus of the story is on Deokson's family, including Taek-Deokson and Bora-Sunwoo. Jungbong is mentioned because he is like a celebrity chef now, but other than that, none of the rest of Ssangmundong neighbours are hardly mentioned. This reflects the reality of 2016. The 1988-1999 storyline was more like a fantasy fairytale, as is often the case when we reflect upon our past. If you compare the last scene with Ep01, there is a slight difference. In Ep20, young Taek greets Deokson with a smile and tells her to hurry in. That is not what really happened in Ep01, but that's how Deokson remembers Taek now, someone who always smiled at her and was warm to her. I like this ending very much. I feel like had they showed us DS's process of liking SW and JH and then figuring out that she liked Taek but having JH confess earlier would have still kept the mystery alive and really been good to have her realize but also show us her process of realizing what DR said about her liking someone rather than someone liking her. Half the time AM 94 felt like we were being trolled and in 88 what should have been the main love story felt like a side plot. IMO AM 97 balances the storylines better and individual scenes don't feel dragged out because they have time to fill. Plus 97 gives NotTheHusband a LI of his own, she doesn't feel like a consultation prize but a woman who is a much better fit for him than the one he's been chasing after! I think Answer Me 1997 is still around best. I loved all the side characters and their story points a lot in 1988 but as a story on the whole, I think it was a horrible crash and burn situation. I was enraged watching this episode and realizing that there would be no conclusion for JH. For one of the most beloved characters to get no ending was maddening. Not even an acknowledgement that he's off somewhere leading a good life? Hell, I know that Jung Bong is a celebrity chef, but JH could be living in Antartica for all I know. I'm ok with the idea that DS and Taek ended up together. I am not ok with forgetting the JH even exists as part of this world. Totally agree with you. There is no satisfaction, as we did not know what happened to Jung Hwan and even to Dong-ryong! This drama made Jung Hwan a big part of the story from Ep 1 to 18 then made his an extra from Ep 19 to 20. No continuity at all. Is this because Park Bo-Gum is the bigger star in real life? Closure for all five friends should have been made. Also, they made us believe that DS fell in love with Taek but I did not see nor feel anything except her way of mothering him. I actually feel bad for Taek as he is more in love with DS than DS is in love with Taek. Lastly, I will make my own version of Episode 19 and 20. Who ended up with DS is also a mystery but I will make sure that my audience will buy what I am selling. Did you miss the scenes where DS is so excited thinking about Taek that she can't sleep? Taek is a celebrity with a demanding exacting job. He had a 13 hour match mentioned in this episode yet they are still managing to date and see each other in the morning or after work. It was also mentioned that being a double inlaw is a problem but the show didn't tell us how they resolved it and got the parents to accept their relationship. I don't think she sees him as a child she must take care of, she finds him pretty hot Hello kissing bandit Taek and he has also done things to take care of and protect her like when she was injured and when that pervert flashed her. You could start to see a change in DS's interaction with Taek after they were in China together - she just seemed to check up on him more, like bringing him pastries in the middle of the night, or simply stopping by all alone and not with the others just to spend time with him. But I think DS really started to realize that she liked Taek when he called off their Saturday date and she sat in the library wondering driving herself crazy why. Then, the soccer thing happened where he carried her all the way home. I think Taek is the only person that DS really trully liked, all on her own, and based on her expressions she never really saw him just as a friend. I love this drama for that, it didn't matter who the husband anymore. I wanted them to stay in this little bubble. If you take out the husband-hunting factor, you have to admit this is a bloody great drama! I watched it knowing that the writers are trolls, and having my heart broken from Chilbong I decided to let the show lead me to where it's going. I wasn't sure where it was going with the husband mystery, however there are lots of heart warming and funny moments with the other neighboors, that the other stories overshadowed that, for the most part. This iteration of Reply really did focus more on other things outside the husband mystery, and for that I'm grateful and I forgive them for Chilbonging my heart the last time! I definitely feel you! I really hope to get a glimpse of how other characters are doing in the present. Most importantly, whether they are still as close before or not, and I really want to see potential love lines for dong ryung and junghwan too. I really hope to see the grown up version of jin joo too I thought it will be nice to get go ara or eunji to play the role. This is the only reply series that doesn't show us a glimpse of what and how all the characters are doing now in the present day. Dong ryung and Jung hwan aren't even mentioned in the present interview, very sadly. Some people on other forums guessed that, perhaps, as