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I'm Not a Robot | Full K-drama Review / Ep. 99 · Daebak K-Rambles Podcast: K-drama Reviews

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  I'm Jessica and this is Teba K Rambles, where a couple of
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  friends review Korean dramas and we are back for the very last
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  review episode of season 6. I can't believe that we're here.
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  Wow, what a journey. For this episode, I am joined by
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  both of the hosts of the afternoon at ASKS Podcast.
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  I have Grace and Sarah with me. How are you guys?
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  Hi. Good.
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  Excited to be on here, both of us together.
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  And, and for us to do this all together, I have had each of you
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  on individually as guests for the podcast.
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  And I'm really thrilled that both of you guys were so keen to
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  come on and talk about I'm not a robot.
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  That is the drama that we'll be talking about today and
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  reviewing. You guys basically picked this
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  one. You were like, I really want to
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  talk about this. I want to review this with you.
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  And I won't say you know why or why not at this point.
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  I'll let you guys handle that later down the line.
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  But obviously this is a drama that may or may not be well
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  liked in the community, but I remember watching it several
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  years back and so I just kind of felt like re watching it.
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  Plus this has been highly requested by people as well for
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  me to cover. I'm not a robot.
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  So I was like, oh perfect, I got some momentum here, I can watch
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  it again. And you guys were so gracious
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  enough to want to do the same. So what have you guys been
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  watching before we get into the show?
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  Yeah, there's so much out at the moment.
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  We've had a bit of a drought I feel like, with decent K dramas
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  and suddenly September here and all of this stuff is coming out.
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  I literally been the first 3 episodes of Tempest today, which
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  is the new political thriller Condition and Kang Duan.
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  Yeah, and it's so good. Oh, I'm so excited.
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  When I saw your post. About it I was like, yes, I
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  can't wait to watch that one too you.
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  Know I think we've all of us have just been hit with dramas
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  that have amazing casts and we have sky high expectations for
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  them and then they drop and they're like 12 and it's bad you
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  know it's really bad but this this is Stella.
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  The curse is Stella. John Cho in okay drama is
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  Stella. It's really super classy and
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  can't trust anyone. We don't know who's good and we
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  don't know who's bad, and I love that kind of.
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  But not many episodes left. You said you binged the first 3
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  episodes. Yeah, there's only 9.
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  So I guess they're doing a release of 3/3.
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  I don't know how they're going to release it, but yeah, three
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  have come. They dropped them already, but
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  it's only 9 episodes. So the the pacing is really,
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  really good. There's not a lot of slow.
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  It's a bit like, you know, if you're used to spy thrillers,
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  it's almost like they know that you don't need a lot of
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  explaining of how this clever guy has put all the pieces
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  together. He basically says, well, this,
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  this, this happened. So therefore and you're like, of
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  course, yes, you're so smart. And we did it in one minute.
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  So it really like like speeds on through.
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  So it's, yeah, I've got high, high hopes.
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  And she just looks majestic. I love her.
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  Yeah, our ambassador. So yeah.
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  The sassy girl herself. All right, great.
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  What do you what do you got going on?
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  So I had been on a self-imposed drought because I had too much
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  stuff going on and feeling chaotic.
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  But I, I was trying to finish watching Meet Yourself, the C
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  drama. And once in a while my subtitles
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  break and I was like in the middle of eating dinner or
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  something. So I was like, I need to turn
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  something else on. So I turned on like flowers in
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  the sand. That's what I want to watch.
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  Yeah. And and then I got sucked.
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  In 20, yeah. 24, Yeah, yeah. I only I don't watch currently
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  dropping anything because I like to binge Grace and SO.
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  We're so emphatic on that. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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  So so then I got sucked into that and I think I watched like
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  13 episode. No, no, wait, no no, it's only
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  12 episode. So, so I watched like 10
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  episodes this week and then I was like, oh crap, I have to do
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  my rewatch of I dropped it and like I have been watching I'm
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  not a robot since then. But yeah, I'm really, I'm really
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  liking like Flowers in the sand. OK.
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  Yeah, nice. But I I mean, it's, it's really
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  my jam kind of thing because I like the athletic stuff plus
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  slice of life type of thing, like racket boys, you know,
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  things like that. 2125 yeah. So yeah, I've been really liking
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  that and I'm really looking forward to.
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  To Tempest, yeah, I'm looking forward to Tempest as well.
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  Getting getting to press play on that.
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  There's not a very long list of 2025 dramas and I'm like OK,
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  yeah, I want to circle back and definitely press play on these.
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  Some of them end up on my finished 2025 lists and I end up
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  deleting them off the list because I'm like, yeah, no, I'm
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  never going to. I'm never going to watch that.
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  Like even if everybody loved it, it's still, it's my life, my
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  time, so. Right, right.
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  Totally. Very choosy but Tempest I was
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  like Oh yeah this looks this. This is why K dramas are
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  freaking so hard to make nowadays, because this is a
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  budget that needed to be approved for just the cast
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  alone. Oh my God.
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  Oh God. But before we get into the
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  rewatch of the week, which was I'm Not a robot, if this is your
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  patron. OK, so we're going to get going
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  on this older drama, admittedly, but it's not pre 2015.
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  That's like the cut off. I feel for old, old dramas.
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  I guess that's the perception, at least in the community.
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  The My Drama is synopsis for I'm Not a Robot, reads Kimin.
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  Q is the largest shareholder of a financial company.
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  He suffers from a human allergy preventing him from normal
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  interactions with other people. He becomes interested in a
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  robotic project named Aji 3, created by the Santa Maria
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  Robotic Team. The team is headed by Hung
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  Beckyung, inventor of Aji 3 and world renowned robotics
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  professor. He modelled Aji 3 after his
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  ex-girlfriend Todia, A struggling inventor.
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  Struggling inventor that also works as a personal shopper to
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  make ends meet. Just when Kimmin Q wants to test
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  the robot, an accident causes the malfunction of the robot's
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  battery. Hung Beckyun begs Dodia to take
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  the place of IG3 and pretend to be the robot so they can get
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  funding from Kim Inkyu. But IG3 becomes the closest
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  thing that the lonely Kim Inkyu has to real contact with another
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  person, so things obviously get a little complicated.
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  This show aired from December 2017 to January 2018.
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  I forgot about this. It's 32 episodes long because
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  the show aired 230 minute episodes every Wednesday and
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  Thursday. So if you kind of watch the
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  show, it almost feels like every two episodes, one and 2-3 and
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  four so on and so forth feel like 1 episode because it's very
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  easy to breeze through a 30 minute episode.
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  Like let's just be real. But you can kind of think of it
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  that way. So it's the equivalent of a 16
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  episode K drama. The director was Zhang Dae Yun
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  and we have covered one other K drama of his on the feed.
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  It is W2 Worlds apart from 2016. This is a big time director.
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  He's directed the King, 2 Hearts, Queen of Reversals, East
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  of Eden, Arang and the Magistrate Cunning single lady.
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  She was pretty. And of course the 2022 banger
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  Reborn Rich. Everyone was talking about
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  Reborn rich. It was up in the charts and the
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  ratings. So Jung Daeun, have you guys
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  seen much of his filmography, this director?
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  I've seen Cunning single lady that was actually one of my
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  entrees back into K drama when I started watching again because I
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  watched when I was like in high school and early college.
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  And then I stopped for a long time so that that was like one
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  of the 1st and like I rewatched that like 4 times because I
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  loved it. And then I saw her.
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  She was pretty. And that one is, you know, it's
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  the premises is not great and there are problems with it.
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  But I still, I still enjoyed it. I remember enjoying it.
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  Yeah, Sarah. I haven't seen any of his other
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  dramas, actually. Yeah, well.
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  I thought you might have seen one or something.
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  Yeah, I keep meaning to. I think I picked up W2 Worlds
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  Apart and Reborn Rich on episode 1.
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  I just wasn't in the mood. It wasn't anything to do with
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  the drama. I just I understand I have to be
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  in the mood to be. I'm the mood.
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  Yeah, and then King to Hearts, I knows on your underrated list
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  just from when you came onto our podcast, I love You need to
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  watch that. Yeah, definitely.
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  But I haven't actually made it made it yet.
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  But God's Beads, which you've listed as his upcoming drama as
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  Ambu Hunting. So that's gonna be a watch for
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  me, a guaranteed watch for me. So I'm lucky for him.
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  Because I'm Bohun, you know, Because because of reasons.
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  The show was written by Kim Somi.
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  She has written 9 movies including Seducing Mr. Perfect
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  from O Six. I've had a little conniption
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  when I was like seducing Mr. Perfect for from 2006.
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  It's almost 20 years ago. So that movie is with Daniel
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  Henny and UN Tung Hua for television.
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  She's only written two things. It's this and Shiner go crazy.
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  So literally she has not written anything in almost almost 10
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  years because the last thing she wrote was I'm not a robot.
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  I thought that was. Sad, yeah.
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  Yeah, makes me sad. Yeah.
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  I'm going to bring up a point about her later because it's I
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  feel like it's a bit of a perfect circle, but it's plot
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  related. So OK, I will circle back.
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  All right. Fair enough.
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  This show stars Yusengol and he plays Kim ING Q, the male weed.
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  This is a child actor. He has been on TV screens for
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  almost 20 years. He made his big debut in the
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  film The Way Home from 2002. That was his breakout role.
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  He's been in about 12 movies. I've seen a couple of them.
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  I think Sondal, the man who sells the River, which is
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  literally about this big con of him literally selling a river.
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  And I was like, I don't know, this might not work.
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  It worked. It was amazing.
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  The magician as well. I remember watching.
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  He's been in 23 TV shows and a few when I started going
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  through, I was like, oh, I've watched a lot of his shows.
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  I've watched Wario Peck Tong SU from 2011, Operation proposal.
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  I miss you. The emperor, owner of the mask,
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  I think has a has an old blog review up on the Tibox site.
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  So I'm really feeling like I'm a fan, even though I wouldn't if
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  someone asked me, are you a die hard fan of, you know, this
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  actor? I'd be like, I don't, I wouldn't
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  say that, but he always I like him.
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  I I really do like his work and there's a couple of shows on
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  here that I'm like, shit, I really have to watch those.
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  And it's memorist. I've never seen Memorist.
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  And I also want to watch 2009's The Great Queen's Hondock.
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  Really want to watch that historical.
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  So how do you guys feel about this actor?
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  I feel like I'm the opposite of you in that I would say I'm like
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  a huge fan of this actor OK, but have not seen half the end of
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  his dramas. It's basically, it's basically
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  this drama made me a huge fan of Yousefo but I haven't actually
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  gone and watched his back cap London and sadly like I think
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  because his dramas including this one have not been a great
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  success ratings wise, I feel like he's now not getting The
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  Office. He's been doing theatre where I
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  stalk him on this and he doesn't really post match but he's been
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  doing theatre work and stuff. So he hasn't had a drama since
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  The Deal, which was 2023 drama that I don't think anyone
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  watched including myself. I did watch Moonshine, which is
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  a historical drama with Hayley and also Byung Rusuk before he
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  was like, you know, Sanjay and big and it was an enjoyable
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  drama but it wasn't any great shakes.
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  I do really want to watch The Memorist because I also really
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  like I forgot no red sleeve. Oh yes, yes, it's Issa Young.
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  Yes, don't worry. About Young and he's similar in
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  that he can't touch anyone because he gets all their
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  memories, which I thought was like a really lovely parallel to
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  this drama. So I've been meaning to hit play
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  on that one too. But I just fair.
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  I think he's great. Yeah.
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  I want more dramas, even though I haven't seen his past.
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  OK. Sorry, you're like a huge die
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  hard fan, but you haven't seen a lot of that's exactly the
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  opposite of because I really appreciate him and I love him.
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  I think he's so cute and I think he's a great actor.
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  But if you sit down and like ask me to write like your top ten
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  favorite actors or whatever, I just wouldn't.
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  I would never think. Oh yeah, you so more.
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  I'm the same with Sarah, I love him in this drama and I've like
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  seen him in nothing else. Are you joking?
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  No, no. Well, I mean, OK, so I, I'm sure
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  I've seen him in something, but I can't off the top of my head
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  figure out what. That's fine.
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  But but I I love that he he's in Queen's Hundal because that.
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  You know, much younger, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's one that I I
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  want to watch at some point maybe, but it seems like it
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  might be too old. It's one of those things where
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  it's like before 2010. So you're like, Oh my gosh, the
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  production value on this. But I've also heard that one was
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  wildly popular and, like, so much fun and, like, not
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  historically accurate at all, but like, you know, all of that,
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  you know, all of that artistic license, like, made it really
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  fun. So.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Exactly. If I could just do a mini mini
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  plug, they asked me in delight Patreon have done.
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  They pick a Saguk every summer to watch as a group watch, and
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  the great Queen Sunduck was this summer's Saguk.
