Over-thinker. Easily distracted by shiny things. Oooh. Shiny.
Hey. Someone remind me to try the @sortinghatchats thing for White Christmas come rewatch time because I am getting nowhere with the D&D alignment thing @circustronic started, and the Sorting Hat Chats thing is shiny and new (to me).
DUDE, YES.
Then I can see if my guesses were correct or not.
Fun fact: the original title of the show was going to be Monster. As in, “are monsters born or made?”
As Moo Yul said at the beginning of the show (and each episode), this was the story of how he became a monster in order to defeat a monster. That’s the “game” (really, psychological experiment) the doctor won, or believed he won. Yoon Su might have opted out of the experiment by choosing a different path, but the other students had to tap into their inner monster and destroy someone outside of of the law in order to better their lives.
I believe that’s the generally accepted viewpoint, although as I said, it’s ambiguous enough that you can start up a whole new debate about who was the “true” monster or if the doctor really won or if it was just hubris or what. Which, I guess, is another way the doctor kinda won, since that’s the conversation he wanted to have in the first place.
YAAAAAYYYYYYYY! Welcome to the cult club!
I’m glad you liked it! And I think you can now appreciate how difficult it was for me to explain why I love this drama so much without giving away any spoilers. There’s a handful of us who like to rewatch it every year around the Christmas holiday time (because it’s, y’know, so very… festive… yeah…) and there’s always so much to still think about and discover with every rewatch.
I think you’ll need to watch the whole thing for me to really explain. I don’t want to spoil it for you. Part of what I love about it is that it’s this compact and complex story that is beautifully shot (I’m such a sucker for artistic cinematography) with these students who are such incredible archetypes and it wrestles with all these philosophical questions about life and it’s also just riveting to watch and, yeah. You’ll need to watch it (it’s only eight episodes, so it’s not a huge commitment if you’re still unsure!).
I also love noir-esque shows and especially noir-esque shows involving teenagers, and this is one of the rare shows that fits that bill.
Yes, the OST is amaaaaaazing. Any show that sounds like they’ve really thought about the emotional impact of the music makes me want to hug it so hard. Music is so important in my life and once upon a time I wanted to be that person who got to pick the songs for movies and stuff – carefully crafting mixed CDs for various themes/attempt to tell a story was a passionate pastime during my teenage years, so I love how music is used to tell and amplify the story.
I’ve got a link here to a youtube playlist (it’s been a few years, so not sure if all the songs are still available). I love it.
So basically this show hits all the things that generally make me love a show and it also has ridiculously pretty people to act in it (*cries over Sung Joon and how he seems to get stuck with mediocre drama roles lately but he was so brilliant as Chi Hoon*). It’s just… kinda this unique special show that doesn’t seem to fit in any specific genre/niche.
Except it’s just good.
Yay, another White Christmas fan! Unfortunately, I can’t really help you beyond point you toward these instructions, which may or may not help cuz they’re from ten months ago. (Here’s the (re)watch organization post for your reference, too.) Your best bet might be to search by the Korean title, which is 화이트 크리스마스 , if you haven’t done so already.
Followers, can any of you help beyond this?
@obsessivedilettante is the one who lead me to links to a torrent site for White Christmas and you can download subs for it here
Hi @sternbilder! I use tosarang for most things, but it looks like they no longer have active links when I did a quick search (possibly due to site migration because that was the site I recommended previously).
If you have an account at avistaz (what was previously asiatorrents), it looks like there’s plenty of seeders so you should be able to download it from there.
The Obsessive Dilettante 