time passed and they do not see each other everyday unlike before, Taek and DS may have distanced from dong ryung and JH. Since sunwoo is married to Bora, sunwoo + taek + DS are the only 3 still close to each other. However, we can all be quite assured that our kids are doing fine. We can imagine dong ryung opening many restaurants with his business mind, and junghwan being a very experienced pilot by now. Oh, maybe jung bong is even cooking at dong ryung's restuarant. I want to assume that the kids must have created a whatsapp or line group of their own, and everyday they will be teasing each other like usual. We can also assume that the parents still meet up frequently to catch up and talk anything under the sky like before. Oh, and play go stop too. I believe the writer wants us to imagine all that ourselves. Maybe, the show wants to convey that whatever they are doing now, whether the characters are still as close as before or not - all these are not as important as their fond memories from 1988 where they grow up with each other. I think they ran out of time and rushed the finale. It feels totally rushed to me. I want to know what the other characters are up to also. More than that, I wanted to watch the parents' reaction to finding out about Taek and Deok Sun, how they came around to the idea to allow them to marry, and how JH was doing, and etc. DS is the main character. How can an ending be satisfying if we don't really see the process and resolution about our heroine!! I feel incredibly disappointed with the last episode. First, why was the wedding SOOO long?? Why did they linger SOOOO long on Bora and her dad and Sun Woo. I understand that Bora and her dad issue was an interesting plot point but that was NOT the main focus of this series and they could have addressed it in some other episode besides the finale. After all, Bora and Sun Woo or tertiary characters and as cute as they were at times, their story was just a bit contrived and boring if you ask me. Also, Taek and DS TOTALLY got cheated out of their ending. Again, I don't need them to be walking down the aisle but I felt like their story was NOT given a resolution at all! So, ok, they sat in a car and said yeay we'll get married. And he even proposed in the car. Gee, thanks for the romance drama. I feel like writers are trying to find kitchy new ways to write these stories but I think that fails for me. Sometimes, people love cliche and overused romance just because they simply love it. I feel like Taek and DS's story was just rushed when we spent pretty much the entire story on DS, and instead wasted the entire episode on Bora. Bora's story should have been an epilogue or something. I just didn't care that much or felt that invested in Bora's love story - having spent the entire series concerned about DS and HER love story - to really care a full 1 hour about Bora. He just got written off or something after ep 19. Where did he go? That's the resolution we get for JH after 19 episodes of being invested in his love and well-being? How could they just write 2 minutes for him in the story but spend 60+ minutes on Bora and Sunwoo like the entire drama was about them? We weren't invested in them!! We were invested in DS and JH or DS and Taek. Writers, have you gone insane?? I feel so cheated and disappointed by the ending. I was able to forgive a lot of meandering plot points, slow story telling and mediocre forced conflicts as plot driving devices simply because the each character was drawn so well, acted so well and told so well. But for them to crash and burn the ending in a rush like this.... I need a new ending. I know the theme is Our bygone days and bygone youth, but they don't really have to be that heavy-handed, esp. Yes, yes, we all know we can't go back, it's sad and melancholic, but who need manufactured sadness? Can't they wrap up such a well-written series in a more organic way, instead of hitting us over the head with the notion that Once gone, you can't get your youth back? As if we didn't know that!! For as much as the 3 ahjummas love and depend on each other, and the 3 guys too for that matter, tho to a lesser degree, I can't believe that they wouldn't want to move somewhere to live close together. I know that 2 of the older couples are moving to Bangyo, but what about JinJu's mom? Personally, I'd want to see them in their new digs, continuing to have coffee and buns together everyday, and living not too far from their children. Do you believe that DS would want to live far from her parents? Or SW from his mom? Or Taekie from his dad? So at least those couples should be in the same building, bringing dishes to each other riding the elevator! And what happened to JH? Now I find that Uneven. JW deserves a good sendoff. Too many viewers love him too much for him to be dropped like that. I didn't watch this show for the OTP, but for all the characters and their relations. So I'm hurting from not seeing them at the end. I want to see Jung Bong and Mi-ok run his restaurant together, even it it's just for a split second in a montage of send offs for peripheral characters, not just have it mentioned in voice over. I want to see who D Ryong is with, and how far he lives from the gang. Are they on their own, or do they get to meet up with the other parents? The older actor doesn't show us any of Taek's mannerisms. There is no crinkle in his smile, none of Taek's charm. He definitely bears more resemblance to the non-expressive JH. I'm not convinced at all