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  I can't do group watches because I can't keep up, but they have
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  been absolutely loving it, so I think you guys would love it.
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  Too, I think. I would.
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  I know. I know the guys who are loving
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  it now and I know their taste and you guys are lying.
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  So I think you guys, yeah, I think you would both enjoy it.
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  OK, well, that's that kind of plug.
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  I like that. I like that.
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  That craziness that you guys both enjoy.
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  Because I like angst. And listen, the old Sagooks,
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  they had it. They had it in spades.
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  So moving on, we have Tess Huvin.
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  She plays Todia slash IG3. She's our female lead.
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  And before we got on here, there was a little bit.
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  So Grace had a little bit of a meltdown because she was staring
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  at Tess Huvin in her filmography and she was like, is she the
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  female lead from when the phone rings?
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  And it was a really interesting moment because you genuinely
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  look so confused and alarmed. Yeah, because you couldn't
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  connect her, really. I mean, her vibe was so very
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  different. And when the phone rings and I
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  am not famous for having a great memory when it comes to actors,
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  names, faces, etcetera. Like I'm really great at
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  forgetting like people. And so I really had not made
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  that connection. Like maybe at some point during
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  my watch, but then I completely forgot.
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  And then when I was rewatching this, it never once occurred to
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  me rewatching I am not a robot. It never once occurred to me
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  like, Oh yeah, I saw her recently and when so.
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  I think I said on our when the phone phone rings episode review
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  that I did with Carol at the beginning of the year, which
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  feels like 20 years ago, I said I'm not a robot was like the
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  best thing that she's ever done. Like this is her magnum opus at
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  this point, because this show is not the only thing she's done.
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  She's done the fabulous rookie cops peace of your mind.
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  We're stars land strongest delivery man and honestly, I'm
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  not a robot like takes the cake for her filmography.
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  And it's sad that you couldn't connect her to when the phone
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  rings. She's so dry and when the phone
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  rings, she's So what I said was personality less in when the
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  phone rings compared to how she is and I'm not a robot.
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  And it's really no surprise that you were like, wait a minute,
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  that's the same girl. It's sad, it's sad.
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  How do you guys feel about Chase Tubin?
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  Where have you seen her before? So I have seen her in one of the
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  phone. No.
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  And then I and then I saw her in Loving the Moonlight.
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  But I think Loving the Moonlight I saw around the same time when
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  I first watched I am not a robot.
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  So when I saw love in the moonlight, I was like, Oh yeah,
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  I remember her in that. So there was some recognition
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  there. I have not completely lost my
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  mind. It's just really when the phone
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  rings, she gave such a different vibe that like I, I just
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  couldn't connect her. So yeah, yeah, I, I can, I can
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  recognize people. It's just like, I guess this is
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  actually. Dying of laughter.
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  A test to. A test to.
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  I feel like her being a versatile actor, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. I mean you can't blame her for
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  the character being like a not very interesting character in
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  the most recent she did, I mean I think.
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  She did her job like she had, you know, she, she ran with a
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  headscarf through forest in her business slacks.
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  And she tried. Yeah.
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  She tried. Yeah, Yeah.
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  There was a lot of trying in there.
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  Sarah, how do you feel about chess?
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  Again, because I love this drama so much and I spoil this, I love
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  this drama so much and I think she's amazing in this drama.
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  So I have always really had really positive feelings about
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  Chasey Bin. But again, I'm like looking at
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  her filmography and thinking like actually.
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  Actually. So I did watch where Styles land
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  with Ijahun. Yeah, yeah, she was good in that
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  too. Like similar character to her
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  character here. And I am not a robot, quite
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  feisty. And I think she has, I really
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  love the way she delivers her lines really quickly.
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  Like, you know, when she's got like in, in I'm not a robot,
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  this is not a problem. But she there's a thing called
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  chingu mode, like a friend mode and where she kind of like
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  chills out, goes into Pamela and she just cusses and delivers
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  words really fast. And I love the way she does it.
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  I think she's got a really distinctive, fun way of
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  delivering those particular lines.
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  So I think those roles that she has where she's like angry and
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  shouting at people as opposed to how she was and when the phone
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  rings. Just like mute, mute for for
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  several episodes. It's like more her thing, right?
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  Yeah, I I really like her as an actress.
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  Fair. I like that.
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  Very positive on Tess Hubin and that pretty much rounds out the
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  cast that I want to talk about specifically.
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  We have this is an ensemble cast.
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  There's lots of people besides these two, but this is the main
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  2. There's definitely more people
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  that we can focus on, but at this point, I would love to turn
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  it over to you guys and just ask, how did you like I'm Not a
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  Robot? Did you love it, hate it?
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  What were some of your issues maybe that you had with it, if
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  you had any? All the things, all the
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  thoughts. So I'll go first.
• 20:59
  I I'm going to confess now. I am 100% biased about this
• 21:04
  drama, so I will not like if you're looking for a critique on
• 21:07
  this drama, it's not going to come from me because I love this
• 21:10
  drama. It is one of my absolute top
• 21:12
  favorite dramas ever. And it will always probably
• 21:15
  because it's one of those early dramas for me and it just made
• 21:19
  me laugh and cry and then laugh and then cry.
• 21:22
  I think there's something about early K dramas that part of the
• 21:26
  delight and the joy is in discovering this whole genre and
• 21:30
  the way they do things and it being like a whole new delight
• 21:34
  to you that you'll never recapture.
• 21:36
  You know, like when you're like 150 dramas down the line and
• 21:40
  watching stuff and you're like, oh, it's that again, you know.
• 21:42
  So it will never lose its place for me in my pantheon of like,
• 21:46
  lists of, you know, top dramas. I will always have a really
• 21:49
  special. It will always have a special
• 21:51
  place in my heart because of it. And if people criticize it, I'm
• 21:54
  like, yeah, but you know, I'll forgive it.
• 21:57
  It's one of those dramas. And we all, I think we all have
• 22:00
  one of those dramas, don't we, where we know what people don't
• 22:02
  like about it. But I will.
• 22:05
  I will always forgive it. You know those those little
• 22:08
  failings it has, Yeah. So it's a 5 for me solidly.
• 22:12
  Okay. Yeah, and I feel the same.
• 22:17
  I mean, it's not that I was discovering dramas at the time,
• 22:20
  but it was like when I was rediscovering dramas.
• 22:23
  And I like falling back in love with this, you know, this world.
• 22:28
  And I just thought it was so well done.
• 22:31
  The pacing was great, the laughing and the crying, like
• 22:35
  huge pendulum swings. I just loved how well they
• 22:40
  balanced all of that. I just found it highly
• 22:43
  entertaining and like even on re watching it again now for
• 22:48
  probably the third, third or fourth time.
• 22:51
  Wow. I I still found it delightful.
• 22:55
  I mean, I still like like I didn't quite finish my rewatch
• 22:58
  and and I'm going to because even after this recording
• 23:02
  because I'm like, I'm hooked again, you know, So I still feel
• 23:06
  that. Yeah, I'm 5 Soji bottles also.
• 23:12
  That's so sweet. You know, it warms my heart to
• 23:14
  hear you guys say that because the reason why I wanted to
• 23:17
  rewatch the show is because I have a soft spot for this drama
• 23:21
  as well. I remember being really positive
• 23:24
  about the drama, having positive feelings, remembering it as
• 23:28
  being a really great, delightful, as you said, grace
• 23:31
  drama. I love what you said, Sarah,
• 23:35
  about it kind of capturing depending on when you watch it,
• 23:38
  right? But, you know, it does sort of
• 23:40
  capture a sweet spot in K dramas where it is ridiculous.
• 23:47
  It is very preposterous, the plot of it, but it is also
• 23:54
  incredibly sincere. It's so earnest.
• 23:59
  And I think that is why people really flock decay dramas is
• 24:03
  because you get ROM coms like this that are so stupid, almost
• 24:09
  like, you like this if you tell this plot to somebody.
• 24:12
  Like, yeah, so they made an Android AI robot, but a drop of
• 24:18
  a soda fell on the battery. And then the model, the robot
• 24:25
  had to step in and pretend to be the robot.
• 24:28
  The man falls in love with the robot.
• 24:31
  Like, you'd be like, it is stupid.
• 24:34
  It is obnoxious, but I think it's sweet.
• 24:39
  It's so sweet and it's funny. It's light hearted and that's
• 24:44
  its strength. Absolutely.
• 24:46
  It is incredibly unsophisticated, the humor on
• 24:50
  it. I love toilet humor, apparently
• 24:52
  because every. Freak joke that.
• 24:55
  Was like, oh like she farts in front of him at one point and I
• 25:00
  lost it. I was cackling at 2:00 AM
• 25:04
  because I am apparently the lowest common denominator 1
• 25:08
  little fart noise and that's enough to send me and the fact
• 25:12
  that she blames it on him and he's like I didn't.
• 25:15
  I fart. It is.
• 25:18
  So funny, and that is the type of humor in this show.
• 25:23
  It's very slapsticky at times and like, you know what?
• 25:27
  I love that. I love that it's fluffy.
• 25:31
  And I think that if I was being nitpicky, I would say it
• 25:36
  probably doesn't need to be 32 episodes or, you know, 16.
• 25:40
  If you're bundling episodes one and 2-3 and four, yeah, you
• 25:43
  could cut a few episodes out. It could be 12 episodes easily.
• 25:46
  If this was made today. This came at A at a funny time,
• 25:50
  I would say, because it has a twin drama.
• 25:53
  The twin drama is are you human too?
• 25:57
  And I freaking love when this happens like in the wild, in,
• 26:01
  you know, in entertainment when you get a piece of media that
• 26:05
  has the almost the same exact premise as something else.
• 26:08
  I call them twin movies, twin dramas.
• 26:11
  This had a twin drama and I love I'm not a robot way more than
• 26:16
  are you human too? I'm not.
• 26:19
  I'm not sure if you've seen that one or how you feel about about
• 26:22
  that one, but this topic of humans falling in love with
• 26:26
  robots, I want to say is always going to was always, you know,
• 26:33
  in the past sense was always very far fetched.
• 26:39
  But also you're like, are they predicting the future?
• 26:42
  Are these creators? Are these writers predicting the
• 26:44
  future? And unfortunately, in the big
• 26:47
  2025, when we are living in an AI landscape of, of so many
• 26:55
  people using AI and reconciling with technology in their lives
• 27:00
  the way they've never had to before and the ethical
• 27:03
  implications of using AI tech or anything of the sort to have
• 27:09
  this drama and those like it, you know, are you human too?
• 27:14
  My whole of love is another 1 from 2020.
• 27:17
  It feels this is this could definitely happen.
• 27:22
  I am a huge lover of sci-fi and I think when this came out I
• 27:28
  along with many others probably felt this is sci-fi slash
• 27:32
  fantasy because you know this can't happen.
• 27:36
  Sadly, I think the fantasy is out the window.
• 27:37
  I think the fantasy. Part the same thing in my now.
• 27:42
  This is maybe not even science fiction at this point.
• 27:46
  Yeah, maybe not even sci-fi. Oh my God, I have this huge long
• 27:50
  paragraph that I was going to talk about later about this.
• 27:53
  So yes. Please go for it.
• 27:54
  No, no. It's the The thing is like it
• 27:58
  cuz you have a question later on about like is there anything
• 28:02
  that you don't like about this drama?
• 28:04
  Yeah. So the thing for me is that it's
• 28:08
  not that I dislike the drama more now, it's that reality has
• 28:15
  gotten too. Close to it, right?
• 28:16
  It's caught up. Yeah, it's caught up.
• 28:19
  It's caught up. So it's like over the past few
• 28:21
  years, people have become like increasingly rely on on AI to
• 28:26
  fill the gaps in your human connection.
• 28:29
  So it's like the fact that modern society has gotten more
• 28:33
  uncanny valley makes this the this concept a little bit like a
• 28:40
  little bit creepier. Do you know what I'm saying?
• 28:43
  Because it's like, yeah. Because, you know, Kim Mingu is
• 28:48
  like a representation of all the people on this planet who are
• 28:51
  suffering from like this very real idea of the loneliness
• 28:56
  epidemic. And then his relationship with
• 29:01
  IG3 was like how people are, you know, making friends with their
• 29:06
  ChatGPT doing therapy chat bots. They're creating like AI videos
• 29:14
  of their ideal person and like, you know, I, I click on
• 29:18
  Instagram reel sometimes and I'm like, oh, this is not real.
• 29:22
  This is AI. But like, yeah, yeah, but and
• 29:24
  and it throws me, but it's like people are increasingly crafting
• 29:30
  their ideal person using this technology.
• 29:35
  And so part of the charm of the drama was how fantastical it
• 29:40
  was. Like you when it came out, like
• 29:42
  you, what you said. But it's really lost that a lot,
• 29:47
  and it's become disturbingly prescient.
• 29:49
  Right. Like he doesn't.
