I couldn't help noticing the many beautiful Ji Chang Wook headers on DB. LOL.

I love Veronica Mars!

Love how this show is bringing out all the delurkers (me included :D)! It has been a long time since such a drama came and swept all of us away ; and if the remaining 8 episodes stay close to the awesomeness from the previous 12 (and granting us an OST by JCW for the extra swoons :*), this show is going to be my favourite kdrama ever.

I'm curious though, is there anyone out there who find Healer not up to their drama expectations.. Kind of a buzzkill to ask such a question though but I really hope there aren't many. Hahaha. I'm so emotionally invested in this show it would seem a bit weird if there are people who aren't enjoying the Healer ride heh :/

Does dramabean has a twittter acc? Who do u think the guy was at the staircase wearing healer jacket? The teacher?

I've accomplished a lot of firsts after jumping on the Healer bandwagon which is rather unusual because I picked this show up just for kicks when the first episode was aired, tried not to put too much hopes in it, and by the third episode I found myself completely sucked in haha! <3

1) Healer was the first drama I watched in raw without subs, not having any idea what is it all about before downloading the subs much later in the day. The wait at the beginning was SO SO SO SOOO TOUGH. I'm SO glad subs are out much faster now!

2) This is also the first drama I ended up rewatching twice before the new episode comes out, a new milestone because I hardly watch an episode more than once haha

3) I've de-lurked myself and started commenting more on DB! Healer made me crawl out of my shell and I also find myself F5-ing DB more lately D:

4) I don't usually watch RM and subconsciously found myself marathoning the episodes with JCW in it at work! Those were probably my second and third RM episode ever :')

5) Sageuks were never my thing, but the power of Healer has convinced me to watch Empress Ki. My first sageuk ever! Can't believe I chose a 51-episode long drama instead of a much shorter one. :o I'm still getting used to watching sageuks but it isn't all too bad so far heh.

I guess point 4 and 5 are mainly due to my growing crush on JCW anyways. I had no idea he is such a talented singer-actor till Healer came along.. oh boy *.*. Guess I was pretty late to the party.

I don't think I'm the only one who experienced such firsts in life *grins* It feels really great to see everyone spazzing out and squeeing irl over this drama because at least I know I'm not alone. <3 All hail the power of Healer! xxxxxx

Healer is just awesome! :)) It's been so long since I watched something that doesn't give you those normal drama clichés. (Well, most of the time) This show is something you can predict where the story is heading, and yet it'll keep you guessing. :>

Can't wait for the next episode! I miss you, Healer-ya! <3

Good morning (my time!) ALL,
It is most certainly Monday for me and I'm very happy to be reading the different points of view here and knowing also that so many of us commenting on this thread are waiting for the show to air in about 14 hours' time.

Sorry, it's exciting and I can't *not*, do a countdown :) .

I admit that the Healer threads have grown like a luxuriant wild vine and it's a maze in which finding comments is like locating buried treasure. That was the reason we thought we'd try bringing some topics/discussion together with a Name, so that readers can find Named sub-threads. So just CTRL F and locate something by a name and you don't have to trawl or dig everywhere.

Since it is a free-for-all experiment, and no one is obliged to name or use those sub-threads, it will continue to be massively messy and amazingly maze-like always, but even in that is half the fun. I never know when I will come upon a gem of a comment as I patiently scroll. :)

Anyway, comments are 2,939 at the moment and I believe, because 3,000 is near, it will look like a nice round numbered total is a fun target to reach. I believe that after this Odds and Ends article, more of us are mindful of what we post so that the comments will more well-considered ones, but also with the feels of "I can't stand it, the show's just a few hours away!" variety.

So I'm off to enjoy the read, to enjoy waiting with this community for the show and to do more squeeing together! :)

I just finished watching Heart to Heart and I can honestly say that Healer has a contender for my "Must Watch" list. I was never a Choi Kang Hee fan but this drama has turned me around. I just love her in this drama.

JB and GF, you two are truly diplomats in disguise! I love the way you said what you had to say to keep the website true to itself, yet without offending anyone or discouraging the newly de-lurked. You could work for the State Department with those mad skills; but then where would we Kdrama lovers be? Keep up the good work.

And GF, I'm with you all the way on Veronica Mars. That is the only American show I watched from first episode to last.

I too wondered about the crazy love that we all feel. I so wish that Healer had been produced with both an acting director and a camera director like Misaeng was. The first few episodes were especially lacking in the fighting scenes. I felt like they were trying to hide poor action skills by the actors or their stuntmen. Now I believe it was just poor camera work and editing. Perhaps this may have put off many potential Korean viewers of Healer before the story line really took off.

And this drama is so full of standard tropes that it's hard to believe that it works so well. It has the birth secrets, the good vs. evil brothers, the hero with a secret identity, the dumb gangster underlings, the perky unsuspecting heroine, the kindly adoptive father etc. But tropes are tropes for a reason. They resonate with us on a deeper level, or we wouldn't keep going back to them. The themes of loneliness, betrayal, opportunism, overcoming difficulties, and redemption are universal. At some point in each of our lives, we have experienced something of which we are reminded by these stories. And Healer also has enough smarts to not take itself too seriously; for example, the scene where our hero ducks around a corner only to re-emerge as our superhero, a la Superman.

The fan frenzy reminds me of that around Boys Over Flowers, which had even poorer production values, but had that crack feeling. I noticed in Episode 12 of Healer a little mistake where PMY answers the phone a few seconds before she brings it up to her ear. I hope we don't see a similar deterioration in quality overall now, due to cast and crew exhaustion.

(So there! See how I opportunistically used your Odds & Ends to discuss my own ideas about Healer, lest my comments get lost in the 3000+ comment shuffle? That's how it's done! :D )

Thank you again, JB & GF and all minions for making a safe place for the reasonably intelligent discussion of all things Kdrama!

Maybe since a lot of dramas are being aired nowadays, there's a wide variety to choose from. Viewers get to be divided, affecting ratings of weekday shows in Korea (I think it's still different for weekend shows). Thus, good dramas like Healer tend to be underrated.

Now to Healer... I don't know why but there really is just something different on how JCW and PMY deliver their on-screen romance. It really makes one giggle and feel all good inside (too much that I sometimes smile like an idiot while travelling and remembering the past episodes). For me, this drama is definitely my favorite this period - there are a lot of drama episodes stored in my smartphone but I tend to drop watching all of them once a new episode of Healer comes up.

And the cliffhangers that show produces! Way to make you agonize about wanting to watch the next episode through your entire week. Arg.

Anyways, I'm glad a lot of people comment about Healer. Does that mean a lot watches it despite the so-so ratings in Korea? Well, whatever. I'm still going to watch it 'til the end. :-)