that Taek will grow up to act like that or look like that. Don't tell me Park Bo Gum is gonna look like that in 20 years! Not that the guy is bad-looking, just that I see no resemblance. It's a cheap trick to cast an actor who looks like one guy only to have him turn out to be another guy just to troll us. I'm happy that the husband is Taek, but this older guy is not an older version of Taek. It's Bait and Switch. I'm not 100% sure. I'm not team Jung Hwan or team Taekie, but I did think Kim Joo Hyuk was showing Jung Hwan mannerism. I guess we'll never know.. They said they never told the actor who played old Taek who the husband was, just so he doesn't give it away from the mannerism. But I agree with you, Taek was so particular in his mannerism that it's hard to believe that Taek would have changed that much, would have learned to talk so openly and freely swearing and saying mean things to DS. Again, the writers tried too hard to keep the mystery going and I think it backfired on them in this series. Sun Woo's mom said in one of the recent eps that Taek's Dad looked exactly like Taek as a young man. Hence 2015 Taek looks like his Dad. Which appeases me a little. Still feel that Jung Hwan's story got gipped at the end. But other than the blatant JH 2015 mannerisms got toned down I can accept 2015 Taek as is. Still would've liked a resolution of any kind for Jung Hwan. Even could've heard what happened to Dong Ryong. I mean come on! We only heard about what happened to 3 of the 5 kiddos? This of course means that JH and DR would need middle aged actors to represent them. Or a woman in a military uniform teasing him and JH getting a goofy grin as she walked away? JH got even less than Chilbong. Cliches, when done right, are great. I mean, this whole genre of Kdramas, or any kdramas really, are a big recycling of old cliches but we still continue to watch them and obsess over them. It's not like the formula is that different; it's just the cliches are done better for some. So, I don't mind cliches and I think this drama could've used some at the end in order to wrap it up better than how it ended. I agree 100% of everything you said, KAddictJCW. I know they had to grow up but why couldn't they continue to live in that neighborhood. I really thought that even if they moved, we would find them still living across from each other, in some other town but sharing food, and love, and stories in this new place and growing old together, this time with their kids. That was the charm of the show. That's what the show hooked us on - the charm of that little alley street where the community was loving and everyone seemed safe and insulated from the rest of the world. I wanted to see that. The writers ruined it for me. I'll have to go and dream up an ending like that for myself. Spent my time watching the finale posting on social media while drinking soju. Anyway, for those who stuck to TeamJunhwan, let's all support Ryu Joon-yeol. It may have been goodbye to his first love, but a hello RJY from us. During the finale, there was an increase in his followers in Instagram. If you have IG, follow him ryusdb and drop a comment. Thanks to the sane db readers and RJY fans. I hope the writer doesn't write another Answer Me season within the next five years. The ratings for the finale dropped significantly because of what happened. Can we sue her for emotional distress? So am I one of those insulting everyone who isn't Jung-hwan? And how can you move on in less than 24 hours? Go reply to those JH fans insulting others. They're doing a disservice to the character going around like that and doesn't deserve a reply imo. I just found your reply offensive and thought I shouldn't reply at all but yeah, that was kinda rude and needed to be called out on. This is one of the reasons why I rarely comment on db threads anymore only on the shows that really affected me. There's no sense of that old community spirit where if one poster was feeling bad about what happened on a show, someone else would be cheer them up and not laugh at them feeling the way they felt. The family stuff was great and heartwarming and one of the greatest highlights of this show. Re: the ratings - so I heard wrong. I am reading a comment and suddenly there is a curt response, it is yours. I am reading another comment, BAM, there is another curt response, and it is again yours! This passive aggressive thing is just not right in a discussion. We loved the Drama and are trying to get on with life, can be done without the tasteless interjectory. Thank you for voicing your strong opinion always about the husband. I mean people miss all the hints that the writer placed a lot of times in different episodes. Just when you get biased by your favorite actor and refuse to look at the bigger picture,then at the end you'd keep saying they messed up the ending,or it looks forced or that the writer did injustice to JH's character. But JH never really took his acts forward to confess. His hesitations made him loose Deok Sun in the process. The time when he kept away from DS,at all those times DS's bonding with Taek kept growing strong. I wish people stop saying the same ole thing over and over. This reply series has been simply the best of all three IMO. I hope they write tons. This series had more inter-generational heart and era-capturing moments for me than the others. This one's the one that felt like regular people living regular lives, rather than extraordinary cases. People who were looking for a