• 29:50
  It doesn't. There's no magic in it anymore.
• 29:53
  Right, right. It's like, Oh my God, this is
• 29:55
  just now. This is just you're describing
• 29:57
  our reality. Right.
• 29:59
  And I guess maybe the charm of a drama is that it's so benign,
• 30:04
  right? The researchers who are working
• 30:06
  on IG3 are like, no, she's here, we're building her for community
• 30:10
  to build relationships and, and help people and stuff like that.
• 30:14
  And unfortunately while a lot of research in tech period is to
• 30:20
  help the human condition right. If a researcher created a robot
• 30:26
  that had the face of his ex-girlfriend on it, that would
• 30:30
  not be a benign. I'm like 9 times out of 10 that
• 30:34
  would be sex bot. It would be like something.
• 30:38
  Nonsense or something? Yeah.
• 30:43
  So it's like more scary to think of the implications that we're
• 30:47
  currently dealing with now. Yes, absolutely.
• 30:50
  Versus to see it play out in the drama.
• 30:52
  That's, I guess the fantasy of it is that it's so.
• 30:55
  Innocent. Innocent.
• 30:57
  Cheerful. Yes.
• 30:59
  Well meaning and honest like he was saying.
• 31:01
  Yeah. Exactly, that's like the sad
• 31:04
  part of it is that it's it would just.
• 31:06
  I mean would this be a ROM com if this was made today or would
• 31:10
  this just be you know what I'm saying?
• 31:15
  I just don't think they could make it today with the same
• 31:18
  sense of sincerity and earnestness that they had back
• 31:23
  then because, you know, we are living in this reality much more
• 31:28
  increasingly. And so I don't think that they
• 31:30
  could have struck this tone before because you can't just,
• 31:35
  like, ignore, like, all the dark parts of it that are real now.
• 31:40
  Yeah. I think unlike my hollow love
• 31:43
  and are you human too? I guess the what I am a robot
• 31:47
  has well, also it's just that the bulk of the time of the
• 31:52
  person they fall in love with and the person they spend the
• 31:54
  time with is the human part, is the human.
• 31:56
  And I think that's where are you human too?
• 31:59
  And my hollow love sometimes feels a bit like, well, yeah,
• 32:01
  but then you spend like the majority of the time falling in
• 32:04
  love with the robot, which I think this kind of escapes it
• 32:08
  Legitimate. You're an actual person.
• 32:11
  And they were, they were just pretending to be a robot
• 32:14
  pretending they're fast on that end, right?
• 32:16
  Which. Is why I like the deception's
• 32:17
  more more horrible, but I do like.
• 32:20
  But the yeah, the human on human yeah exactly hasn't that I'm in
• 32:23
  love with is actually human. So just what was your Soji
• 32:26
  bottle rank? I would probably give it 4 out
• 32:32
  of Five's whole Drew bottles and it's maybe even 4 1/2 out of
• 32:36
  five. I really liked it.
• 32:38
  I thought it was very sweet. Is incredibly rewatchable.
• 32:42
  I'll tell you what a lot of these re watches that I do, I
• 32:46
  don't remember shit. Like I go into it and I'm like,
• 32:48
  Oh yeah, every five episodes I'll remember.
• 32:52
  Oh yeah, that happened, that thing happened.
• 32:54
  Or I'll remember a plot beat or they'll introduce a character
• 32:57
  and be like, Oh yeah, they're the they're the villain.
• 33:00
  It's very helter Skelter. I don't have a good memory.
• 33:03
  I'm like you, Grace. I'm like, and once I watch it
• 33:07
  and I finish, I'm like, that was great.
• 33:09
  If I don't do a review, I forget.
• 33:10
  I forget it. Yeah, this one, I was re
• 33:14
  watching it and I remembered everything.
• 33:17
  Everything. I was like this is fresh.
• 33:20
  I don't know how, but this is fresh.
• 33:23
  So I'm going to take that as a good thing.
• 33:25
  I'm going to take that as a good sign.
• 33:27
  Just really enjoyed it. It was serving what it needed to
• 33:31
  serve. And I tend to watch a lot of
• 33:35
  sci-fi movies. I love sci-fi.
• 33:36
  I'm currently watching Alien Earth, which has a lot of
• 33:39
  synthetic humans in it, which is basically the say it's an AI,
• 33:44
  you know, robot. I love stories that are similar
• 33:50
  to this in the film sphere. I am, I think, one of the only
• 33:54
  people who love Bicentennial Man from 1999.
• 33:57
  I don't know if you've seen that Robin Williams movie.
• 34:01
  Gracious, going to suddenly remember she has actually
• 34:03
  watched it. OK, I think AI, artificial
• 34:08
  intelligence from 2001. It's a Spielberg movie.
• 34:11
  It's one of his lesser beloved movies because it is so
• 34:15
  heartbreaking and strange. AI is up there.
• 34:19
  Her ex Martin, yes, the movie just earlier this year,
• 34:23
  Companion, which is about one of these basically sex spots that,
• 34:28
  oh, she thinks she's human because she has all of these
• 34:30
  memories and it's all just programming, right?
• 34:33
  All of these really interesting what ifs and commentary on
• 34:41
  technology and our relationship to it.
• 34:44
  Will it, you know, take the place of human connection?
• 34:47
  And I think what this show does very well is that it says it
• 34:53
  won't take the place replace human connection.
• 34:58
  And I love that thesis. I love it so much because we
• 35:03
  need to stay together guys like we do guys.
• 35:07
  We need. To like hold hands and just like
• 35:10
  rely on each other, right and connect with each other.
• 35:14
  It is a very beautiful thing to, you know, have technology
• 35:20
  integrated in very small ways, right, that aren't going to
• 35:24
  completely reduce the human interactions that we have day in
• 35:28
  and day out. This show in particular is very
• 35:34
  pro human. Yes, and I mean, I even the way
• 35:39
  that they portray the like the friend mode where, you know, Jia
• 35:45
  when she's acting as Aji 3, she pushes back.
• 35:50
  She pushes back a lot like disagrees with Kim Mingu and
• 35:56
  pushes back on like the things that he's saying.
• 35:58
  He's like, aren't you supposed to agree with me?
• 36:00
  Yeah, I'm I'm your master. She's not I'm your owner, right?
• 36:05
  And then this is how like I could really see this is what
• 36:08
  humans bring. We bring perspective to each
• 36:12
  other. You can talk to an AI forever
• 36:15
  and they will like just tell you, yes, you're right.
• 36:19
  And like synthesize all of the things that you're saying and
• 36:22
  kind of repeat it back to you in a way that seems like it's new
• 36:26
  information, but it's actually just repeating what you're
• 36:30
  saying. And so you feel like, oh, this
• 36:32
  is such a connection because they really agree with me.
• 36:36
  We like, we are on the same level.
• 36:39
  We're like seeing eye to eye, but no.
• 36:43
  And we need that outside perspective of other people to
• 36:47
  be like, hey, actually, maybe this is not prudent.
• 36:51
  Or actually maybe this is an unhealthy way of thinking, you
• 36:55
  know? And that's what she provided as
• 36:58
  her human self. Yeah, yeah, I love that you had
• 37:02
  a reaction when I said her the movie Her from 2013.
• 37:05
  Yeah. That's like the closest
• 37:07
  approximation to it is this show, even though Joaquin
• 37:12
  Phoenix 100% falls in love with the computer AI.
• 37:16
  Yes, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, So.
• 37:18
  Go figure. Yes, absolutely, absolutely no,
• 37:21
  I I reacted that way because I just I felt that too like a
• 37:25
  similar vibe, that similar kind of sincerity and innocence to
• 37:29
  it, where it wasn't like girls creepy underlying the whole
• 37:34
  thing. It was more pure, you know, and
• 37:37
  I don't know, I don't know if we can do that anymore because so
• 37:42
  much of that underlying is out there now, right?
• 37:47
  I would say there's a lot of there's so many like robot, like
• 37:52
  Westworld, Blade Runner, Iron Giant, iRobot, Wally, Megan from
• 37:57
  2022. Battlestar Galactica the.
• 38:00
  Wild robot. Such a freaking Transformers
• 38:02
  movies. Terminator.
• 38:04
  I mean, you throw a rock and you'll hit some sort of AI robot
• 38:11
  thing. It is always saying something
• 38:15
  about the human condition. It's totally up to
• 38:19
  interpretation, right? Like these, This is how I
• 38:22
  interpreted this show. I'm not a robot.
• 38:26
  Even the title, I'm not a robot. Robots are perceived to be
• 38:32
  controllable and it's horror when you can't control the
• 38:37
  robot. But in this show, it's almost a
• 38:41
  comment of like, I am more than just a robot, I am human.
• 38:49
  And it's a comforting thought more than anything in the show.
• 38:53
  The truth is better, right? Like you're not falling in love
• 38:57
  with a robot, you're actually falling in love with a human.
• 38:58
  And I'm not a robot. It's very sweet.
• 39:02
  So just one fun fact about the series, even though we love it,
• 39:07
  the series was a commercial failure, only averaging 3.22% in
• 39:12
  audience share and received the lowest viewership ratings in its
• 39:15
  time slot throughout its run. That was really disheartening to
• 39:20
  read. When I was doing my research for
• 39:22
  I'm Not a Robot, and I was like, what else was going on?
• 39:26
  Like around this time, I was around this time, I was watching
• 39:29
  currently airing shows and I was like what the hell were people
• 39:31
  watching from December to January of this year?
• 39:36
  So the number one show was My Golden Life.
• 39:41
  This had 41 to 45% nationwide viewership in Korea and that one
• 39:50
  is like I think 52 episodes long.
• 39:53
  So it was one of those Weekender, but it was a high
• 39:57
  episode count. Very soap opera E kind of show.
• 40:03
  And then they also were airing Return which had 15 to 17%
• 40:08
  viewership. Black Knight, The man who guards
• 40:11
  me from KBS that also had about 13% viewership, 2 Cops,
• 40:16
  Jugglers, a Korean Odyssey. So these were some of the other
• 40:20
  shows that were completely obliterating.
• 40:23
  I'm not a robot in the ratings race, but I honestly think that
• 40:29
  was so sad because the show is really good.
• 40:33
  Yeah. And I wonder what it says about
• 40:37
  maybe because, like, you know, Western viewers by and large,
• 40:41
  the people that I've spoken to this, people who've created
• 40:44
  content online that I've seen, like everyone says this is an
• 40:48
  underrated drama because it was such a flop in Korea.
• 40:52
  But for Western viewers, I don't think it's underrated.
• 40:55
  Like, I think everyone across the board kind of loves it.
• 40:59
  So. So I wonder where the disconnect
• 41:02
  was with Korean society or whatever.
• 41:06
  Yeah, it'd be so interesting to be able to find out, but I, I
• 41:12
  have no idea. Like why culturally it might
• 41:15
  not. Might not have resonated.
• 41:17
  Exactly. I don't know.
• 41:18
  Yeah, it's. Just maybe a timing thing or
• 41:20
  something, isn't it as well? I think Healer is another one of
• 41:24
  those dramas, isn't it? But like it's really beloved of
• 41:26
  international audiences, but was not it's still not, I think seen
• 41:30
  as a classic and domestic audiences and it's like, guys,
• 41:34
  it's heal outs. What's wrong?
• 41:38
  Now I have to look up the ratings for healer.
• 41:41
  Yeah. And out of all of these other
• 41:42
  dramas that you've listed that were, you know, airing at the
• 41:45
  same time and blowing I Am Not a Robot out of the water, ratings
• 41:49
  wise. I only have heard of a Korean
• 41:52
  Odyssey. Yeah.
• 41:53
  So that's also one of the lower ones.
• 41:56
  So I'm like, huh, interesting. In terms of like the maybe the
• 42:01
  cultural difference or the marketing difference or I don't,
• 42:05
  I don't even know. For healer.
• 42:07
  So Healer was averaging about 8 to 9% viewership.
• 42:14
  Not the worst, but no, Devin. I mean, it barely broke 10%,
• 42:19
  Yeah, in the ratings. So yeah, I wouldn't say that's a
• 42:23
  tremendous runaway success either.
• 42:26
  Strange. My drama list, which I guess is
• 42:29
  like what I hold as a kind of proxy to international audiences
• 42:32
  for dramas, Asian dramas I'm Not a Robot, is ranked in their
• 42:36
  popularity list at 24. Oh.
• 42:39
  My God. That's pretty high, yeah.
• 42:42
  So not at all underrate. No, I mean, that's what I'm
• 42:44
  saying. Like, yeah, yeah.
• 42:46
  So I think we have a few quibbles and things that we
• 42:50
  would love to talk about at length in the spoiler section.
• 42:53
  So we've already given our ratings 52 fives and 1/4 and 1/2
• 42:58
  I, I don't know, 5 sure. 5. So peer.
• 43:04
  Pressure. It is for your pressure, but
• 43:07
  we're going to get into it right after this.
