Does this mean that this crowd is conscious of what’s happening but also experiences the time freeze?
This begs the question. How? Aren’t the people who are able to do this either a manhwa hero or those close to them?
#5. Dragon Spaceship.
Weird! How did YJ end up here?
#7. Dragon Spaceship.
I casually read through the term ‘retro-causality.’ It is now repeated here. It turns out to be a physics term, of which I hadn’t encountered until I read it here. Wikipedia says, ‘Retrocausality, or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one.’
I can sense, even without watching it, that you probably got this idea from Sisyphus the scifi kdrama that you wrote about.
Anyway, by introducing retrocausality, you can practically handwave any plothole, or introduce one for the sake of the story without needing to justify how the fuck it happened. Neat!
#9. My browser, Brave, doesn’t load some of the pictures in this section and perhaps some. Even after pressing reload, it doesn’t work.
I checked in other browsers, and it’s okay. So for this episode, I had to use MS Edge.
Anyway, so far, it’s a relatively easy start. There is action with all these unknown dudes. I am not invested in them, so I don’t feel them so much as a threat. More on an inconvenience on YJ’s part.
#10. On the Pick-up (day).
Okay, we see now that the rape attempt is the Narrator’s doing.
{RECALL INSERT, Ep52 - On the Pick-up (day).}
KC: The Narrator has no access to the Imagination.
Once YJ has access to the Imagination, it seems she can create objects out of thin air. No need for a stylus.
C13#17. Corridor.
So that’s why when SB and Prof Park went to the new world, SB is greeted by Sin-Moo. The real world of Lost Reality is shifted to the world of Butterfly Girl. When he appeared in the previous episode, it was such a surprise. But as the Narrator describes it, it doesn’t seem surprising anymore. I’m disappointed, though, because I was hoping another world we haven’t seen. (Well, I was actually hoping Sin-Moo was in that unknown world in the previous episode.)
#14. So-Sun's building (late afternoon) + MONTAGE.
Since we see Chul-Moo again, I wonder if his ability to summon people will be of use here. He might be of use here.
C15#12. Garden.
Since YJ seems nonchalant, I only expect that she knows how to deal with the missile because she can’t die here.
C17#4. Garden.
This reminds me of the time when KC shot YJ, thinking she wouldn’t be hurt.
#20 functions as a much needed break. It’s pretty chill reading it. They may be tense but this pair is having the time of their life.
Conclusion
This has a moderately fast middle but slow beginning and ending. I appreciate the change of pace. Who knows if the final two episodes will be so much faster and these are just a set up?
"Does this mean that this crowd is conscious of what’s happening but also experiences the time freeze?"
They are frozen in time, so they cannot react or experience anything. The word "panicked" probably creates confusion, whereas it's just the physical appearance in which they are frozen. Your comment is very useful here, it's the type of intention error that is very difficult to find. I need to find a way to improve this line to make it 100% clear.
"I casually read through the term ‘retro-causality.’" ‘Retrocausality, or backwards causation.
The physical term doesn't quite correspond to what I put in this word. It would probably be more accurate (but unfortunately less classy and longer) to use "Causal retro-continuity" or another term. My meaning is more the idea of a cause that is implanted in the past from the present time, so that this cause modifies the present. This concept has been used in W2 for a long time. Yoon-Hee notices that having invented Princess Dong forced the manhwa to create the character as if he had always existed. Episode 23, Yoon-Hee sees that Mi-Ra changed the plot of "Queen of Darkness" by inventing a prior event, but influencing the present. It's used on other occasions. This is not really time travel, but rather based on the idea that in a comic book, one can invent a prior event, and that this event will have an influence on the present. Or also, that inventing a present event can force a redefinition of the story's past. I don't know which good term would suit best. The idea actually comes from W season 1, when Kang Chul dodges the truck, or when he makes the last two months of his life pass as a dream. No real time travel, but a change of the prior plot.
"My browser, Brave, doesn’t load some of the pictures"
I use Chrome or Firefox, but since it's on PC, it must be easier to load, in case you're using another system.
"Once YJ has access to the Imagination"
Yes, in fact the whole beginning was just an illusion of the Imagination. YJ was in the Imagination from the beginning without knowing it (whereas it was her goal to come here while remaining half in the portal Ep51).
"Since we see Chul-Moo again, I wonder if his ability to summon people will be of use here."
KC tried a teleportation in Ep51 (in the flashback), it didn't work, for two reasons: - He can only teleport to W or from W (therefore, not in a manhwa "Lost Reality"). Principle seen early Ep26. - And anyway, W has ceased to exist.
"Since YJ seems nonchalant, I only expect that she knows how to deal with the missile because she can’t die here."
She really thinks the missile is going to kill her, her and Chul-Moo. She has become permanently crazy. She has even forgotten the reset principle, since she suicide in vain once before (with the scalpel), then she cleans the bedroom in vain.
"#20 functions as a much needed break."
When I wrote the first draft, I was quite stressed about avoiding plot-holes. And I remembered that Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee were semi-fictional. So they wouldn't be affected by the stasis. But there needed to be a reason why they didn't come find Yeon-Joo quickly. Hence the idea of a tourist trip and a long journey to make for the return.
"Who knows if the final two episodes will be so much faster"
It's rather focused (as one suspects) on the fate of the characters, the resolution and the emotional impact. Hard to talk about fast pace or not. I notice that some passages are quite dense with numerous revelations. Whether in the first draft or this rewritten version, I've always had the feeling that episode 54 was the best of all, but not because of a frantic pace, rather the way it strikes in depth.
I’ll finish this day with another episode.
ReplyDeleteCommentary for Episode 52
#1. Gwanghwamun Square (late afternoon).