straight-up teen romance might have a different take, but for me this one was pretty perfect. This series touched my heart in so many ways. I laughed, cried, squealed like a school girl, yearned that I lived with them, and felt a lot of other things. There are so many special moments in this drama that I had to pause and internalize. It's not perfect but I hope she writes tons more for viewers who LIKE and LOVE her writing. I think it's rather childish for someone to hope the writer won't write the next five years. She never forced anyone to watch. I hope they make more similar series with some cross-over characters. It really stood out for me in the franchise and I probably cared more about the characters. However 1997 despite being choppy at times did have a better narrative overall. I watched the finale without subs, it was so satisfactorily heartwarming, leaving a contented and cozy feeling lingering in my heart. The writers and the crew did a fantastic job in creating this third series which well surpassed the AM 1997 and 1994. Also, thanks so much GF for your passionate recap episode after episode. As for Teakie and DS, I could not imagine how it would have felt like to fall in love with a childhood friend, someone so close and familiar, almost like family. It was able to defy the saying, familiarity breeds contempt, to enable him not only to overlook all her short-comings, but to love her whole-heartedly for who she had been, the chubby little girl and the boorish teenage girl. The same goes for Yoon-jae and Si-won in AM 1997. The way he could be brought to tears instantaneously when faced with the dilemma of loving DS and risking losing her friendship speaks volumes, and the way he always unreservedly leaned on DS when he was totally worn out showed how much he trusted and needed her. DS is his only refuge, she is EVERYTHING to him! Well, I guess the intention was to portray it in a realistic way. Many of us have crushes on people we know for a long time and never confess due to the circumstances... I get that it was painful for the viewers though and certainly they should have given Jung Hwan some screen time in the last episode, and a nice wife and children! Of course the problem was that they didn't show us Deok Sun's feelings until the end. This was good for the mistery but took away the excitement of seeing them getting together. There was no building up for romantic tension so we would not know what was going on. If we had seen before how she spent nights without sleep, or how she felt rejected when he said he was relieved that the kiss was only a dream... Still, I think the writer did a very good job. I will miss this drama. Honestly, the way 2015 Taek and Deok Sun interact really solidified the entire thing for me. They're so fond of each other, and she touches him constantly, but it's not a mother hen thing - they clearly have a deep, affectionate love. It's a good relationship and a charming look at how friendship can turn to love. In the end, they fit together so well and clearly are doing incredibly well together. Did you notice during the interview at the end how Taek was going to try and open that tin of butter cookies and DS takes it out of his hands to open it for him, almost without looking? They played that very well! Like it was automatic for her to help him open the can without even thinking - like it had become so natural for her to do things like that for him over the years. Just like how they kept touching each other on the knees and little signs of affection like that as adults in the interview. It was nice to see how their relationship started slow and slowly just blossomed over time - such a nice, happy ending for them. I totally agree about Taek and Deok-Sun. I kinda hate the husband hunt since their story could have been a lot more developed if the writer would have allowed her to show more feelings for him earlier. I love their journey from friends to lovers. And Taek just adores everything about her. I mean, he loves her ugly orange lipstick. If that's not love I don't know what is. And I love that she believed him that it was pretty! She kept wearing it. I just kind of love that. Yes, the show was fantastic. I'm really grateful for the homely and yet universal stories from different generations. Though the stories appear simple on the outset, they're very sensitive observations of life. It has been really moving, and probably will go down as one of the best drama series I've seen in ever. While I'm always a bit wary of those OTP story lines where through flashbacks, they show us how two people have been bonded for life - I think even without those flashbacks of them sleeping and holding hands as children, I believe how this couple could work. DS could always bring out that big, radiant smile from Taek, and pull him back from his hyper focused work to a more simple reality, and make him aware of the world around him. And Taek just adores her and fully commits when the time was right. The finale was really emotional. And just like in real life, we adjusted our understanding of each character the longer we knew them. Thankfully, unlike going back to our real past, we can go back and re-watch the whole show when we want again. JH has done his best. Evryone has their own personality and different people acts different ways in a situation, if we love them we hav to love the whole of them. As 'pebble' mentioned Taekie's love was hopelessly desperate and do or die thing, he needed her the most and he