• 43:10
  Excuse me? I can't, you know.
• 43:16
  I have no. Oh, sorry.
• 43:19
  This crossing what? All right, so we're on the other
• 43:27
  side of spoilers. We are going to spoil a little
• 43:30
  bit of what happens and I'm not a robot and talk about some
• 43:33
  quibbles, some picky nits that we have.
• 43:36
  And one of those was a very interesting question about GS
• 43:41
  agency in the show. And I would love for Sarah to
• 43:45
  talk a little bit more about that because I think that's a
• 43:47
  complaint that people have is that she just doesn't make a lot
• 43:52
  of the choices, the big choices in the show.
• 43:56
  Yeah, so I think the criticism comes from people that feel like
• 44:00
  she's been pushed by other male characters into doing what she
• 44:04
  has to do. So she doesn't want to be RG3,
• 44:09
  but because of her financial situation.
• 44:12
  So she's, she's an inventor actually, she's struggling to
• 44:16
  develop her career in making a business out of the things that
• 44:19
  she's invented. And her brother is forcing her
• 44:22
  to be financially more independent and and to stop
• 44:25
  pursuing all of this invention stuff, which is fantasy world.
• 44:30
  Yeah, a pipe dream. And that says she's got
• 44:33
  financial issues on one side pushed by her elder brother.
• 44:35
  Then she's effectively this ex-boyfriend of hers mate a
• 44:41
  robot that looks like her. It's not even that it looks like
• 44:45
  her. No, no, it's exactly her.
• 44:46
  It is her. Yeah.
• 44:49
  It's basically her in in robot form.
• 44:52
  And he desperately needs her to come in and save, you know, his
• 44:58
  invention that he's poured his heart and soul into.
• 45:01
  And he offers her money for her to be able to do it.
• 45:05
  And so that's kind of where we get the set up.
• 45:07
  So again, the, you know, the criticism can be that she, it is
• 45:10
  pushed into the situation by circumstances out of her
• 45:14
  control, but by men in her life. And then later on in the show,
• 45:19
  we see that she develops feelings for Kaminku.
• 45:23
  Kaminku develops feelings for her and she actually wants to
• 45:27
  tell him, you know, that she isn't, that she is not a robot.
• 45:30
  There is a really lovely scene where he gets drunk.
• 45:34
  They play this drinking game and he wishes that she was not a
• 45:38
  robot and he falls asleep when drunk and she kind of tells him
• 45:41
  I'm not a robot, which is what Jess alluded to.
• 45:44
  And but then again, because of circumstances by this, you know,
• 45:51
  ridiculous plot that they can't tell him that she's a robot
• 45:56
  because it might trigger this human allergy that he has and
• 46:00
  kill him. So they kind of decide or she
• 46:04
  gets pushed into not revealing this secret, the big secret in
• 46:09
  the show, right? The one that we know is going to
• 46:11
  come and then do everything right from the start.
• 46:14
  And again, she's put in this situation where she has to
• 46:17
  continue to lie to him and then she needs to go and up sticks
• 46:22
  and leave her home and her city because she he doesn't want to
• 46:29
  be found by him. And so she escapes to like a
• 46:31
  beach side resort where her is it her grandma has a it's her
• 46:34
  sister in law's. Grandmother.
• 46:37
  Oh, her sister in But anyway, like all of these
• 46:50
  things that happened to her are not because she has had control
• 46:55
  of the situation and they feel like it's not very feminist
• 47:00
  drama in that way. And I think there are some
• 47:02
  things about the drama that are are not feminist that we can
• 47:06
  quibble about. But I was interested in your
• 47:08
  guys views about whether you think she does have agency and
• 47:11
  whether you feel like this character is kind of just driven
• 47:14
  by external forces and the men in her life.
• 47:17
  I. Think that she does have agency.
• 47:20
  There are definitely moments where, you know, there are two
• 47:24
  men fighting over this quote UN quote robot and they're very
• 47:29
  much like, I'm your master. No, I'm your master.
• 47:32
  And like, you know, early on there were some like jokes about
• 47:37
  her chest looking. Bigger.
• 47:39
  Yes, I'm like, I mean, actually now, now that I think of it,
• 47:43
  that having been so early on in this, in the run of this drama,
• 47:48
  I wonder if that turned people off like, oh, this is going to
• 47:50
  be how this drama is like where we're sexual specializing this
• 47:54
  robot. Well, that's the thing that's so
• 47:58
  right. Could have been, really.
• 48:01
  It could have been really bad. And that those, yeah, those
• 48:04
  jokes came early on. And then they petered out
• 48:09
  completely. Yeah, right.
• 48:10
  But if you had been a Korean watcher of this, and then you,
• 48:15
  you're giving this drama a shot and you're like, oh, my
• 48:18
  goodness, they're making jokes about her chest and blah, blah.
• 48:21
  And this is feeling a little bit weird and creepy.
• 48:25
  And then you didn't continue and give it a chance.
• 48:27
  Then you would just have walked away thinking I saved myself
• 48:31
  time from watching something kind of sketch.
• 48:33
  Kind of icky, yeah, right. Right.
• 48:35
  So anyways, so there are definitely those moments and
• 48:38
  stuff like that where I will, I will absolutely quibble about it
• 48:42
  not being feminist or, or whatever, but I very much felt
• 48:46
  that like she was not controlled by the circumstances in a way
• 48:51
  that took away her agency fully. Like I felt like she had agency
• 48:56
  in that she was continuously pursuing her own goals.
• 49:02
  All of these things, all of these situations where she was
• 49:04
  like, this is not my favorite thing, but I'm doing this so
• 49:09
  that I can take my next step toward doing the thing that is
• 49:13
  my dream. Yes.
• 49:15
  Like, even when she ran away, she was like, OK, I'm, you know,
• 49:19
  I'm going to go to the seafood restaurant for a little bit and
• 49:22
  then I'm going to immigrate or not.
• 49:24
  I'm going to study abroad in Australia.
• 49:27
  And that's going to help me build my English.
• 49:30
  And I'm going to study. I'm going to build my, you know,
• 49:34
  resume and my ability to further my own goals in the end.
• 49:39
  And like, you know, at every point where she butts heads
• 49:43
  against men who want her to do what they want her to do, she
• 49:48
  either fights back and doesn't do what they want, or she will
• 49:53
  think about it and be like, is there something that I am going
• 49:56
  to get out of this that I really want?
• 50:00
  And whether that's because she cares for the well-being of, you
• 50:04
  know, this person who was thrust into the situation of bonding
• 50:08
  with her because he thought it was a robot or because she
• 50:13
  thinks that it will advance her career goals, I feel like she
• 50:18
  does. Have agency, Yeah, I would agree
• 50:21
  with you, Grace, that I feel like she does have agency,
• 50:24
  especially in how she handles the situations.
• 50:27
  You know, she didn't do she? She was, I think people think
• 50:32
  she has no interesting because she was taken advantage of,
• 50:35
  right? She was given a lot of cash to
• 50:41
  masquerade as this AG3 robot, but the cash wouldn't have
• 50:46
  worked unless she needed it. She was desperate to pay off
• 50:50
  this loan and get some money. So the ex was taking advantage
• 50:55
  of her in that situation. That doesn't mean she has no
• 50:59
  agency, right? Like that just exposes disguise
• 51:03
  a little bit nefarious. He's desperate but he's also
• 51:07
  using the money to lure her in to do this thing for him.
• 51:12
  I think when people say she has no agencies because she she
• 51:15
  wasn't told the truth right of the fact that the ex, I'm just
• 51:19
  going to keep calling him the ex.
• 51:22
  But anyway, the ex knew about Kimiku's condition and that
• 51:27
  actually sending her in to replace IG3 could have killed
• 51:33
  him. Yeah.
• 51:35
  And she never was Privy to that information.
• 51:38
  He lied to her. Yeah.
• 51:41
  Surprised to me that he has this condition then, that he's
• 51:44
  allergic to humans or whatever. She's justifiably upset.
• 51:48
  But that doesn't, again, not necessarily mean that she has no
• 51:52
  agency. She has agency with the
• 51:53
  information that she has right within her circumstances.
• 51:58
  And what's annoying is those little things right That they're
• 52:03
  making fun of her bus size that he has dressed.
• 52:08
  I can't get over really, honestly, the fucking fact that
• 52:12
  he made a robot that looks like his ex-girlfriend.
• 52:16
  I. Know that's really the worst
• 52:19
  he's. So disturbing on so many levels.
• 52:22
  I'm like, lock him up. But at the same time, I'm sorry,
• 52:28
  I know it's super problematic, but like the way that it played
• 52:31
  out and you know, they actually rehabilitated him pretty well.
• 52:35
  Yes, I would agree. So that's like the charm of the
• 52:39
  show. Like the magic of it is that you
• 52:41
  have this guy in my notes. I have what a freak in all
• 52:44
  calfs, what a freak. And today this is so it's so
• 52:48
  prescient because in today's world, if some sort of AI used
• 52:53
  your likeness, your voice, which this happens all the time now.
• 52:59
  Like people are like, oh, I found this video to myself
• 53:01
  selling this product. I've never, this isn't me.
• 53:04
  Like this is AI. So it's disconcerting that the
• 53:07
  show predicted the future. And if it were me, I'd sue his
• 53:11
  ass into oblivion, right? Like I wouldn't just be like,
• 53:14
  oh, yeah, I'll do this part time job for you and be this robot.
• 53:19
  He not only made this robot that looks like her, he puts it in
• 53:24
  this little little dress that they keep calling pink.
• 53:28
  I think it's orange. I don't know what you it's.
• 53:30
  Like coral. It's coral.
• 53:31
  It's like. A orange dress.
• 53:34
  They keep like, keep saying it's a pink dress.
• 53:36
  I'm like, what is What is going on?
• 53:38
  What are they saying? Yeah.
• 53:41
  So anyway, he put her in this little mini dress and I'm just
• 53:45
  like, yeah. And then she's supposed to be
• 53:47
  this robot who's impervious to cold to the elements.
• 53:50
  And this poor girl's walking around trying to pretend she's
• 53:53
  not freezing her ass off. And these were the little things
• 53:57
  talking about her battery size, which if in the real world the
• 54:02
  bus size would have been bigger regardless, like on the robot,
• 54:07
  you know, I was like. Oh God.
• 54:10
  Oh yeah. So many things, but the show and
• 54:14
  the team behind AG Three are very protective of AG3.
• 54:19
  They love AG 3 and anytime Kim INQ gets close to her, they can
• 54:25
  see the footage and they're like reviewing the gameplay and
• 54:28
  they're like he's a perv, he's a pervert because he gets closer
• 54:35
  in various times and that makes them go no way we have to get
• 54:41
  Audi 3 out of there. We got to get Totia out of there
• 54:44
  because he's once more out of this robot, right?
• 54:49
  So I feel like those are infractions plus the like course
• 54:54
  correction that the show takes to kind of ease you into this,
• 54:59
  what can be seen as very icky from the get go, but it's
• 55:05
  interesting. It's all very interesting
• 55:06
  because when they say they're gonna change Audi 3's face,
• 55:11
  they're like, that was the whole thing.
• 55:12
  They're gonna change the face finally.
• 55:14
  And Kim Minkyu is like, no, you can't change the face.
• 55:21
  That is interesting because if everything is the same but the
• 55:27
  face of the robot is different, is it the same robot?
• 55:31
  The same identity was the same input, same programming, same
• 55:35
  responses? Still got friend mode and all
• 55:37
  this stuff? Presumably, but he's very averse
• 55:41
  to changing anything about ID 3. Yeah, but I think that was that
• 55:46
  was really during that moment of weakness where he's like, I miss
• 55:50
  her so much. Like I've reset her and like
• 55:54
  cleared her memory. So like she doesn't have this
• 55:59
  personality that was developed in cooperation with me or by
• 56:05
  training with me. But like I want to, I want to
• 56:08
  turn it all back so that I can have my friend back.
• 56:11
  Yeah. And then I thought it was so
• 56:15
  insightful when the real IG3 said, are you the same person
• 56:19
  that you were back when you started training, training IG3
• 56:24
  training me that first time, he's like, no, I'm so different.
• 56:28
  I've changed so much. And she's like, then you'll
• 56:31
  never be able to meet that same person again because yours
• 56:35
  you're like, we, we've all grown.
• 56:38
  Right, right. So.
• 56:40
  You're not in that same starting point either, Like you can't
• 56:42
  give me the same inputs. I love that.
• 56:46
  I love that. I This is really almost a
• 56:49
  tangent but sort of related. I was re watching Bridesmaids
• 56:52
  the other day and you know how when they go play tennis it's a
• 56:57
  Rose Byrne and what's her face? And they have this small little
• 57:03
  back and forth. I mean, I don't know, do people
• 57:05
  really change? I think they do.
• 57:08
  Yeah, but I mean, they still stay who they are, pretty much.