Does this mean that this crowd is conscious of what’s happening but also experiences the time freeze?
This begs the question. How? Aren’t the people who are able to do this either a manhwa hero or those close to them?
#5. Dragon Spaceship.
Weird! How did YJ end up here?
#7. Dragon Spaceship.
I casually read through the term ‘retro-causality.’ It is now repeated here. It turns out to be a physics term, of which I hadn’t encountered until I read it here. Wikipedia says, ‘Retrocausality, or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one.’
I can sense, even without watching it, that you probably got this idea from Sisyphus the scifi kdrama that you wrote about.
Anyway, by introducing retrocausality, you can practically handwave any plothole, or introduce one for the sake of the story without needing to justify how the fuck it happened. Neat!
#9. My browser, Brave, doesn’t load some of the pictures in this section and perhaps some. Even after pressing reload, it doesn’t work.
I checked in other browsers, and it’s okay. So for this episode, I had to use MS Edge.
Anyway, so far, it’s a relatively easy start. There is action with all these unknown dudes. I am not invested in them, so I don’t feel them so much as a threat. More on an inconvenience on YJ’s part.
#10. On the Pick-up (day).
Okay, we see now that the rape attempt is the Narrator’s doing.
{RECALL INSERT, Ep52 - On the Pick-up (day).}
KC: The Narrator has no access to the Imagination.
This is another important detail to keep in mind.
{RECALL INSERT, Ep51 - Room 9-11 (late afternoon).}
Once YJ has access to the Imagination, it seems she can create objects out of thin air. No need for a stylus.
C13#17. Corridor.
So that’s why when SB and Prof Park went to the new world, SB is greeted by Sin-Moo. The real world of Lost Reality is shifted to the world of Butterfly Girl. When he appeared in the previous episode, it was such a surprise. But as the Narrator describes it, it doesn’t seem surprising anymore. I’m disappointed, though, because I was hoping another world we haven’t seen. (Well, I was actually hoping Sin-Moo was in that unknown world in the previous episode.)
#14. So-Sun's building (late afternoon) + MONTAGE.
Since we see Chul-Moo again, I wonder if his ability to summon people will be of use here. He might be of use here.
C15#12. Garden.
Since YJ seems nonchalant, I only expect that she knows how to deal with the missile because she can’t die here.
C17#4. Garden.
This reminds me of the time when KC shot YJ, thinking she wouldn’t be hurt.
#20 functions as a much needed break. It’s pretty chill reading it. They may be tense but this pair is having the time of their life.
Conclusion
This has a moderately fast middle but slow beginning and ending. I appreciate the change of pace. Who knows if the final two episodes will be so much faster and these are just a set up?
Delete"Does this mean that this crowd is conscious of what’s happening but also experiences the time freeze?"
They are frozen in time, so they cannot react or experience anything. The word "panicked" probably creates confusion, whereas it's just the physical appearance in which they are frozen. Your comment is very useful here, it's the type of intention error that is very difficult to find. I need to find a way to improve this line to make it 100% clear.
"I casually read through the term ‘retro-causality.’" ‘Retrocausality, or backwards causation.
The physical term doesn't quite correspond to what I put in this word. It would probably be more accurate (but unfortunately less classy and longer) to use "Causal retro-continuity" or another term. My meaning is more the idea of a cause that is implanted in the past from the present time, so that this cause modifies the present.
This concept has been used in W2 for a long time. Yoon-Hee notices that having invented Princess Dong forced the manhwa to create the character as if he had always existed. Episode 23, Yoon-Hee sees that Mi-Ra changed the plot of "Queen of Darkness" by inventing a prior event, but influencing the present. It's used on other occasions. This is not really time travel, but rather based on the idea that in a comic book, one can invent a prior event, and that this event will have an influence on the present. Or also, that inventing a present event can force a redefinition of the story's past. I don't know which good term would suit best.
The idea actually comes from W season 1, when Kang Chul dodges the truck, or when he makes the last two months of his life pass as a dream. No real time travel, but a change of the prior plot.
"My browser, Brave, doesn’t load some of the pictures"
I use Chrome or Firefox, but since it's on PC, it must be easier to load, in case you're using another system.
"Once YJ has access to the Imagination"
Yes, in fact the whole beginning was just an illusion of the Imagination. YJ was in the Imagination from the beginning without knowing it (whereas it was her goal to come here while remaining half in the portal Ep51).
"Since we see Chul-Moo again, I wonder if his ability to summon people will be of use here."
KC tried a teleportation in Ep51 (in the flashback), it didn't work, for two reasons:
- He can only teleport to W or from W (therefore, not in a manhwa "Lost Reality"). Principle seen early Ep26.
- And anyway, W has ceased to exist.
"Since YJ seems nonchalant, I only expect that she knows how to deal with the missile because she can’t die here."
She really thinks the missile is going to kill her, her and Chul-Moo. She has become permanently crazy. She has even forgotten the reset principle, since she suicide in vain once before (with the scalpel), then she cleans the bedroom in vain.
"#20 functions as a much needed break."
When I wrote the first draft, I was quite stressed about avoiding plot-holes. And I remembered that Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee were semi-fictional. So they wouldn't be affected by the stasis. But there needed to be a reason why they didn't come find Yeon-Joo quickly. Hence the idea of a tourist trip and a long journey to make for the return.
"Who knows if the final two episodes will be so much faster"
It's rather focused (as one suspects) on the fate of the characters, the resolution and the emotional impact. Hard to talk about fast pace or not. I notice that some passages are quite dense with numerous revelations. Whether in the first draft or this rewritten version, I've always had the feeling that episode 54 was the best of all, but not because of a frantic pace, rather the way it strikes in depth.