deserved her. Have to admit something felt like they were left hanging, making us questioning for more answer; what happened to rest of the kids, how are the rest of the family doing. But then it dawned on me, maybe it is intentional that it was left that way. When the families moved out, like any of us who would move to a new place, we no longer keep in touch with the people we used to hang out with as often as we used to. When the clip showing the rundown Ssamundong, I just lost it. It made me remember my childhood and the friends I grew up with and how I no longer where they are and how they are doing. And the neighbourhood I lived in is now just a block of apartments. Maybe this is what the director and writer wanted us to feel.. Thanks Reply 1988, it was such a great journey. One of the best drama and the most heart-warming one I've watched in my 2 decades of Kdrama watching. You lose touch with people, your neighborhood looks different, and your heart breaks a little. And it's only natural that the two sisters stuck together, bringing their husbands with them - the other two boys won't have come home to the neighborhood once people left, so meetings would have been less frequent. When they married, they'd see each other less. It's just the way of things. I thought the whole thing was gorgeously done. Captured a time and place perfectly, one that is distant enough from our present day that it truly feels like time travel. Intergenerational stories rather than wholly youth-focused. There was nothing unrealistic about how this shook out. She could've ended up with Taek or JH, but she ended up with Taek. The story about how that happened was well-told and true to the characters. I'm not sure how they'd top this with another series, honestly. Even when you go back, everything has moved on, including yourself. The show has been really amazing. Just shows audiences can get entirely invested in shows that don't have high-tech CGI, action sequences, ridiculous OTT tropes etc. Weird but it reminds me of a book like A Suitable Boy. It was a huge tome, but it portrayed such detail across various families, and once you got into that world, you were fully immersed. I guess it takes maturity and experience to fully appreciate this series. Not saying this to bring down the other viewer groups. What i mean is you need to have had experience with outgrowing people around you and be separated from them to not be persuaded with the husband hunting fiasco. As what the director said from the very beginning, it is meant to be an homage to family and the old times. What an homage it was, perfect in every way! I think you're right. And when I was a teenager or in my early 20s, if you'd told me some of my closest neighborhood friends would drift away and that 50 new houses would be built in the nature preserve in my back yard, I'd've been pretty upset. That is exactly what happened, but it all happened gradually and there were small reasons for each event, so it's not one knockout punch like at the end of a TV series. So maybe that's the difference. People who are younger watch this finale with a sense of panic because it's basically telling them that their current world is going to change drastically. Older people watch the finale nostalgically because it's already happened, and even though it hurt when it did, we all lived and made new friends and lives and homes and it's just how life is. I mean, if you'd told me as a high schooler that my personal Jung Hwan would be living on the other side of the world right now and that I'd have last talked to him quite literally six years ago, I'd've been crushed and disbelieving, because we were unbelievably close. But as we got older he got a little meaner, and I moved away, and eventually we just became much less important to each other. I'm completely okay with how things are, but my high school self DEFINITELY would not have been, and would have thought this a terrible future. So maybe a large portion of the audience is sensing that message and rejecting it. That is true, but I also I think most of them are used to typical Kdrama storylines which the main story is a couple love story and the main POV gets the girl or vice versa, with a second lead who tries to sabotage the love of the first lead etc; also it has closure for all characters. And this drama is everything but the above. I really appreciate how the writer is trying to break this mould. It's about bloody time someone shows up with a fresh concept! Some finds the lack of closure as a flaw on the story telling, I actually find it as a narrative gift.. Wait, Mi-ok is still her friend but Junghwan and Dongryong - two boys she grew up with - no longer has connection with her? If anything, she has a much longer history with them than with Mi-ok. And what about Ja-hyun then? If Deoksun's still connected with Mi-ok, how about Ja-hyun? She wasn't mentioned too. Are we to think they're not friends anymore? If anything, I expected Deoksun AND Taek to maintain communication with the other two BECAUSE THEIR FRIENDSHIP WAS CENTRAL TO THE STORY. Episode after episode, we were shown how solid their friendship was. They always got each other's back through thick and thin. One even chose to give up on the girl he likes to honor that friendship. Now that the husband's identity had been revealed, we relegate the friendship to a mere plot device? Fine, so we don't get to see what future Junghwan and Dongryong look or sound like. But would it really be such a bother for