• 57:11
  I think we change all the time I.
• 57:14
  Think we stay the same but grow I guess a little bit I.
• 57:18
  Think if you're growing then you're changing.
• 57:21
  But I mean, we're changing from who we are, which we always stay
• 57:23
  as. Not really.
• 57:25
  I don't think so. I think so.
• 57:27
  I know. And this whole like stupid
• 57:32
  little interaction I feel is related somehow to what you're
• 57:38
  talking about that from a technical standpoint, RG3 is
• 57:42
  like, yeah, the inputs going to be different.
• 57:45
  The training is not the going to be the same.
• 57:47
  You can never get the same exact friend that you had before
• 57:52
  because you are the user is different.
• 57:57
  She's right. Like he's never going to get the
• 57:59
  same exact, you know, programming that he trained into
• 58:04
  her before. Yeah.
• 58:05
  And that's how life is like for for humans.
• 58:10
  That's how it is too. You know, you will grow, you
• 58:13
  will change. And if you try and, like, reset
• 58:16
  yourself, the exact things that happened to you have made you
• 58:21
  into who you are today. Yeah.
• 58:23
  Have contributed to who you are, your, your essence.
• 58:26
  And if you don't do what happened, you will be different.
• 58:31
  Yeah, and and it it says a lot about like human relationships
• 58:35
  too. Like even though this was like
• 58:36
  the actual robot saying this little nugget of wisdom, it just
• 58:40
  like, you know, it just made me reflect on like, oh, the people
• 58:43
  that I have been friends with. And, you know, some
• 58:48
  relationships fall by the wayside, you know, through life.
• 58:51
  And it's like, you know, you're going through a different stage
• 58:54
  of life. You're you're a different
• 58:55
  person, you know, at each of these moments.
• 58:58
  So like the the relationships you built are, you know, very
• 59:02
  situational too, you know? Yeah.
• 59:04
  And that's why it's like so precious and rare to have a
• 59:07
  relationship that continues to grow with you all through life.
• 59:11
  And, you know, you continue to be close and, you know, getting
• 59:16
  older. I feel like I have, I treasure
• 59:19
  those, I treasure those relationships so much more now
• 59:22
  because I, I see like, you know, that's not a common thing to be
• 59:28
  able to meet and build a bond and continue to build that while
• 59:32
  you're growing and changing in different ways, in your own
• 59:35
  separate ways, you know? Going back to I think Gracie
• 59:40
  said that he was changed or redeemed.
• 59:43
  The X was by the end of the show.
• 59:46
  Yeah. Would you guys want to elaborate
• 59:48
  on that and how he is? So I think, you know, through
• 59:53
  the course of the the first half of the show, you can tell that
• 59:57
  he has very little emotional depth and very little
• 1:00:02
  introspection. But as you know things, all the
• 1:00:06
  events unfold. He starts asking questions like,
• 1:00:09
  oh, where did I go wrong? What happened?
• 1:00:13
  And his fellow researcher, you know, the woman researcher.
• 1:00:17
  Pie. Pie.
• 1:00:18
  That's right. That's right.
• 1:00:20
  Do we even know her real name? No.
• 1:00:24
  Π yeah π Pi asked these kind of searching questions for him to
• 1:00:28
  get him to look into his own soul, you know, and reflect.
• 1:00:34
  And you see, like. And he figures out that the
• 1:00:39
  reason he made this robot was not not necessarily to replace
• 1:00:43
  this ex that he hadn't gotten closure with, to replace just
• 1:00:49
  the form of this set, because you could interpret it like
• 1:00:52
  that, Like he he wanted to replace this ex and have her
• 1:00:56
  tell him that she loves him and be controlled completely by him.
• 1:01:01
  And that's just like, it's such a bad look.
• 1:01:04
  But what he realizes through the course of the events of the show
• 1:01:08
  is that what he really wanted was to figure out why things
• 1:01:13
  didn't work out to like get closure, to like learn and grow.
• 1:01:17
  And then that's, I mean, that's sweet.
• 1:01:19
  That's sweet and pure and you're like, OK, so you're not the huge
• 1:01:23
  terrible creep who's building a robotic sex.
• 1:01:28
  Toy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:31
  I would say it's funny that you you say that because absolutely
• 1:01:34
  that was he wanted closure. He didn't understand
• 1:01:37
  fundamentally why they broke up, why she broke up with him.
• 1:01:44
  That was basically an equation he couldn't had no solution for.
• 1:01:50
  And so his solution was, well, I'll pour myself into my life's
• 1:01:55
  work, create this robot and put Georgia's face on the robot.
• 1:02:00
  But I feel like he never would have come to this realization
• 1:02:05
  that he basically initiated a break up with his own.
• 1:02:09
  Like stupid ass immaturity. Yeah.
• 1:02:13
  Had he not had Tojiah come back in his life?
• 1:02:17
  Yeah, right. Like, the closure didn't
• 1:02:19
  necessarily come because Aji 3 existed.
• 1:02:22
  It was because she needed to replace Aji 3.
• 1:02:25
  And now he's butting heads with her again.
• 1:02:28
  And her. It was the human presence of
• 1:02:33
  Tojiah that really made him think.
• 1:02:36
  Because ID 3 was never gonna ask the right questions, right?
• 1:02:40
  And you know, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:02:42
  Like the AI doesn't push back right?
• 1:02:44
  Just says you're right master. Yes, exactly.
• 1:02:48
  Yeah, right. It's stroking his ego and Dodia
• 1:02:51
  never does that. Yeah, so even though but set
• 1:02:56
  things in motion, ID 3 is existence, set things in motion.
• 1:02:59
  Yeah, the robot itself, the programming, the AI, whatever
• 1:03:03
  you want to call it, was never going to give him closure.
• 1:03:08
  Yeah. But I think that a really key
• 1:03:11
  component was that he was working through this process,
• 1:03:15
  this emotional process in the kind of in the community of his
• 1:03:21
  fellow researchers who also care for this robot and for him.
• 1:03:26
  I don't think he would have found a way to reflect on
• 1:03:29
  himself and grow if he hadn't gotten their input.
• 1:03:35
  Also because they were like, what are you doing?
• 1:03:37
  You're being a jerk. You know, like, whereas you
• 1:03:40
  know, when you're in a relationship with someone,
• 1:03:43
  especially in their situation where he was clearly older than
• 1:03:46
  her, so they didn't run in the same circles, like, you know,
• 1:03:50
  who's going to push back about like how he's treating his
• 1:03:53
  girlfriend? But it's because they were all
• 1:03:55
  kind of peers and they were close and they were working
• 1:03:59
  together that they had the level of they were be able to be that
• 1:04:04
  honest and vulnerable with each other, you know?
• 1:04:07
  So yeah, definitely it, it highlights that thing you were
• 1:04:10
  saying earlier about how this show is definitely pro human.
• 1:04:14
  Like as much as AI can help us, AI can be a really useful tool
• 1:04:20
  in so many circumstances. We.
• 1:04:23
  We need each other. Yeah, so you touched on
• 1:04:27
  something that I wanted to bring up, which was the found family
• 1:04:29
  aspect of this show, which was very evident upon rewatch.
• 1:04:33
  I was like, Oh yeah, I forgot that Kim and Q is assimilated
• 1:04:38
  into this research group and and Chodia and they all have this
• 1:04:43
  wonderful relationship, this rapport.
• 1:04:46
  And by the end of the show, you're like, Oh yeah, they're
• 1:04:47
  like family. They're like this quasi family.
• 1:04:51
  I would love to know your thoughts on that, how it worked
• 1:04:53
  out for you guys on your end. Yeah, I really love the aspect,
• 1:04:58
  this aspect of the show. And again, same as you, just
• 1:05:01
  like I think it came more to the fore when I was watching it on a
• 1:05:04
  rewatch. I think the first time around,
• 1:05:06
  because I'm such a romance fan, I was really swept up with their
• 1:05:09
  romance and everything to do with because obviously I didn't
• 1:05:12
  know how it was going to pan out.
• 1:05:13
  So like everything was focused on the main couple.
• 1:05:16
  But on rewatch, obviously you can chill out about what's going
• 1:05:18
  to happen with them. You're not going to happen.
• 1:05:20
  So like I was, I was enjoying their interactions more.
• 1:05:24
  I really loved that little nerdy the robot gang.
• 1:05:27
  I loved how they all had very strong characterisations right
• 1:05:32
  from the start. So they were they were all nerdy
• 1:05:36
  robot engineers, but they were all different kinds.
• 1:05:38
  And then we also had, you know, GR's best friend who came in as
• 1:05:44
  a like a statement also. I love, I love the actress as
• 1:05:50
  well. I love her character.
• 1:05:51
  I think she was great. And then obviously she came in
• 1:05:54
  and mixed things up. She was like there was a semi
• 1:05:56
  like love triangle thing going on with the two engineers.
• 1:05:59
  And then there was also our homebeaker like Professor
• 1:06:03
  Holmes, like relationship, budding relationship with π as
• 1:06:07
  well. And that was all kind of
• 1:06:08
  developing. But at the heart of it was just
• 1:06:11
  at the heart of actually the drama anyway as well and talks a
• 1:06:14
  lot about human connections as well.
• 1:06:15
  It's just Kim Minke's loneliness and all the years that he's
• 1:06:21
  grown up by himself, building House of Cards and having this
• 1:06:26
  human allergy and never having any kind of connections.
• 1:06:30
  And he's learning to love, Yeah, but he's also learning to be a
• 1:06:33
  friend, right? So actually then there's lots of
• 1:06:36
  scenes of him creating food and them playing games with him and
• 1:06:40
  he not really knowing how to interact or how to join in.
• 1:06:44
  And then we see that actually he's growing both as, you know,
• 1:06:47
  somebody's partner love interest, but also as a friend
• 1:06:51
  and learning to be with his own peers and people that are not
• 1:06:55
  like, I mean, technically Santa Maria team are only.
• 1:07:01
  Yeah, exactly. So he is still the CEO.
• 1:07:05
  But, you know, like they they actually have a real rival, like
• 1:07:08
  a kind of hate, love, hate kind of like thing at the beginning.
• 1:07:12
  And it's just all coming together.
• 1:07:13
  And actually one of my like mine and minor little quibbles is
• 1:07:17
  right at the end of the drama, we end with a scene of our leads
• 1:07:20
  together and what I really wanted, and I still wanted it
• 1:07:23
  the second time around for us to follow them, to walk into the
• 1:07:26
  house and everybody's there. Like the whole cast is there.
• 1:07:30
  And then we can leave them because we know not only has
• 1:07:33
  he's got his love interest and they're all great, but like he's
• 1:07:36
  got his little fun family and they're all waiting for him.
• 1:07:40
  Because they had all these people that we had seen this
• 1:07:44
  troop of the found family and they're late for something, yes,
• 1:07:49
  and they need to leave and they need to get to where they need
• 1:07:52
  to go. And it's the reunion party
• 1:07:54
  because he's being. He's out of military.
• 1:07:58
  Out of Yeah, yeah. Because he finally qualified.
• 1:08:01
  I was like, OK, where's the party?
• 1:08:03
  Yeah, there's. A party that I know is
• 1:08:06
  happening. Yeah, yeah, because then is
• 1:08:08
  Kanki Young's character, right? Because his friend, his
• 1:08:10
  childhood friend, and then his childhood love interest.
• 1:08:13
  And so everybody's preparing, everybody's getting ready.
• 1:08:16
  You're right. I forgot about that bit.
• 1:08:18
  And then we don't see the actual.
• 1:08:21
  It's just like, guys. What the hell man?
• 1:08:24
  I love that you brought up the House of Cards, which was an
• 1:08:27
  impressive tower of cards playing cards and she knocks it
• 1:08:33
  over. I can't episode like 5 or 6.
• 1:08:36
  The. Quote that I have from him was
• 1:08:38
  really touching because the tower was so large that it was
• 1:08:43
  blocking like a giant window in the house.
• 1:08:46
  Kim Ming Q says to her, When you knocked it down, I was really
• 1:08:49
  mad. This window happens to bring in
• 1:08:51
  a lot of sunlight. I really love sitting beneath
• 1:08:54
  this window. All this time I kept thinking
• 1:08:56
  that it was dark but I never thought that it was because of
• 1:08:59
  the cards. Make sure you input this face,
• 1:09:01
  this emotion Adi 3 because you brought back sunshine into the
• 1:09:06
  remaining part of my life. Your master's very happy right
• 1:09:08
  now. And like guys, she knocked down
• 1:09:13
  a House of Cards. And I'm crying how it's so
• 1:09:18
  touching. It's so touching to see him
• 1:09:20
  realize I do need companionship and I do need someone to
• 1:09:25
  freaking open the blinds here and get rid of some of this,
• 1:09:30
  this obsession with the past that he has.