Deoksun and Taek to even mention them? Would it really be too much to expect the writer to come up with a scenario for the gang to get together again after so many years? Maybe celebrate Junghwan's engagement or Dongryong's successful new business venture? Maybe to announce Deoksun and Taek's new baby? I mean, come on! But this is the beauty of this drama, no? But i compare it with my own life. You are very much welcome. I managed to convince one viewer what a great ending it is, yay! I sincerely would like to pat the writer on the back and tell her how much she has done well with this installment. This is HER story and HER message she wanted to tell. And it may not come across to all of the viewers as she has expected to be; I just want to let her know that I get it! I understand how she feels because I feel the same. I guess different minds have different perceptions on the ending. My take is DS never saw those friends again once they and she moved out. That was why she cried when she came back to the rundown neighborhood and went into the room and saw those 5 younger self again, because not only she missed her friends, she was longing for those times; being with them and just doing pointless stuff but fun. That's why it resonates with me when I watch that scene over and over again. It makes me think of my childhood friends and realise how much I miss them and how regretful I am for not keeping in touch with them throughout these years. What a horrible friend I am, I know. I would've felt content and just gotten on with my life. So for that bitter sweet ending, I am thankful to Answer Me 1988 because I'm going track my friends one by one now~ For those who've been wanting closure to JH and DR's characters, episode 19 is dedicated for them. Now that I've watched episode 19 with subs horrible subs from DF, some of the dialogues are mistranslated or not translated at all!! It's there all along, segway into the dialogue I love this show! SO GLAD that I stopped watching after E10 aired. The episodes were just too long to my liking. After getting Chilbonged and his character getting the step-sisterly treatment I don't think I could've endured JH getting a worse treatment. Once characters have served their purpose this writer just treats them ala flies in a cup of tea. Atleast Chilbong got a girl... I don't think where is this chilbong affiliation start, because both doesn't get the girl? Now that you know the ending, please watch it without considering the whole who-is-the-husband bonanza; just take that side of the story with a grain of salt. Have another go with a fresh mind? Watch it for the stories of the family and that good old time when there wasn't an ounce of evilness in the people we saw on the street; when we happily helped random people rather than inflicted pain. It will certainly exorcise those angers you have on the writers and leave you with longing that good old days. Well, I will admit that this episode was a bit painful. I am happy for Taekie he is precious , and I think he and DS are really very cute together; it just sucks to be on the losing ship. But I guess I just have to remember that it is because show was written so well that we feel so protective and identify so much with the characters. One of the most addicting parts of Reply 1988 was the first love storyline, but, for me at least, the most poignant and unique storylines revolve around the relationships of the family, friends, and neighbors. This Reply, more then any of the others, was focused on the dynamics of a small, tight knit group of families and their struggles and triumphs. Congrats to all of you Taekie shippers! Just please be gentle with us JH shippers tonight, our hearts are broken. Thanks for the recaps jb and gf! It has been a pleasure. You know a drama is exceptionally amazing that when even though you can only understand every other sentence I watched the Raw episodes , the show can still cause you to form tears. The acting, the directing, the music, just everything came together perfectly to make this show. I have never been more wow-ed by a korean drama and really showed us what makes this show really shine: that everyday, people don't usually show their love for one another through long speeches, confessions and flowery words. It's the simple actions you do everyday between a father and daughter, husband and wife, and a friend to a friend. Thank you Reply 1988 for being such an awesome series and making me realize other ways I can show my love and appreciation to my friends and families. It was bittersweet that the drama has already ended so soon. Excuse me, I'm not crying. My eyes are just sweating. What a fantastic ending to such a heartwarming and nostalgic series even tho I was born in 89 I still feel like I lived right in ssangmundong with these characters - goes to show how good they produced R88. Yeah, yeah I was Team JH, but I think in the end Taek fit so much better with DS and they were so cute together that I couldn't help but love this pair as well. Plus I like it when I see couples comfortable with each other, smiling all big and goofy, openly showing their affections for each other. Can the Reply series writer PLEASE MAKE A SPINOFF WITH JH FINDING HIS GIRL PLEASE. I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE. Thank you for the recaps!! Yeah, I'm not even in Team Junghwan, but actually I'm thinking about the drama special episode. They always do this, but it's always the behind the scene footage. That would be wonderful that they make the spin-off about Junghwan, Dong-ryong, and at least how Deoksun and Taek got their permission. But with Signal actually premiers next week, I don't think that will happen. Unless this: Reply 1988 aired every Fri-Sat at 7:50. While Signal will air at 8:30. Let's hope that there will be a 30-minutes special episode for this. I think the way the romance was executed in this instalment of the Reply series really hurt the story and left half the viewers with a broken heart and sore about the overall product. Such a shame because in all other aspects this is not only the best of this series but one of the best of all kdramas I ever watched. Best mysteries are the ones which surprise the viewers by the outcome but in hindsight you are convinced that all the consistent clues lead to this natural outcome and you are not left dissatisfied. In this series in order to maintain the mystery continuously contradictory clues are dropped and not everyone is happy with the outcome and welcomes the surprise. In all honesty I cannot call this masterful writing. I do not watch love triangles as I watch a sports event. I may ship one couple over another but for me what determines whether the story is good or not is not only who ends up with whom but more importantly the process of how they get there. The amount of mystery forced into the Reply series come on, not knowing the endgame until the very last week is ridiculous! To me that is the best part of a romance story. Reply 1994 is not one of my favorites for this reason even though I was Team Oppa. I did not like how the romance progressed at all and the fact that the couple I wanted to see together was together in the end was not enough to satisfy me. Even if it was my ship it would have been too little too late. I don't think the flaw is in the writing, I think the flaw is in the fan obsession with declaring for a certain pairing and then spending the next 16-ish episodes convincing each other that you're finding irrefutable evidence to support your claim. There are actual psychological studies about this - if you listen to the same theme repeatedly, you will genuinely start to think it's true, no matter the factual content. This is a really enjoyable series if you let the mystery take a backseat. In fact, it would considered a negative trait in most fiction. I've been saying this since Reply 1994. I was on team Chilbongie and even though he didn't get the girl I was floored by the storytelling. This instalment impressed me even more that I want to go back and rewatch the whole series again to enjoy Taek's scenes with Deoksun without the possible cloud of doom roaming in the back beach scene anyone? I love the storytelling and yes, even though the husband hunt is annoying it's part of what makes this series so addictive. I was team JungHwan, but that's OK. Without the hunt you'd all probably be complaining that it's too predictable or that it's boring. I love how the writers twist things with red herrings because everything does come together in the end. And I'm not hating on the shippers, I just want the writers to get the accolades they deserve for how well written this series is. When Taek started to show feelings for Deoksun, I was in peril. I knew I was going to love him. But ironically because before I shipped JungHwan and Deoksun, and I was SURE that JungHwan was the husband, I could push back the loveline back and focused on the story. It helped that this installment wasn't all to focused on the loveline so I could enjoy the show without succumbing to shipping-focus. And I enjoyed the show more because of it. Choi and Sunwoo's mom was my ultimate ship. Can we have more of parent-ships later? Am I the only one who shipped those 5 friends??? Like Girlfriday, I just want them to stay in this little room where they stay perky and mischievous; not to mention young?? By the middle of the drama, I really gave up on the husband guessing. The family and friends stories just blew me away. Never in my life have I ever invested this much in a drama. I certainly enjoyed this show best compare to the other 2 instalments. Well, that's what I think too about the mystery husband. Hate it to the core, but when I think it again, probably one of the reason why I checked Dramabeans like crazy for ep 19 and 20 recap because I want to know if Deok-sun really end up with Taek or not. It's an annoying for us but also a smart move for television broadcast , because they keep the husband till the end. So yeah, I don't know should I hate or admire the writer for the gut to raise that much emotions. However, it's a testament that the writer really write a good characters. We as a viewer really connect with them, feel for them, and care if they are happy or not. And the writer always success is when it comes to family and friendship. From 97 to 88, whenever it about friendship or family, I just can't... I guess I tended to take the clues, in the same way as I took each new detail about the characters week by week. I was getting to know them bit by bit, through the stories and the layers revealed, so I also felt like I was being shown, bit by bit, how the relationships developed and grew. The couples - whoever they ended up with, or whether they stayed together - seemed part of the overall story. I do think they use the device, and there's something to be said about why it is so compelling. Giving heartbreak through a story is also a narrative gift. I think it's like going to the theatre to watch