• 1:09:34
  He's been grieving for all of these years for his parents and
• 1:09:40
  feeling extremely lonely. Like you said, Sarah, he's so
• 1:09:43
  love starved. Yeah, that knocking over a House
• 1:09:47
  of Cards has him contemplating the fact that he's been living
• 1:09:52
  in proverbial darkness all these years.
• 1:09:55
  I'm like, Oh my God. It's really.
• 1:09:59
  It's so deep on one side and and then so shallow on the other
• 1:10:03
  side. And the balance is again really
• 1:10:07
  interesting in this show. I feel like this K drama should
• 1:10:11
  have been AB but didn't accept the grade should have been AB
• 1:10:15
  Show was like, no, we're not doing all that.
• 1:10:20
  The making Ki Minku a human aspect of the show is super
• 1:10:25
  compelling to me. Yeah.
• 1:10:27
  I think that the House of Cards is really a great, you know,
• 1:10:31
  image like symbolism. Also because this was the
• 1:10:35
  beginning of him realizing it's not that all of humanity is
• 1:10:40
  untrustworthy and has rejected him.
• 1:10:43
  He has bit by bit built up this barrier, built up the shield.
• 1:10:48
  And he's been slowly rejecting everybody in his life.
• 1:10:53
  All of humanity doesn't give anyone a chance.
• 1:10:56
  And he's been reinforcing that shield, that that barrier like
• 1:11:01
  this this whole time. It's like, oh, maybe that
• 1:11:05
  barrier needs to come down, you know?
• 1:11:08
  Yeah, I love that symbolism. His condition is psychosomatic.
• 1:11:13
  It is completely because of his psyche, because of his distrust
• 1:11:19
  and the hypocrisy he witnessed as a child, the callousness that
• 1:11:22
  he witnessed at his parents funeral.
• 1:11:25
  The distrust that he feels completely takes over his life
• 1:11:28
  in a physical way, like he is physically making himself I'll.
• 1:11:33
  Yeah. I thought that was a smart
• 1:11:37
  choice because if it was a real illness where they're going full
• 1:11:43
  send on, Yeah, he's 100% allergic to humans.
• 1:11:47
  And you know, there's no really cure for this.
• 1:11:51
  The cure was always mental. It was always love.
• 1:11:55
  Always. Love.
• 1:11:56
  Yes and I'm like oh that's so sweet.
• 1:12:02
  He was so messed up for so long though.
• 1:12:05
  You know the intro? The intro of the show is really
• 1:12:08
  funny. He's going to like a medical.
• 1:12:12
  Examination for. Yeah.
• 1:12:14
  Examination for the Yeah. For the military service and
• 1:12:18
  they are incredulous that he has this condition that doesn't
• 1:12:22
  allow him to serve in the military.
• 1:12:24
  He purposely touches one of them to show his reaction, his body's
• 1:12:31
  reaction, which is hysterical because it's at the same time
• 1:12:33
  it's a thirst trap because he's hearing like a black wife eater
• 1:12:39
  with like arms out like he's and it's funny and again, sexy at
• 1:12:46
  the same time and like disturbing because you know, you
• 1:12:50
  see the skin reaction on him and stuff.
• 1:12:52
  The hives and like the hives and yeah.
• 1:12:55
  His Airways closing up and stuff and you're just like, oh, this
• 1:13:00
  is serious. It's funny that it's full circle
• 1:13:04
  that the final scene is that he has completed his military
• 1:13:08
  service. I love that, yeah.
• 1:13:11
  I didn't expect it to be full circle.
• 1:13:13
  That was one thing that I was like, oh right, like he actually
• 1:13:16
  did complete the military service and it's a two year time
• 1:13:19
  jump at the end of the show. Funny that I mentioned W2 Worlds
• 1:13:22
  Apart as another show that the director directed.
• 1:13:27
  He's watching W2 World Apart at one point in this K drama.
• 1:13:32
  Do you remember is that is that what it was?
• 1:13:35
  Because I paused it at that point to try to figure out what
• 1:13:38
  this drama was. And I recognize the lead.
• 1:13:43
  I use Boyfriend. He's not my type so.
• 1:13:45
  I don't remember his name. Yes, he's on Sook and Han Kyodu.
• 1:13:51
  OK, OK, star in W2 Worlds Apart. And so that show has a very
• 1:13:57
  famous prison kissing scene and he's watching that scene because
• 1:14:02
  he's pondering kissing someone for the first time.
• 1:14:06
  He's so love starved and I'm like, Oh my God, it's W2 Worlds
• 1:14:10
  Apart. So that's where the intertwining
• 1:14:12
  is. Is that the director also
• 1:14:14
  directed W2 Worlds Apart? I love those Easter eggs.
• 1:14:18
  Yeah, it's a good Easter egg, Yeah.
• 1:14:20
  Yeah. Well, the other thing I thought
• 1:14:21
  the other thing on rewatch that I saw was quite present was so
• 1:14:25
  that their meet cute, so to speak, is that he has
• 1:14:29
  commissioned her to go and buy this really rare model thing.
• 1:14:32
  And she goes and stands in the queue and waits really long time
• 1:14:36
  for to get it and that. But at the same time, like this,
• 1:14:39
  this kid with a corn dog with ketchup on it swipes the box and
• 1:14:43
  so it's Macky anyway. So she delivers this figurine to
• 1:14:46
  him, and it's not in perfect condition because it's got this
• 1:14:49
  swipe of ketchup on it. And he's really annoyed with her
• 1:14:52
  because he's like, I'm not paying full price for this.
• 1:14:54
  And she's like, what? Like, you know, I queued for
• 1:14:56
  this, blah, blah, blah. And he says this line to her,
• 1:14:58
  like, I don't forgive anyone who lies to me.
• 1:15:03
  And I missed it the first time around.
• 1:15:04
  And the second time around, I was like, oh, that is just, you
• 1:15:08
  know, foreshadowing everything that comes in the backup of the
• 1:15:13
  drama, which, yeah, like, as I hadn't spotted it, I thought,
• 1:15:16
  that's so good. And obviously, we then know him
• 1:15:18
  later that it's, you know, part of his back story and all of the
• 1:15:21
  trauma that has caused this human allergies around being
• 1:15:24
  lied to. But then that is precisely what
• 1:15:27
  causes massive schism in that back half of the the show.
• 1:15:33
  And I think that's for me. I think for me, like I am a huge
• 1:15:35
  ROM com fan anyway, but I especially love ROM coms like
• 1:15:39
  this that are really funny and almost slapsticky and silly at
• 1:15:45
  the start. And then the back half get
• 1:15:47
  really angsty. And that's the arc of I Am Not a
• 1:15:51
  Robot because it is so preposterous and so, so silly.
• 1:15:55
  And the tonicity and the fart jokes are there.
• 1:15:57
  And, and so you think you, you're starting this drama that
• 1:16:01
  is going a certain direction, right?
• 1:16:03
  And then midway through the show, this thing, this lie that
• 1:16:08
  we always knew was going to happen gets exposed.
• 1:16:12
  And then it all just starts peeling apart.
• 1:16:15
  And that's when you're just like, oh, it's not silly and
• 1:16:19
  funny and far Chase anymore. It keeps making me cry.
• 1:16:23
  And it's like, oh, my God, this drummer is really special for me
• 1:16:27
  because of that arc it took me. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:30
  Yeah, I agree. Were there any scenes before the
• 1:16:34
  big reveal that it was all a lie that we want to talk through,
• 1:16:38
  that you were loving or that were your favorites before?
• 1:16:42
  We kind of go toward the back half of the show when like shit
• 1:16:46
  hits the fan. The scene that I have a love
• 1:16:49
  hate relationship with is the one where he resets IG 30.
• 1:16:54
  The reset. Yeah.
• 1:16:56
  Because and. Because on the one hand, it
• 1:16:59
  seems so incredibly cruel, like, to make him reset, Like, it's so
• 1:17:06
  cruel. It's like making him kill his
• 1:17:09
  love because like, I mean, and we don't think about this very
• 1:17:12
  much, but recently, it just keeps coming up for me, like,
• 1:17:16
  where your memories are, who you are.
• 1:17:19
  Yeah. One way it came up for me
• 1:17:23
  recently was my daughter is in a Dungeons and Dragons class.
• 1:17:27
  It's one of her electives in middle school.
• 1:17:30
  Wow. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:17:32
  And. And her teacher is the dungeon
• 1:17:35
  master. And apparently the storyline in
• 1:17:38
  one of the classes was that some character, or maybe all of the
• 1:17:41
  characters had lost their memories and.
• 1:17:44
  And she was like, she was, you know how?
• 1:17:48
  Yeah. Like you, you see your.
• 1:17:50
  Well, I see my kids after school.
• 1:17:51
  And then I'm like, how was your day?
• 1:17:53
  And she was like, it was good, except.
• 1:17:56
  The campaign. Except yeah, I don't understand
• 1:18:00
  why she had to have us lose our memories.
• 1:18:03
  It's like then we aren't us anymore.
• 1:18:06
  Yeah, and. I was like, Oh my God, this is
• 1:18:10
  so true. And like, yeah, it I mean and
• 1:18:13
  it's and for and people. Don't like the amnesia trove?
• 1:18:18
  Right, right. But I mean, and I think that's
• 1:18:20
  really that, that is it. It's like you're eliminating
• 1:18:24
  this person, the personality. Yeah, you know.
• 1:18:28
  And so it's like killing them. And so, yeah, so I both love it
• 1:18:33
  because it is such an emotionally impactful scene.
• 1:18:37
  And I know that it's necessary for the storytelling, but I also
• 1:18:42
  hate it because in real life, that's just like, it's just so
• 1:18:45
  cruel, you know? Yeah, I agree.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah, I totally agree. Especially after he has on on
• 1:18:53
  both of their sides. They're so essential to each
• 1:18:55
  other now, you know, all the things.
• 1:18:57
  They miss each other when they're not next to each other.
• 1:19:00
  They can't wait to see each other.
• 1:19:02
  At the beginning of the day, he says I can't live without you.
• 1:19:06
  He wishes you were human. She says the famous I'm not I'm
• 1:19:09
  not a robot line to him. At the same time he's like
• 1:19:13
  trying to marry his first love. Like there's like an on and off
• 1:19:16
  again thing so that the other girl.
• 1:19:19
  That's one of the poignant scenes for me, I think, is when
• 1:19:22
  he goes on a date with the first love and he tries to do the
• 1:19:27
  things that he did with RG3 and he kind of was trying to
• 1:19:32
  recreate them right in human form.
• 1:19:34
  I mean, this is so like the topic of what we're talking
• 1:19:36
  about, but it's like I practiced human connection with my robot
• 1:19:40
  and we did these things together.
• 1:19:42
  And so now I'm going to do them now with an actual human that
• 1:19:46
  I'm trying to fall in love with. Weirdly.
• 1:19:49
  And then not the same. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:19:52
  And he's and he's trying really hard and she's watching him as
• 1:19:57
  well, right? Because she's got to be
• 1:19:58
  physically near him to do the whole counteract the human
• 1:20:01
  allergy thing. And he's forcing himself to eat
• 1:20:04
  food that has saliva from other people.
• 1:20:05
  It's all that kind of stuff. And it's just like, so
• 1:20:08
  heartbreaking. It's so.
• 1:20:10
  Painful and that's where it's beginning to switch this drama
• 1:20:12
  like it didn't you know, it just slightly started to turn a
• 1:20:15
  corner, didn't it? Because it started to introduce
• 1:20:18
  these small things, like things that Grace was talking about,
• 1:20:20
  but also these are the little things of him trying to be
• 1:20:23
  trying to find his connection in the outside world, having
• 1:20:28
  thought that he'd practice with his row button and could do it.
• 1:20:30
  Yeah, that he was good with having her as a proxy and the
• 1:20:35
  fact that he also loves her inventions.
• 1:20:40
  Oh my. God I love that.
• 1:20:42
  This is really emotional for me. I don't know why this touches me
• 1:20:45
  so much that Todia has had no support in her passion in
• 1:20:52
  pursuing her inventions since her dad died.
• 1:20:55
  Well, not, not like active rejection of it, right?
• 1:20:59
  Yeah. He, the male lead, Kim in Q, is
• 1:21:03
  enthralled by her inventions and the umbrella especially.
• 1:21:06
  It's like, I want to meet this genius who created this umbrella
• 1:21:09
  that can change from being, like dark Navy to opaque with the
• 1:21:15
  push of a button and all this stuff.
• 1:21:16
  And he, he seems to understand the whimsy in her style of
• 1:21:22
  inventions. Yeah.
• 1:21:24
  It's this type of confidence from somebody else that she's
• 1:21:29
  never had really, that totally makes her like, fall deeper in
• 1:21:33
  love with him. He understands.
• 1:21:35
  Her. She's seen, yeah.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah. So the fact that they they go
• 1:21:40
  through all this, she, I think does she win the contest?