a tragedy - you already know there will be a loser, and there will be sorrow and gnashing of teeth. But that is also a valid experience. This comment was flawless. While I think this Reply was by far the best in terms of development for side characters like the parents and siblings, it really messed up the romance story line by attempting to make it a mystery until the last possible moment, and it hurt the show overall. For me, the best romance story line was Reply 1997. It pretty was clear from the start that Yoon-jae would get Shi-won, and they basically revealed it with like 4-5 episodes to go, so we got to see the main couple as an actual couple. Although I did like Taek and DS, we didn't really get to see then act like a couple for very long, and we missed important moments, like their wedding or telling their parents about their relationship. Never in my life have I ever been so invested with someone else's husband! You make me look into all those little clues like a mad person trying to figure out them. But I'm happy that we get such a realistic portrayal of a couple in love from them. I just wish I could see their parents face when they reveal that they're actually dating. That would be priceless. Dude just gave K-Drama heroes a whole new definition. His love for DS was so deep he doesn't need all those romantic moves we see so often in K-Dramas, heck, he doesn't even need a confession. Any girl would fall in love with a man like that. I know I would. In episode 2, I think, his response to the loud television, made him seem on the spectrum. I think after that they pull that characteristic way back. His ability to hyper focus on one thing and calm way of speaking, and flustered in new situation and stepping back could be seen as someone who was on the spectrum but very hiigh function. THis would also explained why his differences lessened as he got older and gained social skills. He remained sensitive to noise. If that was what the series was going for I was happy that they showed someone on the spectrum living a satifying and complete life. Actually I think a lot of k-drama male lead come off as if they are on the spectrum but high functioning. I swear this show makes me bipolar. Yesterday I was super happy with Taek DeokSeon revelation. Today I'm so upset and feels like there is a Ssangmundong sized hole in my heart and currently going through 5 stages of grief: Denial: this can't really be the end right? Surely I've missed some parts of the show. How can the writer not tell us about what happened to Jung Hwan and Dong Ryo Anger: no seriously Show, you had almost two hours every week. Can't you just show me at least Deok Seon's flashback on how she came to like Taek instead of flashbacks we've already seen? And what are Jung Hwan and Dong Ryo? This is not even a mystery show why are you leaving an open ending why?? Family dramas are neatly wrapped up at the end!! Bargaining: ok, I'm sorry I got greedy for a Chilbongie cameo. All I really need is just for you to confirm that everyone is still friends in present day and they still meet up regularly and Taek's bday is still celebrated every year because it's tradition and they all come over for drinks. The ajummas are all living in the same apartment building right? They all still meet up to gossip everyday right?? You are making a special aren't you? This can't possibly be the last episode.... Depression: this is it isn't it.... Acceptance: I don't know what that feels like.... I haven't gotten there yet... SeGa's Kim Joo Won or TMS' Joo Jong Won don't exist in real life. But I'm sure there's a piece Choi Taek in each of us. So please KDrama writers make another Choi Taek! I know many people are upset we didn't get to see JH romantic life. But I believe the writer gave him justice. He doesn't need a girl as a consolation prize. Lastly, seeing Ssangmundong turning into ruins breaks my heart. Knowing that I won't again see the ahjummas or the OT5 hanging out at Taek's room eating ramyun makes me a lil' sad. All those memories even if it's just a drama felt so real. Thank you writer-nim for gifting us Reply 1988. I just went from LOVING this show to feeling bitter about it because of the last episode. I was one of the many that rooted for JH I admit to rooting for Taek at times, he's just so cute. However, I did not like how his character got neglected after he confessed to DS. Like ok was he only used as plot device and cameo?? We only saw him and DR for like 5 minutes total while SW and BR love them, but still got over half of the episode for their wedding shenanigans!! This also makes me angry that TK and DS relationship was quickly shown in a ten minute sequence. And I don't like that I had this thought but it makes me wonder if they just changed the husband from JH to TK last minute. Don't get me wrong I was happy with either one of them being the end game. I love that TK got the girl because why not? He's sweet and loves her as much as JH did, but the writer went too deep with JH's love for DS that the reversal was so jarring looking at you Kim Joo Hyuk. Overall, R88 was a fantastic, realistic, heartwarming drama that made me laugh, cry, and feel all kinds of extreme emotions. Do all the friends even stay in contact? This is going to leave me in a funk for the next few days. On another note: I've definitely got my eye on the cast especially Ryu Joon Yeol and Park Bo Gum for their future projects. They all did fantastic jobs and I wish them all more success in the future!!