• 1:21:45
  Oh, with the ridiculous. This stupid outfit.
• 1:21:49
  Oh my. God, an Afro wig and fake
• 1:21:52
  glasses that are connected on a chain to a hanging mustache.
• 1:21:58
  You can't even find this shit in in spirit Halloween like the
• 1:22:01
  it's really strange. Oh, if we ever had a cage on a
• 1:22:05
  Halloween party, I think I'd. Literally that would be amazing.
• 1:22:11
  That's her at the Young Entrepreneur contest.
• 1:22:13
  Like it's so goofy. It's like it's so.
• 1:22:16
  And the fact that nobody like says anything.
• 1:22:18
  Yeah. No, that's the one.
• 1:22:20
  Thing that's the actual lean though is that.
• 1:22:22
  Where are. The people going girl, what are
• 1:22:25
  you doing all? The other inventors are complete
• 1:22:27
  like no one else is in fancy dress, right?
• 1:22:29
  Doesn't that and I Yeah, nobody bats an eye.
• 1:22:32
  Nobody. That was even a number one
• 1:22:34
  question for her. I'd come after her and be like,
• 1:22:36
  OK, yeah, I see your heart lamps, girl.
• 1:22:38
  What the fuck is going on? Why are you dressed like this?
• 1:22:41
  Yeah, hilarious. It's just Oh my God.
• 1:22:47
  So anyway, she 'cause I go through this contest thing.
• 1:22:50
  Gia confronts the ex the the Professor Pekin who she goes.
• 1:22:56
  Did you send me in there knowing he's allergic to humans and so
• 1:22:59
  there was this whole falling out.
• 1:23:01
  They get a call from the doctor saying you can't tell her the
• 1:23:04
  truth. He's going to kill her and die.
• 1:23:07
  Decide to reset man. He puts his mother's necklace
• 1:23:13
  around her neck and hugs her and confesses, I love you.
• 1:23:21
  She's crying. They're hugging so he can't see
• 1:23:23
  her face. She's crying.
• 1:23:25
  And she says every moment, every single moment I spent with you
• 1:23:28
  made me happy. And then he ends up pressing the
• 1:23:33
  reset button. Look here.
• 1:23:37
  There's just no reason for this level like angst in this small
• 1:23:43
  time you come and nobody watch. You know what it is?
• 1:23:47
  Yeah, absolutely. Like the doctor can be like,
• 1:23:49
  don't tell him now let's get him in to the hospital and have all
• 1:23:54
  of the possible interventions or like a comfortable environment.
• 1:23:57
  And then then you can tell him like, why the whole charade and
• 1:24:01
  like, like come. On it's very K drama
• 1:24:05
  unreasonable. It's so I love it.
• 1:24:07
  It has to be it. Has to be that way.
• 1:24:10
  It has to be. There's so many almost run
• 1:24:13
  insurance in the next couple of episodes it's beyond the pale.
• 1:24:17
  Like honestly they should have run into each other like 20
• 1:24:19
  times. I think episode 20 ends with
• 1:24:22
  them face to face on the train because they're taking the same
• 1:24:25
  train. That is another favorite scene
• 1:24:28
  of mine. Listen.
• 1:24:30
  Talk to me about it, Sarah. I clipped it for a real because
• 1:24:33
  I love replaying it again and again, but I what I love about
• 1:24:37
  it is it just shows what amazing actors they are.
• 1:24:39
  There is about like 30 seconds where there is basically no
• 1:24:43
  dialogue between them at all. So it's all in their eyes, it's
• 1:24:47
  all in their reactions to each other.
• 1:24:50
  And he basically, he sits down on the train, She's sitting
• 1:24:53
  there reading a book and he looks at her, then does a double
• 1:24:56
  take. And then he's just like, what's
• 1:24:59
  happening? And she looks up, thinks fuck,
• 1:25:02
  and then like looks down again. And she decides in that moment
• 1:25:06
  she's just going to style it out, right?
• 1:25:07
  She's going to pretend that she does not know him.
• 1:25:09
  And but like her body language is is showing that, you know,
• 1:25:14
  she's adjusted it, it just there's no dialogue, but it's
• 1:25:17
  just amazing, so powerful, the scene and your heart is with
• 1:25:21
  both of them. And I think that's another
• 1:25:22
  genius of this drama is that at all times, you know exactly how
• 1:25:27
  he's feeling and you know exactly how she's feeling.
• 1:25:30
  Even when he's angry with her, you're just like, but you know,
• 1:25:33
  she's doing this because of this.
• 1:25:35
  And then, you know, and like, don't be angry with him because
• 1:25:38
  he feels really betrayed because of that, you know?
• 1:25:40
  And it's just, it's so well done.
• 1:25:43
  And like the characterization and their emotions and why they
• 1:25:47
  feel the way they do in every given moment is really, really
• 1:25:49
  clear. And it just makes it even more
• 1:25:51
  heart wrenching because you just know how hard it is for both of
• 1:25:55
  them. Yeah.
• 1:25:55
  Yeah, exactly, man. He starts sticking to her on
• 1:25:59
  this island. He was like, forget about it.
• 1:26:01
  I'm not going to go to this signing of a contract thing that
• 1:26:05
  he was supposed to go to. He's like, I got somewhere to
• 1:26:07
  be, I gotta go see about a girl. So he sticks with her on this
• 1:26:12
  island. He's basically stalking her,
• 1:26:15
  which don't do that fellas. Any fellas?
• 1:26:17
  That are listening, she doesn't really know yet, she said.
• 1:26:20
  She doesn't know yet. Don't do that.
• 1:26:22
  Yeah. Episode 23 and 24, we got this,
• 1:26:26
  like, forced proximity thing because they're trapped in a
• 1:26:28
  warehouse together. Really sweet.
• 1:26:30
  Because he tells her the story of friend Ben.
• 1:26:35
  Come on now. Come on now.
• 1:26:38
  The reveal though, that he thought, oh, she's just the
• 1:26:42
  model, you know, you get pie and the ex.
• 1:26:46
  Professor Race. To the islands to try to damage
• 1:26:51
  control and they're about to take him off the island.
• 1:26:55
  It was going to end like the best case scenario for everybody
• 1:26:58
  because the truth wasn't revealed.
• 1:27:00
  But he heads back to the beach and she's got the necklace, his
• 1:27:05
  mother's necklace that he put on AG3, and he loses it.
• 1:27:10
  His full meltdown, an entire episode that puts him in
• 1:27:14
  critical condition. We've got hazmat suits and
• 1:27:17
  everything. It is really crazy, but he makes
• 1:27:21
  it out. He makes it out of the woods
• 1:27:23
  medically. What do you think of the
• 1:27:26
  fallout? Well, first of all, can I just
• 1:27:30
  say again, you saw her is amazing in that beach scene.
• 1:27:33
  That is my favorite scene of the drama match.
• 1:27:35
  I I cannot forget that. He he, he gets on the beach,
• 1:27:39
  he's so excited to see her. He's so happy he's found her
• 1:27:42
  because he's still racing around the village to look for her.
• 1:27:44
  She's really sad because she's like, this is it.
• 1:27:47
  He's going to get taken away. And this is like the final
• 1:27:49
  goodbye. I'm not going to see him again.
• 1:27:51
  I've got my life to lead and And that's it.
• 1:27:54
  You know, they have their little time in the warehouse.
• 1:27:57
  I know how special I am to him. And that's all I'm getting.
• 1:28:00
  And that's going to be fun. And so she's wiping away tears.
• 1:28:02
  She gets up, she sees him. He's super happy to see her.
• 1:28:06
  And then he spots the necklace. And then she spots that.
• 1:28:09
  She spots the necklace and his face.
• 1:28:11
  He just goes, yeah, he goes to about 567 different emotions and
• 1:28:16
  his, again, no dialogue, right? No speech.
• 1:28:19
  It's all in his eyes. It's all in his back.
• 1:28:22
  No dialogue. He's such an amazing.
• 1:28:24
  And This is why both Sarah and I were like, we haven't seen
• 1:28:28
  anything else. He's doing, but we sound is.
• 1:28:35
  The best It's a master class. Like he's really emotive.
• 1:28:38
  Oh, so, so much. I love it.
• 1:28:40
  I love it. I love that scene and the
• 1:28:44
  reaction that he has after Yeah, to being lied to.
• 1:28:49
  I think it's completely warranted.
• 1:28:51
  Absolutely. I think on 1st watch I was a
• 1:28:53
  little like man he's so harsh, why is?
• 1:28:55
  He so harsh, he's. Making him food, yeah, he breaks
• 1:28:59
  the like glass thing and then she gets cut and all this stuff
• 1:29:02
  and he's just like having a tantrum.
• 1:29:04
  And on 2nd watch I'm like, let the man have his tantrum because
• 1:29:08
  I would have gone feral on all their asses.
• 1:29:12
  Yeah. I sure agree.
• 1:29:14
  Because he says a line that, again, I've missed the first
• 1:29:17
  time around. But he says something like every
• 1:29:20
  one of the memories that you and I have now is despicable to me.
• 1:29:25
  And you're just like, yeah, God. And he just relived them in the
• 1:29:28
  warehouse, right? So we know actually how special
• 1:29:31
  they were to him. And now she has spoiled every
• 1:29:34
  single one of those because it was all a lie.
• 1:29:37
  And he just that sense of betrayal, which is like an old
• 1:29:41
  mood anyway, It's just immense, right?
• 1:29:44
  So you're just like, oh, and then her face, because she's
• 1:29:47
  just, she's tried all along. She's been trying to, like,
• 1:29:50
  protect him. It's been trying to do the right
• 1:29:53
  thing for so long and getting thwarted by, you know, his
• 1:29:57
  illness and people saying like, no, we can't whatever for these
• 1:30:01
  K drama ease circumstances for reasons, really for reasons.
• 1:30:06
  Basically. I hated when he said you're not
• 1:30:09
  much of a human. Is that why you made a great
• 1:30:11
  robot? Yeah.
• 1:30:14
  Yeah. I'll see myself out 27 through
• 1:30:19
  28. We get their reconciliation.
• 1:30:22
  He signals to her that they both basically were looking at the
• 1:30:26
  news and they knew a meteor shower was going to happen that
• 1:30:29
  night. And he touches the heart lamp
• 1:30:32
  and hers lights up and she's like, Oh my God, it's the bad
• 1:30:34
  signal. It's a it's a beautiful evening
• 1:30:43
  because they do reconcile. And then he's still like, no,
• 1:30:47
  but we really can't be together anyway.
• 1:30:52
  But it's all for not it's an evening where she reveals she's
• 1:30:55
  president Joe that go between that gets people she like waits
• 1:30:59
  in line and stuff for folks. And it's it's cute.
• 1:31:03
  You get the return of the fart. He's like, what about the fart?
• 1:31:06
  Cuz he wants like clarification on all these things that are
• 1:31:09
  bizarre. I just love it like it's a
• 1:31:12
  really light evening. And at the end of it, she says
• 1:31:16
  that she loves him just as he's walking away and he just turns
• 1:31:20
  around and kisses her right there.
• 1:31:21
  And I'm like. Oh, I love that.
• 1:31:26
  And actually, what I really love about it is that actually it's
• 1:31:28
  quite rare in K dramas for the leads to come together after the
• 1:31:33
  big thing has happened. And like, the misunderstandings
• 1:31:36
  have begun to be understood and communicated properly and that
• 1:31:41
  they all rehash everything. Because normally in a drama,
• 1:31:44
  like we know everything that happens because we're the
• 1:31:46
  viewers, but the characters don't come together and talk
• 1:31:48
  about it and go, well, what about that time when you were a
• 1:31:51
  total jerk to me? What happened there?
• 1:31:54
  Like why you? Guess slided me over.
• 1:31:57
  She blames him for it and she was like going the really food
• 1:32:02
  poisoning. They took it all through.
• 1:32:04
  I love that. No, that's so, that's so right,
• 1:32:06
  because I feel like, you know, I, there are specific dramas
• 1:32:09
  that I love that a lot of people's nitpicks about them is
• 1:32:14
  like, we didn't get that reconciliation talk, but this,
• 1:32:18
  you know, this drama really does that well, like where we get
• 1:32:22
  that satisfaction of emotional processing and.
• 1:32:26
  Closure. Yeah.
• 1:32:28
  I agree, she says to him. And I thought this was so
• 1:32:31
  romantic. She says.
• 1:32:32
  The person who gave me the love I always yearned for was you.
• 1:32:35
  And so the person I missed each and every day, that was you.
• 1:32:39
  It's not that I'm someone you need.
• 1:32:41
  I'm the one who needs you so much because you are the person
• 1:32:44
  I've been looking for all this time.
• 1:32:47
  That one person I've been waiting for.
• 1:32:48
  And I'm like, if that is not the most romantic thing, she really
• 1:32:52
  sold it. I thought it was so precious,
• 1:32:55
  their reconciliation and how he was like, you know what?
• 1:32:59
  We really can't still be together.
• 1:33:00
  And she was like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
• 1:33:03
  I need you now. You're the one.
• 1:33:08
  We don't have a you're the one moment.
• 1:33:10
  I feel like that's pretty rare in K dramas nowadays to be like
• 1:33:13
  no no no for real you you're it. Yeah.
• 1:33:17
  And I love that it's like it's again, this drama is so good at
• 1:33:21
  closing the loops because they talked about, you know, you just
• 1:33:24
  need that one person in your life who who sees you or
• 1:33:28
  whatever when when she was talking about her heart balls or
• 1:33:30
  whatever earlier on in the drama.
• 1:33:32
  It's just there's like they drop all of these things along the
• 1:33:37
  way. And then complete everything
• 1:33:40
  like the loops are on everything get closed, even the fart it's.
• 1:33:44
  Amazing. It's so true as well.
• 1:33:47
  And you mentioned about Michael Joe as well, because I've
• 1:33:49
  forgotten like one other scene that I've really loved that made
• 1:33:52
  me just ugly cry was again, when they were when she was kind of
• 1:33:56
  trying to be out of his life. And she's so exhausted from all
• 1:34:00
  of this trauma, but she doesn't decay drama.
• 1:34:02
  We end up in the hospital when the drip because that's what you
• 1:34:04
  do, right? And then, yeah, defamation.
• 1:34:09
  Anyway. So then she's he rings her, but
• 1:34:11
  on the Madam Joe line and says, like, Hey, Madam Joe.
• 1:34:15
  Soon as he she hears his voice, she knows who it is.
• 1:34:18
  And she's like breaking down because she misses him so much.
• 1:34:22
  But then she's still pretending to be her alter ego, you know,
• 1:34:25
  he says, oh, well, I had a friend, but they had to go very
• 1:34:28
  far away. And then she's just like,
• 1:34:30
  absolutely. Because he's talking about her
• 1:34:35
  and and she's still having. She's like, I'm just not, I'm
• 1:34:37
  not in that business anymore. OK, bye.
• 1:34:39
  She puts the phone down and then after like, oh, so
• 1:34:44
  heartbreaking. But then she comes.
• 1:34:45
  It's heartbreaking. But then she comes slow and
• 1:34:47
  she's like, that was me too, you know?
• 1:34:49
  Yeah, and she tells him that she's President Joe.
• 1:34:53
  Or CEO Joe. Yeah, I love that in that
• 1:34:57
  moment, he says. My best friend went far away or
• 1:35:00
  something. And not like the woman I love.
• 1:35:03
  Yeah, or something like I love that, that she's a.
• 1:35:07
  Friend. Yeah.
• 1:35:08
  Right through through the entire thing.
• 1:35:10
  It's like the, the, the connection that is being
• 1:35:13
  emphasized is like their minds and their souls and their hearts
• 1:35:18
  meet. And this is not just an
• 1:35:20
  attraction thing at all. Not in anyway.
• 1:35:24
  It's like really they are soul mates and that's the part that
• 1:35:28
  they recognize in each other. And like they they see that the
• 1:35:32
  other one sees, you know? Yeah.
• 1:35:35
  That's a sweep. Yeah, I do 3 escapes because it
• 1:35:38
  was a whole. Listen, the one thing I will say
• 1:35:41
  about the show is I do not give a shit about the.
• 1:35:44
  Corporate politics and the. The takeover and oh, we're going
• 1:35:48
  to call a board meeting because we're going to try and get Kim
• 1:35:50
  in Q out of his training position.
• 1:35:52
  I like, I don't, I don't care. I don't care about any of that.
• 1:35:56
  Audi 3 is is in the crosshairs. She escapes from this nefarious
• 1:36:02
  group that wants to take her apart.
• 1:36:04
  She's like first AI robot. And they want her to be a
• 1:36:09
  military robot, the world's most dangerous weapon.
• 1:36:11
  And I'm like, well, that's, you know, probably along the lines
• 1:36:15
  of if this were made today, she would be like a defense robot or
• 1:36:21
  so. I don't know.
• 1:36:22
  Yeah, it just just reminded me of that non Korean actor that
• 1:36:26
  like it's like one of the worst delivered lines ever.
• 1:36:29
  Oh my goodness, what the believe that one?
• 1:36:33
  I need to look him up because he's also in other K drama.
• 1:36:37
  He's in Mr. Sunshine and he actually does a good job.
• 1:36:41
  He's like the Colonel who's the boss of EB Hans character.
• 1:36:45
  Or is he in that? Is he in the sunshine as well?
• 1:36:48
  Yeah, I thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:36:50
  He's also in Squid Game. He's one of the VIPs in Squid
• 1:36:53
  Game, yeah. Yeah, I think so.
• 1:36:55
  I feel like a lot of these non Korean actors, I get put in a
• 1:36:59
  really bad spot in terms of like how they're directed in a scene
• 1:37:02
  because OK, that that man absolutely knows how to curse,
• 1:37:08
  but he was not allowed to curse naturally.
• 1:37:11
  There's no way that man does not know how to curse.
• 1:37:14
  Like, and the fact that he says AG3 instead of AG 3, because
• 1:37:21
  that's the, you know, that's the like, if you know, if you see
• 1:37:25
  the name of the robot written down, it's AG3, right?
• 1:37:28
  But he says AG3. He says AG. 3IN.
• 1:37:32
  The. Korean style.
• 1:37:34
  Exactly, exactly. So you're.
• 1:37:36
  Like, oh wow, he's like really getting directed about exactly
• 1:37:40
  how. To do this and it's.
• 1:37:42
  The wrong direction. So this actor that we're
• 1:37:45
  referring to is John D Michaels, and he has been in quite a few K
• 1:37:52
  dramas. I Am Not a Robot was his first K
• 1:37:56
  Then he followed that up with Chicago Typewriter.
• 1:37:59
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then Mr. Sunshine.
• 1:38:02
  Then he was in an episode of Designated Survivor, 60 days.
• 1:38:07
  He was in her private life. Hot Stove Leak.
• 1:38:10
  He was an American Baseball scouts.
• 1:38:12
  That's funny. I just watched Hot Stove Leak
• 1:38:14
  this year. There's an episode on it.
• 1:38:16
  Voice 4 The spies who love me. Squid Game.
• 1:38:19
  He's avip in squid game. Narco Saints.
• 1:38:21
  He's the blue team director, whatever that means.
• 1:38:25
  Love and contract. He was John Brown in episodes
• 1:38:28
  three and four. He has seen so many K dramas as
• 1:38:35
  well as movies. He was in Peninsula as a U.S.
• 1:38:39
  military officer. That is the sequel to Train to
• 1:38:43
  Pusan or the OK. I never saw that one that also
• 1:38:48
  stars Kang Donguan. Yes, from Tempest has proper
• 1:38:53
  American actors, like ones that actually.
• 1:38:56
  Josh Ho is in it. And I was like.
• 1:38:58
  Yeah, Jonathan, make it. But the American president
• 1:39:01
  actually sounds like he could be an American president.
• 1:39:03
  Like more than more than your actual American president.
• 1:39:05
  It's like it's. It's going to set a standard.
• 1:39:07
  I'm hoping that it sets a standard because Jon D Michaels
• 1:39:11
  has been holding up the the white boy in AK drama role for
• 1:39:18
  almost a decade. More than a decade.
• 1:39:21
  Yeah, probably. I'm wondering if there's stuff
• 1:39:24
  that he's not credited for an Asian woman.
• 1:39:27
  Sorry. That is funny.
• 1:39:29
  Great tangent. Great.
• 1:39:30
  I love that. That's the kind of stuff that I
• 1:39:32
  love to, like, look into. OK so we're almost to the end of
• 1:39:37
  the show because the one thing that I want to talk about is one
• 1:39:41
  of the best kiss scenes in K drama period.
• 1:39:46
  How do you guys feel about the kitchen kiss scene in episode
• 1:39:49
  30? I think.
• 1:39:50
  It was surprisingly hot because it's not surprisingly.
• 1:39:55
  Hot. It's such a.
• 1:39:56
  Sweet K drama, you know, and I think like it's early on in my
• 1:40:00
  viewing, but I've I've watched it.
• 1:40:01
  I mean, I started with Chloe, right.
• 1:40:02
  I know how chase these shows are.
• 1:40:04
  So it you know, I was, I was just expecting just the normal
• 1:40:09
  kind of K drama ROM com type kissing, but this was like it
• 1:40:13
  went on for a while. And it was surprisingly hot.
• 1:40:17
  It was really good. I'm not crazy like I remember
• 1:40:21
  this coming on my screen when I first watched it very close to
• 1:40:25
  when it had aired and I was like what the fuck this is this is
• 1:40:31
  out of bounds and I loved it. I have said ever since then this
• 1:40:37
  is one of the best K drama kisses and I think it holds up
• 1:40:42
  tremendously. It's so steamy.
• 1:40:45
  Yeah. So we kind of hit the end where,
• 1:40:47
  you know, they resolve everything.
• 1:40:49
  They get our G3 back. She had escape.
• 1:40:51
  Oh, she had no GPS. They had shut off the GPS.
• 1:40:55
  Just wandering around, having these adventures, taking the bus
• 1:41:00
  and stuff like that. It's cute.
• 1:41:02
  It just, it's, you know, it's so easy going.
• 1:41:05
  It's such an easy watch. You don't have to turn on your
• 1:41:07
  brain really. You get the two year time jump
• 1:41:10
  and yeah, it ends on a happy ending.
• 1:41:15
  Do you guys have anything else you'd love to add about I'm Not
• 1:41:18
  a Robot? So I think I said at the start,
• 1:41:21
  I wanted to talk about the writer because I feel like she
• 1:41:25
  never got recognition in the way that GR did, never got
• 1:41:29
  recognition for her inventions. She never got the recognition
• 1:41:33
  that this was such a great drama and it was so well written.
• 1:41:37
  It's such a great drama because she did such a great job with
• 1:41:40
  the screen writing and she did such a great job with their
• 1:41:43
  dialogue and the themes that she worked through and just making
• 1:41:47
  this whole preposterous setup work, you know?
• 1:41:51
  And I feel like because it did so badly in Korea domestically,
• 1:41:57
  that that's the last show she wrote.
• 1:41:59
  That's the last drama show she wrote, or that that's the last
• 1:42:03
  drama show that she wrote that got produced.
• 1:42:05
  And I feel, and every now and then I feel like I want to write
• 1:42:10
  her a letter and I want to tell her like, like internationally
• 1:42:14
  there are some people who'd love this drama and would love for
• 1:42:20
  her to write another. Because I feel like she didn't
• 1:42:23
  have a commune to in her life to tell her actually you are
• 1:42:26
  amazing and you are really skilled at this and you should
• 1:42:31
  carry on pursuing this as your life's project because you are
• 1:42:35
  great. So that was my little state kind
• 1:42:38
  of thing for that. Kim Song me name?
• 1:42:41
  Yes please. Right.
• 1:42:43
  You're amazing, We loved it. Yeah, that was really sweet.
• 1:42:48
  Yeah. Message to Kim Song.
• 1:42:49
  Me. Yeah.
• 1:42:51
  Do it again please. Yes, please take up the pen once
• 1:42:55
  again. So that's it.
• 1:42:59
  Like we've kind of come to the end of the show and our thoughts
• 1:43:03
  about it. Obviously, we really, really
• 1:43:04
  enjoyed it. We have some little things here
• 1:43:07
  and there that we can change it, but it's really not affecting
• 1:43:12
  our rating if at all. So really positive experience.
• 1:43:16
  Thank you so much for both of you guys for watching the show
• 1:43:20
  once again, for immersing yourselves in I'm Not a Robot.
• 1:43:24
  Just going on this cute little ROM com journey to closeout
• 1:43:28
  season 6 of Tabak was such a pleasure.
• 1:43:31
  I love having you both on. I think going forward we have to
• 1:43:34
  have both of you guys online reviews.
• 1:43:37
  I know sometimes it's scheduling and stuff, but this was such a
• 1:43:41
  blast. Where can people find you
• 1:43:43
  online? For me, I post on Instagram K
• 1:43:46
  drama this and I also see Co host afternoon hours podcast
• 1:43:50
  with grace. So you can find us on all your
• 1:43:53
  usual podcast platforms and we like to answer the questions
• 1:43:59
  that come up in your Asian drama watching.
• 1:44:02
  So we have various different episodes on different things to
• 1:44:05
  do with language, to do with cultures, to do with
• 1:44:07
  Confucianism. We also do some deep dives on
• 1:44:09
  drama. So come check us out on your
• 1:44:12
  podcast platform. Thanks again.
• 1:44:14
  Love you guys. Until next time.
• 1:44:17
  That's been our show. I'm Jessica and this has been
• 1:44:20
  the Tabak Rambles podcast.